The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Y CALL—#6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ ek, 50 per year. The Eastern office N FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and _APRIL 14, 18985 Beho ldthe bonnets. The world is full of beauty. ing for all. The lily always preaches when it blows. Easter has a bless Fashion spends money, but it makes work. an comfort in hav- There is lots of Chrisf ing style. He that giveth to the poor lendeth to posterity. The question of the day: Ismy bonnet on straight? Easter means a new awakening of every- thing this year. The world and the church have a mutual loveliness to-day. To people who receive none, the Easter card is a chestnut. lifornia is as whole- The sunshine of Ca some as her wines. The mirror of society casts lovely reflec- tions this morning. The springtime of enterprise is a freeze out for the silurian. The bonnet is the big thing now, and woman is right in it. The the fing t of new garments is not always t of investments. A good deed is less valuable for its direct effect than for its example. The effect of the hat depends mainly on the way the owner wears it. here is always enjoyment around every- body who h Money ment the comm y is benefited. nit; It often happens that the oldest bonnet in church has the most grace in it. We can never have progress before us until we have enterprise behind us. People who talk most of you are not al- ways those who think most of you. Millinery nearly always has something in it that tempts man to embrace it. Doubtless your Lent brought you much to remember and a little bit to forget. Although good-nature makes many bad bargains it always pays in the long run. The silurian ought not to be forgotten in our prayers for the unregenerate to-day. Men did their swearing off at New Year, but women adopt their new habits to-day. Society rejoices that there has never been a kick against the high hat in the church pew. Dress reformers will never make progress as long as they persist in sitting on the“ style. The urgency of present weighty matters should not make us forget the imminence of the cucumber. It is about as e: a kind thing of your neighbor as an evil one, when you come to think about it. The showers of yesterday were those last Lenten penitential tears that enrich the soil on which they fall. The husband who does not supply his wife with®new styles of dress evidently loves her just the Some people think you should shut up when they talk and still they expect you to be open to conviction. Ease of manner without sweetness of heart reminds us that the snake is the most graceful of all living things. The only noble selfishness is that by which we seek to secure our own happi- ness by promoting that of others. Diamonds are beautiful, but the most beautiful gem that a rich man can wear in his heart is compassion for tke poor. The pretty girls at the churches to-day will furnish the most convincing evidence of the superiority of California’s climate. Life would not be such a continuous menagerie for some people if they were willing to give another fellow a show occa- | sionally. It is only geniuses that can accomplish great things alone, and that is why all| other noble achievements are the result of co-operation. Catifornians who do not make the splen- did fruit of their State half their diet ought to be compelled to iive in the East and eat snow. Nature leans to yellow in California, for the sunshine, oranges, the poppy and gold all have a yellowishness in which there is no trace of jaundice. Spiced winds from the Orient whisper secrets to the sunshine of California, but the rosy cheeks of the girls babble them without compunction. Under the law of compensation it would not be possible for California to have so many charms unless most other parts of the world had been denied them. A San Franciscan should alvays spend a portion of his Sunday leisure in reviewing his civic patriotism by putting himself into sympathy with the finer influences of the City. Some people may think it vulgar to pub- lish their benefactions, but exemplary gen- erosity sometimes is a sharp knife that cuts the gathering-string of a mean man’s heart. 1f Sunday did not offer some peopla a special opportunity to be good one day in the week they would be in mortal fear that other people would think them good all the time. Those who declare that they are honest because they know that honesty is the best policy always keep the fact in mind that the law carries a pistol in the hip- pocket of its trousers, (3 EASTER SUNDAY. The festival which the Christian world celebrates to-day is far older than the re- ligion from which it draws its sacred sig- nificance. It is one of the festivals avhich have come down to us, as it were, (ro{n the very beginning of time. Human history knows not the date of its origin; neither can it assign the place where it began or the race that first celebrated it. It was kept by our Saxon ancestors iq the forests of Germany from immemorial time, and from them we derive the name of Easter. Romans and Greeks and Jews ob- served it. Even in the Far East the Per- sians honored it with celebrations of special significance, and from them has come to us the stlll honored custom of warking the day by gifts of eggs. While there is no historic record to ac- count for the origin of the festival, it is not difticult to comprehend why it should have been established in the youth of the world, and celebrated by almost every race. Itis the season when winter gives way to spring; when nature reawakens, the warmth of the sun returns and the kindly earth begins to yield once more her fruits and flowers to men. Even to our generation, fortified against winter by all the appli- ances of civilization, the return of spring is delightful; but to the early race of men, living in caves and ill supplied with cloth- ing and food, the annual return of the season of sunshine must have been a source of profound joy. Is it to be won- dered, then, that all races marked the season as the most joyous of the year and celebrated it with a true rapture ? In the philosophy of the Persian Magi, the primeval form of all created things was an egg. The return of spring was to them but a rebirth of nature from the cosmic egg, and for that reason the egg was made the chief symbol of the mys- tic significance of the day. Christianity, finding in this festival a coincidence with the resurrection of Jesus, blended it with her religion and gave to the primeval Nature worship a divine significance. The egg of the Persian was dyed in emblem of the blood that redeemed the world, and the spirit of the new religion was inter- fused through all the symbols, rites and observances of the great festival. In this way the day has come down to us at once a holiday and a holy day. The joy of sensuous delight is in the fair flowers with which the festival is adorned to-day as it was in the bygone times when celebrated in the woods and forests, while the diviner meaning is revealed through the solemn ceremonies of the church which declare that not only is nature reborn, but that man is redeemed. Amid the splendor of white lilie: and with the lofty exaltations sacred music, our people will this morning consecrate themselves anew to the joy of | | right living and the hope of immortality. | Winter is broken, the earth revives, Chri is risen and man redeemed, The full tide of human happiness and aspiration flows onward and upward and finds in the sancti- fication of this old pagan festival a new evidence that in the fullness of time there shall be such a blending of the human and the divine on earth as shall make this old world of ours a new-born Eden for the sons of men. ART IN SAN FRANCISOO. With the coming spring exhibition at the Mark Hopkins Institute there will | probably be determined to a very great extent the proportionate progress recently made by local artists, From the stand- point of the art-worker there are few por- tions of the United States so well fitted for artistic reproduction. Atmospheric effects and color are, with scenic composition, more easily found in the State of Califurnia than in any other State in the Union. Na- ture has made the pictures in California, and it remains only for the artist to repro- duce them. As individuality in the artist and the handling of his work is always a prime factor in his success, so is it a fact that the artistic reproduction of California’s scenery would, throughout the art world, maintain an individuality of its own. The progress made by native artists could not be more | clearly shown than it is by a comparison of the Avery collection of early California paintings, just donated to the Mark Hop- kins I tute and now being put in place, with the work being sent in for the spring exhibition. In the collection mentioned there are various early works by artists who now are of acknowledged prominence. To make an individual comparison, there is a picture by Keith, painted many years ago in Maine. This picture, compared with some of Keith's recent work in Cali- fornia, shows as clearly the artistic advan- tages of Californian landscapes as it shows the progress of the man during the inter- vening years. It seems only necessary that the people of S8an Francisco who love art should thoroughly understand what the native artists are doing in order to | have them stop buying foreign signatures, and give reasonable encouragement to the men ana women who are painting here. As a rule the native Californian artist la- bors under severe disadvantages. He is filled with the artistic appreciation of the beauties of his home, but he bas been un- able to obtain tuition from masters. He is generally poor; he is always intelligent. In any other walk in life he could prob- ably succeed, but through the sheer force of his artistic instinct he works on for art’s sake. Sometimes he is enabled to take ad- vantage of the teachings of the Old World art schools and he spends two or three years abroad. When he comes back to California he finds the galleries of the wealthy filled with European pictures, while he knows that the beauties of his own home are unrepresented. That there should be so little encouragement for the native artists of California is a matter which cannot but call forth wondering re- gret from all those who appreciate not only the beauties of nature here but also their inadequate representation. It has been said by one of the best artists in the City that “When the California artist goes abroad he should stay there if he cares to succeed financially.” There could be no more severe criticism made upon the lack ofart encouragement in the City. The CaLL has endeavored to do its share in encourag- ing the young artists of the City. But it is only fair that the wealthy residents should acknowledge the demands made by native art and based upon actual merit, while at the same time they prove that acknowledgment on the walls of their drawing-rooms. THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE. The remarkable richness and perfection of vegetable forms in California are due to two main causes—sunshine and a bland climate. The fertility of the soil, though serviceable as a factor in this result, is generally everestimated, to the injury of the State by the observation of the factors which are rarer and more valuable. Nor is even the blandness of the climate so important as is generally believed; for as a rule that goes, in other countries of a semi-tropical climate, merely to the pro- duction of coarse, thrifty and abundant vegetation. For that matter, the “‘climate of California,” which is a misnomer, see- ing that all climates are found in the 1 Stale, is not semi-tropical, except in its ex- of | treme southern end. Itis a very curious fact that oranges, for instance, thrive in certain regions of California which are visited by snow. This and many other strange anomalous conditions require an explanation, for they all show a radical departure from the behavior of vegetation in other countries where the climatic con- ditions areapparently the same. The mystery of it all appears to reside principally in quality, as well as the abundance of the sunshine which visits the State. Of course the value of this quality is augmented by the abundance. Hence, therefore, if the sunshine has a peculiarly beneficent quality, the more sunshine the better. What, then, is this peculiarity of the sunshine? The experience of photographers has made a step toward its explanation, but a scientific analysis of the light would be better. We might suggest, however, a simple explanation. Stoeckel, the Los Angeles photographer who makes so won- derful pictures, refuses to come ‘to San Francisco because, as he says, the light is not so good for the finest photographic results as that of Los Angeles. This means that because of the clearer air of Los An- geles the peculiar quality of California’s sunlight is more intense. Vastly more in- tense still is this quality on the Colorado Desert. A photographic sensitized plate which would be “quick” at San Francisco is very quick at Los Angeles and incon- ceivably quick on the desert. That is, the air of the desert is the clearest in Califor- nia, and hence the peculiar quality of the sunshine is more powerful. The sunlight of the desert is the despair of photogra- phers, and one who stands out under its full effect feels that it is acting upon him with a force that is wholly independent of its heat. [t is like wine in the blood. Other conditions being equally favorable, the California fruits, flowers and nuts | which are grown in the regions where this quality of the sunshine is most abundant are richest in those qualities which make them most valuable. Now, it is a matter of easy observation that the sunlight of California is less bril- liant than yellow. Why it should be so is less important than thefact that it is; and t it is rather yellow than brilliant not only deprives it of harshness and makes it mellow and pleasant, but explains broadly its wonderfully beneficent effect on living things to which such a kind of light is agreeable. Photographers will explain that this light is rich in actinism, or that quality which produces active chemical changes in all things susceptible to its influence. That is why ordinarily “slow” sensitized plates are exceedingly “quick” in most parts of California. And the photographer, who has highly sensitive perceptions, will say that although on a given day the light may seem dull, yet he “knows by his feelings” that it is excessively actinic, and that he therefore must use a slow plate and his smallest “stop,” for this soft, gentle light has the strength of a giant. It is not necessary to pursue the inqui into technical scientific fields; it is suffi cient that the grand principle of it is un- derstood, however imperfectly, and amply suflicient that experience has armed us with all needful knowledge. It isin order, therefore, hereafter to speak of the sun- shine of California instead of its climate. For it is the sunshine that stands aboyve all other things that help to make the State a place in which human effort may be conducted with the most pleasure and the best results. It is well for Californians to understand the great value of this possession. Human vigor requires for its highest development as much of this sun- shine as can be possibly appropriated, and its effect upon the health, strength and working capacity of persons is fully as marked as that upon our fruits and flowers. Houses should be so constructed as to admit the sunshine most abundantly, and a daily sunbath, whether on the street or in a sunny window, is the most beneficial of all possible tonics. In the summer, when there is no danger of discomfort from rains, we should go camping in the country and pitch our tents where the generous yellow shine may flood them; for this isa sunshine that makes the spirit as well as the body strong and wholesome, and .it ex- plains the sturdiness of outdoor men and the matchless beauty of the women who have the wisdom to appropriate its bless- ings. Have you ever thought what a splendid, beautiful and romantic City San Francisco can be made by the expenditure of a few millions of dollars in public improvements under the direction of artistic taste? PEOPLE TALEKED ABOUT. Lord Wolverton, wno was recently married, has an income amounting to $400,000 a year. The greatest of American hand-organ makers passed away in the person of Henry S. Taylor, who recently committed suicide in New York. It is said that nearly all of the organs and street vianos wheeled or lugged about in the United States for the past forty years came from Tay- lor’s factory. Secretary Gresham, who is the oldest member of the Cabinet, was 63 on St. Patrick’s day. The Secretary of Agriculture is less than six sweeks his junior. Secretary Smith is the young- est man among the President’s advisers, &s he has just reached the age of 40. Lamont is 44, Carlisle and Olney 60. S. R. Crockett, whom the “Stickit Minister” made famous, has now an assured income of $25,000 a year, and is said to have contracted to do enough literary work to keep his pen busy for the rest of the century. Only recently he occupied & pulpit in a Scotch village church on & salary of $1200. British cricketers mourn the death of Rev. James Pycroft, who died recently at the ripe age of 32. He was a member of the Oxford eleven, and was practically the originator of the matches between the two universities. Though an ordained minister, he was a better authority on ericket than on the Bible. General Rafael Reyes, who commanded the Government troops which put down the insur- rection in Colombia, is a man of action, with a keen, dark Iace, a love of adventure and a wealth of experience in revolutions. A regi- ment of Indians, attracted by his magnetism, served with him in the rebellion of 1885. Count Tolstoi’s latest work, which has just appeared in the Severny Vestnik, is called ““Master and Man.” It is a story of Russian vil- lage life, telling of the struggle in the mind of the master, lost in the snow with his man, egainst the temptation to abandon his helpless companion, for whom he at last gives his life. Colonel Francis V. Greene of the Seventy-first Regiment of New York told the faculty and students of Union College the other day that roads and civilization went hand in hand, and were mutually dependent on each other; the United States had intolerable roads, but had reached its high eivilization because of its su- premacy in railroads. Professor William B. Yonce of Roanoke Col- lege, Salem, Va., dropped dead the other day while waiting for evening service to begini n church. He had been for forty years professor of ancient languages in the institution. Two other professors of Roanoke also died suddenly at night—Professor John C. Frey in 1873 and President Bettle in 1876. A. Barclay Walker, owner of the yacht Ailsa, is a lieutenant in the Lancashire Hussars. He is a son of Sir A. B. Walker, a gentleman who was created a baronet in 1886, but who is widely known in England for his benefactions. The owner of the Ailsa only became smittén with the yacht-racing fever last year, although he has been a lover of yachting from boyhood. OUR EXOHANGES. If the Red Bluff News correctly reports the sentiment of any great nmumber of people of Tehama County in saying, “It seems to be the opinion of many that a game warden would be an expensive luxury to this country these hard times and ought not to be indulged in,” the News should certainly begin at once to educate those people on the importance of enforcing the game laws and the necessity of baving somebody to see that they are enforced. If the man selected for game warden is competent and faithful, he will prove a profitable economy rather than an expensive luxury and save to the county the value of many dollars, and a healthful recreation, whose worth cannot be counted in dollars. —_——e One of the most extraordinary manifes- tations of man’s faith in the works of man, that has been recently afforded, is con- tained in the statement of the Pendleton Oregonian that “with irrigation, an open river to the sea and the Nicaragua canal, Eastern Oregon would be the equal of Cali- fornia in climate and resources.” It is not easy to follow the process of argument, which led this sanguine-hearted prophet to conclude that the climate of Oregon would be improved upto the California standard by the enterprises he names, but the strength of faith is evident in the terseness of the statement; and if it does not tend to promote the spirit of enter- prise among the people of Eastern Oregon, and induce them to subscribe to the Nica- ragua canal, there is no eflicacy in fervent zeal. e Every one who has any appreciation of the value to California of the beautiful names which grace so many of her coun- ties, her towns and her valleys, will give cordial approval to the plea made by the Los Angeles Herald for the preservation of the soft-sounding romantic Spanish names in that section.. As the Herald well say: ‘It means dollars as well as sentiment. Verdugo Pass means a whole lot more, when spoken in an Eastern State, than would the Headsman's Pass. San Gabriel Valley has an added charm by reason of its pretty name, when spoken of among those familiar with the language of ro- mance. Burbank will never be as famous as Santa Ana nor as attractive to Eastern ears, though her natural prosperity should far outreach it.” These words are of such indubitable truth that no one is likely to gainsay them, and there ought to be a reso- lute expression of public sentiment against any one who proposes to abolish one of these beautiful names in order to advertise himself by giving his own name to some romantic locality or attractive townsite. e i There is no work in which the CALL is engaged with more earnestness or with more pleasure just now than that of giving every aid it can to the interior press in making known the beauty, the resources and the industries of the various counties and towns of the State; and no words of kindness that come to us are more valued than those which show an appreciation of what we are doing in this way and a will- ingness to help. When the first of our series of articles on interior towns were published, some of our exchanges regarded them as paid ‘“‘write ups,” and wrote of them in that way, but now, we are glad to say, a true knowledge of them has found its way through the State, and on every side the interior press is giving us its pow- erful aid. The Livermore Herald, for ex ample, notes with cordial words the arrival in that town of the members of our staff engaged in this work, and says: ‘‘Hereto- fore the City papers have charged out rageous rates for such work, but the CaLn does it all gratis, hoping thereby, of course, to gain the good will and support of the people.” This is an exact statement of the case. We are not seeking to get something for nothing. We ask for no support where we are unwilling to give support, and desire the approval of the Pacific Coast only so far as by our work we proye ourselves the true champion of Pacific Coast interests and Pacific Coast men. e The spirit of harmony and mutual help- fulness which now pervades all parts of California, and has put an end to nearly all of those local jealousies which once prevented the progress of the State by dividing its people, will eventually extend over all the Pacific Coast, and bring Wash- ington and Oregon, with Arizona ana New Mexico, and all the great region west of the Rockies, into a thorough co-operation with California in everything that tends to the advancement of the coast. In the very nature of things this must be so, for at the present time the interests of the entire coast are identical on every issue before the people. We regret, therefore, to note that the proposal of the Manufacturers’ Association to extend its organization to Portland has been met by the Telegram of that city with the assertion ‘‘San Fran- cisco should not be either surprised or pained if this city fails to enthuse over the proposal. While willing to work for the interests of the whole coast, Portland can- not conscientiously commit itself to the furtherance of any scheme of California origin and aimed solely to promote Cali- fornia’s interests.” This is but a survival of a sectionalism that cannot prosper the Pacific Coast nor any section of it. The Manufacturers’ Association is not working for San Francisco alone. The leaders of the association have learned that the whole coast must work together, in order that any section of it may achieve a complete prosperity, and if the Telegram would serve Portland well, it should set about teaching the same great truth to the people of that city also. Judge S. Solon Holl of Sacramento is at the Grand. John D. Gray, a fruit man of Fresno, is stop- ping at the Lick. A. P. Newhall, a mining man from Washing- ton, is at the Russ. Robert Nixon of the Yreka Journal is at the Grand with his wife. L. H. Garrigus, a capitalist of Salinas, is stopping at the Lick. Adin Alexander, a prominent mining man of Colorado, is at the Grand. Charles E. Wren, a mining man of Grass Valley, is staying at the Grand. Professor E.S. Holden of Mount Hamilton observatory is staying at the Lick. A. Markham, a railroad man from Santa Rosa, registered at the Lick yesterda; Sam Calderfield, a large rancher of Sonoma County, registered at the Russ last evening. H. A. Boole, a merchant of Red Bluff, came into town yesterday and registered at the Grand. Amos H. Martin, U. 8. A., arrived yesterday from the San Diego barracks and is staying at the California. J.G. Follansbee arrived in town yesterday from his ranch at Bavicors, Mexico, and is stopping at the Palace. E. J. Cahill, who was formerly 8 well-known civil engineer in this city, came to town yes- terday from his ranch at San Martin. Tom McGagan and P. Cahalin, well-known horsemen of Montans, arrived in the city yes- terday and registered at the Baldwin. The largest gold coin in existence is said to be the gold ingot or “loof” of Annam, a flat, round piece, worth about $325, the value being written on it in India ink. UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. The North German-Lloyd steamer Havel has on trial an apparatus by which a lifeboat can be lowered in fifteen seconds. The company bought the rights from the inventor and pro- poses to place -the new arrangement on all its steamers if it proves satisfactory, says a recent issue of the New York Herald. Both of the davits are connected by an iron rod, so that they always remain the same dis- tance apart and still may be turned in various positions. The after cavit is provided with a cog-wheel that is moved by an endless screw and a fly-wheel with a handle attached. The boat fastenings are of the ordinary kind, with AROUND THE COBRIDORS. E. A. Bargent, an agent of the American Trading Company at Yokohama, Japan, is in San Franeisco. Mr. Sargent was one of the passengers who made the first trip to Japan in ?ho o]gecity of Tokio, April 1, 1875, twenty years ago. Since that time he has lived there altogether, pre- fering that country to any other. “There is a fascination about Japan one can- not find in other parts of the world,” said the gentleman. *I cannot feel quite so thoroughly at home as I do there. Perhapsit is because I have lived there so long.”” “Will there be any comfort in living there uated on the Great Lakes, and conses quently has the most favorable location. It has the cheapest freight rates, and is an un- equaled distributing point for part the North- west. This question of cheap freights quickly decides the destiny of a commercial city; itis the secret of this remarkable change.’ The colonel is s very wealthy man, who can afford to spend much of his time in his favorite amusement of sailing about the Great Lakes. He owns a steam launch 100 feet lo_ng, with twin screws and compound expansion engines, which he runs with hard coal. “And I can suil 100 miles on one ton of this coal,” he added, “‘at a cost of $6. That's cheap sailing.” Senator Elkins, speaking of the proposition to have the National Republican Convention held here next year, said that while he was & member of the National Committee no_year pussed without the subject being brought up by George C. Gorham, who was secretary of the Senate atter he and Jones of Nevada were des feated for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, Tespectively, of California. Gorham, he said, always showed up with an eloguent speech and invariably made the point that San Francisco was just halfway between the most easterly point in Maine and the most Westerly point in Alaska, and was therefore the most centrally located city in the United States, and as far as location was concerned was more entitled to the national convention than any other city in the Union. Colonel Young of the Russ House was speake DEVICE FOR QUICK LAUNCHING OF LIFEBOATS. chains and serews hooked over the edge of the | boat and fastened below by eyes and bolts. The bolts are fastened to rods with arms moved by a lever. The boat clamps are of iron with wooden washers for the protection of the boat. When the boat is placed in the clamps | one movement of the lever closes all the lash- ings and fastens the boat to the blocks. In launching the boat one movement of the | lever and severalfrevolutions of the fly-wheel are all that is necessary. By these means the | boat is swung over the side. The work of lowering then proceeds in the usual way. There are two of the devices on the Havel. | By one of them yesterday a boat was launched | in thirteen seconds. GLIMPSES OF THE STAGE. Let a San Franciscan achieve only ordinary success before the footlights, and the theater- going public stands ready to give a generous applause. If, however, one possesses sufficient genius to climb a notch or two beyond the con- fines of mere commonplace acting, this same public figuratively bows its head in grateful acknowledgment of the compliment indirectly paid to it. No actress who has graduated from the local stage or become famous in other cities re- ceives a warmer welcome or heartier applause on her every appearance than charming Miss Fanny Bowman, soon to begin her fourth sea- son with Frederick Warde. In the following letter this popular little soubrette tells some- thing of her stage life that will interest San Franciscans in general and the theater-going public in particular: I have never been guilty of writing for a newspaper before, because I suppose no one has ever asked me to. This time I have been asked to tell something of my stage experience, and as it must be in my own imperfect way, 1 crave the public to remember that I am not a reporter, but only a young actress, striving, however vainly time alone will tell, to reach the topmost round in my profession. This is not intended as an egotistical speech—only an ambitious one, for there is not an actress, if she is in love with her profession, but what hopes some day to be pro- nounced by the critical public “a success.” Ibegan my professional career eight years ago at the Aleazar, which Iam pleased to call my theatrical nursery. played small parts—sometimes taking child’s parts, and at others assuming a more ambitious role. Near the end of my second year with the Aleazar, Edward Harrigan played an eight- week engagement there, and he was so pleased with my work that he engaged me for forty-two weeks. That was my first season on the road. Just here let me say that nothing is so dis- couraging to an actor or actress as cold, listless applause from an audience when the scene de- mands hearty, vigorous response. A half-hearted, scattering encore is like a bucket of cold water to the ambitious, hard- working actress. Speaking of encores, I re- member an incident connected with my last season with Mr. Warde. We were playing ina certain city back East and I had been lucky enough to become a great favorite with the patrons of that particular theater: Night after night I received encores until a member of the company made some laughing comment about it. 1 told him that was nothing, but just to wait until matinee day,as I was a “matinee favor- ite.” The day came, and although I did my level best not a single encore was accorded me. Of course I was mortified and disgusted and the whole company never ceased to tease me about it. Finishing my engagement with Mr. Harri- gan I returned to the Alcazar and played one FANNY BOWMAN., season. Mr. Warde happened to be in the theater one night, liked my acting and made me an offer to play Marcella in “The Lion's Mouth.” Iwaswith him from tien on, rest- ing the present season for the first time in seven years. I am thoroughly recuperated now and will leave for New York in August, where I will join Mr. Warde’s company. On the occasion of Mr. Warde's last visit to San Francisco he wrote me from Salt Lake City asking me to play in ‘‘Runnymede’” during his engagement here. Mr. Harrison also wrote asking me to take part, as he had written the character of Marjorie for me. This, in brief, is my experience on the stage, though a story full of details might have been more interesting. 1 know that I have neverdoneanything great as an sctress, though I am working hard and conscientiously and hope some day to be some- thing or somebody in the theatrical world. In soubrette parts I have not done badly, so my friends say, though I have dome equally well and, in the language of the stage, made a “hit” in stronger characters. This season we are to play “The Lion’s Mouth,” “Runnymede,” “The Mountebank,” “Gaston Cadol” and “Vir- ginius,” and in all of these plays Mr. Warde has given me important parts. Now one word about the playgoers of the cities where I have played, and I am done. San Fransisco audiences are to my mind the most appreciative in America. If an actor or an ac- tress does his or her well the leare not slow to applaud. ton and New York are both splendid places to play in, and New Or- leans is simply lovely. The road to success is ru; and treacher- ous, but maybe hlthm':i honest work will bring the slippery prize within the reach of FANNY BOWMAN, For two seasons I now, since the Japanese licked the Chinese?” asked a gentleman who stood near. “Now, that is a peculiar question to ask me. 1suppose in & moment you will want to know what the latest news about the war is. Letme tell you a strange thing about the difliculties between Japan and China. The war has been going on tor several months now, and the only news we get 1n regard to it is gleaned from the American papers. That is really a fact. In Yokohama the people know absolutely nothing about the trouble, and we never see a soldier from morning till night. The Japs who want to go to war leave the city in citizen’s dress and go into the interior, where they enlist, and no word ever comes back to Yokohama." “How does that happen?” ““Well, you see, all the foreign inhabitants of E. A. SARGENT OF YOKOHAMA. [Sketched from life for the “Cali” by Nankivell.] the country are compelled to live in whatis called the ‘foreign concession; and without a permit we are not allowed to live outside of this section. One may go into the country for a day and stay over night, but not longer than that. We live, as it were, all by ourselves, and the native inhabitants are separate snd apart by themselves. During the summer months ‘we can go into the interior and camp out if we like, but the iron clad rule or law, rather, is to stay where we belong. Of course this does not prevent one going to any part of the city in his daily business, but it confines one to the con- cession with the vigilance of a boarding school superintendent. Certainly it is natural for one to live in a locality inhabited by people of his nationality, so there is no great inconvenience in the custom in force there. “We hear nothing at all about the war, and the Japanese seen by us seem to pay no atten- tion to the conditions’' which occasioned it. They are a strange people and go about paying aslittle attention to the details of living as possible. Here in America thereis ten times more excitement about the reecent troubles than there isin Yokohama. I attribute it to the enormous population, and the fact that the complete wiping outof & wl.ole army of men would not make any material difference in the appearance of things.” “The day of fine roads and shady avenues, from city 1o city, where geographical condi- tions permit, is close at hand,” observed D. M. Carman at the Beresford last evening. “I was in Kenwood the other day and I noticed that the enterprising people of that pleasant town have already inaugurated work on an avenue to extend five miles out from Kenwood in the direction of Santa Rosa. This road will be graded forty feet wide and will be lined with ornamental trees on either side. Now, the Santa Rosa Improvement Club has taken up the matter of good roads, and already they have decided to continue that avenue all the way to Santa Rosa, a distance of about twenty miles. It will make a driveway most attractive through a country already celebrated for its fruits and flow- ers. Good roads will be a highly important adjunct to the future prosperity of this State, and the Half-million Club, as soon as the ex- cursion scheme of united California is done with, will take that subject in hand. The city of San Jose long ago appreciated the importance of good roads and the driveway called the Alameda, between San Jose and Santa Clara, three miles long, and the driveway from San Jose to Alum Rock, seven miles long, are beautiful examples of road-making and road ornamenta- tion. Every visitor to the Garden City remarks those features in particular. Good roads, &s everybody knows, are of inestimable value to the general economy of a locality. Good roads everywhere should be a prime subject of dis- cussion, which live communities will certainly follow up with energetic and profitable action.” Colonel J. Stevens of Neenah, Wis., stood in the Palace Hotel office last night and pre- dicted the eventual supremacy of Duluth over St. Paul and Minneapolis. “In the next ten years,” said he, “Duluth will have dug deep into the business of St. Paul and her next door neighbor. Even now the merchants of Minneapolis and St. Paul are purchasing real estate in Duluth, as they foresee the change that from the very force of circumstances must come before long. Why is it? you ask. Well, because Duluth is sit- ing yesterday of the fact that the hotels are more crowded than usual. “The town is full of people,” he said, “We have no rooms left, and it is much so all round. There are many more people here than there are usually at thig time of the year. “It is due largely to the promise of better times. The guests ail talk hopefully and money seems to be much easier. The cutting of rates from the north has brought into town a great many people trom the Puget Sound country and British Columbia. Then there are many tourists from the East, who, having round-trip tickets, have to lay over to get thelr tickets signed here before returning.” «Now, I'm going to be grand marshal of the Native Sons’ parade in Oakland, and to be anys thing I want,” exclaimed Colonel T. P. Robine son yesterday as he polished his tile in the Oce cidental Hotel after encountering a slight shower. “I'm still over here on thig side of the bay, though, You know have not quite finished up the Midwinter Fair business yet, but that is to be closed out immediately. There is about £10,000 worth of old stuff out there to be sold, T'm gradually closing it all out and when tha is gone then the fair is at an end.” The former director-general of sports and pastimes thug made his final declaration regarding the exe hibition. Adin Alexander, a mining man from Colos rado, isin town on his second visit within & year. He put up at the Grand Hotel, and soon afterward began plying the clerks with quess tionsas to what had become of Rippey, the oild man who shot Mackey, the bonans za king, in Lick alley, some time ago, Alexander would not say what his businesg was with Rippey. ““All I want to know ia where I can find him,” was his only reply. “ would like to get & look &thim.” A year ago he wanted to find Rippey, whom he failed tg hunt up in the city. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. She—Why is Mr, Scherzo so sad when he sings? He—TI suppose he wants to be in sympathy with his audience.—Detroit Free Press. «Here is Colonel Jinks. He wants you to ex- plain the financial question to him.” “Cer~ tainly, colonel. Can you lend me $102"—At. lanta Constitution. Spoons—And will my ducky trust me in everything when we are married? She—Everything, Algy, provided you don’s ask for a night key.—Scribner’s Magazine. Mr. Wipedunks—What's the object of the club you women are getting up? Mrs. Wipedunks—To learn the art of convers sation. Mr. Widedunks—To learn it? Gosh!—Chicago Tribune. Yeast—Is Goldbrick attentive to that young lady he used to go with? Crimsonbeak—Not nowj he’s married to her, ‘Yonkers Statesman. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend’s.¥ E. H. BLACK, painter, 114 Eddy street. . RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* . e - ONLY experienced men employed in our fury niture-moving department. Morton Special Delivery, Phone, main, 46. *, g g At the Bon Marche (cheap market Paris, last year 662 persons were arreste for kleptomania. As a spring medicine Hood's Sarsaparilla has no equal. It gives to the blood vitality and richness and thus wards off disease. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla is the only true blood purifier, e ———— Axr danger of drinking impure water is avoided by adding 20 drops of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bit~ ters. e - Ir aflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. NEW TO-DAY. PARASOLS, CARRIAGE SHADES, New Stoek Just Received. CARRIAGEl SHADFS at 75¢c, $1, $125, 1 50 and upward. LAéE AND CHIFFON TRIMMED SHADES very cheap. CLOSE ROLLED SUM Blue, Brown and Garnet. FANCY PARASOLS, new designs: MOURNING PARASOLS at all prices. JUST RECEIVED. NEW DRESS GO0DS.- NEW SILKS. NEW WASH B00DS. NEW PLAIDS. NEW BLACK GOODS. NEW BLOVES. SPECIAL GLOVE SALE, On Monday we will offer 100 dozen MOUSQUETAIRE KID GLOVES, sizes from 5} to 74, at 75¢ a pair; never sold before less than $1. SPRING IMPORTATION of Dr. Jaeger’s Sanitary Woolen Underwear just arrived. Every quality and all sizes for men, women and children. DOANE & HENSHELWO00D, 132 Kearny Street. UMBRELLAS, in § y