The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1900, Page 18

18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, ‘1900. * SOME CONTEMPORARY ACTORS BY | L. DU PONT SYLE. EERE is only one “famous” Ameri- | actor to-Gay—Joseph Jefferson. to know this argues either one- self unknown or a blissful ignorance of the meaning of words. On the horns of this dilemma sits Lewis C. £, who has @iscovered no less than twenty-five distinguished actors (there have not been €0 many since the begin- f Cenozoic times), and has rushed with his discovery; entitling it | rs of the Day in America”™ * * * Among these are such intellectual giants as ckett, Robert B. Mantell and sades of Betterton, k, Talma and Booth! If t dead two hundred years, is gotten, and Talma, of our own bered only as the favor- of Nepoleon. seph Jefferson as oon- famous,” of the twenty-four ects of Mr, Strang’s blographies 7 be sald that more e omit five are James 1d, John Drew, | in 3 iry Miller. I shall | neipzelly the life of Mr. Miller; esses a local interest that o the others, since it is es a local writer has well ancisco has become once & speck on the theatri- In the following account ented Mr. Strang’s meager ent be had but scanty or, who was once seriously ac- Miss Geraldine Bonner of speak- with an English accent, was He comes of a family rical assoclations what- if his father was se in his life. Young | e and cared less about | one day, just after Irv- as Matthias in “The | ed to read in a news- | of that actor's early deferred, well deserved | red him with a desire £ place a tReater was. was overcome. He ouldock, the Bhakes- 9 made } company, | theat theater hed m m general t I think he { Miller beginning | cka's company, as gen- | class of r | 1. Mante “ | n in life to | d me, “‘was | t 310 & week | he did fr. If I| I felt 1 was | at Mr. Milier | t and that | the | r Mantell! As dead these ten actors who have since all really t remain long un- t most domineering most noteworthy le @ member of the Daly | of the leading part in | Daniel Frohman or- | Stock Company, Mr. | g man. These were tal drawing-room | " and “Sweet plays so0 intolerably wishy- | seems to me a considerable | any actor to be able to | the theater with | this and more; he ces believe that Lavender,” et id a vs, and from furnished him he bullt up & solid lent actor. He has nge, but he has | & more remarkable Empire Theater was opened M er joined the stock 100! e of that During this time ¥ ] name, and n in “The Masquerad- | time he had that humor- with B8ir Henry Irving on second thought, good ize that I am not at liberty s story—a very amusing one, out permission. All I Rem | Mansfiela er has been through | &x | was broke and wanted to get through the | | and dodged behind a house. | seemed to understand at all can do for you is to promise to apply for permission at once in the right quarter; if 1t i1s granted I will tell you the story three weeks from to-day; that is, on the twentieth day of January, 180l. So you #ee you have really something worth lv- ing into the next century for. In 1896 Mr. Miller decided that the work et the Empire Theater offered nothing thet would tend further to advance him in his profession, so he determined to try starring. Klein & Clarke's “Heartsease’ was his first play. Concerning the merits of that much bepatched composition—the only good act of which was written by Mr. Miller himself—I have already ex- pressed myself o enthusiastiamlly that I may be pardoned for passing it gver here. ¢ * * No San Franciscan Who loves what is best and most beautiful in his- trionic art can forget Mr. Miller's three weeks' season at the Baldwin In 1888, where with but one good play out of the three presented he managed so to charm his public that they were glad to welcome him for a ten weeks’ season in 1599, and for another ten weeks lest summer, It is literally true that for three-quarters of | the theatrical performances worth seeing given during the last three years we are indebted to Mr. Miller. No better setting than he gave his plays is to be seen elther in London or in Paris, nor has any actor- manager ever kept better faith with his public than has he. His much-to-be-re- gretted illness soon after leaving San Francisco was due to his insisting upon working here for six weeks after he | should have canceled all engagements and gone south for rest. It is an open secret that Mr, Miller and Mr. Frohman have parted company. That is a good thing—for Mr. Miller. He will now be free to follow the lines along which his artistic instinct and his ambi- tion for perfection lead him. He will do even better things in the future than he | has done in the past, and he will not need to be “‘presented” to his public by any- body. Mr. Miller's biography is the worst-writ- ten in Mr. Strang’s book; that is because | much of it was written by Frankiyn Fyles of Ladies’ Home Journal fame. The best written are the biographies of Richard and of Willlam Faversham; these biographies were written largely by those gentlemen them- selves. Mansfleld’s account contains a t shows up W. S. Gilbert in a Gilbert engaged leading part in ificent remuner- Three years he ittance; at the end of sked Gilbert for a slight AND WAS REFUSED. | r at once frank and m tells a story of his es that is well worth reprint- he benefit of any man, artist ho complains that the world | give him a living: | that time I was almost a stranger 1 had no money. I had possibly rned $20 a week and the long vacation | was before me. I gave up my modest that is be room at the hotel and for a few weeks lived as best I could, selling what few 1 d that could be soid. g left 1 finally but my dog, Sambo, a 1l. Every one knows Sambo. inally I made up my mind that I must get work. One day I took my dog | and walked up Harlemway until I reached | High I stoud watching the men at work until it occurred to me that I might get something like that to do. I went up to a man who seemed to be an overseer and asked him if there was any | k around that a fellow might get to | “I suppose I had a very British accent, for the man laughed outright and mim- icked me as he replied that there was work to be had, but he doubted if I was | e man to do it. 1 explained that the | truth of the matter was, I had never done nything of the sort before, but that I summer, 2 “He sent for a fellow named Tom Pil- grim. I'll never forget him. He was the | plumber pipe layer. Pilgrim took eme | home with him and taught me his trade. | In four days I could “wipe a joint” like an old hand. I worked all that summer, | I used to get up at half-past 4, get to work at 5, put in my ten hours a day, earn my $9 or $10 a week, sleep as I had er =lept in my life, and ezt my bread | and cheese with an appetite and a relish | that I have vainly eought to duplicate ever since. 1 might never have aban- doned that life and returned to acting | but for an accident. “I had friends living not far awav—| Tremont avenue. Omne day I was lying out on the grass looking up at the sky with Sambo by my side, when this fam- ily drove by. Sambo was too well known. | I heard a voice I knew call out my name. I took to my heels as & matural impulse My pursuer | the other way. We met. | e was nothing for it then but to | | | e whole thing. Why didn’t I tell them my fix? How could I do such a thing? No one except the cld gentleman, who said, ‘No, by jove, it's proper thing. It won't hurt him a It didn't; it did me good. But, of | course, now I was discovered, I had to go back to civilization.” That old gentleman was right. Bravo, Faversham! That was better than being an sctor; that was being a man. heard. Alden Anderson of Buisun is at the Grand. J. B. de Jarnatt of Colusa is at the Oc- cidental. Judge 1. ¥. Poston of San Lorenzo is at the Russ. A. Plerson, a Chicago capitalist, is registered at the Russ. E. L. Doheny, & Los Angeies oll man, is registered at the Palace. Former Assemblyman F. B. Glenn of San Jacinto is st the Lick. M. Hochheimer, & Willows merchant &nd banker, is at the California. Fred Besudry, s Weaverville mining man, is stopping &t the Palace with his wife. Joseph Zeller, a prominent merchant of Bouldin Island, is at the Californis with is family. W. Forsyth, Thomas H. Lymch and L. 1. Gray, prominent Fresno business men, are at the Occidental for a few days. Tivoli—""Cinderella.* tral Theater— The Heart of Maryland ' srnia—Strauss’ Vienna Orchestra. m—Vaudeville. Opera-house—"“An Officer of the Sec- sia, corner Mason and Eddy streets— "Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every * afterncon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. nion C Park—Coursing. rsing echanics’ Pavilion—Mesquerade Ball, Mon- evening, December 31 setropoliten, Temple Yale Glee and Beajo H to- Clubs, Frursiay evening, January 3. Caltfornia Jockey Club (Oakiand)—Races morrow. e e——————— Al any evil can remedied if you nun“‘-.rh-y-nlnn-fl:lrlhw move ANSWERS TO QUERIES TO PEDIGREE A HORSE—Subscriber, City. To pedigree a horse communicate with James E. Wheeler, 178 Fifth avenue, New York City, N. LOCOMOTIVES—W. R., City. Tho North Pacific Coasst Raflroad operates twelve locomotives and the California and Northwestern operates eighteen. HOMESTEAD—R. L. M., Knoxville, Cal. There has not been any change in the law in se;u—d to residence on a home- stead in order to obtain a patent from the United Stetes Government. WILCOX AND BISMARCK—E. G. 8., uv::nm Cal. ?h ‘Wheeler Wilcox, nes Wh , married Robert )(efld:;. Conn., in 1884, thfloox :E %rmlny dies In Friederichsrune April 80, EORN IN CHINA—A. B. C., City. A person born in China, no matter what nationality of parents, is by birth a Chi- nese, but if born of parents who them- Taining majority mmay eloer to adom e y may elect t citizenship of the father. - o COMMUTATION TICKETS—C., Oak- land, Cal. There is no foundation for the report that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company will require individuals pur- chasing commutation tickets to lfl& stamp photograph of the purchaser there- on. A MATTER OF TIME AND DISTANCE —M. C. J., City. A note given on the first day of January, 1900, payable in ten years, will run the full ten years before it be- comes due, consequently it will not ma- ture until January 1, 1011. There never was “the year 0,” but there was the first day of the first year, which ended with the 265th day and closed the first year of Christian era. When you travel on a railroad to go to 2 point that is exactly ten miles away from the st place, when you have traveled nine miles you will find staring you in the face a post marked “10 M,” meaning ten miles, but you will find yourself one mile from destination and you will eled ten miles until you mile beyond the 10 M post. ) 1 . - head nor cold feet. @all, vess...DECEMBER 30, 1900 SUNDAY .. * JOMN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicatiens to W. 8, LEAKE, Manager. 44 sessceteiresss msessnsess oo Market and Third, S8an Francleco s CHARITIES, AND CORRECTIONS. HE old question of putting all the insane and correctional institutions under one board of control is again mooted. Such a board can be made very useful to the State if it take over the work of the present ex-officio Board of Examiners. Indeed, this is of such business importance to the State that we believe it would be better to leave each institution under control of its local board of directors or trustees, and give to the new board of control and audit supervisory jurisdiction over them all. The Board of Examiners at present exercises such authority, but it is composed of state of- ficers, whose time is fully taken up with their regular duties, who get no extra compensation for the extra work imposed, and therefore feel it as a burden, while they accept it as a duty. ; It is believed by students of the philosophy of the treatment of the defective and incorrigible classes that institutions for such treatment should have in their directory persons with some knowledge of the classes of people who are in the care of the State. This implies that on such boards there should be some men who are not only business men but something besides. Some of them, if in charge of an insane asylum, should have sympathetic knowledge on the subject of insan- ity, so that they may know why some things are done and why others are omitted. The same may be said of the State schools for juvenile correction and reform. That is a specialty, requiring the greatest knowledge of human nature, of juvenile psychology and training. The qualities re- quired in the manager of such an institution are equal to those of the president of a great univer- sity. Yet as a rule men are appointed to such institutions who have had no previous experience, but are chosen as a reward for party service, or because they need the job. If there are members of the directory who know the history, the literature, of juvenile correction and reform, they are a safeguard against such abuse of the managerial position. The members of the Legislature who have the matter of a general board of control undercon- sideration very naturally look at the business side of it entirely. It is verydesirable that that side should be considered, for the State demands econorhy. Butitdemandsalsoa clean and skillful administration which takes charge of the helpless and unfortunate. If the economic side of the matter is regarded as all there is of it, the humane side will fall into neglect, and the institutions themselves will cease to serve the purpose for which they were created. Take our five insane asylums as an example. They are generally used in the argument for a general board of control. The test of their business administration is the total cost per capita of the inmates of the five institutions. The last informa- tion we had on that subject, the insane of this State, in our five asylums, each with its separate board of directors, cost the taxpayers less per capita than insane management cost in Iowa, Illinois, Waisconsin or New York. It will be well, therefore, to look deeply into the matter before jumping at conclusions from the business side of the problem. We are not aware that putting all State institutions of one or several classes under one management has ever resulted in the economies that were expected, or that the administrative efficiency has been enhanced thereby. AGAIN, CANNED BEEF, VENTS have moved in such a rapid and unbroken procession that when some busy men read General Alger’s attack on General Miles about the canned, embalmed and other sorts of beef served as an army ration during the Spanish war, they will ask what it is all about. There is an impression that General Alger could have let the matter rest with the report of the commission of inquiry. No country ever carried on war without something of the sort happening. From the time George of Cappadocia gouged in his army contracts till the hasty preparation of this coun- try for our little war with Spain, wars, whether of invasion or defense, have wasted the substance accumulated by peace. From the beginning to the end of our Civil War the country was besieged with charges of all kinds against the authorities charged with the equipment and maintenance of the army. No doubt many of these were true. Mr. Dawes of Massachusetts, afterward Senator, still living and president of the Indian Commission, said that: “In the first year of this (Lincoln’s) administration more money has been stolen than was spent for all the expenses of the Government in the last year of the preceding administration.” That was just before the enforced resignation of Simon Cameron. But saying it, even if true, as it probably was, did not stop the war for the Union nor defeat Mr. Lincoln for re-elec- tion. All this is said not to excuse nor condone war frauds, but to enforce the fact that no war has ever been carried on without them. It was Patrick Henry whe attacked a seller of meat to the Continental army, who, he said, instead of serving his country like an honest man and a patriot, en- tered the Continental camps “‘bawling, beef, beef, beef!” Still armies must have beef, and con- tractors must sell it, and the Government is likely to get cheated and the soldiers to get sick. This is one reason why wise men prefer peace to war. This is why-the advocates of peace abhor the coming of war. We have spoken of it as a little war with Spain. But it required as great preparation as if we were about to meet in battle shock the empire of Charles V or Philip IT instead of the enfeebled force of the good Queen Regent. Our Government knew, approximately, the military and naval force of Spain, but it could not know, nor could the wisest foresee, the international complications which might gather around us in a day. During the months in which our Congress was trying to force the President’s hand he knew that we were in no condition to fight even the weak. There was not powder enough in the country to last through one fighting week. The army had no commissary organized on a campaign scale. We had the strength of a giant but no way of using it effectively. The President_hastened preparations to put the country on a war footing, and even with his prudence and experience brought to bear on the situation, Congress precipitated the collision before everything was ready. Looking back at it one is surprised that there were not more frauds than were charged, and the country may congratulate itself that we came through as well as we did, and that there was not more fire kindled by such feuds as that betwéen Alger and Miles. Great Britain, with her army almost constantly in action and with commissary and trans- port service always on a war footing, has had exactly the same experience in the Transvaal war. Parliament had hardly met when the House of Commons rang with charges against members of the Ministry, who were accused of speculating on the necessities of the country. The use to be made of the seemly or unseemly controversy is for the people of both coun- tries to see in it the intense demoralization of war, and set their faces against the spirit which makes war wantonly. It is stated that preparations have been made in Russiato begin the new century by changing their calendar to conform with that of other civilized nations, and thus another great step will have been taken toward establishing that uniformity of measures which will eventually enable - men of all countries to do their reckoning on the same system and by the same methods, it TR Of all States in the Union Georgia will probably have the most unclouded prospect on New Year’s day, for her Legislature finished up its business a few weeks ago, and the Georgians can spend the winter reading of the rackets in other States without having anything to disturb them at home. % ———eee. 4 Although San Francisco has not made such elaborate century as have been made by other cities of the country, as joyous a time of it, and will derive comparatively as big them. ate preparations for welcoming the new it is safe to say we will have absolutely a profit from the coming age as any of gh of prosperity to give her courage, but not consequently she will start the century with neither a swelled 3 : i California enters the new era’ with enou enough to make her over confident; In making your New Year's resolutions be careful not to swear off for the coming cen- ~tury; a year's trial is enough to test even the best experiment. T | of theoretical astuteness. Its satellite, | A CENTURY IN THE HEAVENS BY ROSE ONALLORAN. HE following brief retrospect of the principal astronomical discoveries of the nineteenth century shows that the heavens have not been forgotten in the many-sided capacities of the age. Advances in physical science, instru- mental improvements and widespread ob- servation have enabled it to preserve & fitting pace with the two previous centu- ries, when an almost unexplored heaven unfolded new’ wonders to every telescopic survey. Im proved methods, revised data and widened scope have retained mathe- matical astronomy In a creditable state of activity, with which the names of Ganss and Bessel are pre-eminently linked. Tho application of photography to sky scenes has led to most valuable discoveries, and the science of astrophy- sics, with all its startling facts and pos- | sibilitles, Is also exclusively a growth of the nineteenth century. Commencing with the sun, to us the| most delightful of all the heavenly orbs, we find that in the days of Herschel it was supposed to be a cool, dark body en- sheathed in two luminous atmospheres. This theory, upheld by several eminent authorities, accounted for the aspect of | sun spots very satisfactorily, but accord- ing to the laws of terrestrial physics, more fully understood later on, it would | be impossible for a body to retain a cool | condition under such circumstances. Two- | thirds of the nineteenth century were passed before the spectroscopic Investiga- tlons of Kirchhoff and the theories of | Faye, Secchi and a few other physicists | led to the general conviction that the sun throughout is a globe of incandescent | gas; that under the enormous pressure of outer layers the nucleus is of extraor- | dinary density, while beyond the photo- | sphers, or visible surface, lighter and cooler gaseous strata cause the dark ab-| sorption lines in its spectrum, and per- | haps also the darkness of the sun spots. With regard to these latter phenomena more accurate data as to rotation, distri- bution and periodicity were obtained. The portentous co-operation of solar activity | with magnetic’ disturbance and displays of the aurora borealis was noted and es- tablished, but the cause of the sun spot | remains a mystery to the century’s close. Light analysis, though discovered in 1672, underwent its most important devel- | opments within the last fifty years, when | it was proved that the different kinds of matter of which an incandescent body is composed may be identified by means of the lines In its spectrum. In this marvel- ous way about thirty-seven of the con- stituents of the sun have been recognized as well-known earthly elements, iron and hydrogen being particularly conspicuous. The prominences and the corona, though known for ages as eclipse phenomena, | were first proved to be solar appendages | by means of photography, the former in | 1560 and the latter eleven years later. The | gaseous nature of the prominences was | revealed by the spectroscope in 1868, and also the advantageous discovery that they could be viewed even when the sun is uneclipsed. In the vear following gas- | eous lines on a faint continuous back- ground were seen in the spectrum of the | corona, a green ray yet unidentified being | chiefly noticeable; but the added evidence of future eclipses is required to fully es- tablish the suspected relation of sun spot periodicity and the form and distribution of coronal streamers. The vapors of the chromosphere, also much studied during recent years, are supposed to furnish the brief glow of bright lines seen just before and after totality, but conclusive mani- festations of this reversing layer and its true significance seem to be reserved for | the coming century. The distance of the sun, though known with some accuracy even before 1650, has | long evaded the exact measurement de- | sirable in such an important problem, but there {3 much likelihood that the sys- tematic efforts of the principal vbserva- tories to find the parallax of the asteroid Eros during the past months will result in a more accurate estimate of the dimen- sions of the solar svstem than was be- fore attainable. The gradual discovery of asterolds, of | which more than 500 are now known, com- menced on the 1st of January, 1801, and though few are smaller none are more im- portant than Eros, which, excepting the earth’s satellite, comes nearer than any other planetary member of the solar sys- tem. The greatest achievement in this line, however, was the discovery of thes planet Neptune September 23, 1846. Its history 1s too well known to be repeated, | but the mathematical skill of Leverrier and Adams in computing its unseen posi- tion will long remain a standard instance the first found moon of the century, was seen seventeen days afterward by Las- sell. The following is a list of moons since discovered through the zeal of the eminent astronomers whose names are annexed: Hyperion, eighth Saturnian moon; Bond, Cambridge, United States, 1848. Umbriel and Ariel, Uranian system; | Lassell, England, 1851 Two moons of Mars; Hall, Washington, 1877 Jupiter's fifth satellite; Barnard, Lick Observatory, 1892 The existence of the supposed ninth satellite of Saturn is not as yet fully veri- fied. The dusky ring of Saturn, though pic- tured and described in previous centuries, was certainly unknown as an annular ap- pendage until discovered as such in 1550 by Bond of Cambridge. The meteoric na- ture of the ring system, suspected by Cassinl, was theoretically demonstrated by Clerk Maxwell in 1358 and spectro- scopically proved in 1895 by the late Pro- fessor James E. Keeler. A strange network of faint lines known as canals, seen by Schiaparelll in 1877, on the surface of Mars is now fully accepted as a unique feature of planetary topogra- phy. On Jupiter's disk an enormous red spot appeared in 1878 and though possessed of more permanence than the belt di- versities it has decreased In tint and size during the past few years. That the rota- tions of Mercury and Venus take place in about the same time as their revolu- tions was announced by Schiaparelli in 1888-89 and has since been confirmed by observers at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz. Finally, as our earth is within the sun's domain, the detection of a small periodic variation in latituda, caused by the c Ing position of its axis with regard to it§ own structure and surface, may be added to the list of plan- etary details. Within the last hundred vears twenty- three bright comets have visited the solar system and over two hundred of merely telescopic visibility. The large number of the latter, which does not include periodie comets, is chiefly due to such indefatiga- ble observers as Pons, Tempel, Barnard and Brooks. # The disruption of cometary bodies in the seeming solitudes of space, the fact that one orbit may be a thoroughfare for several, appearing sihgly at long inter- vals, the still more extraordinary discov- ery that a comet may share its pathway with a meteoric swarm and the identifi- catfon of such familiar substances as car- bon in cometary Spectra, are among the most interesting advances of recent dec- ades. Belief in the cosmical nature of me- teoric bodies was revived and fully estah- lished in 1832, when the stimulus of un- wonted star showers led to researches of much value. The recognition of a peri- odic recurrence, a fuller knowiedge of thelr motions, aminent names. notably those of H. A. Newton and Schiaparelli, are connected with the progress in this branch of cos- mical ipquiry, which has resulted in a singular insight into the possibilitles of interplanetary space. The far dim depths beyond the sclar system have also signally developed the acumen of the nineteenth century mind. The vast subject of stellar remoteness again and again defled Investigation until Bessel, in 1838, detected with the mewly devised hellometer the parallax of 61 Cygnl, which corresponded with a dfs- tance 600,000 times that of the sun from the earth. The parallaxes of more than fifty stars have been since obtained, and while two only are found to be somewhat nearer, the remainder are far more re- mote. That there is no uniformity as to distance or size, and that brightness ts not always an evidence of nearness are among the disclosures of this great work. Previous to 1801 hundreds of doubls stars were known, but through the re- searches of Struve, Burnham and a few others more than 12,000 have been added to the list; meanwhile the palrs classed as binary systems have increased five fold. That there is still a fleld for exploration is shown by the valuable double star work recently done at the Lick Observa- tory and elsewhere. Stellar variability, long known in a few cases, has been assiduously studied in late years, and about 400 variables are now under constant observation. Among them may be classed the ‘“new stars) seen visually or photographically, whose minima is sometimes probably beyond the reach of telescopic power. Elaborate im- provements in spectroscopic apparatus have lured stellar light Into a display of its constituents, ylelding much informa- tion as to color, variations of spectra and probable temperature. In the star spectrograph cholce efforts of photography and spectroscopy are | united for the detection of motion in the line of sight. The predominating motions as to the solar system are thus under in- vestigation. Foremost in equipment and results is the Lick Observatory, and while an Important increase of knowledge fs impending, no forecast as to what it may be is yet possible. In the process of this sublime research it has come to light that about thirty stars, seemingly single in all telescopes, are composed of two bodles re- voiving in very short periods, probabiy around a common center of gravity. Herschel found that the heavens are strewn with thousands of nebulas, and suspected that many are not of a Starry nature. The great telescopes of the present century added several thousand more to the number, and as early as 1868 Huggins, confirmed the theory of & non- stellar constitution by means of the spec- troscope. About half the entire number are now classed as masses of luminous gas. Efforts to determine motion in the line of sight were unavailing until Pro- fessor Keeler with the visual spectro- scepe of the Lick Observatory found that some are advancing and some receding with various degrees of velocity, & most fmportant addition to our knowledge of cosmical harmony. The progress of astronomical knowledgs by means of the spectroscope is rivaled only by the dazzling deeds of the phot- graphic telescope. Various as to size and form, it pictures the sun, the moon, the unseen star, the growing comet, the fad- ing vartable, the convoluted nebula, while faint cosmic lights that human vision can never behold betray their tangling folds on the magic plate; and plecemeal the entire firmament is being portrayed for the enlightenment of future ages. Notwithstanding the extent and sublim- ity of these advances it devolves on com- ing years to wreath new laurels for the dying century, when its labors uncom- pleted bear fruit, and its theories as yet unproved assume the luster of scientifie fact. A CHANCE TO SMILE Mrs. Uglymug—Jane is & wonder. When she had got through with her cleaning to- day I could actually see my face in nearly everything. Mrs. Greene—Mercy! But, then, not obliged to look at things, you Boston Transcript. ou are oW, — “After I have been working in the kit- chen for half an hour,” sald she, “I don’t bave any appetite.” The hateful wretch turned over and over with his fork the mourning-bordersd steak that represented forty minutes of a woman’s life gone forever and remarked: “I don’t wonder.”"—Indlanapolls Press. Van Dyke—Well, I'm going to get even with our mintster, all right. Brown—How? Van Dyke (chuckling)—I told my wife he smoked and she is ‘om‘ to give him zlv.“;)ox of cigars for Christmas.—Brooklyn e. “I told Pauline I couldn’t afford to give her a present this Christmas.” “Was she vexed?" 0; she thanked me for’'mentiont e had been wanting to say the to me.”—Chicago Record. 1, a thing Pastor (sevarely)—You brought nothing into this world and can take nothing out of it. Miser—Well, don’t blame me; it lsn’t my fault, I'm sure.—Detroit Free Young Lady—What! I shall only have one husband all my life? Gipsy Woman—Well, what c;ln you ex~ pect for a shilling, miss?—Tit-Bits, Jack Bachelor—So you have named him after a Vice President? Ned Newpop—Yes; we want him to start out in life totally unknown and make a naeme for himself.—Judge. . Plenty of fruit at Townsend's P b B e All new stock of candies at Townsend's. * —_—— New fire-etched boxes at Townsend's. ¢ plbi Lo e abi Chotce candies, Townsend’s,Palace Hotel.® —_— e e—— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's® st oy e Ak Thousands of pounds of California glace fruits all ready for shipping. Townsend's.® —_—— Townsend’'s famous broken and plain mixed candy, 2 Ibs 2%c. 639 Market street.* ——— Time to express Townsend's Californ'a glace fruits to your Eastern friends. ¢ —————— Best eyeglasses, specs, 20¢ to Sle. Look out for §1 4th, front barber and grocery. * Townsend’s California glace fruits, e & g‘;&"" in flre-etched boxes or J: bas- . A nice sent for Eastern 639 Market . Palace Hotel building. ¢ gomery st Telephone A man who never expresses his opinifons is apt to have a lot of voiceless yearn- ings. The California Limited On the Santa Fe starts for Chicago Tuesday morning, January lst, at nine o'clock, and will leave daily thereafter at same hour. It will be a duplicate of the Limited of last sea- son. except that entirely new equipment has been provided. The Pullman contain ten sections and two drawing rooms. The Observation Car, with its wide