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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1900. SHINDLER HERR SEELIE CAPTURED A Notorious Fugitive Crook Whose Steals Aggre- gate $1,000,000. IR i l | { | | Numbers Among His Victims Some of the Shrewdest Business Men in the United States. Henry v Seelig, a aggregate street he changed names B. Blank” he did CLERGYMEN PLAN TO ATTRACT THE SINNER hurches Must Afford ement in Order to Congregations. Declare the Some Amt own churches Wheeler of es on popular s pertinence to Sunday. vise ways and urch. ORT ON WORKINGS OF THE BANKRUPTCY LAW ¥ Pet s Presented by all sses in all Sections of the Land. —E. C. Brand- uptcy matters, Gen- e bankruptcy report says, with hat advant- by ‘men of f life and in f th test number ¥ are 30 4 Towa, 845 Pennsyl- iumber of volun- the following )elaware and Wy- 3 Sou arolina, Rhode of petitions filed in the : eriod ending Se; orth Car- of Tennessee Virginia, from were not re- t of reports port it appears that ions all were adjudi- 1 237, In whose cases missed, and that dis- ] eventy-one cases nfirmed in 206 cases. of assets was $33,008,77L. —_— EMPEROR EWANG SU’S FEARS. Anxious to Return to the Capital, but Dare Not De So. LONDON, Nov The Morning Post blishes sponde: 3 Vangwen Chao, now a Cabinet Min-| has written to Sir Robert Hart from ganfu that Emperor Kwang Su would to return to Peking, but that his sty would ‘lose his face' if foreign were there.” | \ghai sends another batch of reports Chinese sources. Among these is a that the allies have reached Wei- 3% miles east of Singanfu, and are ding westward. Another fs that aotal of Chuchaofu, in the province Chekiang, has been dismissed, and that ringleaders of the missionary ders have been captured. A third t a Chinese official h rrived capital of the province of Hunan ders to organize a military force S| hal correspondent of the Express wires that the Russians assuring the Chinese that the Amur | cres were real repugnant to the ssian_omcers, but were c: out “r orders of Count von Waldersee. CENTRISTS DEMAND AN ‘ IMPERIAL SUPREME COURT | ~The Centrist or Cler- € creation of an Imperial 8§ | Court having the following juris- ment of differences be- | end the States of the | differences between the | Tvision of issues - ¥ afi of " the Towperiad | lor and his subordinates heors | Reichstag. R ey Third—The settiement of controversies céarding accession to the hrone. 15 utes of the empire. where the question not aiready regulaied. Fourth—The control u;{tn litigation of tizens nst States e empire n m'fi%’ them justice. e - whether Brace Jion pan ofthe 9 any "hether State ldws are in con: case with the laws of the » the respous ‘TURNS ON GAS TO KILL SAILOR HE HAD ROBBED Billy Clark, Desperate Ex-Convict, Commits a Doubl HE police are anxiously looking for “Billy” Clark, alias Reynolds, alias Wiiljams, an ex-convict, who Is wanted for the attempted murder and robbery of C. A. Carl- son, a sallor. Last Thursday Clark met Carlson and after plying him with liquor took him to the Prescott house at Mont- gomery avenue and Kearny street, where he engaged a room. To the clerk Clark said that Carlson was his “friegd.” and 1ot want to see him rbbbed ded to put him to bed. Several hours later the clerk detected the odor of escaping gas and thinking thett it was caused by a faulty meter he started to make an investigation. Fortu- nately he happemed to pass the room oc- cupled by Carlson, and discovering that the gas was escaping from it he rapped for admitt Failing to get a response, the clerk rced an entrance and found the room filled with gas and Carlson 1 in the bed umm. "3 A remedies were employed to resuscitate him, but it Was not until some time afterward that he was pronounced out of danger. The doctors who treated Carlson, think- ing that he had made an attempt to kill himself, failed to notify the police, not- withstanding that the sailor informed them that he was tae victim of a murder- ous criminal. _After being discharged from the hospital rison returned to his room and found his gold watch and chain, a new of clothes and a small amount of the man who rday morn- headquarters and rrow escape from r the Coroner to who tri said, when tel d ‘to murder tor; ng his on Pacific street, He pretended that he had met > e to have a drink o the s a stranger t he drank very 1 was intoxicated I acted that I should go to bed the Eréncott: Erotes all. When I became ynsciou 3 tal 1 missed my watch, which I valued very highly, as it was a gift from a friend. On returning to my room 1 discovered that a sult of ciothes, which I had bought the day be- fore, and some money. which I had left on the bureau, were gone. Satisfied that Clark had turned on the gas and then robbed me I went in search of him, but up to the present time have been unable to locate him.” The friends of Carlson are convinced that Clark intended to murder him, after getting him asleep and robbing him of his valuables Policeman Peters, who knows Clark, has e Crime, C. A. Carlson Being the Victim. ROBBING HIM IN HIS ROOM TU C. A. CARLSON, VICTIM OF A DESPERATE CRIMINAL, WHO AFTER RNS ON THE G Y OF CRIME. HOPING DEATH WILL PREVENT THE DISCOVER since the attempted murder and robbery been searching for the ex-convict, but has’ failed to locate him. It is believed that after roboing his vietim Clark left the , presumably thinking that Carlson would succumb to the escaping gas, and that the police would regard the case as one of accidental death. Clark is known to be a desperate inal. Several years ago, after committing a series of crimes, he was arrested for h|ghg"a,yhrnhh%r_\' xlnnd sent to Folsom. He was discharged only a short time ago, returned to his old tricks. PR3 A0S, m- AENDMENTS T0 THE PUSTAL LAWS Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Recommends Cer- tain Changes. Salp WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Fourth As- sistant Postmaster General John L. Bris- tow, in his annual report, recommends an the interstate commerce telegraph and express ir employes from aiding or abetting green goods or lottery scheme carried on partly by S ¥ by common carrier and in violation of the postal laws. Other leg- islation urged is as follows: Authorizing postoffice inspectors to take out search ants whenever necessary, authorizing payment of incidental ex- penses incurred by local officers or others in arrest, detention and keeping of oners violating postal laws until trans- ferred to the United States Marshal's custody; construction of inspectors’ look- out towers in postoffices whenever deemer ne ry by the Postmaster General, and prohibition of loose pouching of circulars, calendars, etc., owing to small pieces of mail matter frequently slipping in large unsealed envelopes in transit. A vigorous effort bas been made to sup- | press postoffices conducted throughout the country for the sole benefit of some corporation, patent medicine firm or other private institutions whose operations de- Poiehues: On June 30 last the number of postof- fices was 76,96, as follows: First class 184, second class 852, third class 3187, fourth class 72.455 The total number of arrests during the fiscal r offenses against the postal laws was 152, including 119 postmasters, 29 assistant postmasters and 144 postoffice clerks, carriers and other postal em- ployes. Of the total number arrested 526 were convictes HARSH PUNISHMENT OF WEST POINT CADETS Degradation and Solitary Confine- ment Because of a Breach of Discipline. WEST POINT. Nov. 2%.—Solitary con- finement and degradation to were the severe punishments ordered for three officers and one cadet of the United States Military Academy after a recent breach of discipline on the two hundredth night before commencement. The officers were the most popular men in the first class, the cadet private is a leader of the “plebs” and the action of the authori- ties is strongly resented by the studencs For recent laxity in the general good or- derof the post punishment was meted out as follows: Acting First Ceptain Guthrie of Colo- rado, for permitting breach of order at mess hall and for subsequent insubordi- nation, was sentenced by a committec of army officers to solitary confinement and removal of his chevrons. He was trans- ferred to (‘ompln‘( ¥, Cadet Commandant D. D. Gregory of Missouri was sentenced to conflnement and degradation to the ranks. Cadet Iieutenant Willlam F. Russell of New Hampshire, for breach of discipline, was reduced to the ranks. Private Dowd. cadet at large, in the fourth cadet class, was demerited and or- dered to confinement for causing a breach of discipline in the mess hall. Although the offense was not a grave one, the incident has caused the humilia- tion of three of the most popular men in |the senfor class. The young men had been awarded their chevrons as the resuit of three and a half years of hard and conscientious work. VICTORY FOR THE STOCKTON STUDENTS Debate the Silver Question With Delegation From the Mission High School. STOCKTON, Nov. 2%.—The convention ! of the Debating League of Northern Cali- closed ‘ornia last evening with a spirited debate on the sliver question, Stockton Hjgh School taking the side of the white metal. The judges—Messrs. Duffy of San Francisco, A. L. Cowell of Stockton and F. B. Wootten of Lodi—were out over an hour and it was after ml it lore favor of they announced mhezre Idu(llon Fowise: Edwin Nicol and Newess Bt;hck‘ton High Scl The negative was sustalned Harry pris- | the Government of its legitimate | the ranks | | by Robert Dougherty, Jack Keefe and | Horatio Hawkins of Mission High School, | | S2n Francisco. All the young men showed | | reat ability on the rostrum, but Mr. Ru- | 1!herlord outstrip) his competitors in | both delivery and argument. Jack Keefe made a very favorable impression by rea- son of his humor. Edwin Nicol delivered in good form an excellent discussion of the question, as did the other participants of the forensic contest. Masonic Hall was well filled with the supporters of the two echools and there were considerable rooting from the 1wo | much to the amusement of | | the others in the place. All the speakers | | won much applause, which they really | merited. The evening ended with a gocial | | dance and was considered by all the del- | | esates to be most successful and con- | ducive to a better feeling among the sev- )er:nl preparatory schools of this part of | the State. ‘ e e | contingents, | CONFIDENCE OPERATOR DUPES LABORING MEN Engages Them fc;;—i(ythical Positions and Collects a Deposit From Each. VANVOUVER. B. C., Nov. 25.—Sixty- seven angry laborers are looking for Harry Parker, a well-known man about | town, who engaged them to work for the | Stave Lake Power Company ana. they | allege, defrauded them. The Stave Lake Power Company is preparing to supply | water power for the operation of manu- facturing -plants in Vancouver. Parker ciaimed “to represent the compaiy and engaged the Sixty-seven men to 0 to Stave Lake, clear the ground and maks other preparations for the erection of the works. he laborers say that Parker exacted a deposit from each man, levyin; as much tribute as he thought they woul 1d, the amounts ranging from $1 up- | He instructed them to be &t to- | day’s oui-going express wita their outfita, | promising to meet them at {ne depot with their raflway tickets. | | Parker did not appear at the statiom | and it subsequently developed that he had | |left town. The deceived laborers were | | especiaily exasperated becguse many had | spent all their ready money, some as | much as 350, in purchasing cutfits for the | work, which was supposed to last at Jeast | six months. This expense was in addition | | to_the lost deposit. | Parker has lived in Vancouver for ten | | years. He is only 23 years old and was | formerly bookkeeper for McLlonald Brota- ers, draymen. While in their employ he was arrested for forging the firm's name | t0 a check. The affair was compromised | after Parker had spent some time in jail. The Stave Lake Power Company repu- diates his assumed connection with it i TRANSFER OF CURACAO AGAIN BEING DISCUSSED | Report That the Island Off Venezuela May Shortly Be Sold to Germany. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Officlals fa- miliar with South American affairs state that attention is again being given in Venezuela to the project of the transfer of the island of Curacao, belonging to Dutch Guana and lying off the coast of Venezuela, to Germany. The Island came to notice during the Spanish-American | war, as it was the point chosen by Admi- ral Cervera for making a stop when his squadron was en route to Santiago. It i understood that the acquisition has been discussed from time to fime in Ger- many, meeting with considerable favor and “being considered ‘a transfer which could be made by concession from one European nation to another. Whether the | principle of the Monroe doctrine would lapply to territory ziready he!d by a for- elgn government is an open question. At present, however, the matter has not at- tracted the attention of the Government | here, nor is it known that the German | | authorities are desirous of securing the cession, the discussion being conflned to the reports coming from South American | countries near the island in question. The | German Government recently disclaimed any purpose to acquire the island of Mar- guerita, off the Venezuelan coast, and in official ‘German quarters here there is no | knowledge of present attention belng given to Curacao. D — DEATH FOLLOWS DEBAUCH. | Keswick Smelter Man Expires in the Arms of a Friend. - | KESKICK, Nov. Z—Reeling with the unsteadiness of a long debauch, his strength sapped by advancing years, John O'Leary, & well known smelter man, fell into the arms of a friend this morning | and when he was straightened up again he was stone dead. oy " O'Leary, as_he was called b | the many who knew him, was nearl | years of age. He had been employed at | the smelter for four years. He was known as an industrious man, but with a penchant for strong drink. 'his morning, somewhat O'Leary ‘lllez‘ al the sid front of the Monte £topped to speak Kelly. The k-n?“.r man e to fall. Kel him and Wi p be el | | “Point.” | ANTI-VICE CRUSADE NEW WHARVES FOR PONT AICHMOND Santa Fe Reconstructing Its Landing Place to In- sure Safety. e Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. %. Investigation of the cause of the recent accident at Point Richmond, where a Santa Fe engine was dropped through a whart into the bay, has developed the necessity for a complete reconstruction ot the big wharf and landing pler at the Work on the rebuilding has been commenced under the personal di- rection of Engineers Burns and Barman and Superintendent Schindler. The entire structure has been declared unsafe, and the Santa Fe officlals propose to remedy the condition by an extensive repiling under the wharf. That {s now under way. Under the waiting room the piles are being cemented as Pprotection from the teredo, which has been playing havoc with the structure. Many piles which have been sunk a comparatively skort time have been eaten through and must be removed. The engineers are talking about the pos- sibility of filling, In order to make the wharves solid, to bed rock. Within a few days all of the structures have been un- covered and every pile has been exam- ined. The engineers are satisfied that too few were drivep. The yarde are blocked with freight, a tremendous traffic being handled. A sec- ond local frelght has been established be- tween Point Richmond and Stockton. Chief Engineer Burns of the Santa Fe system has located the permanent station at the east yards, Point Richmond. It will be at the west end ot the yards, almost adjoining the town site of Richmond. A large depot, with Harvey dining-hall and elaborate division offices, will be erected. The structure wiil be of brick and stone. BEGINS IN DENVER Mass Meeting Calls Upon Officials to Suppress Gambling and Kindred Evils. DENVER, Nov. 25.—A mass-meeting which filled the capacious Trinity Metho- dist Episcopal Church In this city was held this afternoon, at which the city government was roundly scored for its alleged laxity In enforcing the laws against gambling and kindred evils. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League, and addresses were delivered by a number of ministers, all denunclatory of the fire and police ard. A petition to “all executive and Jjudicial officers of the city of Denver and the county of Arapahoe to impartially and rigidly enforce all ordinances and laws, and especially those which relate to the moral welfare of the community,” was circulated and signed b{ nearly all pres- ent, and the different ministers in attend- ance pledged 10,000 additional names for the petition. One of the speakers declared that he knew of fifty-four gambling houses in the city, one within a stone’'s throw of his church. Another said that in every block in the principal business district there was at least one resort for lewd women. Reference was made to similar move. ments carried on in large Eastern cities, espectally New York, and the opinfon was ndx:'eanced that Denver needed such more than any of them. s ANGELS CAMP RATIFICATION. S.mu) M. Shortridge Addresses Men of all Parties. ANGELS CAMP, Nov. %.—Samuel M. Shortridge spoke here last night at a Re- publican ratification meeting. The town -wus illuminated in his honor. Mr. Short- when introduced, sald he did not ing was an; m simply a gen- e?—{l rejoic{ng :f the people of gmm par- ties over what would result from the re- election of McKinley and all the Repub. G e oty i mmerce ts‘t‘:t:.o He sald that the le believed in the practical workings of the party’s pol- »v. The election meant that the 1 1Y roed the administration. Poople ——————— Camera Supplies. , photographic supplies, Cameras, daks, albums for unmounted ph dn.:' and developing. lugorn. v . 74l Market street. ko- & PEARY WRITES OF HIS TRAVELS Letters From the Arctic Ex- plorer Fail to Reach His Wife. Before Their Arrival She Had Started Without His Knowledge to Rejoin Him at the North. Ll s i NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Ferbert L. Bridgeman, secretary of the Peary Arctic Club, to-night gave out extracts from let- ters sent by Lieutenant Peary, the Arectic explorer, to his wife. She did not receive them, having started to rejoin her hus band last August, without s knowledge. She was at Disco, Greenland, on Au- gust 20. The letters of Peary's were carried by natives to the camp of the Stein party at Cape Sabine and thence conveyed to Caps York by Dr. Kahn, who boarded the steam whaler Eclipse on June 9 and was l.nded by her at Dundse, Scotland, on the Sth inst. Following are the extracts given by Mr. Bridgeman: FORT CONGO, Lady Franklin Bay, March 31, 1900.—Just a line to go down to a whaler by returning natives. I arrived here at mid- night on the 2th, 24 deys from Etah. Six and a half days of this time we were held In camp by heavy wind storms. e doctor and Hensen each left Etah with nat before we arrived here. The journey was a tedious one owing to the storms, but aot &n uncom{ortable one for me. A number of dogs died on the way, but I had ample number for the work ah . Twenty-one musk oxen were killed in sight of the fort the day before I arrived. We have an abundant fupply of fresh meat. After resting and feeding the dogs a fe days longer I shall go, and the other Esquimos will remain at the fort hunting. I am in good condition and the journey shows me that myself again. If do my work this & shall come back and hasten down to meet the ship and turn back with her. I hope to write again by natives, when I shall send back from some point up the Greenland coast. Dr. Did nick wishes to be remembered. The second extract follows: | CAPE D'URVILLE, Grinnell Land, March | 12, 1900.—I write this note on the chance of Stein and Dr. Kahn reaching Upusauk ty way of Moville Bay. - The fall and winter passed | comfortably at Etah, without even a day’s in- disposition on my part. I have husbanded m: self carefully. My feet have given me v little troubie and now I feel that I am my: again. 1 am now at the Windwards win quarters with the rear division. Mott and the doctor are ahead with two other divisions on | the way to Congo. All but a few of the natives | | will return at once from here, leaving a few | | with me. I shall push on from Congo without | delay, perhaps by way of the Greenland coast I shall strain every nerve, and, God willing, | ehall do my work this spring. that I may | come back this summe: send duplicate of this to Cape York for a whaler. EXPECTS TURKEY TO YIELD. ‘Washington Believes Exequatur Will Be Issued to Norton. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%.—In the expec- tation that the Sublime Porte will eventually withdraw its refusal to issue an exequatur to Dr. Thomas H. Norton, Consul at Harpoot, the authorities here have directed him to proceed to his post. In the meantime Mr. Griscom, Charge d’Affaires in Constantinople, will urge the Porte to {ssue the exequatur in order that Dr. Norton may enter upon his du- ties as soon as possible. Some surprise was expressed at the de- parture of the Kentucky for Smyrna yes- terday ahead of her schedule, it having been stated that she would probably re- main at Naples until onday. Officials declare, however, that no new instruc- tions were given' Captain Chester; that be remained five days at Naples, as di- rected, and having completed his visit started for Smyr Lehigh Valley Road Agrees to Pay for Extra Time. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Nov. 25.—The grievance of the brotherhood men em- ploved by the Lehigh Valley Rallroad have at last, It is believed, been settied. At the conference held at Bethlehem on Saturday between the officlals of the road and a committee composed of twenty- eight employes representing the Federatad Brotherhood a new wage scale was agreed u The brakemen emplof¥ed on freigh and coal trains on brauches of the ro per cent in wages. Engineers will also F “MEASURE FOR MEASURE.” Copyright, 1900, b y Seymour Eaton. THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. —_— XIIL. “Measure for Measure” is one of the noblest of all Bhakespeare’s dramas, and yet it is seldom put upon the stage to- day. Miss Nellson was, I think, the last representative of the postulant Isabellp— that fine flower of womanly purity—seen in this country. It seems to be one of those dramas of Shakespeare’s which are thought by the general public to be, a3 Dr. Johnson said, in a dialogue with Bos- | well, the better for not being played. And | not having been played often and seldom used by the public reader its treasury of beauty and sublimity is less known than it should be. It is the most moral of Shakespeare's plays—the most directly moral would perhaps express it better— and yet this very direct morality has through the modern habit of undivine silence and false delicacy prevented it from being as much of a household word as “H. et.” This play, Walter Pater says in "Angmnlons," page 179, “by the quallty of these higher designs woven by his strange c on a texture of poorer quality, is bardly less indicative than ‘Hamiet’ even akespeare's reason, of his power of moral interpretation. It deals, not like ‘Hamlet,’ with the prob- lems which beset one of exceptional tem- perament, but with mere human nature.” It is a tragedy, but, as Pater puts it, it remains a comedy.” The greatest element in tragedy—that element w.ich makes “Hamlet” and “Lear” and the great old Jew 30 awful—the sense of failure at the last—ts avoided. ““Plaia speaking does not vitlate,” Coventry Patmore says. And as this is so, let us hove that “‘Measure for Measure” will be ranked, as it deserves, as one of the truest vieces of morality ever presented, in fitting form, by any Ppoet. The plot was not Invented by Shakes- peare. He took it _from the tedious old play by George Whetstone, afterward printed In a prose version. It was called “Promos and Cassandra.” It was printed both in 1578 and in 1382. Shakespeare, bound by the fable of ‘“‘Promos and Cas- sandra,” shows all the more his wonderfu! power of transcending all limitations and of illuminating even the {mprobable by the pure light of truth. It is presumed that ‘‘Measure for Measure” was com- Knsed about the year 1603; the exact date | as not been absolutely ascertained. The scene of “Measure for Measure” is laid in Vienna—a brilliant, gay, thought- less, frivolous and lax ecity. Its nobles seem to_answer to Browning's description of the Venetians in “A Toccata of Ga- | .2 luppi’s’ —“ti11 in due time, one by one, with lives that to nothing. some with deeds as well undone. Death stepped tacitly, and took them whers they never see the sun.” Claudio was one of these flowerlike young men—a butterfly, with no thought of_extinction. Morals and manners have become so lax in Vienna under the nominal rule of the very amiable duke that marriage is named only in jest. prevailing vicious practice, has ruined his sister’s friend, Juliet. The youth of Vien- na hold such sin llghtl{,. A woman's hon- or is nothing to them because the women themselves do not prize it. But there is one who does—Isabella, the sister of this Claudio. Chastity with her is “no necga- tive good.” To fall from that virtue, even in thought, is worse than death to her. She s not ignorant, but she is innocent. Filled with high thoughts of purity and faith, she has just entered a convent. She is not disgusted with the world, not shocked at its wickedness—she believes that every sin may be repented of—and not disappointed in love. She has taken | no vows; in fact, she has entered the .con- | vent on the very day on which her broth- | er Claudio has been condemned to death for the evil done to Juliet. The duke, | alarmed by the growth of vice in Vienna, | will recelve an increase of from 10 to 25 be allowed extra time for housing their | engines. Heretofore the men have com- lained that they have not been treated airly in the matter of extra time. Un- der the new wage schedule all extra time will be paid for. . REACH SHO! ONLY TO DIE FROM EXPOSURE Probable Fate of Passengers and Crew of the Wrecked St. Olaf. QUEBEC, Nov. 25.—The schooner Mario Josephine, with thirty men, left Seven Islands for the scene of the wreck of the St. Olaf this morning to search for bodies of victims. The only one so far found, last night's reports to the contrary not- has delivered the reins of government to the strict Lord Angelo, because erty plucks justice by th The baby beats the nurse, and quit Goes all decorum.” The duke leads Angelo to belleve that he has gone to Poland, but he goes to a mon- astery and persuades Friar Thomas to to teach him how to appear and act as friar. He says: I will as "twere a brother of your order Visit both prince and people.” Being a kindly man, he will see that the ascetic and cold-blooded Lord Angelo does not misuse his absolute power. ere may perhaps be’need of tempering justice with mercy. Isabella soon learns to think | that there is, for she is disturbed in the convent of St. Clare by one Lucio, who | telis her of her brother’s sin and his con- withstanding, is that of Miss Marie Page. | The horror of the situation is Increased by a story that most of the victims are believed to have reached the island only to perish there by cold and fatigue and they now lie buried beneath three feet of snow. Miss Page's body, when found, was covered by snow. ’ TELE GRAPHIC BREVITIES. Aoy BEATRICE, Nebr., Nov. 25.—Fire to-day de- stroyed the brick biock occupled by Begole & Van Arsdale, general merchandise, and other firmet $85,000. BERLIN, Nov. 2%.—Slemssen & Co., a_well- known ship-owning firm in Hamburg, whl es. tablish a line of steamers to Hongkong and Shanghal. ST, PETERSBURG, Nov. 2.—Private dis- patches received here say that companics have been organized at Kieff, with British capital, to bulld railroads from Briansk and Czerni Zoff to Kieff and from Kieft to Zlobe. Rome, Nov. 25.—An international congress at- tended by 1000 delegates assembled {n Rome yesterday to discuss the use of cannon to prevent hail, which is so destructive to crops. The theory is that firlng cannon Into the air would have the effect of breaking up rain clouds. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. %.—The Courfer- Journal to-morrow will say that the fourteen cement mills located in the vicinity of this city and Jefferson, Ind., which supply the greater part of the United States, have in contempla- tion the formation of a combine George Scott. CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—George Scott of the dry goods firm of Carson, Pierfe, Scott & | Co. 5led to-night of typhoid fever, aged | 71 years. Hickmott Company Will Transfer Its Machinery From Bouldin Island and Enter Competition Here. OAKLAND, Nov. 2%.—The building at the northwest corner of Second and Web- ster streets has been leased by the Hick- mott Canning Company and a lary Manufacturing plant will be tocated there The building is being remodeled by a gang of carpenters and as soon as this work is finished the machinery, which is now lo- cated in the Hickmott Company’'s plant at Bouldin Island, will be transferred here and set in running order. The company Wwill engage In a general can manufacturing business, su; not only their asparagus fields, he fruit preserving companies on this side of the bay. There are enough orders on hand to keep the plant running to its full capacity for six months. podetnivl et Testimonial to Mrs. Dexter. AKLAND, NoY. %.—A _testimontal comertwill betendered to Mre: Capria Brown Dexter, the well known contralto, esday evening, ‘mber 4, at tha g:;{“ Pmayhyufln Church. demnation to death. Claudio says that as a last resort his saintly sister must see Angelo. Luclo puts it: “Go to Lord Angelo And let him learn to know, when matdens sue Men give like gods: but When they weep and knee All thelr petitions are as freely thefrs As they themselves would owe them." Strong in her belief that mercy must win over justice—in this she is like Portia— she goes with the consent of the prioress to see the strict and inflexible “Angelo. He has never taken pleasure in the sins of the Viennese, they say, therefore he can have no pity for Claudto. The truth is that Angelo is a consummate hypoerite. | He was to_have married a lady named Martanna, But her dowry was lost at sea. Then he discarded her, accusing her false- ly, in order to cover up his own dishonor, with infidelity. Marianna is really the most constant and pure of women. In her lonely “moated grange’ she waits day after day ior him to keep his promise. for in spite of his vile aspersions on her char- acter she loves him still. than a bet- ‘This man, more unrelentlng‘ ter man would bave been, refuses to think of clemency. He will scarcely listen to And Claudio, following the | | the pleading of the old Lord Escalus. He says: “ 'Tis one thing to be And another thing | You may not extem: tempted, Escalus, When I, that censure Let mine own judgment And nothing come in partial. Isabeila goes to Angelo. mant: “Your brother is a forfeit to the law, And you but waste your words.” Isabella In words that again remind us of Portia’s plea—for Shakespeare never hesitates to repeat the same thought, the me emotional expression, when it is nee- sary— | “Why. all the souls that were fortett once; | Anq He that might the vantage best have tool Fouhd out the remedy. How would you be, | It He, which 1s the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are?’ And later she cries out: ““Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous Tc use it like a glant.” | The interview reaches a high level of | dramatic passton. Angelo s not moved to pity for Claudio, but to dangerous ad- miration for Isabella; he thinks: O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint With saints dos bait thy hook! Most | Is that temptation that doth goad us om | To sin in loving nature.” | Jn the original play, “Promos and Cas- Indn.h” Angelo is altogether devilish: | but Shakespears knew better than to | make him all evilL Like the king in | “Hamiet.” his thoughts turn to heaven, | but his heart is with earth: | “‘Heaven In my mouth, ‘Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, Al ors on Isabel" gelo reveals his destre to I and offers her dishonor as the price of her brother's iife. She is masterful in her indignation, for she has nothing of | Opheiia in her.' She wiil tell her brother, who, she is sure, would die twenty times before he would profit by his sister's fall. At first Claudio is with her; his flne sense | of honor is touched by her high words; she {s masterful again; she carrfes him along with her in spite of himself; bus » | remembers that | “Death is a fearful thing." To which Isabella repiles: “And a shamed life a hateful.* And Claudio: Ay, but to dle, and go we know not wherey | To lie in cold obstruction and to rot. warm motion to becoms | A kneaded | To bathe in flery floc | In thrilling region of ¢ nds, | To be imprison‘d in th winds, violence round about . And blown with restle: The pendant world. * * Sweet sister, let me live." Sin to Isabella is far more than death. To consent to sin on any pretext means | intolerable degradation to her, even | though the sin were secret and her honor | untouched in the eyes of the world. “‘Oh, you beast! ss coward! le: of a tragedy. ning of act four we are prepared for the | sweetness and joy to come by the lovely In the begin- iyric sung by the page to Mar! a—who, b{; the way, Is entirely a creation of Shakespeare's. She is so suggestive a creation that she gave Tennyson the theme for his two pre-Raphaelite poems, “Marfana” and ‘“Mariana in the South.” Whether Shakespeare or another wrote the lyric sung by the boy—the rest of which is to be found in Fletcher's “Bloody Brother”—it is a strain of fine music. Lights that do mislead the But my kisses, bring again, bring ags Seals of love, but seal’d In vain, et L i Marfana . still loves Angelo as the re- pentant Jullet loves Claudio. The duke, | disguised as Friar Lodowick, who has, | after the manner of potentates in plays, discovered what everybody is thinkin about, begins to disentangle the threads. He, like Angelo. is charmed by Isabella. | As'Friar Lodowick he persuades Isabella to deceive Angelo that Mariana may go to jthe tryst at night in Angelo’s garden house. The trick by which t.e husband | and wite are brought together is quite in | line with the ethics of the drama of Lope de Vega and Shakespeare. ““Nor, gentls daughter, fear you not at all, He is your husband on' a pre-contract: To bring you thus together, ‘tis no sin. | Sith that the justice of your title to him | Doth flourish the deceit.”™ Angelo, without shocking those conven- tions which obtained until the beginning | of this century. is married offhand | Friar Peter to Mariana. And then | ana and Isabeila both plead for his | belleving Claudio dead. b lite, Isabella says: | “1 partly think A due sincerity govern'd his deeds TIN he did look on me; since it is s, i t die. My broth had Just! T« "Rat he did the thing for which he aledie" The duke, having drunk her pleadings with delight, sends for Claudio, who, of course, marries Jullet. The duke, forgiv- | ing Angelo, cannot forbear a jocular slap at him for his insinuations against | Mariana: i b her, Angelo, i “Love | I have confessed her, and T know her virtue.” Isabella. convinced that her place is in the world, accepts the duke’s hand and | the curtain falls-on several marriages, as the trick of the stage required. The play |is over; but the splendor of diction, the 'Elnmor of imagination, the appeal to the | heart, to the mind, to the essentfal truth | of all human life. remain forever. AURICE FRANCIS EG. | America. I 3 AN, Catholic University of T0 ALLY ROUND STANFORD'S X Berkeley Students Arrang- ing a Big Football Demonstration. ———— BERKELEY, Nov. %.—One of the big- gest football rallies of the season, from the point of noise and enthusiasm, will be held to-morrew afternoon on the cam- pus. It will be the “ax” rally—the one “ax" rally of the year. The famous Stan- ford ax which the Berkeley boys captured at a baseball game two years ago will be_brought out. There was some talk of taking the ax to the women's rally Tuesday evening, but the relic was considered too valuable to be trusted in the open after dark. Wil P. Drum, the famous sprinter who has had charge of the ax. will carry it to. morrow. He will be escorted by the band of 600 rooters. During the rally Drum will appoint a new “custodian of the ax,” a position of great trust at college. Drum’s successor will not be made known until to-morrow, but he will be a promi- nent college man and athlete. The ax rally, which has pecome an a nual ceremony, is considered the most im- portant rally of the year. posinatird &« IS To Consider Liquor Question. BERKELEY, Nov. 5.—At the meeting of the Town Trustees to-morrow evening rtant question of repealing the Ehti-saloon ordinance will be considered. Although four of the Trustees have de- clared the ordinance a failure it is ve: Soubttul If they will all vote against it when the time comes. Town Trustee R. B. Staals of South Berkeley will introduce an ordinance pro- posing to refer the question of license or license to popular vote. A crowd, both of temperance e ‘:fi' saloon to the meeting. B COML FIELDS ON CHIEHIK BAY A Lignite Deposit Which Promises to Provea Valuable Find. Oakland Office 8an Franciseo Call, 1113 Broadway, Nov. 28 Thomas Mayon, Superintendent of tne Apolle Mining Company, has arrived im Oakland, en route East, where he is to interest capitalists in coal deposits in Alaska which his company has uncovered. Mr. Mayon is staying with relatives at 1269 Market street. He believes that the coal fields of Alaska will be of tremen- dous value to the Pacific Coast. ““The discovery of these beds of coms along Chignik Bay is in my opinion one of the most important finds ever made on the Pacific Coast,” sald Mr. Mayon to. day. “For several years I have been in- veatigating the coal deposits of Alaska with a view toward determining what they might develop. This bed, which ex- tends for many miles along the bay, “ve::li feet "!hlf‘ Thl o uality, bituminous and ts £o'in Ynormoas guantity. B¢ g e s ble, under the ccnditions. to build a rail- road five miles that will bring the coa beds within easy reach of sail and steam i Mayon will return to Alaska u the compietion of his Eastern trip. "t the ng the work of dete; th exlct'we'nem of the flelds, thelr 4 etc., will be undertaken. “in view of trhe decreasing coal supply on this coast.” sald Mr. Mayon, “I con. sider the discovery of as of vast commercial importance. There i8 no doubt that a great find has been made. The gentlemen whom I am are confident that they bave &