The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER '8, 1900 AND TO-NIGHT RFORMANCES OF HAVERLY’S MASTODON MINSTRELS TO-MORROW AFTERNOO! s for the merriest lad of them ELLBOY.” LOU HARVEY, IARRY ARM- ‘A B NEE TO-DAY seat SATURDAY), Dec. 8 2 balcony, 10c; children, part except reserved. HOPPING BIG BILL! AND COMPANY, ROBERTUS AND EDO, PANTZER TRIO, MAY DE JULIUS P. WIT- NT AND CHARLES - RY BROTHERS AND C HE GREAT WALDON. BIA = RE 3 e MATINEE TO-DAY. And the AL NIELSEN OPERA CO. I ¢ FRANK L. PERLEY ¢ Smith’s Success, The {TURE TELLER. Wesk—Last Nizhts Matinees To-Day and To-Morrow. OF THE— OLIVER LESLIE CO. TWO NIGHTS OF THE PRISONER of ZENDA MAN'S ENEMY LLIAM BEACH. 10e, 16c, 25¢ an 2 0 higher. office—Emportum. «TIVOLI» » et NBE TO-DAY AT M he Great Comic Opers, THE JOLLY MUSKETEER! ay Begins LAST WEEK! e 8 ay at %c and Sc “CINDERELLA” will appear Mon= day, December 17. 5.:39;,"‘ ) NEX THE RAYS’ How A HOT OLD TIME! JOEN NEY. WADAME BUTTERFLY Preceded by the Howling Farce, “WHERE IS TOMPKINS?” NEXT WEEK — “PTYGMALION GALATEA™ And — MADAME BUTTERFLY.” ______ SEATS NOW READY. CHUTES a» Z0O EVERY AF']'EI'.\'H':N AND EVENING. SPECIAL TO-NIGHT: Big Cakewalk ! INCLUDING CHUM and AH CHOY, Chinatown, Ve YK and MARY TAYLOR, champlons of Darktown. champlons of YICK Telephone for seats, Park 23. RACING! RACING! RACING! 1900 WINTER MEETING—1801. CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. DEC 2d to DE i5th, INCLUSIVE. OAKLAND RACETRACK Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- Saturday. Rain or shine. ces eath day. 15 p. m. sharp. Francisco at 12 m. and o and 3 p. m., connecting at the entrance to the Cars on train reserved for no smoking. Buy your Mound. All trains via nect with San Pablo avenue Seventh and Brosdway, Osk- | trains via Alameda mole con- Pabio avenue cars at Fourteenth roadway, Oakland. These electric cars | the track in fifteen migutes. a tely after the last race LIAMS JR., President. IS R ouUsE. FISCHER’S ©ONZERT, Mg->* AND COOPER'S COMEDIANS IN HE ( EYED MONSTER.” IALTIES ACTS! AND MUSICAL Weak Men and Women | MISCELLANEOUS. SMOKELESS OIL HEATER FOR THAT COLD ROOM $4.0 Only think of it. De- &QM anywhere mn ifornia on approval, to be returned at our ex- Pense 1f not entirely sat- isfactory. The equal of any Heater that ra- talls for double the meney. Description: No. &2—Fount, flange, removable top, window frame and number late are nickel back ~ to fount and light, :‘e inches. , 14 inches. Wet Creted, 18 pounds. Y Other Heaters for %, #, $7 and $5. WRITE FOR CATA- LOGUE. PRICE $4.00. PATTOSIEN’S, Bixteenth sad Mission Strorts. | 1 SARROW. BRAND ,’-‘ CRESWELL P Palace and Grand i Hotels San Francis co | These hotels pos- sess the attribuies that tourists and travelers appreciate! —<entral location| liberal manage- ment, modern ap pointments an d; perfect cuisine American and Eu- ropean plans. CONVENTION OF FRESH FRUIT PRODUCERS WILL BE CALLED First Step for the Wider Organization of the < ‘ Horticultural Industries of the State. SANTA CLAUS WILL ARRIVE | IN DUE TIME to present the compliments of the season to‘our patrons on a beautiful laundered shirt front. collar or cuff. We are sure that all will be happy when they see the festal Yuletide polish that we will lay on their linen, and at the same time extend our best wishes for their heaith, so that they can soil enovgh linen for the next year to keep us busy. Domestic finish for full-dress shirts if you order it. | “'No saw edges. |UNITED STATES LAUNDRY | Office 1004 Market Street | Telephone—South 420, Oakland Office—62 San Pablo Ava. STATEMENT —OF THE— ON AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— New Amsterdam Casualty ‘ COMPANY F_NEW YORK. IN THE STATE OF NEW York, on the 3ist day of December, A. D. 18599, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commission State of California, pursuant to th Sections 610 and §li of the P ed as per blank furnished | CONDITI CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Steck, pald up In Cash ... . PR ASSETS. Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company. -$275,000 00 3,847 24 11,583 35 P I | and Loans... 3 G Premtums in due Course of Collection. 2 | Total Assets.........c.cee.. | LIABILATIES. Losses in process of Adjustment or in Suspense -..... % Losses resisted, including expenses Gross premiums on Risks running one | “yemr or less, reinsurance 50 | _per cent P | Risks on Gross premiums running more than one year, §. reinsur- ance pro rata 549 25 Due and accrued for salaries, rent, ete . 145 67 Due for reinsurance. [ Total Lisbilities.. | INCOME. | Net cash actually received for prem- g ey s s 7 Received fo o r s o) Bonds, Stocks, Loans, and from all other sources Total Income. EXPENDITURES. | Net amount paid for Losses. Paid or allowed for Comm! . $20,761 10 T Brokerage ......... g 2 29,691 44 Paid for Salaries, Fees and charges for officers, clerks, etg. 21,740 66 | Paid for State, | taxes . | Total Expenditures. EDWARD V. LOEW, President. CHARLES T. HOPPER, Secretary. | _ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of January, 1900. CHARLES EDGAR MILLS, Commissioner for California. 'E. F. GREENE, GENERAL AGENT, 405 Montgomery St., | SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. | i PHONE MAIN SO18. AMUSEMENTS. THE OAKLAND SHOw, EXPOSITION BUILDING, OAKLAND, CAL. December 5 to 8. OPEN WLDNESDAY, ) A. M., CLOSE SATURDAY, 10 P. M. DOGS, POULTRY, CATS, PIGEONS, HARES. INCUBATORS HATCHING DAILY. Open from 10 &. m. to 10 p. m. ADMISSION TO ALL. .25 CENTS SHOULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, THE | great Mexican :_gives health and “irengih to sexual organs. CHILDREN ... HE closing session of the Fruit- growers’ Convention yesterday afternoon was marked by the adoption of a plan which, it is hoped, will result in the forma- | tion of an association embracing in its | membership all the fruit and nut interests in‘California. | The plan reported by the committes of fifteen appointed for such purpose in- | volves the formation of a fruit- ucers' | council, composed of one representative ;rrum each of the fruit or nut organiza- | tions; the calling of a convention of the | producers of fresh fruit, to meet in Sac- | ramento the third Tuesday in January, to be composed of from one to five dele- | gates from each &chool district where | fresh fruit is produced; and the calling | of a convention to meet in San Francisco | the second Tuesday in January, composed | of one delegate from each of the fruit| | and nut organizations of the State. The report in full is as foilows: Report of the committee appointed to formu- late & plan for the organization of the decldu- ous fruit growers and to consider a plan for bringing all the fruit and nut Interests into a union for their mutual benefit and to protect thelr mutual Interests After a careful consideration of the matter the committee heartily approves the proposal that the fresh frult growers form an assoclation of their own for the purpose of handling fresh fruits. The California Cured Fruit Association. | through its president, Judge Bond, states that | it is the purpose of that association to con- tinue the canvass among producers of dried fruits in order to increase its usefulness and carry out the original Intention of its organiza- tion. It will therefore work with those who desire to form the fresh frult growers' asso- clation The propoeal to form a fruft producers’ coun- cil of one representative to be selected by each | trutt or nut organiza: of the State or that hereafter be organized; such representa- tives to bo one delegate from each of the fol | Jowing industries: Citrus fruit, olive, walnut, | almond, ratsin, cured frwt and fresh frutt | growers—is one which we - onsider to be of su- | ADVERTISEMENTS. | Kohler & Chase, Estabiished 1850, OQur Holiday §tock Pianos Arrived. Let Us Explain the Easiest | Mgthod Buying. Knabe Agency, Headquarters 8San Francisco. 26-30 O'Farrell St. — preme tmportance to those industries and to the general welfare of the State; and we there- fore recommend that the convention: First—Call a meeting of the delegates of all the fresh fruit producers of California, to con- sist of from one to flve persons from each school district in the State where fresh fruit is produced, to assemble in Sacramento on the third Tuesday in January at 1 o'clock in a hall to be hereafter announced. Second—That the convention call a meeting of delegates consisting of one representative from | each of the industries above enumerated at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco at 11 & m. of the second Tuesday In January. The report was signed by M. T. Kear- |1\9% chairman; Judge H. G. Bond, John | 8. Dore, H. W. Meek, H. P. Stabler, F. B. | Miriam, W. B. Gester, C. E. Barnes, N. P, Chipman, A. H. Naftzger, John Mark- ley, and was read by Alfred Barstow of | Fresno, secretary of the committee. Large Growers the Obstacle. M. Theo. Kearney, the chairman, ex- plained that “fresh fruit” was used to in- clude deciduous fruit shipped fresh or sold to canners. He spoke in favor of the | plan, and expressed his regret that so many of the large growers had been | standmg in thelr own light by refusing | to co-operate with the smaller producers | to secure prices that would yleld a profit. “The_chief obstacle in the past,” said | Russ D. Stephens of Sacramento, ‘has | been the large producers. It is' easy | enough for Mr. Kearney and Judge Bond to wash their hands of responsibility for the success of this plan by informing the small growers that they must not look to the large growers to carry it through. They are the men who are in a position to reach the large growers and bring | them into line, and that is absolutely gs- | sential to the susress of this plan.” | Chairman Kearney replied that if | small producers organized and thus be- | came an Important factor, the large | growers would be forced to come into the | organization. | The report was adopted by unanimous vote and with very little discussion. The | committee was instructed to assist Sec- | retary Lelong in arranging for the con- ventions provided for in the plan. A large share of the time of the morn- irig session and a portion of that of the afternoon was taken up with the discus- sion of reciprocity treaties. Resolutions introduced the day before protesting against the pending reciprocity treaty with the British West Indies as detri- mental to the citrus fruit interests of California were adopted, but not until the sentiment was developed that reciprocity | treaties in general are wrong in principle. ilsndor Jacobs, E. F. Adams, George . | Frost, Captain M. Danfels and others the spoke in condemnation of the secret ne- gouatlon of such treaties and the sacri- viding a market abroad for the of the large corporations. As E. F. Adams put it: “The principle of recip- rocity as we have it is that John must give away something in order that Peter may get something.” Incidentally John A. Kasson, Minister Plenipotentiary of Treaties, whose secret negotiations are most objected to, came in for repeated drubbings at the hands of the fruit- growers. Reciprocity Treaties Condemned. As a result of the discussion, the com- mittee on resolutions was instructed to embody the sentiment against Kasson's work in a separate resolution. It did so in the following resolution, which was re- ported and adopted in the afternoon: Whereas, The fruit growers In annual con- vention assembled, have noted with alarm the tendency toward the negotiation of commercial or so-called ‘‘reciprocity treaties,” which vi tally effect California and her interests; there- fore, be it Resolved, That we denounce and protest against all such treaties which tend to lower the protective tariff on any American product; and be it further Resolved, That we denounce the principle of treaties affecting the tariff being negotiated in secret by our Government; and be it fur- products er Resolved, That this resolution be presented to our State Legislature by a committee com- posed of the present committee on legislation appointed by this convention, and that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to each member of the California Congressional dele- gation. A resolution recommending the adoption by the Legislature of a bill formulated by the Cooper Ornithological Club for the protection of birds caused soms discus- sion. The bill contains a clause allow- ing the killing of “English sparrows or any bird where found destroying fruits, berries or g‘raln crops, except by poison.” Professor E. J. Wickson objected to the poison clause, as he considered that method of getting rid of destructive birds sometimes necessar{ W. 0. Emerson of Haywards contended that poison killed the birds that the fruit growers desired most to protect. H. R Dakin of Santa Cruz County said that his apricots and corn would be destroyed by blue jays if he were not allowed to use pofson to dispose of them. Professor Ames, the handwriting expert, hand in the discussion. Finally Mr. Emerson consented to the elimination of the poison clause, and the resolution was adopted. Demands Made of Railroads. The resolutions offered the previous day, demanding improved transportation ser- vice to stern markets, were adopted unanimously. Resolutions urging fruit growers to co- operate, with the State Board of Trade in securing an exhibit of the resources of the State at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, without calling upon the Legis- lature for financial ald, were adopted; also resolutions urging the United States ‘Weather Bureau to station expert observ- ers at San Jose and Fresno. Papers on “Our Export Frult Trade and NEW WESTERN HOTEL, EARNY ANU WASHINGTON STS.—RE- modeled and renovated. KING, W. K CO. European plan., Rooms, 50c to $150 day; 6 to §8 week; §8 to §20 month, F and cold water every room; fire every room; elevator runs all night. Export_Packages,” by Brainard N. Row- lev of San Francisco. and ‘‘Selecting and dling Fruits,” by Frank H. Buck of Hi ree baths; hot | Vacaville, were read by Professor Wick- grates in son. The afternoon session was opened with WOMEN, AT FRUIT GROWERS' CON- ce of some interests for the sake of pro- | VENTION ORGANIZE AN ASSOCIA- TION OF THEIR OWN. & an address by President David Starr Jor- dan of Stanford University on ‘‘Hybridi- zatlon and Selection.” At its conclusion a vote of thanks was tendered the spe: er. Later in the afternoon George E. Roeding of Fresno read a paper on the “Calfornia Smyrna Fig on a Commercial Ba o Nicaragua Canal. The following resolution was reported and adopted: Resolved, That the frult growers of Ifor- nia, in convention assembled, hercby urge upon our representatives In Congress the importance to the State of immediate and favorable ac- tion looking to the immediate construction of the Nicaragua canal. Resolved, That the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, State Board of Trade and all kindred bodles interested In the welfars of Cal- ifornia and her industries be asked to call im- mediate meetings and forward petitions to Con- gress, urging immediate and favorable action. A resolution was adopted recommend- ing an appropriation of $10,000 to be placed in the hands of the State Board of Horti- culture to continue the investigation and search for predaceous and parasitic in- sects, to destroy Injurious insects that prey ‘upon fruit trees and frult products; the enforcement of the pure food laws; the prevention of the spread of the Bel- glan hare as a pest, and asking the State Board of Trade, In conjunction with the Park Commissioners, to ascertain if Cleo- patra’s needle, or the New York obelisk, is scaling off, and if so to commence ne- f}ntl;l:uona for its removal to Golden Gate ark. A resclution in accord with W. H. Mills' suggestion as to the appointment of a committee of five to arrange for placing California fruits on sale at the stands in the Pan - American Exposition was acopted. The olive industry came up for discus- sion and General N. P. Chipman said that fabricated oils had destroyed the demand for and profits in olive oil. G. P. Hall of San Diego sald that In some parts of the State at least the olive industry was highly prosperous. Committee Appointments. The following appointments of commit- tees by the chairman were announced: Committee on labor—Isidor Jacobs, San Francisco; F. Graham, San Jose; W. Meek, San Lorenzo: Willlam Thomas, San Francisco; Philo Hersey, San Jose. Committee on suggestion of W. H. Mills with reference to Pan-American Exhibi- tion at Buffalo—General N. P. Chipman, Red Bluff; A. R. Briggs, Fresno; C. M Wooster, San Jose; Frank Wiggins, Los Angeles; Russ D. Stephens, Sacramento. Committee on frult packages—B. N Rowley, S8an Francisco; R. W. Hersey, San Jose: A. J. Hechtman, San Franciscl A. G. Freeman, San Francisco; W. Gri fen, San Franclsco. Resolutions of conrratulation of the veteran president, Ellwood Cooper, were | adopted. A resolution recommending the passage bv the Legislature of a law for the pro- tection of the meadow lark was passed. It was declded to leave the choice of the place of meeting of the next annual con- | vention of the State Board of Horticul- | ture’ without recommendation. Fresno, San Diego, Stockton and Santa Rosa were suggested by partisans of the re- spective towns as desirable - meeting places. The convention adjourned at 5 o’clock. | Russ D. Stephens, chairman of the transportation committee, says that the conference with the transportation com- ! panies will probably not be held until some time next month, when it is hoped that a new policy will be in favor with the Southern Pacific management. T WOMEN FORM A STATE HORTICULTURAL UNION | Unique Association Effected as Aux- iliary to the Fruit-Growers’ Annual Conventions. A unique organization among women's socletles was formed during the forenoon session yesterday of the Fruit Growers’ Convention, under the name of the Women's Agricultural and Horticultural TUnion of California. The women in at- tendance at the convention met In the parlor of the Pioneer building and effected organization as an auxiliary of the Fruit- Growers' Assoclation. Officers were chosen as follows: Mrs. M. E. Sherman of Fresno, president; Mrs. E. Shields of Mills, Sacramento County, | and Mrs. L. A. Bancroft, Contra Costa County, first _vice presidents: Mrs. Em- ma Shafter Howard of Oakland, secre- tary. These four and Mrs. Dr. J. M. Bowen constitute a committee on consti- | tution and bylaws, to report at the next | annual session, to be held at the time of the meeting of the Fruit Growers’ fation. Agl‘sl?: following vice presidents, to which will be added others from various sec- tions of the State, were chosen: Harrlet R. Stowe, Whittier; Mrs. D. E. Craig, San_Francisco; Mrs. W. L. Hoag, San Jose; Mrs. W. B. Gester, Newcastle; Mrs. E. P. Buckingham, Vacaville; Mrs. V." L. Kingsley, Malaga; Mrs. D. Trowbridge, Fresno; Mrs. B. M. Le Long, Sacramento; Mrs. E. Boynton; Hol- lister. = NOTICE. On Sundays, commencing December 9, 1800, the Southern Pacific Company’s City Ticket Office at No. 613 Market street, Grand Hotel block, will be closed. For the accommodation of the public our ticket office in the Ferry building, foot of Market street, will sell all classes of tickets, local and overland, and reser- vations will be made for Pullmian sleeping ccommodations. e T. H. GOODMAN, General Passenger Agent, E. 0. McCORMICK, Passenger Traffic Manager. e ———————— Professor Ross to Lecture, Professor E. A. Ross will deliver a lec- ture before the Onward Club of the Third Congregational Church in that edifice on Monday evening. His subject will “The !!roapecu of American Soclety.” For a Cold in the Head. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets, . 5 PUNCH AND ITS EA Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. pren/aih Se 0 SRS TSRS HUMOR OF ENGLISH AND —————e VIIL English humor during the middle yennl of the nineteenth century centered about | the humorous periodical Punch. The dis- ‘ tinctively comic journal is of compara- tively recent origin. In the latter part of the eighteenth century the London dallles began to make more and more | of the humorous column. The psramphl in its modern sense—the brief and witty anecdote—became. a mechantable com- modity, and as a result there arose a new rofession. Charles Lamb has charming- Py dlzculud the journalism of this early period: morning , as an essential re- | er to its establishment. kept an author | who was bound to furnish dally a quantum of | witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke—and it was | thought pretty high, too—was Dan Stuart's 1 settled romuneration in thess cases. The chat | grap) might be, but they must be poignant. Lamb himself was for a time “profes- sional wit, wringing out coy sprightli-| ness” for the Post and other papers, and d indeed did he find the task. o Egyptian taskmaster ever devised a | slavery like to that slavery. ‘Somebody | has sald that to swallow six cross buns daily consecutively for a fortnight would surfeit the stoutest digestion. But to have to furnish as many jokes daily, and that not for a fortnight but for a long twelvemonth, as we were constrained to do, was a little harder exaction.” Lamb was thus a ploneer in a profession that to-day counts its members by the thou- sends. All through the century there has been on the Fan of the periodical press a constantly increasing demand for witty paragraphs, illustrated jokes, ludicrous | verses, elaborated puns, and comic ma- terial generally, until to-day it is posi- tively wearisome in its profusion. | The establishing of Punch in July, 1841, marks the beginning of the era of the eriodical devoted exclusively to wit and umor. Punch was the first really sue- cessful English comic paper. The early | days of this great publication were by | no means bright or promising. There had | radually grown at the “Shakespeare’s | flead" in Wych street a little band of | wits and writers drawn together largely | by the magnetism of the witty and jovial | landlord, Mark Lemon, and once after a | particularly brilllant evening some one | in a moment of inspiration suggested that the opinions and fancies of the little com- any, especlally upon political subjects, B Presetved in a sheet to be published regularly by the club. The suggestion found approval; each of the members of the little band promised to contribute of his best, and the host, even as in Chau- cer's “Tales,”” agreed to become the ruler | and arbitrator of the literary feast, or | in other words, to be the first editor of | the paper. The new periodical received the name Punch after the well known British nur- sery hero, and it published for its early numbers contributions from Douglas Jer- rold, Albert Smith, Gilbert a Becket, John Leech, Thomas Hood and many others. After the second volume Thackeray be- came a regular contributor. The week- ly gatherings at the “Shakespeare's Head™ now became sessions of ths editor- fal board. At the head of the table sat the editor and host, Mark Lemon, and over the wine and walnuts the contribu- RLY CONTRIBUTORS. AMERICAN LITERATURE morist, like so many others of his tribe, was sadly unpractical. “He had a lending look"—his purse was at every man's ser- vice. He could never say no» He was like Steele and Fielding and Goldsmith. “If every one who had ever received a kind- ness at his hands should lay a flower on his tomb, a mountain of roses would rise above it.” / The artist of the early days of Punch was John Leech, the most genuine humor- ist among the English artists. For twee- ty-five years his cartoons and comments were the life of the great comic journal. 'h had not the Imagination and the gower of his famous contemporary, Tuikshank, but he was much more hu- man and genuinely humorous. His sketches are seldom merely comic_ and farcical; one cannot say in the words of Dundreary: “No fellah ever saw such a fellah. Gwoss carwicatawaw.” h was as close an observer as England has | ever produced; he studled actual men and Women in every station of life and he de- picted them without exaggeration. His sketches form an album of the actual England of the middle vears of the cen- tury: they are a series of portraits so skiilfully done as to show the underiying evil or folly or pathos. His sketches for 4 = : + * h DOUGLAS JERROLD, CREATOR OF THE CAUSTIC MRS CAUDLE. o+ o Punch comprise the graver and more seri- ous of his life work. There is some- times actual pathos in some of the studles of lowly life; there is sometimes true sermon hidden in what at first seems a piece of mere fun. The humorous poet of the early Punch oup was unquestionably Thomas Hood. ilru influence was not long felt by the ournal, for he died in 184, vet the mere 'act that “The Song_of the Shirt” ap- peared originally in Punch is in ftseif enough to glorify it and raise it above tha multitude of merely comic papers. Hood’s whole life was a battle with pov- erty. He attempted to support himself with his pen and as a result he did an immense amount of mere hack work. He was a professional funny man for the papers and as such he produced an abund- ance of comic trash long ago forgotten. tors and guests discussed the Kollcy ot the paper. But despite its brilllant edl- torial force, Punch was not a successful venture. It had not yet “found itself.” L. | the night drew on and the talk It treated largely of politics In a way that is very blue reading nowadays. “The | illustrations, besides one full-page car- | toon, were wretched®little cuts an inch high scattered through the text.” It is far from funny, as we view it from the modern standpoint, and it was evidently not judged to be supremely funny by its original readers. Its editors were on the point of abandoning it, but at the critical moment two active and enterprising yvoung printers bought it for £100. They enriched it and changed its scope. and by skillful management they averted dls- aster, made the venture at length profit- able and finally they made it the leading humorous periodical of the English- speaking world—a position which it still holds. Rivals it has had by the score— Judy, Toby, The Squib, Joe Miller, Great Gun,” Puppet Show, Diogenes and staff, but none has had a permanent pop. ularity. “Punch,” says Parton, “has a firm hold on the liking of the English peo- ple, and especially Londoners It fairly amounts to one of their institutions.” ‘The most prominent figure among the early contributors to Punch was Douglas Even the selected material in ood's Own” and other similar joke books :s. much of it, of very uncertain merit. It shows its author to have been a mers lit- erary clown who made puns and jokes solely for pay. Yet there was true humor in Hood. In his best work, which was ever in verse, he reveals to us a delicacy and a refine- ment and a pathos rarely found In liter- ature. By a handful of true lyrics Hood raised himself to a place beside the few great humorists of the world. One cannot read him without sighing that his lot should have been cast in a place that for- bade frequent use of his best powers. Among the later contributors to Punch may be mentioned Thackeray, who con- tributed no less than eight series of pa- rs, besides many drawings: Tom Tay- or, Shirley Brooks and Du_Maurier, whose impress is on the later history of the periodical even as Leech's is upon the earlier years. Punch has ever been bold and progressive, advocating ever in_poli- tics, literature and art the moset enlight- ened and advanced ideas. Durng the last sixty years the history not only of Eng- s DICKENS, FORSTER, MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. Jerrold, who was undoubtedty the leadin, English wit during the middle years o the century. Jerrold’s contributions to Punch were exceedingly numerous. Serles after series of comic sketches flowed from his pen—‘Punch’'s Letters to His “Punch’s Complete Letter-Writer,” Twelve Labors of Hercules,” ““Autobjogra- hy of Tom Thumb” and ‘““Mrs Caudle's 8urtun Lectures” are but the beginning of the list. During the Mrs. Caudle se- ries the circulation of Punch reached its highest point. As a humorist Jerrold was in _many re- spects the successor of Sydney Smith. He was electric in repartéee and merciless in satire. Few other men have had such com- mand of all the resources of sarcasm. He ‘was master in the use of irony and innu- endo, and he could be as cruel In retort as Swift or Dr. Johnson. Yet Jerrold had a heart as tender as a child's. ““This wit and bon-vivant,” sald one who knew him intimately, ‘‘the merriest and wittiest man of the company, would cry like a child as Fre' seri- ous. No theory could be more false than that he was a cold-blooded satirist—sharp as steel is sharp from being hard e basis of his nature was sensitiveness and impulsiveness.” Jerrols ng‘-rtee not much has been preserved, yet the little that we have is eminently satisfying: ‘‘Be careful, waiter,” sald Fitzbull, the dramatist. ‘‘Remember, I have got a head on my shoulders.” “Don’t boast, Fitz, my boy,” cried Jerrold; “I think you have only got a pimple on your shoulder, which ‘will never come to a head.” When the “letters” of Miss Martineau and Atkinson appeared Jerrold observed that their creed was: “There is no God, and Miss Martineau is his prophet.” He once defined flattery as ““the milk of ‘human kindness turned to butter."” Jerrold will be longest remembered. no doubt, for his “Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lec- tures.” No other English humorous crea- tion, save Plekwick rhfl!r. has been so completely successful. “They just hit the nglish, always domestic in their literary as in their other tastes,” and they Son,"” * ‘““The STANFIELD AND MACLISE, IN CORNWALL, AFTER A FAC-SIMILE OF A SUPPOSED SKETCH OF WILLIAM are even now read and laughed at. The these night- ly lectures is said to have been Jerrold himself, and doubtless many of the scold- Angs were richly deserved. hu- ———— lish humor but also of English and English ideas is written with in the volumes of ch. Punch. FRED LEWIS PATTEE. Pennsylvania State College. Pyrography Materials. ‘Wood mnovelties for fire etching. Useful articles in leather purses, belts, photo cases, albums, frames and faney boxes for poker etching. and an excellent, fresh sup- Ply of whole sheepskins in all colors, just from the tanner’s. The latest pyrography outfits. Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. s Inquest on Body of Kettler. Justice of the Peace Barry, acting for Corongr Cole, who is sick, held an in- Quest yesterday upon the body of William Kettler. Nothing new was brought out by the testimony, and a verdict was ren- dered that he came to his death from a fractured skull, “cause unknown.” B+ ++ 4444444444444 440 Nothing ever made the hit in the funny world that was made by “Peck’s Bad Boy,” but there will soon be another hit just as big—and a little bigger, for we now know what Mr. Peck can do when he gets started. The Bad Boy has grown up and had some experiences that will make you die a-laughing when you read of them in the coming Sunday Calls—for George W. Peck has been especially en- gaged to write exclusively for our readers, and next Sun- day’s Call will witness his initial bow. AAS AR S SR RS AS litics liness [ R e e e Ottt tttt sttt ttttttttttes DASE S