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The San Francisco call., 1899-06-19
LEADING LADY and Climax in the japanese Play.

And as there was a great deal of sad
ness in the first two pieces presented
last night, there was a deal of snuff
fling.
Our Japanese townsfolk filled the gall
lery and seemed to find delight IN these
nasal specialties, but the people down
stairs didn't appear to know just how
TO take them.
The plays are childishly primitive,
and with the aid of the arguments"
printed in the programme. quite in
telligible. The first one, THE Duel"
displays beautiful scenery and cos
tunes and a diverting sword fight.
The second, "Kusunoki," is full Of
fights, during which the actors employ
themselves in many realistic tumbleS
from a pile of stage rocks some fifteen
feet in height. Hypnotism also seems to
have a place in this piece, as one no.
tices that many Japs fall down van
qulshed at the mere glance of the hot
eyed hero.
The most interesting in plot is THE
Temple of Dojoji," which is built
around the Japanese legend of the bell
in which the lovers hide and are Gre
mated by the jealous woman's wrath.
In this Madame Yacco, who imperson-
ates the vengeful rival, executes a
dance that is full of unique steps and
poses. The performance closes with
what is archly entitled Dewey Day
Celebration on the Pine-Fringed Shores
of Milo" Here the Geisha dances are
introduced with pleasing result. An
other diversion that comes earlier in the
programme is a song, accompanied by
the characteristic Japanese instrument,
the shamisen. The song itself is long
voiced falsetto and painful to the ears,
but the accompaniment is interesting
from a technical standpoint at least.
Cut to practical proportions, this
Japanese show ought to have a curious
interest for all playgoers. But in it's
present shape the Jap auditors seem to
have most of the fun. AS picture 1T
is well worth taking in, the scenery is
striking and the costumes are splendid.
II is quite like an animated Japanese
screen. ASHIoN o1EH EINS-
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Waldeck- Rousseau Accepts
the Task of Forming a
New Ministry.
STATESMEN ARE SHY
Former President Cassimir- Perrier
However, May Accept a Place
as Minister of War.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS, June 1S.-President Loubet
received in audience early this morning
NJ. Cassimir-Perrier,f formerly President
Of France, and consulted with him re-
Garding the Ministerial crisis The in
terVleW terminated about II o'clock,
after which NJ. Loubet received Senator
Waldeck- Rousseau.
The latter, it is understood, has made
his acceptance of the task Of forming
a Cabinet condition upon the co-opera-
ton of NJ. Cassimir- Perrier and certain
sections of the Chamber of Deputies
which he hopes to secure. He had con-
suited with several statesmen and has
had a very long conference with NJ.
Lepine, former Prefect of Police of
Paris
NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau is meeting
with considerable difficulty, but he ap-
pears determined. He will confer with
NJ. Loubet again, probably tomorrow,
before submitting a draft list of col
lea acues.
OF the three former Premiers whom
he has consulted. Maurice Rouvier,
who was president of the Council of
Ministers and Minister of Finance in
1887. alone consented TO take q portfolio.
Felix MeIine informed him that he
failed TO see how his appointment as a
Premier would bring about solution
of the crisis. Henri Brisson contented
himself with promising support.
NJ. Waldeck-Rouseau waited upon
Cassimir- Perrier and earnestly en-
deavOTed TO induce him TO accept the
portfolio Of war on the ground that
his presence at the Ministry of War
would simplify the difficulties of the
situation. ThereupOn NJ. CaSSimir-
Perrier consulted with the President.
who pointed out to him that he would
be able to exercise more authority than
any one else over the generals in de-
stroying the germs of irritation.
Cassimir- -Perrier replied that he had
definitely withdrawn from politics, but
nevertheless would undertake TO con-
slider the matter
NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau was notified of
this reply. which gives him full liberty
To constitute a Cabinet of republican
union.
The question now is whether he will
60 so far as to include a socialist in the
Ministry. He himself is indiSpOsed to
do so, and no doubt his view Will pre-
vail
1t is said that Clement Fallieres.
president Of the Senate. informed NJ
Loubet this afternoon that the Senate
seemed opposed to the inclusion of
Alexander Miller, the radical socialist,
in the Cabinet
BREST, June 1S.-On the arrival of
the Sfax. which is bringing Captain
Dreyfus from French Guiana for new
trial by court-martial. a torpedo boat
destroyer win meet the cruiser and
transfer Dreyfus to the shore.
THOISSEY, France, June 1S.-Major
Narchand arrived this morning at
Thoissey. his birthplace, and was re-
Ceived by the Mayor and enthusiastic
crowds. His passage from the railway
station to the residence of his father
was veritably a triumphal progress.
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Wild Guinea Fowl.

The wild guinea hen is a new game in a
part of the Ozark country. This fowl IS
nothing more than the small blue domeS-
tic guinea hen grown wild. The guinea
hen is shy creature at all times and
shows a constant tendency to return to
a state of nature. The fowl is especially
timid about nesting time, and often goes
far. into the woods TO lay it's eggs. In
this way broods are frequently raised
almost % as Si' wild i'd as is 81 the % untamed anne turkey'
In killing wild guinea hens hunters have
discovered that these feet-footed and
swift-winged birds make excellent sport,
and now some sections of the country
are well stocked with this game The
guinea hen is very prolific and will hatch
forty or fifty chicks in a season. The
young are hardy creatures. and thrive
we'll on such wild food as they pick up
in the fields and woods. The wild guinea
hen is more difficult to hunt than IS the
turkey, as 1t flies more swiftly and eludes
a dog with keener instinct.-Chicago Rec
ord.
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Corsica and the Vendetta.

Persons who derive their ideas of Cor
sica as ii is to-day from Prosper Meri-
mee's novel. Colombia, Will be doomed
to some disappointment. Manners and
customs have changed a great deal in the
island since the date, shortly after the
battle of Waterloo, when the gallant Brit
ish officer and his daughter visited Co
lomba in her ancestral castle at Petra
nera. The vendetta, which is the theme
of that thrilling story. has greatly dimin,
ished. During the carnival we fancled
that we had come upon real instance
OF this picturesque barbarism. one work
man killed another in a cafe, and then, in
the expressive Corsican phrase, took to
the MARQUIS" or brushwood, which covers
a large portion of the island. and has,
from time immemorial, been the refuge
of outlaws and bandits. This legend sub
sisted or some days, and excited new
interest in life in Corsica, and quite a
large demand for copies of Colombo" ="
But a conversation which l had with the
juge d'instructiOn, who had investigated
the case, proved that 1t was, after all, as
he expressed it, n crime Vulgaire, and
not. as we had hoped, crime corse.
We afterward had the satisfaction Of
seeeing the malefactor led in chalns be-
tween two mounted policemen on his way
into AjaCcio, whereas the traditional ban
dit would have been fed and supplied
with powder and shot by the country peo-
ple who would have rather gone to the
stake than betrayed his hiding place 70
the authorities. Here and there vendetta
may still linger in the island, but it has
now become q means OF attracting the
tourist, who is invited to buy bloodthirsty
choice inscriptions as: Vendetta Corsa;
morte al nemiCo C'death to the enemy >;
or, even still more gruesome: Va diritto
al cuore del nemico C.go stright to the
ons form, together with gourds engraved
with portraits of Napoleon, or the negro s
head, which is the Corsican crest, the
staple industry at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Artificial indigo From Coal Tar.

Coal tar has yet another conquest to
record. 1t threatens to supplant the
indigo plant of India and Java by sup
plying an indigo chemically identical
with and infinitely purer than that
hitherto on the market.
AS long ago as 1882 a German chemist,
DR.. A. Won Baeyers, discovered several
methods Of obtaining indigo blue from
cinnamic acid and bitter almond oil,
which themselves are a product of coal
tar. but all were too costly for CONNER
cial purposes.
Other chemists took up the work
where Baeyers had left it, and after
years of toll 1t was announced eighteen
months ago that the Baden Aniline and
Soda Works, at Ludwigshafen, on the
Rhine, were in a position to supply in
digo obtained by an improvement of
the process discovered by DR.. Baeyers,
and at a price low enough to compete
with natural indigo.
The raw material for the new pro-
duct is naphthaline, constituent part
of coal tar, known to the public as an
excellent remedy against moths. ETC.,
and which, by series of elaborate
operations, is converted into indigo
blue The factory has gradually in
creased its producing powers and hopes
soon to be able to export to other in
digo-using countries.
1t may be mentioned that Germany
already supplies 20 per cent of the
worlds consumption of dyestuff from
coal tar.-London Mail
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JAP PLAYERS
PRESENT THEIR
NATIVE DRAMA
Striking Stage Pic
lures and Costumes.
BUT THE ACTION DRAGS
GALLERY CROWDED BY sYMPA-
THETIC oRIENTALS.
Japanese Pathos, It Seems, Is Ex-
pressed by System
of Noisy Snuff
fes.
GALLERY CROWDED BY SYMPA.
THETIC ORIENTALS.

In the California Theater last night
Mr.. Otto KaWakami and Madame
Yacco and their company of rising
Japanese actors and actresses" appear
ed for the first time in America, in no
less than four different pieces. At first
sight and sound the native Japanese
drama is rather difficult problem. It's
tragedy does not make a serious dent
in the American auditor, and it's com
edy does not strike him as the most
joyous thing in the world. The Japan
ese actor, one finds, expresses pathos
through his nose; heroics, in blind
staggers; and humor in acrobatic flip
flaps. He snuff1es when he is saddest.
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-19

VISITS MOUNT
HOLYOKE COLLEGE
The Students Greeted
President Mckinley.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

HOLYOKE, Mass, June 1S.-Sunday for
the President was anything but the day
of rest that was hoped for. The contin-
ual crowding of the curious citizens, the
immense jam at the church this morning
long and tiresome for all. The President
totally unprepared for reception in con-
nection with the Baccalaureate exercises
at Mount Holyoke College, made the day
long and tiresome for all. The President
was not content with going once to
church, but went twice, leaving Mrs. Nc
Kinley in the hands of her lady friends
on each occasion.
At 3 o'clock the palace electric car
Rock Rimmon was taken and the party,
including all the ladies, were taken over
the trolley line to South Hadley to attend
the Baccalaureate exercises at the chapel
of Mount Holyoke College where on
Tuesday the President is TO share honors
with Governor Roger Walcott and deliver
the degree to the graduating class. of
which his niece, Miss Grace Mckinley, IS
a member.
AS the seniors marched into the pretty
little chapel this afternoon just before the
arrival of the President they made very
pretty picture, each clad in cap and gown.
They took front seats in the center, while
President Mckinley and the gentlemen or
his party occupied seats on the side. The
ladies', INCLUDING Mrs. Mckinley, decided
enter the crowded building, so they were
driven to the residence or Byron Smith.
near by, and there they had a light lunch
con and at the close of the exercises
rejoned the gentlemen at the special car.
In the chapel hundreds of young women
filled the auditorium, while the balcony
was occupied by several hundred hign
school girls in bright dresses. After the
President had been introduced by Mrs. E.
S. Mead, the president of the college, he
entered the chapel, the congregation re-
naming standing until he had taken his
seat. A musical programme and prayer
preceded Rev. DR.. JacobuS' baccalaureaIe
sermon. At the close of the exercises the
President and Mr.. Whiting walked TO the
residence of Mr. Smith and together with
the ladies were taken back to the special
car which stood in front Of the chapel,
surrounded by large number of the col
lege girls, who had been dismissed from
services, and a multitude of the towns
people. Miss Grace Mckinley was among
them, and later introduced some of her
schoolmates
The reception which awaited the visitors
as they alighted and entered the car was
so spontaneous and of such a friendly
and cordial nature that at Mrs. Mckin-
ley's request the President ordered the
car to delay It's departure for a few mo-
ments whitley he shook the hands of the
people who clustered about the window
where the couple were seated. Mr.. Nc
Kinley leaned from the car window and
shook hands with the people and spoke q
few words of greeting to each.
Mrs Mckinley all the while smiled and
kissed her hand or waved her handker-
chief to the crowd.
After the car reached the Whiting resi-
dence and dinner was served the tired
company gave over the evening to COM
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The Monkey of Malacca,

Do you care for monkeys? Personally
know. two kinds only in Malacca, and de-
test them both-the brok and the kra. The
brok is a big, brown, fatuous baboon of
the familiar low comedy pattern, forever
scratching himself and sputtering and f1d-
getting with hands and feet and making
faces. Should you desire to please him
you will squat Dust beyond the length of
his chain) in front of him and similarly
scratch your person, make faces and
sputter. Then in high good humor he will
amble around his post in as big a circle
as his chain permits, clutching at your
hair with an adroit high kick as he pass
es. Such are his low delights. The kra
is small gray person of passionate ap-
pearance. with close-set fiery eyes The
tastes Of this little fiend are still more
rimitive-namely, to fly straight at you
with his tail sticking out and his crest
sticking up, and bite you again and again
-BlackWood'
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The comparison Of it to violin gave rise
to the not very accurate phrase vocal
cords" as the name of the two cushions
which are its most prominent features.
But no string so short as those vocal
cords" could produce a musical bass note.
In fact the comparison of the larynx to
any instrument which produces only mu-
seal notes is inadequate, to begin with.
There is no instrument but the larynxx
which produces both song and speech, and
as those comparisons view the larynx
merely as a producer Of musical sounds,
We have no further concern with them at
present. Besides, the voice can be trained
for speech, elocution and oratory without
a knowledge Of the physiology of the
larynX.
We have the power of adjusting the
larynx, of varying the tension Of its cords,
cushions or ligaments, as they have been
variously called. We can do these things
without scientific technical knowledge Of
how they are done, without any knowl-
edge at all of vocal physiology; and it is
the work of the trainer of the voice to
teach his pupils-or her pupils we may be
allowed to say-how to do them.-Cham-
berS Journal
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Indiscriminate Killing

"CNow. It IS an axiom in war to dsor-
ganize a beaten enemy in every possible
way. and by the use Of cavalry and guns
to endeavor TO break up his formation so
thoroughly that he will be unable to make
a stand or offer for the time being further
resistance. If this rule were neglected by
q commander he would merely be driving
his enemy away from one spot to fight
him I'm another. it might be without hav-
ing done him much damage. The
Khalifas beaten army retired up the Nile.
and. as IS usual With Soudanese, was ac-
companied by many women belonging to
the troops As they moved in masses up
the bank and some distance from it it
was impossible to prevent casualties
among the women, but 1t was equally i'm
possible to allow large unbroken bodies
Of dervishes to escape unmolested because
they were accompanied by their camp fol-
lowers; ii is one of those necessary con-
sequences which have to be accepted in
war."-General Gatacse. in the Contem-
porary Review.
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whv Women Hunt Bargains.

'T am a little weary of hearing the cry
that is always being raised by man to
the effect that women spend too much
time in shopping 'gadding around from
store to store, hunting bargains and
the like, says writer who knows, in the
New York Herald.
Why do they do it?
In nineteen cases out Of twenty, to save
money.
Whose money?
Why, his money, of course!
/ don't think there's a woman living
who wouldn't be glad of the opportunity
to go into fine establishment and order
what she liked without. regard to the
nerve racking question Of cost.
Women generally have to account for
their money.
Men don't.
Just imagine a man bunting around to
find as good a cigar for less money than
the Hoffman or Waldorf charge? Fancy
his saying to restaurant keeper:
Your dinner menu looks good. but I
must see if 1 can't find just as excellent
a little cheaper"
Not he!
He'll get the best If 1t takes all that he
But women mustn't do that!
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1iobt Your Cigar only Once.

The shoulders Of our Lady Nicotine need
be broad to carry all that is laid upon
them by the hereto. Here is the very
latest thing. man had smoked twenty
cigars a day for twenty years, when he
came to a painful end. That he did so
was straightway ascribed to his inordi-
nate consumption of tobacco. But this
man was a Frenchman. To begin with,
therefore, he may have smoked the
twenty cigars per diem for twenty years
and yet not have smoked any inordinate
amount of tobacco. Anyhow, they would
not have produced phossy jaw, and
attending this particular demise. Investi-
CATION established the fact that, though
deceased had smoked many cigars, he had
not smoked them well. He was always
letting them go out and relighting them
with the match of his country. He must
have used some millions of such matches.
A lurid light is throN upon his fate and
upon the method of the anti-tobaCconist.--
Poll Mall CIaZette.
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Curious Names of Kentucky Towns

The names of towns and villages in
Kentucky develop some queer facts For
instance, there is the long name, Nc
Goldricksville, and the extremely short
name, Ink. A few of the curious and un-
usual names of hamlets and country
neighborhoods l happen to recollect Just
now are: Tywhoppity, Ingierubber Pos
sum Trot, Frog Level. Dog Walk Bully
Misery Mount, Maiden Blush, Tipsey
Creek. Barlow Flats. Rabbit Hash, Rid
dlemerock, Redberryrock,- Ransom Free,
Buncombe Bog, Ubetyou, uno, Init. Dem
Rat'snest, Eighty eight, Sunset Salt
Creek. Ingomar, Limberneck. Chickory
Crick, Hickorynut, Holy Haunt, Tinkley-
turn, Tadpole Bank, Lovelyville, Batch
town, Chestnut Grove, Whangdoodlc
Whereaway, Crickmorecrack, Caesars
Coast, Liberty. Love. Mud Money. Gold
Buckle, Silver Dust, Goosebone. Beefburg,
Buzzards Roost and Tippletub.
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How Spanish Kings Are Mummifed

The body of the late King Alfonso XII
has been taken out Of the podridero, the
vault in the Eseurial Where the bodies
during thirteen years so that they may
become mummified.
The translation was done in accordance
with custom. The wall of the vault, which
had been raised on the day of the funeral,
was pulled down and the Marquis de AL
canices, majordomO, great friend of
Alfonso XII, and the Grand Chamberlain
of the Queen Regent escorted by the
whole community of Augustine friars of
the Escurial. with lighted tapers, pro-
ceeded in great ceremony to identify the
vault where the Kings of Spain rest, from
Charles V downward.
The body is in a perfect state of preser-
walton. 1t Is dressed in the uniform of a
captain general, with several decorations.
London Mail.
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Improved Order of Red Men.

Great Sachem Collins paid an official
visit last Wednesday night to Oshonee
Tribe, and on Friday night he went offi-
cially to Alfarate Council.
Montezuma Tribe will adopt seven pale
faces on Tuesday evening next.
The reports that are coming to the Of
flee of the great chief of records show tfat
there will be marked increase in the or
der for the year that is about closing.
Past Great Sachems Brandt and j. G.
order have gone to Fort Bragg. where
they will be entertained by the tribe AMI
council there. They will remain at that
place about two weeks.
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Proverb Applied.

The Sultan was perplexed. 'Ibn-el-
Yusuf," said he to his unofficial and most
confidential adviser, the Bashaw of Ala
are each Offering me the others head as a
gracious gift. What shall l do?"
There is a proverb among the Chris
tian dogs" said the adviser. that two
heads are better than one. e."-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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Daughters Of st. George.

Mesdames S. Slack, j. 3. Staples. NJ. A.
Henwood, Phebe Williams and Mrs r.
Meadows, the social committee of Britain
mia Lodge, Daughters of st. George, have
arranged an excellent programme for the
monthly social and dance % be given in
Union-square Hall on the night of the
9th inst. The committee promises a
most enjoyable evening to all who will
that evening be the guests of the lodge.
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boarding with Vnuk during their stay in
the city, and on Sunday nights they drank
and caroused all night. Vnuk was drunk,
it is thought, when he made the bargain.
The exact sum of money he got for the
The Italians left on Monday, buying tick
cts for Green Bay over the Chicago
Northwestern. The boy did not want to
go. but was forced to by the Italians. The
ficers of the Humane Society and police
are pursuing the Italians. The relatives
of HIS dead wife are pushing his prosecu-
ton. 1t is thought that the child will be
recovered.-Chicago Tribune.
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Oriental Ethics.

The Sultans eighteenth wife bade her
mportunate lover to be patient; she
would not listen to any proposal to steal
her away forthwith.
II was purchased on the installment
plan, she protested, firmly, "and it would
be wrong to remove me from the prem
ises before I'm paid for!'
What impresses the traveller most is the
refined ethical senses of those Oriental
persons.-Detroit Journal.
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Boston's Big Toy.

If you are lost in the South Union sta
ton, "ask a policeman" It's the biggest
show on earth, anyhow, and when the
next Christian Endeavor crowd visit
Boston they will rattle round in the place
Guides to the terminal are now in order.
Some enterprising person should get up
a compact little map of it, SO the public
will know where they are gong.-Boston
Herald.
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Aped MICHIGAN Couples.

The Quincy Herald claims that Mr.. and
Mrs. Wesley Lockwood of that township
are the oldest married couple in Southern
Michigan. They are 81 and SO years old,
respectively, and.sWere, married sixty-sx
years ago. The Herald must try again
In the town of Franklin, in this county,
are living John Main and Frances, his
wife. They have lived together as hus-
band and wife siXty-eight years, having
been married in 1890. The husband was
95 on the 22d day of May, and the wife
81 on the 21st day of September last.-Ad-
rian (Michl Times.
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pREYFUS WILL BE
LANDED AT NIGHT

PARIS, June ia dispatch from Cape
Verde Islands announces that the
French second-class cruiser Sfax, carry
ing Captain Dreyfus, has passed en-
route for Brest, where she is expected
before next Saturday. 1t is understood
Captain Dreyfus will be landed by night,
and that a special train will be in wait
ing to take him to RenneS, where the
court-martial is to be held.
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Dangers of Editorial Work.

"I was injured, ma am. by the bursting
of a magazine" said the wayworn tour
ist who was eating a cold luncheon in the
kitchen.
I'm the war;"
mo, ma am he answered. "In New
York City. The silent partner refused to
put up for 1t any longer. l was one of the
editors. Chicago Tribune.