The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1895. The coming week promises some pleas- | ant evenings for theater-goers. While there are few novelties, none of the fea- tures to be presented are dull. Consider- ing the fact that so many people are out of town, the playhouses are well patronized. | COLUMBIA THEATER. | * The Senator” to Be Followed by ‘ Our | Girls.” “The Senator” will continue for the | coming week at the Columbia Theater, | after which Miss Helen Dauvray will be seen for the first time in San Franciscoin | Bronson Howard’s comedy, “Our Girls.” | | | | s comedy was written for Miss Dauv- ¢, and will be produced under her per- direction. The cast will include al en personnel of the Frawley Souvenirs will be presented to | attending the opening perform- | 1s.”” It has also been ar- | ¢ 2 flashlight photograph of | the audience on that oc ior Managers Friedlander, Gottlob & Co. have arranged to give the first presenta- tion on any stage under L. R. Stock-| well’s direction of A.C. Wheeler's (Nym | Crynkle’s) new burlesque, wriiten for Henry E. Dixey, entitled, “A Gentle | Savage.” Rose Coghlanand Maurice Barry- more will also be in the company. =0 most the Company the ladies BALDWIN THEATER. The Lyoceum Company Booked to Appear Next Week. The Baldwin Theater will open for its fall season on the I5th inst., when the | Lyceum Company, under the’ personnl' supervision of Daniel Frohman, will pro- duce that new and successful play, “The se of Rebellious Susan.” “An Ideal Husband” zons’ among the d “*The Ama- | other d CALIFORNIA THEATER. Coming Production of a Hoyt Farce- Comedy. | ““The Old Homestead” enters its third and last week at the California Theater to- | morrow evening. Hoyt’s latest successiul farce-comed «A Black Sheep,” opens at the California | eater on the 15 i It is ound in 1 d pretty that of Hot Stt Harlan, and Miss I leading female rol Burlesque. Two of of the play are sa burlesque compan couple of colleg GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. Coming Production of One of Sir Augustus Harris' Succes: | Henry Pettit and Sir Augustus Harris’ ccmedy drama, “The Prodigal Daughter,” will be produced at Morosco’s to-morrow night. The work was originally played at the Drury Lane Theater, Londen, where it held the boards for over a year. The story deals with well-to-do Eng- Jish people and here and there is tinged | element. The scenes are seat and that of the Queen of he most amusing hits to be the dance of the d the scene whena ates play football. “The Prodigal does not follow the regular con- ities of melodrama, and though n be s as follaws: Vernon " The ca .. Walter Sanf¢ 3 Edmond H George L. P H. A% olet Woodmere AT THE ORPHEUM. A Number of New Performers From Europe. No less than seven new artists will ap- heum to-mOrrow evening They are: Kennedy and Lorenz, the Muhlemann trio, and Blocksom and Burns. | This is the first visit of Kennedy and | nzto the United States. They will | perform an act entitled, tion,” | 1l tax theg pear at the Or audiences fo ennedy is a lac lind- | folded and at a co distance | from her gives the names by him, minute accurac; 1y one in the Whisper to Lorenz what he c Miss' Kennedy to do, whet ing out of an_action or the de an object, and the latter immediately com- ies with the reque: The Muhlemann Trio will sing Swi songs and a new knock-about comedy w be introduced by Blocksom and Burn performers w A special matinee will be given on Tues- day next, the proceeds of which will be de- voted to the relief of needy sufferers from the recent fire. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Balfe's ' Batanella” Will Be the Next Pro- duction. A number of novelties will be intro- duced into the performance of “Tar and Tartar” at the Tivoli this week, and the opera will be continued until further notice. The next production atithe Tivoli will be Balfe’s *Satanella,” in which Martin Pache, a new tenor, will make his first ap- pearance. New scenery, costumes, prop- erties and tric_effects are being espe- cially prepared for the production of “‘Satanell: The management of the Tivoli has en- gaged Alice_ Carle, a fine mezzo-soprano, and is negotiating with the basso, William Broderick, for a season of grand opera, in commection with Ida Valerga, Martin Pache, John J. Raffael and W. H. West, in a repertory including “Faust,” *“Mi- gnon,” the *“Pagliacci,” ete. ALOAZAR THEATER. Alfred Dampier to Appear in a Shakespearean Role. “Hamlet,”” with Alfred Dampier in the title role, will be the attraction to-morrow evening at the Alcazar Theater. Dampier, who has played this most puz- wling of all Shakespearean roles with suc- cess, both in England and Australia, is said to have a very original conception of Hamlet. He does not indorse the gener- ally accepted division into acts and scenes, and performs a good deal of transposition in the course of the tragedy. May Nannery will play Ophelia, and Margaret Marshall the Queen. James Carden has been engaged especially to enact the ghost. W. 5 Dudley will be the King, and Frank Cooley the first player. COMEDY IN GERMAN. Conried Company to Play at the Baldwin, The Conried Comedy Company from the Irving Place Theater, New York, will be- ginits firstannual engagement at the Bald- win Theater on Sunday, July 21, with Schoenthau and Kadelburg’s successful The | performance: wail about “man’s inhumani Fru comedy, “Der Herr Senator,” which will be produced with the same caste with which it was presented in New York. The engagement is for ten Sunday night The company comes direct. from New York, and returns thither at the conclusion of its San Francisco engage- ment. Among the artists who will play for the first time in this City are: Miss Anna Braga, Wilhelmine Schlueter, Elsa Dore, Lina_ Haenseler, Max Bira, Arthur Eggeling, Max Haenseler, Mathieu Pfeil, Rudolf Senius, Anton Ascher. Macdonongh Theater. The reopening of the Macdonough Theater, Oakland, will - be celebrated by the appearance of “The Old Home- d.” The engagement is for four onsceutive nights and one Wednesday matinee, commencing Monday, July 15. Oakland Theater. The Oakland Theater, refitted, repainted and under new management, has been drawing good houses all the week with the Shaw Comedy Company in ‘“‘Farmer | Stebbins.” KING'S DAUGHTERS” HOME The Name in One Sense a Mis- nomer—Something of the Management. Story of Dr. Frank Nichols, One of the Most Interesting of the Inmates. Every visitor to the King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables comes away with an increased sense of the generosity of the human species and a less ready ear for the to man.” The institution is located at 217 Fran- cisco street and has, at present, fifty-five inmates. It is overcrowded, and the loca- tion is not the best. It was carrying the | burden of a heavy debt until the enter- nment given for the institution by the t and Flower Mission made a con- iderable decrease in that debt. Yet, not- thstanding all these drawbacks there is not a more contented community within the boundaries of California than is to be found at the Home for Incurables. The reception-room is a neatly furnished apartment, with an air of coziness that is repeated in all the rooms of the vpatients. There is noth stive of the hospital about the place. Every patient has a room, which is his or her castle. All the bric: brac or little belongings, precious because of home associati may be brought there to enliven room. Some of the rooms are ansformed into veri- e homes. th of air and tab , and an ut- ine floo e hangs about er absence of the odor that some of the best hospitals. The charter provides that every tenth in- mate may be received as a charity patient, but so great hasbeen the demand for aid that at present every fifth patient is a ward of the corporation that controls the home. There is a general misconception as to the government and sources of revenue of the institution. It is supposed that the ninety or mo: ircles of King's Daughters in the City provide for its support when the expenses cannot be met. The factis that the Ever Ready Circle’ of the First Methodist Church and the Merry Sunshine of one of the Mission churches are the only organizations in the City that contribute a quota to it. and that is a jee of $10 yearly from eact . withdrawn in the efforts to retrench public expenses, which wi made by the last Legislature. side from the yearly contribution of §50 de by the Cupertino Circle of Santa ra County, no help is received from the er whose name the institution bears. That name came from the fact that all the members of the corporation were King’s Da ters and desired to work “In His Name.” The cost of shelter, food, medicine and all the advan es of the institution to those who are able to pay 5 2 month. Life memberships can be secured for those above 60 years of age for $500, although in special cases that figure has been reduced. The tor has much the feeling of one who naking a round of calls on pros- perous friends as he looks in upon the in- mates in their cheerful rooms. Every one is content. One courtly old gentleman said contentment did not half express it in his case, and a sunny-faced old lady, who has not been able to leave her bed for 1 years and who numbers deafness ner afflictions, tells her callers how ¥ she is and how good God has been ber. The charity patients have pre- o cisely the same accommodations afforded to those who pay. Perhaps the most mteresting character in the institution is Dr. Frank Nichols, until four years ago a prosperous and popular dentist of Salt Lake City. But paraiysis. blindness, loss of mining prop- erty were blows that came upon him in quick succession. His friends, of whom hie had many, endeavored to secure a place for him in various institutions of the country, but failed until alife membership was secured in the King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables. He is exceedingly grateful for this refuge in his last years and never tires of talking of the goodness the friends who mplished it. 50 has been of Through the same agency $: deposited in a bank in this City subject to his check. His chief pleasure is in cor- respondence with Utah friendsand in hav- ing the Salt Lake City papers read by the matron, Mrs. Belle Lemon. CIENCE - 22 NDUDTRY N N S~ Hyevorizep Liz L %)’ amvs. — An English scientific journal has received an interesting communication on the subject of the so-called “‘death-feign- ing instinet” of certain reptiles. The cor- respondent, who writes from Syria, says that when a certain species of Egyptian lizard is captured it makes a few vigorous efforts to escape, and then, if held firmly, falls into a limp, motionless state, which might easily lead an inexperienced person to think it dead. The animal, however, is simply in a trance-like condition. Gentle respiratory movements are visible just be- hind the shoulders. and sometimes show a rising and falling rhythm, with short in- tervals of complete rest. The eyes may remain wide open, but are commonly half closed, and the lids wink slowly from time to time, spontaneously or by reflex action. The mouth is almost always open—some- times wide, sometimes but little, and in either case the jaw 1s quite rigid, and if closed by force is apt to reopen when the pressure is withdrawn; the limbs lie ex- tended and semi-flaccid, with some ap- Eronch to a cataleptic condition, i e.,if ent or stretched into position not too strained, they maintain such positions when let go; and the same is true of the trunk end tail. If, now, the lizard be laid down gently on the floor or on a table, it will lie perfectly still, and seemingly un- conscious for some minutes (unless roused by sudden jar or loud noise), the eyes pre- serving throughout a peculiarly vacant, expressionless aspect, quite su gestive of death. While in this state the iuard may be put into a variety of positions without la { scuttles off in a hurry. eliciting any sign of consciousness, and will lie as quietly on its back as in the natural position. There is a considerable degree of cutaneous anesthesia; a pin may 'be run through a fold of the skin without fully rousing the animal, a slug- gish, feeble wriggle being the sole result. The trance usually lasts about five min- uates, when the animal by a brusque effort its normal quite position. This still, but evi- and observant, for more, and then Dr. Van Dyek looks upon this manifestation not as vol- untary or conscious death-feigning, but as a form of hypnotism. The natural enemies of these lizards are foxes, jackals, martens, birds of prey and snakes. ‘Can any one believe,” "asks Dr. Van Dyck, “that any one of these animals, having captured a lizard, would be in the least inclined to let it go because it lay motionless and appar- ently dead in the captor’s grasp? Or will it be argued that the trance condition isa special gift, ‘in mercy’ to the victim, to mitigate or abolish the pain of death? If the last be the true explanation, one is tempted to ask why such tenderness 1s shown to a favored few of the victims in nature’s wondrous system, while the majority areleft in possession of conscious- ness and sensibility, more or less acute, until they have sustained enough mechan- ical injury to kill or stun them.” assumes done, it lies dently awake few moments THIRTY MriLuions of Roses Sxurrep UP EacH YEAR.—A contemporary states that although the practice of snuff taking went out with full-bottomed wigs there are a good many people to whom its titillation is still a pleasure. Formerly it was used by the gentry, now the demand for it is entirely from democratic sources. There is a prevalent 1dea that tobacco, from which snuff is made, is almost entirely ob- tained from the tobacco plant. This is a mistake. Much manipulation is necessary in the curing of the leaf and the fitting of it for snuff-making. For certain brands of snuff the tobacco is mixed with scents, licorice and molasses before being dried and powdered. Itis stated that in snuffs alone one factory uses up 30,000,000 roses ayear. Ittakes 10,000 Toses to make one ounce of attar of roses, and the establish- ment mention buys 3000 ounces a year. So powerful is this perfume that it overpowers the weaker although still strong odor of the tobacco. The manufacture of snuff is very elaborate. The main processes are the cutting of the tobacco leaf, the fer- menting, the baking, the };owdering, the scenting and the packing, but there are at least a score of lesser operations before the product is shipped to the dealer. Woop CroraiNg.—Some of the Japanese soldiers wear paper clothing, which proves very durable, so it is. hardly surprising that a French chemist should have hit upon a method of producing artificial cot- ton from wood cellulose. The cellulose is heated under pressure in a closed vessel with zine chloride, hydrochloric and acetic acids, a little rice oil, caseine and gelatine. A pasty mass is thus obtained, which is placed in a cylinder and expelled through the base of the latter by means of a heavily loaded piston. The threads as they issue are led first between two hot rolls, then into a weak solution of w: finally between another pa ol The material weaves The strength of the “cotton’’ is said to be much increased by parchmentizing. As this cloth is waterproof and extremely light, it has been suggested that it would form an excellent material for the cloth- ing of the masses in India. In connection with the subject of wood pulp, a contem- perary points out that the imports of that substance into Manchester, England, dur- ing the month of March were the largest on record, and show an increase, compared with the previous month, of more than 20,000 bales. JapANESE SHIPPING.—The enormous de- velopmeht in ship-building of which America gives promise adds interesttoa paper which has been published in Eng- land on “Japanese Shipping.” The paper centains many points which can be profit- ably considered by American ship-builders. In a single generation the Japanese have in many cases dispensed with their Euro- pean professors and teachers and are going nhcudp themselves. They buiid and equip their own warships and engines, and there are signs that they mean to become a ship- building nation. They are building almost all their own vessels. In 1892 there were fifty-three ship-building yards in Japan, turning out vessels for trading purposes on modern lines. It is said that a vessel of 4000 tons can be built in Japan for about $5 a ton less than in Europe. IMPROVED LAUNDRY MACHINE—An im- proved 1roning machine has appeared for cuffs, collars and shirts. In the ordinary ironing machine the table has to be re- versed by moving the belt, which loses a great deal of time. In theimproved ir the table is moved by means of friction pulleys, and is reversed or sent forward by a simple arrangement operated by the foot. The rolier is so arranged that it can be raised or lowered at will without the neees- sity of repadding the table. The heating apparatus has also been advantageously modified and contains a special gas burner, which admits equal parts of gas and air, giving an even distribution of heat and do- ing away with smoky rollers, which are usually such a source of trouble in ma- chines of this class. g ud dyes well. 8arts oF CoPPER IN THE CULTURE oF Po- TAaToEs.—The scare as to poisoned food which crops up fitfully has of late taken for its object the employment of salts of copper for the culture of potatoes and vines, and it has been insinuated that grapes and tubers grown in this way were by no means harmless. As generally hap- ens in such cases, as soon as the subject 1as_been thoroughly investigated its'ab- surdity becomes apparent. M. Aime Gi- vard g:as made a series of chemical an- alyses, and finds that there is not the slightest grounds for the supposition that salts of copper conld impart to the fruit or vegetable any poisonous qualities. The trace of copper obtained from the ashes of the incinerated grapes and potatoes s too small to be of any importance. To PREVENT THE BLowinG oF SAND.—En- gineers having in charge works on the sea coast or-in sandy districts are some- times confronted with the problem of so controlling the sand that it shall not shift and blow away under the influence of high winds. For this purpose the Dutch Gov- ernment has suggested the planting of a special kind of broom, the sea reed and the upright sea line grass on dunes and along the sandy banks of rivers. Itis un- certain whether this would prove effective in a dry and hot climate. The Largest American Oak. ‘What is considered the most massive, symmetrical and imposing tree in Eastern North America is a live oak (Quercus Vir- giniana) standing on one_ side of the en- trance to Drayton Manor House, on Ash- ley River, near Charleston, 8. C. The home of the Drayton family, a handsome red brick Elizabethan mansion, was built while South Carolina was a British colony, and it is said that the site of the house was selected on account of this tree, al- though, as the live oak grows very rapidly it is not impossible that it was plante with its mate on the other side of the drive when the house was first built, says an ex- change. At the present time the short trunk girths 23 feet 4 inches at the smallest place between the ground and the branches, which spread 123 feet in one direction and 119 feet in the other. This tree is growing over a bed of phosphate, and the demands of trade will therefore probably cause its destruction before its time. No one who has not seen the Dray- ton oak can form a true idea of the majestic beauty of the live oak, the most beautiful of the fifty species of oaks which grow within the borders of the United States, or of all that nature in a supreme effort at tree-growing can produce. —————————— Utah, including the improvements made by the Mormons, is worth §24,775,270. THE WOMAN HISTORIAN, Interesting Passages in the Life of Frances Fuller Victor. HER WORK IN THE WEST. Chosen by the Oregon Legislature to Write a History of the Indlan Wars. Of the women who write there is a goodly company, but the woman historian is a rara avis. She usually flocks by her- self in the field of letters. Her sisters in the inky craft, as a rule, prefer flights of fancy to the ferreting of facts, and hence it comes to pass that when they distinguish themselves at the point of the pen, it is in the beaten path of fiction rather than the less frequented byways of historical research. But there dwells in our midst a woman with that anomalous characteristic, a genuine affinity for statis- tics—a woman with a faculty for removing the mantle of tradition from skeletons of the past, giving to the world the interest- ing results of her discoveries, and her name is Frances Fuller Victor. Richard II for saving that sovereign’s life. The coat of arms bestowed by the monarch upon his loyat subject is simple in_design, being a heart-shaped shield with two wreaths tied by ribbon, bearing the motto: “Strike for "the laws.” Washington Irving, in his immortal Sketch-book, re- counts a visit to the tomb of Sir William, and the latter isalso referred to in the “Courtship of Miles Standish.’" ‘‘The greatest Duncan,” mentioned by Shake- speare, and a Justice under one of the Edwards, were also antecedents of this latter-day historian, and the anecdotes re- vealed by a glimpse into her family archives would fill a volume. Mrs. Victor’s individual labors in the Bancroft Library covered a period of eleven vears, between 1878 and 1889, and six big volumes are the results. Four of these contain her work exclusively—Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and Oregon. The remainder is scattered throughout various volumes. Itisa note- worthy fact that Mrs. Victor compiled all the political history in volumes VI and VII of Bancroft’s California series, and also the railroad history, subjects that the average woman writer would scarcely be overjoyed to have assigned her. She also wrote a book on “Transportation and Min- ing” for Bancroft’s “Chronicles of the | Builders.” These years of unremitting toil, during which her identity was practically lost in the shadow of a publisher’'s name—years of bookworm seclusion and absorption in her tasks—left their inevitable impression upon body and brain. Mrs. Victor emerged to find her health impaired, her name remembered by the friends of early journalistic days, ut unfamiliar to a later growith of newspaper work- ers, who turned with idle curious- ity the files of the Golden Era, CaLr, Bulletin, Overland and Sacramento Rec- ord-Union. Her husband had been drowned at sea in '75, when the Pacific col- Mrs. Victor is not easy prey for the in- lided with a sailing vessel off the coast of MRS. FRANCES FULLER VICTOR. [From a photograph by Taber.] terviewer. Averse to publicity, accessible to her friends, but reserved with strangers, | she lives a life of comparative seclusion, | undisturbea by the noise of less gifted workers clamoring at the gates of fame. | A native of New York State, Frances Fuller with her family removed to Ohio when she was very young. She received a seminary education, the best then obtain- able, but continued to study and develop her mind. Visiting the metropolis of New York from time to time, the young writer met all the celebrities of the artistic and literary world congregated there previous to the late war. It was in this congenial atmospiflere that the young girl, already known{joy her contri- butions of prose and verse %o the journals | of the day, received her first real encour- agement, and the way seemed open to her for a bright career. She compiled a Youth’s History of America for an East- ern publishing-house, but the breaking | out of the war prevented its appearance. Home duties compelled her to return to Ohie, and, eventually marrying Mr. Victor, a naval officer, they came in 1863 to San | Francisco, where Mrs. Victor identified her- self with California journalism. Writing sometimes under the pseudonym of *‘Flor- | ence Fane,”” “Dorothy D" and other pen names, frequently with no signature at all, she becamea component part of early coast newspaperdom. Her stories took on the Western coloring, and when they ap- peared unsigned in the San Francisco and Chicago press they were accredited to Bret | Harte, then in the height of his popu- larity. A few years later Mrs. Victor went to Oregon. "Admiration for thatlovely, pictur- esque and comparatively unknown country of almost boundless resources and a de- sire to penetrate the mysteries of its past environment led to her life labors as a his- torian. The vast region now comprising Oregon and Washington is familiar soil to Mrs. Victor, whose historical and topo- graphical researches have led her far afield in pursuit of her calling—tasks as compre- hensive to her as they would have been difficult for another, since aptitude and love for her labors went hand in hand. ‘“Atlantis Arisen” is the attractive title of a book by Mrs. Victor, dealing with the physical features of the northwestern country, interspersed with anecdote. Among other books of importance are: “The = River of the Vest,” con- taining Oregon’s early history and an_ account of the fur companies; “Alle Over Oregon and Washington” and “History of the Early Indian Wars of Oregon.” "The Legislature of the latter State passed a bill authorizing the Secre- tary to appoint some one for the writing of this book, and Mrs. Victor was chosen. “The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems’ was published in 1877. Mrs. Vic- tor's literary style is characterized by force, clearness, keen imagination and good Eaglish. The most popular of her books is the “River of the West,” a second edition-of which will be brought out in the near future. ‘When about 20 years of age Mrs, Victor, then Miss Fuller,” published a volume of verse in collaboration with her sister. Pheebe and Alice Cary were their intimate friends, and the quartet was often alluded to in the Ohio press as ‘‘the two pair of poetesses.”” Mrs. Victor relates with much amusement her experience with her first pamphlet production, a novelette. She asked an old-time friend of the family his opinion of it. % “Well, Frank,” he replied with com- mendable candor, “the story doesn’t aflmou,nt to anything, but the preface is ne.’ Mrs. Victor avers that this wholesome criticism saved her from further produc- tion of trivial work. Tt is rather unusual in these days, when some of our so-called first families can trace their genealogy no further back than the time ‘‘when papa came round the Horn,” to meet any one whose ancestral tree is as traceable as a railroad map. Aristocracy of mushroom growth fades into sorrowful insignificance, when, as in the case with Mrs. Victor, the genealogical torch lights up a pathway that has been trodden by suc- ceeding generations for more than 500 years. She is descended from Lady Susan Clinton, wife of a deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was her- self a descendant of thirteen English kings. One of Mrs. Victor's ancestors was Sir William Walworth, the first Lord Mayor of London, who was knighted by ‘Washington. The way has not been easy for her, but her book-making days are far from being over, and she is now engaged in accumulating material for ultimate pub- lication. One who, like Frances Fulier | Victor, ranks her art above the greed of money-getting, deserves praise. Few among us, in passing, will leave work of so enduring a quality behind. 1P, Luminous Fungi. A man traveling in Australia found a large mushroom of this genius weighing five pounds. He took it to the house where he was stopping, and_hung it up to dry in the sitting-room. Entering after dark he was amazed to see a beautiful soft light emanating from the fungus. He called in the natives to examine it, and at the first glance they cried out in great fear that it was a spirit. It continued to give out light for many nights, gradually de- creasmfiunul it was wholly dry. Dr. Gard- ner, while walking through Bne streets of a Brazilian town, saw some boys playing with a luminous_object, which "he at first thought was a large firefly; but he found on inspection it was a brilliant mushroom (Agaric), which now bears his name. It gave out a bright light of a greenish hue, and was called by the natives ‘‘flor de coco,” as it grew on a species of palm. The young plants emit a pale greenish light. Many kinds of fungi are phosphor- escent. Humboldt describes some ex- quisitely beautiful ones he saw in the mines. The glow in rotton wood is caused by it cox{tainilli the threads of light-giv- ing fungi Nicholas. IN DESPAIR. ‘o PEN PICTURE.' Many Women Will Recognize It. [SPECIAL TO OUR LADY READERS.] ¢“Oh, I am so nervous! No one ever suffered as I do! There isn't a well inch in my whole body! honestly think my lungs are diseased, my chest pains me so; but I've no cough. I'm so weak at my stomach, and have in- digestion horribly. ‘Then I have palpita- tion, and my heart hurts me. How I am losing flesh! and this headache near- 1y kills me; and the backache — Heavens! I had hysterics yesterday. There is a weight in the lower part of my bowels, bearing down all the time; and there are pains in my groins and thighs. I can’t sleep, walk, or sit. I'm diseased all over. The doctor ? Oh! he tells me to keep quiet. Such mockery! Inflammatory and ulcerative conditions at the neck of the womb can produce =11 the above symptoms in the same person. In fact, there is Hardly a part of the body that can escape those sympathetic pains and aches. No woman should allow herself to reach such a perfection of misery when there is positively no need of it. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound acts promptly and thoroughly in such cases; strengthens the muscles of the womb, heals all inflammation, and restores that unruly organ to its normal condition. Druggists are selling carloads of it. Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., 33 NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA THEATER. FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & CO....... Lessees and Managers THE SECOND AND LAST WEEK OF THE GREATEST SUCCESS YET ! THE PERFECTION OF ALL REMARKABLE PLAYS! COMMENCES TO-MORROW NIGET! Every Evéning, Including Sunday. DMatinee Saturday. THE FRAWLEY COMPANY ——JIN—— YETE SIENATOR!Y? Commencing Monday, July 15th, Special and Important Engagement by MR. FRAWLEY ot —MISS ELEN DAUVRAY — In the First Production in San Francisco of Bronson Howard’s Most Successtul Comedy, “YOIWE OF OUR GIRIS:!” The Record Breaker in New York City. Souvenirs Presented to Every Lady Attending the Opening Night's Performance. RESERVED SEA’ ..15¢, 25¢, 50c and 75¢ | MATINEE. I5¢, 25¢ and 60c ATS NOW ON SAL NIGHT. CALIFORH s TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock PROPS. T AST WEEE THEATRE - COMMENCES TO-HOREOY (FIONDAY), JULY 8. MATINEES ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. DENMAN THOMPSON'S PLAY, e QLD HOMESTEAD Management of E. A. MCFARLAND. NEW SONGS THIS WEEK BY THE DOUBLE MALE QUARTETL. : LAST PERFORMANCE SUNDAY, JULY 14, Monday, July 15—“A BLACK SHEEP.” Hoyt's Latest Farce Comedy Success. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO.. ..Sole Lessee and Manager, THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, LAST PERFORMANCES OF “UNDER THE LASH!” MONDAY EVENING, JUL:'Y S8th, Sixth Week of the Eminent Manager-Author-Actor, W ALTER SANFORD n His Great Eastern and European Success, “THEl PRODIGAL DAUGHTER!” EVENING Pmczs—zsc'and 50c; Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. B ] ORPHEUM. An0 Co, L EII INCORP D Bl-rn EATRE W 7Ro%S. Parquet, any seat, 25¢c; Balcony, any seat, 1003 DRNIEL PROMMAT vat The Famous Whirlwind Dancers. 8 SCOTTIE Children, 10¢, any part of the house. <MISS SCOTTIE, The Calculating and ¢ ving Scotch Collie. <oNl A BARTLETT AND MAY. P edians. L O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powsll MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), JULY 7, ONDAY, OPENING OF THE AT y MObeYs, |, f4rh ReauLAw season | UNPARALLELED ARRAY OF NOVELTIES! The Greatest, the Best, the Latest! DE FORRESTS, Grotesque _Comi ME. HERBERT KELCEY, ME.W.J. LEMOYNE, T o T Mit. CHARLES WALCOT, MR, FRITZ WILLIAMS. o M. STEPHEN GRATTAN, ME. WALTER HALE, MR. FERDINAND GOTT- ~ME.ERNEST TARLETON, SCHALK, ME. EDWARD WILKES, MR. WILFRED BUCK- MR. WM. MAXWELL, TAND, ME. EDWARD HAYES, MISS ISABEL TRVING, MRS. CHARLES WALCOT, MISS ANNTE IRISH, MES. THOS. WHIFFEN, MISS KATHERINE FLOB- ENCE, ETC., ETIC. MISS BESSIE TYRKE, MISS MAUD VENNER, MISS HELEN MORGAN, First Week—Beginning Monday, July 15, THE CASE OF REBELLIOUS SUSAN, By HENRY ARTHUR JON Second Week. ...¢“THE AMAZONS.”” Third Week...*“AN IDEAL HUSBAND.” Sale of seats and boxes will commence Thursday, July 11. Regular Baldwin Theater prices. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Mes. Er~sTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manages THIS EVENING— A WHIRLWIND OF MIRTH AND MELODY ! The Glorious American Comic Opers, “TAR.AND TARTAR” a AGE\ITS 'FOR THE CELEBRATED Speeder Bicycle KING OF ALL! A SUPERB PRODUCTION IN EVERY DETAIL. Popular Prices—25¢c and 50c. MACDONOUGH THEATER (OAKLAND). 4 Nights and_Wednesday Matine DENMAN THOMPSON HE OLD HOME Seats ready to-mOrTow, 9 A. Dbeg. July 15. PLAY. EAD." —Popular Prices. ABsolutely high grade, possesses many novelties of a thoroughly scientific and practical character. THE SPEEDER is so constructed as to give the rider an instantaneous change of gear from & higher to a lower, and vice versa, at pleasure. ALCAZAR THEATER. W. R. DAILEY. ...Manager LAST NIGHT. YV ALJTEAN. MONDAY, JULY 8. The Great DAMPIER WITH A SPECIAL CAST. PRICES, 15c¢, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c. RUNNING m RUNNING RACES! RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RAGES, SPRING MEETING! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. 1t Above cut shows contents of sprocket wheel. will be observed that the gear wheels are so ar- ranged as to constitute a perfect roller bearing and centering device, thus obviating the tendency to friction and wear on case and shaft in their revolutions. Price $125. THE ALCAZAR BICYCLE Same as the Speeder, without Speeder attach- ments. Absolutely high grade, modern style and " Price $105. Pleased to Have You Call and .Examine, 818-820 Market Street Phelan Building. ¥ ‘{rutisrlrraet. BesT Osmaneo Br DEWEY & CO., 220 MARKET ST., 8. Fu, Cat. Races Monday, Tnesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—Rain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Racesstiirt at 2:30 P. M. sharp. McAllister and Geary street cars pass tne gate. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. EL CAMPO, THE POPULAR BAY RESORT, NOW OPEN EVERY SUNDAY DURIN THE SEASON. b Music, Dancing, Bowling, Boating, Fishing and Other Amusements. Refreshments at City Prices. Fare, round_trip, 25¢; children, 15¢, including admission to grounds. THE STEAMER UK “’(flll}e&;s Tl:vu];:n Ferry 10:30 a. and 4:00 P. 3. Returning leave Kl 473,100, 3:00 and 5:00 ¥. 5e. BORAXAID 50 TIMES A YEAR comes the inevitable weekly clothes washing. 1000 TIMES A YEAR comes the perpetual tri-daily dish wash= ing. No help for the weary washer, until—The Pacific Coast Borax will gladly and freely answer all letters | Co. lends its 20-Mule Death Valley Borax Team, to make this heavy asking for advice. Mrs. E. Bishop, 787 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., suffered all the above described horrors. Now she is well. Lydia E. Pinkham’'s Vegetable Com- pound cured her. Write her about it. _ work light and easy. 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