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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Every one loves Larry Donovan, the
dashing boy who bears on his own cap
able shoulders the whole weight of shaun
Rhue'' at the Columbia. He is a mis-
chieVous fellow, full of the aged Harry,
but there is warm, true heart beating in
Larry's breast, and you could not find
keener wit nor a more wheedIing tongue
in the whole countryside than his. Larry
leases and makes love with boyish Yervc,
foils the villains with the skill OF a diplo-
mat, and from beginning to end of "Shaun
Rhue when any one gets into trouble
and good many of the characters do get
into trouble-you know that there is no
need to worry, for Larry, stanch and true,
Will bob up serenely in time to make the
villains sing small and the virtuous thank
heaven that Larry is there to save them
from impending disaster.
Last week Larry was not himself
though. John Murphy played his part very
genially, but he came far from looking it.
could not help thinking how very i'm pru-
dent Larry was, at his time of lille to be
out in a damp churchyard, weeping on
grave, when he ought to have been sitting
comfortably at his ain Preside, with nice
warm slippers on his feet, loose
wadded wrapper on his limbs, and wee
drop Of the creetur at his SIDE 1t seemed
positively inhuman to drag Larry in his
old age out into churchyard and put
. him to so much toll and trouble to weep
over the tomb of a mother who. in the
natural course of events, must have been
under the sod for many years. Now
come to think of it, John w. Burton, who
played Larry's father, was a decade or
two younger than his son, so there is no
knowing how young his mother was. But
no amount of youthfulness on the part of
the rest OF the family could disguise the
fact that Larry was a gentleman of ma
ture years, and his boyish pranks were
quite unbecoming the respect due to his
age. tits really to be regretted that John
Murphy does not possess the art of max
ing UP to look young, for barring his ap-
pearance, he makes a very sympathetic
Larry Donovan.
Talking of an Irish play reminds me
that the great charm of Irish drama gen.
orally lies in its touches of human nature
its reproduction of the characteristic say
ings and doings OF warm hearted, impul-
siye people. An Irish drama that was not
true to Irish life would fall as fiat as a
pancake, and this remark ought 10 apply
TO the characteristic drama of any land.
The great charm of ''The Old Homestead"
is its characteristic portrayal of New Eng
land rural life and character, and be-
lieye that play which is not true to the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

produced in London it was an American,
Charles Frohman, who first saw the dramatic
possibilities of Weyman's novel,
Herr Rosenthal, 1t is hoped, will be heard in
New York in April He will leave for Califor-
MIA on the 10Th inst.
David Belasco, who will personally direct
next seasons tour OF 'The Heart OF Mary
land" intends to bring out a new farclc cal COM
edy, entitled "Polly's jack" 1t is Dy Margue-
rite Merrington.
Hugo Herold, the California barytone. who
has won SO many Iaurels In Europe, mas re-
turned to his home in this City for the first
time in ten years. He will shortly give con-
cert in Golden Gate Hail.
Florence Wallack Sewall, the ZZ-year-olu
granddaughter of Lester Wallack. is to make
her debut on the stage in Margaret Matner s
forthcoming production OF "CymDeIlne 81
Wallaek's Theater in New York.
Lest Sunday Frawley not only stated before
the curtain that he intends to reconstruct his
the Columbia that it is his intention some day
to take the Frawley Company to Europe.
Victory Bateman raised an unexpected
laugh last Tuesday at the Grand by a slip of
the tongue. She was supposed to say. 'If your
father discovers you he won't leave a stone
unturned," ETC. What she did say was, "lf
your father discovers you ne won't leave
turn unstoned."
There is to be a daily dramatic and sporting
paper established in New York, the first pub
lication OF its kind in America. 1t is to be
called the Daily Standard. and will be run in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
THE BROKEN CONTRACT.
A Story Of How a Beautiful Gym
mast Achieved Rapid and
Universal Fame.

Scene-The Office of New York theater.
Manager and press agent discovered.
Manager-Have you dispatched all those
pictures OF La Belle Birdie?
Press Agent-Every one. l was not
quite sure about the address of the Khan
of Tartary, but The others were all right.
except
Manager (mpatiently)-E what2
Press Agent-Well, the postal authori-
ties doubted whether the King of the
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Operate Concert.

A grand concert will be given by the Chan
ming Auxiliary next Saturday afternoon at the
Fist Unitarian Church, when the third act
from s.Tannhauser' will be performed, Anton
schott singing both tenor and barry tone. The
full programme will be as follows: Sonata for
piano and violin, c minor, op. As (Grieg), Miss
Bacon and Giulio Minetu; Herr Heinrich"
&c. Loewel, "Der Erlkenig" (Schubert), Anton
Schoit; organ solo, ..Fantaisie de Concert"
(Callaerts), DR.. II. J. Stewart; Russian airs
(Wirniawski), Giu 10 Minetti. "Tannhauser,"
act Ill Wagner)-lntroduction, Wolfram; pill
grims chorus, organ; prayer, Elisabeth; even
ing star, Wolfram; narration, Tannhauser.
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trayal of characteristic traits OF character,
1t abounds in realistic effects. There Is
the blacksmith's shop, with its real forge
and bellows, its real anvil and horseshoe.
Then, too, there is the exciting horserace:.
which keeps the audience on the edge OF
fear, lest the Vaccinations OF the william
should be successful; finally, there are the
real carrier pigeons, which bring their
several messages.
The mem bers of the Joseph Murphy
Company who will present kerry Cow.
have nearly all recovered from the attack
of la grippe. AS for Joseph Murphy him.
self he is expected TO appear tomorrow
niOht
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

the Lama OF Thibet never sent any tele-
gram to In Belle Birdie at all, but these
reports are most authoritatively denied
by the iady's many friends and admirers.
There Is absolutely no way of interview
ing the Lama of TIL bet on the subject,
but whether he telegraphed or nor, the
beautiful gymnast has certainly becom e
the idol OF the hour. MARIE EVELYN.
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serpentine to China by way of Mexico,
Texas and Guatemala.

While La Loie is adding fresh curves to
her route for reaching the aGmiring Ii
Hung Chang people who profess TO know
all about theatrical affairs never talk of
Miss Fuller's trip to China withou using
points of Interrogation and admiration.
The admiration points are for La Loie's
marvellous skill in the art of seif-adyertise-
menr and the Interrogation points are all
reserved for Lii Hung Chang. They run
something like this: did the Viceroy
make any contract with Miss Fuller?"
"Did he?" as the interesting document
written in Chinese or English, and who is
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
PEOPLES Palace.

Professor Gleason will conclude his
season of horse-taming exhibitions at the
Peoples Palace tonight, and tomorrow
evening Mahara's original colored min
strels will make their first appearance
there.
There are thirty-five genuine darkies
in the organization, including number
of yocalists. The comedians are said to
be funny, and there will be an old
fashioned first part and olio.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
Strineed Concert.

Miss Marie Kim ball, harpist, and Jose
Andonegui, vioiinist, will give concert
in Golden Gate Hall tomorrow evening.
They will be assisted by Miss Caroline
Shindler, soprano; Miss May Gilbert.
contralto; H. Desmond. tenor; F. Marin,
saiterio; A. PAMELA. cello; Emilio CruelIs,
accom- PIANIST.
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Columbia Theater.

That old but charming Irish play Kerry
Cow" will be the bill at the Columbia this
week, beginning tomorrow. As well as
giving the star an opportunity for the por-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
Dramatic Brevities.

A daughter of the veteran actor Barton Hill
will be a mem Der of the Modjeska company
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Cissy Fitzgerald in 1.-THE Founding" is one
the early bookings at the Columbia.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Although .Under the Red Robe'' was first
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A OMISSION 1oc CHILDREN
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26
Southern Wheat Crop.

Here's prosperity, but not produced
by Mckinley, but by the salt of the
earth or better known as the horny
listed son Of toll, the farmer of the
southland, the mule, the good season,
and the thresher. Read "Stocks Of
wheat in sight in this country, on the
sea and in Europe on August 1st, were
the smallest on record. But the move
ment of the domestic crop has begun in
earnest, and visible supplies may be
expected to increase rapidly. Chicago
dispatches report that there is already
q congestion of traffic at Kansas City,
where some of the railroad companies
which have New Orleans and Calves
ton connections have refused the con-
tract to carry any more wheat until the
blockades have been relieved. Increas-
ed earnings for the transportation com
panies, more business for themerchants
and more employment and general
prosperity for the people are the as
sured fruits of the lavish bounty of the
1897 harvest fields. "-Maury Demo
crat.
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About Suicides.

Robt N. Reeves, in Popular Science
Monthly, calls attention to the sad fact
that suicide and education increase at
an equal rate. Civilization does not
free humanity from grief, disgrace and
disappointment; but wherever civiliza-
tion is highest the struggle for exist
ence is fercest, life is most artificial,
and there the most failure of the hu-
man race are met with. There was a
time in Roman history when suicide
was almost epidemic. 1t was when the
great republic had reached it's acme of
civilization-when poetry, art and elo.
quence were triumphant. 1t is proba-
BILE that the proportion of suicides due
to mental arrangements is increasing,
but how rapidly can never be exactly
determined. Morselli says that about
one-third Of all suicides may be at
tributed to insanity,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26

A great many men throughout the
country, including plenty of really
swell fellows, have got it into their
heads rightly or wrongly-and we are
by no means sure that it isn't rightly
that there is no reason why any man
should pay more than $3 to So for a
pair Of shoes, and to say the least, the
idea has this foundation in reason, that
excellent shoes are now made for $3.
To pay SO to $12 for pair of shoes is
simply throwing away money, and in
many cases this is done to crafty a
mistaken notion that none but your
favorite shoemaker is worthy to adorn
your feet. The recent improvements
in shoe machinery make it possible, as
shown by the we'll known w. l.. Doug
las SO shoe, to produce shoe today that
will compare favorably in style, wear
ing qualities and comfort with those
offered at So, $S and $40 per pair. See
the advertisement of the w. L. Douglas
shoes which appears elsewhere in this
issue,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26
Hard Times and Eztrayaganee.

The Springfield, Mass, Republican,
one of the oldest republican newspa.
pers in the United States, says: "No,
body has had SO much to say of the
hard times as the statesmen at Wash
ington, but they have not done the first
thing to reduce the costs of government
proportionately to the reduction in the
tax-paying power of the people, Fed
eral expenditure, on the contrary, con-
tinues to increase. 1t promises this
fiscal year to break all previous records
of extravaganza. Revenue under the
new tariff is entirely problematical;
but there is no uncertainty in regard
to expenses. The deficit may continue
and become larger, but the problem as
taken up by congress will remain as of
old-not how to reduce expenditure,
but how to raise more revenue" AS
long as the tax payers will stand it, they
will be bled more and more year after
year, and extravaganza will go hand in
hand with all kinds of legislative
robbery.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26

There is one country in the world,
according to the Boston Globe, and
probably only one, which gets along
with single policeman. That is Ice
land.
Iceland is peopled by the descendants
of Vikings, including many famous
warriors and heroes, but they are so
law-abiding they have no need of po-
licemen.
The solitary officer, in spite of his
apparently great responsibility, has a
very easy time. He is maintained
more for ornament aud dignity than
for use. The Icelanders think it would
not do to have capital without po-
liceman.
The Iceland police force is large in
one sense. It's single member is six
feet high, broad -shouldered, and hand
somely uniformed.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26

In view of the remarkable declara.
tion made by former Governor Flower
in favor of trusts, it may be we'll to sug.
gest that he is strictly in line with the
republican party.
Hanna manipulated the election Of
Mckinley, and as the agent for the
trusts bought the presidential office
with some $15, 900, 900 furnished by the
trusts. Of course, this debt had to be
paid, and McKinley's extraordinary
session of congress paid it many fold.
Flower should get over the republican
fence at once; he will feel very lonesome
focking by himself as a democrat.
When William j. Bryan was the
democratic candidate for president he
said 81 have been called an anarchist
because have opposed the trusts and
syndicates which would manage this
country. | am glad to have the opposi-
tion of these men. am glad that if I
am elected there is not a trust nor a
syndicate that can come to me and say:
we put you there, now pay us back. >"
Democracy demands fair field and
no favor for every citizen of the United
States; democracy demands equal rights
for all, special privileges for none;
democracy demands untrammeled leg
islation and honest laws; therefore,
democracy does not recognize Roswell
2. Flower as an exponent of its doc
trines when he defends the trusts and
defames those who oppose those unjust
illegal and oppressive combinations
Chicago Dispatch.
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With Knives Two Sisters Fight.

Jackson, Ky, August Sl.-In the
adjoining county of Knott, Miss Re-
becca Jones and her sister Martha,
daughters of q prominent and wealthy
farmer, quarreled this morning, and a
bloody fight with pocket knives en-
sued. Rebecca was horribly cut in the
breast, face and lower limbs, and she
will die.
The women are young, handsome, and
have been much admired. The affair
has caused great excitemont, owing to
the prominence of the combatants and
their family and relatives A warrant
has been issued for Miss Martha's ar
rest.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26

Birmingham, Aug. 20. The Birming
ham Rolling Mill Co., has formally
abandoned the use of northern steel,
the homemade steel manufactured al
its new steel furnace in this city, hav.
ing been given thorough test under
the roller the past two days, and found
thoroughly satisfactory. 1t was made
into boiler plate and today was turned
ed out in inch and half rods, 150 feet
long, Superintendent Dwyer is au-
thority for the statement that the Bir-
mingham steel gave better results than
the Pittsburg steel, being more pliable,
standing greater degree of heat and
showing tensile strength of 80, 900
pounds on the square inch. The Bir-
mingham steel stands the mill only
$12, while the lowest possible cost of
Pittsburg steel, freight added, is $17.
Pittsburg steel will not be used here
any more, the rolling mill intending to
operate its 120-ton steel mill constantly.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26
Bullet Proof Cloth.

A new cloth which stops bullets has
been invented. It's efficiency has been
proved in Chicago. The tests we're
made before men of science and others
interested in the practical working of
the invention. 1t was thoroughly
serious affair.
The tests were made at the Chicago
College of Surgical Dentistry. They
were conducted by DR.. L. Borland and
Lieutenant Sarnecki, of the Australian
arm, friend of the inventor. The lat
ter, who was present, is Brother CAST
mar Zaglan, a lay member of a religious
order. He urges the adoption of his
invention in the interest of humanity.
Seven doctors were present and also
the representatives of the Human So
ciety, as an experiment was to be made
on live dog,
The progress of making this is kept
secret. 1t looks like O kind of silk cloth
braid, and is about half an inch in
thickness.
The cloth was t1ied on the dog. A
cloak of ordinary cloth was wrapped
around him, and shield of the bullet
proof material was tied on one side.
Lieutenant Sarnecki fred .38 cali
bre revolver at him and hit the shield
fair and square. The dog wagged his
tail to indicate that nothing unpleas-
ant had occurred.
The ordinary cloth was then removed
and the shield tied to his side. A "A
calibre was fired at him. The schock
staggered him and he whimpered some
what. When examined he was found
to be quite sound. Probably he was
slightly bruised. New York Journal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26
Speak Kindly.

A man was once saved by very poor
boy from drowning. After his restora-
tion he said to him
"What can | do for you, my boy?"
"Speak kind word to me some
times" replied the boy, the tears gush-
ing from his eyes. ''I amt got no
mother like some of them"
A kind word Think of it This
man had it in his power to give that
boy money, clothes, playthings, but
the little fellow craved nothing as much
as a Kind word now and then. If the
man had ever SO little heart, the boy
must certainly have had theXjsh grant.
cd. A kind word \ 1Rh hhaye HHt
such spoken to y6uA 4sFtERshS you
that poSb6S Ra6f%MAk'at whom
everybodwI0h46Ss. would think that he
had found q treasury if some one would
spCak kind word to him.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26
An Alaskan Railroad,

Port Townsend, Wash, August 90. -
Residents of Juneau are very much in
earnest over the proposed Yukon Min
ing, Trading and Transportation Com
psny's plan to construct railroad from
Tokan Inlet to Lake Taslin, distance
of 130 miles. The company also con-
templates road up the beach from
Tokou to Juneau, a distance of twenty
miles.
At the head of the railway scheme is
P.J. Packard, special agent of the
company, who says his associates in
clude Preston Lea and Willard Sauls-
bury, of Delaware, and interested with
them are New York and Philadelphia
capitalists.
The Yukon Mining, Trading and
Transportation Company is capitalized
at $4,000, 900. During the past winter
the company has applied for and receiv-
ed all necessary charters from the Uni
ted States, British Columbia and the
Dominion Governments.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26

Women talk a lot about model hus-
bands, but evory one wants different
model.
Every man who is fond of children
was once little boy who liked to go
barefoot.
Probably toads got that way from
trying all the new things in the COM
plexion advertisements.
Next to teaching girl to play whist
man loves best to hold the cans while
his wife puts up peaches.
II women really were as pretty things
as there are in the shop windows they
would invent transparent dresses.
A girl always tries to look as uncon-
scious when she passes lot of plaster
casts in museum as a man does when
he passes window full of corset adver-
tisements.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26
STATE NEWS.

The rush season for tanning bark is
over.
Roam county has commenced to boom
its fall fair.
Considerable iron is being shipped
from Hartman.
A cotton mill is a good thing Chatta-
nooga has in sight
The tobacco season opens in Greene
vile September 10.
Spirit is the name of new McMinn
county post office.
Wartburg and Lancing are now con-
nected by telephone.
At the centennial they insist on
guarding the guard.
Chattanooga seems to stand in need
of juvenile reformatory.
Typhoid fever amounts to an epi-
demic in Hawins county.
The Lenoir CITY knitting mills com
pany has put on night force.
Arrangements are being made to re-
build the burned district in Jellico.
A new telephone from Jonesboro to
Bristol via Blountville is talked of.
Business is improving rapidly over
the Bristol and Elizabethton railroad.
The iron of pyritese of Carter county
make Stoney Greek ''the coming Klon.
dyke.
A little child Of M. E. Farmer was
kicked by a mule and bailey hurt al
Alley.
Manager w. Fowler of the Bristol
Telephone company swallowed q ten
dollar gold piece.
Andrew Cleghorn, O5 years old was
drowned in an effort to ford a swollen
stream in MashGll county.
A movement has been inaugurated
among the citizens of Lewis county tC
have the county seat removed from
Newburg to Hohenwald and an election
has been ordered to ascertain the senti
lnent of the people on the proposition
Harry Deberry, eolored, was hanged
.inEM Memphis last Thursday for the at
item pied rape on the person of little 7
jE E1sAold Loonora Eigemann, October s
1896. This was the first legal hangin,
for attempted rape that has ever takei
place in Tennesseo.
Or. Miles Pain Pills cure Neuralgia.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26

Dditor Floyd, of the Chattanooga
News, is after the bucket shops in that
city. Among other things he says;
Indeed it is the most enterprtsing
business men who are most likely to be
lured to ruin by the seductive char
acter of the game. Men will "play the
bucket shops for all they are worth"
who would think themselves disgraced
if caught throwing dice or CHANGING
cards. If it is the duty of the public
authorities to close up the crap and
poker rooms, it ought to be all the
more incumbent ON them to shut up the
bucket shops. Gambling in one form
can not be consistently suppressed
while it is allowed to go on under the
much more dangerous guiseof bucket
shop,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-08-26
What Might Have Been.

Tennessee owes a bonded debt of
nearly $50, 900, and has not paid a
single cent of the principal since its
creation. Our bonds are outstanding
and must be paid-yet we have recent
ly had to borrow the money to pay the
interest on this debt. Our expenses
under the present constitution and laws
are fully 81, 1000, 900 per annum in e1-
cess Of what they should be, and yet
with this plain fact staring them in the
face, the people would not vote in favor
of the only measure that promised re-
lief. Let those who voted against the
convention forever hold their peace on
the subject of economy, retrenchment
and reform in the administration of our
State government. They are estopped:
while the friends of new constitu-
tion can and may console themselves
with the thought that truth crushed
to earth will rise again, aud the cause
of new constitution will grow in pa
triotic favor until it becomes an accom-
plished fact. -Morristown Gazette.