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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
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