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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
The Largest American Oak.

What is considered the most massive,
symmetrical and imposing tree in Eastern
North America is live oak (Quercus Vir-
giniana) standing on one side of the en-
trance to Drayton Manor House, on Ash
ley River, near Charleston, S. G. The
home of the Drayton family, handsome
red brick Elizabethan mansion, was built
while South Carolina was a British colony
and it is said that the site of the house
was selected on account of this tree, al
though, as the live oak grows very rapidly
it is not impossible that it was planted
with its mate on the other side of the drive
when the house was first built, says an ex-
change.
AT the present time the short trunk
girths % feet inches at the smallest place
between the ground and the branches.
which spread 123 feet in one direction and
119 feet in the other. This tree is growing
over bed of phosphate, and the demands
of trade will therefore probably cause its
destruction before it's time.
No one who has not seen the Dray-
ton oak can form true idea of the majestic
beauty of the live oak, the most beautiful
OF the fifty species of oaks which grow
within the borders of the United States, or
of all that nature in a supreme effort at
tree-growing can produce.
Utah, including the improvements made
bV the MOrmOns ia vrorth S24 TIE 27Q
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
AT THE ORPHEUM.
a Number of New Performers Prom
Eurone.


No less than seven new artists will ap-
pear at the Orpheum tomorrow evening.
They are Kennedy and Lorenz, the
Muhlemann trio, and Blocksom and Burns.
This is the first visit of Kennedy and
Lorenz to the United States. They will
perform an act entitled, Suggestion, :"
which will tax the guessing powers of Or
pheum audiences for the coming week.
Miss Kennedy is lady who, while blind
folded and at a considerable distance
from her colleague, Lorenz, gives the
names of articles touched by him,
describing them with minute accuracy.
ANY one in the audience may suggest by a
whisper to Lorenz what he or she would like
Miss Kennedy TO do, whether in the carry
ing out of an action or the description of
an object, and the latter Immediately COM
plies with the request
The Muhlemann Trio will sing Swiss
songs and new knock-about comedy will
be introduced by Blocksom and Burns.
The Martinettis and other of last week s
performers will be retained.
special matinee will be given on Tues
day next, the proceeds OF which will be de-
voted TO the relief of needy sufferers from
the recent fire.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

received an interesting communication on
the subject of the so-called "death-feign-
ing instinct" of certain reptiles. The cor
respondent, who writes from Syria, says
that when a certain species of Egyptian
lizard is captured it makes few vigorous
efforts to escape, and then. if held firmly,
falls into a limp motionless state, which
might easily lead an inexperienced person
to think it dead. The animal, however, is
simply in trance-like condition. Gentle
respiratory movements are visible Just be-
hind the shoulders. and sometimes show a
rising and falling rhythm, with short in
tervals of complete rest. The eyes may
remain wide open, but are commonly half
closed, and the lids wink slowly from time
to time, spontaneously or by reflex action.
The mouth is almost always open-some-
times wide, sometimes but little, and in
either case the jaw is quite rigid, and if
closed by force is apt to reopen when the
pressure is withdrawn; the limbs lie ex-
tended and semi-haccid, with some ap-
proach to a cataleptic condition, i. e., if
bent or stretched into position not too
strained, they maintain such positions
when let go; and the same is true OF the
trunk and tail. ii, now. the lizard be laid
down gently on the floor or on table, it
will lie perfectly still, and seemingly I'M
conscious for some minutes unless reused
by sudden jar or loud noise), the eyes pre-
serving throughout a peculiarly vacant,
expressionless aspect, quite suggestive of
death. While in this state the lizard NAV
be put into a variety of positions without
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
THE WOMAN HISTORIAN,
Interesting Passages in the
Life of Frances Fuller
Victor.
HER WORK IN THE WEST.
Chosen by the Oregon Legislature
to Write a History of the
Indian Wars.

OF the women who write there is a
goodly company, but the woman historian
is rara avis. She usually flocks by her
self IN the field of letters. Her sisters in
the lnky craft. as a rule, prefer flights OF
fancy to the ferreting of facts, and hence it
comes to pass that when they distinguish
themselves at the point of the pen,
it is in the beaten path OF fiction
rather than the less frequented byways of
historical research. But there dwells in
our midst woman with that anomalous
characteristic, genuine affinity for Stats
tics-a woman with faculty for removing
the mantle of tradition from skeletons of
the past, giving to the world the interest
ing results of her discoveries, and her
name is Frances Fuller Victor.
Mrs. Victor is not easy prey for the in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
CALIFORNIA THEATBR.

Coming Production of a HOyt Farce
Comedy.
"The Old Homestead" enters its third
and last week at the California Theater to-
morrow evening.
Hoyt's latest successful farce-comedy,
ga Black Sheep" opens at the California
Theater on the 18th inst. 1t is said to
abound in new songs, up-to-date sayings
and pretty dances. The chief male role,
that of Hot Stuff, will be played by Otis
Harlan, and Miss Fannie Johnson has the
leading female role, that of the Queen of
BurIesque. Two of the most amusing hits
of the play are said to be the dance OF the
burlesque company and the scene when a
couple of college graduates play football.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Richard II for saving that sovereign's life.
The coat of arms bestowed by the monarch
upon his loyal subject is simple in design,
being heart-shaped shield with two
wreaths tied by ribbon, bearing the motto ::
"Strike for the laws" Washington
Irving, in his immortal Sketch-book, re-
counts a visit TO the tomb of Sir William,
and the latter is also referred to in the
"Courtship of Miles Standish.'' 1.-The
speare, and a Justice under one of the
Edwards, were also anteeedents of this
latter-day historian, and the anecdotes re-
vealed by glimpse into her family
archives would fill volume
Mrs. Victor's individual labors in the
Bancroft Library covered period of eleven
years, between 1878 and 1889, and six big
contain her work exclusively-Neveda
Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and
Oregon. The remainder is scattered
throughout various volumes. 1t is note
worthy fact that Mrs. Victor compiled all
the political history in volumes VI and
VII of Bancroft's California series, and
also the railroad history, subjects that the
average woman writer would scarcely be
overioyed to have assigned her. She also
wrote book on Transportation and Min
ing" for Bancroft's Chronicles of the
Builders"
These years of unremitting toll during
which her identity was practically lost in
the shadow of publishers name-years
of bookworm seclusion and absorption in
her tasks-left their inevitable impression
upon body and brain. Mrs. Victor
emerged to find her health impaired, her
name remembered by the friends of early
journalistic days, but unfamiliar to
later growth of newspaper work
ers, who turned with idle curious
ity the files of the Golden Era, CALL,
Bulletin. Overland and Sacramento Rec
ord Union. Her husband had been
drowned at sea in rs, when the Pacific col
lided with a sailing vessel off the coast of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Washington. The way has not been easy
for her, but her book-making days are far
from being over, and she is now engaged
in accommodating material for ultimate pub
lication. One who, like Frances Fuller
Victor, ranks her art above the greed of
money getting deserves praise. Few
among US, in passing, will leave work of so
enduring quality behind. L. P. F.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
BALDWIN THBATER.
The Lyoeum Company Booked to Appear
Next Week.

The Baldwin Theater will open for its
fall season on the 18th inst, when the
Lyceum Company, under the personal
supervision of Daniel Frohman, will pro-
duce that new and successful play, ''The
Case of Rebellious Susan"
"An Ideal Husband" and THE Anna
zons' will be among the other dramas
that the Lyceum Company will present
during its coming engagement. The talent
of the company has been strengthened
since the organization was here last and
everything points to highly successful
season
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
ALOAzAR THEATER.
Alfred Dampier to Appear in Shakespearean
Rnle.

Role.
Hamlet, with Alfred Dampier in the
title role, will be the attraction tomorrow
evening at the Alcazar Theater.
Dampier, who has played this most puz-
cling of all Shakespearean roles with sue
cess, both in England and Australia, is
said to have very original conception of
Hamlet He does not indorse the gener-
ally accepted division into acts and scenes,
and performs a good deal OF transposition
in the course of the tragedy.
May Nannery will play Ophelia, and
Margaret Marshall the Queen. James
Garden has been engaged especially to
King, and Frank Cooley the first player
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE.
Balfe's Satanella" Will Be the Next Pro-
duetion,

DdlI6' DdLdHblld w III Do bue NbAb TU-
duetion,
A number of novelties will be intro
duced into the performance of 'TaE and
Tartar" at the Tivoli this week, and the
opera will be continued until further
notice.
The next production at,the Tivoi will be
Balfe's Satanella," in which Martin
Pache, a new tenor, will make his first ap-
pearance. New scenery, costumes, prop
critics and electric effects are being espe-
cially prepared for the production of
"Satanella."
The management of the Tivoli has en-
gagged Alice earle, a fine mezzo-soprano
and is negotiating with the basso, William
Broderick. for a season of grand opera, in
connection with Ida Valerga, Martin
Pache, John J. Rafael and W. H. West,
in a repertory including Faust" mi
gnon," the "Pagliacci," etc.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

lower part OF
my bowels, bearing down all the time;
and there are pains in my groins and
thighs. / can't sleep, walk, or sit. I'm
diseased all over. The doctor? OH he
tells me to keep quiet. Such mockery!
Infammatory and Lucrative conditions
at the neck of the womb can produce ell
the above symptoms in the same person.
In fact, there is hardly part of the body
that can escape those sympathetic pains
and aches.
No woman should allow herself to reach
such perfection of misery when there
is positively no need of it.
Lydia e. Ptnkham's Vegetable Com
pound acts promptly and thoroughly in
such cases; strengthens the muscles OF
the womb, heals all Inflammation, and
restores that unruly organ to its normal
condition. Druggists are selling carloads
of it. Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
will gladly and freely answer all letters
asking for advice.
Mrs. E. Bishop, 1877 Halsey Street,
Brooklyn, NY, suffered all the above
described horrors. Now she is well.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound cured her. Write her about it :.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
.ORAXAID

so TIMES the inevitable weekly washing
1000 TIMES the perpetual tr-daiy dish
ing No help washer untThe Pacific
Co. lends 2Ou Death Valley Borax Team heavy
work light
BORAXAID their New Washing Powder, the
bnaon Soap and Borax soften
hands the clothing. For sale everywhere.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
COLUMBIA THEATBR.
" The Senator" to Be Followed by "0ur
Girls"

Girls"
1.-THE Senator" will continue for the
coming week at the Columbia Theater,
after which Miss Helen Dauvray will be
seen for the first time in San Francisco in
Bronson Howard comedy, "Our Girls"
This comedy was written for Miss Dauv-
ray, and will be produced under her per
sonal direction. The cast will include al
most the entire personnel OF the Frawley
Company. Souvenirs will be presented to
the ladies attending the opening perform
ance of "Our Girls" 1t has also been ar
ranged to take fashlight photograph of
the audience on that occasion.
Managers Friedlander, Gottlob & Co.
have arranged to give the first presenta-
ton on any stage under l.. R. Stock
wells direction of A. c. Wheeler's (Nym
Crynkles) new burlesque, written for
Henry E. Dixey, entitled. "a Gentle
Savage" Rose Coghlan and Maurice Barry
more will also be in the company.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
COMEDY IN GERMAN.

The Gonried Company to Play at the
Baldwin.
The Conried Comedy Company from the
irving Place Theater, New York, will be-
gin its first annual engagement at the Bald
win Theater on Sunday, July 81, with
Schoenthau and Kadelburg's successful
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

BRIGHT PARAGRAPHS ANENT
THE WEEKS THEATRICAL EVENTS.


The coming week promises some pleas
ant evenings for theater-goers. Viii lie
there are few novelties none of the fea-
lures to be presented are dull. Consider
ing the fact that so many people are out of
town, the playhouses are well patronized.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
GRAND OPERA-HOUSE.
Coming Production Of One of Sir Augustus
Harris Successes,

Henry Petit and Sir Augustus Harris
comedy drama, 1.-The Prodigal Daughter"
will be produced at Morosco's tomorrow
night. The work was originally played at
the Drury Lane Theater, London, where it
held the boards for over year.
The story deals with well-to-do Eng
lish people and here and there is tinged
with sporting element. The scenes are
variously placed at a country seat and
training stable in England and in the court
of the Grand Hotel, Paris. 1.-THE Prodigal
Daughter does not follow the regular con-
ventionaiities OF melodrama, and though
there is a villain be is not double-dyed
one. The cast is as follaws:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

comedy, "Der Herr Senator, F." which will
be produced with the same caste with
which it was presented in New York.
The engagement is for ten Sunday night
performances. The company comes direct
from New York, and returns thither at the
conclusion of its San Francisco engage
ment. Among the artists who will play
for the first time in this City are:
Miss Anna Braga, Wilhelmine Schlueter,
Elsa Dore, Lima Haenseler, Max BRA,
Arthur Eggeling, Max Haenseler, Matthew
Pfeil, Rudolf Senius, Anton Ascher.
Marlborough Theater.
The reopening of the Marlborough
Theater, Oakland, will be celebrated
by the appearance of 1.-The Old Home
stead" The engagement is for four
consecutive nights and one Wednesday
matinee, commencing Monday, July Is.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
Maodonough Theater,
Oakland Tbeater,

UakIanu IHeaUerI
The Oakland Theater, refitted, reprinted
and under new management, has been
drawing good houses all the week with
the Shaw Comedy Company in Farmer
StehbinSp
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

eliciting any sign of consciousness, and
will lie as quietly on its back as in the
natural position. There is considerable
degree of cutaneous anesthesia; a pin
may be run through fold of the skin
without fully rousing the animal, slug
gish, feeble wriggle being the sole result.
The trance usually lasts about five min
utes, when the animal by a brusque effort
assumes its normal position. This
done, it lies quite still, but evil
IDENTIFY awake and observant, for
few moments more, and then
scuttles off in a hurry. Dr. Van Dvck
looks upon this manifestation not as vol
untary or conscious death-feigning, but as
form of hypnotism. The natural enemies
of these lizards are foxes. iackals, martens,
birds of prey and snakes. "Can any one
believe" asks DR.. Van Dyck, that any
one of these animals, having captured
lizard, would be in the least inclined to let
it go because it lay motionless and appar-
emily dead in the captor's grasp? Or will
it be argued that the trance condition is
special gift, in mercy to the victim, to
mitigate or abolish the pain Of death? II
the last be the true explanation, one IS
tempted to ask why such tenderness Is
shown to a favored few of the victims in
natures wondrous system, while the
majority are left in possession of conscious
ness and sensibility, more or less acute,
until they have sustained enough mechan-
ical injury to kill or stun them"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
IN DESPAIR.
a PEN PICTURE. :
Many Women Will Recognize 1t.
ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY REApERs,]

in my whole bod,
honestly think my
are diseased, my
pains me so;
but I've no S
cough. I'm so
weak at my
stomach, and have
digestion horrib
Then l have pal
ton, and my b
hurts me. How
l am losing
flesh! and this
headache near
ly kills me; and
the backache
Heavens! l |
had Mysteries A
yesterday. II
There is a a
weight in the 4
1ou,ar rAarf 0f -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

Utah, including the improvements made
by the Mormons. Is worth $24, 775, 279.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30
Waite Talks Through His Hat

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 30.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Waite is in the city looking
over the Accommodations of the
city as a convention town. In ad-
dition to visiting Milwaukee ne
will make speeches at Manitowoc
and Shebygan in the interests of
the ,populists. Governor Waite
said the populist party was grow
ing all the time. said he: II have
just finished a trip through Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and |
tell you our prospects are bright
ening every day. In Texas we are
making remarkable gains and our
friends there tell me we shall GER
tainly carry the state next year.
Three-fourths of the democrats in
that state are for free silver. The
populist party next year will be
the only free silver party in the
country and there will be no other
place for free silverites to go. 1
believe that IL we nominate a
southerner for president who has
been a democrat and is free sill
yer man, we will carry the solid
south.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 80, '9j

The clans are all about assem-
bled at Washington and the call
ing of the roll will soon be heard.
No little interest centers around
the conundrum, who will get most
responses when the house offices
are being ballotted for. Nat Quay
thinks that he has thing grabbed.
1t is to be hoped that the irrepress-
ible Matt is mistaken for once in
his life. The republicans in con-
gress could do no better thing than
to sit down hard on the anatomy
of the big Pennsylvania boss.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30

The weather clerk is not all dis
courtesy to the San Antonio jock
ey club, and for late favors the
thanks of that organization in
particular and San Antonio in
general are due.
1t is really a duty of the citizen
who has no religious scruples
against horse racing to attend the
races at the Jockey club grounds.
These races are a means OF grace to
San Antonio business.
Debs seems inclined to play the
role alike Of martyr and hero, but
there is as yet no suspicion that
he has any intention of playing the
roll of a modest individual. This
is beyond him.
Carlisle for president, and Whit
ney for vice, are seriously proposed
by the Los Angeles Herald. Can
the Herald explain why it would
have the tail wag the dog in this
incomprehensible manner?
Attention will soon be diverted
from affairs at Constantinople to
those in Corea. Russia will be CIV
ing Europe something to think of
in the near by and by.
John Sherman shows that he APP
preciates the situation when he
says that under no circumstances
is he candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1896.
Is the speakership OF the house
of national representatives a STEP
ping stone to presidential nomi.
nation? The next republican con-
vention will be called upon to an
swer this question.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30
Anxious Times in Turkey.

Boston, Nov. 30.-The following
reliable letter from an American
resident in Constantinople was re-
ceived here yesterday: The most
pressing question next to that of
the safety Of the people who sur
vive, is the provision Of aid for the
families of those who have been
slaughtered. Aid must come on a
great scale or thousands will die.
The powers will have control in
some way before the money comes
in, so that relief work on a large
scale will be possible. The position
here is critical in the extreme. The
Turks coming in from Asiatic
Turkey flushed with massacre and
pillage are telling OF their deeds,
and the loot of our bazaars with an
accompanying slaughter is posi-.
BILE at any moment. The sultan is
fighting for his life and is not yet
convinced that he is going to be
punished for his crime. When the
powers are ready to move on him,
he may order any wild act of re-
venge in his way, or general mas
sacre in order to 60 out in cloud
OF smoke and glory. The powers
are acting in theEgreatest secrecy
that he may not have time to do
this. When the steels are ready to
come in they will put themselves
in communication with the porte
and demand the surrender OF the
sultan's person, and l think that
the porte will dethrone him. But
it will be an anxious time until
this is accomplished.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30
Booming Cuba's Cause.

CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-Under the
aus pices OF the Club Patriotico Gu
bano of Chicago grand concert
and entertainment in aid of the
Cuban cause will be given at Cen.
trail Music Hall today. The object
is not only to arouse Chicago in
terest in the condition of Cuba, but
it is hoped by this means to raise a
considerable sum which will be de-
voted to the furtherance of legisla-
ton in high circles at Washing
ton.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30

The LIGHT has always been able
to say to the belated enterprise of
this city when it slipped an &C.
centric 81 told you So" 1t will be
the same when the M. K. & T.
points for the Gulf of Mexico some
fifty miles east of here and leaves
San Antonio out in this wilder
ness. That road would have been
rolling into this city over its own
track months ago if this city had
been on the move.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30

The late series of football games
between the several university
clubs leaves nothing to be desired
in the way Of a smuggling match. II
that bluff of Corbett's and Fitz-
simmons had materlalized in a
real ring contest it would have
witnessed no such Knockout as
many of the football players Of the
universities scored on Thanksgiv-
ing day. The college faculties are
neglecting their humanitarian du-
ties and should brush up by join
ing the S. p. g. A.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30

II San Antonio could once, just,
once, lose sight of herself in her
endeavor to put a fair on its feet
for the benefit of southwest Texas,
leaving her personal interests to
care for themselves, she would
make the hit of her lifetime. A
fair for southwest Texas would
draw together to this city all
southwest Texas, and this Of itself
would be the biggest card that
San Antonio could play. The in
terests Of this city, selfshly con-
sidered, could not possibly be met
more directly than in putting self
aside and organizing a fair asso-
citation with sole reference to what
it would draw to its support from
all this great southwest: The
other thing has been tried. Why
not try this?