The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1895, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1895. 17 , THomas AGRICULTURIST, U. S. N. Seaman Tom Walker was the agricultur- ist of the navy, and seed-time and harvest were to him periods as marked as the pip- ing of me ar or the call of the watch. It w never known just when he first “shipped on board a farm,” as they termed it and discussed it on the to'gal- lant forecastle, where the gray-whiskered Solons of the sea aebate. Whether his ranch experience began prior to the commencement of his sailor life or whether he had been going on all his days alternating his ship and shore cru were questions he never answered satisfactorily. But they knew Tom was a practical farmer and was posted all about “horses and vegetables,”” and they were proud of his bucolic learning. Whenever a ‘“haymaker” recruit started in to in- & t them in plow lore or to startle the foretopmen’s gangway with his remark- able rural reminiscences they always threw him up against Tom Walker, and | then stood by to witness the fellow’s utter i ve: annihilation. = It was he who from his place at the head | of the mess-cloth mentally led them—a | frisky though docile flock—out on the ver- dant hills, and they knew his voice and | drank in his awful “whoppers” in deep and delightful draughts, and then came | home like Little Bo Peep’s obedient sheep when all hands were “‘turned to,” their souls filled with the nec- tar of a narrative more wonderful than the stories told by the Sultana Scheherezade to save herself from the bow- string. It was he who initiated them into the secrets of successful “spud” culture on WaLker along in their exuberant growing, its silken-eared corn that grew half as high as the mizzenmast, were beautiful visions of the A‘Bocalynse to him, and he looked up into Walker’s cloud pictures with the en- raptured gaze of the’l’onely seer on sea-girt Patmos. But Saxie Fisher, it is to be regretted, was moved by no snchdpure impulse. His reportorial acumen and lightning percep- tion of a “good story” stirred him to an instantaneous view of the fact that Walker’s yarns were worthy of unlimited ‘“‘space,” and he proceeded fo spread them over the ship from stem to stern, prefaced. embel- lished and postscripted from his own pro- lific and exuberant imagination. No tale ever suffered or contracted under Saxie’s deft hand. Walker would nightly gather a crowd on the to'gallant forecastle—the locutorium of a man-of-war—and tell of his exploits in husbandry until his wind died away into a calm. Then Fisher would begin, and his “ready, swift and tuneful tongue”’ threader the bright pages of adventure and personal experience more startling, more fascinating than the “Thousand and One Tales” told under the c gleam of the far-off Arabian stars. knew he was lying, but they were stirred to the deepest deeps of their indi- vidual being by the overwhelming force of that verbal flow, and were still. “Down in San Joaquin they spell it S-a-n-w-a-k, or some way like that,” said Fisher one day, needlessly rallying to the very unnecessary defense of Walker, and heedlessly wrecking his standing as a scholar in an ortheepical test. “Tom and me were working for a farmer pulling mus- tard from the grain field. You know every- thing grows big in California, and the stalks of mustard plants are larger 'n a to’gallunt mast and grow so high that the beasts of the fields and the fowls of the air the Pacific Coast when they had potato roostin their—lay along there,maintopmen Wi SEAMAN THOMAS WALKER, AGRICULTURIST, U. S. i i W\ iy Ny 7, gl PR A ‘‘scouse” for breakfast. On corned-beef- end-cabbage days he carried his interested euditors away with him, and they trod the rows of garden truck and botanized vo- raciously among the green herbage, figuratively throwing up their rusty old heels like lambs at play. One of his prize yarns, ancient, but never worn and weary, was a pig’s antipathy to beans on the ranch. It hated that vege- table, and could never be persuaded to eat it green or dry, he said, and concluded from that fact that the sapient porker looking into the future could see the close post mortem association that would spring up between himself and the brain-build- ing pabulum of the Bostonese. The old, old story of the barnyard rooster that followed the man dropping corn in the furrow, the audacious fowl eating the grains as they fell, and the indignant con- sternation of the planter when he turned at the end of the row to find his labor in vain—and in the bird—was told over and over again to the delighted bluejackets. Tom was always there when the aliair oo- curred and bis eyewitness account was never stale. If a new man, exhibiting himself as a fresh import from the coun- try, expressed any skepticism regarding the truth of Walker's statements he was jumped upon, metaphorically speaking, and made a hiss and a byword ever after. Even the to'gallant {forecastle, where dwelt all the conservatism of the ship, ac- cepted Farmer Walker’s reports on agri- cu);ture and ordered them spread upon the minutes without amendment or alteration, as it were. They never doubted that sugar-beets in California grew up in the air, towering aloft toward the clouds like palmetto trees in South Carolina; that oranges in Los Angeles were as large as the binnacle, and grapes in Sonoma were the size of a topsail sheet block, as Walker said. The bumboat never brought any of those miraculous fruits aboard for sale; but then bumboats were peculiar in that respect, and the bumboatman is_always tormented with the fear that he will bring off to the sailors something good to eat and spread dyspepsia around the ship. 1t was noticed by some that Saxie Fisher, the great raconteur of the ship, always cor- roborated 1 Walker's statements, and notwithstanding he was neyer known to have been within three days’ sail of a farm in his life, his testimony, delivered with directne: 1d forcefulness, silenced all cavil. ¥ George Romer, who woutd rather be prictor of a chicken ranch than the admiral of g fleet, and who was always leaving the navy to ship on a hen farm, always took the part of the man who loved the shore. He had made life- long efforts to get away from a ship, but head winds blew him back like the ad- verse gales that forever swept the Flying Dutchman around his starting place. Though his knowledge of a rural existence only came to him through the dim vista of an ever-recurring dream he took his place with Fisher by the side of Walker, and the thrse valiant -~hoad_\~ln“.k(-r.<." so-cailed—not in derision—stood like the tri, i i Romans at the bridge, o otgiane Not that their defensive front-formation was a needful maneuver, or that their po- sition was ever assailed, but a sailor man- of-war-man whether shelling a foe or telling a yarn is as ready for the doubter of his story as he is for the return of his shot. As tunefully told in “Pinafore,” it is his ‘cus-tom-ary at-ti-tude,”” and whether ‘“‘piped to action” or not heisin it, or in touch of the situation. Poor George Romer championed Walker's tales because they were meat and drink to him. The ranch, with its rural delights, its livestock that gamboled over the mead. and give a pull on the weather topsul sheet!” And while he was aft executing the orders of the officer of the deck Walker would take up the story, which he knew was only the offspring of Fisher’s fertile brain, and carry it forward in a way well worthy of the wonderful imagination of the narrator then ‘“‘browsing down’’ the topsail sheet. Fisher and me were working in— in—" (forgetting the name and casting about for some locality) “in Humboldt— that’s the place—Sax’s off in his bearings. The mustard was higher ’n_the foretop, and we had to rig jeerfalls and der- rick them out by the roots. Why, that’s nothing to what them land-lubber grangers do. They are in fact better sailor men than half the beachbirds in this hooker. Upin Colusa, where the Sacra- mento River always runs dry in summer time, they shift the steamers into field machines and cut, thrash and grind their grain all in one blessed job. When the fall freshets come they caulk up the open seams of their combined harvesters, launch them in the river and go to market. They sometimes cut their wheat with a gagget called a ‘header,’ a craft that runson two side paddle-wheels and is steered with a little wheel in the stern. When you want to go to the right you port your helm and haul in on the star- board mule’s headgear. After a bit the brutes themselves can navigate the whole business by backing or filling of their own accord whenever the tiller isdput up or down, and on the southern deserts the sectionmen rig their handcars with slid- ing-gunter sails and just howl before the twelve-knot sandstorms_that blow in that Jocality. Itell you, shipmates, the sea is going ashore and the sailor is more at home herdmg calves than hauling on a weatherbrace.” Now it must not be understood that all drank deep at the Pierian spring of pas- toral lore, for one in that ship’s company held aloof from the forecastle audience and walked his plank in gloomy medita- tion. He was never drawn within the charmed circle that Walker wove around himself. He took no stock in country oys, he didn’t believe there was any, orin act any pleasure away irom the ship. He didn’t believe in a shore life nor in the existence of a shore life. He never con- tradicted Walker and his able coadjutor, Fisher; he was indifferent to their *‘buz- zing,” as he called it, as he was to the breeze that blew down the tube of the windsail into the wardroom. He wouldn’t exchange his solitary plankin the spar- deck for 160 acres of land in Paradise. And the watch on deck sitting on the hatch-combings and in the coils of gear hanging to the fife-rail pins saw in lively fancy a steamboat launching itself out in the harvest field, the intelligent mule box- ing the compass, a flatcar close-hauled under close-re_efed jib and spanker ratch- ing for the distant depot and the sand- waves rattling against her weather-trucks or battering the ears off the brakeman on tbe lookout. When their own craft labored under the weighty bearing down of the wild tempest and the taut weather shrouds bummed like harpstrings in a demon’s dirge to the touch of the midnight storm, they thought of the pastoral on the sweet, green hills, where the polished plow turned up the rich mold, and where the ex-sailorman led the mild young bovines through the flowery meads, eternal as the deathless bloom amid the unwithering bowers of Amaranth. When the soft tropic winds were crooning low in the white hol- lows of the_spreading sail, and the great ship heaved to the rounded slope of a sum- mer sea, when all life stood in bright peri- helion and the blend of the blue of the sky and the blue of the wave dimmed the far horizon’s line, they saw the sheaves of “=x Rea. its vines that fairly galloped | wheat lying like gol manna on wide, sun-tipped plain, pictures arawn in vivid gamboge by the magic brush of Thomas Walker, agricalturist, U. S. N. ToM GREGORY. SABBATH ASSOCIATION, One Will Be Organized at the Y. M. C. A. Hall Next Monday Afternoon. A call has been issued for a convention to organize a State Sabbath Association. The pamphlet reads as follows: The prophet’s cry: *Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be afraid?’’ The command of Jehoyah: “Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression and the house of Jacob tfieir sins.” “My Sabbaths they have The indictment: greatly polluted and profaned.” God_speaks to men: “Remember the Sab- bath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, thy God; in it thou shal not do any work.” This command is not from man, but from God. God's commands cannot be ‘disobeyed with impunity by the individual man, city or nation. Therefore we, the undersigned, appointed by a_convention held in this City on May 13, 1895, in the interest of better Sabbath obsery- ance, hereby call upon all the ministers of the various churches of San Francisco, Oakland and suburban towns, with at least one lay del- egate, with all other friends of the Sabbath who will, to meet in convention in the audito- rium of the Young Men’s Christian Association of this City, corner of Ellis and Mason streets, on_ Monday afternoon, May 27, 1895, at 3 o’clock, for the purpose of organizing a State Sabbath association. We most earnestly solicit tne presence and co-operation of all who desire the protection and perpetuity of our common and most sacred interests. This is signed by H. H. Rice, Eli McClish, N. R. Johnston, A. Calhoun, D. Hanson Irwin, H. A. Ketchum, Mardon D. Wilson, Robert aker, J. M. Haven, J. G. Chown, James W. Whiting, William M. Cubery. Promoters of the convention have completed the arrangements and believe that there will be a well-attended meeting. WILL NOT CONSOLINE The Mercantile Library People Will Continue to Go It Alone. The Proposition to Unite With the Free Public Library Was Deafeated. The proposition to consolidate the Mer- cantile Library with the Free Public Library was defeated Friday evening ata meeting of the directors of the former organization. The suggestion was made two weeks ago by A. Gerberding. In support of his resolution to consoli- date Mr. Gerberding stated that he believed it would be for the benefit of the public in general and the Mercantile Library in par- ticular. He said there never was a board of directors who would look the matter squarely in the face. The association has alw been running behind in finances and it is only a matter of time when it will have to join with some other live body or go to the wall. J. Harris supported the resolution and spoke of the small membership, the heavy debt, the lack of means to meet running expenses and the limited additions to the shelves for want of funds. Samuel C. Bigelow expressed different views. He said that friends of the insti- tution had promised $15,000 to tire funds, and that the discussion of a consolidation had struck a dcath blow at a time when the library was on the eve of prosperity. He prophesied an increase of members in the near future and cited the addition of ten new subsecribing members last month. J. J. O’'Brien indorsed Mr. Bigelow’s re- | marks. _*A. E. Castle stated that the association is in a better condition than it has been for years. Its assets are $200,000 and lia- bilities $75,000. Colonel T. H. Craig criticized Mr. Ger- berding’s action in making the proposi- tion a matter of public discussion. William Doxei was with the majority, and added that the members of the Mer- cantile Library are of a different class from the patrons of the Free Library. ‘When the resolution was submitted it was defeated by the following vote: Noes— A. H. Loughborough, Samuel C. Bigelow, J. J. O'Brien, William Doxey, Colonel T. H. Craig, A. E. Castle, E. E. Kentfield and A.D. Keyes. Ayes—A. Gerberding and I. Harris. THE MECHANICS' FAIR. Many Exhibits of Arts and Industries ‘Will Be Made. ‘W. H. Smyth, canvasser for the coming Mechanics’ Institute Fair, reports that the industrial pursuits and trades will be well represented at the exposition. There will be not only exhibits of manufactured arti- cles, but the process of making will be shown during the entire fair. Such fea- tures as wine-bottling, metal-spinning, cifzar-making, ornamental glass-working, silversmithing and innumerable other fea- tures will be in full operation. There will be among other attractions a complete machine-shop, from the archi- tect’s office to the last finishes, includin molding, core-making and the casting ol molten metal from a small blast furnace. These features will be introduced to con- vince not only visitors, but the residents of this City, that San Francisco is a lively manufacturing center, and even in certain departments of manufacture California leads the world. All important societies, departments and individuals have been communicated with and nearly all &romise liberal support. Among others . H. Hammon of the ‘Weather Bureau has taken up the matter of adisplay of his department and prom- ises an interesting exhibit of his depart- ment. It will consist of a complete weather station in the Payilion which will be identical with the one on the top of the Mills building. Telegraphic reports will be received, formulated, and weather maps made therefrom. The whole proceedings will be so arranged that visitors will fully understand _how _the Mpro het ‘‘makes weather.” If possible Mr. Hammon will give an evening or two to a lantern exhi- ition penamm§ to his department. The California State Floral Society will have a beautiful exhibit of plants’ and flowers during the fai From all prospects the coming exposition will be the most exten- sive of any of its kind ever held in this State. ——————— ANXIOUS FOR SETTLEMENT. Lincoln School Lot Lessees Object to a Long Litigation. The lessees of the Lincoln School prop- erty, at the corner of Fifth and Market streets, are preparing a comntunication to be sent to the Board of Education, asking that the differences now existing be ad- justed, either by unanimous agreement be- tween all person concerned, or by a contest in the courts. ‘‘We are anxious to see the matter settled either one way or the other,” said Mr. McCormack, one of the lessees, yesterday. 7 ““If we are obliged to go to the court we may as well do so one time as another. The earlier the decision the better for all concerned. If the thing can be set off at once we can get such a decision before the leases expire on September 1. If it goes over that time there is ev_erg prospect of a struggle which will exténd over several years in pursuance of a_time-honored cus- tom in the courts. But to what end? ‘Why should we tie this property up in liti- ation for say two or three years and per- aps longer? Such a course would put the Board of Education to serious ~incon- venience, and for one I strenuously object to this method. If it must be settled i court, and there seems to be no other way, then let us commence at once.”” The matter will come “lp for discussion at the next meeting of the Board of the | Education, 1 said, “antil X got him ini Ipvis or THE JFIELD. BY A NATURALIST AT LARGE. IN AN UPLAND PASTURE. Once upon a time, as the story books say, man conceived the astounding belief that this marvelous universe, with its many worlds swinging through space, was created for Him. The sun shone by day to warm and vivify him. The stars were as lamps unto his feet at night. The other animals existed to af- ford him food and clothing — and sport. The very flowers of the field blos- somed and fruited and were beautiful to delight his eye. In fact he believed that instead of being merely the highest mani- festation, so far reached, of the eternal life that is in the universe, he was the great central pivot, so to speak, around which all revolved. Something of this sort I thought, this morning, when a little, laxen-haired girl brought me a pure white buttercup on the same stalk with three yellow ones. ““See,” she said, ‘‘here is one buttercup they forgot to paint.” I took the flower from her hand. Icould not tell her just how it happened that this one perianth was white, but I explained to her something of how the others came to be yellow. The buttercup belongs to the great crowfoot family. It has an enormous band of relations, near and distant, but we may take the little meadow buttercup as the simplest form of them all. Now what we call a flower is mnot usually the flower at all, but merely the petals. The real flower is the cluster, in the center of the | calyx, of pistils and their surrounding, | pollen-bearing stamens. Away back in the ages when man had not yet develofied | tramp, returning the next night. His | life.”. One day this boy went off on a teacher asked him what he had seen. *I saw a bee light on a popgy ;nst asI was camping down for the night,’” said the boy. “The - poj py: shut up and the bee was caught. g\ext morning I got up early and watched, and by and by the poEpy opened and the bee came out.”” Does that seem to yous bit of boyish folly? Ah, but it is not.” A hundred and one boys and men and girlshand wom;n might havai seen that PO shut up—the poppies close ever; nigpl?t,y—and one hundred of them woul({, perhaps, not have seen and told what the one saw. They would have been afraid of being thought silly. Possibly some would have thought them silly. But thatteacher wasa very wise man. He knew thatin that brief account of one thing seen on a rough tramping trip he had got a glimpse of that boy’s soul. Life was easier for them both after that. The more fully we come to realize the human nature in the flowers, the trees and the wild life all about us, the higher will be our sense of our own humanity. Once I saw an oriole fussing with two bits of string. T could not maxke out what he was doing for a long time. He hung head down by one string from a projecting branch and worked away for nearly an hour with beak and claws. Finally he flew away, triumphant. Evidently he had accom- plisbed his task. Filled with curiosity I went to investigate. The bird had tied those two strings together in a very re- spectable sort of knot. Moreover, he had woven the free end of one piece around a twig of the limb, and tied that also. Later, if unmolested, he would probably swing his nest from that limb. I felt proud of that bird. I felt more pride in ali human achievement after I had witnessed that performance. Nature does so much for us, if we only let her; if we will only empty ourselves of our own conceit and get rid of N T A\ \ 11\ h AR THE BOY AND THE BEE. \“ \\\\\x\\\\ AMNAN \ W\ esthetic sense —perhaps before he had learned to make fire, even—the primitive flower bore only these pistils and stamens, with a little outer protective whorl of green petals. It was fertilized by the pollen iallm?,npon the pistils. But this was not good for the plant. Those flowers tnat in some way became fertilized by pollen from other plants, by cross-fertilization, in fact, became healthier and stronger than those fertilized by their own pollen. In such plants as windblown pollen reached, this cross-fertilization wasan easy matter. But the buttercup was not one of these. It was forced to rely upon the services of insects for fertilization. So the g]am began to secrete a sweet drop at the ase of each fireen petal. Such insects as discovered this nectar and stopped to drink got dusted with the. pollen of the plant and carried it to another flower, which it fertilized, and the insect, getting a fresh supply of pollen along with his nectar, carried it on still further. This was very good so far as it went, but the flowers were pale and unattractive. Many of them the insects never saw, and these escaped cross-fertilization. Certain ones, however, had the calyx of green petals larger or brighter colored than others, and these the insects found. It happened, therefore, that the flowers with briggr-col» cored petals were fertilized, and their de- scendants were bright colored. Natural selection thus in course of time produced the buttercup, with bright vellow petals, because these attracted the insect best adapted to fertilize it. So you see the flower has bright !pecalu’ because it is fittest to survive. If man’s esthetic sense is gratified by the sight of their beauty, why, man is by so much the better off; but that man is gleased with the bright color is not of half as much importance to the buttercup as is the pleasure of the particu- lar little winged beetle that is attracted by its shining gold and knows that it means honey. In the same way the lupine over there, with its pretty blue and white blossoms, has developed ‘its blue petals because itflis fertilized by bees. Blue is the favorite color of ‘this dainty little toiler, and next in choice he prefersred. So most bee-blos- soms are blue or red, and_they are so shaped that they do not yield up their sweets very readily to any other insect. The humming-bird robs them by panctur- ing through the outside of the calyx with his sharp little bill and sucking the honey. Most of our small white flowers are fertil- ized by the little fliesand those insects that fly by night. This is the reason why our white blossoms are usually more fragrant than their brighter-hued sisters. They do not need their showy hues to attract the nightly visitors, but they do need perfume to serve the same end. You will see another curious provision in this mimulus by the bank, the monkey- lant, with its %ueer little grinning flower. t is fertilized gthe bumble-bee. There is a big black and yellow fellow just going in. e alights on the projecting lip of the lowest petal. He does not need to say “Open sesame.” His own weight opens the portal to him., He enters, irinks his fill of honey and gets his broad back cov- ered with pollen. It is so high up in the arch of the cup that a smaller insect could not be touched g’ it. 8o if a honey bee or a fly were to alight on that flowery thres- hold demanding entrance, entrance would not be granted. The plant has no use for him, he is too small to open the calyx by his weight and he would go away empty- mouthed. . Now do you understand something of the fascination that lies in this apparently idle loafing in the irass of an upland meadow. A wise teacher told me once his experience with a restless, unmanageable boy. *“I could do not.hinawuh him,"” he Tested in field the notion that all things, Nature included, were meant for our benefit and delectation. ‘We are not the lords of creation, but only apart of it, and the better we learn this {;:sson the better men and women we shall e. THE MERCHANTS' PICNIC. A Tradesman’s Outing Among the Can- ; yons of the Santa Cruz Mountains. On Saturday, June 15, the merchants’ pic- nic will call to Glenwood, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, half the business men of the town. Nearly all the stores whose employes or whose proprietor are in any way connected with the event will close for the day, so that every one of their attaches may attend. The picnic will be the eighth annual out- of the merchants and will, as usual, be enlivened with dancing and with outdoor games of every description. Numerous gate prizes will be given to lucky ticket-holders and game prizes with- out number will fall to the lot of the fleet of foot or strong of limb. The committees in charge of the event are as follows: President, Thomas H. Browne. Vice-presidents—George A. Kohn, M. H. Weed, W. M. Brison, K. Brackett, F. E. Brigham, Ed_Pond, William F. Mau, Jacob Levi J'r., ‘Webster Jones, A. Meertif, Isidor Seiler, W. B. Wellman, A. A. Hooper, Al Ehrman; Charles J. King, secretary; J. A. Folger, treasurer. Committee on _ transportation and rounds—Thomas J. Harris (chairman), lifford Ireland, Leon A. Maison. Committee on finance and subscri) tion—A. A. Banz (chairman), W. E. ‘Wicker, Charles J. King. 3 Committee on closinie\;p—Emll A. En- elbergvéchairmnn), n A. Maison, éeorge heaton. Committee on music—W. E. Blake (chlsirmuu). George W. Lamb, Frank H. Tyler. {)ommiltee on games, prizes, etc.—P. J. Kennedy (chairman), . W. Sanderson, H. P. Howard. D. H. Vail, Carl Wolbach, Hugh M. Johns, George R. Lucy, Al Ebr- man, Thomas J. Harris. Floor committee—George W. Lamb (Schairman), R. M. Duperu, H. C. Casebolt, harles M. Bredhoff, Samuel Seiler, W, A. Lieber, Robert Luhman, W. E. Blake, Charles F. Sage, C. W. Hawks. 2 The train for the picnic grounds will con- nect with the 8:15 narrow-gauge boat from the foot of Market street, and returning will leave Glenwood at 5 P. M. Savenvtsvixuvilaravwomatakamy is a word which in the mouth of the amorous Eskimo means everything that is sweet and nice. The lovesick Greenlander goes a-wooing with this word. “I have ®» dear little babe, and am well. Ithank Mrs." Pinkham for this, and so could other motherless women. 1 was a victim of Fe- male troubles. Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound cured me.” — *Mgs. Geo. C. %, KIRCHNER, p¢ 351 Snediker / 4ve., Brook- b N X FERRIS HARTMAN. A Characteristie Sketeh of the Famous Comedian so Well Known to Californians. HE IS ALWAYS HUMOROUS. The Great Comedlan of the Tivoll Tells What He Thinks of the Wonderful Californian Product, HE IS INDEED WELL PLEASED. You have been to the Tivoli; of course you have. Your memory recalls the many pleasing evenings you have been delighted with the fan- tasies of the comic opera. The leading fun- maker, you will recall, is Ferris Hartman. You know too well how excruciatingly funnyjHart- man can be when he is at his best. He is al- ways at his best. It is no easy achievement to appear funny to the same people night aiter night, matinee after matinee. One must pos- sess a great fund of humor to please. Ferris Hartman is a singular genius. His characters are always interesting, his make-up always characteristic. You hardly know it is the same man, and yet when you see him you realize he does so-and-so only as Ferris Hartman candoit. Hartman as a Student. Men do not fall into things. Genius is very good, but a raw genius don’t last long. Genius and study make the “rara avis.” Hartman is a real student. He spends hours and hours arranging his comicalities, “making up” his funny characters. This is no easy matter. One must be careful to do something entirely dif- ferent from that which had been done and yet follow closely the lines drawn by the play- wright. He Is Off the Stage. When Ferris Hartman is off the stage you forget he is an actor—you believe him to be & a great big, overgrown collegiate, brimful of witand humor. His witis notat expense of some other person; his wit is not the “biting”’ kind; it is the putting into juxtaposition the incongruous, and he juxtaposes so rapidly you are at & loss to know from’whence it comes. At the Stagg. 1f you want to see a funny man—exceedingly funny—go to a stagg. Nearly any first-class stagg after 12 o'clock will bring you into play with Hartman. He is singularly original and peculiarly iaughable. Hartman Serious. Every man has & serious side, and Hartman isaman. Some time ago he contracted a bad case of dyspepsia and nervousness. He was tired, weary, jaded. He tried many things be- fore he tried Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. He now praises the great Home Remedy. When I saw him yesterday he said: “I have no hesita- tion in commending the Californian herb remedy, Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I have been using it for some time, and I find it is as good as the manufacturers assert. Certainly it is a wonderful blood laxative. No one cares to go on record in the papers in favor of any prescription, but as the medicine has done me great good I am perforce compelled to say so. Yes, a friend of mine recommended me to take Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. Ihave met many people who tell of peculiar cases of dyspepsia and blood affections that have been cured by the great herb remedy, Joy’s Vege- table Sarsaparilla. If you don’t feel well, try Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilia.” As Ileft Mr. Hartmean I could not help but recall what a charitable fellow he Is. Witha heart as big as all outside, he is always doing something for his friends, or for some one “out of luck.”” Nearly every performance for char- ity finds Hartman on the list if he can get eway from the Tivoli. The press men are especially thankful to Ferris Hartman for his many services to them. NONTGOMERY & GO0, GROCERS. ALMOST INCREDIBLE ! BEST CREAMERY BUTTER, Squares. Rolls.... Best Ranch Eggs, per doz...15¢ But they are to be had from us at these prices for the ensuing Week Only. 31 Sixth Street. 118 Third Street. 1645 Polk Ntreet. SAN FRANCISCO. FURNITURE 4 ROOI1S $90 STORES Parlor—Silk Brocatelle, 5-plece sult, plush trimmed. Bedroom—7-piece Solid Oak Sult, French Bevel- plate Glass, bed, bureau, washstand. two chairs. rocker and table; pillows, woven-wire and top mattress. Dining-Room—6-foot Extension Table, four Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchen Table and two chairs. EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the coast. Open evenings. M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Free packing and dellvery across the bay. No Percentage Pharmacy, 953 Mark et COAL! COAL'! ‘Wellingto! $10 00 Southfield - 95 Genuine C 7 00—Half ton 3 50 Seattl 8 50—Half ton 4 25 Bl 8 50—Half ton 4325 Seven Sacks of Redwood, $1 00. ENICKERBOCKER COAL CO. 522 Howard Street; Near First. NEW TO-DAY. NOLAN BROS. SHOE Go. SPOCSH TANSHOE SALE, VE HAVE 10 CARLOADS e TAN SHOES! TO ARRIVE, And in order to make room for them we will close out our entire stock of Tan Shoes now on hand at WHOLESALE PRICES. It is a well-known fact we are supplying the Pacific Coast with Tan Shoes this season. We are selling them all over the coast at Wholesale and Retail. This Week Priees Will Be No Object, In order to close out our present stock of TAN SHOES We have all the Latest Novelties in Tan Shoes. No Trouble to Show Them. CALL AND SEE OUR LATEST NOVELTIES IN TAN SHOES. ‘We are the only house that carries all the latest novelties in Tan Shoes. ‘We have new-style toesthat surprise all those who see them. If you want to be in it you must wear a pair of our RAZOR-TOE TANSHOES. THEY ARE BEAUTIES. ‘We want one and all to know that we are in the Tan-shoe busiiiess to stay. You have nothing to lose, and all to gain. IF OUR TAN SHOES Are not as represented, return them and we will cheerfully refund the money. Largest Store and by Far the Larg. est Stock to Select From. ‘When you can’t get fitted in Tan-colored shoes elsewhere, always go to ‘Nolan’s” and get fitted there LG~ Mail Orders filled by return ex- press. NOLAN BROS, SHOE COMPANY, PHELAN BUILDING, 812-814 Market St. TELEPHONE 5527. MONEY---GOIN. BUSINESS PROPERTY. 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It takes the piace of the city restaurant, with direct entrance from Market st. Ladles shopping will find this a most Qesirable piace to lunch. Prompt service and mod- erate charges, such &3 have given the gentlemen'’y Grillroom an nternational reputation, will preval in this new deyartment.