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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-17
PLTYER FOLK
THROUGH THE
CRITICS EYE
CENTURY is a fine dramatic dis

4 CENTURY is a fine dramatic dis
N tance and Marie Antoinette, with
n her thrilling historical background,
figure In a thousand; wayward.
naughty, impulsive, frivolous, misguided
creature whose detractors outnumber her
admirers. To present her honestly a fine
balance must be struck and Clinton
Stuart cannot have found it an easy task
When sorrows came mot single spies"
she said herself that her destiny was to
make mischief. Let us hope not for the
playwright and star. Modjeska is ever
regal, and although Marie Antoinette was
but thirty-eight when she died art over
comes much. During the engagement
Mary Stuart" Macbeth" Much Ado
About Nothing and La Bataille des
Danes" preceded by one-act play,
"Gringoire,' will be presented.
Dainty Mollie Fuller and Frederick Hal
len of Hallen and Hart are two sounding
names on this weeks Orpheum pro-
Wifes Hero" by George Cohan and said
to be excellent. Then there are Terry and
Lambert, song specialists; Stinson and
tained are the Bachelor Club, the boys
band, Charley Case and the Crawford
sisters The latter have gained a certain
confidence and steadily improved during
the week The children go south more's
the pity. Little Arnold, at close range,
does not look ten. But indeed 1 am"
he said, "and when [ get my makeup off
/ look it, too!' Now there is fine com
bination of the boy spirit and the budding
professional. Success to them both
"The playbook tells me to weep-weep
copiously-but l don't wish to offend more
than is necessary and so l compromise
by glooming through The Wages of
SIM 2" said Eugene Ormonde mo. melo-
drama is not to my taste. Nor mine"
seconded Helen Henry. IT'S the limit.
But wait until next week Now there's
q good comedy Too Much Johnson is
what the professional calls a tricky play
with short speeches and indefinite cues,
suits are well worth being obtained on
no light conditions.
Preparedness is one Of the definite
charms of Salassa. Sucn a quality is
cheaply bought, whatever the expense
his beloved Italy. 1t may be of interest
to the musical student who recognizes his
worth as singer sto know that he con-
SiderS Paris, the present Mecca of many
a student, the last place to go for vocal
training. He and the orchestra divide the
so his opinion should carry weight. This
is the first time | have mentioned the
orchestra. 1t is the old story of "a joy
in Silence"-none the less deep for all
that. 'Lohengrin" and "Othello" hold the
boards another week;
Offenhach's 1.-The Drum Majors Daugh-
ter succeeds "Fatinitza" at the Grand
Opera-house and new scenery, popular in
terpolations and several surprises are the
promises
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON.
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"Cars stop here" this is the sign
The Market-st. Railway wish to define.
Pegamold Aluminium does it for them;
Opposite Call Bldg" It's gem.
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October styles Standard Patterns. the only
high grade, low priced seam allowing patterns
Domestic Office. 1921 Market St. near Sixth. =
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ORPHANS HELP ENTERTAIN.
Music and Song at Annual Reception
of the Maria Kip Orphanage.

The annual reception of the Maria Kip
Orphanage was held yesterday after
noon at the elegant orphanage home on
Lake street.
ing airs and the little ones contributed a
delightful programme of school songs.
Miss Carrie Gwin, Mrs. G. H. Bucking-
ham, Mrs. Sidney Worth and Miss Mamie
Heath acted as a reception committee
and extended to the large number present
the hospitality of the home.
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Seven Pines Circle.

Hats in original packages at 'Keith's, -
sos Market street, Phelan building.
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Advances made on furniture and pianos, with
or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1O23 Mission
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If you suffering with contracted atlment or a
weakness sapping the life from all parts
of your body and want permanent cure at reason
Market street.
Natural ability long years of practice in the cure Of
all ailments of men, falling remedies appliances
and methods capital and earnest endeavor have
kept these physicians in the front rank Of spec-
alists since 1881
DR. MEYERS & co. conduct the largest and best
equipped medical institution and have the most eXten
sive nractice in the They avoid the Of all
mineral, poisonous dangerous drugs and electric
beIts All their remedies carefully compounded from
the extracts bark, berries roots, leaves
plants etc. In their own private laboratory, WITH
OUT COST TO THEIR PATIENTS
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DANGER SIGNALS.
HOME CURES FREE BOOK.

Although it is preferable the patients in many
instances. 1t is not always necessary If cannot
write for private book, diagnosis sheets, free ad
vice prices other particulars Correspondence So
licted All letters confidential. No printing envel-
opes or packages indicate of sender Cures
sent by either mail express free from observation
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BETTER THAN A WRITTEN GUARANTEE.

natent deposit the price of in any bank in San
Francisco to paid after he is entirely we'll If
not convenient do this, payments may be made in
monthly fnsallments 1t requires confidence backed by
bility to such offer No other doctors will
undertake these conditions.
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country the vast possibilities Of trade in
the far East, few American machines
found their way into Russian territory,
and these only after being bought for
the German market, shipped to Germany
and from there sent along with German
goods into Russia. America had never
directly approached the Industrial market
in Russia or Siberia before
81 went to the consumer" Mr.. Friede
continued, Ito the consumer whom
knew would be a big consumer 1 knew,
there must be a great demand for rail-
way construction material, and it was
only a question of telling the consumer
that l had a better machine than he was
using, could deliver it sooner and give it
to him for a cheaper price than any other
country could. In addition to this, 1 told
them that we could turn out our goods
much faster than any foreign manufac-
turer, and no matter how large the order,
we could take care of it. AS for trans
portation, We are further away but we
have two ways of getting there, while
Germany and England have put one. We
reach from both sides. The usual way Is
Of course, by Ship from New York and
through Suez, but when must save
time, We send overland and ship across
the Pacific. I am paying hundreds of dol
lars for freight In order to getetrain loads
of stuff over to Vancouver Seattle, Port
land and San Francisco. From our Pa
ci1c ports the goods are taken to the
terminus of the Japan-Nagasaki line and
transhipped right into Siberia.
Forty locomotives are now on tn 1r way
and sixty more will soon follow. Ameri-
can steel rails to the extent of $4,000 tons
will be laid in Manchuria, and large or
ders are being filled here for electrical
supplies and materials for equipment of
cars and stations. Railroad cross ties
from Oregon tools from Ohio, steel rails
and locomotives from Pennsylvania will
make parts Of this great railroad and its
furnishings.
ITO what extent has America been able
to overcome the English and German
market"
an everything!" exclaimed Mr.. Friede,
"everything from nail to anything you
can think of in railway construction. we
have been able to sell in Siberia. We have
driven all competitors from the field.
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otherwise known as the imperial dia-
mond which weighed 100 carats after cut
ting 1t is remarkably beautiful stone, Of
a blush white color and f1awless. Strange
to say, this gem, then tho largest G.a-
mond of modern times, came to London
without a history. 1t was from one Of
the Kimberley mines, however, ard was
owned by London syndicate. AT ,er
ward it was dscertained that it had been
stolen by four men, three of whom lost
their shares In it at cards the very first
night after it came into their possession.
In 1891 the Jagersfonteln diamond was
discovered at one Of the Kimberley mines
1t weighed 81 carats, or nearly half
pound avoirdupois, and was three inches
long, one and one-half inches tn ok, and
two and one-half wide. A Kaff1r p cked
it up while he was loading cart With bile
clay, and, concealing it about his person,
gave 1t to the manager directly. In re-
turn he received $3.50 in cash, horse a. d
a saddle. The stone is valued at $2,00),-
600. 1t is blue white in color and fault
less except for a very small flaw in the
center. 1t was presented to the pope by
Dom Paul Kruger.
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pany's headquarters they are valued and
sold in parcels to local buyers, who rep
resent the leading diamond merchants of
Europe. The size Of parcel varies from
few thousand carats up; in one In
stance, q few years ago, nearly 100000
carats were disposed Of in one lot to
single purchaser. The stones are taken
to London to be cut.
Biologists think they know just how the
diamonds Of the South African fields were
made by nature The surface layer or
the earth Whereabouts was originally
that is to say, ages ago-a carbonaceous
shale, or in other words, kind OF rock
containing a large percentage of carbon.
AS everybody knows, carbon in its pure
state is the sole material of the diamond.
BY and by volcanic stuff from the bowels
of the earth was vomited up through
the shale, and the enormous heat thus
generated caused the carbon in the rock
to crystalize out IN the form of dia-
monds. So now, as a result, there is
vast body of blue clay, through which
gems are scattered like plums in a pud-
ding, and so evenly are they distributed
that 100 tons of the material can be count
ed on to yield about 100 carats OF the
precious stones. The deposits, appaf-
emily, are inexhaustible.
AN ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY.
AS IS usual in such cases, the discovery
of diamonds in South Africa was purely
accidental. A stranger 'trekking
through the country stopped over night
at the house of a hospitable Dutch farm
er, who showed him as curiosities some
bright pebbles found by his children,
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surface of the earth was worked, and
when the miners got down to the blue
clay, which later proved to be the true
matriX Of the stones, they imagined that
the deposits were exhausted. The Kim
berley mines now yield 100000 carats
annually, representing value of s25 ,000,-
0O0 Of which two-fifths is clear profit.
During the last quarter century they
have added to the worlds wealth ten
tons of diamonds, worth $500, 100000 un-
cut, and $500 600 after cutting
These mines employ 1900 Europeans
and about 5000 Kaff1re. Necessarily, the
utmost precautions hayo to be taken
against theft, and yet, notwithstanding
all preventive measures, the company
reckons a loss Of 10 to Is per cent Of it's
production in this way. The business Of
purchasing stolen gems occupies many
enterprising persons, and the methods
devised by the Illicit diamond buyers ex-
hibit an ingenuity worthy Of more
honorable calling. Laws framed to put
down this offense are exceedingly strict
so much SO, indeed, that presumption
of guilt is always considered as stand
ing against an accused person unless he
can prove his innocence-and sentences of
five to fifteen years are commonly i'm
posed in cases Of conviction. AS for the
thief, If caught, he is whipped with ex-
IRENE severity, or else set at breaking
rocks for term of years,
KAFFIRS PRACTICALLY SLAVES.
Exceptionally good wages serve to at
tract the Kaffirs to the mines, and for
the sake Of the high pay. they are recon-
ciled to certain conditions of servitude
with which white men could hardly be
induced to put up. These relate to the
precautions above referred to against
thieving Every evening when the Ia
borers come from the diggings they are
obliged to strip themselves to absolute
nudity and hang their clothes-usuaily
the latter consist of a breechclout mere
ly-upon pegs on the wall. Then they
are subjected to an elaborate examina-
ton, even their mouths, ears, etc, being
examined. From the examining room
they go to the quarters In the compound,
where they pass the night, blankets be-
ing provided for their comfort, and the
clothing they have left behind is cares
fully looked over. The latter they put
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THE MISSES BELL, rs Fifth Ave., New York City
THE MISSES BELLS TOILET PREPARATIONS
ARE FOR SALE IN THIS CITY BY
Mannheimer Bros, Sole Agents, StPaul, MINI.

She is civilizing China by industries.
Wherever Russia goes, rapid change
takes place Manchuria is awakening
from a sleep of centuries, and the whis-
tie of steam engines on railways and In
shops is a good alarm clock. 1t is plain
that England does not clearly appreciate
how rapidly the Russians are moving. AS
late as August of the present year
prominent London weekly, referring to
Manchuria and the transcontinental rail-
way, makes this statement: Those who
knew this corner of Manchuria In the
sleepy days when the Mandarins held
uncontested sway, will probably be very
much astonished when the curtain is rung
up by the present acting managers, and
the world is invited to send Its ships and
merchandise into the new Russian
ports" The English evidently believe
that they still have four or five years
before they need to worry about keeping
Russia out of Mongolia and Korea. The
United States is not striving for po-
litical foothold in China, but In mechanic
cal and mercantile affairs our people are
gaining a strong place in the far East.
Less than three years ago not single
American product was sent direct INTO
Siberia. Today American locomotives
pull American cars over American rails
which American tools have put into place
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TINS curious to note that before this
time Americas export trade with Russia
amounted to very little.

TINS curious to note that before this
time Americas export trade with Russia
AMOUNTED to very little.
II remember when first told the en-
gineers that America Gould supply nails
cheaper than England could" Mr.. Friede
went on, they laughed at me. At the
present time there are no other nails there
except the American. Then there was
the question Of England's supplying the
commercial iron. AS matter of fact,
this iron was ordered by me in this coun-
try afterwards. In the case of rails, Rus
Fia intended to supply these herself, but
found that her own mills could not turn
them out as quickly as they were needed
and America came in again. The first
order was for $4,000 tons. The joke Of 1t
was that the order was placed with an
American firm through an English agen-
cy."
How did you succeed in turning Rus
Sian attention our way?"
well, / took with me catalogues of
American material in railroad construc-
ton. I first told them what we could do.
They were not willing to believe me. They
would ask: How much Is so and So?
and Can you compete with England?'
They had no idea of America as an ex-
porting nation 1t was, therefore, not al
ways a question Of price, but Is there
such place in America where they can
really do these things?' The Russian idea
was that Americans were buffers. They
thought We Dragged lot, but could do
little To a Russian, America was known
as 'Yankeeland.' Even the word Yankee
is adopted into the Russian language, and
1t is the name by which an enterprising
man goes. They connected enterprise
with Yankee because they knew Of US as
inventors Of sewing machines, telephones,
monographs and wonders Of delicate me-
chanism. In the regular way of industry,
machinery Of heavy and powerful kind,
they did not think 1t possible that
America knew anything about manufac-
ture. When I offered them American boil
ers they laughed at the idea of America
making boilers. They were importing
boilers from England and thought that
boilers made outside Of England were not
worth anything. The English, by the
way, took advantage of this idea by
charging a good big price. When I came
into the market 1 offered boilers for
about half Of what the English manu-
facturers were demanding"
So strong prejudice did Mr.. Friede
find against American tools and ma
chinery that when he offered our goods to
the engineers he had to duplicate English
or German machines. In fact, much Of
the machinery was known only as Eng
lish or German. American machines were
said to be light-they looked well-and
could do strange tricks, but were not
massive.
What better proof" said Mr. Friede,
so emphatically that one could not help
sharing his enthusiasm and conviction,
what better proof is there for the SUI
per.ority of American machinery than
the fact that an American machinery
plant Is now being set up with complete
equipment in the capital Of Germany?
The facts speak for themselves"
Before Mr.. Friede opened up to our
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Why, what else could they do? We had
the building material, could sell 1t cheaper
and get 1t there quicker than any other
country Does that not speak well for
Americapxskill and industry? But l had
absolute confidence In our ability. l was
confident of success before 1 started. and
I was not bit disappointed.
"A great change Of feeling toward
America, as an industrial nation, took
place after the Introduction of American
tools and methods, and not few odd re-
suits. When the first rock drill was put
in operation, the coolies went on a strike.
1t was an American characteristic which
might better have not been introduced.
The natives thought dynamite a work Of
the devil. The Cossack guard, however,
not belonging to the coolie union, per-
haps, refused to join the strike, and after
tying up the road for three days the
frightened natives went back to work"
The other nations are waking up to the
fact that Russia Is the most active power
in the world. With the aid of American
methods and implements, she is complet-
ing her road years ahead of the time esti.
mated by the imperial engineers. Great
are the battles that are fought In time
of peace" and Russia is winning great
battles now. She is settling the Chinese
question in a new and energetic way.
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Thousands have tried from time imme.
mortal to discover sor1e eff1cacious rem
cdy for wrinkles and other imperfections
of the complexion, but none had yet sue
ceeded until the Misses Bell. the now
famous Complexion Specialists, OF rs Fifth
Avenue, New York City, offered the pub
lie their wonderful Complexion Tonic.
The reason SO many failed to make this
discovery before is plain. because they
have not followed the right principle.
Balms. Creams Lotions, ETC., never have
a tonic effect upon the skin, hence the
failures.
The Misses RelTs Complexion Tonic
has a most celebrating effect upon the
cuticle. absorbing and carrying off all i'm
rurities which The blood by its natural &C
ton is constantly forcing to the surface
of the skin. 1t is to the skin what vital
izing tonic is to the blood and nerves, a
kind of new life that Immediately exhil
afates and strengthens wherever applied.
It's tonic effect Is felt almost immedia tely.
and it speedily banishes forever from the
skin, freckles, pirnples, blackheads moth
patches, wrinkles liver spots, roughness,
oiliness. eruptions. and discolorations Of
any kind.
In order that all may be benefited by
their Great Discovery. the Misses Bell wifi,
during the present month. give 20 all
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they are cleaned by boiling them IN
mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and
then they are carefully sorted in respect
to size, color and purity. In one room
are kept on exhibition $4,000 carats, and,
as may be imagined, the spectacle they
afford is most striking. Beneath large
windows runs a broad counter covered
with sheets of white paper, upon which
are laid out ever so many glistening
heaps of diamonds of indescribable va
riety. They are of all shades, from deep
yellow to blue white, from deep brown
to light brown, and in a great variety of
blues, greens and pinks.
GREAT DIAMOND TRUST.
Only a dozen years ago the Kimberley
mines were worked as over 5000 separate
claims, each thirty-one feet square, and
separated from each other by narrow
roads for hauling the gem-bearing earth.
In 1898, however Cecil Rhodes brought
about a consolidation of all these prop
critics into a single corporation, which
now practically monopolzes the diamond
production of the world, with a capital
of SIS, 500 900. Two of the mines, the Du
Toits Pan and the De Beers, are the
mouth of the former being nineteen acres
in extent, while the latter has yawn of
thirty-fve acres. They are lighted by
electricity and the machinery used is of
the most ingenious and powerful descrip-
ton.
From the central shaft Of each mine
runs system Of galleries, at various
levels, like so2many burrows. in which
laborers dig Gut the demonstrating
earth and load it upon hand cars, the
latter being hauled to the surface with
the help of machinery. This earth Is
blush clay, and as fast as 1t is brought to
the light Of day it is spread out over the
ground. Being left thus for some weeks,
though hard and tough at first, 1t be-
comes friable and crumbly through eX-
posure to sun and moisture, and the pro-
cess is continued by going over 1t again
and again with harrows. When at length
1t has reached a satisfactory condition it
is loaded into hand cars and taken to
the huge washing machines, in which, by
means of running water, the precious
stones are separated from tAe bulk Of the
raw material. The machines are great
watts, containing centrifugal wheels by
which, as they rapidly revolve, the ma
terial is pulverized, the lighter stuff be-
Ing f1oated off, while the diamonds and
other heavy particles are concentrated
at the bottcm.
DIGGING OUT THE GEMS.
The concentrate, when removed from
the washing machines, is placed In moist
gobs on tables, where it Is sorted while
wet by white men and again after it Is
dry by Kaf1irs. The sorters work with
small trowels, and not a diamond the
size of a pin head escapes their notice.
Indeed, there is no great difficulty in this
task, inasmuch as such gems in their
natural state are by no means the dull
pebbles they are commonly described as
being. On the contrary, though not 30
brilliant as when cut by the skilled lapi-
dairy, they are very bright ans sparkling,
indeed. After being conveyedto the COM
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most interesting chapters in the history
of the railroad.
when I reached vladivostok,' said
Mr.. Friede, 81 found that the local en-
gineers would not listen to what they
regarded as wild stories of what America
could do in the line of manufacture Of
tools and machinery. The great Russian
engineer Iugowitch, was off In Manchu-
ria on his way to Sungari river. SO L
executed flank movement, went to New
chwang,mand by going north intercepted
the Russian party near the Sungarl river.
I found these men were willing to hear
what had to say. At that time every
thing was being supplied by England and
Germany English manufacturers thought
Russia had come to them and that no
other country could compete; and Russia
would have gone to them, as she had be-
fore, If I had not gone there and told
of the possibilities of America"
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which the latter used as playthings. The
visitor suspected that they were dia-
monds, and, being an honest man, sug-
gested the idea to his host, who, taking
them to the nearest city, sold them for
sufficient sum to make him rich for life.
Later on many valuable stones were
found in the gravels Of the Vaal and
Gong-Gong rivers, but it was not until
1870 that prospectors came upon the real
source of supply from which these acct
dental gems had been washed out by the
streams. Even then, only the yellowish