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The San Francisco call., 1904-10-10
PHILADELPHIA GIRL WILL
NOT WED TITLED FOREIGNER
Miss Sellers Prefers Clinton BidwelI of
Pittsburg to Baron Franz Ed
ward Won Hertz Chenbereer.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. s.-Society is
discussing the engagement of Miss
Sellers, daughter of the late David
Sellers. to Clinton Bidwell of Pittsburg.
BY the announcement it became known
that Miss Sellers had refused Baron
Franz Edward Won Hertz -Chenberger.
captain in the Royal Guards of the
Australian empire.
Miss Sellers met the Baron in London
about year ago. They were frequent
ly seen together, and when the Baron
followed Miss Sellers and her mother to
Berlin society believed it would hear of
another international engagement.
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nowaeer Empress III.

LONDON. Oct. 10. - Seriously
broken down by her Red Cross labors.
the Dowager Empress Of Russia has
been confined to her bed since her ar
rival here.
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COMPEL JAPANESE TO DO OUR WILL"


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in nnndt the of
more
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PRAYERS OF ALL RUSSIA FOR SOLDIERS.

Our
the defense
confded.
The usous head Of the Russian fatherlan
o task
nation to the end without sparng lives
The will
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Russians Begin Forward Movement and Break Japanese Line BnsuZe

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THE WEATHER


Forecast made at San Francisco for
thirty hours ending midnight. octo-
Der 10:
San Francisco and vicinity-showers
Monday; brisk southerly wind.
c. H. WILSON,
Local Forecaster Temporarily in
charge).
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THE THEArERs.

ALcAzAR-'Lord and Lady Algy."
CALIFORNIA-''The Tenderfoot."
CENTRAL-"She.''
CHUTES-Vaudeville
COLUMBIA-''The Office Boy
FISCHER S-"Down the Line
GRAND--The Burgomaster.
LYRIC HALL-''Much Ado About
Nothing
MAJESTIC-"A japanese Nightin-
gale
PHEUM-Vaudeville
TIvOLI-''Der Rastelbinder"
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to the charm and clevernes5 of their progeny to take with them the older peo- pie. who have plenty of wealth. but who from laziness or from lack of understand ing have elected to lead life quite out side any of the amusements and festivi- ties which prove so fascinating to those people who find in social life everything that is delightful.
 Social Future of Children.
 There are few people, men or women, who are so case hardened by the exigen- cies of social life that they take no in- terest in children, and who have not the desire that their boys and girls may be prominent socially. They may say in their heart of hearts that they care not for society, that they dread its influence, and that home life in its highest develop ment is all that is requisite for the young girl or the young man, and yet there is not one of these same parents who does not read with avidity and delight the names of their children enrolled among the children of other people much more fashionable than themselves and making friends with the mammon of unrighteous- ness.
 The principal of one of the fashionable schools of this city, a keen observer of human nature. has really been of inn mense service in launching socially the children of rich but unknown parents She has kept her lists exclusive, or nom inally so, and has let it be understood far and near that the lists are exclusive
 The names of one or two fashionable people as patrons secured her the nu- cleus from which she builded. well and which yielded her goodly fortune and the children an immense amount of ad- vancement. The classes of few girls,
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ed out, too. and 10 niattet how Charming man or woman is whom you may meet you must not invite him or her to the house unless the social secretary gives her sanction"
 But" said the younger woman. "sup- pose I like the people I meet. Am not to have any choice of my own in the matter? Am I to be hopelessIy swayed by the opinions of others?"
 Absolutely, my dear. if you wish to make a business of society. In a year at the best, in two years at most, you can take the reins in your own hands. For the present moment you have got to put away from you all thoughts of personal interest in friends or acquaintances, or even relatives. If your private secretary does not approve of your father and mother then 1t would be better for your father and mother to remain in the cotin- try and, above all things, not to make themselves prominent. It is a hard road and long one. It Is for you to decide whether you think the undertaking Is worth while. In the open at the top there Is much that is enjoyable. The question Is whether the long uphill, hard road will be forgotten when you reach the summit of your desires and whether the heart-burnings you twill have to encoun- ter are worth the friendships and ac- quaintances you will make.
 There are charming people-the most charming, perhaps, in the world-among those who have already arrived, but en route you will probably lose sight of old friends and tried friends, and 1t Is for you to decide whether the new is better than the old. No one 'can decide for you. but remember that once having started you cannot turn back without losing what you never will again be able to take up
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for you to kowtow and with whom you should be proud and naughty. will en- gage the secretary for you, and you need not be afraid to trust her implicitly.
 At the same time make a mental res- ervation that you must tell her no more about your private affairs than you can help, because she has other duties of the same sort. and there have been known instances where social secretaries have made just bit of mischief. Aour social secretary will at the same time be your social mentor, but she cannot introduce you into society. She can steer your way. and in fact be captain of your boat, but not pilot.
 You must afficher yourself as soon as possible with some woman who is well born., a social favorite, good looking ana amusing. who will stand sponsor for you and who for the time being will make you her intimate friend. If you were an older woman I would strongly advise your having a man for a social sponsor, but there is always danger of gossip in that, and for the first year you cannot afford to have any gossip about you what ever. If the social sponsor has some man who will be always on hand and who will introduce to you eligible men not eligible from a matrimonial point of view, but from a purely social point you will make great headway.
 For the first six months 1t would not be wise for you to give any entertHn- ment of any size. Nothing Is more fatal for a newcomer than an entertainment at which enough guests are not present. You must bide your time and never give any sort of entertainment at which you are not sure of having enough guests. Your secretary must keep your list weed
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The future of children is a serious one. but the question of parents is even more so when an entrance into society's sacred precincts is the aim and ambition of family. There have been instances, and many of them, where a father or mother has been of incalculable benefit to the children, but there have been other occasions, still more numerous, where a father or mother has been a terrible de- triment to t-.e success of a son or daugh- ter.
 The race suicide question has much more bearing on social life than it is probable President Roosevelt had any idea of when he started the theory on its mighty career. Large families have sometimes pulled a father and mother and the entire family connection into cir cles of such exclusive and charming qualities that the parents with one child could never by any chance hope to enter. On the other hand, one child has often been known to help a father and mother along where large brood of hopelessly commonplace boys and girls would have swamped for all time a most charming father and mother with strong yearnings for social success.
 Parents in the rough may generally be looked upon as advisable-certainly for the tender years of a child's life. Parents in the rough, when the tender years of childhood are over, are terrible detri- ment. which the modern child fully rec ognizes and quickly determines to ignore. Children are a joy and delight to many would-be fashionable folk, who see in them not only their own offspring of whom to be proud. but also possible pio- neers into life which they themselves have never entered, and they trust much
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ally safer than small ones, but this is also question for discussion. With family of six or eight there generally are two or three who succeed. In family of one or two the work is harder, but, on the other hand, nothing Is more desirable for a newcomer than not to have rela- lives. Parents are permitted, if kept in the background, but brothers and sisters are apt to be an insuperable barrier. Now, however, each member of a family rec ognizes that to interfere with brother s or sisters success is crime, punishable by social oblivion. In planning over the ground for eo- cial campaign the following conversation took place, and, be 1t understood, It's planning was simply and entirely a bus mess affair, with much to commend it.. The women who had the subject at heart were we'll born and we'll bred; compara- tive strangers in New York and eminent ly fitted to occupy the position for which their hearts craved, but lacked proper instruction, and were furthermore handi- capped by an old fashionedyfeeling of de- licacy, of not wishing to go where they were not wanted.
 Arranging an Attack.
 The social mentor to whom they poured out their troubles is woman well known in society, whose position has nev- CT been questioned, and who represents all that Is best in the said society. The younger of the two women who went to her for advice wished to know how she was to begin her attack-for so she laughingly put it-upon the set of people with whom she hoped to become identi- l fled.
 Am to call upon them first or am to wait for them to call upon me? Shall
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and those few most carefully chosen from among the ranks of the leaders. have proved a very clever piece of general ship. The children have advanced. some times taking along their parents, oftener leaving the parents behind.
 The American parent is a strange mix lure of selfshness and unselfi6hness. 1t may be said of native common sense as well. The shrewd Yankee, or Southerner, for that matter, who knows that his for tune is quite sufficient to pay all the re- quired costs of social life for his chill dren, and who often recognizes perfectly well how impossible it is for him or his wife to get in, will sacrifice himself-and. naturally, his wife-and expend every thing possible besides money in pushing his sons and daughters into the ranks where he never has been himself.
 Sometimes the offspring of such stock are strong enough mentally to carry with them the father and mother; oftentimes, and more often. they are not. Thus the parents are content to stand by and see at least one of their name enrolled where they themselves fell by the wayside. Children as a Social Medium.
 Children gain introductions for parents more often than parents gain introduc- tions for children. School, dancing class acquaintances and college acquaintances will not only make the young people known to one another. but of necessity the parents, and in this way strangers to society have often entered in, sat down and made themselves at home. whereas the parents Introduction to other par entsa usually sufficeth little in pushing the girl or boy who craves for social life.
 It is said that large families are gener-
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FOUR-FOOTED PETS
ALMOST ANY KIND OF ANIMAL MAY FEE FOUND ON
 BOARD SHIP.
Not Often on American Vessels, But Britishers Take to Them--After Long Voyages ths Latter Are
 Floating Menageries.

Washington Star.
 A ahip on a long voyage without animal sets of some sort is like home without a baby. There is something missing. Like ba bies. they may disturb the peace, but their absence leaves a sense of incom- pleteness I once sailed on a ship where a monkey kept us in continuous trouble. He stole our biscuits. upset our sugar jars. dipped his paws in tar pots, then wiped them on our drying wash! tied troublesome knots that We couldn't un- do. and deposited all sorts of foreign substances in the cooks flour bag But when that monkey was lost overheard one day we never thoroughly got over that sense of something missing. We should have been infinitely cheered hy finding his hand prints on our clean white shirts.
 The character of a ships pet is usually determined by the ports she sails from. American ships seldom allow their men to have pets at all. but almost all of the British ships that sail the seas have tame animals aboard varying from cats to crocodiles. Some of these Britishers to- ward the end of long voyage, become veritable menagerics.
 Pet tigers are not unusual aboard East Tndiamen. In Calcutta, or Rangoon. bum with tiger cubs at guinea a head. But not all shippers will stand for domesti. cated tigers, unless they are very small The chances are that before the end of the voyage they will cause trouble
 In the streets of Calcutta you may be wandering quietly along in a day dream
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l bottles of fire extinguishing fluid. Tommy
 would sit on the cork of one bottle. hold fast to the neck of the other with his feet and lovingly cuddle up to his reflsc- 1 tion in the glass, kissing 1t most fervent- ly and closing his eyes in ecstasy
 Of evenings we would all gather around
 our community of pets and watch them
 in social intercourse. On these occasions we kept Jenny locked up, as she always
 gave an atmosphere of impending trou-
 ble to these meetings. which were none
 too peaceful without her.
 But one day this happy state of affairs
 was brought to a sudden end. Jimmy,
 the mischievous sprite of the outfit, a
 little blackfaced fellow. belonging to the
 sergeant, brought disgrace upon himself
 and the rest of us by venturing into for
 bidden domain-the captains cabin. We all heard about it soon enough. He
 got on top of the captains desk and
 became interested in the logbook Wheth-
 CT from editorial dlsapproval or simply pure mischief we never knew, but he de- liberately tore out whole pages from the logbook and also dipped his paws into the inkwell and then ! smeared out entries of entire days. This
 was all. otherwise he did no harm, It
 was just his attempted revision of the | logbook that brought on the storm. Next | day the whole colony of monkeys Jenny Tommy and Jimmy included, were sent ashore and. sorrowful and petless, we disconsolately watched them go
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send the letters of introduction have brought with me or shall give some en- tertainment and invite the people to whom I have letters of introduction
 The old lady assured her that to begin with she must play a waiting game. Let ters of introduction are just a bit passe, :" she said. People are too busy to call, and you must needs make yourself known in some more general fashion. will give an afternoon reception for you, sending out my own cards and enclosing one of yours. You will then be either called upon by the people to whom cards have been sent (there is very little pros pect that they will take the trouble of coming to the tea), or they will send cards or invite you to entertainments of the same enlivening character. You must be seen at all the entertainments to which you are bidden. You must return the cards by a call, and you must be pa tient. It is a waiting race, but one Sl which you will eventually win out. You must provide yourself with a secretary at once"
 For heavens sake" the youngest wo man replied, what do want with sec retary? have not notes enough to write to keep myself busy, and can at least attend to my own correspondence and the returning of cards and such small trifies.. It would be something for me to do''
 Utility of the Social Secretary.
 No. my dear. such thing would be preposterous. You must be known to have a social secretary and, furthermore that social secretary must be some gem tlewoman who has lost her money but retained her social place, and who knows who is who and to whom it is necessary
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human babies. We kept them aft as much as possible, away from the officers quarters, where they congregated in Q lively, chattering community.
 Each monkey had an individuality dis tinctly different from the rest. Few peo- pie have seen monkeys together in num- bers and know how strikingly marked is the individual character of each one. Some were fighters and self-assertive, some were timid. some were sentimental. some sullen, some cheerful and fond of jokes. and some were thoughtful.
 My monkey soon became famous-or mo- torious. rather-as the bruiser of the com munity. She-for 1t was a female mon key-spent her entire time of wakefulness in slouching about the deck hunting trouble. Her presence WAS always an- nounced by short. rasping coughs that struck terror to all the other monkeys and sent them scampering. When Jenny. as we called her. would come swinging down some rope or backstay. or around some corner. her shoulder hunched up. her long arms swaying and her small fists doubled up Nor did she draw any sharp lines between men and monkeys.
 One night the bos'n sat in my roen when Jenny's cough sounded in the open window. She leaped down to the wash stand whence she reached up and laid claim to the bos'n's cigar. Of course the bos'n refused to part with his smoke, whereupon Jenny gave him a resoundlng slap across the cheek. This so rattled the bosn that he dropped his cigar. and a minute later Jenny disappeared out of the window with her prize. Whether she smoked 1t or not we never knew, but her sense of morality never deterred her.
 Then there was little Tommy. He was small chap and belonged to my watch mate Tommy was the sentimental mon key. No matter who came near him ke would put his arms around his neck. and closing his eyes, lean his little head on the mans shoulder. For every monkey who would let him he showed a similar affec- tionate regard.
 Above my washstand was a looking glass under which. in a rack, were two
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"I say" roared the captain through a megaphone. whats the row aboard?"
 No answer from the schooner's crew. who were busy aloft dodging swinging ropes. Only Johnny on deck answered. He reared up over the rail and baa-ed like a sheep. He wanted the revenue cutters captain to come over and be loved.
 Schooner ahoy" roared the revenue cutter officer again. "I say, who's in command there?"
 This time my shipmate. who was the helmsman who had sought refuge in the mizzen rigging, round time to answer the hail:
 Captain Johnson was-Johnny is now. :"
 Poor Johnny. Disappointed at the lack of sympathy that he met on all sides, he finally crawled down the booby hatch It may be that the stores down there, espe- cially the molasses barrel, had something to do with 1t, but, anyhow, with a last reproachful look aloft he dropped down to play with the molasses. Then the cap tain rushed out, jerked the hatch cover to and left Johnny prisoner, while the ship was brought back to her course The revenue officer came aboard with some men and helped bring Johnny back to his shackles at the mainnlast. but he l came cheerfully. ofering to rub his sticky snout in everyone's face. The molasses barrel had reciprocated his love A case where pets possessed themselves or snip, althoukh not quite so forcby as Johnny did. came within my own ex- perience When the United States trans port Aealandia arrived in Manila in 1898 with the 10th Pennsylvania aboard the hatiVes swarmed around with all sorts or things for sale, but principally mon- keys Every soul aboard at once became possessed with burning desire to own a monkey, so all that the natives had and could get were brought aboard Every day the monkey population increased by two or three. until at last they numbered almost hundred. We were allowed tu Keep them so long es they did no harm and Kept out of the captains cabin. | There were monkeys of all sizes-some no larger than kittens. others az big as
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A PLEASANT SURPRISE.
In Store for Those who Doubt.

When you read that a sufferer of many years standing has been completely re-
 stored to health by using Smiths Cure- all, you are inclined to doubt the states ment, and, in fact, have m belief in n whatever. The reason for this is that so much is claimed for the Cure-all it is ] impossible for anyone to bGiievo ir: #
 the advertiser confined his claima to the curing of one disease, As do the propric- | tors of Pyramid Pile Cure, readers would have much more faith in published .es- | tfmcnials Those familiar with this
 great remedy knew that testimonials as | 10 its merit may be relied upon implicitly. also that the cures brought about by it's
 use are little short of m@rvelous.2 The Renuineness of the tsstin1 sniaI here given Is vouched for and Is cut 5ns of thous- | ands received;
 T wish to write you an5 tell you what your Pyramid Pile Cure has done for me.
 have been troubled with piles for the
 past five years and used every remedy
 that was recommended 10 me. While
 some would give me relief tor q while
 they never have cured. I was SC had
 this summer I could net get up or Gown
 without pain; could not attend tc my household duties. Finally I got S)-esng box Of Pyramid Pile Cure at the drug. gists and it Is new twc msnrhs since I used the last of the box. an6 have had no trouble since. I can say it Is really and truly a good remedy.
 T am so thankful l tried it aS I know 1t has cured me and if a; any time I should have any such trouble again would use it at once. Since I am cured I have recommended 1t to my friends. whom know to be afflicted as I was. and I know they will use 1t too 7 am 90 thankful I ever learned of your cure Mrs. F. Hut. Ae0 2nd Street, Grand Rap ids, Mich.
 Pyramid Pile Cure is sold by druggists for fifty cents Pcckase. ar will be Inaalea to any address upon receipt of pFice hy Pyramid Drug Co., Marshall. Mich. WKisa this firm for their book describinx the cause and euro of piles. su-wsa
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when suddenly you are startled by the eyes and snOut of small crocodile being thrust under your face.
 Five rupee. sahib. Five rupee. very cheap, sahib." says the turbaned faker holding out the reptile.
 Invariably Jack will buy, if he has his months advance still in his pocket A fine present for the kids at home. he thinks: so he carries it aboard in a box of sand
 Polly Caused a Commotion. Parrots are proverJially known as sall- ors' nets. I was once shipmate with a most uncommon parrot. He was of the South Africa slate coored variety. l have heard it said that his species never learns to talk well, but this particular one learn ed to express himself in nautical English only too well. lie was at first allowed tha freedom of the ship and in fine wealth CT he roasted on top of the foTecastle. | Rut the great trouble was that during the still nights. when all hands were peace fully slumbering on the hatches, this parro1 would dream that the command ot the shin had been turned over to him. We would have been quite content to let him dream himself the emperor of India. but the trouble was that he gave voice | to his delusions of walking the poop
 All hands-weather fore brace" This was the order that startled us one dark night. As soon as we had rubbed the
 sleep out of our eyes We could plainly see that there was no need for squaring in yards, so We growled We crawled
 up in line to weather the fore brace.
 Look sharp there fellers,' continued the voice sharply. Sleepy as We were
 We still thought this an authoritative command. But when the voice suddenly
 bawled out: Pump ship-reef the lower topsails." We paused and felt surprised.
 Just then the omcer of the watch came
 running ford.
 whats all this row here fOr?' he de- manded irritably Who's this giving or ders?"
 Merrily we're rolling home-rollng home-rolling home"