The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1895, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1895. 21 L% Vflg the in were students together in urgh University. and grad from the same class. Upon A for, was conferred it pon mys e each howeve rden my stc and with t youth which, 3 in his latter teens to be curse of his peculiarly, lay side t he supplied me with he own name, any to study in Ve 3 5 | | gard you, e my course at the | ate office, where I bolted the door and cted myself so far as it was possible, laying the many-paged manusecript before me. Iwill not attempt to use my own words, nor will I draw upon my imagina- tion, but I submit the document in 1ts en- irety, without eliminating a phrase ora single li Here it is: My lj‘mvr;{ Friend : This is the last let- I will write to any mortal. There have been few men in all my lifetime whom I regard with the same affection that 1 re- . I consider it my dury to unfold the past five years to you, feeling that it is due for the “fidelity ‘and faith you have | shown me.. I have told you nothing of my purpose in coming to” Rome, but_will do so now. In Leipsic, as you doubiless remember, I caused considerable comment by my per- sonal appearance, and I was wont to de- sire a more youthi: possessed. I found that love for ppearance than I od’s pardon) m secondary to my desite for whole ambition, my_ hope, w my pr young in body and mind. aded the horror of old age. As I write now that ng comes b, accentuates the distress ti e. These lines, which fail into <, do not half con- of the hand tha pens them, but th be my last. I bave but one mission to perform now, and it is to record the incidents of a life that is not paralleled in the world’s history, and to ask your forgiveness. er to more thoroughly connect the of my visit to Rome, you must v that I had_been in communication for some time with an Italian alchemist “IHERE IS A LITTLE T0OO0O MUCH HERE FOR ONE DOSE, I MUST MEASURE IT.” pitals of Leipsic. I well remem- 1 on the faces of the ures when they discovere sed the brains of a man ed linguist, an unusual musician on flute and piano, a student far advanced in psychology and a man of re- ble wit. ie after he arrived he was a lion among men and, unfortunately, a god among men. On this score I rather feared for as at receptions and state affairs his amusements seemed to be found among the ladies, whom he delighted to éntertain with flashes of brilliancy, which he -was equally capable of exercising smong men. His face still radiant with the every evidence of youth, his light brown carly hair still thick and glossy, his erect carriage and general graceful bearing, all added to his attractiveness and occasioned meny a doubt as to his reported acquaintance with swift gathering years. These expressions above all else delighted him most and any reference to his appear- ance caused him & great deal of inward ap- proval. He irequently ugressed himself to me that he might look still younger. That was his one failing. t : He was a success, however. Hisachieve- ments in the hospital, his remarkabie and unprecedented cures, bis letters to the medical journals, made his name sacred to the faculty of every academy in Europe, and hisreputation in society, coupled with men. 3 Much to my astonishment one evening he ‘intimated that he would soon leave Leipsic for Rome. I questioned him ly regarding the importance of his {]ul he was not inclined todiscuss the tter, so I was silenced on the point. A Wweek after his suggesting such a trip he bade me good-by and was gone. I dis- covered later that he had not made his de- parture known to any one other than my- self. It was whispered that he had gone to some foreign country to return later with some wonderful discoveries in medi- Cine, and one rumor bad it that he had gone to the Sandwich Islands to_ practice among the lepers. I discreetly kept my knowledge from all who sought informa- tion from me. ; In the space of five months I received one letter, followed by another. Both con- tained information that he would return to Leipsic on the 9th of the following month, which was March. 1 so fully ex- pected him that I took it upon myself to have his house set in order for his recep- tion. 1 was therefore greatly annoyed when he did not arrive on the last train from Berlin. I was reasonably sure, how- ever, that he would appear the following morning. Again I was disappointed. In order to cover a lapse of time that would be without interest to those who read this story 1 will state that I did not bear from him again for five years. He seemed to have dropped out of my life, out of the world, and nothing seemed left me but his memory, wken one morning the postman broughta letter whose envelope contained the familiar chirography of my friend. With a trembling hand Itore it open. Yes, it was from Alexander Mor- gan. Quivering with excitement, I in- that the | heart's . of & youth was 45 years | ph: s being one of the renowned | time of its administration. I rsicians of London, he.was an accom- | take this magical votion, and in order to s future, which I partly enjoyed, lay | and p ght before him and within a short | tain it. | | sion which seemed to fade out of his face and blend with the half smile that played honor, heightened his standing among | ] who, I had been informed, by none other himself, was in possession of an elixir ch woula not only rejuvenate the action, but would also perfect one cally, and eradicate all traces of age might have accumulated up to the I longed to | tha | do so I came to Rome. Here I found what I thought to be my savior, but, good friend, may no other man | fall m to the baneful desire for youth pass throngh what I have lived to at- I told him I was prepared and we | arranged the terms. The price—it was | nothing to the grandéur of the elixirs. | What longing came over me when the day | approached, what unspeakable anxiety felt for fear he would not bear with my impatience when the hour came. How- | ever, T was not to be disappointed. On the | 13th’of March, five years ago to-day, as ar- ranged, I entered the narrow and filthy | street leading to his laboratory. I saw | nothing along the route but the vial that contained the quivering liquid which he had shown me once before. The very thought of it made me feel younger. As I entered the low-ceiled room the alchemist thrust his head from out an ad- ‘ joining room and called mie to him. I assed into his sacred study, where he tood looking at me with a sinister expres- around his curling lips. Icould not mas- ter my nervousness. Presently he spoke tome: “You are just intime. Ina few noments 1 will be dead,” he said. ‘‘The and of time rests heavily upon my shoul- der and in a short while 'his deadly sickle will have cut me down. I have seen too much sorrow, too much misery and woe to care to live it over again. You are yet | young and still unmarred by heavy years. ssructed my servant to say that I was out to all comers, and at once repaired to my There is still content for you. prepared to take the dose ?”’ “Yes,” I answered instantly, and Iam sure my voice betrayed my impatience to take the potion. He stepped to a small table upon which rested the precious vial and uncorked it. “There is a little too much here for one dose. I must measure it,”” he continued. Slowly he poured it into & small receptacle and each drop glistened like a diamond. Suddenly he Jooked up at me elevating the vial as he did so, and the entire contents passed into the graduating glass. I felt his long, bony hand clutch my arm_and saw his eyes staring into vacancy. With a shud- der that seemed to pass iuto my own bod{ be gradually relaxed his grip, and reached out and took the vprecious stuff from his hand just as he sank at my feet with a half-uttered moan. As he rolled over and turnea his face toward me I saw by his glassy eyes, which stared blankly at the ceiling, that he was no more. I stood as though in a spell, and then with a mut- tered prayer to my Maker I drained the lass to its depths and flung it from me. ith a crash it fell among the bottles around the shelves, and as I fled from the room the echoes seemed to pursue me. I reached my home, and throwing myself upon the bed almost instantly passed into a deep and peaceful slumber. When I awoke the lo]lowiuf day and looked in the glass my face did not show the marks I expected to find there, but on the con- trary I felt better than ever before. Strangely enough, the few gray hairs above my umples had changed to a brown. In a few weeks the slight wrinkles at the corners of my eyes were smoothed out, and aiter shaying myseli each time Are you 10 MOBMONSH OB the growth of my beard was less. Inside it almost ceased. s G g younger. One day while at work my ring fell off my finger and_mv chair felt big and un- comfortable. When I dressed next morn- ing to my amazément I found that my clothing was too large for me. I satdown to the piano and found an octave difficult. My collars no longer fitted as of old, and one afternoon the postman asked meif I was Doctor Morgan’s son. Like a thun- derbolt the terror of my situation came upon me. I had taken an overdose of elixiz. Lwas groving smaller. Filled with terror and alarm Iwent into retirement, but I found myself reappearing on tie street and playing 1narbles with the boys. I once more. returned to cheap candy and found it impossible to resist the temptation to play mumbley-peg with the gamins. I grew less and less week after week and had to have my clothing made anew once a month to accommodate my person. I went to my room at night and_ cursed fate, but it always ended by my climbing out of the window and whistling for the neighbors’ sons. One night I was arrested for being on the street after 8 o’clock, but the plea I made to the authorities was so owerful, so logical and so fuli of unusual | Intelligence that I was permitted to go my way. On the following morning I received an offer from a dime museum to go on exhibi- tion ata good stipend as the ‘‘wonderful conversational prodigy.” I can tell you no more. To-night by my own hand I'will pass to another world. 1 cannot live it down, and there is rest be- yond the grave. Forget and forgive me for desiring to live over the life T had spent in vanity and pride. Faithfully, AvLEXANDER MorGaAN, M.D. P. 8.—1 haveinstructed that my remains be laid to rest in the children’s cemetery, and that the tombstone be without dates. A. M. M Jane Hunter Married So She Could Have a Husband All Her Own. Instead of Belng One of Many Wives She Became the Wife of Two Men. A Mormon girl’s marriage to two men | has been thesubject of litigation for several vears, and yesterday the Supreme Court | ended the troubles by declaring that the | first marriage alone was legal. | Jesse Hunter brougit suit to annul a marriage entered into with the defendant, Jane Elizabeth Milam, at Los Angeles on | July 3, 1862, on the ground that at the | time of the marriage the defendant had | another husband living, a man named | Joseph Milam. | The two parties to the suit lived together | as man and wife from the time of their marriage in 1862 to 1884, when Hunter | learned of Milam’s existence. There was a separation, and the wife then obtained a | divorce from her husband of 1858. When the second busband began pro- ceedings for the annulment of his mar- riage the wife filed an answer admitting | that she had married Milam in 1858. But she declared that the marriage was not a ! legal one, as she was only 15 years old at | the time and she married without the con- sent of her parents. She stated that no license for the marriage had been obtained and that the ceremony was not performed by anybody having fegal authority so to act. More than that, within ten days after the wedding she left her husband and re- turned home and. Milam got out of the country. Since that time she has heard | nothing from the man and to this day she | does not know whether he is dead or alive. | If she could prove that he was dead in 1862 | her second marriage would be unquestion- | ably legal, but Hunter has obtained good | evidence that such was not the fact. | _The Superior Court at Los Angeles on June 14, 1893, declared the defendant in the | suit to be the legal wife of Hunter, taking | the ground that the marriage to the first | busband was not according to law. | _This decision is reversed by the Supreme | Court, however, and the decree of divorce, issued in 1884, is mentioned as evidence | that the missing husband was alive. On this evidence the conclusion of the first husband’s existence is reached, and the court declares that the marriage to Hunter was invalid, and a new trial is ordered. THE SUIT WITHDRAWN, Dr. Stearns Ends His Breach Promise Case by Marrying Mrs. Ramage. The suit of Mrs. Bridget Ramage against Dr. Victor J. Stearns to recover $10,000 damages for breach of promise has been aismissed in the Buperior Court. The set- tlement is on the basis of marriage. Dr. Stearns and Mrs. Ramage became husband and wife several days ago, the ceremony being performed at San Jose, and now they are residing at 417}¢ Third street. Dr. Stearns is a member of the Olympic Club, and is well known about town. He has practiced medicine here eleven years, and is about 40 yearsold. A year and a half ago his first wife died, making the doctor sole heir to froperty Wwhich has been appraised at $32,000. It included a building at 109 Fifth street, which Dr. Stearns sold for $25,000. In Janunary of last year the doctor be- came acquainted with Mrs. Ramage, and out of that acquaintance the suit for breach of promise grew. THE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU{ Gratitude of a Man Who Was Almost Starved to Death. A man recently applied to Labor Com- missioner Fitzgerald and stated that his case was desperate and if he could not se- cure work he would end his life. Ina short tinfe the man was sent toa job in a wholesale house and yesterday he sent a letter expressing his gratitude and added that the position had saved his life. Several days ago a contractor on the sea- wall sent in an order for about a dozen men to_handle grain at the grain sheds. The order was filled yesterday at the labor bureau, but in a short time the men re- turned and stated that the reason the man had sent the order was to fill the places of men who had ‘‘struck’ against a reduction of hours and wages and they would not take the places of the men under such circumstances. Mr, Fitzgerald said that he would not take any more such orders. THE MILKOAN DISPUTE. Two Milkmen Who Are Fined Will Make It a Test Case. The trouble between the Milk-dealers’ Association and milkmen who are not ‘members of it in regard to the use of milk- cans will be taken to the Supreme Court. Yesterday Judge Conlan fined Leonard Bretschgi and Joseph Bretschgi $50 each with the alternative of fifty days in jail on the nhurfi of petty larceny in sf '3 milkcans belonging to the association. Their attorney gave notice o(mn‘px)ul and intimated that it would be e a test case. ———————— The Gallagher Will Contest. On petition of John F. Hanlon, attorney for the absent heirs, an order has been issued by the Superior Court requiring Rev. Dennis Nu- ent, executor, to render an account of the i}llen Gallagher estate. The story of the con- test of the will, by which will a $183,489 es- tate is bequeathed almost entirely to charity, was told in THE CALL last Thursday. of MICROBES IN US: WHY? WIII Carleton, the Poet and Athlete, Declares the Healthy Man the Favorite of the World. Eis Sleep That of the Trusting Ohild of Na- ture—Delights in His Breakfast, Other’ Meals Incidental—Work and Amusement Always Welcome—"*A Power Among Ea- torprises and Star Among Entertainers!’— _ Has No Forebodings of Death—Who Knows This Man? The perfectly healthy man—healthy in body, mind and soul—is & king in what- ever place he enters; welcome everywhere, successful everywhere. Hissleep is not an alternation of wakeful despondency and idiotic dreams, but a cradle sweet as any he ever enjoyed in babyhood. He enters it each night as the trusting child of nature, and springs from it every morning a better man than ever before. Hisbreakfast is de- lightful to him as is food to a fasting traveler in the desert, for his stomach is out of employment, free from all complications and incumbrances, and waiting for an engagement. His other imeals are pleasant and beneficial in- cidents of the day. His work is a useful, thrifty sort of amusement, for if mind, soul and body contain perfect health their every action and movement is a thrill of delight. His amusements are full of the most de- licious enjoyment, for not one of the senses with which he welcomes them has been blunted. Whatever his name, he is a favorite of the world. Men respect and honor him— women love to look at him—children con- fide in him. He is a power among enter- prises, a star among entertainers, a potent help in the midst of sorrow and hain. He is not restricted to any country— e is a prisoner of no weather and a fugi- tive from no climate. He is an inhabitant of the world. . Changes in the air's temperature, sudden or gradual, effect upon him only their legitimate mission=and that is, to im- prove the human body by trying and strengthening different portions of 'it. The drumming raindrops are to him a healthy bath; the_chilly snow-drifts are merely white yielding carpets upon the firm floor of the earth; the rays of the sun are forge-fires hardening his muscles and warming his blood. The perfectly healthy man is not all the time looking forward to death; he has no foreboding of it; no sense of what it is like. He never grows old. Heis young at %—at 30—at 50—at 70. His powers of mind draw compound interest from the be- ginning, and the sum of his knowledge in- creases with the years in geometricai pro- gression. He has new and peculiar ad- vantages from every turn of life. In each succeeding month, he is capable of some- thing useful and glorious that he was never able to do before. In proportion to that of power and consequent usefulness, his baEpincss accumulates; barring acci- dent, paved with material from heaven, and en- ters into it at the price of no throbs of earthly physical pain. But who'is he? Do you know him—this man thoroughly healthy in body, mind and soul? This mortal who does not carry upon or within his person some malady more or less concealed? Find him and then dispatch word to the museums, that they have not a real, genuine curiosity in all their collections. 1L Sickness s Law-Wrecker: A Mouthfal of Breakfast in the Infernal Regions—Turning Blessings Into Curses—but Illness Some- times Exhibits Grace and Heroism—The In- walid Not & Genuine Resident of This World, The Preference of God's Executive Oficer. The sick man is an innocent or a guilty law-breaker—a violator of the rules of God and nature. Health is ‘“the fulfilling of the law’’; it is the law; it is the only law. Sickness is the great law-wrecker—simply e approaches heaven on roads | an obstruction in the sublime machinery of the universe. Physically speaking, sickness isa mouth- ful of breakfast in the infernal regions; it is a part of them. Heaven, whethera city, a country, or a combination of feeling and thought, has for its other name order; and hell is disorder in its dingiest glory and at its murderous best. Very appro- priately i3 a sickness called a disorder! The sick man soon feels that he isnota genuine resident of this world; he cannot feel with his neighbors; he is an excep- tion—an obstruction—a tenderly created outcast. If he has no friends around him the world is wringing his heart; if he has friends he is, in spite of himself, constantly wringing their hearts. He fooks upon the flashing oars of healthy striving voyagers, far in advance of him, still forging ahead, and feels himseif in the thorn-upholstered stern-sheets of a tossing, rudderless boat, drifting he knows not where but sure of one thing—that he is soon to sink. With the great majority of its victims sickness can turn every blessing of God into a loathsome curse—the exhilarating walk into an agonizing struggle—the life- iven food into the hidden thrust of a steel lade—the friendly visitor into a death- laden ghost. It creates a wall of pain, the only windows of which exhibit the world as a country of mousters. Not but that sickness sometimes draws out and exhibits heroism—and so do merciless sieges, unjust wars, fierce perse- cutions, and murderous holocausts; but that is no recommendation of the wars, the persecutions, and the sicknesses. Those who, in spite of all they can do, must suf- fer pain because of the sin or carelessness of others, and stiil crush through and strive gloriously and with much success to make their way in the world, have paid in advance for a laurel wreath of praise; but as we hang it upon their aching heads, and kiss their emaciated cheeks, we cannot but hear our thoughts whispering together “How much better work that superb mind would have done in a superb body!” Mentally and spiritually sickness is at times a means of grace; it tears away farther and farther the veil of flesh and exhibits more and more plainly the an- gelic nature within—made brighter and sweeter by the discipline of pain. But it isa very expensive method of becoming an angel; expensive to the patient, to his friends, to God. Nature, God’s_executive officer, a)releru to develop good souls in good bodies. IIL The Microbes’ Oolumbus—Colonising Within Us—Why Has God Created These Lilipu- tian Reptiles?7—Are They as Important as the Planets?—8hould They Board or Camp With Us?—Water, Air and Light the Re- pairers—Life’s Tranguil Exit, It is now asserted by the great majority of physicians that most, 1f not all, diseases are formed by microbes; trillions of tiny beings, a world of themselves, whose Co- lumbus was the microscope; each indi- vidual living, conscious and possessing peculiarities and ambitions of its own— each capable of obtaining a livelihood from the universe of prey which our bodies resent to it. We are told that these ively Iittle weavers of shrouds abound everywhere; that the earth, the water, the air, all seem at times packed with the am- munition of human disease and death. We eat these petty but powerful atoms of poison—drink them—breathe them. No odds how healthy we may appear—no mat- constantly in our bodies more or less frag- ments of destruction, ready to devour us from within. with us, He isa poisoner rather than an eater of the human system. He shows a cheerful wiilingness to stay with us; if necessary, to board not only with, but within us, to fraternize with his fellows, breed, multiply and form colonies; and the name we give to this city of microbes, this community of enforced robbers and malefactors, is disease; and we try to eradicate them with more poison, which we call medicine, and for which we pay dearly. N Does it not seem strange that God, hav- ing made man 1n his own image, has also created these liliputian reptiles and in- sects and serpents, seemingly for the pur- pom’:[ of prematurely destroying that im- age We understand and enjoy the cat’s being, as Victor Hugo says, a revised proof-sheet of the mouse; we see why one class of vermin should be trained by nature to exterminate another; but why man, whom God hastaken so much pains to create, should, in the midst of his career, be executed, whether innocent or guilty, by millions of invisible murderers, made and commissioned for the purpose, would paturally be set down as a death-framed puzzle. But the question appears, “Is it true? Are all these tiny creatures intended and equipped as man-eaters, or may they be part of the order of the universe, without which it would lose its balance and cease to exist?” Nature, in the administration of her kingdom, knows no high or low, large or smail. Perhaps a microbe is of a8 much importance to her schemes asisa lanet or a sun. Perhaps, indeed, he has is legitimate mission and his inalienable rights. Maybe the long flotillas and caravans of baculi that constantly pass through our systems are merely traveling upon their own business, and have no desire to mo- lest us, until by our carelessness or mali- ciousness we choke the channels through which they would sail, spoil the highways over which they would tread, and compel them to halt. If they stay with us, they must board with us. If we constrain them to camp within our bodies, they must live and eat there; and their presence and their foraging we still call disease. It has been shown that the above-men- tioned comma microbe, which causes cholera, is healthier, stronger and happier when residing outside the human body than when penned within; that it lives better and thrives more lustily 1f we let it go upon its way; that it poisons and eats us only when obliged to; and no doubt this is true of several of the microbe nations—perhaps all. What are we to do then? To keep all the roads within the body in good repair; to delay not for a moment this great pro- cession of miniature pilgrims that is con- stantly LFnssinz along; to give them all godspeed, and tell them by no means to delay for the infinitesimal fraction of a moment on our account. What are the great road-repairers—the great encouragers of microbe travel and riddance? Water, Air and Light. ‘Water!—The angel that lays soothing hands upon a fevered brow—the deliverer that can put out a burning thirst—the uardian that grasps and carries away the impurities that would rust and blight us. Water!—that had to wait scores of centuries for the human mind to learn and acknowledge; its value! Who- ever knows how fo rightly use this ele- ment, and has the energy and persever- ance to do so, has gone a {ong way toward perfect health. Few diseases of stomach ever existed where plenty of water had been. Pure air!—The divine breath of God whenever he walks this earth. Nourish- ment, stimulus, restoration—all so free and pleaty that there s notbing with which to compare it! No disease of the respiratory organs can take root where Flent of air is allowed, or, if need be, orced, to go. Sunlight!—Every ray is a friendly arrow from heaven—loaded with life and mag- netism, It is from the king-stars, which received it from God himself; it cures when nothing else will orcan. The poor consumptives that went to live in the Mammoth Caye found there, or carried there, everythiui to feed and cure them excepting sunlight; some of them perished before they could get out and the remain- der of them fled. ‘Whether the microbe theory be true or not, whoever understands and practices the science of water, air and light, adding to it the proper amount of work and play, with temperance of -body, mind and soul, can, in most cases, live as long as any one need wish to in this disorderly world, and merge his present life into the next one so ently and healthily that no jar can be elt at the chang ‘WiLr CARLETON. Bounties on American Shipping. The following telegram was received yester- day by Hugh Cralg from Philadelphia regard- ing a subject which is being agitated among Eastern ship-builders: At a meeting held yesterday of Atlantic Coast ship-builders the proposition that the United States Government should pay bountles on ex- ported agricultural staples and bounties upon ‘American shipping was indorsed unanimousiy. bt 2 Died From Her Injuries. Eliza Werkelbach died at the City and County Hospital yesterday and the body was taken to the Morgue. Her foot caught in her skirts as she was going downstairs on July 27 and she fell to the bottom, breaking her back. No inquest will be held, as her death is known to have been accidental. —— . NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. THE BALDWIN---TO-NIGHT. Conreid’s German Comedy Company from the Irving Place Theater in New York In C. Pander’s Farcical Comedy, DER WEISSE HIRSCH. (THE WHITE DEER.) Funny Situations. Original New York t. Sunday, August 11, WOHLTHACTER DER MENSCHHEIT, ¥ AT TRACTIVE PAVILION EXHIBITS EMBRACING DISPLAY of ELE&TRIge.EIBPgIV‘VOER ' TRANS M LSO 2 (idhal P B TWELES LAY CIIN G . THE GREAT AMERICAN CONCERT BAND TREE TRANSPORT AT\OWN EXCURSION RATES, EoW EoNT, - GM CHASE SECTY. A n.:s.A RURNING RUNRING RACES RACES! 2R CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, ter how vivacious we may feel—thereare S PRING MEETING! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Some of them are as great poisoners to { Races Tuesday, ‘Wednesday, Thursday, the human system as Lucrezia Borgia ever ‘was reputed to be. The “comma” ilcill\‘ll of cholera kills mainly by the virus he sharp, the system during his stay fin’"m creates in Friday and Saturday—Rain or Shine. re races each day. Racesstartat 2:30 T O CAllister and Geary sireet cars pass NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. San Francisco. ORPHEUM, [ o5 1o nmun e el ORPHEUM, Los Angeles, Cal. ANEW BHOW EVERY WEE Denver, Col. TWeelxs Commencing Monday, August Sth, ANOTHER SUPERLATIVELY GREAT SHOW! 10--NEW FACES--10 MONS. CUIBAL, Europe's Celebrated: Prestidigitateur. MLLE. LILLY ORTIZ, Psycho-Hypnotic Wonder, Direct from Europe. METROPOLITAN THREE, Soloists, Duettists and Triolsts, With a New Vocal Comedy. STINSON AND MERTON, Originators and Producers of a New Line o Comedy. HORWITZ AND BOWERS, Inimitable Travesty Artists. THE JORDAN FAMILY, The Marvelous Aerialists. ROSA FULLY, | JOHNNY CARROLL, AND LAST WEEK OF THE GREAT MARTINETTIS. MATINEE TO-DAY (SUNDAY), AUGUST 4 Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, any seat, 10¢; Chiidren, 10c, any part of the house. € MOST STUPENDOUS EVENT In the Amusement Annals of the Pacific Coast is the Advent of the GREAT WALLAGE SHOWS Now the Leading Circus and Menagerie of the Western Hemispherse. The Best Equipped Circus in the World, with the Finest Horses of Any Show on Earth. CAPITAL $3,000,000! 10 ACRES OF CANVAS! SEATING CAPACITY 20,000! 4 TRAINS! 1000 PEOPLE AND HORSES! Positively the First Big Show to come across the Rocky Mountains with its Entire Equipment, and also the first to charge the same prices West and East: ADMISSION, 50 CENTS; CHILDREN, 25 CENTS. Will show the principal citles of California in August and September. SAN FRANCISCO NINE DAYS! COMMENCING SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, RALDWIN . TO-MORROW ATHEATRE Y PROPS. th (MONDAY) TWO WEEKS—MATINEE SATURDAY. DIRECT FROM AN ABSOLUTE CONQUEST OF NEW YORK. THE IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY, 100 MUGH JOHNSON A STUDY IN LAUGHTER. with WILLIAM GILLETTE nq ALL THE ORIGINAL COMPANY. (MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES FROHMAN). Presented with new scenic garnishment and surroundings. and exactly the same cast which aj peared in this production during its metropolitan run of ten months. o COLUMBIA THEATER. FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & CO. eesesesasss.. Lossees and Managers ONILY TEIRE L.AST TO=-INIGEIT PERFORMANCE BY THE FRAWLEY COMPANY Of the Glorious Naval Drama by William Haworth, “PEIE: ENSIG-IN D’ TO-MORROW NIGHT B s “AU REVOIR.” “FAREWELL WEEK.” Commencing Monday Evening, Aug. 5, Souvenir Wight on Mlonday. An Elegant Group Photograph of the Entire Company Presented to Each Lad. & o B ftending the Performance. L el ’ THERE FRAWLEY COMPANTY ok i In the Following Splend df}f‘fi;‘"‘{”:m o onday and Tuesday COMFORTS OF HOME’* Wednes d Th STHE ARABIAN Nluon'rs" INTHROP" MOTHS” NATOR."” AUGUST 12th——“TWELFTH NIGHT.” MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO..... THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, LAST PERFORMANCES OF “UNDER THE CITY LAMPS!” MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST Gth, FIRST PRODUCTION IN AMERICA. Of the Great Russian Drams, “BY ORDER OF THE CZAR!” EVENING PRICES—25c¢ and 50c; Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. mflnw CENTRAL PARK, ‘ MCORPD I3 Y E PROPS. Sunday, August 4th, TO-NIGHT (SUNDAY), ‘ -y AT3 P X, POSITIVELY LAST APPEARANCE BiErs ::..AI:-:' TINMIE. PROF. OSCAR R, GLEASO, BLACK SHEEP STALLION. DIXIE, Ina 24-f00t pen, armed '€ only with a whip. OUTLAW will again be EXHIBITIONS OF ROUGH RIDING AND BRONCO BREAKING. Admission, 25c. Reserved Seats, 50¢. 6 com 3 “T00 MUCH JOHNSON.” with WILLIAM GILLETTE and the original company. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE | MACDONOUGH THEATER Mas. ERNZSTINE KRELING Proprietor & Managae 3 Nights Beginning TOMORROW. = oyt's Greatest Farce-Comedy. A O SBIE!IP. Beats Seiling To-Day_Popular Frices, PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. EL CAMPO. EXTRA ATTRACTION NEXT SUNDAY, AUGUST 4th, Commencing at 1:30 P. 3. JAPANESE AERIAL CARNIVAL!? Pretty Phantasma in the Air! LAST N1GHT OF: WALLACE'S ‘Ballad-Opera, “MARITANA ——TO0-MORROW EVENING—— Flotow’s Lyric Opera, “MTARTELAD Litelike Forms of Human Beings, Birds, Animals, FIRST APPEARANCE OF Eishes and gmveunq:e ;J:cs;v:u Floating g] ) " ER FARE AS USUAL—=25 CENTS. GEORGE H. BRODERIC Steamors Uliah and Jamos M. Donshie BASSO. ~ . ‘Will leave '1;1.rmon Femrrgy llo:so fi ., 12:10, 2:00 . Returning leave Ei Cam; 4.0, 1:00, 3:00 and 5:00 r. 2= Popular Prices—25c and 500 v