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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
Los ANGELES PERSONALS.

Los Angeles Cal, Sept. 7.-Mrs. Stephen NJ.
White and family have returned from their
summer outing at Santa Monica. Mrs. Childs
and Miss Childs are home from Monterey, hav-
ing been called thither by the fatal illness of
Mrs. Childs' venerable mother, Mrs Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey Holterhoff have returned
from q visit to San Francisco. The Capital,
Major Ben Truman's paper, publishes this
week fine half-tone picture in line
engraving frame of Miss Alice Hobart
of San Francisco and W. Z. Lester of Santa
Monica, the gentleman she will wed next
Tuesday in San Francisco. After years trip
abroad the couple will come to Santa Monica
to reside The groom is nephew of Mrs Sem
ator Jones. Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Platter, Miss
Waddilove, Miss Grace Cole, Miss Gorm9n and
present at the Hobart-Lester nuptials. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Wightman and Miss Wightman
have gone to San Francisco for an indefinite
stay. Next Monday Miss Jones of Santa Mon
lea, daughter of Senator Jones, will play Miss
Hooper of San Francisco for the tennis cham
pionshiop of the State. The engagement OF
Miss Clementine B. Conrad, daughter of S.
United States Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue is formally announced. Miss
Washington, D. c., with her friend Miss Hasse,
formerly assistant librarian. Miss Kelso has
been doing some newspaper work for the WASH
ington Star. and contemplates going to the At
lanta Exposition in the interests of the rail-
roads. Miss Hasse has just compiled list
of books of travel which is Incorporated
lished by the library bureau for the
American Library Association publishing Sec
ton. S. B. Toby of San Francisco, E. H. Kilt
ridge and w. ]. Wilson of Oakland are at the
Westminster. Leopold Hahn, ex-State Senator
of Nebraska, accompanied by Mrs. Hahn is
visiting friends in Pasadena and has gone to
Catalina for short visit. Mr.. Hahn is a man
of wealth, and contemplates permanent resi-
dence in Southern California. Jay Spence of
the First National Bank of Pomona has gone
to San Francisco for q months visit, accom-
..:cxlL. IL, re-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
IN MY GARDEN.

I walk in my garden when daylight is dying;
The sun has departed TO waken the West,
And shadows Of evening from dim mountains fly
ing.
Sweep over the valley and soothe 1t to rest.
The seep-songs Of birds and the fragrance Of flow
ers
Snite softly my senses and lull to repose;
Sweet symphonies swell on the atfiuent hours,
And the influence subtle of lily and rose
Steals over my spirit with wordless suggestion
OF truths which the petals Of nature unfold;
Of mysteries mute TO mans uttermost question,
And secrets which shall be forever untold
Till unto my soul, in the twilight half dreaming,
Comes creeping the inquiry, may it not be
That the flowers know more Of life's mystical
meaning
Than God in His wisdom revealeth to mef
]. E. r.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
LEGENDS OF FIRE ISLAND BEACH.

Fire Island Beach is familiar locality to
New Yorkers-a barrier of sand stretching
for twenty miles along the south coast of
Long Island and separating the great South
Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. tits wild,
bleak, wrath and legend-haunted stretch
of desolation, "wind-searched and surf
pounded, and leading back into stretches
of ever-shifting sand dunes or sand hills,
as they are called in that locality. The re-
gion abounds in legends and the supersti-
tions that always finger about the sea. A
number of these Edward Richard Shaw
has gathered into a readable volume which
he calls Legends of Fire Island Beach and
the South Shore" They are stories of dis
covered pots of gold, of bogies and phan-
toms and all the tiotsam and jetsam of
narrative sure to be washed up on any
desolate bit of seacoast. Mr.. Shaw has
told them in an attractive way and his
publishers have put them out in artistic
and beautiful form. New York: Lowell,
Corva1l IG Co I
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
THE COSMOPOLITAN.

The September issue of the Cosmopoli-
tan shows painfully the working of the
leaven of cheapness. Ii we are to have a
bunch of syndicate magazines consldera-
ton for the public should at least prompt
the simultaneous publication of the dupli-
cate matter Most of it, as the rehash of
the Webster-Parkman murder, is of no
gather interest by transfer from one
magazine to another. We said last
month that it was an open question
whether excellence and cheapness could
be combined to such degree as is at
tempted by these magazines, and in the
case of the Cosmopolitan it would appear
that the question is to be speedily and
negatively answered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
THE OLD SETTLER, THE SQUIRE AND
LITTLE PELEG.

This is a series of character sketches by
Ed Mott, author of ''Pike County Folks"
and "Tales of Sugar Swamp" The
sketches are all of broadly humorous
nature and made, we are told, ''a hit"
when they appeared from week to week in
the New York Sun. The sort of thing they
are was pretty apt to ''make a hit'' in the
East two or three years ago. Like the
mining stories and wild yarns about Cali
fornia (that are deemed realistic and char
acteristic in the East in proportion as they
puzzle and astound Californians) these
yarns are just absurd enough to be "taken
for corn" in a community stifled in it's
own commonplaceness and hungrily eager
for types" The Old Settler and the
Squire are two whimsical ola braggarts.
each with a long memory and a still longer
thirst. They spin interminable yarns to
each other, and the Old Settler is some
times even mean enough to capture Little
Peleg, defenseless youth of tender years,
and tell them to him when he cannot get
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
LIVELY PLAYS FOR LIVELY PEOPLE.

The name of Thomas Stewart Denison is
well known in this country as a writer of
clever plays for amateurs. The present
volume consists of half-a-score of new ones
from his pen. They are nothing if not up
to date" and are for the most part farcical
hits at modern fads. Patsey O'Wang is a
humorous conception of a Chinese Irish
man, who, whenever he gets drink of
whisky, becomes as veritably Irish as was
to drink tea, the blood of his Chinese
mother is again in the ascendency. Other
of the plays are, 1.-THE New Woman,
Madame Princeton's Temple of Beauty"
etc., etc. There is great deal of action
about them all, which serves to carry off
what might otherwise be too apparent
paucity of quality in the dialogue.
tChicago: T. S. Denison, publisher.l
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likely remember as the editor of the old
Californian, though he is now practicing
attorney in New York, was commenting
on that point the other day. ''The East
erner has a theory" he said, 'and every
thing must fit into il. Harte's Californian
set the type, and while Ha-te's characters
are most interesting as creations, they ex-
listed only in Bret Harte, and never in Cali
fornia. Yet Jack Hamlin and the rest re-
main, and every one that aims to strike
the Eastern idea has to write into that
view" But Mr.. Phelps does not give
much of his time to such questions nova
days. His law business claims his chief
attention He is the att orney for the
clearinghouse with which Edmund Ciar-
ence Stedman, the critic and occasional
verse writer, is connected, and has also
had charge of the tangled affairs of Albert
BierstaGt, which tangle, by the way, re-
suited in number OF the artists paint
in.:s-yalued by him at $50 000--being sold
by the Sheriff. Mr.. Bierstadt is row in
Rome.
Speaking Of the artistic fraternity
Benoni Irwin did not go abroad, as has
been yarious!y announced, but is still at
his studio in the Carnegie building digging
away at number of portraits. None OF
them, if his own version is not over
modest, is of any special interest however.
i a studio adjoining Mr.. Twins though
q work of really monumental Importance
Is nearing completion in the decorative
panels that Edward e. Simmons is paint
ing for the walls of the newer Oyer and
Termiuer courtroom. Mr.. Simmons, while
n oativa Of NJ aSSa ohuSettS and a penhew of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, is identified with
California in a way. He lived in San
Francisco for about three years in the
early los and was connected with the local
press for a time. Besides his wife is
Californian. The work referred to may be
said to almost mark an era in American
art. It is the first important mural decora-
ton that has ever been attempted in a
municipal building in New York City.
Mr. Simmons design, which was
awarded the Municipal Art Society's first
prize over forty-six other competitors last
April. takes the shape of three immense
panels, in which the central figure of JUS
tice is disclosed, fanked by two colossal
groups one IMPLYING the Three Fates, the
other Liberty, Fraternity and Equality.
This mere cataloguing of the elements of
the design sounds rather conventional,
and conveys no idea of the grace and i'm
pressiveness with which the conception is
worked out The color scheme of the
decoration is light in key, yet grave, and
runs through opalescent whites and steel
grays to peacock blue in the draperies, re-
neved here and there by sparing use of
CT
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
FOR EDITORIAL PURPOSES.

This is the quaint title of a quaint little
gray-covered book of verses by Elwyn
Irving Hoffman, and bearing the imprint
of a Stockton printer.
We could wish that there were more of
the little book; that it were less shabbily
printed, and above all, that it had been
dignifed with more Ineligible title.
Thus much for the externalities of the
book. Its contents are rather hopefully bad.
There is a wonderful amount of vague as
piration in Mr.. Hoffman's lines. His
vision of poesy is as yet, to quote from his
own plea,
He could not fit 1t for the minds OF men.
And he seems not yet to have grasped the
truth that the essential to expression is
something to express. Thus it often hap
pens that his more ambitious efforts are
the less pleasing. Pegasus is at times an
unruly steed, and in Mr.. Hoffman's case,
at least, is apt to land his rider beyond his
depths, in such a morass, for instance, as
this, from "a Flight of Time and Fancy"
Now hail to thee, my solemn-visaged song'
On thy dark wings we slowly pass along
Through devious ways where murked discourage
ment.
For once this year my every faith seemed spent,
My troubles thickened and my soul tossed
like wrecked ship, and was all but lost.
We can readily believe it. The only
wonder is that the poor singer ever found
himself again. But when Mr.. Hoffman
really knows, so TO speak, where he is at"
MS Tyre gives forth no such uncertain
sound as we have quoted. 1.-The Wild
Horses of Nevada gives US bit Of ring
ing, picturesque and imaginative verse,
despite certain rather glazing grammatical
lapses. What picture is called up in
these linesl
Over Nevadas dry old sea,
Over Nevada's sea of sand
Over this sea OF sand and sage
Privateers Of the sea of sand,
Buccaneers since many an age.
See them sail-this lordly band!
See them rise from the plain and fee,
Circle and snort and circle and wheel,
Forward and back rs their leader leads,
Free as the light-winged b.rls are free,
Free as the winds they snuff and feel,
Free as naught else in the world is free
Neyada's wind blown steeds.
There are strong lines here and there in
the book, and the poet has withal the rare
gift OF Imagination, without which all
verse is as Dead Sea apples, but there is a
lack anywhere in his verse OF that definite
thought and human feeling that alone
justify the putting of so many words on
paper.
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away. Little Peleg does not care for the
yarns for which indifference one is not
disposed to censure him. The characters
talk an impossible sort of dialect, and the
only really funny bits in the book are the
Old Settlers queer trials with foreign
mission society called the Feeders of
Them That Hunger and the Clothers of the
Naked" The book is capitaily illustrated
by D. A. Mcclellan.
New York: Lowell, Coryell & Co. For
sale by Doxey, San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
AN ENGLISH CRITIC ON CALIFORNIA.

In the September number of the Land
of Sunshine" Charles f. Lummis says of
Miss Beatrice Harraden, author of 'Ships
That Pass in the Night"
"She is so amiable and well-meant a lit
tie woman that it is a pity she should have
handicapped herself by picking to be born
in England. A sense OF humor, now,
would add much to her enjoyment of this
country where are no snobs. A still great
er misfortune is it to carry ones horizon
with one, like the familiar insular hat-box
Miss Harraden has seen sixteen square
feet here, by design. Her California is
San Diego County tyspeck of three or four
British Younger Sons, married with Elder
daughters, gnawing around the edge of an
unfamiliar and too large mouthful. By
these tokens she reckons that Charles Dud-
ley Warner will have to account at the bar
of God for having larger eyesight and
that our own Van Dyke is another On
the head of her valuable studies of half
dozen impossible mud Students, she is
writing story based on the fearful home
sickness of women in California. And
really, she is young enough to know bet
ter"
It was Miss Harraden, by the way, who
recently made some rather amusing strict
ures anent the literary future for California.
She saw, she said, mo outlook for poetry
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
PAINTERS, UNION.
1t Is in a Flourishing Condition and Has
Good Prospects.

The Brotherhood of Painters and Deco
rators held a meeting last Tuesday even
ing at its headquarters, at Foresters' Hall,
on Eddy street, and elected the following
officers: E. III. Windsor, president; M. j.
Hines, vice-pre sident; Fred Busse, record
ing secretary; ]. Israel, financial secretary
V. McAvoy, treasurer; R. Sarsfeld warden
w. Doyle, conductor; Rose, castings,
board.
The brotherhood, which only organized
August II last, already numbers 100
strong. is in a fourishing condition, and
its prospects are bright The meetings OF
the brotherhood will be held at Foresters
Hall on Tuesday evenings of each week.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
THE GREAT DEBATE.

This is the official report of the famous
debate between Senator Horn of New York
and ''Coin" Harvey of Illinois. The de-
bate, which was as inconclusive as it was
lengthy, was fully reported at the time in
many of the papers, but those interested
in knowing all that was said on each side
will find the present volume of use. [Chi-
cago: The Debate Publishing Company.
For sale by the San Francisco News Com
paly,l
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.

One of those English stories that, by
reason of their number and improbability,
have won the distinctive epithet typical"
The author, L. T. Meade. has given us a
conventional young man and conven-
tional Tin fiction) nobleman, on the usual
formula of one-third knave, two-thirds
fool and pinch of suddenly developed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
A NEW PAPER.

"Information'' is the title of new
weekly cyclopedia of current events. 1t
contains the most satisfactory summary of
current news of the world which we have
seen. 1t is not hastily gathered lot of
clippings, but careful digest of the occur
rences of the week, well written, and
must be of great value to busy people.
Transatlantic Publishing Company, 63
Fifth avenue, New York.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08

conscientious scruple. There is a thor
oughly conventional queer young woman,
the regulation adventures, in this case an
aunt of the queer young woman, and a
prosecuted victim who tells all'' at the
last moment. The whole makes a tumble
that NAV do TO while away a summer
hour. New York: R. f. Fenno & Co.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
THE YOUNG LADIES' MAGAZINE.

From Buffalo, N. Y, comes a new
monthly publication under this caption.
The initial number is neat pamphlet of
some forty pages and presents very cred
liable appearance. There are articles by
Grace Carew Sheldon, Elizabeth Flint
Wade and other clever women, and an
interesting sketch, with portrait, of the
singer whom California delights to honor,
Fellows 81 Sutton, Buffalo, N. Y.
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1S AO41OWSs
Some little interest has been awakened
mere In Margaret Graham's "Tales From
the Foothills"-which booS verges on the
miraculous almost, as the stories hardly
ftlnto the customary Eastern conception
OF the typically Californian. The Fastener
has very peculiar notion concerning
what Californian is like; but the idea is
dear to him, and he displays an almost
English tenacity in clinging to his miscon-
ception. 1t is not so very long ago that a
certain eminently reputable Eastern peri
odical, in dwelling on the climatic delights
of Santa Barbara, went on in deadly seri-
business to explain to the intending visitor
that he, or even she, need not hesitate
about going there, as the place was really
very like an Eastern town and had no
distinctive Californian characte ristics.
Charles Henry Phelps, whom most will
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
ONLY A COMM0NER.

A story of English life, by Nat Gould.
The scene lies between England and Aus
tralia, with the usual incidents of rural
and colonial life. There is a good deal of
horse-racing and some love-making, and
the story is well and smoothly told. New
York: George Routledge & Son, limited. ]
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
He Is a Deserter.

1t has been discovered that W. F. Thomas,
who was arrested on Friday night for fraudu-
lently passing a Confederate bill, deserted
from Battery K of the Fourth Artillery, U. S. A.,
on the LIST of last April. He enlisted under the
name of William H. Hall. Six additional
charges of passing Confederate money were
laid against him Yesterday
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
AMERICAN WHIST.

The second number of "Spalding's Home
Library is devoted to the game of whist.
A. Howard Cady, the author of this little
work, does not profess to offer an alto
gether original or novel exposition of
whist, but has undertaken rather to meet
Published by the American Sports Pub
fishing Company, 24l Broadway, New
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08

DR.. A. ]. Shores first liberal offer was to give
all patients two weeks free treatment and
medicine if they applied before September 1.
This was done, and so many applied that DR..
Shores was compelled to extend this notable
offer, 500 people having applied for treatment.
September 1 DR.. Shores extended this re-
markable offer to all patients who applied be-
fore September z. During the week 1000
patients took DR.. A. j. Shores treatment,
making a grand total of 1900 patients in q
little over two weeks.
True to his offer DR.. A. ]. Shores did not
charge q penny for treatment or medicines.
Everything was free, just as DR.. Shores said it
would be-
DR.. A. J. Shores is honest. He does not tell
you he will treat you free and then charge you
SIS or $50 for medicines. 1t was all free, as
patents will testify.
There are people who falsify in their an
nouncements. DR.. Shores does not. He will
give $1,000 to any one who will show that DR..
A. j. Shores has ever made a false statement.
even been arrested for practicing medicine
contrary to the laws. Next week DR.. Shores
will publish a Salt Lake account of how GER
tain doctors stand with the medical boards of
the places they have practiced.
DR.. A. j. Shores is here to expose every dis
honest doctor in San Francisco, and he will
do it,
To further prove that his treatment is the
best DR.. A. ]. Shores will to all patients who
apply at his parlors, second floor, Nucleus
building, before october l, treat them until
cured for So month. This low rate includes
all medicines, care and attention. Remember,
please, that this is the lowest rate ever offered
in the history of San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
A LITTLE GLIMPSE AT A GREAT MAN,

In Ebert Hubbard's charming "Little
Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and
Great" now being published monthly, by
T. P Purnam's Sons, we have series of
delightful insights into the homes and
minds of sundry characters of note. Mr..
Hubbard is by no means the typical inter-
viewer dreaded of celebrity and Astounding
in the archives of syndlcature. His visits
arc undertaken in the capacity of gentle
man of culture paying homage at the
shrine of genius, and how well the reading
public appreciate his genial delicate rec
ords of what he sees and hears may be
inferred from the statement OF Messrs.
Putnam's Sons that they sell 10000 copies
monthly of these t'Little Journeys"
In the number devoted to John Ruskin
Mr.. Hubbard tells us: "At Windermere a
good friend told me that | must abandon
all hope of seeing Mr.. Ruskin, for l had
no special business with him, no letters of
Introduction, and then the fact that Lam
an American made it final"
The great Ruskin, it seems, entertains a
prejudice against America and Americans.
He has, moreover, an antipathy to inter
ruption. Mr.. Hubbard reproduces circu-
lar letter sent out by the author of Mod
ern Painters" which reads: "Mr. ]. Ruskin
is about to begin a work of great i'm
portance, and therefore begs that in refer
ence to calls and correspondence you will
consider him dead for the next two
months" But American though he is
Mr.. Hubbard succeeded in being presented
to Ruskin, and records a pleasant after
noon spent with the great man.
"He was particularly interested in the
industrial conditions of America.
l came to hear him not to defend our re-
publican experiment. as he was pleased to
call the United States of America. Yet
Mr.. Ruskin was so gentle and respectful in
his attitude of a listener that my impa-
thence at his want of sympathy with our
experiment only caused me to feel little
heated"
Mr.. Ruskin thus expressed himself on
one of the American issue Of the day:
1.-THE fact of women being elected to
mayoralties in Kansas makes one think
of certain African tribes that exalt their
women into warriors - you want your
women to fight your political battles"
The publishers have succeeded in placing
these Little Journeys" geographically
among the beautiful books of the day.
They are lovely specimens of the printers
art. New York and London: G. 2. Put
MANS Sons. For sale by Doxey, San Fran
cisco.l
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M. Thivrier, the French 'workingman"
Deputy, has just died. He made it point
to appear in the Chamber in working
mans blouse, and had once really been
miner, but long before his election had
given up work and kept winehouse.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08

Lubbock is quietly holding an exhibition
this year of the products of the countries
with which the old Hansa town has always
traded-Finland, Russia, Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden. The Kiel navy-yard has
an important exhibit.
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in California, nor any hope that we would
ever have any poets here" Her reason for
this opinion being that our landscape does
not lend itself to poetry, which requires
glades and hooks and nesting places ''such
as we have in England" However, Miss
Harraden's generalizings may be only a
passing symptom. She may not be going
to write book about US.