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20 BRIGHT PARAGRA[HS ANENT THE WEEK'S THEATRICAL EVENTS. The coming week promises some pleas ant evenings for theater-goers. While there are few novelties, none of the fea tures to be presented are dull. Consider ing the fact that so many people are out of town, the playhouses are well patronized. COLUMBIA THEATEE. 11 The Senator" to Be Followed lj "Our Girls." " The Senator " will continue for the J coming week at the Columbia Theater, after which Miss Helen Dauvray will be seen for the first time in San Francisco in Bronson Howard's comedy, "Our Girls." This comedy was written for Miss Dauv ray, and will be produced under her per- \ sonal direction. The cast will include al most the entire personnel of the Frawley Company. Souvenirs will be presented to the ladies attending the opening perform ance of "Our Girls." It has also been ar ranged to take a flashlight photograph of the audience on that occasion. Managers Friedlander, Gottlob & Co. have arranged to give the first presenta tion on any stage under L. R. Stock well's direction of A. C. Wheeler's (Nym CrynJde's) new burlesque, written for Henry E. Dixey, entitled. "A Gentle Savage." Rose Coghlan and Maurice Barry more will also be in the company. BALDWIN THEATEE. The Lyoenm Company Booked to Appear Next Week. The Baldwin Theater will open for its fall season on the 15th inst., when the Lyceum Company, under the' personal supervision of Daniel Frohman. will pro duce that new and successful play, "The Case of Rebellious Susan." "An Ideal Husband" and "The Ama zons" will be among the other dramas that the Lyceum Company will present during its coming engagement. The talent of the company has been strenethened j since the organization was here last and everything points to a highly successful season. CALirOKNIA THEATEE. Coming Production of a Hoyt Farce- Comedy. "The Old Homestead" enters its third and last week at the California Theater to morrow evening. Hoyt's latest successful farce-comedy, "A Black Sheep," opens at the California Theater on the 15th inst. It is said to j abound in new songs, up-to-date sayings < and pretty dances. The chief male role, j that of Hot Stuff, wiil be played by ('tis Harlan, and Miss Fannie Johnson has the leading female role, that of the Queen of j Burlesque. Two of the most am using hits ! of the play are said to be the dance of the burlesque company and the scene when a j couple of college graduates play football. GBAND OPEKA-HOUSE. Coming Production of One of Sir Augustus Harris' Successes. Henry Pettit and Sir Augustus Harris' comedy drama, "The Prodigal Daughter," ' will be produced at Morosco's to-morrow night. The work was originally played ac the Drury Lane Theater, London, where it ■ held the boards for over a year. The story deals with well-to-do Eng- j lish people and here and there is tinged j with a sporting element. The scenes are : variously placed at a country seat and ; training-stable in England and in the court of the Grand Hotel, Paris. "The Prodigal Daughter" does not follow the regular con ventionalities of melodrama, and though , there is a villain he is not a double-dyed j one. The cast is as follaws: Captain Harry Vcrnon Walter Sanford ' Sir John Woodmere Kdniond Hayes Maurice Deepwater George L, Moi Hon. Julian Belford H. V. Brinker : Lord Ban bury I «eslte Roper .Frank B Tom B> i ;i k*r Clay W. Swain Miserable Jim W. U Gleason i ' Joseph Gunu King Gray j French Waiter Frank Wynian J(er.<! I'omT William Humphreys Hotel Clerk Sydney Robertson Base Woodmore Hand Edna Hall Dorcas Omrlp. a Quakeress Julia Blanc Violet Woodmere Helen Henry AT THE ORPHEUM. A Number of New Performers From Europe. No less than ?even new artists will ap pear at the Orpheum to-morrow evening. They are: Kennedy and Lorenz, the Muhlemann trio, and Bloeksomand Burns. This is the first visit of Kennedy and Lorenz to the United States. They will perform an act entitled, "Suggestion," which will tax the guessing powers of Or pheum audiences for the coming week. Miss Kennedy is a lady who, while blind folded and at a considerable distance from her colleague, Lorenz, gives the names of articles touched by him, describing them with minute accuracy. Any one in the audience may suggest by a whfsper to Lorenz what he or she would like Miss Kennedy to do, whether in the carry ing out of an" action or the description of an object, and the latter immediately com plies with the request. The Muhlemann Trio will sing Swiss songs and a new knock-about comedy will be introduced by Blocksom and Burns. The Martinettis'and other of last week's performers will be retained. A special matinee will be given on Tues day next, the proceeds of which will be de voted to the relief of needy sufferers from the recent fiie. " TIVOLI OPEEA-HOUSE. Balfe's ''Satanella" Will Be the Next Pro duction. A number of novelties will be intro duced into the performance of "Tar. a:id Tartar" at the Tivoli this week, and ihe opera will be continued until further notice. The next production at\the Tivoli will be Balfe's " Satanella," in which Martin Pache, a new tenor, will make his first ap pearance. New scenery, costumes, prop erties and electric effects are being espe cially prepared for the production of "Satanella." The management of the Tivoli has en gaged Alice ('arle, a fine mezzo-soprano, and is negotiating with the basso, William Broderick, for a season of grand opera, in connection with Ida Valerga, Martin Pache, John J. Raff ael and W. H. West, in a repertory including "Faust," "Mi gnon," the "Pagliacci," etc. ALCAZAE THEATEE. Alfred Dampier to Appear in a Shakespearean Eole. "Hamlet, 1 ' with Alfred Dampier in the title role, will be the attraction to-morrow evening at the Alcazar Theater. Dampier, who has played this most puz zling of all Shakespearean roles with suc cess, both in England and Australia, is said to have a very original conception of Hamlet. He does not indorse the gener ally accepted division into acts and scenes, and performs a good deal of transposition in the course of the tragedy. May Nannery will play Ophelia, and Margaret Marshall the Queen. James Garden has been engaged especially to enact the ghost. W. 0. Dudley will be the King, and Frank Cooley the first player. COMEDY IN GEEMAN. The Conried Company to Play at the Baldwin. The Conried Comedy Company from the Irving Place Theater, New York, will be gin its first annual engagement at the Bald win Theater on Sunday, July 21, with fcchoenthiiu and Kadelburg's successful comedy, "Der Herr Senator." which will be produced with the same caste with which it was presented in New York. The engagement is for ten Sunday night perform nnces. The company comes direct from New Yorlc, and returns thither at the conclusion of its San Francisco enirage nient. Among the artists who will play for the first time in this City are: Miss Anna Braga, Wilhelmine Schlueter, Elsa Dore, Lina Haenseler, Max Bira, Arthur Eggeling, Max Haenseler, Mathieu Pfeil, Rudolf S«?nius, Anton Ascher. Macdoncngh Theater. The reopening of the Macdonough Theater, Oakland, will be celebrated by the appearance of "The Old Home stead." The engagement is for four consecutive nights and one Wednesday matinee, commencing Monday, July 15. Oakland Theater. The Oakland Theater, refitted, repainted and under new management, hag been drawing good houses all the week with the Shaw Comedy Company in "Farmer Stebbins." KING'S DAUGHTERS' HOME The Name in One Sense a Mis- nomer— Something of the Management. Story of Dr. Frank Nichols, One of the Most Interesting of the Inmates. Every visitor to the King's Daughters' Home for Incurables comes away with an increased sense of the generosity of the human species and a less ready ear for the wail about "man's inhumanity to man." The institution is located at 217 Fran cisco street and has, at present, fifty-five inmates. It is overcrowded, and the loca tion is not the best. It was carrying the burden of a heavy debt until the enter tainment given for the institution by the Fruit and j'lower Mission made a con siderable decrease in that debt. Yet, not withstanding all these drawbacks there is not a more contented community within i the boundaries of California than is to be | found at the Home for Incurables. The reception-room is a neatly furnished I apartment, with an air of coziness that is i repeated in all the rooms of the patients. I There is nothing suggestive of the hospital about the place. Every patient has a room, which is his or her castle. All the bric-a --: brae or little belongings, precious because of home associations, may be brought there to eniiven the sick room.. Some of the rooms are thus transformed into veri table homes. There is a wealth of air and j sunshine flooding the building, and an ut- I ter absence of the odor that hangs about ; some of the best hospitals. The charter provides that every tenth in mate may be received as a charity patient, , but so great has been the demand for aid that at present every fifth patient is a ward ; of the corporation that controls the home. There is a genera! misconception as to i the government and sources of revenue of the institution. It is supposed that the ! ninety or more circles of King's Daughters in the City provide for its support when the expenses cannot be met. The fact is that the Ever Ready Circle* of the First Methodist Church and the Merry Sunshine of one of the Mission churches are the only organizations in the City that contribute a j quota to it. and that is a fee of $10 yearly , from each circle. State aid was withdrawn in the efforts to retrench public expenses, which were made by the fast Legislature. ; Aside from the yearly contribution of $50 ; made by the Cupertino Circle of Santa Clara County, no help is received from the | order whose name the institution bears. I That name came from the fact that all the members of the corporation were King's Daughters and desired to work "In His , Name." The cost of shelter, food, medicine and all the advantages of the institution to those who are able to pay is $25 a month. Life memberships can be secured for those above 00 years of age for $500, although in special cases that figure has been reduced. The visitor has much the feeling of one who is making a round of calls on pros perous friends as he looks in upon the in mates in their cheerful rooms. Every one is content. One courtly old gentleman said contentment did not half express it in his case, and a sunny-faced old lady, who has not been able to leave her bed for eleven years and who numbers deafness among her afflictions, tells her callers how happy she is and how good God has been to her. The charity patients have pre cisely the same accommodations afforded to those who pay. Perhaps the most interesting character in the institution is Dr. Frank Nichols, until four years ago a prosperous and popular dentist of Salt Lake City. But paralysis, blindness, loss of mining prop erty were blows that came upon him in quick succession. His friends, of whom he had many, endeavored to secure a place for him in various institutions of the country, but failed until a life membership was secured in the King's Daughters' Home for Incurables. He is exceedingly grateful for this refuge in his last years and never tires of talking of the goodness of the friends who accomplished it. Through the same agency $.'(SO has been deposited in a bank in this City subject to his check. His chief pleasure is in cor respondence with Utah friends and in hav ing the Salt Lake City papers read by the matron, Mrs. Belle Lemon. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY <Vv??>)V " i^> . Hypnot i z d LlZ \>\' ({ *■ it ards. —An English ''V'J.-.y " scientific journal has received an interesting communication on the subject of the so-called "death-feign ing instinct" of certain reptiles. The cor respondent, who writes from Syria, says that when a certain species of Egyptian lizard is captured it makes a few vigorous efforts to escape, and then, if held firmly, falls into a limD, motionless state, which might easily lead an inexperienced person to think it dead. The animal, however, is simply in a trance-like condition. Gentle respiratory movements are visible just be hind the shoulders, and sometimes show a rising and falling rhythm, with short in tervals of complete rest. The eyes may remain wide open, but are commonly half closed, and the lids wink slowly from time to time, spontaneously or by reflex action. The mouth is almost always — some- timeswide, sometimes but little, and in either case the jaw is quite rigid, and if closed by force is apt to reopen when the pressure is withdrawn; the 'limbs lie ex tended and semi-flaccid, with some ap proach to a cataleptic condition, i. c., if bent or stretched into position not too strained, they maintain" such positions when let go; and tiie same is true of the trunk and tail. If, now, the lizard be laid down gently on the tloor or on a table, it will lie perfectly still, and seemingly un conscious for some minutes (unless roused by sudden jar or loud noise), the eyes pre serving throughout a peculiarly vacant, expressionless aspect, quite suggestive of death. While in this state the lizard may be put into a variety of positions without THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1895. eliciting any sign of consciousness, and will lie as quietly on its back as in the natural position. There is a considerable degree of cutaneous anesthesia; a pin may 'be run through a fold of the skin without fully rousing the animal, a slug gish, feeble wriggle being the sole result. The trance usually lasts about five min utes, when the animal by a brusque effort assumes its normal position. This done, it lies quite still, but evi dently awake and observant, for a few moments more, and then scuttles off in a hurry. Dr. Van Dyck looks upon this manifestation not as vol untary or conscious death-feigning, but as a form of hypnotism. The natural enemies of these lizards are foxes, jackals, martens, birds of prey and snakos. "Can any one believe," asks Dr. Van Dyck, "that any one of these animals, having captured a lizard, would be in the least inclined to let it go because it lay motionless and appar ently dead in the captor's grasp? Or will it be argued that the trance condition is a special gift, 'in mercy' to the victim, to mitigate or abolish the pain of death? If the last be the true explanation, one is tempted to ask why such tenderness is shown to a favored" few of the victims in nature's wondrous system, while the majority are left in possession of conscious ness and sensibility, more or less acute, until they have sustained enouch mechan ical injury to kill or stun them." Thirty Millions of Roses Snuffed Up Each Year.— A contemporary states that although the practice of snuff tating went out with full-bottomed wigs there are a good many people to whom its titillation is still a pleasure. Formerly it was used by the gentry, now the demand for it is entirely from democratic sources. There is a prevalent idea that tobacco, from which snuff is made, is almost entirely ob tained from the tobacco plant. This is a mistake. Much manipulation is necessary in the curing of the leaf and the fitting of it for snuff-making. For certain brands of snuff the tobacco is mixed with scents, licorice and molasses before being dried and powdered. It is stated that in snuffs alone one factory uses up 30,000,000 roses a year. It takes 10,000 roses to make one ounce of attar of roses, and the establish ment mention buys .SOOO ounces a year. So powerful is this perfume that it overpowers the weaker although still strong odor of the tobacco. The manufacture of snuff is very elaborate. The main processes are the" cutting of the tobacco leaf, the fer menting, the baking, the powdering, the scenting and the packing, out there are at least a score of lesser operations before the product is shipped to the dealer. Wood Clothing.— Some of the Japanese soldiers wear paper clothing, which proves very durable, so it is hardly surprising that a French chemist should have hit upon a method of producing artificial cot ton from wood cellulose. The cellulose is heated under pressure in a closed vessel with zinc chloride, hydrochloric and acetic acids, a little rice oil, caseine and gelatine. A pasty mass is thus obtained, which is placed in a cylinder and expelled through the base of the latter by means of a heavily loaded piston. The threads as they issue are led first between two hot rolls, then into a weak solution of washing soda, and finally between another pair of drying rolls. The material weaves and dyes well. The strength of the "cotton"' is sain to be much increased by parchmentizing. As this cloth is waterproof and extremely light, it has been suggested that it would form an excellent material for the cloth ing of the masses in India. In connection with the subject of wood pulp, a contem porary points out that the imports of that substance into Manchester, England, dur ing the month of March were the largest on record, and show an increase, compared with the previous month, of more than 20,000 bales. Japanese Shipping. — The enormous de velopment in ship-building of which America gives promise adds interest to a paper which has been published in Eng land on "Japanese Shipping." The paper contains many points which can be profit ably considered by American ship-builders. In a single generation the Japanese have in many cases dispensed with their Euro pean professors and teachers and are going ahead themselves. They build and equip their own warships and engines, and there are signs that they mean to become a ship building nation. They are building almost all their own vessels! In 1802 there were fifty-three ship-building yards in Japan, turning out vessels for trading purposes on modern lines. It ia said that a vessel of 4000 tons can be built in Japan for about $5 a ton less than in Europe. Improved Laundry Machine. — An im proved ironing machine has appeared for caffs, collars and shirts. In the ordinary ironing machine the table has to be re versed by moving the belt, which loses a great deal of time. In the improved ironer the table is moved by means of friction pulleys, and is reversed or sent forward by a simple arrangement operated by the foot. The roller is so arranged that it can be raised or lowered at will without the nef es- Bity of repadding the table. The heating apparatus has also been advantageously modified and contains a special gas burner, which admits equal parts of gas and air, giving an even distribution of heat and do ing away with smoky rollers, which are usually "such a source of trouble in ma chines of this class. Salts of Copper in the Culture of Po tatoes. — The scare as to poisoned food which crops up fitfully has of late taken for its object the employment of salts of copper for the culture of potatoes and vines, and it has been insinuated that grapes and tubers grown in this way were by no means harmless. As generally hap pens in such cases, as soon as the subject has been thoroughly investigated its ab surdity becomes apparent. M. Aime Gi vard has made a series of chemical an alyses, and finds that there is not the slightest grounds for the supposition that gaits of copper could impart to the fruit or vegetable any poisonous qualities. The trace of copper obtained from the ashes of the incinerated grapes and potatoes is too small to be of any importance. To Prevent the Blowing of Sand.—En gineers having in charge works on the sea coast or 'in sandy districts are some times confronted with the problem of so controlling the sand that it shall not shift and blow away under the influence of high winds. For this purpose the Dutch Gov ernment has suggested the planting of a special kind of broom, the sea reed and the upright sea line grass on dunes and along the sandy banks of rivers. It is un certain whether this would prove effective in a dry and hot climate. The Largest American Oak. What is considered the most massive, symmetrical and imposing tree in Eastern North America is a live oak (Quercus Vir giniana) standing on one side of the en trance to Drayton Manor House, on Ash ley River, near Charleston, S. C. The home of the Drayton family, a handsome red brick Elizabethan mansion, was built while South Carolina was a British colony, and it is said that the site of the house was selected on account of this tree, al though, as the live oak grows very rapidly, it is not impossible that it was planted with its mate on the other side of the drive when the house was first built, says an ex change. At the present time the short trunk girths 23 feet 4 inches at the smallest place between the ground and the branches, which spread 123 feet in one direction and 119 feet in the other. This tree is growing over a bed of phosphate, and the demands of trade will therefore probably cause its destruction before its time. No one who has not seen the Dray ton oak can form a true idea of the majestic beauty of the live oak, the most beautiful of the fifty species of oaks which grow within the borders of the United States, or of all that nature in a supreme effort at tree-growing can produce. Utah, including the improvements made by the Mormons, is tsorth $24,775,279. THE WOMAN HISTORIAN. Interesting Passages in the Life of Frances Fuller Victor. HER WORK IN THE WEST. Chosen by the Oregon Legislature to Write a History of the Indian Wars. Of the women who write there is a goodly company, but the woman historian is a rara avis. She usually flocks by her self in the field of letters. Her sisters in the inky craft, as a rule, prefer (lights of fancy to the ferreting of facts, and hence it comes to pass that when they distinguish themselves at the point of the pen, it is in the beaten path of fiction rather than the less frequented byways of historical research. But there dwells in our midst a woman with that anomalous characteristic, a genuine affinity for statis tics—a woman with a faculty for removing the mantle of tradition from skeletons of the past, giving to the world the interest ing results of her discoveries, and her name is Frances Fuller Victor. Mrs. Victor is not easy prey for the in- MRS. FRANCES FULLER VICTOR. [From a photograph by Taber.] terviewer. Averse to' publicity, accessible to her friends, but reserved with strangers, she lives a life of comparative seclusion, undisturbed by the noise of less gifted workers clamoring at the gates of fame. A native of New York State, Frances Fuller with her family removed to Ohio when she was very young. She received a seminary education, the best then obtain able, but continued to study and develop her mind. Visiting the metropolis of New York from time to time, the young writer met all the celebrities of the artistic and literary world congregated there previous to the late war. It was in this congenial atmosphere that the young girl, already knownMby her contri butions of prose and verse "o the journals of the day, received her first real encour agement, and the way seemed open to her for a bright career. She compiled a Youth's History of America for an East ern publishing-house, but the breaking out of the war prevented its appearance. Home duties compelled her to return to Ohio, and, eventually marrying Mr. Victor, a naval officer, they came in 1803 to San Francisco, where Mrs. Victor identified her self with California journalism. Writing sometimes under the pseudonym of "Flor ence Fane," "Dorothy D" and other pen names, frequently with no signature at all, she became a component part of early coast newspaperdom. Her stories took on the Western coloring, and when they ap peared unsigned in the San Francisco and Chicago press they were accredited to Bret Harte, then in the height of his popu larity. A few years later Mrs. Victor went to Oregon. Admiration for that lovely, pictur esque and comparatively unknown country of almost boundless resources and a de sire to penetrate the mysteries of its past environment led to her life labors as a his torian. The vast region now comprising Oregon and Washington is familiar soil to Mrs. Victor, whose historical and topo graphical researches have led her far afield in pursuit of her calling— tasks as compre hensive to her as they would have been difficult for another, since aptitude and love for her labors went hand in hand. "Atlantis Arisen' 1 is the attractive title of a book by Mrs. Victor, dealing with the physical features of the northwestern country, interspersed with anecdote. Among other books of importance are: "The River of the West," con taining Oregon's early history and an account of the fur companies; "All" Over Oregon and Washington" and "History of the Early Indian Wars of Oregon." The Legislature of the latter State passed a bill authorizing the Secre tary to appoint some one for the writing of this book, and Mrs. Victor was chosen. "The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems" was published in 1877. Mrs. Vic tor's literary style is characterized by force, clearness,' keen imagination and good English. The most popular of her books is the "River of the West," a second edition -of which will be brought out in the near future. When about 20 years of age Mrs. Victor, then Miss Fuller,* published a volume of *erse in collaboration with her sister. Phcebe and Alice Gary were their intimate friends, and the quartet was often alluded to in the Ohio press as "the two pair of poetesses." Mrs. Victor relates with much amusement her experience with her first pamnhlet production, a novelette. She asked an old-time friend of the family his opinion of it. "Well, FranK," he replied with com mendable candor, "the story doesn't amount to anything, but the preface is fine." Mrs. Victor avers that this wholesome criticism saved her from further produc tion of trivial work. It is rather unusual in those days, when Home of our so-called first families can trace their genealogy no further back than the time "when papa came round the Horn," to meet any one whose ancestral tree is as traceable as a railroad map. Aristocracy of mushroom growth fades into sorrowful insignificance, when, as in the case with Mrs. Victor, the genealogical torch lights up a pathway that has been trodden by suc ceeding generations for moro than 500 years. She is descended from Lady Susan Clinton, wife of a deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was her self a descendant of thirteen English kings. One of Mrs. Victor's ancestors was Sir William Walworth, the first Lord Mayor of London, who was knighted by Richard II for saving that sovereign's life. The coat of arms bestowed by the monarch upon his loyal subject is simple in design, being a heart-shaped shield with two wreaths tied by ribbon, bearing the motto: "Strike for the laws." Washington Irving, in his immortal Sketch-book, re count's a visit to the tomb of Sir William, and the latter is also referred to in the "Courtship of Miles Standish." "The greatest Duncan," mentioned by Shake speare, and a Justice under one of the Edwards, were also antecedents of this latter-day historian, and the anecdotes re vealed by a glimpse into her family archives would il 11 a volume. Mrs. Victor's individual labors in the Bancroft Library covered a period of eleven years, between 1878 and 1889, and six big volumes are the results. Four of these contain her work exclusively — Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and Oregon. The remainder is scattered throughout various volumes. It is a note worthy fact that Mrs. Victor compiled all the political history in volumes VI and VII of Bancroft's California series, and also the railroad history, subjects that the average woman writer" would scarcely be overjoyed to have assigned her. She also wrote a book on "Transportation and Min ing" for Bancroft's "Chronicles of the Builders." These years of unremitting toil, during which her identity was practically lost in the shadow of a publisher's name — years of bookworm seclusion and absorption in her tasks — left their inevitable impression upon body and brain. Mrs. Victor emerged to tind her health impaired, her name remembered by the friends of early journalistic days, but unfamiliar to a later growth of newspaper work ers, who turned with idle curious ity the files of the Golden Era, Call, Bulletin, Overland and Sacramento Rec ord-Union. Her husband had been drowned at sea in : 75, when the Pacific col lided with a sailing vessel off the coast of Washington. The way has not been easy for her, but her book-making days are far i from being over, and she is now engaged in accumulating material for ultimate pub lication. One who, like Frances Fuller Victor, ranks her art above the greed of i money-getting, deserves praise. Few among us, in passing, will leave work of so j enduring a quality behind. L. P. F. I.iim i tif mio Fungi. A man traveling in Australia found a i large mushroom of this genius weighing five pounds. He took it to the house where he was stopping, and hung it up to I dry in the sitting-room. Entering after | dark he was amazed to see a beautiful soft : light emanating from the fungus. He I called in the natives to examine it, and at I the first glance they cried out in great fear i that it was a spirit. It continued to give out light for many nights, gradually de creasing^ until it was wholly dry. Dr. Gard i ncr, while walking through the streets of a Brazilian town, saw some boys playing with a luminous object, which he at first thought was a large firefly; but he found on inspection it was a brilliant mushroom (Agaric), which now bears his name. It gave out a bright light of a greenish hue, and was called by the natives "fior de coco," as it grew on a species of palm. The young plants emit a pale greenish light. Many kinds of fungi are phosphor escent. Hum bold t describes some ex quisitely beautiful ones he saw in the mines. The glow in rotton wood is caused by it containing the threads of light-giv ing fungi.— St. Nicholas. PIN DESPAIR. k PEN PICTURE.' Many Women Will Recognize It. [SPECIAL TO OUR LADT KEADEKS.] "Oh, lam so nervous! No one ever suffered as I do! There isn't a well inch in my whole body! I o honestly think my lungs J^ssk are diseased, my chest «£*^« pains me so; .-„, . .-■iWy - *" j but I've no '^M|P3 cough. I'm so stomach, and have in- \^||i^^i digestion horribly. i^^^J^a Then I have ■ palpita- jjafff^ m&i tion, and my heart jdf*?- 'f7\^' hurts me. . How T\ lam losing j^^^' flesh! and this /r ' -^^^^v. headache near- |i : «*^p3a the backache | : MOM'M \\ had hysterics '. <■' 'J*f ! &J \ I There is" a &LjfejjJ£i^ ' weight in the ~g^J& it &S^^ lower part of *^ my bowels, bearing down all the time; and there are pains in my groins and thighs. I can't sleep, walk,;or sit. I'm diseased all over. The doctor ? Oh ! he tells me to keep quiet. Such mockery! Inflammatory and ulcerative conditions at the neck of the womb can produce ?-ll the above symptoms in the same person. In fact, there is liardly a part of the body that can escape those sympathetic pains and aches. No woman should allow herself to reach such ft perfection ;of misery when there is positively no need of it. ;' Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound acts promptly and thoroughly in such cases strengthens the muscles of the womb, heals , all inflammation, and restores that unruly organ to its normal condition. Druggists are selling carloads of . it. Mrs. Pinkham, ,at Lynn, Mass. , will gladly and i freely answer all letters asking for advice. ■■ Mrs. E. Bishop, 787 Halsey Street. Brooklyn, N.Y., suffered; all the above described horrors. Now sh« is well.; Lydia - ; E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con* . pound cured her.-' Write her about it. , ' . NEW TO-DAT— AMUSEMENTS. . COLLJMBIAr~THEATER. FRIEDLANDKR, GOTTLOB <$ C 0..... ...... ......-.•••• • .......Lessees and Managers THE SECOND AND LAST WEEK OF THE GREATEST SUCCESS YET ! THE PERFECTION OF ALL REMARKABLE PLAYS ! . '*! 001VE3VC3E3I>CrODE3JS TO-MORROW 3XTIC3-ECT ! Every Evening, Including Sunday. Matinee Saturday. THE FRAWLEY COMPANY "THE senator v* Commencing 3VEoz3.cia^y» «Txi.ly- XBtlx, Special and Important Engagement by MR. FRAWLEY of 3VEXSS HE3L.E3NT I>^.TJ^7-Xl.-A»"E- In the First Production in San Francisco of Bronson Howard's Moat Successful Comedy, "O3XT3E3 OP OUR GIBIiS!" The Record Breaker in New York City. Souvenirs Presented to Every Lady Attending the Opening Night* Performance. RESERVED SEATS: ;"-, NIGHT 15c, 25c, 50c and 75c | MATIXKE .' 35c, 25c and 600 SEATS NOW ON SALE. 1^ TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock THEATRE PROPS. last T7«7-333E:k: •^^^^^^^^S. MATINEES ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. oM^^^^^^^^3 'DEXMAN THOMPSON'S FLAY, f COMMENCES TO-MORIiOff (10SB1Y), JULY 8. MATINEES ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. DENMAN THOMPSON'S PLAY, the OLD HOMESTEAD yfta^V v Management of E. A. McFARLAND. -tfCj^^^h. NEW SONGS THIS WEEK BY THE DOUBLE MALE QUARTEL LAST PERFORMANCE 8D»1T, JULY 14. Monday, July 15-"A BLACK SHEEP." Hoyt's Latest Farce Comedy Succesg. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater In America. WALTER MOBOSCO : •• Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, LAST PERFOR3IAN CES OF "UNDER THE LASH I" 3VECDI>a"3D-A.-E" lE"\7":E3XrX3XrG-, a"CTXj-5r Otlx, Sixth Week of the Eminent Manager-Author-Actor, -WALiTim SANPORD In His Great Eastern and European Success, "THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER!" EVENING PRICES— and 50c; Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. MONDAY, I OPENING OF THE JULY 15, | » 14TM REGULAR SEASON MR. HERBERT KKLCET, MR. W. J. I.EMOYXE, Mil. CHABLES WALCOT, MR. FRITZ WILLIAMS. MR. STEPHEX 6BATTAN, MR. WALTER HALE, MR. FEBDIXASD QOTT- MR.ERNKST TAKLETOS, BCHALK, MB. EDWABD WILKES, MB. WILFBED BUCK- MR. WM. MAXWELL, LAND, MR. EDWABD HAVES, MISS ISABEL IBVIXO, MRS. CHABLES WALCOT, MISS ANNIE IBISH, MRS. THOS. WHIFFES, MISS BESSIE TYBKE, MISS KATHKBINE FLOB- MISSMAUD VE.VSEB, • ENOE, MISS HELEX MOBOAX, ETC., ETC. First Week-Beginning Monday, July 15, THE CASE OF REBELLIOUS SUSAN, By HENRY ARTHUR JONES. Second Week "THE AMAZONS." Third Week... "AN IDEAL. HUSBAND." Sale of seats and boxes will commence Thursday, July 11. Regular Baldwin Theater prices. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Mrs. Ernestine Kbelino I'roprietor <& Maoagac -THIS EVENING A WHIRLWIND OF MIRTH AND MELODY I The Glorious American Comic Opera, ; AR AN D T ART A SUPERB PRODUCTION IN EVERY DETAIL. Popular Prices— 2sc and sOc. MACDONOUGH THEATER (OAKLAND). 4 Nights and Wednesday Matinee, beg. July 15. DEN3*AN THOMPSON'S PLAY, •'THE OLD HOMESTEAD." Seats ready to-morrow. 9 a. m.— Popular Prices. ALCAZAR THEATER. W\ R. Dailey Manager LAST NIGHT. "ST \A. Xj «T X! -A. 3XT . MONDAY, JULY 8. The Great DAM PI ER H-A-iMiLiET, WITH A SPECIAL. CAST. PRICES, 15c, 25c, 35c and sOc. RUNNING <a*%2£L*+> RUNNING RACES I ■■^§Bg«Pg^.- RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY GLDB RACES, SPRING MEETING! | BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Rain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Races st#rt at 2:30 p. m. sharp. McAllister and Geary street cars pass the gate. • PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. _ EITcA MPoT THE POPL'LAK BAY RESORT, NOW OPEN EVERY SUNDAY DURING THE SEASON. Music, Dancing, Bowling, Boating, Fishing and Other Amusements. Refreshments at City Prices. Fare, round trip, 25c; children, 15c, lncludins admission to prounds. THE STEAMER UKIAH Will leave Tiburon Ferry 10:30 a. m., 12:10. 2:00 and 4:00 p. m. Returning leaTe El Campo 11:15 a. M., 1:00. 3:00 and 5:00 r. M. 50 TIMES A YEAR comes the inevitable weekly clothes washing. 1000 TIMES A YEAR comes the perpetual tri-daily dish wash- ing. No help for the weary washer, until — The Pacific Coast Borax Co. lends its 20-Mule Death Valley Borax Team, to make this heavy work light and easy. BORAXAID, their New Washing Powder, is just the right com- bination of Soap and Borax to soften water, loosen dirt, heal the hands and save the clothing. . For sale everywhere. ORPHEUM. O'FarreU Street, Between Stockton and PowetL | MATINEE TO-DAYTSUNDAY), JULY 7. Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, any seat, 10c; Children, 10c, any part of the house. UKPAR.ULELED ARRAY OF MELTIES! The Greatest, the Best, the Latest! THE DE FORRESTS, The Famous Whirlwind Dancers. "MISS SCOTTIE," The Calculating and Card-playing Scotch Collie. BARTLETT AND MAY. Peerless Grotesque .Comedians. LES FKKKKS MARTINETTI, THE MILLAK BROS., Etc., Etc. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Speeder Bicycle KING OF ALL! Absolutely high grade, possesses many novelties of a thoroughly scientific and practical character. THE SPEEDER is so constructed as to give the rider an instantaneous change of gear from a higher to a lower, and vice versa, at pleasure. Above cnt shows contents of sprocket wheel. It will be observed that the gear wheels are so ar- ranged as to constitute a perfect roller bearing and centering device, thus obviating the tendency to friction and wear on case and shaft In their revolutions. Price $125. THEALCAZAR BICYCLE S-ame as the Spee<i<T, without Speeder attach- ments. Absolutely high grade, modern style and finish. Price $105. Pleased to Have You Call and .Examine. 818-820 Market Street Flic la.n_Bu.ilciin.g. Factory— 3O First Street. lWt« OBTAiNeo Br DEWEY & CO!/! 220 Market St., S. F., Cau • I " "~ •