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The advocate., 1895-09-04
Improved Machinery.

that one weaver can attend twenty
looms. instead Of six, eight or ten, what
ID TO become Of the ovsrplusi History
ID repeating itself, and the weaver is in
Cor it sgain. The power loom, in the
nrst place, pressed out the hand loom
operatives in the ratio Of two to one;
after Q while, four to one, and % the ma
chine became more automatic, six and
eight TO one, and now the latest improve.
nnent makes il twenty to one. The
army and navy in these days absorbed
GCnAiderable Of the men compelled to
iileness through improved methods in
power and machinery. Still it cannot
be denied that there was great suffering
and hardships endured until the surplus
Eoll into other work OR DIED OUT.
Although there was o riot or two and
gome other expressions of diasatiAEsCtion
recorded because Of families brought to
tho starving point on account Of labor
saving inventions, still, as class, wsav.
sgs have borne In silence under the press
uE@ OF hunger and exhibited degree Of
endurance during these dark days for
which a parallel would be difficult to
End. The same times are approaching
again, and for similar reasons the weav-
ere are to be snhjscted to repetition Of
tho old trials against prcgress. There
are young, healthy fellows among them
who will sscure work in other trades,
and no doubt ia o short time do as we'll
10 Gt the loom; but there are others in
whom the possibilities Of making de.
rent living elsewhere are but slim. It
Is these who Will augment the tramp
brigade; these who constitute the real
difficulty, who have been hanging on to
ihe alippery line that alternates between
work and want, between small wages on
account Of inability to operate paying
Number Of loomp, and no wages at all.
With these, other workshops will have
nothing to do; even farmers will not en-
ploy them. The only blessing Ia they
cannot last long; they will soon die,
and again will the help bs regulated 40
roEding to the needs Of the machinery
There is no "philanlhropist" who has
ret c8ndescended to look into the Strug-
Rlea lor existence, the desperate efforts
honest men thrown out Of work by those
Wholesale improvements have had to
heep The volt from the door and beat
back Ataring ruin. No society having
Toe lls object the preventing Of honest
unemployed from becoming tramps at
times whom q revolution is taking place
on the type Of machines on which they
have been engaged. But now, il We are
~ crsdit the popular cry, there is new
experience in store for uB. The mills
are going South, and, as q matter Of
ccnrse, the other trades which they have
Rnunded and built up viii be following
thsm. Such q transferenCe effects
mostly those who have pinchsd and
scgaped to save enough to buy sand
banks on which to. raise homes 10 % to
b convenieit t to their employment 90
wsll % Independent Of lAndlOrdiSm.
Hat let us not be too despondent, nor
ihs first to herald the success Of South
cEn snterplisa Perhaps enough mills
Msll remain to keep the house owners at
cnus. although they should bS necessi
fssad to offer themselves at a cheaper
u. WI a I 10 r.nI..n. 10 nnr, rnnn Ah A
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a New Local Onara.

The romantic historical opera by Noah
Brandt Qibretto by Sands W. Foreman),
which was given at a reading some months
ago, is going to start in life now, the date
having been set for September 2, to con-
tinue for one week, including Saturday
matinee, at the Bush-street Theater. The
production is to be an elaborate one, and
an interesting feature will be the Mythoio-
gical Hawaiian Ballet, composed of
twenty-four trained dancers, Miss Irene
Cook as premier danseuse There is also
to be scene in the second act where the
volcanic eruption of Mauna Loa takes place.
destroying the temples and idols. Both
llbrettlst and composer have availed them
selves of every possible chance of making
their opera interesting. and now that ali
eyes are turned to Hawaii their production
will gain doubled interest.
The principals taking part are: Miss Eva
Tenney, as the princess; Mrs. Mae Mad
den, retired dancer; ]. F. Fleming. Can
tain Cook; G. Parent, king of the islands ;
FRANK Cofhn, prince of neighboring
island; M. j. Hynes, priest ana sooth-
sayer; Robert Duncan, bo'sun; Algernon
Aspland, surgeon; Miss F. Grunagle. en-
sign; Miss L. Hester, maid to the princess
A. Il. j. Nye, lieutenant of marines. There
are to be also hula dancers, athletes,
spear-throwers and paddlers of the canoe.
There will be double chorus of sixty
voices Noah Brandt will conduct the or
chestra, consisting of twenty-five mu-
sicians.
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Billings as he stands there inwardly won
dering what difference another lie can
make.
And then the picture is blotted out and
with strict impartiality subconsciousness
drags one to the other point of view. 1t is
pleasant to know that in Gillette's COM
pany the uncompromising spirit expert
ences some difficulty in finding the mega
tive pole. Still it is always there. How
needlessly bad is the steward of the
steamer on its way to Cubal Just little
more intelligence, Just little more train
ing, just little more work and the unim-
portant role would have fitted in the merry
stage puzzle instead of standing up as a
separate piece warped and infexible. But
this is trife, and one is grateful that the
unruly square is only bit of sky or foil
age, aud that it is not an important piece
of the cut up animals head.
~
At the Columbia the thing is reversed.
The puzzle is indeed put together, but each
separate piece rises in rebellion and will
not know its place. No smooth surface is
revealed to the gratifed mental eye, but
an uneven, unfinished, perplexing picture,
with small piece of background ostenta-
tlously edging up into prominence and a
should-be important bit overlapped and
half hidden by couple of useful but IN
beautiful and very wooden bits
Stockwell's company of players leaves
no clear impression of Twelfth Night
Everything is on the dead level of
the commonplace. The performance is
not good; it is not outrageously bad.
Viola is not lovely or lovable; Olivia is not
proud and humble, gracious and cruel
Malvolio is not quite the essence of grace
full, easy vanity, although Dixey's was an
even, studied impersonation; Sir Toby is
not lesser, notwithstanding Falstaff
Duke Orsino is not the strong and effective
character, such a one-idead pas
sionate lover, constant for nearly
five acts to his ladylove, should
be; Maria is overdone, Sebastian is fair
and the rest of the support not very salts
factory. The only vivid remem brance one
keeps of last weeks performance at the
Columbia is of the descriptive music the
orchestra inflicted upon helpless audi
ence which was compelled to listen to real
istic toots and whistles when the imagin-
airy steamer started, and bells and pad
ding and other infuriating noises when it
reached the end of the journey. Such
sounds are an infection in real life, why
should they be considered delightful and
amusing in the orchestra simply because
they are made in a different way?
And this was during the interlude of a
Shakespearian playl Why, the everlasting
$50 to sleep, my little pickaninny," would
have been about as appropriate. The
audiences which crowded the Columbia
during Frawley's engagement were of the
class which enjoys realism only when it is
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KNICKERBOCKER COAL CO..
622 Howard Street, Near Firsts
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his bitterest political foe. Jessie Keber, a
daughter of one of the tovmakers, be-
friends the young hero and the leader falls
In love with her. His visits to her are dis
covered by Mr.. Stoach, who places Lord
C1vebrooke in very compromising posi-
ton. Atthe beginning of the third act the
government is to introduce public morals
bill, which Mr.. Stoach and his party oppose
because they have similar bill them
selves. On the eve of this battle in the
House, Stoach tells Clivebrooke that he
VIII proclaim the latter relations to Jessie
ana ask all England if such man is fit to
Introduce public morals bill The terms
which Stoach offers Clivebrooke for keep
ing out the name of an innocent young
woman are intolerable, and the Conserva-
tlyes are routed and the act ends with the
triumph of Stoach and the defeat of the
Ministry. In the last act Clivebrooke re-
pairs the wrong he has done to Jessie's
reputation by marrying her. He retires
from politics forever
''The Bauble Shop" has not escaped the
eplgram. which is epidemic in modern
English plays.
Women ought to be good deal better
than men" says Lord Clivebrooke, ''that's
my theory, and Pm gallant enough to act
up to it, for when 1 see women lowering
themselves I lower myself SO that may
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

question of woman suffrage. The scene is
laid in Denver, where the heroine is dragged
into politics against her will, runs for
Mayor in opposition to her husbands can
didacy, is elected, but comes to the conclu-
sion that politics and contentment do not
go together.
When irving returns to London he will
play Napoleon in "Mme. Sans-Gene, -
''Coriolanus' and new comedy by Pinero.
Daniel Frohman told New ork re-
porter that can Ideal Husband" was the
hit of the Lyceum Company's engagement
here. He said: 81 shall alter my policy
touching San Francisco engagements. In
stead of playing the Lyceum Company on
the coast but once in two years, | shall
make their engagements every year here
after.
"The coast is one OF the most profitable
points for attractions that are liked, an d
business there is again on the increase,
where. like all Western towns, it has been
emerging from its past depression.
The next new play at the London Adel-
phi will be by Brandon Thomas and Glenn
ent Scott, the critic.
One insertion of an advertisement in a
New York paper for plays dealing with
the new woman brought seventy-two plays
and 131 letters.
Lottie Collins latest song is 81 Went to
Paris With Papa"
ACCOTul0S 10 the 1dTlS correspondent Oh
the London Truth Rejane cannot make
the Americans out. They show, she says,
no feeling as spectators. One sees lines
of eyes fixed on one, but one has no idea
of what passes in the brains behind them.
If the actress has pleased, heaps of flowers
are left next day at her hotel-by ladies.
The American man is too devoted to bust
ness to run around complimenting act
resses, like the French Ladies' admira-
| " re yrb 10
person of honorable life. If the ladies
stood aloof the star would cease to at
tract. The ladies get up subscriptions to
present souvenirs. They give theatrical
matinees and soirees, theatrical readings,
receptions and talk-lectures, only attended
by themselves. The American man is
specialized in business, and the lady is
the arbitress of taste, the soul of re-
fnement, the handspring of all sorts of
movements. mime. Reiane fancied herself
in an Eleusinian country out West. Men
found time to go in the evening to the
play, but were too tired to find pleasure In
what cost each moment mental effort to
understand
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District Attorney New York success,

District Attorney New York success,
shortly.
After three weeks rest the Frawley
Company will start upon its Western tour,
returning to the Columbia Theater May 4,
1896.
Captain Cook" a romantic comic opera
by Sands Forman and Noah Brandt of
this City, will be presented at the Bush
street Theater on September Il.
Marguerite Warrington, who wrote
Captain Letterblair,' wrote the text for
Dvorak's new opera, 'Hiawatha."
A Chicago theatrical manager has pro-
vided room where his patrons bicycles
may be checked.
Footlights says that Maurice Barrymore
was once middle-weight boxing champion
of England.
Loie Fuller has had remarkable expert
ences. AT one time she was religious ex-
horter, and at another she was a temper
ance orator. She was married unhappily,
she was burlesquer, she was a comic
opera singer and she was comedienne be-
fore she invented her new style of dancing
Otis Skinner is to play "Villon, the
Vagabond," in New York shortly The
play is based upon the life of Francois
Villon, poet, drunkard, thief and murderer.
Hoyt's new play, ga Contented
Woman" deals in farcical way with the
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matter, because it affects larger class of
people, should take precedence. The
world needs a theater-goers' union,
protection for amusement seekers in
pursuit of their legitimate business-pleas-
ure. The public cries out against the in
depreciation of important Shakespearian
roles by apprentices; for, after all, the
capable carpenter is only an ap-
prentice when he turns architect. Sue
cess in a lower walk is but prepara-
tory study when man engages in some
thing better. With one or two exceptions,
the leading members of this company have
made moderate regulations only in
modern comedy, spectacle or farce. This
is step toward higher things; it does not
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a thing must be very bad or very good
in this world to attract attention. 1t is
only the extremes of theatrical talent, the
beginning and the end, which escape sub
mersion in a dead-level. commonplace sea.
The reason is that theatrical representa-
tons are not as rule complete pictures;
subordinate roles are generally neglected,
there is a lack of stage business, the back
ground and the stage management are not
such as to give continuous impression SO
that the waves of memory flowing over
forgotten territory beat only upon theat-
rical islets of greater or less extent and
altitude.
After one has left the theater his sub
consciousness presents again to him the
story which has just been told to his eyes
and. ears. But it is a survival of the
strongest, which is not always the fttest;
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the heavy blacks as well as the intense
whites Of the sketch. For instance, when
the curtain has fallen on that happy
titled farce comedy at the Baldwin one
doesn't retain the image of the Billings
family gayly returning to Yonkers, but of
Billings and Johnson; the one calm, we'll
dressed. tall and with suggestion of race
about him; the other short, ungainly,
easily aroused and placated with difficulty,
his face map railroaded with the lines of
strong passions. It's an expressive con-
trast, and the effect of Johnson's per-
the widest impressions, those which
moved to greatest admiration or contempt
picked, forced amlability as he entreats
Billings to have a drink with him and
" drown all grievances in conviviality is
heightened by the reserved silence Of
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not upon the stage; to their ears this sort
of musical selection was not disagreeable;
they experienced a kind OF pleasure in
recognizing the composers ingenuity in
his life-like tootings and swishings and
bangings. But such an audience does not
care for ShaRespeare-even when he is SO
indifferently interpreted as at the Column
bia last week; consequently the managerial
hand which spared US the curtain with it's
wooden cherubs on an animated log might
have withheld the Voyage Across the
Ocean,"
Zangwill pleads for law which shall
prohibit the use and monopoly of a good
title to story by an unworthy author.
But in this world, where reforms are a
question of centuries, a more important
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

The word rival at first meant brook,
then was applied to the persons who lived
on opposite sides and quarreled about the
water, and still later it was understood as
applying to contestants for any desired
object.
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SAVE YOUR CHILD,
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Comes From Weak Nerves and Attacks
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Do Not Neglect Your ChildrenS Weak
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A masked WOMAN.
She DOnn0d Masculine Attire to Com
NIT a Murder.
Prompted by Jealousy, She>DOnned
A Suit Of Her Husbands Clothes
and a False Mustache and Shot q
NeighbOr Woman,

Albany. Ore, september 30.-Partlc-
ulars or the tragedy by which Mrs
Lcttie Hiatt was shot and fatally in
iured at her home near Scio, small
and remote town in Lynn county, turn
ish q very strange story of wOmans
mmderous jealousy. Mrs John Han
nah, IS years OF age, and the mother OF
o family, d0nned masculine garb and
false whiskers and last Thursday night
entered the house of Mrs. LOttie Hiatt
and shot her twice Her motive was
jealousy. Mrs Hiatt. she believed, had
esranged the affections of her hus-
band
The Hiatt family. together with Mrs.
Elizabeth Holman, Mrs. Lottie HATS
mother lived about a quarter Of a mile
north of Jordan's store, a little settle
ueut eight miles from SciO, and on
Thursday evening at dusk their home
was approached by a man who gruflly
demanded admittance. This being ac-
corded him. he entered and drawing
pistol told the inmates to throw up their
hands and say where they kept their
money. Mrs Holman, aged 81 years,
resented the intrusion and seized a bill
let of wood and gave the intruder a rap
on the face with it, being instantly
knocked down for her temerity.
Having quoted the aged woman, the
man turned upon Mrs. Hiatt with his
six-shooter and began firing. One shot
went wild, but the second and third
struck the unfortunate woman in the
head and she sank dying TO the floor.
The rCbber. TO make sure Of his work.
bent over the PROSTATE woman and
shook her violently 10 ascertain whether
she was dead or not. This act was wit
messed at the time by Mrs Holman, who
had just regained consciousness. The
scoundrel fed and Mrs. Holman made
haste 10 JOrdans store for help.
Several men who were at the store
FASTENED TO the house and did all in
their power TO succOr the stricken wO-
man. They found on the floor a hat, a
false must9che and q pair Of eyeglasses.
some one present recognized the hat as
the property Of young Hannah. and this
announcement caused a search for the
man, who was not found until early
morning. When charged with the deed
and confronted with the hat he denied
The killing, but admitted that the hat
was his property declaring further that
his mother had borrowed it the evening
before. but for what purpose he did not
know, remarking incidentally that she
had not returned home until o'clock
i'm the morning. The searcners sought
ont Mrs John Hannah, the boys
mother. and under menacing inquiries
she q last broke down and confessed
that She had purloined a SUIT OF her hus-
bands clothes and her sons hat, don
ming them and doing the work.
Robbery was only a blind in the case.
and the deeper impulse of passionate
Jealousy was the real motive of the
crime as # has been long known in the
countryside there that Mrs. Hannah
was jealous Of her husband and Mrs.
Hiatt. The would-be murderess was
turned over to the officers Of the county
and is i'm Jail. while her victim, although
still living, is beyond hope Of recovery.