The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1901, Page 10

0 1 HE SUNDAY CALL once in the L ivoli a chorus specialty of say- t of think- le n Alice the front row gure will do any- ame back row € support a husband D ited San Fran- trunk, which bore 1 a company, ’s dressing rl said that Alice Nielsen ged to line ) the real thing, lined with time was at gel can do sitting on g decorated by correct shade n ) ee lied Alice, hu py refisction How did you E: T a went on the other t n’” g. dear; all mole,” replied little brown re girl, “I al- ething back in’t understand. I w a volce like the cted t it when ment. Ev- I got it ag t of course you feels me- th 1s stranger than fic- s doubtful if in the e a more daring ick Turpin has than is the Spanish ae police have long e, and who is now his old haunts in last June Norel, who was then arreled his named Linares, and promptly him. The police were quickly but he easily evaded them, ing was he of him until Aug- eared at Marengo. on him and again ely wounding two afterward he was erchell and at Oran, and each notice Was Sent to the authorities, s he is an outlaw on whose head a price has been set, but though they tried hard to capture him their efforts were fruitless. He next appeared at Alicante, having gone there for the purpose of getting some with one of when 1 police ped, after se nents. RaEndit Who Rivals 3 3 = HE ATRICAL.[TOLK NANCE O'NEILL ORS PHOTO Miss Niclsen jumped from her stool so excitedly that she tipped over the ginger ale bottle. “Do you suppose,” she cried, “that a little brown mole could make me out of a chorus girl? It’s talent and voice and hard work that makes a successful star. Dog in the manger!” and she turned on the small and de- ve red heel of the Forfune Teller's slipper and walked tartly away. “They say,” reflected the maid, mopping ginger ale, “that a woman won’t tak= an insult from anybody but herself.” SARAH COMSTOCK. chanically every few minutes to make sure it is there. he talismans of the “profesh” are as varied as their owners. They usually have a history attached; they were be- stowed by a seventh daughter or found on the banks of the Indus. They range from charmed toads' heads to dlamond heirlooms and their moneyed value may be as great as that of a gold mine or as small as a punctured copper. They treasured like the Kohinoor, all because they belong to the people who ik luck pluck, ere is Blanche worked like a are above Bates, for instance. drayhorse night and She pinched and borrowed and stud- ied and after long years of hard work and little reward she was hoisted of a sudden 1o the top of the ladder. And she will tell you that she “believes in pearl If it were not for that black pearl which eps locked in treasure boxp Elanche.says she might to-day be playing thinking parts to a half-dollar audience. The pearl was given to her when she was doing something of that sort—how long ago_nobody bothers now to remem- a HELEN BERTRAM THORDS PHOTO PATRICE .AND HER MASCOT ber. She met on Market street an old colored woman, so the story has been told. The woman stopped her, “Honey, I saw yuh on de stage and Ah ; the money from ’his brother, whose home is in that town. When he told why he had come his brother refused to give him any morey, whereupon the bandit beat him al- most to death and then ransacked his house of all its valuables, Norel has already assassinated seven- teen persons and has been condemned to death on three occasions. He escaped from prison some time ago in very clever fashion. First he murdered the sentinel who was on guard near his cell. Then he burned the dead man’s face so that no one would recognize it, and, finally, he put his own clothes on his victim's body and dressed himself in the military uniform. When the body was found everybody felt sure that it Norel's, and when the sentinel did not appear at the midday meal some of his companions remembered that they had seen a soldier very like him hurrying away from the prison an hour or.two before, and they concluded that he had deserted. Yet this soldler was no other than Norel. On another occasion the bandit, after Notoricus Dick Turpin. being condemned to death In Spain, was placed, according to the usual custom, in the prison chapel during the evening be- fore the execution, and when night came he expressed a desire to see a priest. His request was granted, and when the priest came Norel went with him into a dark corner of the chapel, with the avowed ob- ject of making 2 confession. As the priest, however, bent down to hear him the assassin snatched from his hands the heavy crucifix, and ralsing it in the air brought it down with such force on his skull that the unfortunate man was felled lifeless to the ground. The soldlers on guard heard the oody fall, but they paid no attention to it, and when a man wearing the vestments of a priest came toward them from the gloom and, after blessing them, passed through the heavy gate of the prison they never suspected that it was the notorious murderer, who had thus once more escaped the clutches of the law. The police of Alglers are not lacking in alertness or zeal, yet In view of Norel's ALiSKY PHOTO BLANCHE BATES MAXINE ELLIOTT THORD PHOTO — EVGENE COWLES MASCLOT BUCK PHOTO JULIET TROSBY ALISW? ProTo amhzing record there are many who think that he will casily evade them. just as he has already so many times evaded the police of Spatn, ROSE L SANDS PHOTO MRS COWLEDS ‘admfah yuh genfus,”™ she said. Meost Pecl! 3 NOTICEABLE feature of the China Blanche wouldn't have been Blanche If she hadn’'t shown good-natured gratitude at the tribute. I'm so glad,” she replied in the same voice that she would have-used if Queen Victoria or Li Hung Chang had stopped her to offer a compliment. *You'se got de genius, Ah knows,” went “ cent visit to San Franciseco, én the mammy. *“All ¥yuh needs is a chahm. An’ I'se got one foh yuh, honey, I'se got one.” Thereupon she untied the corner of her bandana and took out a gold ring set with a black pearl. “It's a chahm, she sald. “M’ ole missus had it an’ when she died she give it to me. 'Twa'n't de kin' o' present foh a niggah, nohow, but she says, ‘Sally,’ she says, ‘vuh allus hev been a peahl o’ great price, an’ suah yuah a black one, an’ dis is a 'propriate present,’ she says. “She allus hed a joke, even when she was dyin’. “Then she tole 'bout its bein’ a chahm as somebody hed brought to her. “Ah allus kep' it, but now Ah wants to give it to you, 'cause Ah admiah yuh moh'n apy lady Ah ever saw, cept mah ole missus, an’ Ah'm so ole Ah'm goin' to dle pretty soon, an' Ah've got nobody to give it to then.” Blanche Bates had always defled the common superstition against pearls, and now this one seemed sent by a special providence. She accepted the gift and the * giver came to be on her Christmas list. Alice Nielsen's mascot mole|came to_be a well-known beauty spot du ng her re- ‘When ple who had heard her chirrup in the oli chorus and then in presto-change saw her heading her own company, asked her how she had done it. “My mole did it for me,” she explained. They looked and saw it, little and round and brown, just above the left corner of her little red mouth. They wondered. She explained that it was her mascot. “It has always been with me,” she said, “and it always shail be. It's better than a guardian angel or any other kind of angel. Sometimes a bold photographer removes it In a negative and I always peo- Tiv- tim they FLORENCE ROBERTS BUDSHNELL PMATO make him put it back. That mole made me a successful star.” While she was telling about it one night wles rolled in at th bis off-stage between acts Eugene C loor ‘hat's your mascot, Gene?" she asked and she w as If she knew “My wife,” he bassoed In voice that men pay hard money to hear. “She’s all the mascot 1 wan Then he produced her. He found h several years ago and has k ever since. Eugene s n a w round of the ladder g e known Se ng must laims 1 here I . ¢ her faith to " was bought isc Chinatown. ck’” and “long rnaments do, and 1ld me an others ought it for n her Australian led openly upon trip and the her ever s Heien B s charm s a little carved t India. It is apparently dol ard was brought here in a sez. captain. £J Bartlett Davis’ pro- church r to vaudeville an days b ste trom her check books can realize fully what that pros (only ess means) is sald to be a string of Indian beads which a chorus girl orice gave her for a bad debt. The debt and Mrs. Davis' heart large and she-begged the worn-out girl to forget the borrowed money. She could not forget and sent the beads as her only was small possible payment, knowing that Mrs. Davis admired them. Nance O'Neill is said to have risen on the strength of a carbuncle set in an an- tique locket and handed down by some ancestor. Florence Roberts travels from coast to ccast and has done so for a long time, yet in all invo.ved packing and un- packing ses track of an old shawl of b atilly lace. It was her mother’'s before her, a treasure brougit long ago from Paris and worn at many a cotillon of old years. And mow all the chorus girls and the supes and the dram. ic school puplls wiil look at the pictures of the successful and wish that had their charms. And thereupon might one preach a long and vigorous s n which s left to the im- agination. bosity” of their advertisements. This is due to cheap advertising rates, as well as to the flowery language of the kingdom. All sorts of communica- tions get into the papers, but the business system of Chinese editors is so admirable that Instead of airing private and public gricvances in “letters to the editor.” they are inserted in the advertising columns, and thus help the editor to get an honest living. An announcement inserted by a jilted swaln whose lady love eloped with Chou Ling closes with these heartfelt words: “I cannot control my wrath and bitter- ness. My loved one has, it is plain, been enticed away by this rascal's deceit. How, 1 whnder, can a mere tallor's dummy like this succeed in winning her? Surely he has not the law or justice before his eyes. 1t is on this account that I am advertis- ing. Should any kind-hearted gentleman give me Information of her whereabouts by letter 1 will reward him with $20; should he bring her back to her parents far Methods Have Chingse Rdvertisers. I will joyfully give him $0. T will most certainly not eat my words. His kindness and benevoience for a myriad generations, te all eternity, shall not be forgotten.” A mother writes to a son who has run &way from home: “If you delay longer and do not return I cannot, cannot bear It, and shall most surely seek an end to my life, and then you will stand in peril of death by thun- der. I am now at my last gasp. and the family hes suffered from insults most grievous. If you come, no matter how, everything Is sure to be arranged. I have thought of a plan by which vour father may still be kept In ignorance. My ufe or death hangs on the issue of these few days. Only 1 pray that all good people everywhere will spread this message abroad, so that the right person may hear of it. So will they lay up for themselves a Poundless store of secret merit.” Another advertisement for a missing son says: “My second son, Hual Po. a boy of ten- der years and no parts, was educated at home in the country, and had no knowl- A edge of the world. to Shanghai la learning his Je Even when we came ar he stayed indoors ns, and never left the house until Septembe when he went out to get cool and never returned. I Ought to say that the boy was altogether unacquainted with the customs of Shang- hal and the character of th people, and I presume he has been decoyed away by rascals for some bad purpose. The gold ¢harms he was wearing and the silver he had about him will not, I am afraid, be sufficient for his necessities; on the con- trary, he will be b owing money or do- ing something of the kind. In that case I will not hold myself liable. Should any of my relatives or friends see him I earnestly hope they will command him to return at once, and so will they earn my gratitude. But I shall pay no monetary reward.”"—New York Press. B e — Aluminum has been one of the coming metals for a long time, but at last it has arrived. It is now getting largely inte the arts and utilities. Its range is all the way from a picture-frame to & fryingpaa,