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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900. TER'S REMEDIES. A T i‘lfianLY'f;Ptmnc UNANIMOU S PRAI E! DY SAYR OF ONE | oPINIONT | MR. JAME THIS AFTERNOON at Z:5. “caAa l)'r /«‘\l'\ !;.\.;,‘\lli‘ . 9ad ITARBEAIR” “CAPTAIN LE CALIFORNIA THEATER. FAREWELL CONCERT. REMEMBER THE HOUR. PETSCHNIKOFF, HAMBOURG, LACHAUME, «TIVOLI» (M1 AWIZ? YOU BET 1 AM! The Wizard of the Nile. INS TRANS-GCEANIC DEVILLE COMPANY e LELDING THEATER COLUMBIA I L < 3 WARD and VOKES, THE FLOOR WALKERS. ADIS!” FOR NEXT WEEK TION R PRODU | 0o id * PRICES—15¢, 25¢, 85¢, 50c. |Cakevalk Contest FISCHE NCERT HOUSE, ©LL STREET. CEO, MC R, Mgr. AND30MEST NUSIC EALL IN AMERICA! «+WEEK COF APRIL 23... Entire Change of Programme! LA TRAVIATA R'S CO GNOE BADARACCO SIGNORA BARDUCCI GNORINA POLLETTISI SIGNORINA PUZRERI SIGNORINA SALVINI AN 8 SENOR VARGAS MISS LILLIAN SHZRW 30D, AUGUST HINRICHS' SUPERB ORCHESTRA. CENTRAL PARK ¥¥igitms. LAST WEEK— GENTRY’S WORLD'S GREATEST TRAINED ANIMAL SHOW! 300 TRAINED ATED ANTMALS — g and Refined Entertainment. fternoon, §:30 at night. o 10c, Adults 25c. | nnd ninth grades BOY ATHLETES WILL COMPETE AT CLEN PARK May Day Tournament Draws Pupils From All Schools. S B T Preparations Are Completed for Han- dling a Great Throng of Chil- dren and Their Relatives on That Occasion. SPES e An almost overwhelming number of en triee have been received for the various athletic events to take place at the May- es at Glen Park. The chil- artily into the spirit and would have incre many fold had they not been lim- two representatives from each The complete entry follows & race for boys of eighth lan Kraimer and N: ited to school. 1mbt - { Olynski, Adams School; Emile Hoclle | J." Martin, L. Hester, Crocker | f, Frank Hancock; H s, Melvin B: Herbert Hardy rts, Hawthorne; Raymond Nolan, Hear | George Makinson, Lagune Honda: Arthur Wis and, Mise Louis Oliva, Monr Prestis t Will Bovhem, Byrne, Valentine Height s Mangan, Sheri Fre Henry ashingto Arthur John Swett boys of sixth to Isador _Stmon, whan, ¥ Roy Griffith, Clen Swett Laguna Heights Edward E OVARIAN TROUBLES. Lydia kham's Vegetable Compound Cures Them -Two Letters from Women. DeAR Mes. Prvemay :—I write to vou of the good Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound has dene me. Twas sick in bed about five weeks. The right side of my abdomen pained me and was so swollen and sore that I could not wa The doctor told my hus- band I would have to undergo an operation. This I refused to do until T had given your medicineatrial. Be fore I had taken one bottle the tell swelling be- gan to disap- pear. 1 con- tinued to use your medicine until the swelling was entirely gone. When the doctor came he was very much surprised to see me so better. Iowa. & much —Mgs. MARY SmiTH. Arlington, “ DEAR MRs. PINEHAM: —I was sick for two years with falling of the womb. and inflammation of the ovariesand bladder. I was bloated very badly. My leftlimb would swell so I could not step on my foot. 1had such bearing down pains I could not straighten up or walk across the room and such shooting pains would go through me that I thonght I could not stand it. My mother got me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound and told me to ti% it.. I took six bottles and now nks to your won- derful medicine, I am a well woman.” —Mgzs Evrsie BRYAN, Otisville, Mi Amvsnmizm‘s. g OPERA HOUSE Tt PHONFE MAIN 5§ N BATI AY NEXT (DEW AN AR M B ESDAY AND DAY) Extravaganza any AB b n N GIRL. ARABIA Eastern ETITE HAZEL. U ghtful Cake Walk 2 ation Last Night W W YORK litional New Faces. SUAL POPULAR PRIC F 1 stra at Mat- T ? Emporjum. RY TERNOON AND EVEN SPECIAL TO-NIGHT! The Amateurs - The Handicap Saturday Night. Phone, Park 23 | RACING! RACING! RACING! | 1800—CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB-1900 APRIL 21 TO MAY 5 INCLUSIVE. OAKLAND RACE.TRACK Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- e or more races each Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. | Racing | joFerry-boats leave Ran Francisco at 12 m. ana 2:30, 2 2:3 and 3 p. m., eo with trains siopping at the e e track. Last two prodie. . 1 Jadies and their on no smoking. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound. All tra . Oakiand mole connect with San Pabie meenis electric cars at Seventh and Broadway. Oake jand. Aiso all trains via Alameda moie con | 4 . | nect with San Pablo avenue cars at Fou |and Broadway, Onkiand. These electric: cary | g0 direct to the track in fifteen minutes, Returning—Trains leave the track at 4:15 and 4:45 p. m. and_immediately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President. - R, B. MILROY, Secretary FAMILY RESORT—EL CAMPD, OPEN EVERY SUNDAY. Forty-five minutes' ride on the bay In that large. magzificent steamer. Ukiah, _Dancing, bowling, fishing, boating, plenty of shade, re- freshments, etc. Good order will be maintained, Adults, 2 cents for the round trip, including admission to the grounds. Children between 5 and 12 years of age 15 cents. Leave Tiburon ferry, foot of Market street, 10:30 a. m., 1 and 4 p. m. Leave El Campo 1145 & m., 3ond 5 p. m. | | i train reserved for ric cars | | LOCAL MERCHANTS PURCHASE A VERY VALUABLE PAINTING D004 40+ 0 - 99040 3 B e e i o ® . ® { - 3 1| + o ¢ ¢ + ! 4 PS + : ® ¢ ) 1§ P b 41 . o be | /§ 3 & . : s : | Y \’ 1 . ° & * b : ? * 5 ; + Hale Bros. Will Soon Exhibit Montgomery's Famous Picture Entitled, “A Farm Ballad.” ¢ @rieieiec s eietrtPsiriec sieredebeietei et et eieisieied PR ‘-_i LFRED MONTGOMERY'S famous painting entitied “"A ‘A Farm Ballad'’ represents such a scene as one often sees ,i\ Farm Ballad" has been purchas Hale Bros ihe in Western farm life. 4t is the inte yr of an old-fashioned, /) well known merchants of this city. The sum of $1L00 | homely harn which Is a_feature smong the older Western was paid for the magnificent picture from the br of ranches, In the background are seen several barrels full of eorn th th fir ne Sawyer . Grant: | bur James Pacific | ts; Chester Lynch, Irvin Rothman, Wash- | Nelson Gibers: & Valley | i egg race girls from sixth to | ninth _grade—Lillie Mahoney School Laurette Kaupert, Hilda Hol Colam- ta 2 Gorman. May Korn, Clement; Grace | Addie Rin Hazel 'Ryan & reit Artkin, Ethel Bur- Be on the cob. corn, loo ceptionally true to n | created considerable to In differ the e talented Ameri nd it will be placed on exhibition e public on the opening of Hale B new store, ch 'm will occupy on the completion of the handsome. structure w in course of construction on Market street, near Sixth. erry Washing- Marsh john O'E Bolger, Hale Thomson G H. Danhauer, ank Du Frane Humboldt; James Lic Mission: | End Lizaie Eva Hancock; Tiille Huppert, Alice Bell, Marie telli, Josephine Pichler, South H. 'Guittard, Spring Valley: Ellie McMichael, ~Sunnyside; Edith Furrer, West End sack race for bovs ) grades—Mayfelt Jacobs, Fritz Bauer, Gus Brudigan, Forrest, Chester Johnson, Clement H. Campbell, Crocker; John Hugo Maar, James Pow, h Machi, Prolinger, Ingram zenwald, of the sixth Adams The Mail Steamer Australia Arrives From the Ha- waiian Islands. Columbia; H tadt, Otto Honda; Charl Mission: Victor Cereghino b Voorsanger, WHIMT | Steerage Passengers Were Allowed to CBage, Halet Leave Honolulu for the First el Time Since Bubonic Plagus ard race for boys of eighth Scare Started. n Will Costig: W ter Le " Albert Cordes, Joseph Doherty A J. Nealon, Crocker; Frank | wouf, Hancock: James| The mail steamer Australia arrived ! ohroe: Robert Wood” | from Honolulu early vesterday morning e M “Dorland, | and was sent into quarantine. The heavy End; Danlel Shay, Ed- | northwester that has been raging off the Washington.” = e | coast for the last few days delayed the B I e ‘Sehool: Ethel | vessel nearly ten hours, and everybody on x | board was glad when port was reached. ¢ | Over two hundred passengers came up on sl ey Gaith: | the mall steamer. During the afternoon Haight: Iola Johnsor Wollesen, Haw- | those in the cabin were released and land- thorpe; Clark Gegewaan, MasEanes |ed at cific street. Nearly every one S lechefeki. Lilite von Helms, Hu who came up on the Australia has been Tres Trving | waiting for weeks to get away from the Russel t Jamen lands. The Australia bein : 0 res- *hillips, Marion Cane, sidllow: Annie | Bandx The Ausirslis beingthe only ¥ M e on: FAmnotte TLan | el that could handle them, everybody e Heights, Fana Gates, | had to take his turn. As there have been Peabody: Christine MacKillop, | no new cases of the plague in the islands iller, Selina S Rincon ‘al\l‘ the quarantin is to be ralsed on dan; Ira | May 1. the chances are that all the steam- v ;, Irene | ers”lgaving the islands after that date Sunnyside Taber, | wil] carry passengers, and the rush to Mary Rovegno, y T AR - | reach California will soon be over | The cabin passengers on the Australia Fifty-verd race for boys of fourth | we: A. Drier, wife and_four children; H, Renjes, Wal wife and F. W. Mele wife, two ehil- Johnson. dren and Mrs. J. M. McChesney, three A O M. McCandles children and matd: A, Merriweather, wife ree children, Mrs. D. H. Case and two ., Be: 1. 3. Williams an V. Hawthorne per and wice, Miss M. 1 ot : . wife, W. Murray and wife Mighell, e Walters, Mrs. W, H. Johnson, T. Whitson. sbert Downie, | ¥ / 3 Robert Downie |1’ N. Smith, A. Smjth. V. A" Johnson. et 3 McGuire, Miss F. Katz, Mrs Grove, W, G k: Charles Gor- : : lertie Bell, Hd- lev, Mi: Nolte, Yuen Chong and wife, Paul’ Chclaan |4 MeCandless. Miss H Bushfleld, Miss Albert Jorgen. | N. Cheeseman, Mrs. W. J. Hills, Mrs. 1 fielghts: Andrew | Lincoln. Miss F. M. Hazen, . W. Dickey and ssion: Tl | wife, Mre. H. Waterhouse, J.'F. Morrison, R William Me( J. Thompson, Mrs. O. Pederson, Mrs. D, ford, William Wolters, Miss B. Bartley, A. Larsen, R. (. Spring Vi -l Pond, €. Capllos,” Migs M. Dower, W | John Gotelli, Eugene Guate Sunn : innin, H. R, Tuck, A. W. Welch Te O Connor Frank_ Barrett, Sunnyside V. W. Correy, ( Kunst, W, 1Y ae (urtone, Sutro: Emelio Rosso, Edward Robinson, Mrs. € Gilman Tenn ashingt Joseph Alivio, Fred « A Licester, Mrs, A. French, st End, William Delventhal, | Miss holomew, Miss Hosshard, Miss . Martin, Miss § Call. Mrs. J. F. Bowler Races will commence at 2 p. m.. and pu- | Mre. A. Burrows, Mlss A. Jacobs pils entered must compete in the trial heat | There are 117 engers in the steerage %o which they are assigned on the pro- | still aboard the steamer. This is the first gramme. All appliances for special events | time in nearly two months that the mail Wil be furnished on the grounds. In the | boat has carried second-class passengers. hill race the winner must climb a pole at | Several of them are licians who the top of the hill and remove a ribbon. |-ereated such a stir in Hawaii a year ago. — [ They viclated their contract with the An ounce of help is better than a pound | sugar planters and were imprisoned for | | | 1 of b The Australia besides a general ne. | doing so. Mayday outfits for men= Yachting caps Golf caps Duck trousers Go f shirts WHITE VESTS-—Either plain white or figured, single or double breasted, with or without collars, stripes, checks and dots. Plain white... ured ... Fancy figured MEN'S DUCK PANT white For men For youths ... SUMMER NECKWEAR—Puffs and e Gusaitat S .8 1-3¢ each MEN'S GOLF SHIRTS-Stripes predominate; some new colorings in standard makes ...... Percale, with cuffs . Silk front; swell.. i GOLF TIES—FEnglish squares or handkerchief tie: wear without a vest; all new; very wide ends. TLeather Belts .. % White Yachting Caps... .. White Felt Crush Hats.. Cape Nome TheRed Front A.J.PRAGER &$0N$® 857-859 MARKET ST. Outing shirts White vests Belts Nectwear 0 each e ench washable; a c, $1.00 and §1 Ascots of Madras 85c each L% each the proper tie to ieineeo dBe edeh 5¢ and 50c each 45c each 5 each ¢ and §i Outfitters. OPPOSITE POWELL= corn and a pumpkin or two. ature is this pietu commer: rent parts of the picture are seen sacks of So strikingly and ex- of corn that it has t among artists and critics, from Honolulu at $150,000, br the news that the Nelson went ashore on as got off with the of an anchor and a few fathoms of n. While at Hanamaula slight fire startéd in the lime cargo, but was put out without much damage. Nippon Maru Sails. The Japanese mail steamer Nippon M cargo hrought of coin value The Austr. steamer Charles a reef at Kauai. boxes six She w ru sailed for th t before she got aw e were removed fr to the steamer Umatilla. The latter vessel will take them to Puget Sound and from Victoria or Vancouver, B. C., it is expected they will make their way back into California by the “underground ute. Among those who went away on the vessel were W. F. Aldrich, deputy United States Consul at Hongkong. and Robert | McWade, United States Consul at Amoy. On account of the troublous times in China both men w hurrying back to thelr posts. George T. Keys went out as purser of the Nippon Maru, W. H son, the regular officer having to remain | behind on account of ill health. Dr ne, | who on account of sickness had to leave the vessel at Honolulu on her last trip to the Orient, was able to go out on th | steamer on this occasion. Harbor Commissioners Meet. At the usual weekly meeting of the board vesterday the cortract for repairing the northerly portion of Jackson-street wharf and_the bulkhead between Broad- way and_Paci street was let to the Dundon Bridge and Construction Com- pany. Outside piles are to be supplied for $750 and inside o for $133). The lumber is to be supplied at 323 per thou- sand. Julian_Theall was appointed a inger. His appointment will take May 1. He replaces D. M. Angier, whose term expired several months ago Water Front Notes. H. Rhine, proprietor of a candy at 210 Sacramento street, and D. warts, his assistant, were treated Harbor Hospital by Dr. Hoper yesterday for severe burns on the hands and fore- arms. The men were superintending the boiling of molasses candy when the mix- ture boiled over and f 1 attempted to extinguish their hands Albert Rosser doctors at the blaze with ed th terd a_teamster, puz rbor Hospital ye He fell off his wagon on Mair-street wharf and_was unconsclous for several | minutes. The ambulance was called, but when it arrived Rosser refused to go in it. saying he Later he taken to the hos friend fev tes after he was ed on table seemed to lose all power over his limbs. Dr. Putnam examined thoroughly, but could find no trace » on his body except slight discol n over the left eye ser d to t of hed twice and any times ital attendants him in a » on the floor. ie bark Albert arrived rday and was placed in got away without her clearance pa- | pers. As they came up the Nippon Maru and were awaiting her arrival th will be no trouble. The new schooner Sehome New Whatcom yester passage of five days. erably off Meiggs' wi ting T found trom Honolulu quarantin T yest She on from arrive to get clear she 1d to slip he losing the mud hook and fifty fathoms of chain Captain Gammons has taken command of the ship (. F. Sargeant, Cap An- dersen of the schooner Coquille pta entine Catherine n Anderson of the bark C. Parno of the den and Capta B. Kennes | The schooner Bonita, which sailed for Cape Nome on April 5, put back into port in distress last night. The captain of the schooner reports having encountered a heavy northwest gale after he had been to sea several d whigh carried away some of the rigging and otherwise injured | the vessel | A Prominent Passenger Agent Here Mr. George A. Cullen, general Western passenger agent of the Delaware, Lacka- Rallroad, is in the ess in this portion wanna and Western city looking after bu | of his territory. Mr. ipied | responsible positions in the railway world since early manhood. and there are few better posted in matters relating to pas- senger trafic than he. Tlis present ap- | tment dates from last year, and while xpressing delizht with California and its scenery he stoutly maintains that the beauty of scenery on the Lackawarna route is unsurpassed anywhere in the known worle b e T | |OLD BEER STAMP ‘ USED ON NEW KEGS Revenue Officials Engaged in Search- | ing a Brewery for Evidence | | of Further Fraud. Special Revenue Agent Burt M. Thomas | has notified the Treasury Department at | Washington of the seizure of four kegs | | of beer from the United States Brewery. | on which kegs the revenue stamps had | not been properly canceled. One of the . kegs bore a stamp which had been used on another package, torn off and pasted upon the keg seized | ""The revenue officials are now engaged in | | examining the books and accounts of the brewery, with the object of ascertaining | the extent of the alloged frand and | | whether there is a ring among the em- ployes. The brewery is 2 member of the English | syndicate. | —ee———— Ask for Allen’s Foot-ease. A powder to shake into your shoes, It rests the féet and makes walking easy. Cures Corns and | Bunions, Swhllen, Callous and Sweating feet. | S04 by all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Ask to-day. Sample FREE. Address, Allen 8. Olm- sted, Le R ¥ 2 o ee——— ‘Will Oppose Graded Rates. | | The Pacific Coast Jobbers' and Manu- | facturers’ Association will be represented | by its secretary. Thomas P. Smith, at the | | meeting of the National Assoclation, of | Manufacturers to be held at Boston to- | | day. Eastern representatives of local job- bing houses will also be present. The at- | tention of the Eastern manufacturers will be called to the fact that their trade with | | this coast would be seriously affected if | graded rates should be established on | | transcontinental business, as proposed by | the Middle West jobber: —_————— TLadies, you are cordially invited to at- tend the cpening reception of the Bon Ton Co.'s Pariors at 321 Post street, opp. Union sauare, to-day, from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m.* i is MAGAZINE LITERATURE OF 200 YEARS AGO. Copyright 1900, by Seymour Eaton. —_— — — GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. XVIII. EARLY BRITISH PERI- With Addison's some two year Snaate pear, but only to make way A = tator. BY THOMAS MARC PARROTT, PH.D e Speatatir: The origin of English perlodical ltera- | Tatier 1o Grecpia® oilisons work as the ture may be traced back to the Courant ; dison contributed 575 as apalner 6 by | or Weekly News, published at frregular | Steele. But there is more than tf intervals from 1621 to 1641 by Nathantel | Spectator himseif, the fictitious Butter. This was an attempt to give the oty from whom the paper was 5 public at large what had before been the | son's Hie k. Calson. Or. Potter. Addi privilege of those rich enough to pay a | the figures of Sir Roger. Will H newswriter. It had to contend on the one | comb. Captain Sentry and others. orig- hand against the severity of the official lly designed by Steele, but instantly ensor, and on the other against the in- | SLPTOPFiated by Addison. ‘When we open ifference of the public. But with the ad onice 1o Tie Baant ot chtteh. sietting vent of the Long Parliament t theater or rowing to Spring ( ship was temporarily overthrown s with the one-legged waterman wh public awakened to the livellest interest | ‘Ut at La Hogue and this is > M > ¢ th e Addison. Tt was Addison. too, whe < in the events of the day. Consequent p tently | out the news items which had once filled the period of the civil wars is marked b much_of the and replaced the en and_numerous appearance of le's lively/the aaten 1 - Inteiligence Diurnals and Mercuries. | fa Al par False and True Bitterly partican in tone. these were not & Wit 3 the ¢t unknown epic of so much newspapers as weekly outbursts *Paradise Lost 5 of scurrility. The Mercurius Aulicus of | We must not be unjust Oxford advocated the royal cause “with s suffered much from a great deal of wit and buffoonery.” Its wulay: more, perhaps, rival, the Mercurius Britannicus, was the Only of late 'y work of Marchmont Nedham, styled by red to his enemies “that Goliath of the Philis- far the more original tines.” But the Restoration put a sharp gayer and more sym- and sudden stop to these productic Addison. Nothing that the Roger L’Estrange became at once ist _has written a censor of the press and the publis human pathos the the official organ, which doled out lines in which Steele tells of his first seraps of news as royalty deigned to childish apprehension of sorrow, or na subjects. After the Revolution, | Iates the death of his friend’s wife. the press sprang into lusty It is characteristic too ewspapers appeared on the teristic not to be true Steel day after James fied from London, and | into tears over this last paper a Such a publication as the Athenian Mer- | to Addison to supply the moralizi cury, a mild weekly, which discussed with Lits apt q tation from philosophic and fanciful questions, show- | Lost” and its serene rebuke to Mr. ed a demand on the part of the public for | den. something more and better than broken _ Between them St bits of new ried the Spectato This demand Daniel Defoe from his un- | Popularity. Tt pe b | comfortable guarters in Newgate under- | OTners of the kingdom. lay or took to gratify. His Weekly Review of | INg tea tray of the young lady the Affairs of France (I704-1f) was the nd made the round of ¢ € first step toward higher journalism. and | Even rovalty began X with Defoe was the first editor in our modern | ppectator, It was issu aily and b sense. He not only gave the news, but | S ¢ “"1&'“‘-\‘” ained ati p commented upon it. warned the people | CODIES- S fa% imbers enough against the prevailing frauds and follies | #bpeared they were bound in octave of the day, and in_a department entitled | Yolumes. and over %00 of these were sold ““Advice From the Scandalous Club” gave | o3 3 81 0C2 apiece. Considering the tmit: “a weekly history of nonsense, imperti- | g e O e il nence, vice and debauchery.” statemment (hat the pepulasily of (he The game of publication went merrily | §ro aiee S0t T08 o PO W - on. By 1709 there were six periodicals ap- | novels or the most successful works of pearing on Monday. Wednesday and Fri- | Dickens . 5 day, and a round dozen on the alternate | days on which the post left London. | The Close of the Period. The Tatler. Politics proved the ruin of the period ™ m of - this jogiling. thaony | 45 IMeratias of that age. The Spaets i as non san, b re there appeared the Tatler, owned, edited | o¢" S foje ! and in great part written by Richard | oniatght of 3 Stecke B Aiways in financial straits. | brought the Specta Steele was at this time looking about for | cember 8, 1712, In orc some means of adding to his income: pos- gian, in whi o sibly the need of supplying “Prue” with |jly assumed the predominance. Tr guineas “for her pocket” was more than | of the following year e uUsually imperative. The issue of a period- | Englishman, “to rouse in this ¢ al somewhat above the common type | tion that lost thing called Publi promised to be remunerative, for he had | Unfortunately public spirit when special inducements to offer the public. As | by the pre apt to editor of the officiai Gazette he would | the 1 in = have early and authentic news of the war | of 1714 Steele was e om his newly in Spain and Flanders, as a gentleman of | won seat in the C. for certain ut- the beau mc he could serve up under [ terances in the Englishman and for his the thin of classic names the | pamphlet Crisis est g ¢ court and town, as poet | In the fol ir Addison was en- and playwright he could furnish news gaged by t, now the world of letters, and, lastly, as author | Iy Whig Hous of the Christian Hero and self-appointed | over in a j the censor morum he could continue the at- | In 1719 we even find the old tack on fashionable dissipation begun by allies at daggers-drawn over tl Jeremy Collier and Jonathan Swift. All | bill. Steele attacked easure that was needed was a fictitious person- | Plebefan. to jwhich Ac r_imm tely ality to give unity and character to the | Fespe o There was an periodical, and for this he seized upon the | Unsee nge ¢ nalities and a mock astrologer, Isaac Bickerstaff, whom | Tupture w s healed in_this rid. For a little while Steele cherished Swift had created a year before to the ol t confusibn and ridicule of old Partridge, | his anger, but his e it the cobbler, astrologer and almanac | (RS, WIS TeseRiment AR The Tatler was published tri-weekly on | MeE" full and noble homage to the post d..\s,"rh. mflt{(mr gumlwra s g gt g b by e o B : were distributed gratis, after which the | 370 S SERCTE e ) price was fixed at & penny, a humorous | Almost worshiped while living apology In the first number recounting | pRe®re FTaTNeTes A the pains and expense to which Mr. Bick- | <7 {18 SO A0 B8E 06 erstaff was put in gathering news at t t¥pe which he had coffee-houses. Steele took pains. no doubt, | (SRE WL, G€) JHC 1 fancy he was put to little extraor- | B*IS® 00 et ary expense cting material for | Not only did it set Thus in first few n fooe L bit of society gossip. a Sla sl the Dart Gf Seaw oF the benefit for the old tragedian Waieg the past of soes terton. the news of the gathering of the t'a frivol forces for the campaign of Malplaque 1 enlogy of the Whig Ministry. a broadly humorous sketch of the adventures of a VBt exctting: Dol strolling pack of players, and an ont that there was no nece Spoken rebuke of a young nobleman for | contradiction between the character coming drunk into the theater. | a gentleman and a Christian From first to last Steele was responsi- | in these later days what a pi it pre ble for the Tatler, and by far the great s of the “teacup times of hoo: number of its papers are his work. Swift, inde ve oceasional a and th As we read in these delightful mes names of one or two others men of the Tatler and the Spect sa as contributor But to quote Steele's | Thackeray. “the past age returns, the own we “I have only one gentleman. | England of ¢ ancestors Is r a who will be nameless, to_thank for The ) s in the Strand - frequent assistance. * * * THis good Of- | Lond irches are thronged wi fice he performed with such force of |dai ers heaux are ering Genius, Humor. Wit and Learning that I | in t houses gentr Solum fared like a distressed Prince who calls In | to drawing-room: the ladles ar a powerful Neighbor to his Aid. T was | thronging to the toy shops: the cl e undone by my Auxiliary: when I had once | are jostiing in_the ets: the called him in could not subsist without |are r ning with lir before th. ependence on him.” The nameless gen- | or fighting around theater d tleman was. of course, Steele’s old frie M. PARROTT Joseph Addison | Princeton Universit s — - car owned by th S Th renece will be so worded that the MEET IN CONVENTION | wii'i an colfectod Trom the Officers Appointed on Basis of Busi- ¢ e S R b e 2 ness Done by Them During Escaped Contract Laborers Landed. Past Year. | Twenty-seven Venet contract lab A convention of agents of the New York | ers arrived yesterday from Honolulu ¢ ife Insurance Company doing business | the Australia. They had been working on west of the Rockies and a few others was | the Islands for neariv L Fear A pen. held at the Palace Hot vesterday On uty Immigration Commissioner Schell and those were present who had done not less | Immigration Inspector de la rre exam than $100,000 worth of business during the | ined them and allowed all but two to land year. ! Disease was the reason for refusing a ¥ The officers of these conventions are the | 1anding to the uniuc Ry gues men who do the most business during the | = = The highest one is made president | who the lucky men are until their know are read by the permanent secre- names tary, John C. McCall. Much interest nat- urally attaches to the reading of these names. That of Oliver G. Snow of Utah ‘as read first vesterday and Charles B. Wheeler, William T. Roberts and Be nard Bauerschmidt were announced as | vica presidents Insurance topics were discussed during the forenoon. The afternoon was devoted to an excursion to the CHff. Last even- ing Chinatown and a theater party gave amusement. The discussion of insurance Will be continued to-day and to-morrow. This evening the annual banguet will take piace at the Palace Professional Men, After a hard day's work. are found at Zin- kand's enjoying the best meal to be had and - S 2 listening to the music. . No. 7 $40.00 Belt for $20.00. No. 6 ———————— SCOTT WILL DEMAND TELEPHONE LICENSES Supervisors’ Committee Regards Or- dinance as Binding— Adver- tising Cars to Be Taxed. $30.00 Belt for $15.00. $20.00 Belt for $10.00. These I guarantee on $5000 bonds. and will pay to any charitable institution 81600 if it can be shown that the Belts I am now sell- ing at Hali-Price are not the bopa fide U. S. patented Sanden Bef, purchased of Dr. A. T. Sanden in 1809, and as sold on this Coast for years past The Supervisors’ License Committee | took up the consideration vesterday of | There is no deception nor imitation in the section of an ordinance which im-| these Belts. They are sold in the Lion license of $2 per quarter on nickel P Drug Store and at my office, and are the electrical machines, which Supervisor . ) &&m"mrm holds covers the nickel at. | Belts with 30 years’ record as the great tachments to telephones. Tax Collector | remedy for the ailments of man and Scott urged that the order be amended | woman { to include telcphones in lh'-ltitl~ of the E ordinance so as to comply with th A e g R chalrman Comte was of the| ¢ Call and test th ., ve \r(q‘ for Dr | Gpinion that they were embraced In_ the | Sandew’s book. e lasses of general term “electrical machines.” Scott | Men,” free. Address then expressed his determination to make a demand on the telephone company for the Fcerse. The committee decided to recommend that a license of $10 per annum be im- posed on each street car which carries any form of advertisement, This will be DR. S. S. HALL, 702 MARKET ST., ROOM 3, SAN FRANCISCO.

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