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Keeney, Miss Gertrude Forman, MT. and Mrs. Evan J. Coleman, MT. and Mrs. Rosenstock, Mir. and Mrs. Harrington, MT. and Mrs. Sheehan, MT. and Mrs. Borel, the Misses Borel, Mir. and Mrs. J. Simon, Mir. and Mrs. Walter Brunt, MT. and Mrs. M. J. Reid, J. w. Reid, Mrs. pr. Lover ing, Miss Margaret OCallaghan, Charles F. O'Callaghan, Fred w. Connor, Miss Connor, MT. and Mrs. w. H. Patton, James G. Phelan, Mrs. J. A. Frank and party, Mrs. Moodey, the Misses Moodey, George A. Newhall, MT. Clayburg, Miss Siegel, MT. and Mrs. w. F.. Deane, MT. Penner. the Misses Cooney. MT. and Mrs. William D. Quinn, Mir. and Mrs. Lilien- thai, General and Mrs. Dickinson, MT. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels.
 MT. and Mrs. William Hardy, Mir and Mrs. J. F. Merrill. Mrs. L. L. Dunbar, MT. and Mrs. w. P. Shaw, MT. and Mrs. Louis Sloss, Mr. and Mrs. w. N. Taylor, MT. and Mrs. Andrew w. Rose, Mir. and Mrs. N. G. Kittle, Mir. and Mrs. R. Y. Hayne, MT. and Mrs. Chauncey Winslow NIT. and Mrs. Henry Gibbons, Mrs. $. Sussman. MT. and Mrs. H. J. Crocker, MT. and Mrs. Edward Eyre, Mir. and Mrs. J. F. HoughtOn, MT. and Mrs. w. P. Morgan, MT. and Mrs. NJ. L. Gerstle, Mr. and Mrs. w. E.. Deane, MT. and Mrs. E.. B. Pond, MT. and Mrs. Russell J. Will son, MT. and Mrs. R. H. Pease, MT. and Mrs. Cyrus Walker, Mrs E. w. Hopkins, MT. and Mrs. w. J. Dutton, Mir. and Mrs. NJ. s. Currey, Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Crock ett, MT. and Mrs. w. R. Whittier MT. and Mrs. John A. Hooper, MT. and Mrs. Beverly MacMonagle, MT. and Mrs. F. J. Symmes, Mir. and Mrs. w. E.. Hopkins
 Mir and Mrs. James Carolan, MT. and Mrs. r. McG. Mclean, Mir. and Mrs Ralph c. Harrison, MT. and Mrs. Lowell White, Mir and Mrs. Webster Jones, Mir. and Mrs. Horace Davis, Mrs. s. Wenban, MT. and Mrs. G. A. Pope, MT. and Mrs. Addison E. Head, MT. and Mrs. Sydney Smith, Mir. and Mrs. W. F. Herrin, Mir. and Mrs. George Boardman, Mir and Mrs. R. J. Woods, Mir. and Mrs. Charles A. Laton, Mrs. A. J. Pope, MT. and Mrs. l.. L. Baker, MT. and Mrs. Lucy II. Otis, MT. and Mrs. George Whittell, Mir. and Mrs. G. W: Weaver, Mir. and Mrs. Charles E. Kseney @r .nN Mr. N and Mrs W. B, gan, Mr. and Mrs. c. E. Green. MT. Mrs. George F. Grant, MT. and Mrs. l Henry Bothin, MT. and Mrs. Ig- natz Steinhart, MT. and Mrs. F. A. Frank, Mir. and Mrs. J. w. Kerr, MT. and Mrs. W. T. Fonda, MT; and Mrs. Wen dell Easton, MT. and Mrs. H. Dutard, Mrs. w. F. Shaw, MT. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels, Mir. and Mrs. H. M Fiske, Mr. l and Mrs. F. H. Green, MT. and Mrs. l. N. Walter, Mir. and Mrs. Rolla V. Watt, Miss Mary T. Hoffman, MT. and Mrs c. E. Holmes, MT. and Mrs. F. H. Beaver
 Robert Oxnard, Charles K. Bonestell Pelham w. Ames, James G. Phelan, Mrs. Walter G. Fonda, Robert T. Bien, Miss Caroline Little.
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paid and the merchants continue so warm that a Fahrenheit thermometer would register them near the point of ebullition.
 By ways that are dark and tricks that are cunningly vain, the three star advertising men from the East are al legged to have bunkoed the unsuspect- ing advertising public in the name of the Bulletin and against the peace ana dignity of the laws of the State, against criminals made and provided" The suEar-coated pill which the fic- kle and cratic grandmamma of jour nallsm prepared for those who had expected better treatment was most cunningly disguised. Three gentle men who wore immaculate white cravats and clothes of latest pattern, rubbed their hands adroitly, spoke in sort tones, and assured many mer- | chants that they, were writing ms tory of the industrial affairs in San Francisco"
 We want few items about your business, if you please" said they. IT you care to give a few dollars after you see this, it will be all right, put the advertisement we propose to give | will cost you nothing"
 They rubbed their hands again, said soft good-by and vanished as if they had been mere specters. A few
 
 appeared and induced the merchant to sign an innocent-looking certificate as to the moral character of the Bulletin, | also announcing their willingness to have a few good things said in its | columns concerning their business. l The next thing the merchants knew, 1 after the publication of many badly written lines, was the presentation of 1 a bill for services rendered at the rate l of a dollar per line.
 Many such firms as the Schmidt Label Company, Hammersmith & 1 Company protested. A meeting was Association on Friday afternoon and it was decided by a score or more of rep resentative business men, who had pre-
 viously signed protests against the sand bagging operations, that they ! would fight the unjust bills to the courts of last resort.
 The feeling against the methods in- trOduced by the newspaper which l boasts of it's honor is so great that those who were bunkoed by its shell game agents have refused to pay any attention to urgent personal notes i from Editor Brothers, who has in sev- 1 eral instances agreed to compromise ! for small proportion of the original ! ridiculous claim. It is likely that there | will be another meeting at an early l day at which some of the best busi- | ness men of the city will strongly con- l demn the paper and the dishonest methods of its irresponsible and lying 1 agents.
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it, and frozen smiles gave place to warm glances and glacial well-bred approval to enthusiastic applause. And the enthusi- asm did not die out, but increased with each succeeding picture and story, until the last act found the audience wildly excited and obliged to bite the lips for fear of breaking into the familiar pa- triotic songs.
 Each picture in itself was a master piece. The tone, the atmosphere of the period was perfectly represented. After each curtain one recovered with a start and came back to the commonplaces of this young year of 'sS. Dramatically the pageant was divided into three acts. The first represented the picturesque as well as the stern realities of colonial days. In act two the period of the Revolution was graphically pictured, ending with a picture of dazzling splendor, "The Peace Ball"
 Act three covered the Civil War and brought the pageant to a close with an inspiring picture of woman ;n the yari- ous positions she commands in the clos
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Three shrewd men, supposedly from Chlcago," said J. B. Garland, "went among the wholesale and retail men throughout this city and with oily tongues persuaded them to accept proposition which had not been lis- tened to by the same men who had been offered good holiday inducements Dy honorable local papers. Many ad- Vertising solicitors have called on the merchants during the season, but their tales were not even heard by the ma JoIlty or them, but when the slick par ties entered the field they were gull lple and entered the ranks in an amia- ble mood
 These men said that as the Even tng Bulletin was getting out an indus tlai edition, all merchants would cer- talnIy be glad to be beautifully writ ten up, with a cut of their place of business adorning the pages of the paper. NO charge was to be made but IL any were willing, a small amount or cash would be acceptable to help the vast enterprise along.
 Tn a few days the boys came around with what seemed to be an elaborate description of the particular store or place of business in question, and quietly asked for an acknowledg- ment Of the good work which was be- ing done by the evening paper. The article was read, and, as it was clev- erly got up. it was signed, or, at least, the merchants thought they had signed it. But they had not done so. Having heard the article read, they did not. care to take the trouble to read it again, so they put their sigma lures to paper which has since been shown to be very strong contract for $1 a line for all the beautiful stuff written by gentlemenly Chicagoans.
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MT. Robson and Mrs. Robson were the heart of the fun last night; the company did not play with the fine agreement that was so notable last week in "The Jucklins." In fact, I should say that most of the members of the company find the happiest vent for their talents in less urban type of comedy than "The Henrietta" pre- tends to be. At this o'clock Bronson Towards masterpiece is not only old, but old fashioned. It abounds in the lcng-lost Soliloquy, the significant Aside and many other parts of play that are modernly achaic rather than anciently classical. And when a com pany works these tricks of yesterday for all they were worth in that yester- day the result is not valuable Ma ture has not changed much since the inception of "The Henrietta" but art has, considerably; and instead of giv- ing a contemporary flavor to the stock ticker, the telephone and the other metropolitan touches-social and commercial-of the play, MT. Robsons company is inclined to make them out to be as obvious and cut and dried as hackneyed melodrama.
 As a play of modern interest "The Henrietta" needs gliding and over valuing on the part of its actors. Last night neither Miss Gertrude Perry as Lady Trelawney, nor Miss Lida Mo- Millen as Mrs. Vanalstyne, nor Edwin Holt as the doctor, nor Joseph Keefe as the minister, nor John Webster Jr.
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more what "The Henrietta" would do without MT. Robson? Robson and Der tie have become the blood and bone of each other. They have weathered many a wintry season. They have grown old together
 It seemed to me, in the Baldwin Theater last night, that MT. Robson had the best of it in the race of years. He was old, palpably old; yet, with something akin to the simulative skill that enables young actor to suggest a part of years, MT. Robson, in the limitations of his all but three score, suggested the callow, irresponsible youth of Bertie. It was a common enough phase of racter-acting-only it was the common phrase inverted; and to me 1t was quite wonderful Of course the part belongs to Mir. Robson by all the ties and traditions of the stage, and if he is spared to be centenarian, I am sure that he will still stick to Bertie and still find people who will accept him as the punctual identi- ty of the part. But apart from super stition and sentimentality, his acting of it is still the best of eccentric charac- terization as well as brilliant triumph over Time. Even if 'The Henrietta" is a play for always-which it is not there need be no immediate anxiety about finding the successor of Stuart Robson. Age does not tarnish the metallic charm of his voice, nor re- stiffen the engaging angularity of his gestures, nor sog his gently comical spirits-he was made in a peculiar mold, and made to last.
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ing nineteenth century. With unusual facility and remarkab.e grace the rar. ticirantS lent themselves to the garb and customs of those other days. The gay social butterfly heightened his debonair face and assumed the mien with the garb of the stern Puritan fathers. Pretty misses looked prettier and more bewitch- ing still in the lirtle and bodice of the early seventeenth century, and belles and beaux alike were dazzlingly splendid in the rustling brocades, the costly lace. the glittering jewels and powdered cultures that made the "peace ball' the most elaborate picture of all. Among the pie lures that found more than especial favor was the picturesque reproduction of the Colonial Home fin the picture, 'Washday in Old Plymouth" Next in favor came the Maypole dance by a band of merry youngsters, and then the ever-popular courtship of Miles Standish. In this pie ture Miss Florence Schulz made a beautiful Priscilla and delivered the lines that fell to her part with a charming and delightful naivete. However, although some attendants were brave enough to ex- press a preference no one was sufficiently bold to declare that one picture was truer in detail and artistic conception than an- other, and every one agreed that the en- tire affair was one grand continuous sue cess.
 The entertainment, for the benefit of the same worthy cause, will be continued this and tomorrow evenings, and all though the sale of seats has been grati- fyingly large there are still many choice seats to be had.
 Among those present last evening were:
 Mir. and Mrs. Fisher Ames. Judge E w. McKinstry, Miss McKinstry, Dr. and Mrs. Bird, Mir. and Mrs. Samuel Knight, NIT. and Mrs. A. N. Drown, Colonel and Mrs. Osmont, MT. and Mrs. M. H. de Young, Mir and Mrs Berendt, Downey Harvey, Mir. and Mrs. William F. Pier son. MT. and Mrs. Clement Bennett. Mir. and Mrs. J. Goldberg, Sol B. and Harry Goldberg, Chief Sullivan and Mrs. Sulli- van, Mir and Mrs. Fl. F. Beaver, MT. and Mrs. r. A. Frank, Horace Platt Mir. and Mrs. Alfred Bouvier, Harry Holbrook | Harry Stetson, Clement Tobin MT. and Mrs. Joseph F. Tobin, Harry B. Pringle James Pringle, Mrs. Bedding; Mrs. Clark | General Warfield, A. c. Heilman Johu | F. Merrill, the Misses Hager, MT. Hoch- | stadter, w. F. .Goad. Miss Genevieve Goad. Colonel Southard Hoffman. Mrs Hoffman, Ogden Hoffman, Miss Alice and Miss May Hoffman, MT. Wiltsee, Mir. and i Mrs. J. B. Levison, Mir. and Mrs. w. l. Dutton, Judge William T. Wallace. MT. and Mrs. S. Wiel, Mir. and Mrs. William H. Taylor, Mrs. aBsil Heathcote. NIT. and Mrs. Clayburg, Thomas Magee. tbe | Misses Magee, MT. and Mrs. George Boyd, Lieutenant Rodgers, H. MendeIl Jr., Miss Bessie Buckley, MT. and Mrs de Guigne, Miss Marie Wells, Miss Ethel
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s well endeavor to

\ s well endeavor to
 n "Gild refined gold, to paint the lily, n To throw a perfume on the violet"
 As to essay to express in cold, cruel type the warmth, the splendor, the exalted patriotism, the exquisite beauty the balmy atmosphere and elaborate de- tail of the historical pageant "Colum- bia," produced last evening at the Cali fornia Theater for the benefit of the most deserving of local charities, the Children's Hospital.
 The production was in every respect a society event. The wealth, beauty and talent of local circles posed in the series O. picturesque tableaux that represented vividly and faithfully the magnificent progression of the nation from the troubled times long before the founding of the colonies to the glorious Union of to-day. It was society's representatives who attended to all the drudgery and annoying minor details without which q perfect ensemble cannot be created. Ii was society's representatives who went
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MERCHANTS
 BUNKOED BY
 THE BULLETIN Imported Stars With Dark Ways and
 Vain Tricks. Black Art "Ad" Contracts Denounced by Local
 Merchants. They Hold a Meeting and Re- fuse to Pay Dishonest Claims. HOT TIME FOR COLLECTORS EXOrbitant Claimants May Demon strate Their Methods in the
 Courts.
They Hold a Meeting and Re- fuse to Pay Dishonest
 Claims.
HOT TIME FOR COLLECTORS
ExOrbitant Claimants May Demon. strate Their Methods in the
 Courts.

The Evening Bulletin, which some years ago had a reputation for truth and an air of responsibility because issued from The Calls press rooms, has lately been photographed by lead ing merchants, measured by the French system, and fled for reference in the Rogue's Gallery.
 Many leading merchants and busi- ness men of San Francisco have been bunkoed within the past six weeks by three star swindlers from the East, 2 bearing credentials and sailing orders from the Bulletin, countersigned by the proprietor.
 Scores of representative merchants and business men whose word is be-
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as the bad son, did anything to keen their respective characters above the merest puppetry. Harrison Armstrong was hugely incompetent to play the caricature of the English lord. Miss Edna Brothers was Agnes with a sweet lngenuousness, and Lewis Carpenter aid a Iairly good bit as the old clerk. Mrs. Robson was delightful as tba widow. The part is not above inc talents of May Irwin, and in more things than embonpoint Mrs. Robson is fortunate enough to suggest that sur passing farce comedienne.
 ASHTON STEVENS.
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 Truly yours, Geo. W. Dudley. N. B.-Mr George w. Dudley, writer of the above letter, Is president of The Dud- ley Machinery Co, St. Louis, Mo, anf one of the best known civil and constructing engineers in the West and South West. He has recently gained national proni- hence as one of the inventors and owners of the celebrated dynamite gun now being used with such deadly effect by the Cuban Insurgents in their struggle for liberty. Dr. Charcot's Kola Nervine Tablets never fail in nervous diseases of any kind. Fifty cents and $l.00 at all druggists. Sec Dr. Charcot's name on label. Eureka Chemical 6 Mfg. Co.,, La Crosse. Wis.
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AT THE oRPHEUM.

The present week at the Orpheum bids fair to attract larger crowds than the exceptionally good. with not a single number that can be adversely criticized The old favorites have been retained and a most pleasing bill. Fred Brown. in his rag-time dancing. is a marvel. and the audience would have made him go on un- til he was exhausted had 1t had its way CTS is new and is an evidence of skill and cleverness that has seldom been seen in this part of the country. Probably same time the most pleasing on this weeks bill Is the New Years Dream l" by Patrice and her company She is clever and is well supported by Ali Hampton.
 MOROSCO'S.
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yond reproach have sworn by the nine
 gods of Tarquin and by all the other gods that they will not pay for the advertising gold bricks which the even ing newspaper pretends it has sold them. Though the pretense has been coupled with strange asseverations of the Bulletin management and accom- panied by many persuasive notes from the proprietor, the bills are still un-
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Stuart Robson LauuhS at Years in "The Hen
 rietta."
Mrs. Robson Did Well, Too, but Others Lacked So-
 phistication.
Novelties at the Orpheunn and a New MOrOscO Piece-Sanne Old
 Bills Elsewhere.

I wonder what Stuart Robson would do for a whole season without having the part of Bertie the Lamb in "The Henrietta" to fall back on? Iwonder still
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Continental League will be held to- morrow evening at Saratoga Hall on Geary street. Some important business will be transacted.
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COLUMBIA.

At Gay Coney Island' entered its sec ond week at the Columbia to the accom- paniment of another large and laughing audience. Nellie McHenry is the coming attraction
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OLYMPIA.

The new programme of the Vienna or chestra and the vocalists was well re- ceived last night.
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TIVOLI.

Mother Goose has settled down for a long season at the Tivoli. A second edi- ton is in its final rehearsal.
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performance at Morosco's last night. The play has sufficient of the comedy element to eXcite the approval of the audience. and the several serious scenes awaken the usual MoroSco enthusiasm.
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CHUTES.

The new vaudeville people and the new Chutesocope projections make an attract i've Free Theater bill at the Chutes.
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ALCAZAR.

''The Girl Left Behind Me- is making a record run at the Alcazar. On Monday 1t will give way to "Esmeralda."
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OBERON.

Good music and good beer are still u happy combination at the Oberon.
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Continental League. The regular monthly meeting of the
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Pocket and bill books, card cases and yaHses lettered free at Sanborn 6 Vails.
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''The District Fair" received its initial
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MoRosco's.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-11-05

we" remarks Missouri editor.
"are getting little tired of this life
insurance business. When q man dies
nowadays the first thing they ask is:
Was he insured, and for how much p
The papers also generally wind up the
obituary notice with the amount of
insurance. Soon the obituary notices
will read something like this: Peter
Jones died and left wife and two
children. Loss fully covered by in
surance.' Or, if the deceased is not
insured, it will read about as follows:
John Smith is dead. He leaves a wife.
Total loss. no Insurance."
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-11-05

One colored family has certainly
done its full duty by the government.
An old colored man named Virgil Blue
was at the war department in Wash
ington the other day, reports Wash
irgton exchange, to inquire about two
sons, one in the Tenth cavalry and the
other in the Twenty-fourth infantry,
who were both wounded before Sam
tiago, and was greatly rejoiced to
hear that they had fully recovered and
were with their regiments. He came
from Fauquier Court House, Va. "I'm
proud of dem boys" said the old man
II dun had one son die in de ahmy."
The old man said he had IS nephews in
the colored regular and volunteer regi-
ments of the army. He has ten broth
ers, and these nephews are sons of
the brothers. sort oh fitin' crowd
said the old man, "but used to enjoy
a tussle myself"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-11-05

The enormous demand for the new
revenue stamps aroused the suspicion
at the treasury department that the
call was the result of speculation.
Measures were taken at once to
thwart this attempt to corner the sup
ply by increasing the output and by
limiting sales to comparatively small
lots. No chance to rob the govern
ment is lost by certain class of per-
sons, and the treasury department
took wise step when it decided to
stop enriching INSCRIPTIONS specula-
tors at its own expense. The business
interest have been subjected to vex-
alton and loss out of all proportion to
the governments gain. The losses can
not be nended now, but this little ex-
perience should prove valuable in case
of future legislation.