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SO NEWS FROM OVERDUE SHIP CHAS, E. MOODY The Gaelic Arrives From Honolulu. — * ANOTHER TRANSPORT IN PORT * WESTMINSTER WELL CABBY HORSES TO MANILA. • Six Troopships Will Sail for the ! Philippines Next — Tartar and Manauense the First to Sail Westward. The Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company's Gaelic arrived from the Ori ent yesterday. She was looked for Friday night last, but was a day late leaving Yo kohama and met strong head winds and a heavy sea all the way from Honolulu, She brought up 59 cabin passengers, IS second cabin and 334 Chinese passengers. Her cargo is a very valuable one, among it being $339,000 in specie. Colonel J. W. Pope, U. S. A., who went to Manila on the transport Newport, was a passenger on the Gaelic. ills wife had been waiting at the Occidental for him, and yesterday went on a tug to the quar antine station to meet him. The steamers Gaelic and Mariposa met on the 10th inst. The Mariposa left here on the sth Inst, for New Zealand and Au stralia, and was about thirty hours' steaming from Honolulu when the Gaelic Epoke her. The overdue ship Charles E. Moody had not arrived at Honolulu when the Gaelic sailed. The Moody is now out 181 days from Norfolk, Va., for Honolulu with a cargo of coal, and 45 per cent is being paid to reinsure hull and cargo. Captain Anderson of Lewis, Anderson & Co., one of the owners, is confident that the ship is afloat. He thinks she la going via the Cape of Good Hope, and will ar rive ln Honolulu in due course. No anx iety was felt in Hawaii about the ship when the Gaelic sailed. The transport Centennial arrived at Honolulu on -the Bth inst. and the Sheri dan on the Tth inst., while the Aztec sailed for Manila on the 3d. Sherman on the 4th, hospital ship Relief for Guam on the Bth. Grant for Manila on the Oth and Ta coma on the Tth. The officers on the Gae lic say that Honolulu has been having a busy time of it with the transports. The barkentine Omega. Captain Har rington, cleared at Honolulu for San Irancisco in ballast on October T „£! 10 the v essel was added to the trans port fleet yesterday. The British steamer yvestminster arrived from Newcastle. Australia, yesterday, and as soon as her cargo of coal is discharged she will be made ready to sail for Manila. She was surveyed b 7.u Captains Bafneson and Batchelder of the transport service yester day and found to be in first-class condi t on. The Westminster, has accommoda tions for 000 horses and nearly that num ber of animals will be sent away on her The Leelanaw will be ready for service again about the end of the week. She will carry 254 horses. The Conemaugh will carry over 300 horses, and she also will he ready for the trip about the end of the week. In all over a thousand head of stock will be on its wav to Manila in- Eide of ten days. Of the fleet of troopships now in port six of them will ha ready for sea about the same time. Work is being rushed on the Tartar, Manauense, Olvmpla. City of Pe king. Pennsylvania ana Newport, and all of them will probably be ready for sea next Saturday, but it will be the 23d Inst, before they sail. The Tartar and Manau ense will be the first to depart. They will carry the regiment that has been : quarantined on Angel Island. The City of ting and Pennsylvania will each car- ■ ry a regiment, while a third will go on Mie Olympia and Newport. In all about iTOOO men -.-.ill sail during Monday and ! Tuesday of next week. These vessels will be followed in rapid ! succession by the Ben Mohr, Hancock, i Victoria. Scindla and probably the Justin. The two latter vessels are at Mare Isl and, and will doubtless be got ready for the voyage at that station.' Besides these vessels quite a fleet is now on Its way here from Manila, which will be sent back as quickly as possible. The Senator, with the Fifty-first. lowa Regi ment aboard, should be here on the 24th inst. She made a good run to Yokohama, and left there for San Francisco on Octo ber 7. The Wyefield ls now ten days out from Hongkong and the City of Sydney nineteen days from Manila." The Ohio and Indiana are carrying the Tennessee boys. The Ohio is 14 days out from Hongkong and the Indiana eight days from Manila, while the City of Puebla is ten days, the Garonne nine days and the St. Paul six days out from Manila. All of these vessels should reach here be tween next week and the first week in November, and with anything like luck the last of them should be .back in Manila by the middle of December. The State officials of lowa and the dele gation that has come out here to welcome home the lowa regiment were on the front yesterday. They heard that divine services were held aboard the battleship lowa every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, fo they sent a request out to the captain asking permission to attend. Their re quest was readily granted and two launch es were sent ashore to bring them out. After the services the visitors were shown over the ship, and came back ashore de lighted with the warship and her officers. Beersman's Body Found. The body of "William H. Beersman, who mysteriously disappeared from his broth er's room, Saturday morning.October 7.was iound yesterday morning floating in the bay off Point Black by B. Hermann of 2910 larkin street and J. Lydon, who resides on Larkin street at the waterfront. Cor oner's Deputies J. D. Sullivan and J. J. Flannaeran went to the place and con veyed the body to the Morgue, W. H. Beersman Identified the body as that of his missing brother. ADVERTISEMENTS. ■ jfjfappy pothers Sratitude l [LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 26,785] " Dear Mrs. Pinkuam — I have many, many thanks to give you for what your Vegetable Compound has done for me. After first confinement I was sick for nine years with prolapsus of the womb, had pain in left Bide, in small of back, a great deal of headache, palpitation of heart and leucorrhoea. I felt so weak and tired that I could not do my work. I became pregnant again and took your Compound all through, and now have a sweet baby girl. I never before had such an easy time during labor, and I feel it was due to I^dia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. I am now able to do my work and feel better than I have for years. I cannot thank you enough.?— -Mbs. Ed. Eh- Z.INGEK, Devine, Tex. Wonderfully Strengthened. "I have been taking Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pills and feel won- derfully strengthened. Before using your remedies I was in a terrible state; felt like fainting every little while. I thought I must surely die. But now, thanks to your remedies, those feel- ings are all gone."— Mbs, \ Emilie BCHTTMDKB, 1244 HELEN AYE., Detboit Mich. SIMPLE TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF WILL SNOW SERVICES In memory of Will A Snow, late marine reporter on the Chron icle, who lost his life on the night of Thursday, October 10. by falling into the bay from a launch, were held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the Press Club on Ellis street More than a hundred friends and fel low-workers of the dead Journalist gathered to testify their sorrow at his untimely taking off. There was nothing elaborate about the exercises. They were sinjple testimonial of friends to the worth of the dead man. James P. Booth, president of the club, took charge of the proceedings and introduced those who lent their aid to tho occasion. A song, "Still, Still With Thee," by the Press Club quartet, was first, and then Ernest S. Simpson, city editor of the Chronicle, spoke briefly and feelingly of the deceased. "It is not my place to attempt any eulogy," he said, "but to testify to the appreciation in which Snow was held and how he was esteemed by those for whom and with whom he worked; how we knew of the courage and of the faithful, sympathetic, unassuming nature of the man, and to say that It has been a revelation to us that so many others knew him as we knew him. From all walks of life comes testimony to the integrity and worth of the man and his fine honor— from all along the water front, on which he worked, from the military camps, from the soldiers, from all with whom he came in contact. We did not Imagine that so many had found out the man as we knew him. It was a revelation to us. selfish as we were in the belief that only we appreciated him. We remember too well the shock and horror of that night of his death; the quivering lips, the whitened faces, the shaking voices of those who came to tell what had happened out there In the dark and storm. We hope and pray that the sea may give back Its dead, that we may send it to the mother who weeps and waits ln far away Kansas. "We know not what there may be in the valley beyond the shadows, but we believe and we know that among the souls of the men who have died for duty's sake, clear and fair and white as any in that company shines the soul of brave Will Snow. God rest him." Homer Henley sang "Calvary," and after him came Merton C. Allen of the Chronicle, who spoke of the dead man as he had been among his fellows; of his genial manners and his sterling worth. He told of the bright future that lay before the man so suddenly taken off. and he referred to the life of the deceased as one worthy to be an example to those who sorrowed for him. He had but gone, said Mr. Allen, to that better land, the portal of which men call death. Andrew Y. Wood followed with a solo. "Sion," and A. J. Waterhouse read a poem written in tribute to tho worth of the deceased. "Come Unto Me" was rendered by the quartet, and Dwight L. Potter of Oakland, who had been at college with Snow ln Kansas, spoke for the relatives of the dead man. In their name he thanked the friends who had gathered and who had shown such kindly and ready sympathy, and then he repeated a prayer for the departed soul, while those In the entertainment hall of the Press Club, a place unused to such invocations, bowed their heads and followed him reverently. General Funston and Vernon Kellogg of Stanford University were among those who attended the memorial. Both were friends and fellow-collegians with Snow. The father of the dead Journalist will arrive at San Francisco to-day. HAS LOCATED RICH CLAIMS AT CAPE NOME Lieutenant Bennett Is Home Again. Lieutenant G. W. Bennett, a well known former police officer of this city, returned to liis home Saturday on the ship Carrie and Annie after an absence of two years in the gold fields of Alaska, Lieutenant Bennett, who was one of the most popular members of the force and who served in its ranks for more than twenty years, left for the Klondike two years ago hoping to restore his broken health by the long sea voyage. He returns much better physically, al though his left arm Is still partially par alyzed from his former sickness. He has been far more fortunate, however, than many of those who have sought wealth in the north. Bennett yesterday recounted some of his adventures to friends who stopped him at every step he took from his home at 814 lowa street. Every one in the Po trero knows Lieutenant Bennett and they were all anxious to say a cordial word of greeting. He left for Alaska on the Mayor Bidwell. a steamer owned by the Independent Mining Company, of which he is a member. A storm carried the ves sel beyond St. Michael and threw them right into the rich Nome district. Land ing at Golovin Bay they were the second party to strike these rich fields. The company has located in this district alter a year's prospecting some sixty-five rich claims. Lieutenant Bennett tells some startling tales of hazardous escapes from death. On one occasion the little steamer be longing to the party battled with the waves for eighteen hours, trying to keep off a rocky shore. Another time the lieu tenant and two companions, while sled ding provisions over a frozen river, were blown nearly a mile by a fierce hurricane to what peemed certain death. Another disagreeable incident occurred in en deavoring to secure water, which can only be obtained by melting ice. The party was horrified on one occasion to find that they had swallowed frozen pieces from a dead Eskimo, Among these in the party were Adoiph Peterson, Charles Jewel, August Schultz, Charles Ryoell, Henry Gumm, Peter Ben son, Fred Olson, John Sandel, Morris Enright, e Mike McDonald and Charles Nelson. Lieutenant Bennett expects to return to his claims in a few months. t^*z/fr_yjsffii/M_3- Is prepared at our brewery and Is guaranteed unequaled- in quality, purity and medicinal virtue. ANHEUSER-BTJSCH BREWING ASS'N. Died From Heart Failure. William Fahlbush, a musician, residing at 220 I.obos street. Ocean View, was found dead ln hod yesterday morning by his son. The death was reported at the Coroner's office, and Deputy P. J. MeCor mick, on Investigating the case, ascer tained that Fahlbush's death resulted from heart failure. In consequence of this, and at the request of the members of the family, the body was not removed to the Morgue. FOUR TIMES MENTIONED FOR GALLANT ACTIONS AMONG the passengers who ar-B on yostordayH Mosely.H late Eighteenth^ com-M hostilities Spn:nH Span-M bothM troubles he In making a:il enviable for :;nwl returns the a scrgeantM four for gal-H to to the andH ho iiort'urmedH in defense the honor his flag.H Though al ho hisH first the storming Ma-I late before he theH stripes a hlsH name tO Washington amongM those commanding goneraiM for galiant.-yM in His distinction on this no.l casion entire rogime.ntM in the the o:iel to enter Intreiu mucins which he fifty o fl the balance bayon-H eting a Spanish officer who disputed hispassageJH Another of his actions was bringing a wounded comrade off the fleld^B at Hollo under a heavy Are. The man was wounded a second time while I Mosely had him on his back. '^| Mosely was offered a commission In one of the new volunteer regimen but as the need of patriotic self-sacrifice had departed, he preferred to re-M turn to his home to the delights of American life and the comforts of peace I Mr. Mosely, who is the only son of Mrs. Colonel Bean, has a host oi^T friends among the young society folk of this city, who will be delighted O to hear of his return. - * ♦ THE SAN FBANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. OCTOBER < I6, 1899. BAD Ml FROM TEXAS GOES ON THE WARPATH Mendenhall Tries to Kill Castro. William Mendenhall. an ex-sergeant in the Twenty-fourth Infantry, attempted yesterday afternoon to murder John Cas tro, a saloon-keeper at 311 Pacific street. It was by the merest chance that he did not succeed. Mendenhall is half-Indian and half-ne gro, and boasts that he is "the gamest | black beast that ever walked." He had been haunting Castro's saloon for some I months, having become Infatuated with I a woman who frequented it. About three months ago he was arrested for disturb : ing the peace, caused by his fancy for the woman, and on more than one occasion since then he has caused a disturbance in the neighborhood. Early yesterday morning Mendenhall was in the saloon and got so noisy that he was thrown out. The woman had sent him a note asking him to call, and be cause the saloon-keeper refused to allow him to see her he got angry and threat ened to demolish the place. Yesterday afternoon Mendenhall got filled up with Barbary Coast whisky , and purchased a revolver. He went to Castro's saloon, determined to wreak j vengeance on the man who had come be tween him and the woman. Castro was ! standing in front of the bar, and as Men ! denhall opened the saloon door they were ! close to each other. Mendenhall pulled , the revolver out of his pocket, and with ; out saying a word fired a shot at '"astro The bullet grazed the saloon man's ear. i and so close was the revolver to him that ! his ear was powder marked. The bullet i struck an oak frame surrounding a pic ture of "William Jennings Bryan, the apos- . , tle of free silver, and lodged In the wall. | There were some friends of Castro in the saloon at the time, and before Men denhall could fire again they rushed upon him, and after disarming him gave him |an unmerciful beating. Sergeant Chris tiansen and some officers were apprised of the shootinc: and were on the scene in j time to save Mendenhall's life. He was taken to the Harbor Hospital.- where cuts ' under his eyes and on his nose and face were dressed. He was taken to the City , Prison, where a charge of assault to com*- ;' ! mit murder was booked against him. '■■ ■ Judge Mogan happened to be In the prison ' at the time, and Mendenhall made it plain ! to his Honor that he came from Cleve- j land, Tex., and, was a bad man to fool ; with. Garfield League Entertainment. The Garfield League Is arranging an en tertainment and dance in honor of the organizations that assisted in the Garfield memorial exercises at Golden Gate Park. The affair will take place next Saturday evening at 507 Sutter street. The com mittee in charge consists of Richard Val lentine, Joseph Meneses, A. de la Torre Jr. and Dawson Meyer. The programme will consist of a vocal selection, "The Banner of the Bear" (Roeckel) by the Alamo Quartet, composed of Mme. Ellen Coursen-Roeckel, Mrs. H. Lewis, iVule Elena ■ Roeckel, Miss May Mabil; humorous remarks, Charles Alpers* sonjr' (a) "II Bacio" (Ardlti), (b) "My Flap" just published ( Roeckel). Ny Mrs. Bert Godalr Adams: recitation, Major Charles W. Kyle; songs, Knickerbocker Quartet: humorous selections by Mr. Van Cleve dance and Cakewalk by professional tal ent, and dialect stories by members, fol lowed by dancing. FRANK B. MOSELY. THE CALLS HOME STUDY CIRCLE. Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. William J. Rolfe, Dr. Ham ilton W. Mabie. Dr. Albert S. Cook. Dr. Hiram Corson, Dr. Isaac N. Demraon. Dr. Vlda D. Scudder and others. 1. HOW TO STUDY SHAKESPEARE Let us suppose that one Is approaching Shakespeare for the first time. If he feels himself at a loss to know what to do be yond reading each play through, it ls be cause he does not know what to look for. For that ls what study is. It is a looking for something and an endeavor to ascer tain when one has found it. In arithmetic and algebra lt is a looking for the answer to a problem, or rather for the processes leading to the discovery of the answer. In history it is a looking for the causes which have made individuals or nations great, and the reasons for their decline or overthrow. In chemistry it is a looking SHAKESPEARE, From the Stratford Portrait. The pretentious painting known as the Stratford portrait and presented ln 1867 by W. O. Hunt, town clerk of Stratford, to the Birthplace museum, where it ls very prominently displayed, was probably painted from the bust in the Strat ford church late in the eighteenth century. for the elements of which a body is com posed and the proportions In which those elements enter into the constitution of the body. In psychology it is a looking for the traits which go to make up human nature. In painting it is a looking for the secrets of color, of beautiful line, of at mosphere, of composition, of tone. As all study is a search, the question of how to study Shakespeare is best approached through the question, What shall we look for in Shakespeare? I shall of course not attempt to enum erate all the things which one may rea onably hope to find in the dramas, which, by common consent, stand at the summit of English literature, if not of the world's, but shall content myself with mentioning a few of the more obvious, if at the same time they represent funda mental aspects of the poet's work and are profitable subjects for prolonged consid eration. 1. It is related by St. Augustine that, ! upon the recitation in the theater of the famous line of Terence, "I am a man. and I I consider naught that Is human beneath my regard," the whole audience. broke out into thunderous acclamation. Shakes peare might have adopted the line as his motto. Beyond any other writer he has exemplified Pope's sentiment, "The proper study of mankind is man." He was a hero-worshiper when hero-worship was possible; when he could not approve, he yet loved; and when he could not love, he scrutinized, he an alyzed, he revealed. The Individual soul lis to him infinitely attractive, nay. en ! grossing; he is appreciative of Its virtues and aspirations, tolerant of Its foibles and amused by its harmless or delightful eccentricities: he sounds Its deepest pas sions, comprehends the mainsprings of its activity, and. while watching how it is Impelled by desire or precipitated by circumstance toward an Inescapable fu ture, he is touched by its pathos and its tragedy or exults in Its attainment and Its joy. Partake Shakespeare's delight in life, and in the play of life upon life, if you would derive impulse and Instruction from the vast spectacle of man, if you would find a village rife with momentous mystery, and make the circle of your ac ! quaintance a theater replete with the cv ! rious and the wonderful. Begin this study lin any play of Shakespeare. Count up its distinct characters: note their indi vidual traits; see to what types they sev erally belong and to what classes of so ciety: observe how they behave in dif ferent situations and how they react one upon another; and discover how far they resemble the men and women that you know or that you have read about. When you have done this with half a dozen dramas try to form some conception of the range of interests, the closeness of observation and the quickness and versa tility of sympathy of the man who could imagine and create this world of human beings. You will thus have begun to study Shakespeare, and perhaps to find a new meaning in the world about you. 2. Notwithstanding Shakespeare's ab sorption in the individual soul, notwith standing his sympathetic interpretation of the beggar, the serving man, the thief, the drunkard, or the monster lower than man— if any monster can be lower than degraded man— yet he Is never at a loss to exhibit a scale of values for his per sonages. They are not equal In spiritual rank, and he never pretends they are. We feel with Caliban, as more righteous be ing than ourselves would feel with In dians and other barbarians, when he says: •''.'■ vii- When thou earnest first '£-,yl7i Thou strokest m« and made much of me; wouldst give me 7"7.77-7j-: Water with berries in 't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less. That burn by day and night, and then I loved thee. And showed thee all tho qualities o' the Isle*- The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile — Cursed be I that did sol All the charms Of Sycorax. toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have. Which first was mine own king, and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you __■ keep from me The rest o' tne island. Yet though we resent the apparent in justice which he suffers, we never suppose him to be the peer of Miranda or Phospero. We may make merry with Falstaff and find his wit, his roguery and resource in finitely diverting, yet Shakespeare con vinces us of his essential vileness and fu tility, and even causes us in some measure to despise ourselves for our laughing con donation of his vices, when Prince Hal, now king indeed, touches him as with the spear of Ithuriel and causes him to appear in his true aspect ("2 Hen. 1V.," V., v., 51-74.). 3. Shakespeare has the greatest respect for the civic virtues, for those which hold together the framework of society. It fol lows that he brands with his abhorrence all treachery, disloyalty and Ingratitude, all ruthless and insolent tyranny, and all deliberate failure to co-operate In the ad vancement of the common weal. Almost very one of the more serious plays and even some of the comedies, will furnish ; instances in proof. In "King Lear" he stigmatizes filial ingratitude; in "Mac beth," regicide and oppression; In "The Tempest," treason; and these are but specimens. Now and again the whole tempest of bis eloquence is poured out in a flood on the unsocial vices, on lawless ness, anarchy and riot. 4. While It is thus true that Shake speare has for his characters a scale of values and recognizes a pantheon of vir tues, it must be said, on the other hand, that there is an excellence for which he has but scant and conventional appre ciation. I refer to the virtue which has primary reference to God, as those al ready mentioned have to man or the state. Though he can at times manifest tender ness and reverence in his allusions to sacred things (as c. g.. "1 Hen. 1V.," 1., 1., 18-27; "Hamlet." I . i.. 158-134; "All's Well," 11., i.. 139-144). yet for reverence, for worship, for holiness of life, he in general has but slight regard. The ami able friar In "Romeo and Juliet" by no means Inspires unqualified reverence; the ambitious Gloucester, not yet become King. Richard 111., is willingly supported ! in his young hypocrisy by two bishops, and the saintly seeming Angelo in "Meas use for Measure" has but stolen the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in. Shakespeare came between the earlier ages of faith, with their exaltation of re ligion, and the puritanism of the seven ; teenth century. He finds the Middle Ages j picturesque and despises the puritans; he | himself In a child of the Renaissance, and his kingdom Is a kingdom of this world. 5. While Shakespeare's prime interest is in humanity, he yet has an open eye for the terror, the majesty and the beauty of the physical universe, and for the aspect of all things visible. Take but two illustrations— the one of the sun ("Richard II.," 111., 11., 41-2. when From under the terrestlal ball Ho fires the proud tops of the eastern pines; the other of the winds ("2 Hen. IV. 11l i., 22-4): . Who take the ruffian billows by the tops. Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deafening clamor In the slippery clouds; I or. If you wish another, add the picture of j a navy afloat ("Henry V.," 111., prol. 7-16). But in any case note how he per ! sonifies— he makes nature alive with j man. j 7- : 6. Shakespeare has definite views con [ cerning poetry. its nature and processes. Thus he proclaims the office of poetry to soften and refine ("Two Gentlemen of | Verona." 111.. 11., 72 ff.): .-777 Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews 777 ';■'-• 77:7V- ■■T.v..: 7 Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones. Make tigers tame and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. Again, he tells us what Is the poet's master faculty ("Midsummer Night's Dream," V., 1., 12-17): The poet's eye. In a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; ~v.-V.-v7 And, as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing 'a local habitation and a nam*- He affirms a deep and hard truth ("As You Like It," 111., iii., 19): "The truest poetry is the most feigning." He per ceives that art may surpass nature ("Venus and Adonis,". 289 ff.): Look when a painter would surpass the life. In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone. And in the perplexed question concerning the relative superiority of art and nature he gives an illuminative decision ("Win ter's Tale," IV., iv., 89 ff.): Made better by no means, But nature makes that mean: so over that art Which you say adds to nature is an art That nature makes. There is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art Itself Is nature. Finally, when he speaks of "the elegancy, facility and golden cadence of poesy," he has at once named the trait by which the unlettered most readily recognize it, and the quantity of which the greatest mas ters are the quickest to appreciate "the charm, Shakespeare studied nature, but he labored at an art; and the measure of his success in touching the hearts of men Is the perfection which his art attained. So we may, if we will begin by looking in Shakespeare for these six things. We may see how he loves, and studies, and reveals man in brutes— the human soul In a human body— in a word which thwarts, perplexes, amuses or inspires him, and amid other human beings from whom he is strikingly dissimilar, and with whom he is essentialy akin. Then we may ob serve how Shakespeare never persistently and ultimately misleads us, but always gives us ample materials for deciding upon the true moral rank of each of his important characters. We may perceive how he is interested to uphold the moral order of the world, as revealed In social and political institutions, and how he lashes those who are guilty of any at tempt to subvert this moral order, while he bestows honors with a lavish hand upon those who are concerned in main taining It. We shall then discover, on closer inspection, that the dramatist has but slight sympathy with other worldli ness, with the spirit that, regarding man as a stranger and pilgrim on the earth, deliberately sets its affection on things above. Next, we may follow his pencil as, with vigorous or tender touches, it paints for us the appearance and effects of objects in the world of sense, rarely giving us an object alone, but associating them in groups, or uniting them by recip rocal action and influence, as he does with his human beings. hen we have begun all this, we may at length study Shakespeare's views concerning the won derful art by which he was enabled to perform these marvels, and investigate the means by which they were actually brought to pass. _ Tale University. [Copyrighted, 1899, by Seymour Eaton.] Note — Shakespeare studies will be published on Mondays and Thursdays. The study of "Love's Labor Lost" will be commenced on Thursday. THE CALL'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE. Great Artists. This course will be published on Tuesdays, beginning Tuesday, October 17. CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS COURSE: JOHN C. VAN DYKE, LED., Lecturer on art at Columbia, Harvard and Princeton. RUSSELL STURGIS,Ph.D.,F.A.I.A. Art Critic of trje New YorK Times. A. L. FROTHINGHAM JR., Ph.D., Professor of Art, Princeton University. ARTHUR HOEBER, Art Critic of the New YorK Commercial Advertiser. FRANK FOWLER, New YorK City. THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS WILL BE TAKEN UP: 1. Titian. 2. Correggio. 3. Donatello. 4. Valasquez. 5. Dnrer. 6. Hans Holbein. 7. Van Dyke. 8. Frans Hats. 9. Gainsborough. 10. Constable. 11. Sir Thomas Lawrence. 12. Sir Edwin Landseer. 13. Meissonier. 14. Gilbert_Stuart. Full particulars In illustrated booklet mailed free to any address. AMUSEMENTS. RACING! RACING! RACING! 1899-CALIFORNIA JOCKEY" CLUB-1900 Winter Meeting, beginning SATURDAY, Sep- tember 23. 1899. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday. Rain or chine. Five or more races each day. Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. Ferry-boats leave San Francisco at 12 m. and 12..-30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30 and 3 p. m.. connecting with trains stopping at the entrance to the track. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound All trains via Oakland Mole connect with San Pablo avenue Electric Cars at Seventh and Broadway, Oakland. Also all trains via Ala- meda Mole connect with San Pablo avenue cars at Fourteenth and Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars go direct to the track in fif- teen minutes. Returning— leave the track at 4:13 and 4:45 p. m. and immediately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR.. President. R. B. MILROT. Secretary. >*J AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA_THEATER. LAST 6 NIGHTS. MATINEE SATURDAY. The great laugh producer. I WL TOP%Y IT^ltfrY 1 : — i With Its host of big hits. Eddie Foy, Josie De Witt. Bertie Fowler. Phil H. Ryley and 40 others. Next Sunday night, Hoyt's "A MILK WHITE FLAG." Special comedy season prices— 75c, 500, 25c. CALIFORNIA THEATER ANOTHER ARTISTIC TRIUMPH. "MAGDA," A great success, as performed by NANCE otneii^ And her PARLE COMPANY.- i- ■ TO-NIGHT (Monday), Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Nights and Saturday Matinee, Last Times of "MAGDA." Friday Night (Only Time), . ' "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL." Saturday night, last appearance of Nance O'Neil In "OLIVER TWIST." (By special request.) ■ . ■ : -*■:■■■■ POPULAR PRICES-Evening, 750, 500 and 25c. Matinee, SOc and 25c. Commencing Sunday night, October 22, Charles Miller's comedians. In the Musical Farce. "A BREACH OF PROMISE." ALCAZAR THEATER. Mg^ TO- NIGHT, The past master of wf "THE &wi MASKED jK<% BALL" C& Next— "The Thre« Musketeers." TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. GRAND AND ENGLISH OPERA SEASON. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! Superb Production of "FRA DIAVOLO." A Great Cast for this Revival!! Every One Predicts Another Triumph. "Fra Diavolo" repeated Wednesday. Friday Nights and Saturday Matinee. SPECIAL!! SPECIAL!! By General Request!! "OTHELLO." Tuesday and Saturday Evenings. "CAVALLERIA" and "PAGLIACCI" Thurs- day and Sunday Nights. POPULAR PRICES. 25 and 50 cents. Telephone for Seats, Bush 9. ; ■■'• THE NEW BILL IS ONE OF THE ORPHE- UM'S BIGGEST HITS. IF YOU FAIL TO SEE MLLE. LOTTY You will not be up-to-date. - ' ;.7 : 7 "Her act is the prettiest and daintiest of Its kind ever produced"— Leander RU-hr.. dson.' - •"' J. W. WINTON, the Australian Ventriloquist. TOM BROWN, the Black-faced Humorist. FLORENZ TROUPE, Howard's Ponies, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Haskins. La Page Sisters, Little Elsie, Hawaiian Queens. Reserved seats, 25c; balcony, 10c; opera chairs and box seats, SOc. Matinees Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. TELEPHONE MAIN 532. - -■-.--- THIS EVENING. Magnificent production of Genee's • beautiful and favorite comic opera, lUMNI - BEST POPULAR PRICES— IOc, 15c, 25c, 85<^ 50c. Best reserved seat at Saturday Matinee, 25c. Branch Ticket Office Emporium. _ __ ALHAMBRA THEATER. RED CROSS BENEFIT! WEEK OF OCTOBER 16, 1899. BAND OF THE FIRST CALIFORNIA VOL- . UNTEERS. War Dept. Views and Exhibit — During this week the audience will not be annoyed by peripatetic peanut venders, c&ndj fiends or flower angels. CHUTES AND ZOO. EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADGIE and HER LIONS. AND A GREAT VAUDEVILLE SHOW. HARMON AND SEABURY, World's Champion High Divers. "MAJOR 7 MITE" (Smallest Male Actor on Earth). Who Will Marry CHIQUITA at the Paris . Exposition. See the SCENES FROM THE ' DREYFUS CASE. Reproduced by the Animat6scope. Phone for Seats. Park 23. "GO WHERE TBE CROWDS GO" And "HELP TBEM LAUGH." STEEPLECHASE, CENTRAL PARK. .3ESs_____W&Evfff TREMENDOUS SUCCESS OF THE 25 COMHT " ; • -7 ISLAND NOVELTIES. Delighted crowds voted every one a winner, especially the ghastly Third Degree Regions, where, His Royal Nibs, the Devil, and his magic wand will reign supreme. f PROF. HILL, marvel of the high wire, dally. 10c— Admission to all parta and ride— New attractions to be continually added. if CALI y>:- '7 „_ < .■.■--.-.. -h Enlarged to 16 Pages '• 1 $1 per Year. j 5