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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
HAD TO CATCH THE BOAT.
How Booth and His FeIlow-PIavers
Once Improved on Shakespeare.

NllcagO HeIali.
EdN in Booth told the following story at
q supper table:
Once during the DAYS of his early strug-
giles young Booth was Transforming"
down In Virginia at a place called Lees
Landing. The imprOvised theater was a
tobacco warehouse, and it was crowded by
the planters for miles around. Booth and
his companions had arranged 10 take the
weekly steamer expected late that night,
and between the acts were busy packing
up. The play was the Merchant OF
Venice" and they were just going on for
the trial scene when they heard the
whist ties, and the manager came running
in to say that the steamer had arrived and
would leave again in half an hour. As
that was their only chance for week of
getting away they were in terrible guam
dairy.
''If we explain matters" said the mana
ger, the audience will think they are
being cheated and We will have free
fight. The only thilg is for you fellows to
get up some sort 0fnatural-like impromptu
ending for the piece and ring down the
curtain. Go right ahead, ladies aud
gentlemen. and take your cue from Ned
here" and he hurried away to get the lug
gage aboard
Ned" of course, was Booth, who re-
solved to rely upon tie ignorance of the
Virginians of those days to pull him
through, So when old George Ruggles,
who was playing Shylock, began to
sharpen his knife on his boot Booth
walked straight up to him and said
solemnly: You are bound to have the
flesh. are you?"
You bet your life," said Ruggles.
Now, I'll make you one more offer"
continued Booth. "In addition to this bag
Of ducats III throw in two kegs of niger
head terback, a shotgun and a couple OF
the best coon dogs in the State"
Pm bowed if don't do it," responded
Shylock, much to the appreciation of the
audience, who were tObacco-rRisers and
commuters to man. "And to show
that there are no ill-fee!ings." put in
Portia, well wind up with Virginia
reel"
When the company got aboard the
steamer the captain. who had witnessed
the conclusion of the play. remarked, "Id
like to see the whole of that play some
time, gentlemen. I'm blessed if thought
Shakespeare had so much snap IN him"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
Sure Signs of Old Age.


DO yon know the surest indication OF
old agep" asked DR.. Reed of ST. Louis.
THE surest indication in man." he con-
tinued, ARE the moist eve, dry palm and
n shrinkage of the calf of the leg. All
these indications are due to some action of
The nerves consequent upon advancing
years. In the matter of the eye. The fifth
section Is interfered with, and it is this
which causes flow of water. The
dryness OF the palm is produced by an in-
reference with the functions of the body,
also due to the action of the nerves, and
the shrinkage of the leg follows from SINH
lar causes. In old age, too. you notice
some men become more corpuent than in
the earlier portions of their lives With
drinking men the change is often produced
by the quantity of saccharine which they
consume with their drink, with those who
DO not drink 1t follows from other physio-
logical changes. AS TO the hair becoming
gray, it results in the majority of cases
from the partial closing of the hair cells
ana the reduction of the quantity OF nalu-
raj col0ring matter which the clothing
produces. With women the dimness of
tile eve does not come so soon as it oes
in
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

own use. He some days sends in 200 birds
as the result of one days work Strings Of
SO, 90 and 100 are not infrequent. Ills har-
vest is at tie season of the year when the
birds sell at 81 90 and So doz,n. The
duck hunter is also a class to hims self. This
is particularly true of the wood-duek
hunter. The chicken and quail hunters
are generally the same, and in large part
they are known as farmers. Deer and
wild turkey also go together. They are
found in the same section of country and
at the same time. Their turkeys average
them over 81 each, and when they run
across a flock 1t is an easy matter to get ten
or twelve out of. This hunter is supposed
to spend the balance Of the year in chop
ping railroad ties on Government land,
IN oonshine and keeping out of the
way of revenue officers. The woodcock
hunters also stand out alone. Squirrels
and rabbits alone are hunted by anybody
and everybody.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
TO PERFUME THE BATH.
What Kind of Things Are Used for
This Purpose.
Philadelphia Times.

All manner of things are put into the
baths, choice varying with taste and condi-
ton in life. Benzoin is one of the cheap
est and sweetest adiuncts. An ounce will
turn tub Of water white and leave the
body fragrant. Bath-bags Of crushed Law
ender flowers may be bought for 10 or 20
cents, and the perfume is very agreeable.
Mashed berries are said to give delicious
scent to the body which is quite lasting,
but while the fruit continues 10 sell at so
cents pint strawberries are not likely to
waste their sweetness in bathtubs. Rose,
lily, lilac and heliotrope baths are made
with either the extracts or toilet waters OF
those blossoms; lemon juice is used for
lemon bath. and the Russian bath re-
quires aromatic vinegar or salt as an Access
sorry. The balm de luxe, so popular among
French women, is considered excellent for
softening the skin. A bag filed with
almond meal or bran is put in the tub nnd
used after the flesh-brush. Borax, car
Donate Of soda and ammonia are all go cd
to soften the water, clean the skin and
tone up the body; il is not advisable to use
them often. as they tend to parch the skin.
little turpentine in the water is good for
rheumatic pains and sleeplessness, and SO
is alcohol after drying. Mustard ii used in
case OF colds and headaches.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
LIGHT HAIR AND GENIUS.
Appearances Would Seem to Indicate
That They Two Go Together.
New York Commercial Advertiser.


New York Commercial Advertiser.
1t has long been an accepted fact the
great men of this world, in war, statecraft
or the arts, have all been abdominal men.
There have been few exceptions-there
always are. Some one has even pointed
out that there are exceptions to the rule
that marriage is failure. But in general
the thin men are out Of it. More curious
still is the fact that the first requisite for
political success is that one must be a light
haired or red haired man. There may
seem to be- a contradiction in the other
fact that all the members of Mr.. Cleve-
lands Cabinet, barring Mr.. Lamont, are
dark-haired men; II is merely seeming.
No one says they are statesmen, and Mr..
Croker admits they are not politicians.
Up to the time Mr. Cleveland first sat
down hard upon the presidential chair
only three men of dark complexion had
ever filled the Office of President of the
United States.
In the Smithsonian Institution in WASH
ingten is n collection of tresses clipped
from the heads of our rulers. Red and
gray hair, yellow and red-brOwn hair, from
Washington to the stout gen tleman under
whom the presidential chair now creaks,
there has been line of blonde men-twenty
light men and three dark men. Major
Moses =. Handy, whose whiskeTs are
rufous, says that red halT IS the outward
and visible sign of genius. Mr. Cleye-
land sits soft and says nothing. but there
is good reason TO believe that he looks upon
MS light. stubby mustache as mascot.
The one thing certain is that he must have
a mascot concealed about him somewhere.
Were this not so he would be impossible.
Just few of the red Senators are Vest of
Missouri, Blackburn of Kentucky, Don
Cameron of Pennsylvania, and Brice of
New York and Ohio. Senator Fry Of Maine
is 4 blonde.
Governor Flower has red hairs in the lit
tie whiskers that lie like parenthesis marks
on either side of the good-natured face.
Blue-eyed Billy" Sheehan. the Lieutan-
ant Governor. is a man of light com pIexion.
So is Spnatnr MurnhY
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
Wasted Energy in Waves.

The enormous mechanical energy In
waves rolling In over shelving beach has
never vet attracted the attention 1t merits
as possible source of mechanical power.
Now that electrical transmission of power
has been carried 10 such degree of prac-
ticability that distance of from ten to
twenty miles from the sources of power is
no bar to the utilization of water-power at
points within these or even greater limits
1t appears that the same amount of science
and skill that has been applied to the So
luton of the problem of mechanical flight
should be able to give to the world the
wave mill. A moments reflection will
convince any mechanical mind that wave
power enough, and great deal more than
enough, daily goes to waste on Rockaway
Beach TO supply New York, BROOKLYN and
Jersey CITY with heat, light and mechanic
cal propulsion required by those cities for
all purposes.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
THE RIPLEY JURY
Unable to Agree After
Long Deliberation.
They Stand Six for Conviction as
Charged, Five for Assault and
One for Acquittal.

After celebrating five and half hours
yesterday the jury in the Ripley case an
nounced its inability to agree and was
discharged. Assistant District Attorney
Hinkle Immediately asked that on June 10
next the date for the next trial OF John
Mackay's murderous assailant be set.
judge Seawell'S charge to the jury occu-
pied about twenty minutes under delivery.
He advised them that they had the option
OF arriving at any one of four verdicts
The first in degree was that on which
Wesley c. Rippey was tried, IAN assault
with intent to commit murder" Malice
aforethought and everything necessary to
establish the murderous intent must be
proved to convict on that charge. The
next verdict might be IAN assault with a
deadly weapon" Here there was no in
tention 10 commit murder. and conse-
quently q less degree of crime. The de-
PENDANT might be convicted of simple
assault. If the jury should be convinced
that Rippey had not used a deadly weapon.
Finally, if they thought he was insane at
the time of the assault or that he never
intended shooting Mackay it was their
duty to acquit the defendant.
The old man leaned forward and lis
tened intently to every word spoken by
the Judge, and cast an appealing look into
out of the box to deliberate upon his fate.
At ? o'clock the Jurors sent word to
Judge Seawell that they were unable to
agree and asked TO be discharged. The
bailiff was instructed to inform the Jury
men that the Judge would hear further
report from them at o'clock
At that hour but few persons were in
the courtroom. Rippey, who had sat there
all day, seemed very much cast down,
though he frightened up a little as the
jsEFmen took their seats.
The foreman informed the court that
they were utterly unable TO agree. There
was one man on the jury, be said, who
stood out steadily for a verdict of Not
guilty" Nothing could move him. he had
announced that neither the advice of his
associates nor the opinion Of lawyers could
shake him in his conviction that Rippey
was gultess.
The Judge thereupnn dischar! red the
jury. The foreman stated that the jury
had stood all day through several ballots
SIX for conviction of assault TO murder, five
for conviction of assault with a deadly
nd For
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

chorus. two of them only had be chorus
girls before, one in Los Angeles and one
in Denver.
There was sweet-faeed little girl in the
crowd to whom l was particularly at
tracted-she appeared so superior 10 the
place. | asked her how she happened to
want chorus position, and she told me
she contemplated going on the dramatic
stage and some one had advised her to first
go on the stage with chorus till she had
overcome the awkwardness Of self-con-
seriousness common in young actresses.
At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning we had
another rehearsal. This time the regular
Iivoll chorus was there, that is, some of
them wore there. There were thirteen
men and twenty-four women present.
Professor B presided. and lie was
terrible. lie would hit notes with terrific
force. then he would slap hands and nod
his head TO the time and hum the air.
wildly saw, Ladies ladies'! Why don't
you sing?" was right behind him and
he suddenly turned TO me and said. II m!
l do not hear you"
Then be asked ME to sing alone. How 1
did wish there was convenient knot-hole
in the floor! l could have era led through
very small one / am sure | faltared.
"Please excuse me this morning"
Yes, and tomorrow morning, too, |
suppose" he retOrted. Ladies. | am Ze
most patient man IN re world, but | have
not re time 10 fool. If you can not sing
you can 60. Goodbye
And he shrugged his shoulders and
turned back TO the piano. l didn't want
TO 60, and | couldn't make up my mind TO
try to sing before that crowd, SO | kept my
seat. hoping he would not notice me again.
In a little while he turned to mo again and
said
Are you singing? l do not hear your
voice. Now. sing this" and he played two
or three bars. Everybody stared at me.
and | gasped, "Oh, please let me CO."
'Of course you can go. We don't keep
ANYBODY here"
AS l started out he continued: "You
saw whit we advertised for. We want
somebody to sing, not to stand around the
stage. And certainly | must hear the
shadow of a voice"
He bowed politely, and followed by the
plying gaze of the Tivoli chorus l slid out
of the nearest door.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
A Clever Idea.
New York Recorder.

An enterprising Partisan shopkeeper has
hit upon novel device TO induce people 10
stop in front Of his show-windows in the
chill OF winter and spring. He secured a
length OF easpipe, and, perforaiing it with
Tiny holes, laid 1t Just under the edge of
the window outside. Then he rugged a
small pump that forced gentle current of
warm air through the pine. and thus he
practically heated the space in front of
his display. Nor was this all. He fash
Toned clever machine that sprayed del
icate periume into the pump, and SO tile
warm air is kept scented. to the great de-
ltBhe Oh the feminine shoppers, who can
scarcely be induced to move on" The
warm air also keeps the glass clear and
bright.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
The Terror of Solitude.
New York sun.

resident of New York who passed
nearly twenty-five years in the anthracite
coal mines of Pennsylvania says that few
miners can easily shake off the horror that
seizes a man upon finding him self alone at
the bottom of mine. with the knowledge
that there is no other human being within
call. 1t sometimes happens that miner
absorbed In his work suddenly realizes
that all but himself have gone. The place
is rs safe from ordinary accidents then as
at any time. and no other living creature
more dangerous than blind mule shares
the miners solitude. but he finds 1t impos-
sible long to keep off the pressing terror !:
and, half ashamed, but completely con-
quered, lie picks up his dinner-pail and
gropes his way to upper air.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
PHENOMENALLY Low PRICES!

"A
a CSC ard VI N''
125 inch FANCY DRESS PA
will lie '''' '"
25 Cents.
in
a SN'" '"N0 W.
as
FANCY
Gents
"A Gents.
TWOTONED
Gents
the ravat tns
'' e-
NoTEong of our
PRICES departments THIS WEEK
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

The visit of President Cleveland to Chi
cago and the opening of the Worlds Fai:
has brought man of genius and his very
commendable Worlds Fair medal to pub
lie notice. William Boldenweck. ex-May or
OF Lake View, at present member of the
Chicago Board of Education and also one
of the trustees OF the sanitary district OF
Chicago, needs no introduction TO the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
Hunters Who Have a Speciality.

That there Is such thing as specially
among professional hunters will strike
some people as peculiar. The commonly
accepted idea is that IL man cannot shoot
at one thing he can at another. But such
Is not the case. Not only that. but by try
ing all kinds of game a hunter may ruin
himself for all. The man ho hunts snipe
is generally through with his seasons end.
II he shoots any other game it is tor his
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
GIFT TO GROVER.
EX-Mayor Boldenweck Presents
Mr.. Cleveland With a Medal.

Momento Received by the Chief Executive in
Happy Manner and With Expressions OF
Thanks-Ske of the Lille of a Man Who
Is at Once Prominent in Business and
Political Circles.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
She Kent Her Word. .

Husband-Yes. women is all allkes,
they is. 1t don't take them long TO change
their minds. Wy, when | asked yer to
marry me first We said you wouldn't marry
the noblest man that ever breaihed.
Wife-Well, L kept my wOrd.-Fun.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
GREAT SPECIAL PURCHASE
HIGH NOVELTY
DRESS GOODS

All lovers of the ARTISTIC AND FASHIONABLE IN DRESS
will find DISPLAY we'll worth look
ing THIS WEEK for have just uncased great special
purchase of high novelties the latest including all
THE NEWEST AND 1oST ELEGANT PRODUCTIONS IN WEAVES,
DESIGNS COLORNGS AND EFFECTS all offered the follow
show,
PRICES THAT GREATLY FAVOR THE BUYER
SUITINGS
value Tor 81 90 Will be placed on yard
5OINCH BEIGE
will be placed o sale yard.
4eNC FANCY SILK AND Wool PLAIDs AND STRIPES choice COLLECTION
45NCH ALWOO SUlTNGS novelty
extra value for co. will be placed at 81 80 yard
4OINCH WOOL TwoToNED FIGURED NOVELTY sUITNGs
AINCH FANCY SILK AND WOOL TW0T0NED DIAGONAL SUITNGS
A
K
promptly
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DRY GOODS.
qGMP PING BARGAINS THIS WEEK
PLAIN AND FANCY
GOODS

In connection with the many other REMARKABLE ATTRAC-
HUNS UTTERED MS WEEK we desire to call
purchase of Plain Fancy Goods GPFAT
VARIETY OF STYLISH WEAVES AND cor OPN(iS which we
secured at discount that enables
customers at figures corresponding with the following
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
Modern Surgery.
New York Recorder.

The story comes from London of a won
derful surgical operation that promises TO
be successful. Five years ago workman
injured bis right arm, and careless sur
geon so treated 1t that 1t withered and
became useless. Recently IL was decided
TO examine the arm, and it was accord
iDgly opened and explored. The nerve was
found TO be partially divided. Two fresh
ends were made and section of the sciatic
nerve from live rabbit was stitched In.
The patient has now recovered the power
in his arm, which is regaining its original
size, aud he is following his employment.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
Didn't Know He had Anv.

"Choly Chipklns is getting intoerwably
pwoud and stuck up"
"Ah, WEAKLY? What's the occasion?"
His doctab told him he showed signs
of bwainfag. Washington Star.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
Living in Hone.

May-Don't you think your landlady's
little boy Is an angel?
Frank-Not yet; but have hopesl-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

THE BoLDENwEcK MEDAL-oBvERsE
people Of Chicago. He is even known
beyond the borders Of the State.
Raised and educated in Chicago. he
has come to be recognized, and properly
so. as one of the most thrifty and re-
liable business men of the city. The Won
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

SUCCESS breeds success. Whites Yucatan Gum
Is the purest and best OF Its Sina hence Its popu.
Ilrity.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
A Brave Man.

Teots-Old Soaks must be a brave man.
Tanks-What makes you think so?
Toots-He never takes wafer. - New
York Herald.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14
A JOB AT SINGING.
The Fortieth Girl in the
"Hoolah.'
SHE SANG IN THE CHORUS.
She Was Well Treated by the Tivoli
Folks, but She Had Tough
Time.
SHE SANG IN THE CHORUS.

In asking for reportorial work on THE
CALL l assured the city editor of my will
ingness to take any detail that might be
assigned me; in fact. more than limited
that something very-unusual would please
me. Visions of wild. impossible things
floated through my mind, and VAS really
afraid my employer would not think of
anything startling enough. / have the
utmost confidence in him now and a great
deal less in myself.
Sunday night 1 received the following
clipping:
M ANTED-4O CHORUS GIRLS FOR OUR
w grand production OF The Hoolah"; steady
employment If satisfactory. Apply Monday morn
ing. between and 10 O'Clock at office. TivoIi
Opera-house.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

WEAK Stomach strengthened by Beoeham's Pills
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promptly carefully
Mill Valley Bithe1ae
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-26
Fill the Lungs Daily.

Cultivation of deep inspiration in breath
ing Is of the greatest value wherever there
Is predisposition to any lung trouble.
Half of the world never use the lower part
of their lungs at all, thus lessening very
materially their chances of resistance to
any disease of the respiratory organs. In
such dangerous and sudden illness as pneu-
mOnia, for instance, a celebrated physician
has affirmed that the chances of life would
be much greater if the patient had been In
the habit of fully filing all the lung cells
when in health. A little daily breathing
practice will do much to teach the proper
use of the lungs and have invaluable re-
suits in the future, and is certainly we'll
worth the ten minutes devoted to the exer-
else daily.
There is a little instrument called a
"spirometer," which is used for the pur-
pose, but an ordinary quill of straw, or
glass tube, is about rs efficacious. Draw
in the breath slowly until you count de-
liberate fifteen, and eXhale the air for the
the same length Of time. At first de
cided sensation of fatigue will be expert
enced when ten times are counted. In
crease by degrees until you are able to
take twenty deep inhalations without diff
Guilty. This done every day will surely
broaden and deepen the chest, and greatly
increase the power of the lungs.-New
York Tribune.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-26
CHICAGO EXPOSITION.

Worlds Fair Managers are devoting
much attention to schemes to increase
the attendance.
The Duchess of Marlborough expects
to revisit her native land in September,
and will attend the Worlds Fair.
What is claimed will be the largest
flagstaff ever erected is to be dedicated
to the Worlds Fair by the State of Wash
ington in September.
Governor Lewelling of Kansas will
soon appoint commission to lay his
gulf transportation scheme before for
eign representatives at the Worlds Fair.
The British government has sent Ma
ior Cragie to Chicago to report on the
agricultural statistics accumulated by
the various governments at the Worlds
Fair.
1t is now conceded that the stockhold-
ers OF the Worlds Fair will not get any
of their money back. 1t is also conceded
that in addition to their $5,500,000 the
city of Chicago will not get any of its
So 900, 900 back.
At meeting of the National Commits
sion Commissioner Goodell of Colorado
precipitated lengthy and heated de-
bate by a resolution reducing the sala-
ries OF Commissioners St. Clair and Mas
sew, members of the Council of Admin
istration, to $500 year. Now they
are getting $500 per month. The matter
was finally referred to special commit
tee.
Some of the officials and directors Of
the exposition have scheme to charge
% cents admission to the fair after G
O'Clock in the evening. The matter has
been under discussion for several days
it is said, with good prospects of being
carried through. 1t is believed that by
doing this the increased attendance will
be large enough to more than double the
receipts taken in after o'clock.