The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1902, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1902. 1 3 NEAR BY MUSICAL SEASON PROMISES TO BE EXCEPTIONALLY RICH. B5Y BLANCHE PARTINGTOIN. - HE first concert of the season, that of little Enid Brandt, the gifted child pianist, that is to take place this week at Steinway Hall, among other sfimlflcaacgls trings up the old matter of a music hail. 'rnegsm; ,n promises to be exceptionally righ, but will find us this year even |iess \u\-. equipped than usual for She hous ng of the mus! ttractions. Unclean an unbeautiful as it was, unsafe alsb,“;l:r: cording to much testimony—Metropol . Temple, that is now being (ra:ndnrmn- into ‘a theater, was yet spa_ckxus, c:‘ veniently situated & acoustically satis- factory. It had even some excuse— though a rather poor one—for that large essential of the music hall, an organ. Let us see what this means. In the firsf place we find that any symphony concerts that may be attempted this sela- — ready some venturesome spir- isfsnhjxng xah]< baton atilt—will have to de- pend upon the theaters for their houslnhg. The Cecilia Choral Society, that under the management of Dr. H. J. Stewart is cg give large choral conceris every mont! this winter, has been driven up to the rather barn-like immensities of the Me- chanics'’ Pavilion. Sousa is coming, and will have either to appear in & theater or set that rhythmic brass of his echoing through the vast acreage of the Pavilion. Sembrich, the woaderful, is also among those that gre to be expected, and with her may come Giuseppl Campanari, the favorite barytone of the Grau company. There is not 2 hall in town suitable for the accommodation of these artists. Steinway Hall and Native Sons’. Hall are both too small, though both are excellently adapt- ed in every way for the minor recitals. Then, again, we are to have Melba, and 4f the brilliant Australian must-be heard in the smaller halls her.$1500 or so & night will come hardly on the pockets of .thosc permitted by the financial providence to attend. Dippel, too, is to be here, and the nov- eity of having the tenor repertoire wiil doubtless attract many people to his re- citals. Then there will be the new violin- §st, Xoeien, and the famous . pianist, Gabrilowitsch, possibly, also, Zelle de Lussan and many others, all with the same problem of a hall confronting them. It would seem that in a town of this size, with the number of music-loving people that can be shown to exist, it would profit some one to build a hall of music, that should be ccnveniently situ- ated, acoustically perfect, equipped with %11 modern conveniences gnd large enough 1o permit a schedule of prices that would 1:0t debar the poorest music lover from a share in the feast. Such a hall is a cry- ing necessity and surely of more immedi- ANSWERS ate need than the three or four theaters that are being added-to the city list, and, until music is honored with a fitting home among us, there cannot be that knowl- edge and worship of the art that should | prevail in the well-ordered community. The Tivoli two-bits' worth of grand npera Las done more for the musical standing of this city than any other single influ- ence. It remains now for some one to make possible the two-hits’ worth of symphony, ‘ofatorio, chaniber music and =ong, piano and violin recitals, and so to round out a local musical sense and sym- pathy that I am persuaded will be second to none in its final development. S Now, as to little Enid Brandt. The gifted child pianist will be heard in a last recital next Thursday evening at Steinway Hall. There are many who will remember with extraordinary interest Miss Enid’s work of last year and the preceding year, when her exceptional technical equipment and keen musical sense made the little lady something of a sensation in local musical cireles. It is said, and I am sure it is a fact, that Miss Enid has made marked progress in her work since last year, and her programme for Thursday night certaintly indicates such development. She will play the An- dante Spianato and Polonaise in E flat, and also a Liszt Hungarian Fantasie, with other compositions by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Chaminade. Then, for the last time—putting childish things behind her—she will give the tests in “musical telegraphy,” otherwise an in- genious use of her faculty of absolute pitch. This is to be Enid’s last appear- ance here for some time, as the clever little Californian will go East almost im- mediately under contract with Henry Wolfsohn for a number of concerts in Boston and New York. Her recital will therefore be in the nature of a farewell affair, and doubtless will attract many admirers of the little girl's genius. e This week the Tivoli will have the beautiful and rarely heard Ponchielll op- era, “La Gloconda,” with & brilliant cast. De Frate is, of course, cast in the leading role, and there will be the unusual con- junction of two contraltos in the parts of La Cieca and Laura, that will be taken respectively by Collamarinl and Pozzl. Zonghi, whose Gennaro in “Lucrezia Bor- gla” satisfied so thoroughly, will have the tenor role, and De Padova and Dado are both in the cast. The alternating opera is “La Traviata,” in which De Spada will make her post- poned appearance as Violetta. This is said to be the clever soprano’s best part. et AT e e e e @ | TO QUERIES. CARNEGIE—A Subscriber, San Jose, Cal. Carnegie is pronounced as if writ- ten Car-nay-gee. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS—A Subscri- ber, San Jose, Cel. Stephen A. Douglas, the statesman, was not a mulatto, nor was there a taint of negro blood in his veins. RING AROUND THE SUN—L. T., Mill Valley, Cal. For such information as you Gesire relative to a ring around the sun eddress a comnunication to the Lick Ob- servatory, San Jose, Cal. OFFICERS OF WASHINGTON—A Reader, Bradley, Cal. To publish a list of the United States officers at Washing- ton, D. C., would require more space than can be devoted in this department to one question. MACHINE—S., City. “The machine,” as applied to politics, is not “‘a recently, comparatively speaking, coined expres- sion.” “The machinery of a party” was first used by Asron Burr. HARBOR COMMISSIONERS-W. 8, O’'Neals, Cal. The Harbor Commission- ers are State officers. The board has con- trol of all the wharves on the city front and also has charge of the bulkhead. THE SHERIFF—N., City. When Alex- ander Goldenson was hanged for the mur- der of Mamie Kelly Willlam McMann was the Bheriff of San Francisco. The banging was on the 14th of September, 1888, BRITISH COINS—Ullwein, City. Ques- tions relative to the value of coins will be answered by this department to such correspondents as send a self-addressed end stamped envelope with the letter of inquiry. RUB DOWN-C. P. 8, City. Dealers in sporting goods can furnish you a rub down to be used after sprinting. In the mbsence of any such preparation, plain or camphorated alcohol is an excellent rub down. TERRY-BRODERICK DUEL — Sub- scriber, Stockton, Cal. The Broderick- Terry duel was fought on the Davis ranch, not near Stockton, but two miles end a half southeast of Lake Merced, in Ban Francisco County. CRIBBAGE—Subscriber, Smith River, Cel. If in the game of cribbage the play is 3, 4, 6, 3, the one who played the § is entitied to a run of three; likewise the cne who played the second 3. The first yun is 3, 4 6 and the second run is 4, 5, 3, which makes a sequence of 3, 4, 5. QUAIL-E. M. 8., City. There is no law in California which says that quail shail not be shipped by express from one place to another during the open sea- n_ but the law-prohibits the shipment “PON-SETTA” L PREVENTS 2o #PON-SETTA” u&mn'- irue embellish- er—a_skin food combined— Barmiess and instantaneous. While aciis as an impereeptible powder it softens preserves the skin. “FON-SETTA" never spolls or dries Sendte for sample. Full size jar 50c. i rour druggist @des not keep it ask him to get it for you Anita Cream and Toilet Co. Les Angeles, Cal of more than twenty-five at any one time, and the same must not be for sale. The sale of qualil is absolutely prohibited. RELIGIOUS MATTERS-G. W. B, City. This department does not answer questions of a religious character that would likely provoke a controversy. If you desire to ascertain why a certain body took action against a certain cyclo- pedia and why it has not done se against others, address a communication.to the secretary of the association. CALIFORNIA'S REPRESENTATIVES —A Reader, Bradley, Cal. The Represent- atives from California to the House of. Representatives at Washington, D. C., are: First District, F. L. Coombs; Sec- ond District, 8. D. Woods; Third District, V. H. Metcalf; Fourth District, Jullus Kahn; Fifth District, E. F. Loud; Sixth Distriet, J. McLachlan; Seventh District, J. C. Needham. BROOKLYN BRIDGE—J. L. W. D, City. Work on Brooklyn bridge, New York, was commenced January 2, 1870, and the bridge was opened to traffic May 24, 1883. The bridge is eighty-five feet wide; length of river span is 1595.6 feet; length of each land span, 930 feet; length of Brocklyn approach, 971 feet; of New York approach, 1562.6 feet. Total length of car- riage way, 5989 feet, and total length of the bridge with extensions, 6537 feet. DIVORCE AND MARRIAGE—A Sub- scriber, S8an Jose. In California a divorce is absolute the moment the decree is pro- nounced and made of record on the min- utes of the court. The Supreme Court of this State has decided that a marriage that is legal In the place where it was contracted is legal in this State. A per- son divorced in this State or divorced, in any other State cannot remarry in this State Until one year after the decree of divorce. STATE OFFICERS—A Reader, Bradley, Cal. The State officers of California, at this time, are: H. T. Gage, Governor, salary $6000; Lieutenant Governor, Jacob H. Neff, salary $10 per .iem as_president of the Senate; Charles F. Curry, Secre- tory of State, $3000; Controller, E. P. Colgan, $3000; Treasurer, T. Reeves, $3000; Attorney General, U. S. Webb, $3000; Sur- veyor General, M. J. Wright, $3000; Super- intendent of Publig Instruction, T. J. Kirk, $3000; State Printer, A, J. Johnston, $3000; Clerk of the Supreme Court, George ‘W. Root, $3000. TO REMOVE WARTS—L. A. G., City. It is said that the daily application of either of the following remedies is effec- tive in dispersing warts: Touch the wart with a little nitrate of silver (lunar caus- tic) or with nitric acid or aromatic vine- | gar. The lunar caustic produces a black and the nitric acid a yellow stain, which passes Off in a short time; the vinegar scarcely discolors the skin. Ivy leaves dried and ground to a fine powder, if ap- plied after the wart has been moistened with vinegar and then bound with a strip of rag, is sald to be an effective method of removing the unsightly excrescences. \ EXPRESSIONS—. C..8., City. Whiie it is preper to use do not feel as if I could speak to Jane,™ it is equally cor- rect and perhaps preferable to say “I do xlwtx feel as thougff[ could speak to Jane.” t is proper to say “He this’ cummer.” "The word “av i S sentence would be superfluous, as in the expression quoted it is implied. If a party asks permission to call on a lady, if the intention is to call once, the proper ex- pression is “May I call some time?’ It is not necessary to say ‘“‘Sometimes,” be- cause if permission fs granted to call some time, the party visited, if desiring | to keep up' the acquaintance, will ask the visitor to call again. PRUNES—B., Llagas, Cal. Prunes are dipped in lye to facilitate the drying. The process of dipping is described as fol- lows: In a large caldron lye is made by placing therein one pound of concentrat- jed lye to twenty gallons of water, and i this is heated to a boiling point.’ The is placed in wire baskets or gal. Fvanized a’nlh perforated, bottom and !sldeu, and dipped in the boiling lye for { one minute or until the skin of the frut | is scen to be scalded or cracked, then the | fruit is plunged in clean cold water. This cold water is frequently changed, for it soon becomes Vi alkaline. ~After the | dipping the fruit Is' placed on trays for . the machine drier or the sunshine. In | the ne the prunes dry sufficiently |In from one to two weeks, according to situation and weather. o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDRY . asnoh Publication Office SEPTEMBER 14, 1902 HE information is given out that all but ninety-one of the Calaveras big trees have been included in the sale of a timber tract, and that the buyers will soon begin lumbering on their purchase. 5 This is sad news, and bad. One would think that there is enough timber-in Cali- fornia for economic uses without attacking these great trees, which are the oldest examples of in- animate life in the world. They give no evidence of having passed their prime. The decay of age is not upon them. If it were there might be some excuse for their harvest and conversion to the uses of man. But they still stand erect, their verdure untouched by age, and their foothold on mother earth as firm as when they were saplings in that far past before man had erected nations or organized government. Not many hundreds of them exist. They were migratory,and dendrologists find evidence of their original habitat beyond the Arctic circle, whence they started on a journey southward, going below the present southern boundary of California. But they found existence nowhere under as favorable conditions as in our mountains, and they have ceased to live elsewhere. In their chosen home they have outlasted the ages. Some of them have undoubtedly seen over 6oooyyears. They were contemporaries of the volcanoes which built up our mountain peaks. They were here when Shasta and Diablo and the Lassen Buttes were the lighthouses of the great range and the great valley. Some of them were growing when Lake Tahoe was a seeth- ing crater and the San Joaquin Valley was an inland sea. Thereis no doubt that the great mam- moth, the elphus primogenius, scratclied his hairy sides against their trunks, and the great bear, the ursus horribilis, rested in their shade. Talk of the old ruins of the Eastern hemisphere, to which we make pilgrimage, is talk about the things of yesterday, when the age of these trees is compared with that of the sphinx and pyramids. Man did not buiid them. Joaquin Miller said that the greatest architect could not build a tree. But man’s hand can easily destroy that ~which it cannot build, and'it is about to be put to the task of destroying these ancient works of nature, to make a few dollars! . It is bad for the trees that man and government ever overtook them, if man and govern- ment cannot save that which flourished without them. We protect the-buzzard and the gull and the sea lions from slaughter and extermination. We give the wild deer and birds a chance by making a close season in which no man’s hand can slay them, unpunished. We give t6 the fishes of the sea and river the shelter of the same law that man makes for his own protection. But deer and wild birds and fish may be easily restored to their cover and to the waters. In a few years they can be multiplied and renewed. Not so these autocthons that are the primates of the forest. Their growth was so slow that they were intended to be the companions of time, the comrades of the centuries, the epochs, the aeons. They cannot be exterminated, to be renewed and reach the majesty of their perfection in the lifetime of a man. To the dendrologist they appear conscious of their great destiny in the preparation they make for their career. In their first youth they bulge at the ground and taper rapidly. This bulg- ing base is their foothold and foundation. From it their roots go far afield, cleaving the granite and clinching in its crevices to hold up their great height. Like athletes. they poise and balance and prepare for the weight and height they are to carry, and fit themselves to defy the mountain storms that are to beset them, the great gales that are to try their temper and the heavy snows that are to try to crush them. : . Man in all his wisdom and- experience, with the resources of science and art within his reach, nowhere makes more conscious preparation for his life and destiny than they. They stand the most impressive and interesting and valuable of the creations of nature. They are the oldest plants that the sun shines upon, and the most ancient relics of vegetable life we know. We have learned to call the destru tion of man’s works by man vandalism, from the stern northern people who with hard ‘hoof trampled into dust the elegant evidences of Roman civiliz- ation. But man replaced the refined creations that the Vandals destroyed. The offense they com- mitted was slight compared to that which is chargeable to the exterminators of these old trees, and grand. The sensibilities of afew Californians are tempered and on edge as the great catas- trophe approaches. But the majority are indifferent, and the almost human groan of the great creatures as they fall strikes upon deaf ears. No hand is raised to prevent the sacrifice. Com- merce seizes upon the dead bodies of these great brethren, and they are sold in the market-place and the money is banked, and the enterprise of man has found its meanest expression in the mur- der of the trees. THE AUTOMOBILE. HE terrible accident to anautomobile in Alameda, which caused the death of an eminent and esteemed lady, whose life was peculiarly a part of California’s history, will call sharp attention to the need of strict and strictly enforced regulations of the use of these dan- gerous and erratic machines. The subject is especially focused by the fact that this acci- dent occurred on the day of the funeral of Charles Fair and his wife, who were killed in a similar catastrophe in France. The action of these machines depends upon the integrityof their mechanism. Numerous and grewsome experiences prove that it is subject to disorder, and that the vehicle may never be considered safe when running at high speed. When one reflects that a speed of even ten miles an hour, attained by a mechanical device, is unsafe unless the vehicle subjected to it is on metal rails, and an exclusive right of way, it is seen at once that such speed by mechanical means-on a common road or. street used by footmen and horse-drawn vehicles is an invitation to disaster. When the horse is used as a motive power at high speed in driving for pleasure it is the practice to provide speedways in public parks, that are exclusive. The police records of all our large cities are full of complaints of illegal speed attained by automobiles. When the officers of the law make the issue they are met by protests that the speed was within the limit, and these are usually without merit. Everywhere we have laws against fast- driving of horses on common streets and highways. There should be still more strict regulatipn of the automobile. Its use introduces a novel danger into the use of streets and roads. The ex- hilaration felt in using the machines frequently subdues the caution of those who ride in or con- trol them, and the most timid take risks under the impulse of excitement. This is one reason why they resist restraint by protestations, which widely vary from the facts, as to their speed and caution. New dangers require an extension of the discipline of the law. This is as much or more for the benefit of those who use this machine as for others who are imperiled by it. No amateur nor professional chauffeur wishes to be injured by recklessness or to injure others, and when fatalities occur they have public sympathy in their regret and remorse. This sympathy should concrete in the form of most strict and austere regulations, and when these are violated the punishment should be admonitory, and in all cases should be enforced. b These two accidents, involving fatality to such well-known Californians, should cause im- mediate action looking to the safety of users of the automobiles, and to that of the general public who have a new danger to dodge while using the streets and roads. The Kaiser is reported.to have asked an American woman recently if her husband had anything to do with the selection of her gowns, and when she answered emphatically that he had not, the Kaiser went on to say: “I look after the toilets of the Empress a good deal. I choose the stuffs, and I advise Fhe patterns.” There you have a happy home. The Kaiser has a great head and he loves to use it. B (e 5 ) RS Ll e It is said that the custom of putting up lightning-rods has been well nigh abandoned in the East, but the report evidently does not refer to political lightning-rods. There are as 3 man, that kind in sight of any county courthouse as ever before in the history of the country. o A Boston man who has the making of a great philanthropist in him wishes the talists of America to form a syndicate and construct a pipe line from Mont Pelee to B as to furnish that city with a supply of hot air during the coming winter. big capi- oston so A New Jersey justice has decided that a seaside belle has a right to wear a bathing-éuit on the streets if she chooses, and now the summer girl in that<State need not take a trunk to carry her wardrobe. A handsatchel will be sufficient. There has been a good deal of talk about the apathy of the campaign, but in a few days the oratory of the spell-binders will be blowing about our ears like a cyclone, Ry i ‘4 3 i B 5 ' | \ WILD WEST REFRESHES AFTER | - MIASMA OF “MISS PENDRAGON.” BY GUISARD. Clies HAD a very good time with ““Miss | Pendragon”—the new play at the Al- cazar—last Monday evening, such“a. good time that I went back hun!;ng again on Wednesday night, !"‘_Mi” out finally whether it was e Pendragon”that was stnndhtg OBI S “crinkled hair of gold,” or if 'twas : i was making shoe leather of my scalp. think it's Virignia, however, and if T et her again, I shall tell her that she r:fl - not sit at home and weep,” nelther W2/ that “reel thing” decadent, Porcher he‘ in his Florida watered boudior when !: “ is hankering after a change. I shall ; | her that there need be no “crimson :'u ln on her whitest thought,” or l's_'flt e speaking, “every sin astir within,” I “;m will but just get out and see the West Show, where there are real men.‘ real horses and real guns to put her into touch with a real world. It took that with me and an Interview with the prince of scouts himself, to induce for- getfulness of Virginia's purple SOIrows— as Miss Pendragon would put iti and only a delectable consit,ieratlcn of Porcher Hext “daringly poised” on one of those bucking broncos persuades to forgiveness of that stuffed degenerate. Here, however, are the grounds of of- fense uniquely outlined by the author of the play, in a page distinctly worth pre- servation: Virginia Pendragon meets and becomes fas- cirated with Porcher Hext, a dilettante, dar- ingly poised between genius and decadence. When the spell of his fascination is at its | helght he becomes intoxicated at a dimmer where she is, brutalizes himsclf in her pres- ence and breaks the spell. In the light of this she sees the truth of him and thanks God for | her awakening. She turns heartsick from him to & man who has used his life and never truckled to ft—a worker, a Joer of deeds, a master, and names him for worship. When he, Dr. Rutherford, finds that it is not love she | has given him, he sets her free, till love Mke | his shall win the answer he would have. He | spends his passion on his work. By and by | Virginia grows to love him with a love that | goes to Its knees for forgiveness. She tries | to tell him in a hundred different ways. He is | as dumb as a sphinx. Then she makes herself cheap. She talks to please him, dresses to please him, and finally tries to make him jeal- ous by apparently accepting the attentions of Porcher Hext, who, after a year abroad. has drifted back into her circle. Rutherford stil pays no heed. Then one day Virginia learns the reason. She finds that he has fallen in love with Hext’s sister, whom he has brought through a case of brain fever. Virginia s des- perate. She bears the knowledge in silence, till one night in madness she goes to Hext's room, presumably because he s ill, but really to find again his old fascination for her. She is a woman of Ne half measures. She ‘was not meant to sit at home and weep. She will play at love. She is here discovered by Rutherford and a divorce results. Virginia has | done no wrong, as the law measures it, but she | belleves that there was every sin astir within | and has no pardon for herself, because thers | was no outward deed to match its poor re- | treat. A crimson stain is on ‘her whitest | thought—and she loathes herself. She disap- pears. society places her on the Centinent with | Hext, but instead she has become a fashion- | able palmist, palmistry being a study she has | always been Interested in. Hext lives abroad, | becoming more of an exquisite and more of a degenerate and leading the spotted life of his leisure class. Rutherford ‘stays at home eating his heart out and hungering for word of Vir- ginla’s welfare. He set her free, thinking she | loved Hext and would marry him. Gossip had | come to his ear about them, and the meeting | | in Hext's room confirmed the suspicion he had fought to kill. Hext's sister. meet again. Hey was never in love with In the course of events all three Virginia believes that by a hard fight she has won back her self-respect, but circumstances culminating in the suicide of Hext show how little she has won. She has made up her mind to go back to the convent where she went to school, and end the battle s0, when Rutherford learns the truth and in | reunion she works out her salvation. | Not that this by any means exhausts | the delights of this drama of modern de- | cadence. In a private ocean of platitudes | one finds gems like these: “What God has not joined, man should put asunder;” “Blessed is the woman who doesn't| snoop;” “I have tossed love into the bot- tom of my heart—as they toss coffins into the sea;” *As for love, let us all be sure that it is love;” “A woman doesn't love a man because he is immaculate, she prefers the whitening process to begin after she is in his arms;” of a society woman, that she would give you knock- out érops in your afternoon tea; “flat, like | a souffle;” of society, that it “‘would rid- dle the reputation of God,” and so on. This is enough to show, however, why one should seek the “free, shrill wind” again and why the Wild West, with its | tacles that Md | genuine blacks, if the Indians were, sl good circus smells, yelling Indians, ping of bullets and plunging steeds, should come 0 refreshingly. . .. Passing a small group of youngsters, flat on their stomac! their hyeadfindaf the flapping canvas, and so intent on tie spectacle that you could have walked on them without their heeding, I went by the back ‘“deer” of the encampment 320 Colonel Cody’s tent. A carpet of golden straw stretched to its door and a tanned cowboy stood guard outside. To tne right was the pen of buffaloes, grumbling thunderously. Away in front was the tent of horses, screaming and whinnying ceaselessly. Quick and sharp from the arena came the spit and hiss of rifles, bang of cannon, and at the very door of the old scout’s tent was a photographer, walting to “shoot’” him, and myself. In- side the colonel was quietly writing, prob- . ably to direct some move of the vast *« army of men and horses under his charge. The guard went in to him and in a mo~ ment I was admitted. He did not at once stop writing and I had leisure to cbserve the keen, clear-cut face, with the strong, quiet eye, the long, thinned gray hair and the massive build and picturssque get-up of the old frontiersman. A glance round the tent showed a soldierly, spacious room, with a small, plain writing table, equipped with blank telegraph forms, Wild West note paper, a book or two and pen and ink;-an iren bedstead im- maculately appointed, an ancient wooden trunk, a couple of chairs and another trunk and table. Pausing for a moment in his writing, a large, plcturesque fist— the colenel turned to me and began: “Yes, I can see you for a moment, if you don’t want me to guess your name. | Every man in California seems to want you to guess his name. There isn't time, you know. One man came in the other day and wanted me to guess who he was. Who do you think he was? I said to him after I'd been writing full twenty minutes, - “Well, -sir, I can’t recall your name.” Then it turned out that the fel- low had come in with me on the first train that came out to California; he was in the emigrant car and I was in the Pullman. That's a specithen.” And the colonel went on writing. “There was another,” he shortly re- sumed, folding up the finished letter and leisurely addressing it. “He was a young one, about twe ; asked me if I didn’t remember hi That one’s mother brought him twenty-four years ago to my show. And now,” layiag down the spee- the eyes that General Carr orce said were “keener than a good field glass,” “what do you want to know? They have been thicker'n neas to-day, sir, photographers and such.” ‘"1 asked him the first thing that came into my head, about the bucking bronces, that the degener: 1 n largely believes to be edu way. “Now, that is a.sample of the intel- ligence of the people with good-natured derfoot. “One re this show Is its genuinenéss all through. If we say those are buck brorcos you can lay your life 2 broncos, and we do say N2 had people here ask if the niggers Next tney will want to know if the liskmen are real whites." : “How do you -get people like ‘Badess Powell's men to travel with you?' “After the wars"™ d the old soldier's voice took on an almost tender note, “the men are out of employment. I offer good wages; that is all. You can buy anything if you get the price high enough.” “These clothes,” I said, pointing to his picturesque outfit, “what nationality are they?”’ “Indian,” the colonel briefly said, touching his beaded buckskin coat; “Mex- ican,” pointing to the long leggins, “and white,” slapping the bit of corduroyed leg between. ‘“You must remember that this is a costume of frontier days. You know of Dan Boone, Davy Crockett, of course” —as a musiclan would say ‘‘Beethoven” or ‘“Mozart”"—'“we wore these, then. And there were no finer days, sir—" But just then the summoning bugle blew and with a “good-by” and courtly bow the alert, tall figure, straight as an arrow ard clean as a razor, Strode off. A moment later Buffalo Bill was on his horse, careering around the ring at break- neck speed and coolly picking off with deadly alm clay pigeons thrown in the air by Marksman “Johnnie’” Baker, and I was on my way with a breath of the plains and primal mornings in my smoke« sodden city lungs. @il e @ A CHANCE TO SMILE. “And was my Dpresent a surprise to your sister, Johnny?” “You bet. She said she never suspected vou'd give her anything so cheap.”—Pitts- burg Bulletin. “I've got an idea for making automo- bile races safe.” 3 “What is it?” “Let ’em be run in a brick tunnel with lots of manheles for the spectators to look through.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Did you ‘ever hear of such luck as Mamie Gilder's?” “What about -her?” “She’'s a sweet girl graduate on Tues- day night, and on Wednesday night she’s a blooming June bride! What do you think of that?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. «1 don't like yer story,” said the Biil- ville reader. “Maybe not now,” replied the author, “put it will grow on you.” “I hope mot,” was the reply,‘fer I've got three carbuncles now!"—Atlanta Con- stitution. Profanity of His Profession.—“Who is that scientific' gent in room 157" asked the scrublady. “I dunno,” answered the broomgentle- man. “But he's a funny one to swear. You ought to hear him. When he saw a lot of mold on top of his ink he said ‘Beillus?” just that way.” — Chicago Tribune. A Scientific Discussion. — Professor Searcher—What are supposed to be petri- fled horses tracks have been found in Missoufi. 0Old Lady—Oh, they can’t be. Professor Searcher—Just my opinion, exactly, madam. The horse and the allu- vial deposit in which those imprints were L e e e e e e Y ) CHEAPER RATES EAST. To Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Orleans, Omaha, Memphis - and Other Points. On two days only, October 7 and 8, the Santa Fe will sell round trip tickets East at the present one-way fare. This is an exceptional ce for'a c East. iscovered represented widely different eras of zoological and geological history. Old Lady—Yes, and a petrified horse couldn’t walk, you know.—New York ‘Weekly. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend's California Glace frult and candles, Hc a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st. Palace Hotel buiding.* —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call fornia street. Telephone Main WM& ¢ —_—— Heavy snowstorms and a severe frost, which “have killed all their silkworms, have ruined hundreds of peasants in _Pieve di Cadore, Northeastern Italy. Beavtitvl Solid Mahogany Shaving Stand, nearly 6 feet high with beveled French plate mirror ....$8.90 Odd pairs _-of Irish point, Bat- tenberg and Not- tingham L ace Curtains, per pair...$1.00 up Assorted R e m- nants of fine tap- estry Carpets, per yard....40¢ Entire houses, flats and Lotels furnished. Credit and free delivery within 100 miles. T. BRILLIANT FURNITURE CO. Remember days! Plan to go! The ‘alifornia Limited starts at 9:30 a. m. Mondays and Thursdays; the overland at L% b ige Ve S ons on the ‘e. itio: at ticket office, 641 street, 0 338-342 POST STREET Sarene, e Sorn,