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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
The Worship of Athletics.

Both boys and men, when they have
opened any paper, very soon turn 10
see what is said about athletics. Peo-
pie go in thousands to see matches OF
cricket, boating, football, running ana
bicycle races; matters connected with
these matches keep the telegraph busy
and furnish the large headings tCr
posters; they induce men of the high
est position and gravest character 10
write to the newspapers and to discuss
such matters from a purely athletical
point of view, leaving out of sight all
moral questions which may happen TO
be involved Portraits of athletes are
everywhere, and their histories and
condition are generally known. l was
present when a certain distinguished
man was introduced to a great Eng
lish bishop. "He is the father of p.
t." said his introducer, naming Il
youth well known for his powers Of
cutting. National Review.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

tum in a straight line, which prevents
it from falling off the swiftly-moving
fiat belt, and thus, in an unbroken
stream. it is carried from one end of the
great warehouse to the other. When 1t
is desired to discharge the wheat from
the belt into hopper, a movable frame
called "tripper" runs on a track UNI
derneath the belt. The tripper carries
a roller on each side. one being placed
much above the level of the belt; the
latter rises in a curve, passing over the
upper roller and beneath the lower one.
and the sudden change of direction
causes the wheat to shoot from the belt
into the hopper.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
The Laplanders.

The Laplanders inhabit the north
ernmost coasts OF the Scandinavian
peninsula. They are ignorant, uncul-
tivated, and torpid. rather savage"
says recent English traveller. I'm
spite of their frequent contact with the
Russians and the Swedes, they have no
Industrial resources, no art, no other
commerce than that which is afforded
by the products of the chase, or their
fisheries, or their heads OF reindeer.
Christianity. to which they were con-
verted about two centuries ago. has
not aroused them as yet from their
moral and intellectual lethargy. All
religion being reduced, so far as they
are concerned, to oral tradition. tho
devotion of each is in proportion "a
his memory. Education among them
has attained to this standard that 81
Laplander who knows his alphabet
corresponds to young man among us
who has graduated at Oxford or Cam
bridge"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
Pistol Firing so shot. Per Minute.

A recoil pistol, solf-loadng, on the
principle of the Maxim gun, has been
invented by Mauser, the famous Ger
man maker of small arms, which fires
eighty shots per minute. The general
arrangement of the arm is that of the
modern magazine guns, on a smaller
scale. the principal difference being in
the sliding breech-block and firing
mechanism the force of the recoii
throwing the block back and at the
same time COMPRISING a long spiral
spring. which returns 1t after the cart
ridge has been fed upward. So long
a. the trigger is drawn back the f'r-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

The social ethics Of the bull-fghting
profession seem to afford an interest
ing aspect. Mexico has light of the
bull ring known as Eel Curita, who
comes before the public with the COM
plant that his reputation has been in
jured by report that he had been
beaten by woman. He therefore sub
mits public proof that, so far from this
being true, the fact was that he knock
ed the woman down with a chair sew
eral times. Having been sent to Jail,
his eight-day sentence was committed
into the payment of a fine. He is thus
restored to full standing in his profess
sion and the public esteem, and his
reputation is indicated.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
Strange Stream. Of wheat.

The belt conveyors" used to carry
wheat in some of the huge grain stores
in Brooklyn, are described in the Scien-
tific American. fhey consist of belts,
formed of canvas and rubber, thirty
inches broad, and running over hori-
zontal rollers. At the point where
stream of wheat falls upon one of these
belts, the edges Of the latter are turned
up for a short distance by pair OF
rollers placed above the general level.
But the grain quickly acquires momen-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
An Easy Way to Paint.

The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mem
phls railway is now using in it's shops
i pneumatic car painting machine.
With the new device a freight car tan
be painted in one hour, while by the
old method it takes an experienced
man from two to three hours. Be
sides saving material and labor an
other great advantage the pneumatic
painter has over the man with a brush
and a can of paint is that it applies
the paint to the car with uniform
thickness and with great force. The
paint is driven into the smallest crew
ice or hole in the car and this enables
the painter to reach points under the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
sleeping with Heads to the North.

The superstition that human beings
should sleep with their heads to the
north is believed by the Frepch to have
for its foundation a scientific fact. They
affirm that each human system is in it.
self an electric battery, the head being
one OF the electrodes, the feet the other.
Their proof was discovered from exper-
iments which the Academy of Sciences
was allowed to make on the body OF a
man who was guillotined. This was
taken the instant it fell and placed up
on pivot free to move as 1t might. The
head part, after a little vacillation,
turned to the north, and the body then
remained stationary. 1t was turned
half way round by one of the profess
ors, and again the head end OF the
trunk moved slowly to the cardinal
point due north, the same results be-
ing repeated until the final arresta-
ton of organic movement.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

1t is reported that James B. Gentry,
the murderer of Madge Yorke, con-
signed by mistaken clemency to the
eastern penitentiary for life, has not
only recovered a vigorous degree of
health, but has become the center Of
admiring attentions at that institu-
ton. His cell is made a sort of Mecca
by theatrical people visiting this city.
and the memory of his atroclous crime
is already growing faint. Thus we
make heroes of our villains.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

The employees of the treasury depart
ment at Washington are given thirty
days vacation each year with full pay.
They are also allowed, in case of sick
ness, an additional leave of thirty days
with pay continued and Secretary Gage
has just discovered that two-thirds of
the employees were afflicted with sick
ness for thirty days during the fiscal
gear. They were paid for twelve
months work and performed ten
months work, and now the secretary
will ask that congress remedy this
abuse of the sick-leave privilege by re-
quiring clerks to present evidences of
sickness and a physicians certificate
and that it shall appear that the sick
ness was occasioned by their official
service. Otherwise they must lose pay
while absent on account Of sickness.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

According to the calculations of John
Berkenbine, the drainage area of the
Mississippi river is 100000 square
miles, including nearly all of the coun-
try from the Alleghenies to the Rock
les and from Canada to the Gulf of
Mexico. In his communication to the
Engineers Club Mr.. Berkenbine esti
mates that one inch of rainfall evenly
distributed over this area would equal
21, $50, 900, OOO,000 gallons of water. If
the average rainfall for the entire
area amounts to twenty inches it
would equal 535 5000 900, 100000 gallons
of water, or if the average rainfall
should be twenty-three inches it
would equal 1,6O6, 800 900, 100000 gal
Ions of water. The river has an aver
age flow of 664,O0O cubic feet per sec
ond, or 31,6sO,OOO gallons per minute,
or 1,900,S00, 900 gallons per hour, or
456, O19, 100000 gallons per day.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

The careless and reckless way in
which many women-with their pock-
etbooks in full sight, inviting thievish
grasp, and their watches hanging in
view and easy reach of deft rascals-
plunge into the holiday rush, is a d.
rect Indictment and temptation to rob-
berry. One would suppose that the
personal equation" would check a
tendency which is altogether too much
in evidence today.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

Chicago will be looked upon in the
near future as literary mart of con-
sequence. 1t is in the proper location
for this purpose. Coast cities, like
coast men, are invariably warped and
provincial. The Grants and Lincolns
came from the central section of the
country, where men grew up well bal
anced and broad minded.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

minor operations, and especially when
that delicate sensitive precious organ,
the eye is to be dealt with is sub
stance to be grateful for. On every
hand there is an unremitting search
for new methods and new substances.
An endeavor is made through the
agency of electricity to make the pain
paralyzer enter the substance or re-
fractory teeth, by what is called cata-
phoresis-a process hardly understood
yet, but thought to act by opening the
pores and making room among the very
particles themselves for itself. The
very latest discovery is thus described;
"A new anesthetic, which relieves at
once the pain of deep burns, OF ulcers
and of cancer, has been discovered by
Drs. Eichorn and Heinz Of Munich. 1t
is preparation Of benzomethyllc
ether in the form of a powder, to which
the name orthoform has been given.
1t is now known that before the dls-
covery of anesthesia, surgeons not sell
dom decided not to operate, because
they could not bring themselves TO
witness the sufferings they must in
evitably cause. and thus allowed the
patient to go painlessly to his grave;
and also many died from the shock
that is now skipped" while the ether
or chloroform transports the man in
beautiful dream. Depend upon 1t, when
we come to be counted with the an
cient. the nineteenth century VIII not
be remembered for its railroads and
telegraphs, but for its blessed boon OF
universal application - anesthesia.-
The Independent.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

The papers are full of statements of
what q new telephone company is go
ing to do in and for New York. II Is
all interesting, but the fact that so
much Of the story is in the future tense
takes the edge off somewhat.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
SCIENTIFIC POINTERS.
puRReNt NqrEs OF Drsqov-
cry AND INVENTION.
An Easy Method of Painting Freight
Cars-A Pneumatic Brush In the
Service of Big RaiIroad-Some
Recent Inventions.
Tho Search for AnesthetIcs.

HE search for safe,
swift and efficient
anesthetics S [ ii |
goes on, and the
nitrous XII d e
laughing gas), with
its brief oblivion
and quick recovery,
is a great boon;
while cocaine in ITS
constantly increas-
ing applications in
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

Many persons appear to labor under
the delusion that it is necessary 20
avoid sunlight for fear of spelling the
complexion, when, as a matter of fact,
the suns rays are necessary to give it
the delicate tinting of beauty and
health. Air is necessary to the first
inspiration and the last expiration of
our lives, but the purity and activity
of the atmosphere depend upon the
warming rays of the sun, while our
bodies require light for their healthy
stimulus, 1t is well known that with
out solar heat there can be no proper
vegetable growth, and it is equally
necessary for the beauty and perfec-
tion of animal development. 1t be-
hooves us, therefore, to see that our
homes are open to the suns rays and
are made as bright and cheerful as pos
sible, and they ought to freely admit
the sunlight. 1t is we'll known that
disease which has baffied the skill of
physicians has been known to yield
when the patients were removed from
dark rooms to light and cheerful apart
ments. Light is especially necessary
for the healthy growth of children.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

Pleasure, rightly understood, Is the
true ultimate point wherein all our
lines of conduct ought to centre; what
we do for mankind, for the public, for
our friends or our neighbors, tends to
the increase of happiness-or diminu-
ton of evil among them, or to some
good, or convenience from whence they
may reap a benefit; 1t is a duty We owe
ourselves TO make our lives IL avery
part OF them as pleasurable as we can,
with our best industry and sontriyance.
only remembering TO contrlye for ev-
cry part, not for one small portion OF
our span 10 Heglect of az the!rese. -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
The Alcazar.

The Morrison season will close at the
Alcazar tonight. This popular actor of
the old school has scored remarkable
success in his season of fifteen weeks,
both from the artistic standpoint and the
financial view. He has made hosts of
new friends in this city, who regret his
departure and will await with pleasure
his return.
The reorganized stock company will be-
gin the new season tomorrow night. The
attraction will be Henry Guy Carleton
comedy, 1.-The Butterflies" a play. that
is familiar to the theater--goers of this
city. The story is founded on the love-
making complications and the. monetary
embarrassment Of two proud families.
1t is well told. the situations are very
taking and the dialogues bright. The
new company should be able to present
Butterflies" in a most acceptable man
ner, embracing as it does several we'll
are Earnest Hastings, former leading
man Of the Lycepm Theater. New York York.
leading woman to Richard Mansfield. Mr..
Hastings will play the part IN which
ons is to assume the roll Of Marion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
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RING Up" FOR.
THE. NEW THETTERS
o o o o o 90 90 o o 900 600

Mr.. Miller met with f1attering success In
nights.
1.-THE Master" is said to be a picture Of
domestic life far more true to nature
than those usually depicted. The. part
played by Mr.. Miller is that of father,
Thomas Faber, who. without consulting
any one else, has planned out the future
of his son and daughter to suit himself.
and suddenly awakens to find that 1t is
utterly different from what they desire, OF
what their mother, who is their confidant
ana sympathizer, wishes for them. Fa
bers domineering nature, both in his bust
ness and his household, has won for him
the sobriquet of The Master" but the
Playwright, even in the first act, at the
end or which Faber casts out his son for
dlsobeying him in joining the army and a
daughter for preferring the man of her
choice to the one he wishes her to marry,
aIloWs certain love traits to shine
through.
He is truly man of sterling qualities
ana deep affection underneath his auto
oF CT nc ways, which seem rather the result
or the rule or ruin policy of the modern
business world than of an innate tyranni-
cal disposition. The gradual softening of
faoers nature through misfortune, aided
by the thinly disguised longing for his
chlIoren; Is the study which Mr.. Ogilvie
mas worked out over story which serves
70 bring out the character in strong re-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
The Orpheum.

This popular vaudeville house offers five
new acts for the coming week, and it is
claimed that suc.i great bill has not
been provided for long time. The added
features range from trained dogs to high
comedy and grand opera selections by
famous artists. Barney Pagan and Hen
rietta Byron stand par excellence in
their line as comedian and soubrette, re-
spectively. The Pasqualis, late of the
Royal Theater Bellfni of Palermo. Italy.
made their American debut with the
Damrosch Symphony Orchestra and later
were with the Scalchi Concert Company.
They will appear in the garden scene from
Faust" in costume. The signor has &
great tenor voice and the signora So
prano of wide musical range and
sympathetic quality. Charles t. AL
dian and comic iuggler, has re-
regarded as the very best comic juggler
on the vaudeville stage. Another novelty
will be the act done by Sadi, the Russian
gymnast whose work, 1t is said, excels
anything in that line ever seen at the Or
pheum. Charles Baron and his perform
ing Great Danes will positively appear
this week The dogs do very funny act,
dressed up as lions, in which Mr. Baron
puts them through all sorts of tricks. The
holdovers include Charles Case, the IA
vorite monologist; Mcbride and Good
rich. in clog dances and songs; the HegeI-
mans. the greatest aerial artists In the
world, and the biograph. with new war
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
The Columbia.

The Rajah." one Of the oid-time sue
cesses Of the Madison Square stock com
pany. Will be the bill at the Columbia, be-
ginning tomorrow night. It is a very
pretty comedy In four acts, and affords
opportunities for some artistic scenic dis
plays The plot revolves around the fact
that young Englishman known as The
RaJah has fallen heir to the estate of his
uncle, with an adopted daughter thrown
in The two fall in love, and all kinos of
including the woes of a Strike.
Among the other characters in the play
are Joseph Jekyll, a self-made attorney
and agent of the Wvncot estate, whose
ideas as to workmen's rights do not agree
with those of the new master; Mr. Job,
Jekylrs assistant and constant echo;
Richard Jocelyn, Jekylrs clerk and
would-be son-in-law; Cragin, leader of
the strikers and a convict; Buttons, a
youthful servant. who is ever crying for
his ma, ma; Emilia. Gladys most inti-
mate friend; Mrs. Pringle, housekeeper at
Wyncot Lodge and mother and defender
of Buttons.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
ELEANOR CAREY, at the Columbia.

lighting is to be used throughout. A
lounging room with special luxuries for
gentlemen and a ladies' reception parlor
will constitute some of the novelties.
The inaugural attraction is to be Mrs.
Romualdo Pacheco's Ideal Comedy Com
pany in Mrs. Pacheco's clever comedy.
1.-The Leading Man. The company in
cludes Miss Hattie Schell, Miss Carina
Jordan, Miss Kate Vandenhoff, Miss Isa-
bel Garrison, Brigham Royce, Harry
Saint Maur, Thomas NJ. Hunter, George S.
Probert, Hal Clarendon, Stewart Allen,
etc.
The sale of seats for this engagement
will commence next Tuesday, at the box
Office of the theater, and at 10 Market
street, opposite the Claus Spreckels
building. where branch ticket Office will
be established.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
ONT OF THE NEW ALHAMBRA THEATER Conner Jones e
He clark's company in what Happened to

Clark's company in What Happened to
Jones'"
Signor Giuseppe del Puente, the re-
nowned operate barytone. has signed
his first contract with Managing Director
Dr. de Kannet to appear in vaudeville,
and will make his debut in that line be-
fore a San Francisco AUDIENCE at the
opening Of the Alhambra Theater on
Saturday September 8. This will prove
welcome innovation to our music low
ers, with many of whom Del Puente
stands In high favor.
The identity of the party who presented
Lottie Gibson with the mammoth silk
American flag has been disclosed and
made known as no less a parsonage than
Jack jacob. the San Francisco attor-
ney, who is now in New York on his an
nual visit. Miss Gibson prizes the gift
very highly and displays 1t nightly as an
added effect to her patriotic song. The
Flag That Has Never Known Defeat
New York Dramatic News.
Henry Miller's second play, 1.-THE Mas
ter" is by s. Stewart Ogilvie, young
English dramatist, who is thought by
some of our shrewdest managers to be
the coming man among playwrights IN
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28

in "Cavalleria Rusticana" In America BE
sang the role in the Conreid trial matinee
at the Casino. New York.
Next Saturdays matinee at the Tivo1
will show the whole Grand Opera Com
pany in the grand double bill of "Pag-
iiacci" and "Cavallsria Rusticana.'
'.Lucretia Borgia" is one of the most
tuneful of all the grand operas. Its drink
ing song is one of the most popular OF It's
melodies. The Tivoli will mount 1t IN
careful manner
Richard Mansfield. now a member OF the
new Alcazar company, filing the same
role, viii make her first appearance next
week in the role of Merriam Dodge, IN
1.-The Butterflies
A novel electric banner will be the
feature of announcing each weeks at
This banner is Sx2O feet. and will be .sus-
pended across Bush street by cable from
building to building.
The New York dramatic papers say
that Blanch Walsh is affected and erti-
fetal This is serious. The first thing
Gotham knows 1t will be classed along
with San Francisco as Jay town.
Miss Walsh will not countenance crtti-
cism.
Annie Myers will be the leading SOU
brette of the Tivolfs comic opera season.
The New Comedy Theater VIII nav nave a
list, c. D. Robinson, the. subject being
"Touchstone and Audrey" from las You
Like IT.
zie Vigoureaux, the authoress and act
ress, will commence star engagement
touring the country with a repertoire or
standard plays, under the direction OF
Louis Alfred Imhaus.
Phosa McAllister and Harry 8. Dufheld,
so long connected with the Frawley Com
pany and who are so well and faveraply
known on this coast, have joined the
Clay Clement Company, and Will be seen
in congenial roles in Mr.. Clements The
New Dominion"
The electrical display Of the New Com
edy Theater, which will light the en-
tire section of the northern part OF the
city. will show an outlay Of $500. A spe-
cial night will be set aside. prior to the
opening, when the illumination will be
given to the public.
"Zaza," the play in which Rejane Is
appearing at the Paris Vaudeyliie. deals
hall singer. The American rights have
been purchased, but they are likely to pc
of little value unless the play Is thorough
ly disinfected before presentation here.
There is already a large demand for the
Baldwin Theater two weeks from Mon
day. The star will probably begin her sea-
son with a big production or Antony and
Cleopatra" The company has arrived
from the East and is actively rehears-
ing.
Harry Corson Clark and his new COM
pany are booked to appear at the New
Comedy Theater in September. Mr.. Clark
has added greatly to his amusing COM
edy what Happened to Jones' Several
specialties will be introduced during his
engagement at the New Comedy Theater.
Miss Lillian Young, daughter of Major
General s. B. NJ. Young of the regular
United States army, will make her first
appearance on any stage at the New
Comedy Theater with Harry Corson
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
MoroSco's S.

Fallen Among Thieves" which met
with such a notable success at this house
four years ago, will be given a great re-
vival tomorrow night. 1t has been re-
vised and Americanized, and is thought
to be stronger and brighter. OF all Frank
Harvey's exciting plays it is said to be
one of the most thrilling, and there is not
lurid or oyerstrained situation in it. the
dialogue being clean cut and meritorious.
The melodramatic situations are relieved
of heaviness by the exceptionally bright
comedy vein that is judiciously distrlb-
uted throughout the scenes.
The play is naturally an illustration of
the perversity of men and women in
which the sins and virtues of the various
characters are displayed under a bright