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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

during certain army maneuvers and ex-
perlments that were made with smokeless
powder. He has much to say of the dam
ger there exists that the celebrated Ger
man army may be trained down to too
fine point by the ceaseless activities de-
manded in the service of "the War Lord. !"
Here is one of his comments upon certain
features OF the army regime: Men who
have been on parade and much hustled
about from o'clock until l become hun
CRY and thirsty. The dinner e oclock) is
a copious one and the drinking heavy both
during and after dinner. And what do
you suppose is the fashionable beverage of
the smart German officer of the Guards to-
day? Champagne and port mixed. It
makes one think with a shudder of the alb
sinthe which softened the French brain
under the empire which collapsed in 1870. -
There are several chapters devoted to a
visit to Bismarck, who talked very freely
with Mr.. Smalley and gave him at length
his views regarding socialism and its prob
able effect upon national affairs There
are several articles on notable Americans
William Walter Phelps and DR.. Holmes
being among the number, and an exceed
ingly interesting one with Mr.. John Wal
ter, founder of the Times, for its subject.
Americans will be surprised to learn, on
Mr.. Smalley's authority, that one of Mr..
Walters unsatisfed ambitions, perhaps
the only one, was to be received by the
Queen. He said: II have known nearly
all her Ministers, [ have very profound
respect for her as a good woman, and
should like, before [ die, to have five min
utes talk with her." Commenting upon
this the author says 81 cannot under
stand why he should not have had, unless
he were unwilling to take the necessary
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
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WoMEN's PATENTS. -
Up to the present date
800 patents have been

registered in the United States Patent
Office by women. Many of these are as
curious as they are ingenious. An Ohio
matron devised combination washing
machine and seesaw. 1t consists of hol-
low receiver containing rotary clothes
holder, which is revolyed by the action of
a seesaw. The merit of the invention is
supposed to lie in the fact that washer
woman can save her own energy and at
the same time afford pleasure and recrea-
ton to the children of the neighborhood
by inviting them in to s'teeter" the ma
chine, inside which the linen to be washed
and a proper complement of soap and
water have been placed. A fair PhiIadel-
phian, in protest against the unbecoming-
ness of the ordinary life-preserver, has de-
signed shapely preserving corset, to
be worn "by either men or women when
a boating accident is anticipated. One
woman wanted patent on crimping- pin,
which could be used also as paper-cutter,
skirt-supporter, letter file, child's pin,
bouquet-holder, shawl-fastener and book
mark. Another woman took out patent
for skipping-rope, the. handle of which
contained music-box. AS soon as the
child began to skip the music started. A
Pennsylvania maiden tried to convince the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
THE JUDGMENT BOOKS.

Oscar Wilde's tabu book, "The Portrait
of Dorian Gray" is so manifestly the in
spiration of E. f. Benson's new story,
1.-The Judgment Books" the reader finds
it impossible to disassociate the two in his
mind. And yet the stories are quite diff
ferent THE Judgment Books is the
better written, although it bristles with
the same glaring faults of diction that
characterize this authors other book,
'Dodo.'' The story is of an artist who,
after reading "Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. HYDE"
comes across an old cafe chantart pro-
gramme that takes him back to his bach
elor days and an episode of his gay life in
Paris. In the frame of mind resultant
upon this combination he is impelled to
paint his own portrait. Into the painted
face go all the evil capabilities of the mans
and morbid over it, until at last he
has painted the face of a human
fiend, and himself looks exactly like
the portrait. He has not painted his real
self-only the evil thing he might have
been had he not revolted against the evil
of his early life. He is filled with horror
at his own creation and is only saved from
going insane by the influence of his wife, a
very beautiful and immensely sensible
young woman, who brings him to his
senses and makes him destroy the picture,
which he does by stabbing it many times,
finally cutting it to shreds. There is a
good deal of conversation of catchy sort
in the book, and the summer reader who
does not care to be taken too seriously
when the thermometer is in the nineties
will find it readable hammock literature.
New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by
Payot, Upham d Co., San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
THOMAS BOOBIa.

A quaint.conceit that might have been
made picturesque, but which the author,
Luth Marshall, by neglect to make
himself familiar with the pathology of his
subject, has only succeeded in making
grotesque. Thomas Boobig is giant. At
first puny boy he suddenly takes start
and grows nearly foot in night. After
that for several years he grows, by fits and
starts, until, when in the last of his teens,
he measures some seventy feet in height.
Contrary to all that is known of giants
and giantism, his intellectual growth
keeps pace with his physical, and he is a
marvel of wisdom as well as of size.
If Boobig were only little smaller, or
the authors mental conception of him
were little clearer he might have been
made interesting. AS it is he is a bore,
and such prodigious bore that the reader
experiences genuine relief when, in an eff
fort to penetrate to the center of the earth,
the giant is swallowed up and never again
seen by mortal man. Boston: Lee &
Shepard. For sale by William Doxey, San
Franciscan
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
MISS oooLBR1TH's NEW BOOK OF VERSE,

1t is charged against San Francisco that
she is a grim stepmother of the arts; that
her artists are unappreciated and that her
gifted sons and daughters, adopted or
otherwise, are forced far a-ield for recogni-
ton.
Yet San Francisco can boast an organi-
cation such as no other city in America
knows, yet OF which any city might well
be proud. This is the recently formed
Guild of Letters, of which William Greer
Harrison is president, and whose member
ship already includes, a large number OF
the cultured men and women of the coast.
Organized for the purpose of encourag-
ing art and aiding letters on this coast, the
GulId some months ago decided to begin
us good work by the publication, under its
auspices but through the house of Hough-
TON Ml1filn d Co., Boston, of the poems
OF Ina Donna Coolbrith.,
The book will appear early in the win
Ter and the publication is to be a notable
one. William Keith has madehalf dozen
exquisite sketches in oil to illustrate the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
OLIVER CROMWELL.

This is a new edition, published by the
Harpers, of volume brought out some
two years ago by Appleton e. Co. The
author is DR.. George H. Clark of Hartford,
and his book is largely compiled from
Carlyle's great work on Cromwell. 1t is
only of late years that Oliver Cromwell
has seemed to the world heroic. There
have been whole libraries written in con-
domination of the man, but, save for Ma
caulay, who did speak good word for
the Protector, based on such scant data as
in his time could be gotten at, no man did
Cromwell justice until Carlyle appeared
1t is possible that future generations will
concede Carlyle's life of Cromwell to be
! his most important contribution to Eng
/ lish literature.
But Carlyle's "groanings unutterable"
! over this great work of his did not con-
/ duce to that easy reading which is
/ said to result from hard writing. He
! is exceedingly difficult to read, and
! for this reason it is well that
we have DR.. Clark's present work, based
on the exhaustive researches of Carlyle.
| The book is, however, something more
than mere echo of the greater work. 1t
| is well and concisely written, and gives US
/ a vivid picture of the man who for two
| centuries was held in execration by his
! torians. Of necessity the earlier chapters
| of the book are devoted to clearing away
! the mass of utilization that has been
! heaped upon the Protectors name. He
| sketches for us the real character of the
God-fearing Puritan-of the time when
the word Puritan stood for something
other than political profession-the wise
ruler, the mighty warrior, and the warm
| hearted, impulsive, loving friend and
! honest man. OF late years a reaction in
/ regard to Cromwell and of interest in him
has set in in England. 1t may even, in
| time, assume almost as formidable pro-
portions as the present Napoleon craze,
and we may have a voluminous Cromwell
| literature. However that may be, the
present volume is of interest and comes,
! just at this moment, with particularly
good grace from an American source
New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by
Payot, Upham d Co, San Francisco.
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THE FINAN.

landscapes of his dream country the
name of an actual geographical area,
where, as Hardy quantity expresses it,
People can go, take house in and write
to the papers from"
The adoption by the public of the abso-
Lutte name has its disadvantages for Mr..
Hardy inasmuch as it may in time render
some OF his scenes trihe too realistic. He
protests against it in a half-humorous way,
but while he could bring the old name into
use he can never cause its abandonment.
The present edition of Far From the Mad
ding Crowd" is embellished with a map of
Wessex and further illustrated with an
etching by H. Macbeth Raeburn. New
York: Harper & Brothers. For sale bv
Payot, Upham e. Co., San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
From gerel

volume, and in addition to these the pub
fishers viii call into service all the modern
accessories of artistic bookmaking in the
production of Miss Coolbrith's work. Mr.
Keith pictures are already gone East but
to the CALL is accorded the privilege of re-
producing one of these from a photograph
made by the artist of the original painting.
The poem illustrated is the beautiful little
lyric 1.-The Brook and the lines that were
the immediate inspiration of the picture
those of the first stanZa:
Green, shadowy silence,
Where one may go at will,
And dream, and dream ones fill.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
POEMS OF RICHARD REALF.

The publisher of the San Jose Semi
Monthly Letter has issued a little souvenir
in pamphlet form of selections from the
poems of Richard Realf. There is always
certain degree of interest centering about
the name of Realf. His obscure origin,
his romantic history and his tragic death
all contribute to this. The deep and pc
culiar interest manifested in him in Cali
fornia, however, would scarcely seem justi-
fed by the poets brief sojourn in this
State. His name occasionally occurs in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

which not only is the decentralization of
silver condemned, but the advocates of it,
and particularly the press, denounced.
Mr.. Donnelly would have sustained his
cause better in the long run by one of
those philosophic arguments of which his
mind is so capable than by the course he
has taken of writing stump speech over
laden with invective. 1t is evident, how
ever, the book was intended not as a
contribution to literature but as part of
a red-hot campaign, and for that purpose
ent form than if it had been more calmly
and phiiosophically expressed. Laird &
Lee: Chicago. Price, CLOTH covers, so
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD.

How much novelist's whimsy may
operate to alter geography is well illus
trated by certain influences which Thomas
Hardy's greatest novel, now published by
Harper & Brothers, has had in England.
In Far From the Madding Crowd" Mr..
Hardy first used the word Wessex, which
he had rescued from the pages of English
history, and gave it fictitious signific-
ance as the existing name of the district
once included in that extinct kingdom.
The press and the public took up the fancy,
accepted the anachronism of Wessex
under Queen Victoria, aud have made the
appellation whereby the author had merely
thought to distinguish the horizons and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

steps. Was it because he was regarded at
Windsor as a newspaper man?'
Mr.. Smalley has keen eye for salient
points of character, and a vivid way of
writing that brings the individual of whom
he writes into bold relief His studies are
exceedingly readable, and give a broad
view of modern English public life and
affairs. New York: Harper & Brothers.
For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
THE AMERICAN PEOPLES MONEY.

The Hon. Ignatius DonneIly has made
his contribution to the prevailing financial
discussion in the form of duodecimo vol
ume of 1S6 pages, bearing the title of the
American Peoples Money" Following
thelexamp1e of Coins Financial SCHOOL,
and other similar works, Mr.. Donnelly has
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
A QUAINT sPINsTE R.

A story by Frances E. Russell of queer
little old maid who comes into fortune
quite unexpectedly to all her friends and
utilities the same in establishing home
for spinsters. There are mum Der of these,
but all of personality so little defined as to
make no impression upon the reader. One
of them finally marries and gives the rest
something to talk about for the balance of
their lives. Boston: Lee & Shepard. For
sale by William Doxey, San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
ALMAYER's FOLLY.

1t is difficult to understand just why this
book should have been written. Whatever
may have been the object Of the author,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

the nineteenth century into the seven
teenth without particularly benefiting
either time in the process. Boston: The
the Popular Bookstore, San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

More than half of the entire cultivated
area of Great Britain is now occupied by
permanent pasture.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
NEW TODAY
KELLY B LIEBES'
Cloak and Suit House,
100 Exearny Street.
GIGANTIC CLOAK Sale!
NEW TO-DAY.

WE ONCE MORE OFFER OUR BEAUTI-
w full stylish goods at gigantic sale prices. Every
lady knows the fine quality of our goods, and the
styles are the latest. We never buy jobs or odd
lots and have jobs odds and ends to
offer you-only the newest, the best and the finest.
at gigantic sale prices.
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All Shirt Waists Reduced in Price
One.half.

Special attention given to Country Orders.
AI,Cays send money NTH order. Satisf fac
ton guaranteed.
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NEW TO-DAY.
GIGANTIC DRESS Sale!

NOTHING CAN BE SAID THAT WILL CON-
IN vince you of the wonderful bargains offer Il,
readymade dresses as quickly as one glance at our
immense assortment. All our dresses have the
big full sleeves and the extra wide Godet skirts.
Our duck suits are specially full and tailor-made.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
NEW TO-DAY.
GIGANTIC CLOAK SALE!

WE HAVE THE MOST STYLISH CAPES
w in the city. They are perfect, regular goods
No Jobs old styles, and gigantic sale prices
give you chance to buy them for the price OF the
trimmings almost. Come what sale
prices mean, and it Will be dollars saved to you.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23

Every garment in our house as cheaper
than you ever dreamed OF. Look at them.
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DUCK DRESSES! DUCK DRESSES I!
$l.75. $2.25. $l.75, 1925.
BIGGEST OF BARGAINSl

Every garment reduced to Gigantic Sale
price and marked IN plain figures
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ARISTOPIA.

Where one may go at will,
And dream, and dream ones fill.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-06

necessarily concentrates public atten-
ton very strongly on boat rae
ing and more especially so
since members of nearly every
family in Honolulu belong to either
one or the other of our boat clubs. 1t
is, therefore, to be very earnestly
hoped that the race which must come
of in few months will be managed
in different and much more satisfac-
tory manner than some the public has
witnessed. The general public has
materially assisted In placing clubs on
a permanent footing here as they may
nave respectively required aid and
should receive some pleasant return
for its outlay.
Given good boats, lighthouses and
the splendid course that nature has
provided on Pearl Harbor, not forget
ting, by the way, the cheap rates that
Mr.. Dillingham; is always pleased to
make on regatta days, there cannot
be found single stumbling block in
the way of a glorious future for
Aquatic sports in Hawaii-nei.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-06
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Regular Monthly Meeting of the
Woman's Board Held Thursday.

Woman's Board Held Thursday.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Woman's Board Of Foreign
Missions was held Thursday in the
parlors of Central Union Church.
Over eighty ladies were present, a
large number of Kawaiahao Sem
mary girls being among them.
The main feature of the session
was paper presented by Mrs
Coan, relating to the life of her
mother, Mrs. Bingham, who, to-
gether with her husband, were the
first missionaries to land on Ha-
waiian soil. Mrs. Coan spoke of
the old Bingham home, which used
to stand on the site now occupied
by the postoflice the trials and pri-
vations endured by her father and
mother; their good influence on
the Hawaiians friendship with the
royal family, and of the great sue
cess of their mission-the Chris
tianizing of the Hawaiians.
An oil painting of Mr.. and Mrs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-06

Bingham, placed side by side on
one piece of canvas, was set upon
an easel and decorated with myrtle
wreaths. The painting was done
about fifty years ago by Captain
Morse, the inventor Of the tele-
graph, who was at that time an
artist by profession.
Mrs. Soares gave an interesting
talk on the work of the Portuguese
mission. Reports of the other mis-
sions were made by the respective
committees. The report of the
new Helping Hand mission at
Kawaiahao was made by Mrs. A.
F. Cooke.
The next meeting Of the Board
will be held the first Tuesday in
Nav.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-06

Paul Isenberg received by the
steamer Braunfels an Gutenberg
cow from Hamburg, Germany. She
was brought ashore yesterday and
taken to Waialae ranch shortly
after the steamer locked. One
died on the passage from the
Azores. The cow is the first of the
breed imported to the Islands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-06

The first Of the preliminary ten
mis- tournaments will take place
this afternoon at 80 on G. A.
Browns court. w. F. Thrum and
Charles Hyde will cross rackets
with William Godfrey and Ernest
Wodehouse.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-06
-FOUR CLUBS IN 1895 LEAGUE
Kamehameha Alumni Association
Wants to Play Ball This Year.
uEErING TO-DAY WILL DECIDE

Simmons and Behrens Are Coming
Clubs Practicing Daily-Indieations
Point to Successful season-Sew
schedule-Opening of Series-Etc.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-05
HUMOROUS.
A Few Columns of Fun for
telegram Readers.

The brown eyed girls eyes were
Sparkling and her Cheeks were aglow
when she met tie blue eyed girl ON Jcf.
ferspn avenue. Their greeting was effu-
sive, as girl greetings always are when
they are on atiy sort Of good terms with
each otheb and they walked along to-
gether tur two or three minutes before
they began to talk about the men.
.Neli exclaimed the brown eyed
girl afI'ye got To say is that if any
mum in the whole state of Michigan
Were 70 ask me to marry him now |
would reject him with paralyzing
proinptitude. /"
.uhl Ruth, responded the blue eyed
girl anxionsly, why do you say that:
fon didn't talk that way yesterday. I"
Perhaps didn't' said the brown
eyed girl. but possibly matters have
changed IN a day. .
SIN agfully sorry to hear you talk
50. dear said the blue eyed girl, al
most pathetically.
WHY, I'd like to know was the
defiant Inquiry
Because, dear, 1t isn't bit like
you and was SO hopeful you aud
Frank would ggree and be happy.
"Wells and the brown eyed girls
eyes glowed fiercely.
Wasn't he mp to see you last nights"
asked the blue eyed girl with tone of
fear iii her voice.
Yes, be- was, = admitted the brown
eyed gliL
And after TINT do you say what you
doabouf inen?' and the blue eyed girl 5
eyes grew moist,
She WAS am nwfully good girl. with
real old fogy notions abont love and
rapture and NIL that sort of thing.
tsIndeed do, :, retorted the brown
eyed girl, land why shouldn't ~
because. dear, it sounds cold and
cruel and heartless, as no woman should
he. Love is the greatest thing in the
world and none can happily ignore it or
treat itas i material feeling What did
Frank do or say that You should talk so
differently irony sentiments of yes
terday:n
The brown eyed girl rippled over with
a laugh.
'Ton dear, stupid thing, she TX
claimed. He proposed to me, and ac.
cepted him. You would hardly under
those circumstances expect me to accept
proposal of marriage, would you? I'd
accept Frank again if he were to asl,
me, hut that is scarcely necessary, |
think. "
Then the blue eyed girl pinched tho
brown eyed girls arm and said she was
horrid wretch for fooling her that
way.-Detroft Free Press.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-05

An excellent though unconscious criti.
cism of the rapid and incoherent manner
in which too many congregations per-
form their part OF the responsive read
ing Of the Psalms on Sunday was
made by a small boy ON his return from
his first attendance at church.
Mamma, he remarked, 1.-THE peo-
pie don't like the minister, do they."
why, certainly, Harold. What
made you ask such aquestion?" was the
reply.
We'll" said Harold sturdily, he'd
read something, and then they'd all
grumble, and then he i'd read some more,
and they'd all grumble againr'-
Youths Companion.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-04-05
a Ronance Oh enc Rnnd.

Turnpike Walker lin languorous
mood, to his fellow trampJ-Dear viii.
lie.
Come, read TO me some poem.
Some simple md heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling
And hlnish the thoughts OF day
Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of time ~
Read from some humber poet. ~
Whose songs gushed from his heart
A. showers from the clouds 81 SUMMER
OF tears linn The eyelids start
Such songs htve power 70 quiet
The rsrstltsss pulse OF care,
And eoinc like the benediction
That follows after prayer
Willie Work (souifully, from scrap
of IN old newspaperl-Ho How does this
strike you, my boy:
Blue Points
Grsli Turtle Soup. Gear.
Oyster Crabs and White Bait, Fried.
Tartar Siucc.
Filet Mignon, Sauct, Bcrnnise.
Potatoes l.orette.
SantCrne Cup.
Boiled Squad.
Lettuce Salad.
Ice Cream II la Waldorf.
RoquefOrt Cheese. Biscuits.
Coffee
Detroit Free Press.