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The San Francisco call., 1904-08-21

which no determination was made
by the Alaskan tribunal. 1t passes
through a piece Of mountain country
Of no seeming value. even remotely,
to either nation. Until something
arises to make the land worth some
thing. which is rather improbable, no
attempt will be made to apply to Il
the principles agreed upon at the til
bunal
In certain respects boundary mark
ers have a harder task than any other
class OF workers who push out
through the unbroken wilderness. The
civil engineer who lays out a railroad
line is on the lookout for the easiest
possible course The route which
would have the fewest difficulties for
him to travel over would have the
fewest obstacles for the railroad.
When he comes into sight OF a region
which is impossible. by all human
standards. he steps one side and looks
for the next best stretch OF country.
With the boundary marker this Is DIFF
ferent He has TO follow the march,
ing orders Of the treaty which he is
to execute, and no matter where the
line which 1t describes in degrees,
minutes and seconds Of earth's meas
urement lies, he is expected to fol-
low. This makes his task one OF
the most serious that adventurous
man has to perform. He has to carry
boats, prairie wagons, mountain
climbing mules and a great variety OF
appliances for swinging chasms. seal
ing lodges and crossing streams. His
party must also keep communication
open with base Of supplies. almost
as much as an army. The tales OF ad-
venture Of this Alaskan party viii be
/ worth hearing.
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TALK OF THE TOWN
AND5E9R Or RHE
TlMEC ~
TIE Arigona Editor.

''You fellers on the big city papers"
said Judge Bradshaw yesterday. as he
carefully parted his long coat-tails and
pumped into an easy chair at the Pal
ace, has mighty little idea Of the COM
plex trials of Arizona editor. One
day 1 meets up with Hon. Tim Dacy,
who is editor Of the Casa Grande
Ruinator.
Hello says I. how air you?'''
I'm tired says Tim. I've had a
hard week. This editorial labor is
Wearln on me. FIR instance, on Mon
day sows a ten-acre patch to barley,
acts as Judge for the horse races at
the Territorial Fair and referees the
prizefght between Maguire's bartender
and that miner man from Bisbee.
Tuesday interviews a visiting Bishop
on The Ideal Rum Shop deals faro
bank for Shorty Harris, who gets shot
in the leg by Mexican, and reports a
banquet at Rosen's beer hall. Wednes-
day I takes my Sunday school class
out for a picnic and relieves DR.. Law
ton that night Of $3.50 by little skill
full poker playin'. Thursday 1 was
pallbearer at Hank Burrows funeral,
shaft; then 1 writes pome on him en-
titled oh. For the Wings Of q Angel
At night 1 lectured before the SorOsis
Club on Home Influence Among Mex
lean Section Hands, Friday 1 shOd
my team of mules, worked out my road
tax and delivered a grafton before the
Young Mems Henry w. Davis Demo
cratic Club. To-day built a barn for
my COW. traded a old saddle for a
pretty fair Winchester. repaired the
front of my real estate Office and
amt half done yet.
The worst of it Is, my editorial,
reportorial. composing room and press
room forces is down at Dolan's winning
money at faro bank and tapping up
whisky like road agent Chances air
they won't show up for a week. Ye
betchew I'm tired"
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Former Actress' Sad Plight.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL,
HENRIETTA STREET. COVENT
GARDEN, LONDON, Aug. Sad,
indeed, is the story of an American
woman now in sore straits in London.
A few years ago she was living in
luxury on Massachusetts, avenue in
Boston as the wife Of John p. Cush-
ing, grandson OF the old merchant
prince Of that name, who made big
fortune in trade with China. To-day
she is destitute. friendless and well
nigh distracted. after a prolonged
search for employment in almost any
capacity.
The unhappy wOman's story, backed
by all the necessary legal documents,
is TO the effect that her maiden name
was Laura Wolfe. At the age of Il,
when she was living in Brooklyn with
her mother and young sister Louise,
she was married TO Nat Ward, pro-
prietor Of a Brooklyn billiard hall.
She left him on the ground Of cruelty
and obtained a divorce from him in
1891, going on the stage and winning
q considerable reputation in ingenue
parts. She was with the Donnelly and
Girard Company in Natural Gas"
when she was wooed and won by
Cushing, to whom she was married
in 1894. The pair spent five years Of
unalloyed happiness in cruising about
the world in their yacht, the Corona,
with all the luxury that wealth could
command: but in 1899 loves dream
was rudely interrupted by Cushing's
sister Louise, whom she had cared for
and educated, so she says. According
TO Mrs. Cushings story, her husband
also wheedled away from her $4,000
which he had settled upon her.
The injured lady's suit for separa-
ton and alimony was met by an
assertion that her first husband had
never been served with the paper in
here suit against him for divorce, that
the divorce was not technically good,
and that the second marriage was null
and void. In the meantime, the first
husband, Ward, supposing that he had
been duly divorced, had married
again. The case was finally decided
against Mrs. Cushing in 1900, after
q long, hard contest in the courts,
and in consequence of the shock she
was III for the ensuing year from ner-
NOus prOstration. What little money
she had was soon spent and she was
forced to return to the stage, where
most Of her engagements were more
or less unsuccessful Her last ap-
pearance was with the Milton RoyIes
in Ny Wifes Husband" In the cir
cumstances, she observes, the name of
that play got on her nerves. Last
April, as a desperate resort she came
over 10 Europe in some vague hope
that she might obtain relief from her
Quondam husband. who has lately
been living with his mother, Mrs. John
G. Cushing, on their estate in Pau,
France. Her appeals to him were un-
answered, however and disappoint-
ment again broke down her health.
To-day her state is pitiable.
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store as if in doubt. 1t may have hap
pened, but l didn't notice it.
Th' saloon was opened in person be tn
Bishop | r-read his speech 1t was fine.
He recognized that dhrink was an ivil, hav-
IN met it. But it was a nicissry evil. On
TIL whole, he was inclined to think il was
more nicissry thin evil. Takin' il all in all
of half an half or anyway we liked, it was
good thing. He took his dhrink at tn
club, an why shud his more humble but
akelly droughty frinds anon tn wurrukin'
classes not have their souse as well? They
shud. He wud advise modhraton, how
iver. man be he sick or poor shud
niver take on more thin was good for him.
9Th manager iv tn saloon: "Or thin he's
good f'r) He accepted tn correction. If
he was savin' mechanic in this bright
land iv opportunity. he ought to be good
fr what was good f'r him. or more Wllin
poor wurrukin' man felt TIL insijous march
" tn brannigan he shud say: No, boys. no
more fr me. | mus go home to tn liz
vans. II need more ! can sind thin out
f'r it.. poor wurrukin' man shud niver
frget his family while on a carouse. No
amount iv sobbin' on tn neck iv bartinder
while tellin' what comfort wife an child
her was to tn inebrayated artisan wud make
amy difference. He mus get home some
time durin' tn night he is no thrue up
holder iv tn Christyan saloon an its re-
hnin' inhooence. His parcel shud be no
more thin that iv amy gintleman at a club
lest he be as tn beasts iv tn field who
don't dhrink. Boys. it's on me-
"An so. Hinnissy. tn model saloon was
opened. Th' arch deacon tapped fresh
keg, TIL vicar ginral tosses together a model
Christyan gin-hzz an tn good Bishop
smiled binivolently as tn hardy vistrynlen
quaffed tn nicissry evil. An whin tfl' dice
box was passed. did tn hand of the
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Marking the Boundaries.

Parties from the Coast and Geodetic
Survey are now at work in connection
with similar bodies from Canada In
marking the Alaskan boundary line
according to the determination Of the
tribunal which met in London last
summer. 1t will take several years to
complete the work, for the physical
difficulties in the way are enormous.
Some of the country is so boggy that
it can be properly covered only when
the ground is frozen, while for most
of the rest of 1t, especially the noun
tain section. only few months in the
summer are available. In addition,
there is a considerable stretch for
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An he done it. Firm what | can make
out about this model saloon it amt much
diff rent firm th' peaceable hell that I've
been conductin' f'r thirty years. Th' main
ingreejent iv amy rest cure is there on tn
shelves. They'se bar fr thin horny
handed sons iv tile who can sleep standin
an chairs an tables for TIL less hardy ruff
fyans that prefer to coal up in a settin'
posture. Th' bartinders ar-re affable an
sober men, but that's thrue iv ali bartinders
They are supposed, Hinnessy. to give tn
consumers brief moral chat while pushin'
out the paint Afther tn third basin it may
be nicisary fr thin to have an ilivinth COM
mandment handy in tn shape iv an ice pick
In corner iv tn imporryum is sody
wather fountain, so that tn poor wurrukin'
man don't have to dhrink tn DESTROYER If
he don't want to. but can go over an in
fate himsilf at tn gas wurruks Whin a
customer at TIL admin couther begins to
cry ever TIL Maybrick case, tn prelate in
command there steers him to TIL LIQUID air
department, where he does tn r-rest iv his
shoppin', charges himsilf with a pan 'iv
carbonic acid an floats home. This is to help
his hiccup, SO that his wifel know he has
not been idle. | understand this branch iv
tn plant hasn't had to hire amy extra help.
l h principal customers is Numbers iv good
governmint clubs disguised as poor wurruk-
in'Tnen III OF tennis clothes. Wan iv thin
was heerd to say that he didn't care whether
tn bar-boy made it an phosphate or a
vanilla strawberry mixed, as he did not
intind to go home till tn followin' day,
anyhow. Th' more permanent poor wur-
rukinman, TIL athletes in outing clothes iv
blue canvas, has thus far not Investigated TIL
model saloon beyond tn beer pump. An
now l come to think iv it can't raymimber
iver seem a poor wurrukinman sprintin' FIR
tn Dutchnans pause in front iv a dhrug
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Science. midicine, horse-shoein'. asthron-
omy, tn care iv tn hair, an tn laws iv
exchange, an tin knowledge | have iv how
to subjoo tn Affections " tn ladies wud
cause NANNY pang. l tell ye. we ar-re
fine body iv men. Bishops comm into tn
saloon business? In behalf iv tn Liquor
Dealers Lithry Club iv TIL Sixth Wa'ard. l
hereby challenge tn colledge iv Bishops to
a spell down.
Not that I'm proud iv the prohssyon or
shud say. me art? It's wan way iv maxim
a livin.' / suppose it was me vocation l
got into it first because | didn't like to
dhrive an express wagon an | stayed in 1t
because they was nawthin' else that seemed
worth while. | am not hard dhrinker.
find if | dhrnk too much | can't meet-an
doth intelleschool joynts that swarm IN
here afther a meetin' at tn rowlin' mills.
On Saturdah nights. l convivyal. On
New Years eve. thry to make til OF year
just as sorry it's LAWN me as | can. But
| have no more pleasure in shown over to
We that LIQUID sunstroke thin / wud if l had
to dole out collars. hair dye. books, hard
billed eggs, money or anything else that
wudden't be good for We. Liquor is not a
niccissery evil Hogan says it's wan wav
iy ra.alizin'th' .ideel. Th' mex day we're
ashamed iv ye'er ideel. TIL throuble about
it is that whin ye take it you want more.
But that's tn throuble with ivrything we
take. If we get power. we want more
power; if we get money we want more
money. Our vices r-run on f'rivcr Our
varchues, Hinnissy. is what me frind Dock
Casey calls. self-limiting.
But l must get back firm me lab-rtory
to Bishop Potter's. Will me frind succeed?
hope he will. We can't get too many
dacint men into our profssyon They'se
wan thing | would call me neighbor's at
tintion TO. Th' unbenighted American
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wtErukin' man likes his dhrink, as who does
not? But he wants to take it in peace. His
varchues has been wrote about. But let
him injye his few simple vices in his own
way, says /. He goes to tn saloon an ye
go to tn club mostly fr tn same reason.
Ye don't want to 90 home. He don't need
annywan to push him into a bar. He'll go
there because that's place where wan
mans betther thin another an nobody is
really on but tn bartinder. There ought to
be wan place where tn poor wurrukin' man
can escape bein' patted on tn back He
amt so bad, yeer grace, as ye think.
Wurrukin' men don't dhrink to excess.
Dhrunkenness is a vice iv tn idle Did We
iver see a la'ad sprintin' across a joist two
hundred feet in tn air? Dye think he cud
do that if he was free dhrinker? Th' on'y
wurrukinmen who dhrink much too much
ar-re thruckmen an that's because they have
so much time on their hands While they
ar're waitin' f'r load they get wan Aven
some iv thin ar-re sober Ye can tell thin
be their hats.
Somehow or another, Hinnissy, it don't
seem jus right that there shud be a union
iv church an saloon. These two gr-reat in
stitutions ar're best kept apart They kind
iv Offset each other like tn Supreem Coort
an Congress. Drink IS a nicissry evil,
nicissry to tn clargy. If they liver admit
it's nicissry to tn consumers they might as
well close uo tn churches. Yell niver fnd
Father Kelly openin a saloon. He hates
me business but he likes me He says
dhrink is an evil but I'm nicissity. If I
moved out worse man might come in me
place"
''Ye ra-aly do think drink is nicissry
evil" said Mr.. Hinnessy
We'll" said Mr.. Dooley, eff its an evil
to man, it's not nicissry an if its nieissry
it's an evil"
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potter shake? l don't know. Hinnssy.
But | do know til model saloon is
goin' TO be gr-reat moral in1ooence in
that neighborhood. Whin tn poor wurruk-
IN man goes home an thries to wind tn
clock with tn fox tarryer, tn good woman
turns to tn little vans an says: 'Childer,
see what a lovely bun father has got firm
tn Bishop An whin th' tired tiler wants
rayfrishnint at night, he calls: Mary Ann,
take tn pitcher an go down to til cathe-
dral fr quart I'd give something to
have what Hogan calls an impreematur
over me dure.
do | think it will be success? Well,
Hinnssy, it wudden't become me to speak
iv rival i'll me own line iv business
Bishop Potter an me ar're both Numbers
iv tn same flock, tn liquor dealers pro-
tictive ASSOCIATION. an in that fellowship
an injiry to wan is TIL consarn iv all /
don't know whether he has TIL qualifica-
tions fr d SUCCESSFUL saloonkeeper Not
that tn two lines is altogether apart Both
Bishop an saloonkeeper has a flock to
take care v but to certain extint. Hin
Missy we ar're each iv us thryin' to keep our
flock out iv TIL others hands. 1t amt vry
man that can be a Bishop, An it amt
ivrywan that can be a saioonkeeper. A
saloonkeeper must be sober. he must be
honest, he must be clean an if he's pastor
iv flock iv poor wurrukin' men. he must
know ivrything that's gon' on in tn
wurruld or iver wint on. l ony discuss TIL
light topics v tn day with ye, Hinnissy
because ye're a frivolous charackter, but
ye'd be surprised to know what an incyclo-
peeja man gets to be in this pro6ssyon.
Ivry man that comes in here an has three
pans iv nicissry evil tells me, with tears,
til secrets iv his thrade an offers to fight
me if I don't look interested. 1 know in
jineerin', pammistry, plumbin', Christyan
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llR DOOLEY ON THE MODEL S4LOON Bly, ERAR2JANEE ERAR2JANEE

XXI SEE" said Mr.. Dooley "a Bishop
down in New York has opened a sa-
loon"
Glory be-" said Mr.. Hennessy.
Not our kind iv Bishop"
'No," said Mr. Dooley. "Wan iv tn near
our-kind He didn't really open it tn way
We think He don't own TIL jint. He on'y
backs it with his moral infoonce, like a
brewery. Ye see, it was this way. Wan
day this Bishop dhropped into his club. 1
don't know why it is that we always say
man dhrops into club He's more likely
to dhrop out If he amt supported. But,
anyhow, tn Bishop dropped into his club
an hurlin himself into sumchuous arm
chair opened his brewery an settled down
to wait Pr tn evenin' pa-apers. AS he set
there with his feet cooked up on a chair,
readin' his devotional book an occasionally
divin' into tn milk punch, he says to him
silf: This IS rale comfort. A club is a gran
place Suddenly tn thought sthruck him.
What says he, am / doin' fr TIL poors
Here am I loungin' In comfort in me club.
Has th' poor wurrukin' man club? Not at
al. lie has no club but tn wan tn police
men carries. Thin where does he spind his
time between 4 O'Clock in tn afthernoon an
8 o'clock dinner? In tn saloon. Th' saloons
/ r-read about where tn poor wurrukin'
man bugs a shell iv beer, ates four dollars
gorth iv free lunch an goes home and beats
his wife, or vicy versy, as TIL case may be,
Is no place for him. I will start a model
dive where me humble mechanic frinds iv
tn slums can take their karosine amid COM
Portable surroundin's, chat with their fel-
low juggiers on tn issues iv tn day an go
home iiivated in ivry sinse iv tn wurrud,' he
says.
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PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS.

~ AKI-AND is about to pioneer in the most impor-
1 tant matter that American munich
- paltes. The bond issue proposed in that city for
long needed and highly beneficial public Improvements
is handicapped by advocates of public ownership
of public utilities who desire hold the cys credit
intact for the purchase of such utilities. To this
and placate all parties Councilman John L. Howard
has introduced into the Council measure looking to
the securing of authority from the State issue bonds
for the purchase of public utilities, and basng the bonds
the plants acquired leaving the credit and general
fund of the city unmpared the purposes
OF government and extend the admirable system of pub
lie Improvements proposed by the bond issue that is
pending.
Mr. Howards proposition separates the two issues and
keeps them separate 1t will give Oakland the leader
ship of policy that has been widely discussed in this
country and in Europe. and which places the public
utility policy of municipalities entirely new and
better basis.
1t is believed that the purpose sought by Mr. Howard
be accomplished without amending the constitution
of the State. But if that have to be DONE is more
than worth while do it, for the sake of the relief that
it will be the credit and general fund of cities which
may be inclined experiment with public ownership.
1t in opinion the only method by which just and
intelligent business policy in administering public owned
utilities be secured and the advocates Of public
ershp who without prejudice the subject the
standpoint of wel-matured judgment will surely see
their way support this safe and enlightened policy by
which the of the public plant will pay for it, and
the public credit will remain intact matter what may
happen to the public plant.
Surely Oakland is awakened and feels the impulse OF
leadership, and from this awakening great things
be expected from that city.
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Music in the Park.

The Golden Gate Park band, under
the leadership of Paul Steindorff. will
render the following programme to-
day:
PART L
~Star spangled Banner" National anthem
u. s. A
tIhe audience Is requested 70 arise and re-
main standing during the rendition Of this
number.)
March. intermezzo. ''EIatunka''
=, --.-- Lee Orsan Smith
CN~t Iu4ss Dd4lpd s..---s- Harold
Waltz. Jolly Fellows" .............. VoIlstedt
Solo for cornet Schubert's "Serenade''
..-....' -............D. G. ROsebrook
PART II.
Overture. Morning, Noon and Night IN
Vienna ................. sum.
Cb) Toy march from Babes IN Toy
ldLQ -.----.s--- Herbert
= ms --SlS '-'s .A1uQera
Ballet music IN William TeIT' '..... .Rossini
Caprice. Awakening OF the Lion" ...
America"
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The defeat of the Vladivosok squadron and the un-
merciful walopng of the Port Arthur feet should be
accepted by Russian strategist nothing than
unmxed blessing to the empire. Japan is really assist
ing Russia to get rid of many expensive and apparently
useless toys Besides this the little brown are COM
ing the of bunch of Slav naval regulations
by diminishing the number of huiliatng defeats with
few splendid annihilatng engagements.
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such that it impossible for population live here
sufficient justify the expense of keeping fort at this
placeP In 1893, seventy years later, Chicago where
that fort stood. had population of million and a
half, and 100000 visited her Columbian exposition"
That conclusion is, of course, cheering Europe and
American will grudge the benefit that may follow the
discovery of and capacities in the nations
the But it must not be forgotten that they
have been under the touch of civilized for ages and
that he has time and again been put his mettle in
searching for sustaining resources, put him now,
and there cannot be much to find.
Americans will be especially interested in noting
conclusion of this observant Frenchman, that have
only the and industrial discipline but that
prevent their waste by system of tariff, de-
nounced in quarters robbery"
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young man, versatile enough to include highway
robbery among his accomplishments, wept bitterly in
the other day when he sentenced to pursue
his for reasonably long time a convict in
San Quentin penitentiary If the inspired by
reflection they justified tardy. If they
provoked by chagrin they should be held the sign
of Of the few trumphs won by unoffendng
public the dastardly and cowardy of thieves.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-21

In proroguing Parliament King Edward referred
feengy and with qualification his political mission
Tibet One of the significant most distress
ing evidences OF nations decline is the tendency to
words that soften ugly fact modify an unwe-
condition that has crept into national life The ac-
tvty of the British in Tibet nothing to the world
political mission"
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-21

ON LEASED LAND-C, city. n
the question asked refers to the build
ing Of house on leased land. what
shall be done with the house at tia
expiration OF the lease depends upon
agreement reached at the TINA Eha
lease Is executed.
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Time to Quit.

Al the unveiling ceremony of the
famous Bartholdi statue the clergy
man who offered the opening prayer
was inclined to spin out his petition.
General Sherman was sitting beside
him, and at length, quietly putting out
a hand, he pulled the reverend gentle
man by the coattails gently back into
his seat. When asked about the incl
dent the general cooIly replied:
Il thought he'd told God about all
he wanted to know for one time, and
others were waiting their turn at the
public. August Lippincott's.
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AnSzUerS TO Queries.

RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS p.
H, Yuba County, Cal. The salary Of
a railroad commissioners IN California
is $4,000 per annum.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-21
The LuckIeSs Constellation.

Seemingly strangely out Of place
among the steam and steel fighting
machines ell about her, the old frigate
Constellation lies in dry dock at the
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-21

Townsend's California Glace fruits IN
artistic fre-etched boxes 715 Market ST.
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Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men By the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen' -. $50 CAL
tfornia street. Telephone Main 1042.
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Neuralgia is said to be successfully
treated in Italy by the use Of blue
light.