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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-19
CRICKET.
Local Clubs Preparing to Meet Victorian
Players.

Local Clubs Preparing to Meet Victorian
Players.
At the meeting of the Cricket Association
on Wednesday night the arrangements for
the British Columbian trip were put fairly
under way. 1t was decided to leave on
August Sd. and play three matches in Vic
toria, Vancouver and New Westminster
One of these will be two days fixture.
l.. G. Weatherby will leave on the 2fth of
this month aud make all business arrange
ments for the trip. Lawrence an Blagrave
have decided to leave with him, and will
wait for the other members of the team in
Victoria. There will be no difficulty in OBJ
tanning sufficient good men. Besides the
two cricketers already named, the following
are looked upon as certain to make the trip:
Hood, Ben Clark and Hogue Of the Ala
medas, Reynolds of the Burnaby Climb,
Gadesden, Robertson, Shepherd, Keith,
Webster and Sloman of the Calforni as.
Boyd and Price OF the Burnaby Club and
Walker of the Oaklands may possibly go
upat well. The team expects TO return to
the city about the 18th.
A game which will serve doubly good
purpose has been arranged for August %,
the ordinary schedule games baing post
poned To make room for it. The BIRTHS h
Columbian team will be pitted against a
selected fifteen at KlinkneryIlle, now called
Golden Gate.
The match will be for the benefit of Tom
Booth, who met with severe accident
about three weeks ago.
1t will enable the teams to shake to-
getEer bit before engaging in their foreign
matches.
An admission of 30 cents will be charged
and if Booths felow-cricketers will exert
themselves to dispose of tickets, respect
able sum should be realized.
1t is likely that the English team which is
to visit Australia at the conclusion of the
present old-country season will travel by
way OF this country. The team Is to be a
mixed one, four amateurs and the rest pro-
fessonals. w. G. Grace is to be one OF the
amateurs. II the Englishmen can be in
duced to play game in this city, local
cricket lovers may enjoy another oppor-
tunity OF seeing the great batoman perform.
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near Camp Taylor is lined every Sunday
with fishermen, large and small, masculine
and feminine, and they all seem to catch
trout
We have here seen ten species of ferns.
and probably Others may be found. Perhaps
the most abundant are the brake, Pteris
aqulina and Aspidinm munitum, having
large and perfect fronds. often growing
higher than ones head. This fern is SO
stiff and firm that its palm-like fronds keep
their form without pressing for days, and
thus lend themselves very gracefully to I'M
promptu decorations. There is smaller
and less abundant aspidium not fruited SO
early in the season. Two species OF the
maiden-hair ferns are considered rare here
abouts, the beautiful "fve-fnger," Adiantum
pedatum, being also known from the Atlantic
States. Adlantum emarginatum, with more
rounded leaflets, occurs abundantly in the
southern part of the State. as well as IN
Lower California. 1t does not seem to be
very abundant here. The gold fern, GYM
nogramme trlangularis, is growing among
wild strawberries on banks along road
sides, and seems to be indifferent whether
the bank has a northerly or Southerly eX-
posture. A delicate fern, in similar situa-
tons with the gold fern. may be the young
OF Cystopteris fragilis; il is not yet in fruit.
trunks of trees in shady places, while the
thick. leaihery fronds of Z. scOuleri are
found only on high and exposed hllsdes.
Woodwardia radicanS. the chain fern, grows
sparlngly on wooded slopes.
Hlllsides which were formerly covered
with redwoods u feet in diameter, tall ma
donas at least two feet thick. huge pines aud
oak trees are now oyergrown with a thick
underground Of these species. But The for
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The ornthologist finds this vicinity rich
field. and the place has been immortalized
by the fact that the Audubon of California,
A. j. Grayson, made some of his earliest
bird studies in this county. Among his
notes, until but recently unpublished, he
describes the habits of the largest of the
North American rapacious birds, the Cali
fornia vulture, Pseudogryphus Califor-
nianus, now rather rare. Colonel Grayson
says:
l remember the time when this vulture was
much d;sliked by the hunter for its ravages upon
any large game he may nave killed and left ex-
posed for only short length OF time SO power
ful Is It's sight that Ii will discover dead deer
from an incredible distance while soaring In the
air. case OF this Kind happened with myself
whilst living IN the mountains of Marin County.
California. In the year 1S47. AT that time my
main dependence for meat wherewth 10 feed my
little family was my life. The hills aud noun
tatns there abOuDded IN deer and other game
and II Was not difficult TO XIII deer any day. but
TO XIII FAT one could only be done by accident
or the acuteuess of skillfu hunter In making
such selection. A fOur-pOinI buck In tile moath
venisUn. with ribs and haunch covered with tai
low. One morning l had shot a large and
exceedingly fat buc OF four points on the hills
above my little cabin. Taking a survey OF the
SKY IN every direction, / could not discover
single vulture, aud, as my cabin was but short
distance from the spot, concluded not TO cover
my game, as l could return with my horse to
pack IL home before The vullures would be likely
40 trouble II. was gone about two hours,
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How an Impostor Was Exposed.

A curious story comes from Berlin show
ing how n cheat was discovered. man
who was accused Of theft set up plea of
insanity, thereby hoping to escape punish
ment. Professor Mendel. a n oted specialist,
was deputed to examine the prisoner and
report on the state of his mind. He found
the man lying in bed. To all questions put,
such as how old be was. where he lived,
what he was called, the prisoner Invariably
answered, Il don't know" Then the pro-
lessor took a mark out Of his purse and
asked how much it was.
Il don't know" he answered, as before.
The professor then asked for the prisoners
purse, out of which he took a mark, and
once more the man declared that he did not
know its value, whereupon Professor Men,
del put groschen into the prisoners purse,
transferring the mark to his own.
"Why. DOCTOR" said the patient, hastily,
you have made mistaken
The imposture was made bare and the i'm
poster convicted-Ex.
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for many years large class of foreign lit
erary men who. not being dependent upon
their pens for support, could indulge in
their fancies without thought of the finan-
clal return. 1t also gave them the neces-
sary. experience which leads 10 effective
writing. Practical dramas are impossible
Without trained playwrights. 1t is a poDu-
lar error that successful poet, novelist or
essayist can write an acting play. Painful
and patient labor aud training in the actual
atmosphere of the theater is needfuI for
good results. 1t was also necessary to es-
tabilsn permanent and prosperous theaters
before they could sustain a guild of profess
Si0nai playwrightS. This has been the work
OF our leading managers for the past f fteen
years, anu The result Is every day becoming
more apparent. With such a list of Ameri-
can dramatisls as Bronson Howard, Steele
Mackaye, William Gillette, Belasco and
De Mile. Henry Guy Carleton, Clinton
Stuart, Sydney Resented, CLYDE Fitch.
George Jessop, Edward Harrington, Lean
der Richardson, Joseph Arthur, Augustus
Thomas and Charles Hoyt, who devote
their entire attention to play-writng, it
must be admitted that the American thea
ter Is an established fact.
The New York managers have done much
to bring about this state of affairs. and per-
maps Daniel Frohman of the Lyceum may
be spoken OF as foremost in this. He has a
strong faith in native talent, and during his
management of the Madison Square, as also
later in the Lyceum. he has proven his faith
by production of their works. Hazel
kirke." The Professor" ''The Rajah,"
Young Mrs. Winthrop MAY Blossom"
alpine Roses" THE Wife, THE Char
ity Ball." Lord Chumley" and "The
Prince and the Pauper" are among those
which he has given opportunity. He Is al
ways ready to listen to an american play,
and has a large safe in his office in New
York which contains only manuscripts left
with him TO peruse. OF course he receives
much that has but little merit. but all get
his attention. and he is ever ready 60 ex
plain to the authors wherein their work is
not adaptable to the stage. He has been
heard to laughingly remark that in some iu-
stances he has done much more for the
American drama by not producing certain
plays than their production would have ac-
nj eb
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HUGO'S VANITY.
What He Thought Would Occur If He
Did Certain Things.

what He Thought Would Occur il He
Did Certain Things.
Nj. Blre has recently published his book
Victor Hugo After $780," The author as
sures us he has studied the poet under all his
phases and from all the most authentic
works. The result is that he has discovered
him to be full of defects and devoid of all
merits. This is strong judgment. and could
no doubt be refnted. One of the principal
defects he finds in him was his love of pelf
anu pufflng. lie was marvellous manu-
facturer oil bOniments," says NJ Bire. mo
body knew better than he the art of hand
be pardoned were 1t not made worse by his
excessive pride; he outdid Satan himself in
vanity. In support of this charge one or
two anecdotes are given.
When asked why he did not go to the
funeral of Armand Carrel, he repled: 1T
was impossible; everybody would have
been running after me-" At the time of
the coup d'etat he met Jules Simon and
said to him: If get myself killed in the
Quarter Latin, and my body is paraded in
the streets, do you think that will arouse
the students TO action?" Jules Simon an
swered, There can be no doubt OF it."
The poet shook him by the hand and dis
appeared in that direction. Nj. Crepu. who
was present, was frightened. Don't be
alarmed said Jules Simon. smiling; its
long way to the Quarter Latin" And so
IL turned out, for Victor Hugo went quietly
home. Again, during the siege of Paris.
he remarked to some friends at his table !:
Il will raise the siege; will go to the out
posts, when L shall be killed, and when the
Russians see my body they will cease fight
Ing" vi course he thought better of it.
AS regards the poets oratorical powers, NJ
Bire says he always boosted of not prepar-
ing his speeches. This was another piece
of unfounded vanity, for he wrote them out
and learned them by heart before venturing
into the tribune. In Short" continues the
critic, "he was never sincere; he was a
second Barnum; he was always changing
his opinion; he was sp!teful and rancorous.
lie never gave way to a generous sentiment,
all his acts were guided by profound ego
tism." Such is the poets portrait as
painted by NJ. Bire.-Pioneer Press.
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AT THE BUTTS.
Bulrs-Eye Shooting and Medal Contests
To-Day.


To-Day.
The California Club will have its monthly
bulrs-eye shoot at Schuetzen Park to-day.
The Turner'S Shooting Section will COM
pete for medals at Schuetz m Park to-day.
The Grutli Rifle Club will hold bulls -eye
shoot at Schuetzen Park to-day.
The German Fusileers will be at Shell
Mound to-day to compete in their monthly
medal shoot.
The knights of the Red Branch will shoot
for medals at Shell Mound to-day.
The cadets of the California Club will
compete for medals at Schuetzen Park today
1t is the intention of the California Schuet-
zen Club to make the forthcoming shooting
festival, which takes place on the oath and
18th of next month, the greatest ever held in
California. The whole twenty targets of
the shootihg-stand will be in use the first
day, and it is expected that no less than
5000 shots will be fired. Marksmen from
New York and Chicago have expressed their
intention of coming here to visit us, and will,
no doubt participate in the shooting. The
San Francisco and North Pacific Railway
has kindly placed at the disposal of the Cali
fornia Schuetzen Club a special boat and
train, which will leave for the park on the
first day of the festival at 6 40 O'clock in the
morning. The cash prizes dsbursed by the
club on the point and man targets will
amount to nearly $1,000, while on the honor
airy and members targ is $50 to 1So prizes,
IN value about $1,000, will be distributed
Mr.. Soehlman, well-known marksman
OF Hanover, Germany, is at present in this
city. Our local riflemen would be pleased
to welcome him On the range.
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THE PREVAILING STYLE.
1t Shows That But Few Women Kno
How to Garry Themselves Correctly.

1t Shows That But Few Women Know
How to Garry Themselves Correctly.
"Thc prevailing style among women of
dressing the neck low" said an artist re-
Gently, emphasizes the fact my profession
has long accepted, that woman with a
head well supported by graceful neck and
rising from even, slipping shoulders, is not
common. Look about in company of
young women whose faces, perhaps, are
delicate and pretty, often beautiful. and
whose figures seem, when facing them,
rounded and elegant, and then get be-
hind them and see how few show
an attractive polse from that point. Even
IL she has good back and shoulders,
which is almost rare to an exception,
she carries her head so far forward
of her chest as to develop an angle at the
nspe of her neck where nature certainly
never intended to put one. Most women,
however, have prominent shoulder blades,
one shoulder point rising higher than the
other, or, worse still, a trick of carrying the
right side of the figure a trife in advance of
the left, which gives them from side or
back view decidedly crooked appearance.
This. too. in spite OF the modern hue and
cry about gymnastics and physical culture.
1t is going 20 take generation. of careful
training to do away with these bad habits,
and when / see the young school girls going
about the streets by dozens with heads still
bent and shoulders rounded think it may
take several generations to accomplish much
good."-Providence journal.
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COIRSING.
The Next Great Interstate Meeting
MERGED Next November.

The Next Great Interstate Meeting at
MERGED Next November.
Probably one of the grandeSt cOursing
meetings on the east or west of the Rocky
Mountains that has ever taken place will
be witnessed on the flr-faned plains of
MERGED in November next.
Already the lovers and patrons of the
leash in this city and MERGED are making
extensive preparations for the trials of
speed, stamina and muscle between the
long aud short-tail flyers.
a prominent sportsman of the latter city
has written to the famous judge of cours-
ing, John Grace, that the FIRST prizs will nn-
dOubtedly be $500, if not more. The low
ers Of the grand old sport" in this city
are all agog over the event, which they
prophesy will far excel in every particular
anything in the line of conrsing that has
ever been inaugurated on the Pacific Coast.
Mr.. Dickson has been untiring in his
efforts to create united interest of all low
ers OF sing in the proposed meet, which,
according TO Tony uall, the prince of Mer-
cei coursers, Twill hang banagher itself"
1t has been suggested by several of the
leading sportsmen Of this city, who have
never failed to visit the prairie town when
coursing event was on, that the citizens OF
MERGED, or at least those Of them who are
prime movers in the proposed interstate
meeting OF this year, decide upon site
for the holding of the contests not over
eightimiles from the town.
1t was thoroughly demonstrated at the
last meeting of the association that Just MS
good sport-if not betteT-can be had with
in few miles of the metropolis as there
is TO be found eighteen or twenty miles dis
tant
The visitors from this rity and elsewhere
WHO have witnessed coursing at MERGED
fairly shudder at the thought of a forty
mile ride to and from the cOursng ground !;
In fact there are several admirers of the
sport who have remained at home rather
than subject themselves to the painful or
deal of a Most tiresome and monotonous
ride. the major part IF which is through
dense cloud of dust
1t is certainly most mistaken idea on the
part of the tOwnsmen of MERGED to fancy for
a moment that coursing men would grumbIe
at paying the usual charges for a ride half
of the distance that has been formerly taken
to the field of action.
Ii this matter was put to general vote it
would be good wager that the majority
would decide on paying double fare rather
than face again the ''rickety" old jaunt
OF open country.
1t has been the old cry Of some people.
and especially residents of MERGED, that the
wire fences near the city would seriously
interfere with the dogs, and for which rea-
son the meetings have been held on the open
plains where fences OF any kind are miles
apart.
This is all nonsense, as, after the meetings
oil last year, several of the best races wit
messed during the three days coursing were
held ON the fields not more than three miles
from Merced. 1t is hoped that the sports
men oil the latter town will give the sugges-
ton favorable consideration.
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be rugged. The rear of the pass opens into
another narrow valley. walled up at the
west by lofty mountain. A few hundred
yards before the eastern portal of the
notch" stands a hill of pyramidal shape
and bearing outward evidences of glacier
creation. This natural condition of things
forms large triangular area with stu
pendous passage to the rear valley through
the "notch." As natural result the whole
has wOndrOus effect on the human voice.
Let one stand in certain position and
hailoo! and his voire will reverberate from
the opposite side. Then it will roll down
through mountain passages until the noun
tain at the west of the second valley collects
1t and hurls it back to the conical hill, where
1t dies in a hollow murmur.
The effect of the experiment is as beauti-
full as it is awful. The voice seems to live
and die and then resurrect itself. to repeat
itself until-it subsidies from weakness. Each
echo In succession seems more hollow and
unearthly, until one is annoyed at his own
voice. His natural tones are lost, and his
words sink In dissonant echoes until they
become unintelligibe.
People who have travelled in Palestine and
marveled how Christ, in his sermon on the
Mount, made himself audible, declare that
the mountains were in location similar to
those near Paterson.-N. Y. Advertiser.
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offers poor foothold on the steep slopes. At
the summit granite powders crop out higher
than mans head. One is amply repaid
for all the labor expended in climbing when
the top of the rocks is once gained, for a
panorama is spread out below stretching
from the Bay of San Francisco and Tamal-
pals on the southeast to Bolnas Bay and
Point Reyes, and even much beyond, to the
northwest Most of the country round
about is bare, and the narrow extent of the
redwoods in the vicinity is very evident, the
redwoods yet left standing forming only
patches amid deciduous trees on the east
ern faces of the hills. Many hills and long
stretches of meadow are yellow with the
California poppy and small composite
flower. Like the cultivated patches along
the Rhine, as seen from some ruined castle.
the inclosed cultivated fields look like
children's play-houses and make believe
gardens. Up every ravine or canyon with
water. live oaks have clambered to the top.
Half an hour upon the crest of one of
these open mountains is worth a month in
the valley.
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THE GENERAL
FIELD OF SPORT.
Arranging for The Next C0urSing Meet at
MERGED.
olympians Who Are in Training for Future
Field Ball, Cricket and
Rife-shooting.

The next important event in athletics will
be the Olympic field day. Judging from
the extensive preparations that are now
being made by the officers who have the
matter in hand, it is hoped that the attend
ance will be larger than has been formerly
noticed at athletic games.
Cricket has had quite boom this year.
On the return of the team which will be
selected next Wednesday evening to journey
70 Victoria, further impetus will be added
TO the English national game. Play will be
resumed during the winter season.
Anglers are having grand seasons sport
this year lake fishing The rush of fisher
men to San Andreas Lake since that beau
tiful sheet of water was thrown open to
anglers has been great indeed, and very few
people have returned with empty creels.
The interstate c0ursing meeting, which
will he held at MERGED November next,
promises to be an exciting affair, as dogs
from several Eastern kennels will be con-
testing for the valuable prizes.
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mer condition is apparent through the big
redwood stnmps surrounded by sprouts. a
tree OF the largest size cut from the place,
having diameter OF u feet, yields as many
as eleven hundred railroad ties. The
gorgeous-bloss0medd Omes Of buckeye adorn
the hills, while maple and hazel nut abound
In the valley.
A salamander, diemyctclus, Is exceed
lngly abundant in the creek and under de-
cayed bark or In damp places on the ground.
vi lizards two were observed. A short-taileh
species Is common everywhere in exposed
places, while OF the other, long-tailed one,
Dut Tour individuals were seen. An incident
OF the attempted capture of one of the latter
admirably illustrates the protection to the
individual which the wel-known ability of
suddenly swapping off the tail furnishes.
Two, shot in vital parts, died Immediately,
the tails becoming motioness at once. 4
third not killed outright dropped its tail,
which, probably owing to the fact that the
nerves were exposed to the air. wriggled and
Jumped about III the grass at lively rate.
Surprising that, with so much commotion
the'game was sure. but, on looking for the
lizard, found that the body had escaped
without its tail, which was left as decoy.
At least four species of snakes are found
here, two OF them in great abundance in the
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when, on returning / found my game sur.
rounded and covered by u flock OF at least
dozen vutures. and others still coming, some so
lar up in the heavens as 10 appear like small
speck upon lie clear, blue sky. So busy were
they tearing aud deyourng the deer aud figh ing
among themselves that / approached quite near
before they saw me, when ali arose, some flying
ashort distance aud perching upon the rocks
ana sides OF the hill, while others. less gorged,
were sailing around taking a bird's-eye view of
The half-consumrd 6eer aud my chagfin.
The ichthyologist finds only four species
Of fish in Paper Mill Creek-a stickeback,
chub, one so-called catfish" or bull-head,
and the mountain or rainbow trout, Salmo
irideus. Trout are very abundant, although
none of large size were seen. The young
are very numerous, and, having from the
first to take care of themselves, those sur
viying are probably better able to escape
from the catfish, which are so destructive to
the trout artificial.y Matched and reared.
However, 1t is a mystery that the trout is
able to remain In the creek, as the stream