The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1903, Page 6

THE SUNDAY CALL, too proud or too ey AN 8 V& nacle of stilts. To come down to the ordi- N o and is so frequentiy being shocked that = et M . Y}/ wpa? failure to appreciate her affection for you — - 7 > ‘\'4 ,,'.,/‘»‘, ‘ N R k) )X % 977, .,’//;’ 28 N2 i A i3 ‘/,’,,h of the little unpleasantness happens to " Ll are - Poor M erstood females! Therc sung. She fancies herself possessed of She will offer to straighten your hat and And the wives who are in the advanced In the other cases. the wife devoted all women should be another and better world espe- much executive ability that would come give your head such a yank as will make stage of being Miss Understood! of her. time to certain woman congresses, who never Know cially allotted for vour domination. If; into play as an extensive organizer, but you wish yourself a Mississippi River = Recently two cases have come under until her presence at home took the form whe they are good resolutions have a cinch on the pav- finds theshome circle too contracted to ad- steambeoat mate just long enough to my lmmédl‘ntc observation where women of long distance surprise parties. The weil off, and the ing contract of Hades, the contract for mit of the escape of even an infinitesimal swear. She will tell you that your skirt pauine Juxurious homes fancied them- husband objected, stating that she must pity of it is,that a wallflower wainscoting Ought i. ... atorg of her pent-up untried energies, She is on crooked and make a dive at it R Vi ™" either forego such affllations or that she they will not be awarded to Miss Understood females. keeps her head high in the salubrious stumbling all over the train, with the S¢!VeSin oo narrow a sphere d"di SoUBhT would find him among the missing. The be taught to They would furaish a variety that would moral atmosphere as an indication of a chances that you will have to change your 10, lead lives in consonance with he warm discussion that followed was suc- realize it. When gladdqn the heart of Mephisto even in his soul too lofty to stoop to the small things gown. And as a climax to her boasted TCntal elevation. One husband very com” ceeded by others still warmer, until find- a good, SUroNg most Sanguinary moods. of earth. critical instincts that sees and notes Diaisantly gave his spouse a home, and ing her away from home ome evening on emollient of €-_ Tue weeping Miss Understood, alwa Then there is the saintly'Miss Under. everything, if there should be a fleck 6f Zoutl’ Dujota, where ne obtained a de- [io ety the next morning e Oepetcr: perlence removes tearful, coplously lachrymo the Very stood, who is so—(1 wish I were a man Powder on your nose she Wil come at crue of divorce, with which he astonisBed «oocorins to the e A s eyet man. . Ent-of whom srould. e D oy o thatiTaniglit dav 8- nably good) pa:vyou lke & hattering ram and give thatl nfs former twin soul by presentihg it, z‘:zr':i"l.;::t;\rx‘gu?':;x;“x.v\:-;xi Desere shat A inean, . comDlete ’g”“',' m»lz ro [aful-“_'; dw:‘du cause that is what I mean) that her ggod- PoOr nose a pinch or a scrub that will with a bunch of faded flowers, on Christ- po“would ng longer be responsible for her telues 'in remi. lent to an Eastern sho’ of Maryland spell ness is a reproach to every ome with keep it red for a month. Should You mas. There was a plethora of irony In ghligations. At the time she remained ab- 3 mood, °f asue. ; 3 ... whom she comes in contact. When in ShOW any signs other than complacent the gentle, thoughtful attention, and the gon¢" soveral days, having gome to a Xing it ail _ Then the highly indignant Miss Under- her presence she is so constantly im. gratitude she assumes an injured, re- wife,being a woman, promptly relapsed yoignhoring city as a delegate to some over. although St0od, Who is forever perched on a Din- pressing you with her superior virtues Proachful manner and sighs over your into screaming hysterics. The SOrry Part convention or other and her return was a revelation of desolation. His friends knew obborn to ad- vary everyday level of life would be con- you wonder if you are an overchatged that has your appearance so much at be that both~ parties are very much Jn povninc‘oe his whereabouts, and the wife mit it, they descension too abject to be considered. dynamo with some of youp currents run. heart. and she is consequently so Miss love with the other, but the wife got AN gy hout means, is almost heartbroken would often give She is always sniffing at something far ning around loose. She is always intrud- Understood, and the chances are that she invoice ofqbric-a-brac in her top stor¥ ,uer the denouement. She has concl womids were it beyond hailing distance (that sounds like jng"her zoodness in the most depressing Will afterward tell her many friends that anent of the higher sphere of WOMENM, that a woman's mission Is, at least, to possible torecede Spanish history), and is in a4 state of manner until you imagine that you are She tried to be so kind to you and in and the husband is not the kind of man yeqpect the wishes of a husband who is from the position piqued stand-offish-ness, from dawn 10. ejther real wicked or dev return you were rude and snubbed her to feel much sympathy with such head 1ing ang devotec assumed FAEIEbE. ’-\*>”""'-'M'>1R" I en “"’; ’“‘l fledged case ‘of nervous d unmercifully. stunts. He is hurt mnd chagrined that o 0 o' l0 o e when There are wo- her, and what would please any rationa 7 SRl B e Gl N d » es ol e " n who begin a quarrel H]\:,rm:m,:q woman on carth shr‘rr;.nd:, with con- _And the Miss Understood wko is sc ”_’","r fhe Miae Dngacatond) who prideh :r. ;“io“:n:[’:n::‘Pw;;:,“nm:m:;n‘,;;,,{::: they were well off, and there are thou- ¥ temptuous innuendoes. persistently meddlesome. She honestiy herself on being so very candid—who ;" che, taking his ready acquies- sands of others. The woman who fills the i out later how totally absur hers of their infallibil erybody ie on the verge of will walk off in a ten-foot complain that they that she cannot do even greater things. She is constantly at war with the narrow confines that eircumseribe her, which she blames for the thralldom that keeps her talents and possibilities unknown and un- thinks_that she is lovely and kind and to the umbrella stand out in the hallway. She. will persist in helping you to sew and dfter she has gone you not only have it to do over yourself but have to rip out what she has done in the bargafn. icizes your clothes and tells you “as itively homicidal she has been Miss Under- stood, and only told you *“as a friend.” Yoor friendship! What an awful old scapegoat vou are for a progeny of little meannesses born under your ins‘gnia. of. There is a poetic justice in the turn that things have taken. The ideas have proven an evanescent fiasco, and mean- while the husband, too, is doing a com- panion disappearing ac incentive, or that it was all Then the Miss Understood who thinks 2 S 43 cence as indicative of extreme amiability, niche to which fate or circumstances as- the beginning, yet rather than she has a mission, if others would only amiable and good-natured, and no dqubt a friend” that you look like a fright in thought that she had scored a triumph. signs her finds there sufficient outlet for wledge the fact they will make combine to materialize her ideas. She is she means to be, but she is oply in your the gown your modiste has just sent. Now she is making all sorts of patch-it- the gifts with which nature has endowed e and every one around miser- sure of being capable of doing so much Way. Everything you attempt to do your- home, for which you have been sighing' uy overtures, and would perhaps be real her. This eternal grasping for t or days, if not for months. that those around her fail to appreciate. Self she runs directly in front ef you and =nd longing for months and bave donned gweet and docile if he would “kiss and yond the reach en pinfonated specimens of fem- Her' environment is too antagonistic to S0 Kindly offers to assist you. Kvery- it withso much pride seemingly only to make up.” But he is proud, and that a the unsatisfied, the spirit of d er be convinced that they her lofty aims. She sees a struggling wo- thing you say she helps yvou out. She give her .the opportunity to take évery woman whom he had loved and honored The phalanxes of the M Understood y will make them- man near her accomplish some good in insists upon doing all sorts of kindnesses shred of iconceit out of you. She criti- should have preferred a tissue of extra females, , or wives or ody else wretchedly tired her sphere, and forthwith her small-sized for you until you are desperate and wish s everything you say, or do, or wear. agant fool notions to his substantial per- widows, we find everywhere, not only keep , argument in the effort soul is afflicted with a large-sized envy that you could muzzle her and strap her and when you are beginning to feel pos- sonality wounded deeper than she wotted themselves in a perpetual state of un but they foster the spirit in othe on when the trials of life are in a maddening whirl, the more philosophically the uation is faced the more quickly will it be conquered. sit- AN FRANCISCO has receded far enough from her birth 1o awaken to the realization that she has in truth a ory—even as has Boston—and a highly colored one at 2t. It is full of phases that ring of the melodramatic punctuated with the crack of a pistol here and there but what of that. if it be history? That its tales are worthy of record in the annals of men, we ed but harken to the testimony of living witnesses; they came to California — thence to San Francisco—with the overwheiming tide of men that across the plains and through the Sierra’s canyons. and that stood in the thick of the fray that evolved order out of chaos in the new El Dorado. Alas, for their thinning ranks! The Father is calling them home. Dally we mids them from the banks, from the business hot from the churghes, from the s and we s ask, ““Where are they?"' Therefore that hasten if we would glean from their the past, and such is the duty that toric Landmarks League has set for Itself, commemorate the places made memorabie by those heroes. swept ed must arce n: we here is no phase of the “shaking-down process San Francisco so thrilling in its intensity as the day the Vigilantes—those s of '36, when almost man Ih the city slept upon his arn i bell to 11 him to duty. It is the headquarters of that famous organization that the commemorate; the spot is known fiumiliarly as 217 Sacrame...> street, near Dav The building has been 3 and its countenance thus changed would soon lose itz identity bu urday ver j bronze tabi This structu: ¢ to be placed upon it on mext should t that is now reac . wherein right dared to assert its might, e memory of men, for, though stained With blood, it stands a monument to aw, justice and decency and temple of honor to its founders. San Francisco had sunk to an astounding condition ness when it was announced that a new paper V. appear that would WARE upon all political tober 8, 1855, there appeared upon th: street . mnew shest, edited by James King of Wiiliam, a fellow, with offices upon the nort west corner of Merchant and Montgomery streets. On the third day of its exist- ence the rough element sniffed the smoke of battle. On November 17 it awakened to the alarm of war, when a gambler named Cora assassinated Colonel Richard son, a United States Marshal; that day the Bulietin came out in the following bold announcement, which was the seed from which the Vigilance Commitice grew 2If «Cora be guilty he must hang. this community that this should be.” but with the Let there be an impartial jury. It is due airs in the hands of the A trial took place. anipulations of aff: in's friends. the jury disagreed e looked for by the peo- ide “the gang.” but it quicken ‘s activity. Within two years arly one hundred murders had been commitied and all had gone unavenged— too, with this unprovoked sacrifice. Then it was that the Bulletin came out with the following remarkable arraignment: “Hung be the heavens in black! Will Cora be hung? No! Even on this trial one of the witnesses against him was away, having sold his establishment for )0 and left the State. Rejoice, ye gamblers and harlots; rejoice with exceed- ing gladness! Assemble in your deng of infamy to-night and let the costly wine flow freely, and let the welkin ring with shouts of joy. * * * Your money can accomplish anything in San Francisco, and now you have fuil permission to riot at pleasure. Talk of safety in law. It is a humbug. The veriest humbug ir existence is the present system of jury trials. Weep,. ye honest men of San Franciscol Weep for the fair city ye have built!” months later came a scathing attack upon a young New Yorker named b unguestionably, through stuffing the ballot box, caused himself to Svverviso,. Mr. King accused him of having served a term in Sing evious to his coming West and this evidently rankled deep in the bosom politician, for an hour after the publication was on the street Casey sought Zing in the editorial room and took him to task for the accusation. Fear- however, tie editor showed the politician the door, but here the matter did As Mr. King was going to his home Casey waylaid him and shot him The cditor fell mortally wounded and Casey ¢ end. hrec times through ‘he body. £ped -away' Up MoTtgomery Stréet Tnto mieiCHant, Lhiite 10 o ana into the police station. Sheriff Scannell, realizing that Casey's gunning would bring matters to a climax, summoned a carriage in hot haste and lost no tim in taking his prisoner to the Broadway jail, where a better defense could be ntained were a raid attmpted. Meanwhile the news spread like a prairie and in less that half an hour three thousand men had gathered, clamoring f« decisive action. The air was pregnant with vengeance. The Sheriff placed every available man where he could render the best ser- vice—infside the jail and without—while Mayor Van Ness issued a hurry call all the military companies of the city. The thin response to this appeal plainly indicated the attitude of the populace. The efforts of Mayor Van Ness to quiet the now thoroughly aroused people failed signally, when the brothers of the dying man cried out aloud for vengeance—that which they knew the laws would deny them. “Storm the jail!” “Down with the jail door!” were the cries that went up from the incensed assemblage, but strong appeals for order from the more conservative produced something resembling calmness, cut of which came a posted notice that a vigilance committee was about to organize. This an- nouncement steadied the pulse of the people for a time, but the tension was painful, Within an hour jaftes the bullet felled James King of William the pioneers met in their rooms to comsider the shocking state of affai Feeling among them ran high, and a suggestion that a vigilance committee be formed met with unanimous approval. An agreement of mutual assistance and protection was drawn up and signed by every one present, and when the news reached the streets the citizens stormed the doors for admittance. By 12 o'clock that night 1600 names had been enrolled in the vigilance committee, from which an execu- tive committee was soon chosen. On May 16 the committee moved to the site since known as Fort Gunnybags, 215-217 Sacramento street. By this time every company had been fully equipped, and squads of men drilled day and night in their armories, in the streets and in the squares. Never since the days of Paul Revere were so many men “licked into shape” in so short a time. On Sunday morning, May IS, an order went forth for every man to report at his armory at 8 a. m. President Coleman had informed the Sheriff that the guard maintained by the committee within the jail was to be immediately withdrawn, its truce having come to an end. Of course, Sheriff Scannell was not slow to interpret this as a forerunner of hostilities. Forthwith he summoned 130 of the men who had banded together under the misleading, fine- sounding name of “Law and Order” and armed cap-a-pie to stand guard within and without. When the order “Forward, mar was given at ) a. m. 200 men were In line. Simultaneously 15,000 people had gathered upon the sidewalks, drawn thith- the “tramp, tramp” in the streets. Led by President Coleman, the citizen- soldiers marched into Kearny street, thence to the jail. Here they halted, wiit two companies drawn up directly in front of the jail door. In front of them a cld piece glared, and in various points of vantage 200 gunners grimly awaited t a signal a demand was made upon the Sheriff for the delivesy of Casey. s refus A second demand was made and was again rejected. A third al would virtually be a command to “storm the Five minutes were now given the Sheriff to come to time. President Coleman stood, watch in hand, talking tly with the Sheriff. The last minute had all but passed when, lo' out swung the iron door. Into the breach in the ramparts the vigilantes pressed, and hin a few minutes Casey appeared with them upon the threshold. He was greeted with a shout, but President Coleman disapproving of vulgar gloating raised his hand for silence. In an hour a delegation of the committee returned for Cora, who was deliv- ered without question. Both men were placed in carriages and conveyed to the headquarters on Sacramento street. In due time Cora was placed on trial. Every shred of obta adduced, but in all was not a mitigating circumstance. There: guilty and sentenced to be hanged. On May 2 James King of William succumbed to his wounds. nable évidence was ore he was found Casey was now a murderer and was on trial for his cryme while the deceased was yet unsepul- chred. Of course he was found guilty. On the 22d of May, while the editor was being laid to rest in Laurel Hill Cemetery, preparations were in progress for his avenging. Two platforms had been constructed from the second-story windows of the rooms, and upon these a peared the condemned men, robed in white, with white caps upon their heads. Be- side them were their spiritual condolers. At a signal the cords were cut, the bod- ies plunged downward-and the souls of the men slipped into eternity. This summary vengeance soon bore fruit. A tide of virtue swept over the city for a time, and daily departures of gamblers, ballot-box stuffers and bullies were noted. Many of these were invited to leave, and others anticipated the invitation and disdained to wait on formalities. i PINCGy PONC; V] By srore-RIPCHIE ING PONG virtually the game of lawn tennis rep v oO- duced in minia- ture; the strokes uged in the lat- ter are most of is former, although there are a few that are peculiar to both. As the rules at present apply vollesing ~ndoverhead play are not per- missible in ping- pong, ahw conse- quently a fea- ture of the game that is always very mueh Ad- micxi In +.nnis is laeh! in iy - Fhie, oot 49 in- eline’ E Dy s them used in the . ST i g X (& and there is little doubt.that sueh an in- troduction would prove a great attrac- tion to many players and do a lot toward abolishing the present monotony of the game. However, to return to the subject in hand, the two strokes that are the basis of nearly all others are the ‘‘forehand” drive and the “backnand” drive. A drive is a good hit which can be made either straight down the table or acrose it, & in both cases, of course, over the mel. goud “drive” at ping-pons causes strike< the same plesouce, @aly Posei to a smaller deureo, thot o i golf gives to the golfor ned at tennis to tho tenais be a stroke that has viz., reaches as nearly o pelsiio 4o. 4 cihioudl Be oF oell Gort towusii tho top o tho 106, DBEWES iR O POGOKD. SO O = P Y SN do this the “backhand” is (he term ap- plied to the stroke that takes its place. A somewhat interesting feiture is that in both these strokes there is-a natural direction in which the player will project the ball, viz., the natursd dirsction of the “orshand stroke is fom eight to Xift, and ke matural direction of ¢he Dachhand m, 52t to right. Good plavers at ping pong naturally vary wery much in dheir strengtly in Dackhand and Gofehand play, espeetively, and it depends to o gront « an fvhickeves Uhe player taies o nat v, whew starting playing the mame, e sylvich Be emeels fm widimately, e Goiy eoume ¢o & StPoke ¢Rad s useld £ Gove Gn ning ong dhen T laws Fon- , @rd TAAP i @ stroRs enlield R “Raty walloy.” TRe Ralf wollep moxys Dotudning of triRing Oho Gl cliaos? Vamodiataiy, Rod 1aiROn toble en $ROAEs Bonnge, Tio StPolie G5 madc of Ulo ARPYLR vonwss of ey is & sxfr O GIGHTI0 otfols, %;fi;k.;f,!l;‘y uae(@:‘;};%? €0 16 O (O#naln his shot 3y, Sl % 1020 5 ball to &5, left striking the ball until at the top of its bound or when dropping, as i§ the method generally adopted. Good half-volleying is a brilliant game to play and always inter- esting to wat®h, but it is only by dint of great practice that proficiency can be ob- sained A&nothe? stroke iz made @ good deal of use of at ping Pomg, and that is the “smoshk ™ It drequemtly happehs that in couvse of play, & p'ayee %o et himielf oul of 2 dificulty telfurns a Dall over the me Righ én ¢We aid an® often dPopping mea thé aef. By @ quick overhan® s¢soki Qis oppoucnd (s adle to smash dde ball oS D OV e @ast co thad 1) Gownees dvelh &vor GiS oppinens’s Bead of onywherd so dzab @b imposside Go¢ him e vetus: The Ball dnust nniteally geacrelly e o Sl Dowaddes ede do suecsssiully oeeome lish tim Ye Qave Qere dRobEencil S Sood &¥niel a3 e ghvele ¢ Boad o] the Sareued . Oneshane Ohoke g All the strokes above mentioned are equally applicable for hard hitting or for slower play with the addition of a cut. It is a meot question as to which is the most effective—hard straight drives or strokes with “screw” on them. The former are likely to gain points through their aviftness and power, the latter gain points more through trickiness and diffi- @dlty in Znowing what a ball is do with ®» great deal of “screw There is no doub? that ¢he lattez s ploy has vedy greatly increased, snd this 48 owing <o ¢he intvoduction of the yub- De wacqued. The daarvelous smound of spim whick ean be imparted o » walluloi@ Badt awith o vabber sacquet must e grem fhc Zolieved, and we have heard gay dhat dindisudbed as » @ anaEn Wik Snopuots o2 remedy lies in all players adopting them. We. now come naturally to the ‘“ser- vie Owing to the.rule that the server must serve with the head of his racquet below his waist an overhand or overhead service is impossible at ping pong. A good service, however, generally means the gaining of many points, and in our expe- rience a service with as much screw as can be imparted (top spin for preference). well placed, and with as much pace as possible, is the best; a good fast service is also often very effective, but owing to the waist rule it is rather a difficult matter to Zeep = vevy fast service in the court. Ju- diclous placing és of the greatest impor- tance, ang trhen serving the server should endeaver to veil the direction in which he songs to send the ball, In spite of the 2 of the table being & very small space inz Dy judicious placing, >all out of reach of he strokes mentioned are r; of play; all other e sex The Be- cc them W'\ W N (\) 3 3