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4 T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1899. CURES CONSUMPTION. Mrs. Riddle's Experience Is Si Gentlemen—I had a cough fects of self They ad but would not eonsent st t By culty. itve W lungs, th my breathe C. waye place in the righ are con 1 & DUFFY'S PUR H DUFFY In April, able to work. clans, who told I was so Au be unable was very Campbel NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ar to Thou- sands Who Write Us Daily. Zeno, §. C., 9-20-'9. T three years, £7ip and not taking proper care of my- 1856, 1 became so weak I was 1 was examined by two physi- ne 1 had bronchitis, very bad » use Duffy's Malt Whiskey, tier against whiskey that 1 dvised me get ach longer. 11, and . six can almoet as well as I ever could, and Dr. my lungs are healed, except one dull ng, and that the cavitles tracting not know whether God is golng to let or not, but 1 humbly trust He feve that, under God, your Whis- ced my life thus far, and if T had uld have been cured by RIDDLE, Zeno, 8. C. F MALT WH b heals the EY not or lungs, but it action. It is ative known to the coug | nformation sent free. MALT WHISKEY C0., Rochester, N. Y. A | | AMUSEMENTS. IMPORTANT NOTICE! sec efore $150. ordered must be called for O-DAY. Tuesday, or Reserved scats General @dmis wi $1.00 Oc Thursday Afternoon, December 14, * U Orpheum. = PERFORMAN THE ¥ IN ALD C CHARITY FUND —OF THE— Associated Theatrical Managers H of San Francisco. 1 EATEST BILL EVER OFFERED ARDE a MRS. C, "ROM: THE GR FREDE from M EO r THE LIT Alcazar RS. ED RGE ude: RGIA MINSTRELS. from and Big Things, from the MOHRING BROTH at | o'clock sharp. CARRIAGES The Managers and Actors have heiped every known charity. Now help them. RE BILL AN INSTANTANEOUS HIT! The Pumous Legitimate Stars, EDWIN MILTON ROYLE & CO. 15t CAMILLE IVARVILLE, GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. ONLY THIS WEEK, GENERAL R SON'S GREATEST HITS, } HE CHINES OF NO RMANDY! FLEDERMAUS® (The TIVOLI ENTIRELY OPERA-HOUSE. ORATED AND RENO- FD. )RS AGAIN LAST HT Just Liie It Used to Be! D SATURDAY The Triumphant Comic Opera, TAR and TARTAR? sented by & Superb Cast, Including FERRIS HARTMAN. 2 AND 30 CENTS. o Seats, Bush %, POPULAR PR’ Telephor WESTERN TURF ASSOCIATION TANFORAN PARK. D MEETING, Dec. 416, 188, Inclusive. h-class FUDNINE TAces every Wweek-day, Mine, beginning at 1:30 p. m. \l winter racetrack of America Pa- ctly from the raliroad cars into id stand, glass-enclosed, where rtab sed In bad weather they can Ljuy an unobstructed view of the races. Trains leave Third and Townsend streel und 11:30 a. m., and 12:15, 12:3% m., retgraing immediately after Rear cars reserved No smoking. S way st - t San Yiruno ut 12:45 p. m. Leave San E and 4:45 p. m. Rates: San ¥ry turn, including admission to track, $1 25 . CINGInE AR Y. MARTIN, President. ¥. H. GREEN, Secretary and Manager. ¢ | Nearly Killed Himself. ! | | MARYSVILLE, Dec. 11.—The old son of J. M. Cutts of Linda Tow | had a narrow escape from death last| eventr While returning from hunting he pulled his shotgun over a fence afier n, 1 first. The hammers struck top barb wire and both barrels were warged. One charge of powder burn- ear and tore away a large plece of from the side of his head. The not penetrate the skull and the boy was able to walk home. HEADQUARTERS FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Re-ent !mportations of STATUARY N CROCKERY R CUT-GLASS ART NOVELTIES OIL PAINTINGS BRIC-A-BRAC Now on Exhibition. Op:n Evenings SN S. & G GUMP CO., § 11315 Geary Stree. | AMUSEMENTS. Engagement of the Distinguished Actor, st FREDERICK WARDE th MR. A E a 0 DN 2 SATURDAY NIGHTS. | “THE LIONS MOUTH.” | THUREDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MAT- AND JULIET." “RICHARD 1IL" 20¢ to_§1 e to T5e TO-NIGHT, INEE. | sSUNDAY e ROM | EVENING.. MAT. SAT. | engineer of the itgy St THE OPERATION OF COALING THE BATTLESHIP IOWA. T an hour. the contest as the men. A blackboard Qe isiedededededededeioeioe | MAIL STEAMERS AND TRANSPOR'S ARRIVE IN PORT Zealandia and Para Will Be Released. OVERDUE DEEP-WATER SHIPS SOME OF THEM ARE CAUSING MUCH UNEASINESS. ] Two mail steamers and one transport made port yesterday. The America Maru got in from Hongkong via Yokohama and Honolulu with 71 cabin, 14 Europeans, 42 Chinese and 18 Japanese in the steera She made the run from Honolulu in the fast time of five days twenty hours. The San Jose came in from Central American ports with seven cabin and twelve steer- age passengers. She made the run from Panama in twenty-two days. The City of Para came from Manila via Nagasakl in twenty-seven days. She brought no engers. The passage was an unevent- Both the City of Para and Zea- landia, which arrived from Manila Sun- day, will be returned to thelr owners as soon as the dumage to them has been as- sessed by a board of survey. The British steamer Bloemfontein is now overdue at Honolulu from Newcas- tle, N. 8. W. She is loaded with coal, and was nearly seventeen days late when the America Maru left Honoiulu. The chances are that her machinery broke down and that she will be picked up and towed into port by some ocean liner. The overdue British ship St. Enoch, now out 154 days from Panama for Portland, has been heard from again. Last Novem- ber 5 per cent relnsurance was being paid on her and then she showed u Columbia_River | aboard. | off the bar and took a pilot That was on November 17, and about that time the southeaster came up and ship and pilot were driven off shore. From that time untll yesterday mornin, nothing was heard of the St. Enoch, an the reinsurance on her had gone back to 10 per cent. Now she has appeared again off the Columbia River and will probably be safe in port to-day. Another vessel that is and has been causing_uneasiness is the French bark Louls Pasteur, now out 133 days from Limerick, Ireland, for Portland, Or. Bhe was spoken In August last in latitude 40 degrees north, longitude 27 degrees west, or about 100 miles north of the Azores. Later she was in company with the ship Bianca off the Horn, and as the latter was wrecked grave fears are entertalned for the Louls Pasteur. The underwriters are paying 2 per cent reinsurance on her. Gray & Mitchell's new steamer Dispatch received a thorough baptism on her first voyage tp Portland. She had to fight a gale both rnnx and coming and suffered Considerably in consequence. When oft the Columbla River bar the lightship sig- naled that she wanted to speak the Dis- Upon getting within hailing dis- it was learned that the chief lightship wanted to patch. tance HE record of the coast was broken yesterday in the sup- plylng of the blg warship with fuel. was put aboard in eight hours, or an average of 125 tons It was a case of rivalry between the port and star- board watches, and the officers were as much interested In A thousand tons given. by was hung on the Magdal ¢ | taken aboard the early a week before | | the steamer could stand in over the bar. | When Astorla was reached the chief en: ( gineer discovered that the vessel he had | [Teft five days previously had been driven | from her moorings and was a total wreck I o ashore. He Dispatch, but it w vas On the return trip the Dispatch found trouble again. The windows were smashed { in, railing carried aw cabin flooded and | | other minor damage done. Through it ail | | the steamer proved herself an admirable seaboat. The schooner Mizpah and her nineteen owners are in a peck of trouble. All of | the latter except Captaln Owens are | sheep raisers and know nothing about a | salling vessel. The captain has chartered | the vessel to carry a load of dynamite to Amapala and the other owners refuse to | iet her go. In consequence there are in- | junctions and restraining orders by the | dozen, and the Mizpah bids fair to be eaten ‘up in litigation before the matter is | settled | The longshoremen on the ship Bohemia | | have struck for an advance of 10 cents an | hour. The stevedores refuse to pay the demanded increase and are working the vessel with outside help. The steamer Cleveland is recelving a thorough overhauling preparatory to go- ing Into_the Cape Nome trade in the spring. New shafting has been put in, the machinery overhauled, boilers put in | thorough repair, the 'tween decks have | been_ thorough : lces put in and the entire vessel claaned and painted. | When the 1 the Cleveland | will be almost as good as new. Louis Black, mate of the Cleveland, had his watch stolen yester v by a man named John Kallen. The latter was ar- rested and booked at the Harbor police station on a charge of grand larceny. The brig Tanner has been brought out of retirement and made into as fine a little vessel as floats. Sister keelsons have been put in her, she has been celled and | sheathed throughout, recalked, new spars and new rigging put_up, and now she is thoroughly stanch. She'is under charter to bring a load of lumber from Olympia | to San Pedro, after which she will come | to San Francieco to fit out for the Cape | Nome trade. Walter Scammell, the agent | af the vessel, has also secured the steamer | Homer. and will run both vessels between | San Francisco and the gold fields in the | spring. Municipal Examinations. The examinations for 1600 positions will | take place about January 29, 1900, A thorough | six-weeks' preparatory course in all subjects begins Monday, December 11, 1888, at very rea- sonable terms. ~Apply 333 Phelan bullding. ¢ —_—————— Secretary Foley to Resign. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—While in this | city last week W. I Foley, private sec- | | retary to Governor Gage, is alleged to | | have said to friends that he contemplat- ed _resigning his position on account of sickness which has developed In his fam- | ily since removing to Sacramento. Whether Mr. Foley intends to resign at once or not {8 not known here. | —_———————— Christmas Festivities. Golden Gate Kindergartens, December, 1897. December 13—Stanford No. 5, Twen- ty-ninth and Misslon streets, 10 a. m. Tux, Potter, T. F. Shattuck and Me hants', West Mission street, 11 a. m. 14— | Stanford Nos. 3 and 4. 900 Brannan street, 10 a. m.; Pope, Emily P. Walker, Rea Estate, Aunm;,\' u.‘nd“ P";‘;:""F;«;Zffl , 221 Ninth street, 11 a. m.; Osg00: R are Bradley and Wilmerding, 250 and Sixteenth street, 11 a. m.; Two Friends, 1018 Folsom street, 2 p. m. 15—Stanford Nos. 1 and 2, 1912 Mason street, 10 a. m.; Hearst Kindergartens, Unfon-square Hall, corner Stockton and Union, 11 a. m.; Les- ter Norris, 1233 Pacific street, 11 a. m. ————————— A successful poker player attributes his good fortune to pot-luck. | (THE PEOPLE'S PLAYHOUSE.) | Eddyand Jones Sts. Phone SOUTH 770. | ONE WEEK ONLY—MATINEE SATURDAY. | | The Original Gecr 1a Minstrels. | | Grand Fl lryly’I"n_ Big_ Sec 3 Edition. | DORS! t Watt e, UNDAY. ALIFORNIA THE THE SAME GREAT ENTHUSIASM ! THE BAME GREAT PRODUCTION | THE FRAWLEY COMPANY I In thelr splendid presentation of | “THE FATAL CARD. on W Iy two more performances, b to-night and nesday night, in deference to & popular Friday lr;"s‘l""’dl)’ § y Mat “THE SPORTIN OPULAR |:| Evening RICES 15 Matine | SUNDAY NIGHT—Firat time in elaco of the excruclatingly funny comedy by | | Willlam H. Crane, “THE HEAD OF *rue| FAMILY.” ALCAZAR THEATER. ———LAST WEEK OF—— FRANCIS POWERS' Beautiful Mexican Play, MOTHER EARTH MEXICAN LIFE ILLUSTRATED. Preceded by the Laughable Farce Entitled, “UP TO WATKINS.” MATINEE BATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Next Week—Reappearance of ERNEST HASTINGS - in - “DR. BILL.” Nights and | Grana Revival of “"0 G DUCHESS.” DIRECTORS: AC HAMPTON, N. K. MASTEN, H. H. G. H. BAIRD, Resident Agent, Box 28 W. 8. GAGE, President; J. A. BUNTING, Vice President; J. C. BLOOD, § Kris Kringle never had & happler ide than the one which prompted him to_act distributor of etock for the Sterling Oil and Development Company, for he will bestow a gift that not only has a PRESENT *ALUE, but one which hns the possibilities for & FUTURE VALUE many times greater than now. Thers is a guarantee of honest manage- share of stock issued by operating on PAT- L WELLS ADJOIN- We D with OI1 I NOT MILES AWAY. Subscribed stock held In escrow: only treasury stock for sale, of which a limited amount is offered for 70 CENTS per share. Dfrrick No. 1 now being_erected. LISTED THE CALI- FORNIA OIL CHANGE. Prospectus and map for the asking. STERLING OIL AND DEVELOPMENT CO, 85-°6 Crocker Building, Third Floor Marysville, Cal. CONCERTS AND RESORTS. STEEPLECHASE, NTRAL PATK %% Market sts.—Open CENTRA dally from 1 to 11:30 p. m. Admission includes the thrilling ride on_the borses. Every winner receives a present. Sue- cessive winners will be given a handsome $20 gold watch. Professor Hill, the high wire ar- tist, mechanical bands, razzle-dazzle, mieat Jcman carrousel, bicycle circus, aerfal trolley, barrel of love, earthquake floor, mystic mir- rors, human cage, haunted spring, lively blower and & score of others. e completely new stock of prizes includes Xmas presents and 10c—Admission—10c. SPECIAL NOTICE ! The Panorama is open glll from 10 A. M. to § Panorama correct representation of the greatest victory ever achieved on land or sea, surpassing anything ever of the Batt_le o e et Manila Bay ¥ hns e Mrs. John Vance Cheney her first " 1 A e g, 2 WIll rej first will be o'clock, at MAKE PERFECT MEN N PAIR ! Do Tor Longer1 Tho Jogs ad AmSirom ife can be resto: to i Saxba pstoredic s Hhe very ausolutely cured Ty P 0 b Glv o in- n| allis S g e A L | indiscretions or excesse: early years. Impart vigor and potency to every func tion. Brace up the ) Give bloom to the cheeks and lustre to the es of Oung or oid. gree box rememarital snarey, @A ks ° 2 A com| re S B e BT e B everywhere, or ma rapper on recelpt of S B A P G B0ld by Owl Drug Co., 8. F. and Oakiand. DR. CROSSMAN'S SPECIFIC MIXTURE, FOI THI'"%‘U‘:: .0' EHONOR“R.H(:LA: Wright's A RE ACK fighting mast, and every hour the tally of each watch was When the day’'s work was done it was about a stand- off between the two gangs. From here the Jowa goes In company with the cruiser Philadelphia to San Diego, where the ships will he joined the Marblehead. The three warships will then go te na Bay for gun practice. I e e S SR T o A i o e e e e e ] VICE PRESIDENT GEORGE CROCKER 15 HOME AGAIN Viewed P. I. Company Property. THE PLANS OF LIQUIDATION g et | MANY YEARS REQUIRED TO WIND UP AFFAIRS. g George Crocker, second vice president of the Southern Pacific Company, arrived in San Francisco night before last and yes- | terday recefved many callers at his office | in the yellow bullding. Before Mr. Crocker left New York for the Pacific Coast The Call announced that he would travel via New Orleans and tarry en route to inspect properties ot Company in Louisiana and Texas. He was asked yesterday if his plans in this respect had been carried out. Speaking of the Pacific Improvement Company he | sald: “Many newspaper reports regarding the affairs of the Pacific Improvement Com- pany and particularly the stories that the company’s property is to be sold outright are incorrect. The Call's statement that the affairs of the company will be wound up by liquidation is correct. 1 left New York with the intention of acquiring in- formation concerning the value and con- dition of the company’'s property and where I did not make personal inspection | 1 secured data from records and agents. “Ten or fifteen years' time may be need- ed to wind up the affairs of the company. The amount ultimately realized will de- pend upon conditions of prosperity and ¥ visit was not the development of the country. I can- | he went to England. This y not approximate the ue of x)he Plv:nr;c successful, however, and for some reason Improvement Company’s property. The | or other he did not attract much atten-| holdings consist of coal mines, steam- | ¢jon from the King and the court. He ships, - timber lands, hotels, railroads, | yoiy come upon the invitation of his stocks, bonds and securities. For example the Carbonado coal mines, where the re- cent disaster occurred, belong to the com- gun)'. The hotels of Castle Lrags and Del fonte are owned by the concern. The company owns a rauway and coal mines on Vancouver Island, British Columblia, also valuable lands near Santa Barbara, In Loulsiana and Texas the company large Interests.’” ncerning the rumor of his resignation from the office of vice president of the Southern Pacific Company Mr. Crocker remarked: Cal. hi “1 am still second vice president of the | company. I have not resigned. I shall probably serve until next January, when my successor may be chosen. My present plans are to remain in Californfa for six weeks. No, I cannot tell you when C. P, Huntington will leave New York for Cali- | fornia or how long he will remain after his arrival her: Mr. Crocker does not care to discuss the Senatorial situation. In fact he frankly admits that the newspapers are much bet- ter informed than he is regarding the plans of the candidates. SUNSET LIMITED NOT WITHDRAWN ‘The rumors that the Southern Paclfic elegant Sunset Limited will not be op- erated this season are not trustworthy. Its initial trip will be made Friday, De- cember 15, leaving this city at 5 p. m., and on Tuesdays and Fridays thereafter. In the arrangement of its schedule the man- agers feel that they have enhanced the train’s natural attraction very consider- ably, for in addition to its elegance and splendid service, its prompt connections with limited trains of other llnes, etc., the time has been quickened and so appor- tioned as to enable the most interesting stretches of the grand Sunset Route to be traversed by daylight. Parties intending to make the trip should call on a South- | agent for a small brochure | ayside Notes Along the SBunset —_————— POLICE COURT SCANDAL. A Japanese Charged $2 50 for Being Furnished With a Warrant Out of Judge Graham'’s Court. Willlam Ye, a Japanese student re- slding at 22 Prospect place, related a strange story of “grafting” yesterday to Lieutenant Esola at the California street police station. He said that he had paid a man named Harrls, 626-628 Kearny street, 39 for an overcoat, and that when he brought it to the door to examine {t In the light he found that it was not wool, as had been stated, and demanded that another be given him Instead. Harris was unable to suit him and refused to make any further cl ges. Ye refused to take any of the ccats and demanded his money back, which Harris refused. Then Ye went to Police Judge Graham's court to get a warrant and was directed to a room adjoining the courtroom, where he found a clean-shaved, bareheaded man seated at a desk writing. The man said that he was Judge Graham's courtrorm clerk and that he would Issue the warrant for $. The Jap sald that he did not nave that sum ¢f money with him and proposed $2 50, which the ‘clerk” accepted and made out a warrant for the arrest of Harris. The Jap brought it to the Cali- fornia street station as requested ani jt was there found that the Judge's name was cndm .:gned t‘tu lt.loL:Eute}x;;:l?! Efiola Te- rted the matter e Police Depart- ?:ent and the “‘grafter” will be looked after. ————— Ladjes’ tatlor-made sults, fur capes, cloaks Credit, M Rothschild, 334 Post st, L] the Pacific Improvement | Copyright, 1809, b Contributors to this course: Dr._John C Frothingham Jr., Arthur Hoeber, VII. SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK. BY ARTHUR HOEBER. (Concluded.) It was with religious pictures that Van Dyck now occupled himself for awhile. His first subject was “The Adoration of the Shepherds,” for which he was to get | mitted, an exorbitant price; but even this | modest sum was objected to by the con- | fraternity of the church for which the canvas was painted, and Van Dyck, In | order to dispose of it to a private patron | at this price, was obliged to throw in a portrait, by way of good measure. After this he painted a “St. Augustine in Ecs- tasy,” and his price was advanced to 0 florins; once more his patron demurred at the expense, and this time it was a | small head of Christ that he gave to in- duce him to keep his contract. Happlly, he had no trouble after this in finding commissions, and for flve years the work poured in. Among hls great compositions of this period are “The Crucifixion,” “The Marriage of St. Catharine,” the “E Homo," “The Ralsing of the Cross” and | “The Infant Christ Crowning St. Rosa- . @2 4246242 +20040000 st ebei e e ebebed COURT PAINTER TO KING CHARLES L. Frank Fowler and others. | 400 florins, or about $16), not, it will be ad- | B e S e S e o e o a oo o oo o ol ¥y Seymour Eaton. THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTISTS, Van Dyke, Dr. Russell Sturgls, Dr. A. b | with every demonstration of love and afe | fection, fetes being given in his honor. | More disappointment was waiting for | him: he spent two months in Paris en- ‘dt‘n\'nrlnl unsuccessfully to obtain a com- mission to decorate the great gallery of | the Louvre: then came the rebelllion in | London and the withdrawal of the royal family; he was back In the English capi- | tal In the fi¥Ast of a terrible political ex- citement, which affected his health ad- versely, and he never rallied. He died | December 9, 1641, at the age of 42, and thus unbapplly Pasted away one of the | greatest of the world's artists. | Van Dyck was an extraordinarily rapid | worker; his touch was marvelously aure, | for there was no detail of his professton of which he was not complete master. | Following the custom of the times, he had about him many puplls and assistants whom he utilized to do all the more un- important parts of his canvases, such as | laying backgrounds and the putting on the first palinting of draperies and acces- | sories. he drawing of the subjects and | the pnlnnnz of the head and hands Van Dyck attended to himself. It is sald that | he never worked longer than one hour |at a time on any sitter; when the sixty | minutes had gone Van Dyck would bow ® | the patron out, another one generally be- |ing in waiting to take the next turn. Meanwhile his servants prepared fresh .-0—0—0—0—0+0+0—0—0+0+0—0—H0+0—W0—m. + e @rsebeb e 3 VAN DYCK’S “BABY STUART.” lie” In all more than thirty important religlous compositions were executed, while in between Van Dyck did many splendid portraits and made a long series of remarkable sketches in tints, many of | tin Vanden Enden. It was impossible to achieve all this suc- | cess without inciting the malice and env | of some of the lesser minds among h contemporaries, and Van Dyck, who was | of a highly sensitive nature, was deeply | trritated by the covert attacks subse- | quently made upon him. They finaliy be- came 8o annoying that he concluded to leave the country for awhile, and in 1628 friend and patron, the Earl of Arundel; unhappily, at that time Arundel was not years later, the Duke of Buckingham be- ing dead, the Earl was once more per- | mitted to bask in the sunshine of the his august master an official invitation | hiu time Issued to the great Fleming to repeat the visit, and so he returned un- der the best of auspices. Coming to London in the early spring of | 1832 Van Dyck received a reception befit- | ting his rank as a painter of the greatcst | aistinction. He was properly lodged and all his expenses were borne by the crown. A house was found for him In Blackfriars, {prombly 2 large mansion belonging to the | King, and a summer resort was provid- | ed down 1n the county of Kent. It did not | fake him long to bécome the social lion of the day. His manners were most at- tractive, though not less so than his per- son. He possessed elegance and distinc. tion to a superlative degree, for he Lad ever mingled with the best people in all the countries wherein he had traveled; he for those days, he had trav- gllztxi"fx‘l‘:;‘sl\el)'. Besides all this his Eu- | ropean reputation was known in London. | It was not, therefore, remarkable that 'iis | studio should pe filled constantly with the most fashionable crowds; sitters came in throngs; the King, the Queen, ail tke royal family, the great noblemen, crowd- | ed one another for the honor of posing. | Not to have a portrait by Van Dyck was | to be out of the social world. He had bcen | made painter in ordinary to his Majesty | almost immediately on his arrival, aad, | humanity being presumably the same in those days as it is now, there were many | heartburns among the mass of painturs | whose stars were dimmed by the advent of the new favorite. Despite his financial success and the bestowal upon him of a pension by the King, Van Dyck lived at so rapid a pace and spent his money so profusely that he was continually in dire straits. He was hospitable, he entertained most iberally, and no small portion of his earnings was contributed to the fair sex, for in an .ge of great xallantry there were few men in London who excéeded him in their atten- ed shortly after his arrival and, mingi'ng with the best people in the land, he [>oi- ishly tried to emulate the splendor of their entertainments. Curfously enough, he surrounded himself with a set of impos- tors who secured large sums from him i their alleged efforts and experimentings to find_the philosopher’ one, which he firmly believed to be a possibility. Brood- ing over his financlal troubles, fatigued with the constant work at portraiture, and worn cut by the confinement, the nox- | fous gases and close air of the laboratory wherein he spent much time makingchem- fcal experiments in his search for tae philosopher’s stone, his condition became such as to alarm his friends, of wnom rone were more solicitous than the King himself. It was _finally concluded, Afi things considered, that he ouglt to get married, and through the Influence of Charles an excellent match was arranged, the lady in question belng & member o the Quéen’s household. Thus it was that Maria Ruthven became his wife. King once more showed his friendlires: by providing a dowry from his privy sources. The marriage over, Van Dyck interested himself in working out a scheme for the decoration of Whitehall, his master, Ru- bens, having already made some frescoes for the banqueting room; for these ne de. manded the somewhat substantial sum of £75,000, but the royal exchequer was low at this time, and “the proposal was de- clined after he had spent considerable time In making_ sketches for the work. Chagrined by the refusal of a gro ect an which he had 50 set his heart, he became wretchedly morbid, and his " health, al- ready none of the best, was serlously atf. fected. He resolved on a journey home, where, with his wife, he was which he subsequently etched, while oth- | ers were engraved and published by Mar- | in favor with his royal master, but three | royal presence, and with the consent of | was sparkling In conversation and, rare | tions to femininity. He had been knight- | | palette and brushes. The portraits he painted of Charles I numbered thirty | the most important of which is the mous one in the Louvre in Paris. Twent: five portraits of the Queen, Fenriet Maria, are known to exist. There has been catalogued a list of 971 of Van Dyck’'s works. but thers are of course | many more which have escaped the cata~ | 1n¥u»r. | here are several fine examples of n | Dyck’s work in this country, no less than four of which are owned by the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art In New York. These Include his really great work, the portralt of James Stuart, Duke of Rich- | mond and Lennox, standing at full length with a great greyhound beside him. Van Dyck was one of the most polished and suave painters of any epoch, and his color was all that could be asked. He drew with remarkable accuracy; his work was very personal and possessed the greatest artistic distinction. His canvases appeal. ed with equal force to the connolsseur and the layman, for they are so authori- tative that there is no mistaking their munrrig qualities, When it i¢ remem- bered that he died at 42, and that there is scarcely a national gallery in tn world that does not possess one or moi important examples, it will be seen what a marvelously complete life he lived and how splendidly he fulfilled his mission, | turning his giorious talents ever to t! best account. Well may his weakness be forgiven and his folbles overlooked in view of the splendid use he made of the | endowments that nature had given him, | for he gave to the world the best that | was in him, and dying left a name that | remains one of the most brilllant in all the chronicles of art, W (4 New York City. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Autumn-Winter Term, 1809-1000. MONDAYS and THURSDAY! | Popular Studies in Shakespeare. | TUESDAYS: The World's Great | Artists. WEDNESDAYS: Desk Studies for | Girls and Shop and Trade Studies for Boys. | I!B-IIDA“: Great American States- | men. | SATURDAYS: Home Sclence and | Heusehold Economy. These courses will continue until | February 15, 1900. Examinations will be held at their | close as a basis for the granting of | certificates. Masonic Memorial Service. Fidelity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, will, on Thursday evening next, hold memorial service in its lodge-room | in commemoration of the anniversary of | the death of George Washington, who was a Master Mason. Judge Carroll Cook and Rev. Jacob Nieto 1 each dellver an address appropriate to the occasion. Beautiful Christmas Presents. | The Pictures, Frames, Onyx Ilables, | Lamps, Statuary, Leather Goods, Ster- |{ling Stiver Novelties, Albums, Tollet Cases, Paperteries, Gold and Fountain Pens, Desk Pads, Ink Stands and Calen- dars exhibited by Sanbern, Vall & Co., T41 Markst street, have no equal in vari- ety, quality or price In this city. Ins tion cordially Invited. 01l Exchange in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1l.—An Oil change has just been organized here on lines similar to those of the San Fran- cisco Ofl Exchange. The officials of the Fxe organization are: W. L. Hardison, pres- ident; Richard H. Herron, vice presiden L. Blankenhorn, treasurer; R W. Poln- The new company now has a members of twenty-five with a maximum lmit of fifty. It Is the inten- tion of the exchange to open at once for the listing and dling of ofl stocks. B — The holidays are bringing out large throngs at the Steeplechase. The fortu- nate winners of the races will recelve Xmas toys and presents this week. The razzle-dazzle, barrel of love, bicycl reus and all the other (un-prvvoklnwke- from New York are continuing ,?- dexter, se:retnrfii 4