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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-11
AN AGED EDUCATOR.
John &. Pe1ten Anxious to Publish
Volume of Verse,

John &. Pe1ten Anxious to Publish n
Volume of Verse.
The first public school was established
in this city Old December 26, 1S49. by John
c. Pelton. who for many years thereafter
was the leading educator of California. The
first State reform school and the smopoli-
tan school system were organized by him.
He was the first Superintendent of Schools
in this city. and did much to place the de-
partment on a firm foundation.
For quarter Of a century this pioneer
friend of the rising generation devoted all
his energies to the work of instruction.
Many native sons, now men OF wealth and
influence. owe their education to him.
Bnt this labor OF love told on Mr.. FELTON,
In 1872 he was stricken with paralysis. For
over six years he was deprived of the use
of all his faculties, and now. in his old age,
he is deaf and almost speechless. He has
completed book, chiefly Of poems. 1t will
be sold for 50 copy.
To secure means for its publication he
asks for 1000 subscribers to advance ST. a
copy. This is not an appeal for charity, but
simply business proposition which should
be accepted by all who desire 10 aid de-
serving old man to support himself without
becoming burden 10 others A smaller
book by Mr.. Pelton entitled ''Sunbeams
and Shadows" is already out and can be
had Of the author. The price is IS cents.
Hol Traveller, take Beecham's Pills with you.
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UNITED STATES VAR COLLEGE.

who seek to enjoy its advantages are ex-
pected to take up military and naval his
tory and the laws of war as laid down by
the best authorities on International law.
The study of war includes strategy. grand
tactics. minor tactics, logistics aud those
branches OF International law which enter
the domain Of craftsmanship. Its compre-
henslve scheme OF studies and the ends pro-
posed liken it 10 the military staff colleges
OF Europe. In fact 1t might be called a
naval staff college. A naval staff. using the
term In Its military sense. has become rec
ognized necessity Of a modern navy"
To the earnest efforts OF Assistant Secre-
tary James r Solely The present War Col
lege owes its conception, and Secretary
Tracy has placed Ii under the entire super
vision OF this talented young officer. Secre-
tary Solely has been closely Identified with
the rehabilitation OF our navy, and to him
Is also due in part the efficiency OF our
present force. During the late Chilean
troubles he was Secretary Tracy's per-
sonal assistant and adviser and did much to
direct the mastery manner in which our
few ships and poor material were prepared
for any emergency.
For the past two years there have been,
from time to time. few lectures delivered
in the old asylum at Coasters Island, origin
ally built as home for the poor of New
port Congress, realizing the necessity OF O
proper building. appropriated 100000 for
this purpose, and the contract for the new
college was recently awarded
The site selected for the new building, a
cut Of which is given here. is seventy-five
feet west of the old college and OH line
with 1t. The material Is gray Fall River
granite, roughly finished, and the form OF
the building Is rectangular, with front
30 by 4S feet deep. The style of architec-
ture is Flemish in design and the entirs
building will be lighted by electricity and
heated by steam. Between the two wings
the main body will be devoted to the college
proper. As you enter by the main door
there Is a large hall which leads to cor
ridor running almost the entire length oil
that part OF the building. Across the cor
ridor Is the staircase, which leads to the up
per floor The western portion Of the build
ing is given up to the library. On tie
second floor there is large lecture-room al
each end, which runs up through the third
story to the roof. These are lighted by
windows on the sides as we'll as from thu
skylight above. On the third floor there ar,
number OF sleeping-rooms for employees
In the basement is located number o
rooms which will serve as workshops ant
storing places for coal and other material
In addition TO these there will be number
OF offices. recepti0n-rooms, toilet-rooms
coatro0ms. bathrooms and guest chambers
for the convenience Of lecturers during thei
stay at the College,
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Sol Smith Russell,s Fortune.

One who knows the fortunate actor very
we'll talks this way about him:
Sol Smith Russell will probably clear as
much money from the present season as any
attraction travelling. Mr. Russell has the
same sort OF pudding" as the miner who
strikes vein of six-foot 15G0-onnce silver
lie don't buck the faro-table ike Dixey or
indulge in any firtaiions with Mile. Poker.
He hasn't partahen of that popular recre-
alton OF the profession known as bunting
a divorce" which in innumera bic instances
has been known TO swallow up the profits
Of The most prosperous season. On The
whole, the debit side of Mr.. Russeli'S ac-
count is precious light. On the credit pages
there are some mighty big figures. Sol Smith
Russell, from a small beginning as char
after actor playing town halls and churches
in little villages, has become week stand"
attraction and never fails to bring ont the
capacity" of the largest theaters. He
practically has no competition. for he is
alone in his peculiar line of performance.
There is something so homely and simple
in his nature that every one ENJOYS him.
No one who has ever seen Sol Smith Rus
sell will begrndge him a cent OF the I'M
mense fortune he has accumulated
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John Roblnson's City Of Tents.

The positive excitement for the present
week is the great Robinson equestrian.
spectacular and geological show that opens
at Central Park, Market street, tomorrow
evening, under the largest canvas pavilions
ever spread. a mere outline of this gigantic
aggregation of wonders can only be given ;
it would take a large volume to describe il
detail every object oil art and of accomplish
ment, every exhibition of skin, every ex-
ample Of human ingenuity, of physical
strength and grace, that a visitor is priyi-
legged TO see in this vast canvas city. One
of the grandest and most impressive spec
tacles of any age is Rettig's Solomon. his
temple. and the Queen of Sheba," showing
the streets. scenes and sights OF the sacred
city Of Jerusalem. As The CALL remarked
before. this spectacle is a marvel Of pro-
CeSsional glory and calculated TO excite as
tonishmeBt IN everybody's miad. New and
strange animals have been added to the
menagerie department, graceful and skilled
riders will make their appearance IN the
arena, and the clowns and jesters-mirabile
diciu.-haye fund OF new quips and prac-
tcal Jokes. Excitement runs high about
this mammoth exhibition. Men. women,
and children especially, lock forward TO ii
with delightful longings.
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learning is concerned. as the gun of Mark
Twain's Arab protector, which was never
loaded.
A gentleman WAS recently bemoaning to
me that he was uneducated / questioned
him. and found that he had read and
digested everything in the English language
worth knowing. Shakespeare and the Bible,
Milton and Adam Smith, Browning aud
Herbert Spencer were as familiar to him as
the face of his wife. He was a mining engi-
neer, and knew more about geology than
hall the professors of that science.
He was prosperous merchant. convers-
ant with the laws of trade; banker, who
had made practical study of finance; a
politician, who had studied men and meas
ures SO aeutely that be became the recog-
nized leader of great party. But he had
never attended school-had never stood up
and parroted lesson to professor, and
therefore believed himself ignorant 1 said
to him: My dear sir, you are one of the
best educated men / ever met. / wish that
you would open school for teachers, and
impart to our public educators portion OF
your knowledge. They would then be able
to earn their salaries
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EDUCATED MEN.
Sometimes They Are Learned without
Attending School.

Sometimes They Are Learned without
Attending School
st. Louis 6iobe-Democrat.
"People have a peculiar notion OF what
constitutes an education" said Professor
John Cochran, one OF Great Britain's lead
ing educators. who Is making tour of the
United States and is now a guest Of the
Southern. II have seen many an educated
man who couldn't tell an advert from a
proverb. green root from an ellipsis. And
| have seen men who had taken all the
varsity degrees so profoundly ignorant that
a Digger Indian might pity them. Too
many men forget that school, whether 1T be
the log cabin affair OF the American wider
ness, with its three RS and bundle of birch
rods, or the proudest continental university,
but furnishes him with tools with which to
dig for knowledge on his own beh0of-
but puts him in the way of securing an edu-
cation.
"a man does not learn Greek, Latin,
French or German for the sake of knowing
those languages, but to secure the key to the
casket in which is locked the wisdom of
Socrates, the elequence Of Cicero, the rehec-
tons OF Mogtesquleu and the philosophy OF
Kant Ii the key is never applied. II the
treasure is not appropriated. knowledge OF
these languages is as worthless. SO far as
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A snnfower Concert.
Town Talk.


Fasten sheet to two tall posts placed at
some distance from the wall, or it can be
fastened in wide doorway. Paint on the
sheet as many green stalks with leaves on
them as you desire flowers: at the top of
each stalk either paint the yellow petals Of
sunfower or cut them from yellow paper
and paste to the sheet with mucilage. After
the flower Is completed cut a ring from the
center, leaving an open middle in each
flower. Behind the sheet are as many little
girls as flowers, standing SO that the faces
peep forth from the hearts of the blossoms.
In front or the sheet scatter some real
grass. n rake, water sprinkler and a few
pots of flowers, to give a garden-lIke effect
Two young girls (n broad fiower-trimmed
hats stand in this garden and lead the little
living suntiowers III song. This is a very
taking" and pretty entertainment, and the
painting is so coarseiy done that no one
need hesitate TO try it. Effect only is aimed
at. ana two hours will be quite sufficient to
&C com plish il.
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not to suggest wonder whether here also
was not propter hoe. Certain it is that
his wife, daughter If F. G. and Sarah B.
Shaw, and sister of Colonel r. G. Shaw.
who was buried with his niggers" at Fort
Wagner, and oil Josephine. who married
was OF stock and parentage so earnest
and so phllanthropic and was so true TO all
their inspirations that Mr.. Curtis may well
have found some heightenng of his aims in
his new life and love and in the new asso-
Citations that now touched his spirit. From
that time onward the anti-slayery conflict
became more engrossipg to his mind and
heart and entered more largely into his
In t.kta
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officer to me short while ago: ut isiwell
that am quietly put out of the way for the
younger generation-the bookworms from
the Naval Academy. | would be ont of my
element on board OF one OF these mod
cru machine ships. where you press
the button and an unseen power does
the rest"
Admiral Stephen b. Luce says: "The
Naval War College. it may be explained. Is
essentially product OF the times In which
we live. Unique of character, high of aim
and broad in his fields of research, it stands
alone among our institutions of learning as
the one to discuss scientifically all the yari-
Gus problems of war that can III any way
affect this country.
Intended for officers of mature years it
presupposes on the part OF those who at
tend its sessions good technical education.
such As is furnished by the Naval Academy,
and the extra-professional attainment gen.
orally acquired by men of reading and OBJ
servation. With such foundation those
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-11
The Same Round.
Once more the harassed heroine
Doleth forth her wall,
And plays that DON'T point morals

Once more the haras5ed heroine
Doleth forth her wall,
And plays that DON'T point morals
At least adorn a tale.
Once more the hard-worked hero bold
Strives at piattndes:
Again the VILLAIN bids him go
To warmer latitudes.
Once more the father OF the girl
Turns her cut OF doors;
Again the hero shoulders arms
And goes of to the wars.
Once more we have the shipwreck scene,
The rescue-then the battle:
The steam engine. the buZE- saw vast,
The tank and lots or cattle.
Once more the ballet heayes In sight,
Aud this fact sure is certain,
The same old things come back eac b year
Now please ring UP the curtain KARL
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A REMARKABLE REPAST.
A Wonderful Dinner Given by Belgia
Antiquary.


II have eaten apples that ripened more
than 1900 years ago, bread made from wheat
grown before the children of Israel passed
through the Read Sea, spread 1t with butter
that was made when Elizabeth was Queen
Of England. and washed down the repast
with wine that was old when Columbus was
playing barefoot with the boys of Genoa"
was the remarkable statement made by
Amaziah Dukes, a New York broker. now a
guest of the Southern. ''The remarkable
spread was given by an antiquary named
Goebel in the city of Brussels in 1871.
The apples were from an earthen jar
taken from the ruins of Pompeii, that
buried city TO whose people we owe our
knowledge of canning fruit The wheat
was taken from a CHAMBER in one of the
smaller pyramids, the butter from stone
shelf in a old well in Scotland. where for
centuries II had lain in an earthen crock in
icy water, and the wine was recovered from
an old vault in the city Of Corinth. There
were six guests at the table, and each had a
mouthful of the bread ana teaspeonful Of
the wipe. but was permitted to help him.
self literally to the butter, there being sew
eral pounds Of it. The apple jar held about
two-thrds Of gallon. and the fruit was as
sweet and the flavor as fine as though put
m Yesterday -
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officer, who questioned his right to enter.
What do you waut?' asked the policeman
gruffiy. i want 10 so in replied the
stranger. 'I've got a lot of scenery stored
in there and l want to 60 in and see 1t
burn OF course, The officer could not
withstand a proposition like that, and the
gent man walked into the auditorium,
where he sat down in one of the boxes,
cooked his feet upon the front rail, lighted
a cigar and coolly watched the conflagra-
ton which was costing him at the rate of
about $1,000 a minute. Ills name is Anson
Pond" Mr.. Pond is the author of Her
Atonement" and "a Desperate Man." both
supreSses
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A Great Canal.

The Importance of the new Merwede
canal for Amsterdam as commercial
center can scarcely be 0vereStimated, and ii
is anticipated that great impetus will at
once be given TO trade between this
city and Germany. The section to the
north OF the Leck, opened to-day,
is twenty-eight miles long, and the
whole canal. when complete. will
have a length Of forty-three and half
miles. 1t will take the place of the old
Cologne waterway. which is only naviga-
BILE for vessels OF small tonnage. Tue new
canal, after leaving Amsterdam, crosses the
Leyden Rhine. passes Utrecht, and enters
the Leck near Vreeswyk. The second por-
ton. which is still lnder construction, CON-
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A Case In Point.

Chloride of lime Is the first thing pur-
chased by q plague-stricken city. We do
not make it. There is no duty on it and no
domestic competition. The supply is fur
nished by a foreign combination, the United
Alkali Company Of England. We are COM
pletely In their power. With the approach
OF cholera they have promptly advanced the
price OF their product and the American
people must pay 1t.
Yet we are told that free trade will free
US from all ills and that the trust Is the
creature of protection.
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Mrs. George Villain Curtis.
Boston Advertiser

Students OF Lowelps life have found In
his great love for Maria White and his
happy marriage with that lady the secret
Of his deepening purpose and his devotion
to the anti-slayery cause. Late ia 1856 NJ r.
Curtis was married TO Anna Sha W, and j.
c. Fremont was at the weddi ng, Mr..
Curtis had just done his best for b i'm in the
Presidential campaign. but the Quakers had
not come out. and he could only lend to
MIR. Curtis nuptials the ornament OF a
defeated general. still picturesque, as
he had always been. and little more.
But the coincidence Of Mr.. curtis political
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william II. Sherwood,

The American pianist. Is en- route to the
Pacific Coast, where he is booked for num-
Der Of concerts, not only in this city and
State, but also in the principal cities Of
Montana, Washington. Oregon and Utah.
lie Will arrive at San Francisco tomorrow.
and on Tuesday. the 14th, give piano re-
eital at Irving Hall. This will be the only
opportunity our citizens will have to hear a
performer who is called Americas repre-
sentative nianisf
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Must Have My Money..n

Mr.. 7. Henry French, who appears to &C.
cupy the same position on the royalty ques-
ton in the United States that the Hon.
George s. Coppin does in Australia, has
made descent on Miss Jeffreys Lewis and
her managers, claiming $500 in royalties for
playing diplomacy" and other pieces in
which he is interested. French is a terror to
people in the mimic world who, either through
Ignorance or caTelessness. fail ia their re-
spect for the very necessary law OF meum ct
tuum. He is well informed as to what is
going on in the dramatic profession all over
the country, aud puts his hand on an IN
yader Of his rights when least expected.
Coppin, whom French so much resembles
in this respect, always waited till his prey
was about to leave the Australian colonies,
and then bounced down on him with the
legal papers. Sometimes settlement was
made on the deck OF the ship or
steamer. Under such circumstances. it
was, OF course, "short, sharp and
decisive" On one occasion, however,
he was not so successful as he hoped 10 be.
The object Of his pursuit was the late John
McD0BOugh. John had all his traps and
stuff shipped on the steamship Rangatara
at Sandrldge, Victoria, for New Zealand,
and was about going on board when a
mlniOn OF the law approached him with the
usual capias al satisfaciendum. Melon
ough was stout man At that tine and a
fearless one. He saw the game and did no {
waste many words. He floored the "minion''
by blow from the shoulder, and after
humping him soundly skipped to the steam
ship Just as the stern line was cast off. To
show how thorough the Honorable George
is, or was, in his exac.ions. the fact may be
mentioned that he once demanded and re-
covered $50 from the late lima di Muir
ska for singing in public Il Dreamt That
Dwell in Marble Halls" on the ground that
Michael j. Balfe, who wrote the opera,
THE Bohemian Girl" where the song oc-
ours, was member Of the English Society
for the Protection Of Dramatic Authors, of
which he was the agent in the colonies.
GeneVleYe Ward, when she arrived in this
city, had an intention to legally pursue Miss
Jeffreys Lewis for playing Forget Me-Not"
the play being her properly.
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A Great Journ alist.

Dana's Is tie sharpest pencil known to
Journalism. No paragraphist has ever yet
appeared above The horizon who came within
million miles of him for bitterness, for
incisiveness. for keen-cut stiletto business,
when an enemy was to be put away Yet
his charities are boundless. A kinder
hearted man doesn't walk the street He
will live TO be a very old man, and, to the
hour OF his death. he will be graceful in his
aging and gracious 10 his bearing, and work
has much to do with the producing of that
raeult
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The German Dramatic sea.on

The company under the management of
Herr Fritz Hitzigrath. whose previous per-
formances prove careful selection OF its
members. will appear tomorrow evening in
Won Mosers comedy, der Lebermsn." 1t
Is gratifying to know that our German
fellOw-cltiZens appreciate these actors so
highly that the present promises to be the
most profitable season ever had by similar
COMPANY of PLAYERS in this CITY
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THE
State INVESTMENT And INSURANCE CO.
ESTABLISHED 1871.
Capital Stock, Paid Up, 100000.
NOS eis AID aeo sANsOYm ST.

mences at Vienep, opposite Vreeswyk. and
finally enters the Merwede. one of the
branches of the Mas and Waai Delta, from
which the new waterway takes its name,
little below Goriuchem. The average width
is over 100 feet and the depth 10A feet, so
that two of the largest Rhine steamers will
be able TO pass easily.
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wanted TO See Hurn.

Leander Richardson tells the following
story: tine other day, when the Metropoli-
tan Opera-bouse in New York was seeth-
ing mass Of flames, gentleman Of calm and
saturnine demeanor approached the front
door. He was promptly stopped by the
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Our eity tbeaters offer nothing wort

OuF city theaters offer nothing worthy
of special notice. The Baldwin people
continue the Ivan CaryI opera. At the
Stockwell will be aired, fer the first
time, new play by Clay NJ Greene,
about which there is much secrecy. At the
Alcazar, where strong company is vast
ing itself on weak plays, the audience
will be treated to another old chestnut for
a whole week, and free tickets, thick as
leaves in Vall0mbrosa, Will be the order of
The night "a Junior Partner" and Fred
eric Lemaitre" come Ia, on date. 10
horse" the best paying dramatic vein the
new California has struck this season; and
Duncan b. Harrison takes Little Tipretl"
southwark, much disgrnniled at not doing
better with it, a result mainly attributable,
in his opinion. to the theater where the
piece was produced. Theatrical affairs in
San Francisco are. in short, much In the
same condition that our correspondent
(whoSe letter is published elSewheTe) de-
scribes in Philadelphia, and will probably
SO continue till there is a new deal of the
MANAGERIAL mack
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be. "claw off a lee shore, I"
his education was CON-
plete and he was fit to
walk the quarterback
of Uncle Sans smartest
frigate or llne-of-bat
ship. What would the
old shellbacks OF reyo-
lutionary times say were
they suddenly transport
ed TO the turret of a mod
ern ironclad and con-
: fronted by the marvel
Gus mechanisms of to-
dav9 Said an nll retired
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ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF SIIEDl.
SOLOMONS WARRIORS, WIVES AND PAGES
Numberless Flower Girls.
NUBIANS LEADING WILD ANIMALS.
The Grand AssembIage al the Palace
SOLOMON EhTHPONES THE QUEEN

nj r. AND MRS DREw'S DANCING ACAD. "a
WI envy, l2l New Montgomery st-Nea ~ ~
rangement5; tuition reduced; dancing iesrusf "a
al little cost; Gents exclusively (besiunsrsl -
Mondays Wednesdays; Ladisj (beginaers), rdsT
Gays. Thursdays; soirees Saturday evenings
PRIVATE LESSONS DAILY. 7tf