The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1906, Page 9

FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1906 MISS JOSEPHINE EARIL, WEDS DR. C. N. THOMAS Ceremony Celebrated at the Carpenter Residence. Bride Is a Resident; of the Metropolis. Eastern Miss Hazel D. Cohn| IstoWed Harry E. Michael is desultory for the first time oming of the penitential sea- though the announcements of e gagements and weddings continue, sigify- £ a busy season for the little archer. The engage Hazel Do t recently announced of Mrs. Adolp blonde ma s practicin reception from 2 congratulations popular young ng will probably be & nite date has euberg announce r daughter Tessie announce ghter, Hazel Michael. The ! to their ell street young lady r of Mr, and GEMENTS. | and Mrs. | to 5 | the | | | Mr., 1 the Burr-Pad- g is sephine N. Thom matrimony of the em on £ th returned He nd the world is a mous Hetdelburg 1 own as a lecturer. r ortion of the S w abo: two e | PARTIES, | Miss Ada B n | from \ street HOME hen &4 he farewell . 3 | | el Guyo- sgen, Miss Edna | Lunstrom, CLUB AFPAIRS. will give i Lyrie I 8 OF POSTUM CEREAL. BROKE HER CHAINS She Wore Them for Thirty Years But Is Now a Free Woman. owa says that inker_ for convinced of her in- £ loath to she say allers it would ex- t I would sit an r or more after the d not even go up t e shopping with any comfort, uld often get all ready and off my F at home t and sta ell, € Postum Food Cof- ago, giving up the old rom the beginning my uprovement and soon arty and strong, free from bodily discomfort, with a tranquil spirit, and o remain to this day. And I owe to.the use of Postum.” Name take | | millions { out, | street will leave Wednesday for Birmin burger will be at home ttter street. Mr. and M Henry A. King have-taken { apartments at the Hotel Pleasanton; hav- n sold their home on Clay street. 1 Mrs. Julius Goldsmith of Port , Or. the Hotel Dorchester and recéive to 5 Somewhat prolonged was the duel Mr. and Mrs. Henry Suders are away on | Waged a few years back at a well- their wedding trip, spending a month at | known Yorkshire seaside resort, to de- Livermore. | cide which of two young men should Mr. and Mrs. I Cooper and Mrs. | surrender his claim to the hand of a Le who have been visiting through |local publican’s daughter. The rivals ern California, have returned to|POth prided themselves upon their na- th rtments at the Hotel Majestic. | tatory prowess, so it was agreed that | ————— | he who should first miss his morning’s FALSE CERTIFICATES | swim in the open should withdraw his GIV] AS COLLATERAL | Pretension to the lady's hand. For nine months and more each took his Attention this past week has been | matutinal swim, but at length there| |@rawn to the risk which banks incur | ©8Mme a day of such furious storm that | In accepting collateral for loans without 1 make their | of the certificates that askill phia brings clearly are incident to light in Phila- posed upon by false certificates of stock, | and at first glance the ease with which the Philadelphia institutions were de- frauded seems to suggest the imperative necessity of the adoption of methods that d make the repetition of such frafids more difficult than it has been in the past, The fact is, however, that such a fraud could not be perpetrated on a by any one except one in good standing in’ the financial community. No stranger could secure mongy on a fal | certificate of stock, for the mere fact th; hé was unknown would lead to the most careful investigation, eyen were the ques- tion of making him a loan considered 1. Inasmuch only those who com- mand r among bankers are in a position to commit such frauds the chances of loss are not great after all, in the final analysis the matter down to this, that banks are trust to the good faith of those with whom they deal. The on rnative & not deal .on credit at , and that is tantamount to going out of business. Banks every day of dollars hinds as collateral, certificate exa termining its bank to to In the year accept of securities of all and to have each ined with a view to de- uineness would be well secure a new certificate about the va- lidity of which there could be no doubt. But. this could scarcely be done, espe- clally not in the case of temporary loans which sometimes run no longer than the time it would take to enter the certifi- cate for transfer and secure the new one in return. Moreover, as matters now stand, the transfer tax would stand in the way of the transfer of stock by the banks, for the amount earned as interest would be seriously reduced, if not wiped by paying the transfer tax each time the security was given as collateral. Take for example a loan of say $100,000 on low-priced stocks such as Steel com- mon. This would call for the deposit of say 4000 shares of stock. The daily in- terest on the loan at 2 per cent would amount to $4.48, and if it ran.say for four days, the bank would receive in in- terest $21.92. The transfer tax on the 4000 shares at the rate of $2 a hundred shares would amount to $80, or nearly four times the interest for four days. Even on stock selling as high as 120 the interest would be wiped out by the trans- fer tax. The fact 4s that there are many ways | in which banks can very easily be de- frauded, but the safeguard for the banker lies in the fact that those in a position to defraud them are not likely once in ten thousand times to do s0. Any member of the financlal community in good standing could secure money on a forged check, but fortunately there are few of those with a reputation to lose who descend to such practices. Banking can only be done on the basis of the responsibility of those with whom banks deal, and nothing but the morals of their Postum Co,, Battle Creek, reason. Read the little Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. customers will save the bank from loss in their transactions with the public.— New York Times. I | * | =5 uring themselves of the genuineness | pledged as P s the fact | that banking institutions are readily im- x3 SOME REMARKABLE EUROPEAN DUELS nt tic Contests That Have Tried Men of Admitted Nerve and Courage. Two heavy weights suspended from a beam by slender cords were the weapons chosen by two Parlslans named Durier and Voisly to terminate remain until the breaking of one or the other of the cords should decide his fate. For more.than four hours.they remgined motionless, when the cord at- tached to Durier's weight snapped and the ponderous mass of metal, falling upon the man beneath, struck him to the ground. Fortunately, however, it just missed his head and he escaped with no worse damage than a severe shock and a broken collar bone. | dare the tempestuous, billows. other, however, at considerable dashed into the foaming sea, and, al- though he emerged triumphant wooer. Another aqueous duel occurred two vears since,.the location being the lake of Geneva and the contestants a Sw i Frenchman, who agreed that he could reman the longest beneath surface of the water should interruption or hindrance from the other be permitted to pay his addresses to the daughter of a wealthy trades- man. The rivals dived simultaneously and more than two minutes elapsed ere head appeared above the sur- e. There was no sign, however, of s rival, after whom, when yet another two minutes had sped, a couple of on- lookers dived and succeeded in recover- ing his sensele: body. Restoratives were successfully applied, and on Le- noir's recovering consciousness he was acclaimed the victor. | At the time of Succi's forty-day fast lat the Westminster Aquarium, some vears ago, a couple of young Mancuni- (ans agreed, by emulating his example, | to decide which of them should first propose for the hand of a girl who had | hitherto regarded them with a seem- | ingly impartial affection. Four days was sufficient ordeal for one, who, re- fusing any longer to abstain from food, left the field clear to his rival, whose The who the without nigh a physical impossibility. The most | proposal, however, met with scant con- ' | effective way to test a certificate, of | sideration from the lady, who declared course, is to present it for transfer and | that she would not entrust her future to the keeping of such a fool as he hai proved himself. Needless to say his rival's reception was equally glacial. During a very severe winter in the |'40s a couple of Germans, natives of Dresden, resolved for love of a woman to fight a duel to the death. Very fantastic was the method employed. ‘Without provision of any kind and clad only in the lightest of clothes, they went out into the country, there to re- main without shelter until one or the | other of them should succumb to the cold. Three days after their departure a wretched object crawled back Into | the town; ten miles distant his rival, frozen to death, lay beneath the falling snow.—New York Sun —————— The Capture of Niagara. Niagara Falls was discovered by La Salle, who became aware of its presence while trying to paddle a canoe up the Niagara River from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. Finding the current of the falls too’ swift to ascend, he gave up the attempt and constructed the first boat ever buiit in the United States a little above the falls. He remained In the® vi- cinity of: Niagara several months and came away without having bought a sin- gle souvenir postal card or having patron- ized a hackman, forming a record that has never been equaled. At the time Ni- agara was discovered it was in a wild and unclvilized state. Shortly after the revolutionary war, however, Niagara was captured by the hackmen and has re- mained in captivity ever since.—Ex- change. ————— ‘When some men send a dollar, to heaven they want to receive the earth for a re- bate. [ their rivalry for the hand of a pretty | | actress, sa Tit-Bits. Beneath a | weight each took his stand, there to one turned fainthearted and refused to | risk, | was badly cut and bruised, | named Zellner and one Lenoir, a | GRAND PACKED BY HINSTRELS Primrose’s Show Makes Big Theater Look Like the Inside of a Sardine Can ORPHEUM BILL PLEASES Marshall P. Wilder and Alf Grant in Monologues Run Abreast in Popular Favor George Primrose stood at the door of the Grand Opera-house last night and watched them pour in. Apparently some one must have thought that the San Francisco people had that tired feeling as far as minstrel shows are concerned. But between eight and a quarter after a good natured mob stormed the one open gate of the theater and it took two policemen to keep them from tearing down the bars. There might have been standing room for a living skeleton after the curtain went up. Some of the jokes Weére the jokes that brought down the house at the old Bush Street Theater in the days of Billy Emer- son; some were comparatively new, but San Francisco had been introduced to them before in vaudeville. Everything goes in negro minstrelsy, however, be- cause it is an institution. There was the modern coon song. of course, but there was “My Old Kentucky | Home,” and *“Way Down Upon the Swanee River” aftérward, to taka the | taste out of vour mouth. The coon songs come and the coon sangs go, but the real old plantation songs go on forever. There were plenty of the faces that haunted the old Bush Street Theater in | the first night crowd. The ;Qneel‘ follow- ers of negro minstrelsy wefe a trifle gray and older, some of them, but they wore something like their old Bush street smiles and the old Bush street enthusiasm | was there. The curtain went up on a representa- tion of minstrelsy in 1843 and immediately | afterward on the ministrels of the pres- ent day. There Was no apparent differ— ence, only the moderns wore immaculate evening garb. Then there was a bur- lesque that if it was put in to kill time served its purpose,after a fashion; and then Primrose himself. Primrose can dance as no one in vaude- | vilie or out-of it can dance. He has not the voice he had some time back, but his legs will never become rheumatlic. And the minstrels he has trained are | worthy puplls. The Stiver Cloud Clog dance does honor to the master and the | disciples. ‘Others who marde good are| ‘Aubrey Yares, Eddie Horan, David Irwin, | Emlle Subers and Eddie Mazfer. | It is seldom that two exceptionally clev- er and entertaining monologists are seen | in the same bill at a local vaudeville | house, but last night Marshall P. Wilder and Alf Grant ran even in popular favor at the Orpheum. Although Wilder had the advantage of a second week's popu- larity, his new gags and “‘string-of-talk'’ | were equal to his last week’s hits, and he kept the house in an uproar. Alf Grant, practically unheralded, proved the surprise of the evening to the Orpheumites. From start to finish he was | clever, bright and original, many of his | asides béing in the nature of inspirations. At no time @uring the act did he permit | the fun to drag, and hi§ departure from the stage was accompanfed by the regret of the Audience."As a' f8lt to Mr. Grant, Ethel Hoag, a charming young woman, is introduced, apd her work.is characterized by vivacity and naturalness. A circus in minjature is presented by Sandor's ' trained dogs, whose work showed the results of careful tralning and proved a movelty. Diminutive horses pranced and.cavorted about a minlature | ring, an active little lion did some excel- | lent bareback riding and midget men and wowmen—all dogs—proved droll and Ilu- dicrous. Another new turn also added to the at- | tractiveness of the bill. The world's com- | edy four, comprising Conlon, Ward, Dobbs and Hayes, is a quartet that has seldom | been equalled for harmany on the Or- pheum stage. Individually the men's voices are not above the average, but in combination the depth and beauty of the singing was remarkable. The remaining novelties, Abd'el Kader and his three wives, combine Oriental music and costumes with Oriental light- ning painting on canvas with pleasing ef- fect. The motion pictures conclude the performance with a “Dream of the Rare- bit Fiend" as exploited in The Call. | The holdover turns are Watgon and Morrisey, singers and dancers; Thomas J. Keogh and Ruth Francis in “The Way He Won Her” and’ William J. Sullivan and Clarice Pasquelena in ‘“The Newsboy's Appeal.” —————— in Framing n Pleture We do twp thihgs. We suit-both you and the pleture. You get work or taste and thought at the eame price of inferior stvles, and our experfence is worth a good deal. Sanborn, Vail & Co., T4 Market strest. . ————— TEA IN TABLOID FORM FOR MILITARY USE | | | | | Stapie Has Become Very Popular With Russian Soldiers in M churia, Compressed tea is common enough in Si- beria, but so far as I know an unknown commodity In this country. It is an ordi- nary black tea, which is very widely used by the Buritas of the transbaikal region, by whom the herb thus prepared is drunk, flavored with salt and sour cream. Sugar would be preferred, of course, but it is either unattainable or too high prieéd, costing, as it does, from 75 cents to §1 a pound, oThe compressed tea is of a very good quality. Just now it is of interest because | it i used by the Russian officers in Man- churia. The tea is compressed by superb modern machinery, evidence of which s afforded by the spléndid specimen of die- sinking on the tablet itseif. Such P&l been the pressure employed that the for- merly soft and ylelding leaves ume the appearance of a hard tile, which can with difficulty be cut with a knife. As a gen- eral rule, & mallet or hammer is used to break off a piece, very much as if the tablet were of stone. 7 The tea employed is a straight Suchong. which needs no cream because nature has given it a slightly creamy taste, and also one that is feebly saccharine, so that it requires less sugar than other teas. In flavor this compressed tea cannot be com- pared with the natural herb. It is much flatter in taste, bfué‘ :”:"l:c th& u“u.:: stimulating prope \ Dplece the of a thimble is sufficlent for a large, strong ‘cup. No te=pot is necessary. Scalding water is poured on the nugget in a cup, and in a few minutes the tea is ready. No cementing ageént whatever is used in compressing. high srade teas—not even in compres- ‘in the leaves, which is all the adhesive required to hold the block together. A tablet thus com- pressed may be exposed to soakng rains with little danger of Injury. As a gen- eral rule, however, compressed tea is kept in worsted bags. The official Russian compressed tea is not obtainable in Europe outside of Rus- sla.—Sclentific Amerfcan. The shepherd’s crook does not make the crooked sheep. z % | present a vital subject in a vital way, DANIEL O -ON AUS Coo—eé Statesman Will _Deliver Address. ALL THINKERS ARE INVITED Men and Women of Prominence the Hosts. AL G J. D. PHELAN WILL PRESIDE BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS. Tomorrow night Australia’s famous speaker and redoubtable member of Parliament, Daniel Q'Connor, will de- liver an address upon the “Result of Reform Movements in Australia,” at Lyric Hall. And that the good-looking Coo-ee statesman will say things is a foregone conclusion—he always does. The lccture is to be given under the patronage of some of the best-known men and women in town-—they who do a little thinking on their own account, and to whom precedent is not as a Mo- saic law. Among them are James (who will, preside), Rev. Dr. William Rader, Fairfax Whelan, A. McArthur, Mrs. John Merrill, Mrs. Horace Coffin, Mrs. Elcanor Martin, Mrs. John F. Swift, Mrs. Charles J. Newman. Mrs. George Law Smith, Mrs. Austin Sperr: Mrs. A. R. Cotton, Madame Emilia To- jetti, Mrs. Lovell White, Mrs. Nathan Frank, Mrs. Aaron Schloss, Mrs. Nellle Holbrook Blinn and a host of others cqually interested in the encouragement of the propagation of ideas—an unor- ganized sect now rapidly developing in numbers in San Francisco. The Hon. Mr. O’Connor, H. C. S. 6.— I don’t know just what these stand for, but they certainly look imposing-—pos- scsses an inimitable method of telling what he knows about things. And he is said to know about a tremendous lot of things, much of which interesting knowledge he has gained while Minis- ter to the Crown. . Not only will the Australian orator D. Phelan but there will be two other stirring talks—one by Samuel Shortridge and the other by Dr. F. C. Hathaway, who will discuss afrairs in New Zealard. And the price Not a penny—Ilest it be vour attend- ance and your attention when you get there. This is to be a treat of the advanced women hereabouts, alded and abetted by the advanced men. And it is for you, if you'think. If your mind be not hermetically sealed, and you enjoy trapping a new idea, come and bring your friends. S908 On Thursday afternoon *the * seventh regular business meeting of - the Council of Jewish Women was: held in. Temple Emanu-El, Miss Evelyn K. Aronson pre- siding. Prosaic reports—financial, programmic and social—were read to an interested foregathering of women, who found much of gratification in the resume of the vear’'s charitable and cultural work. A little music, cholcely rendered, and a good brew of tea closed a pleasant and profitable afternoon. With what unflinching courage women face the reading of dry reports! o, . On Wednesday next Mrs. Mary Fair- weather will lecture upon Wagner's “Ring de Niebelungen” in the California Club house, under the auspices of the music section of the California Club. Assisting the lecturer will be Miss Helen Heath and Frederick Maurer—a worthy guarantée of one’s money's worth. e o The members of To Kalon enjoyed many happy hours together during the month. On February 20 the club's men friends were guests. Arthur Delroy, Mrs. Newton Tharp and Miss Lucla Thompson furnished the evening's entertainment, after which refreshments were served. “Art” was the topic for the regular meeting on March 6. Mr. Latimer intro- duced the subject by a few words on “Art in the Schoolroom,” the benefit of fine art pictures to the growing child. Professor Benjamin Ide Wheeler, presi- dent of the University of California, gave a delightful talk on Greece, the mother of art. Several well selected solos on the violoncello by Miss Lewis concluded one of the most interesting afternoons that To Kalon has enjoyed. At the Christmas festival 250 children were given complete outfits of clothes and also presents of tovs, fruits and eandies. The following trustees were elected for 1906: Mrs. Eugene Lent, Mrs. Zeigler, Miss Harvey, Miss N. O'Brien. Mrs. Rich- ard F. Whelan, Mrs, W, H. Nolan, Mrs. Knox, Mrs. R. E. White and Mrs. Bibby. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Eugene Lent, president: Mrs. Zelgler, first vice president; Miss N. O'Brien, second Yice president; Mrs. Mohun, treasurer; Miss Whelan, assistant treasurer; Miss Mary Ingliss, secret-ry.. o . The Daughters of California Pioneers, Mrs. Sidney Palmer Smith president. will meet today in the parlors of the Pioneer building to discuss the following promis- ing programme: Vocal solos, (a) “Good- by, Summer” (Tostl), (b) ‘“Maytime” (Speaks), Mrs. Walter Janke, accompa- nied by Mrs. Frank Sherwood; vocal solo, (a) “Lover and His” Lass” (Foote), (b) “Dainty Little Love” (Newcomb), Mrs. M. McPhail, accompanied by Mrs. Katherine Day Boynes; (a) “Symnores Song” (Kje- rulf), (b) “Flower Girl" (Berignani), Miss Hazel Rinne: ‘“‘Christmas Night in the Quarters’ (by request), Alista Shed Lang- stroth. - > Going about its business very quietly and unostentatiously, clothing the needy and bringing cheer into the hearts of little children, is the Francisca Society, an or- ganization attached to St. "Ignatius Church. At the close of the past month a report was presented at its annual meet- ing wherein the breadth of its activities was demonstrated as follows: Receipts, $2220; disbursements, $1580.95. Miss May Ingliss read the secretary’s report, show- ing that during the year 1305 the soclety ‘had disbursed 3000 garments to women and children and furnished sixty yards of new material and distributed 275 pairs of shoes. The Mission Reading Club held i monthly meeting on Friday, March 1, at the residence of Mrs. M. T. Walker, 1627 Hayes street. A literary and musical pro- gramme had been prepared. Mrs. A. Brucker's reading of “The Only Child"” was heartily applauded, also the vocal solos by Mrs. McDonald, the possessor of a well-placed vol'ce. fons The Medical Women's Club, an unof- ficered and therefore harmonious organi- zation, was host at a banquet at the Pal-+ CONNOR TO SPEAK TRALIAN REFORM. g DS JOIA T JSWIT ‘e o O'CONNOR WILL L N : PROGRESSIVE WOMEN UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES HON. DANIEL O CONNOF DELIVER A LIVE ADDRESS TO-MORROW NIGHT AT LY- RIC HALL UPON “REFORM MOVEMENTS IN AUSTRALIA." S PRGNS = ace on Saturday. night, to which the fol- lowing guests were bidden: Mrs. Lovell White, Mrs. Aylett Cotton, Mrs. L. A. Kelley, Mrs. L. L. Dunbar, Miss Catherine Felton, Mrs. Margaret Deane, Mrs. D. W. Nesfield, Dr. Mary Roberts Smith and Mrs. Austin Sperry. Dr. Mary Halton served as toastmistress in charming fashion. The toasts were crisply handled, as foliows: “Our Guests,™ Dr. Edith Brownsill; “Our Sisters in Oth- er Occupations,” Dr. Emma Sutro Mer- ritt; “Our €lub’s Future,” Dr. Margaret Maheney; “The Development and Grawth of Women,” Dr. Hannah ~ Webster; “Recipes for Getting Rich in Medicine," Dr. Kate Post Van Orden. Verily, are women growing to discern a toast from a commencement day address —for which the gods be thanked. —_———— Lays Ralls to Keep Franchise. COLUSA, March 15.—Captain W. T. Forsman of Sacramento. who was granted a franchise by the Supervisors to build an electric railroad from Co- lusa to the Glenn County liné, laid a few ties and rails at Princeton yesters day. This was done to preveant a fors feiture of the franchise. onjure of musical technic and greatest | THETWO K'S UBELIK 'INNABE.. are, to music lovers, sym- bolic of per- fection. The first, Wizard of =—] the Violin, emotions, Master of genius of the world. Second, the Peerless Knabe, greatest of all pianos, the unquestioned choice, the unrivaled support and fundamental basis of artistic success. @ The selection of the Knabe Piano by the Great Bohemian Violinist, Jan Kubelik, for his second American tour is the result only of his desire to be affiliated with the best and most artistic piano known ‘to the musical world. Q. Knabe pianos justifiy the expectations of artist and lavman alike. Superb in tone, action and finish they abound in those par- ticular qualities without which success is impossible. * Knabe pianos are sold, when desired, on easy payments. BRANCHES — Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Los Angeles, 8an Diego, Reno, Nev.; Phoenix, Aris. Rosa,