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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1900. wum's REMEDIES. Another Empty Grave. Chicago, March 3, 1900. Warner’s Safe Cure Co., Gen‘lemen:—I will be glad to bear testimony to the value of Warner’s Safe Cure for dropsy. I want those afflicted as | have been to take this life-giver and get well as I did. I suffered agony for three years and my life was despaired of, when one day my doctor said: “I guess I will give you Warner’s.” Thank God for such a remedy. [ brought me health and new life. I have used it preity regularly for a year, but I am well to-day, and had it not been for Warner’s Safe Cure I would PPV NIV ORIEIODIVNOIVNBEIVOVOINES cen in my grave. Respectfully, MRS. MELISSA WHITCOMB, 4824 Prairie Ave., Chicago. airman Executive Committee, Illinois Woman's Alliance. is the dread symptom of edvanced Kidney Disease.) AMUSEMENTS. Ana Persian- e e RICH WITH VEIN ' ° - for harles D. Lane gnt amyj They Dvaw lee 2 Mustard Plaster. 1 Turkey. ra’ the ship | £ Dunne & Ryl y VALL -STAR CAST, " RUGS “A RAG BABY” Yol ke tval of .». way back to 2 is sale < n g > Made by a Mining % I g ; e Dl Sres | Engineer. - ~ MAXINE | .W LODDERBA(‘K Auetloneer. on ur;e e A 2~ assert the | b She took on a| Interest in the Cape Nome mines hag .UDDW|N E”.IBTT PAINLESS DENTISTRY T at Seattle which they | heen quickened by reports of most im- NO PLATES nky. At Nome again | JCRF N trikes made all over the northern N WE WERE TWENTY-ONE” nnma NEXT MONDAY, ¢ Performances Only, "ELLAR REQUIRED Our removable bridge work is beautiful a Gurable. W d 10 Our fitlike a giove. T Magicisz. Seats selling, 282 to $L. ay yvesterda Sl Our method for ed from the | cally as Cape Nome, which 's $750 o painless extracting stain Wilson | the ton. J. S. Kimbali and his assoclates is paotented and loss of over | learned during the winter that the hill +* used by no other mr Hill | was rich ana they had a ngmber of * dentist on the Pa- ington, Chilton- | claims staked out there. The rebult of the ic Coast. vyne and' Emanuel | winter's prospecting and assay work, how- ream and ready to|ever, comes as a staggering surprise. J. a Little Bit Off the Top” ODND A\D L,A,s.—t,,WEEK : .EGUARUSMEN'" 88299 mommomm TURKISH o, 1ccon of Mihran’ This Daf 1“Fnday) .Iunes at 2 bm. Cor. Geary and Stockton Sts., | WILL CONTINUE FEW DAYS ONLY. $5.00 Piates high stand tained by these h appreciated b LLE AT ITS EIGIEST PERFECTION. JOE hAR"'S VAUDEVILLE CO. | [ . L 2 3! “ : L S| i ol . L 2 e ' Many Passengers and Mem- bers of Crew Quit the )4 Charles D. Lane. 3 | —_——— * Troubles of the Wild Goose Mining 2 and Trading Company Just @ Begun—Hobart Estate to i Settle Unpaid Bills. bt members of the Wild Goose Min- N Company that went P arles D. + w who left . Lane is| o Nome and from all} - 1 break out again | % * d in the East ? the Nome trade. | 3¢ pped out of | [ Y half of * s discovered. | & a bt c\;r};] - reachea San | 3 |+ Wild Goose Mining and Trading Company's Steam:r ., e I"r”v\u‘ifl‘ in this| § g P Y : ed the ma- | i1 Charles D. Lane in a Northwester S or. R e e R SRRk A 327 . P S s ave not been | te is inter- e Min- CAPE NOME HILL E1 \emorrhv GOLD QUARTZ xk“( | Latest Advices From North- ters in the ern Diggings Read Like -] ashore and | laviside, the | Nome. 7% put up land- : ; e the Eanet o s | Romances owned by the con accompanied r and a gang of Placers Likely to Be Deserted for the the ship at Seattle| Rjcher Ledges—Report of Assays v to find everything 4 of his claims | mii during the past winter. Mail | advices dated March 18, received by the Wheat Ships Ti {J all Company yesterday, contain g g.,fl‘ o | travagant to be true and yet, as they lie in the stream all | come from the confidential agents of the ys to three weeks | company, they are accepted here with lit- : 00d_mon again the sailor sees | tle question. The most important find reported is that m three vuwk'frvf a quartz ledge ng through Nome Hill, on the headland known geographi- = that some of them | W. Blundon; Kimball's confidential agent, and do away with | writes that Nome Hill is practicaily & then they will not | solid m: of rich gold-bearing quartz. ¢ stream. The hill about 400 feet in height and Water Front Notes | extends about one and a half miles into = | the sea. of 14, who Another strike of almost equal richness n Orphanage on F has been made about six miles east of met with an acci- Port Clarence. The rock there Nigh. Blundon writes that the foots about twenty miles back from the | ach seem to be full of mineral crop- | pings. He predicts that when the summer | Opéns the placer mines will be deserted | and there will be a stampede for the mountain: terday come M the feat h~r n § balance and in to_save him- | body came on se of the prospects made during the winter excitement ran high at Nome. The people = the enormous Blundon says only spect work will done during the .omlnx year, but he pre- | of weeks before | Gicts that during the two years following | cteamer again, | OVer $100,000,00 in gold will be taken from | unable to land | Nome and vicinity. hiti owing to the | The winter at Nome," writes Blundon, and potatoes that | “has been mild and pleasant. 1 have su fumigation, fered less from cold than I did in Mon- 1tana or even Benicia one winter. 'The | thermometer has never been lower than | g 4 degrees below zero. During the past ramer Moa left Sydney for San | forty days we have had a warm sun shin- o with the Australian malls last | in von al and then > the orphanage. on the sick list a quan- at could mot be Eot out d Orpt heum Stars. DE MAR A BOY." STARS IN THE BEST THE SEASON. opera chairs TRUSS. RUPTURE CURED. Sunday. *Magnetic Elastic Truss” CARD T™TH EATR ER : H_IT I THE YEARY discovered for the successful treatm: pis, or Rupture. Thousands of su been permanently relieved andrad: L wTH il 4 Truss is different from all others, “BOOKLET No. It tell 620 Market (Opp ) F T X DAYS IN AD ANCE. | CHUTES AND ZDO. %t v ""» KIDNEY & LIVER o : | BITTERS HT. F T HOW ¢ 1 R ON THE LAKE. LK TO-MORROW NIGHT. A PLEASANT: LAXATIVE y - el NO T INTOXICATING WONDERFUL IN INVENTING HIS WORLD-RENOWNED Dr. Pierce gave to the public the most remarkable remedy ever ot of Her- rers have CURED by this great appliance and thousands of others are now on the road to complete recovery. This It does the 1" by call- or it will be sent on recelpt of about this Truss. IABNETIC ELASTIC TRUSS CO., Palace HoteD), ay. She will stop at Honolulu.| The most important document received ing any passengers or | by Kimball & Co. was the report of S. J. t port here. | Marsh, a mining -engineer employed by | Inspector Sebree has issued | them during the winter in assaying ‘Applications will be re-| quartz from prospects all along the crop- until noon on Thurs- | ping ledges, His examination was mainly | ng_the positions of as- | along the eoast line and extended to Nor- | Francisco light | ton Sound, to Sinrock River and some dis- | 3 of $0 per an-| tance back on the different creeks. % blacksmith and blacksmith's | The ledges examined, he says. varied | er at Yerba Buena buoy depot, at W)x from a few feet to 100 feet in width, the and $40 h. respectively. Appli-| richer generally being the smaller and | citizens of the United sistant engineers must > steamboat inspection in some instances they showed croppines | for a distance of several thousand feet. No development work has yet been done | to prove the depth of the ore, but from | The present winter has demonstrated - | that some of the crecks run all winter { and the larger streams afford many good ADVIBTISEM'ENT& ’mmsnrs, With harbor accommodations | e T for the landing of fuel and a railroad iine | | MOV N(i MISERY along the coast the engineer believes that a mill can be operated the year round. The general topography of the country | The Streets Are Full of It Every Day. is such that the construction of roads or | tramways is easy. Mining timber and fuel are lacking and would have to be im- ported. CLAIMS SIDEWALK IS ON OFFICIAL GRADE | Property Owner on Sixth Street Pro- tests to Supervisors Against Any Alteration. A protest was filed with the Board of Supervisors by Mre. A. L Leary agains. | Tell-Tale Marks of Liver Troubles in the Faces of Mankind Everywhere, and H Yet It Is So Easy to Look | Good and Feel Well l ICCHER § concent House. | "ERA QU A%T!T AND i FAVORITE RESCRIPTION ar WEAI( WOMEN. SUTRO BATHS | People we meei—on the street. | What a lot of them look miserable, sal- | low s any alteration of the sidewalk in front of the premises from 5#0 to 548 Sixth street, ply, desponde: H B e 4 oielr Skins | | o{ ween Bryant and Brannan. The pro- Hyey pale i Wik diteny hat the sidewalk It's all in the liver. testant insists that the sidewalk was con- 3, " 7, structed and is now maintained in exact Jeauty is blood deep. No one can have | conformity with the official grade of that the cle. r skin of health where blood r.lon of) Sixth street upon which it les. he protest contiques: The sidewalk was constructed in the year 1884 in conformity with an officlal survey and Aesignation of the official grade made by Wil- Ijam Fitzhugh, who was then City and County Surveyor. To adapt the buildings fronting on | is imp: | w and no one can have pure blood here liver is lazy. ively livers bring new life, pure blood, ght 1ooks. therefore health and beauty. Lively livers make Hlvely dispositions, teniment, good nature; therefore, hap- a 2 [3 CHILDREN, e children, 20c. | | | | { REYNOLD' S o“ ' be confined ifon the firsta recourse to i ngle dose is often sufficient. BAJA CALIFORNIA Damiana Bitters by T RES and Nervine. most wonderful aphrodisiac and Spectal | edy: 1 the Sexusl Organs for both sexes. TCATIVE, INVIGORA- s.mulmm-ugl'aé P Bien, » sngi Fo' pexsmu need | l F. FOUGERA & C0., 26.30 N. Willlam St..¥.Y, co said sidewalk to the said grade the protestant piness. scarets, Candy Cathartic had to expend over S1000 for raising sasd bufld- {itbar Hoets, ity dhe T b(-;"ual}ti the | ing and piacing thereunder a brick foundation and rearranging the plumbing throughout. An equal outlay would now have to be made if the ‘sidewaik was crdered to be lowered. The walks and stréet crown throughout most ail convenient to carry, taste good (eat like :‘rdlsmh street are out of.conformity with the candy), never erip not gripe, cause nat- | official grade and are uneven and frregular | ural netion of liver and owels; therefore | throughout The portestant is almost ihe only | the ideal laxaiive It's what Cascarets|person dn the district who has gone to the ex- | skin and are guaranteed to cure constipa- tlon and prevent its dire consequences. Cascarets are in tablet form; compact, n do, not what we say they do, that proves . %rouble and care ascertain the offi- their merit. Sold by druggists generaily, | clal grade and make Wer' Sidewalk and prem: 10c, 25c and or by malil for price. fses conform thereto. Our booklet, “Lighten the Iiis of Hu- e e m panmans. BA > | BRUS Eares BUCHANAN BROS.. lacks, M::n. blkmud ublna. brewers, bookbinde: y-makers, caoners, laundr mmmllg Tounaries, jon, . Baper- ‘tanners, Eaitors, ee Brush Manufacturers, 609 Sacramento St anity,” and sample mailed f; R o Uty Sunday School Picnic. Chicago; Montreal, Can., or New York. The annual outing of the Episcopal This is the CAS(‘ARET tab- | Sunday schools of San Francisco will be let. Every tablet of lhe only | held at El Campo on Saturday. June 8 @ @g genuine Cascarets the | The steamer Tkiah will leave the Tiburon o] agic letters G € G Look | f at &30 8 m. The iittle people of Bt the tablet before you buy, n':flnuwpu Church are 3 merry frauds, imi time. Thsfe m dancing and,beware of tions and substitutes. general unmu | regulations as to examination and. tran: QUICK ANSWER T0 EMERGENCY CALL 0 VY Two Battleshxps Przpare for| War in Less Than - Forly Hours. Secretary Long’'s Experiment With the Indiana and Massachu- setts Has Proved to Be a Marked Success. ——— WASHINGTON, June 7.—The experi- ment with the battleships Indiana and Massachusetts has been a marked suc cess. A telegram received at the Na Department to-day from Admiral Sila commandant of the League Island vard, annoynced that the two big ships were completely Pqulppf-‘d and ready Tor sea. He Said the 1 uld pull out at noon and the \! s about two hours later for a Hamp- ton Roads. The delay in the ca latter ship was not because of a preparedness on her part, but simply be cause the tide would not serve until th this afternoon. Thus it appears that thes lwo (nrmldabl? vessels have been ready ce of about forty the short qr without the ightest warning or notice to the com- mandant of the League Island navy-yard or.the commanders of the two battleships. The result is regarded as a satisfactory vindication of the policy of keepin “4n_ordinary,” recently adopte Navy Department. The record m: League Island is about as good as abroad, with su little experiment will b noted with interest by other naval power: o later telegram ’frrv;n Rear Admiral asey at League Island announced that both " battleships, the Indiana_ and Massachusetts, were lying in the stream with steam up and would start down the Delaware River at 5 o'clock. Everything was ready and everybody aboard except three marine officers, who will join the ships at Hampton Roads. pon receipt of this news Acting Secre- tary Haekett promptly returned a m sage to Rear Admiz Dickins and T on the celerit completene: which they had responded to the ency call of the Navy turning thanks by all hands. COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS *° OPEN A LOCAL HOME th emerg- Department and re- or the exhibition of zeal They Have Estabhshed Cozy Head- | quarters on Montgomery Street. The Pacific Coast Commercial Travel- | ers’ Asgociation has opened headquarters in this ‘city at 12 Montgomery street. This is the first organization of the kind that the drummers have had on the coast and it will no doubt be greatly appreciated by the traveling men. The headquarters are nicely furnis! hed | | and are fitted up with the object of pro- viding a comfortable meeting place for the members. The rooms are provided | with reading, writing, card and billiard tables, a sideboard and in fact everything —_— the nature of the deposit the engineer % : e s | to make tnem cozy and homelike. The Wants Pay From City. hine it se,m‘;"'s“‘!;’,“fl;,’;gdgfg‘{} | following named committee on headquar- an Francisco's depleted | joyed with the gold, but generally in small | LeTS, 2ttended to the furnishing of the s on. Fred Patek filed | amounts and not of importance. Rasgianie B B Saliaud (Gatrman); nst Auditor wells to| Marsh thinks it is difficult to predict | oats, 4 Ry e e ! 4 demand against | any detalled process by which these ores | 3ACONS: George ‘Shurtleff and §. Moseley for $74 8, the price | can be successfully treated, but says that | '' °* S ity and County Hos- | the character so far as determined would mand has been refused | indicate a milling ore. Merchandise in Transit. Port Collector Jackson has heen advised by the Secretary of the Treasury that the | novel. thoug) joint resolution relative to the free zone' of Mexico has been repealed and that fuil force and effect. This section pro- vides that all merchandise arriving at any port of the United States destined for any | foreign country may be entered at the Custom-house and conveved in transit through the territory of the United States without payment of duties, under su. portation as the Secretary of the Trea ury may prescribe. THE ONLY HIGH-CLASS PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL WEST OF THE Mssissiert SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 A YEAR 120 SUTTER STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. the | GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. XXV—VICTOR HUGO AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRENCH PIC'!ION BY ARTHUR G. C NFIELD, AM. In spite of the conflicting claims of vari- ous scheols and with all due regard to the | > triumphs of later realism and to the great | and original talents that the present & eration of novelists in France can fe . without trying to ¥ golden lies in the ha ween the first and the last it tor b evement d and . When appeared in 1574 all of but George Sand, and her been written: the Sandeau, Charbuliez already don evolution that novel has acco: ment with “Madame brothers Goneourt had brought it still ther on its way toward a scientific method e on durx.m»nldr \l1unerx' Daudet proot of that Tare combina- and sentiment w minute observation gitt of sty - rm. s such a peculiar and (“Le Petit Chose. Frc Rister Atne'): and Emile al creed of natural had drawn up the f novel, and b or experimental | embodimen | conve ntrospection and sel no war between ideal and con- no carking care. These are “hi vets: Bot 4o not_expect pain- The is vention torieal with the ntiona i | * - * 12 * |® > 4 ; ® . B4 - 12 * B - B : iT P 1\ 7 - % 4 * @ B 11 4 IS * . - @ > * ® ® . . o S - i ¢ kS N - - ® . L 4 > . - S > . * L 4 L4 . . & > - * * é B ® * e @ * * -~ $ VICTOR HUGO. . * - Qs eie4 60090003000 eiedeisisieteisied sketched the § ghelter of calm and reasonable series of ““Ro: From this array of names—and there not one of them that by some w of more great mass as for it has produced. e conflicti el dominate George Sand in s four who = Dumas, !’v ‘d Hugo, Thm does not mean that these four have en in_all cts unsurpassed. It is r. ite likely would name on hmr list of the greatest French nov: ajority by other writers. It is ev have not been rt . if we are think- | ing of their literars nce and the ef- fect of their work upon the theory and practice of the art of fiction No writers could well be more unlike most imy than these four, ters of the novel, nor eould four weil be chosen anywhere works 14 present a greater variety of r“ml jes and interest. e wide range of the novel form and its capacity for the most dive effects. ictor Hugo comes first on the list of nn\eli:n it is not so much by reason of the fame “Les Miserables,” which is perhaps for the aders his only novel, | great lite the first man of k he no was far from being his main interest |'ns\ sign of this, among many others, is found lar feature of his career as a — is made up of two periods, ated by the interval of a whole gen From “Notre Dame de iaris" | ¢ ‘Les Miserables™ (182) no part of h inces VAS ;ht‘n to the assuming a new and more serious import- Section 3005 of the Revised Statutes is in | ance, especially through the work of Bal- zac. And when he came back to the novel in “Les Miserables” there was little to show that these changes had had any effect on him. “Les Miserables” and the novels that followed it are plainly, from the same mind as otre ame,” and were built upon the same plan. In them all he is essentially a x"\"( Their quali- fies ‘are poetic qualities amplitude and | grandeur of conception, imaginative ower. In “Notre Dame™ he is a poet of | %, in the heyday of romanticism. under | the charm of the historical interest. in the } exuberance of youth: in Les Miserables he is a poet of 69, looking back on years { of political and social agitation and un | rest, contronting from exile the somber erplexities of his time and reflecting he past and present of human affairs and tutions. Each novel® has for theme | some large and imposing phase of our human lot. And the mature t becomes also a philosopher. The novels were to be hilosophic interpretations of history and fife in certain great and gniversal phases, | But what the reader remembers of these | novels is not the philosaphic theme, but the poetry of the details, the wealth of ideas, the vividness of description, the intensity of the situalions, which, espe- cially in the later works, constantly tend | to descend to the melodramatic, the daz- zling magic of the language. and more than all, per‘xan the deep and ardent human eymp: that is a rvasive in them, th lndnmi('\bk‘ faith | in humanity that irradiates them. ‘With Alexandre Dumas we are in an- other world. Studious meditation on the problems of man and seciety does not enter this region. Dumas has no philo- sophic interpretations in his eve. He is | too intent on hunting the argument, as Mr. Maurice Hewlett puts it. It is net wealth of ideas that you shall find with him, but wealth of energy. activity, ad- venture, His frent gift is an inventive imagination of exhaustless fertility and unflagging uvacm The moment a man or group of men is presented to it. it seizes them and they lop on a round of high and exciting eeds. There will be plot and eounter- plot. Deep schemes- will be undone by | still deeper ones, and marvelous obstacles suddenly lhruls’( "I‘ the way 'fll call out greater marvels o chrlnl and wess to surmount them. «l"" um o! achievement will nevc speed off at full | seek here the average French miss from her farmer t >ften belong t not power of that Iy desire a of ideal reality, What s { ful re posite of all this is Balzac @ He is the great realist. He worships “the god of things His gift is etrating and ¢ watches the human animal tudies him. not with sympathy, for he Nas nt respect for him, but h an insatiable cfiriosity. He notes his every turn and motion, every look and gesture. He strips off his mask, exposes his hype pursucs Niu ate the privacy of those actions which he suy pe safe from gaze of men, lay re the root of ss and selfishness and pricks the of his respectabil- ity. And what he sees he writes. His vast store of facts he pours out in his novels. In the well-known judgment of after Shakespeare, the largest collection of One sces at once documents the new The whole mate- our lives is brought been said of Balzac that he first gave us novels in which peo- eat. His people are no abstractions. | They are not the mere masks of ideas, as Tiugo's sometimes Thov fre oot the invincible conquerors of clrcumstance that Dumas loves. They do not live by the forces of heart and will and mind. like the heroes and heroines of George Sand. Tha\' are creatures of flesh and biood, obedient to instinct, amenable to hunger and the other bodily appetites. They are on their material en- in the midst things which both character- termine them—their clothes, or- houses, furniture, gardens, Taine, Balzac is writer who offers “human documents.”™ on examining these prevalence of thim Hal background of into view. It has the china, a”OEhel* rflr« | the four names. Hugo, Dumas, and Balzae, it is Balzac's that has | ost:::g | largest in the domain of ‘the novel years have flown. That is partl | fortune. for the e pendulum of ¢ thought. especially * the impulse of | the physical and biological selences and of the idea of democracy. has been swi ing in the direction of his view of t | world, and everywhere more and more | men have felt themselves under the sway s the rid's of that ‘“overmasiering sense of this | present world” that was pre-eminently is. PBut partly also it has been well de- | served: for beyond question he was one of the most prodigious minds that have so | far given 'hempelw- to thé novel. ste—An examination upon this course | as a basis for the granting of certificates | Witl e published an Wednesday next. ! ‘Want a Restrictive Tariff. The Continental League held a meeting Wednesday night at Saratoga Hall and | adopted the following: | Resoived. That trade and commerce between ! the United Staies and its insular recentl acquired, iz : Porta Rico, Phitiopins and Hawatian Isiands. shail be subject to strictive tariff and duties. | The Mate of meeting of the league was changed to the second Wednesday of each mon ———— e re—— Always Use Platt’s Chlorides for hqusehold disinfection. You will likeit®