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The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23

Two bridal events will go on record to-
day, the first being Of widespread1ng IN
terest. Miss Josephine de Gusgne ana
vicomte Philippe de Tristan Will be mar
ried at IL o'clock in the Catholic cnurcn
at San Mateo the ceremony to tncluoe
onIv those OF near relation and intimacy,
though a small reception will follow at
the De Guigne home. haywood MISS
Marie Christine de Guigne will serve as
maid Of honor to her sister
Miss Charlotte Lally and Arthur Kelley
of Oakland will wed this evening AT
O'Clock at the st. Francis. This VIII Dc
notable to both the leading bay cities, 1or
the bride has a large contingent OF
friends on each side. Attending VIII Do
Miss Marion Lally, maid of honor. WITH
Miss Muriel Kelley, Miss Katherine kutz'
Miss Norma Castle and Miss Evelyn Hus-
sey, bridesmaids, all of whom, Win .no
execution of the maid of honor, will De
gowned in white. Miss Marion Laiiy 70
wear delicate pink. Rev. MI stone OF
the Unitarian church will omciate IN ,ne
presence OF sixty guests, VINO are aiso
hidden to the reception which will follow.
Piedmont will be the future home Oh tne
young couple.
The recent marriage of Miss Daisy Dem
ing will surprise and interest many resi-
dent In San Francisco and sacramento
the bride being well KNOWN III DOlA S4~oo'
Her wedding with DIR. Mahoney look
place quietly In Lorraine. Ohio. where Dr>
Mahoney is rector of one Of the Episco-
pal churches Mrs. Mahoney Is the
daughter of the late Theodore Deming Oh
Sacramento and niece OF the late Mrs.
Charles Crocker.
Mrs. Schwan MARY Deming) has nved
In New York ever since her marriage
and Miss Ella Deming went to New York
a few months ago, dividing her time De-
tween the households of Mrs. Schwan ana
George Crocker.
DIR. and Mrs. Mahoney will return 10
Lorraine at the close of brief wedding
trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook Blinn left 1or
Brooklyn yesterday morning, where
Mr. Blinn will rehearse his company
in THE Duchess of Dantzig. The hrst
production will mark the opening OF
the new Montauk Theater.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A Vail leave
tomorrow for an Eastern trip to ex-
tend over two months During their
absence they will visit Chicago. New
York, Boston and Washington
Miss Evelyn Grifitts of Sacramento
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killed. He left large estate
Then there came down from the hills
young Edward Wicton moonshiner.
Matilda Jane would listen to no other
suitor. but married the handsome
young moonshiner.
One day a posse of "revenuers." as
the mountaineers call them, raided the
Wicton cabin Edward was away from
home, but his sisters attacked the
officers and were fighting them when
Edward appeared. He stood behind a
tree and, Killed two officers and
wounded one or two others. until they
returned his fire. and then young Mrs.
Wicton went buck to her old home,
once more a widow
She ..arkened to loves song when it
was warbled by Andrew Lowman. Two
years rhey were happys together. and
Andy was gathered to his fathers.
She then welded Nat Lowman, brother
OF Andy One day Nat took his ak to
the mountains to chop wood. At mid
night he had not returned. and Ma
tilda Jane went to search for him.
When she found a huge tree lately cut
down she looked under iteand there lay
her husband. crushed to death.
One wear after her fifth experience
of widowhood Manuel Hudson came to
the house, and after a short courtship
they were married. Hudson was a lob
byist and would go to Frankfort when
the Legislature convened. There zeal
Gus partisan for "the other side shot
and killed him. Then one Dumesnil ap-
preached, anud a little later the pair
were married One day he went to Gin
cinnati and fell dead from heart trou-
BILE.
Shortly after she welded Ayres. He
was given to argument so distasteful
that when it came to fix the blame for
his death the Grand Jury simply gave
it up and decided it was rather
Coroner's verdict of suicide Thu other
day she welded one Joe Hun ), -
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THE MANS TWO WISHES.

THE Man sat down and rubbed the
ring with great vigor and its Genius
appeared
II WISH said the Genius, with some
asperity, that you would be more care
full how you rub. You hurt my collar
bone that time"
The Man apologized, Il understand" "
he then said that you have the power
to grant wishes. Am 1 correctly in
formed?'
You bet you are the Genius re-
sponded Il ought to tell you. how
ever, that l am one of these restricted
genii; can grant but two wishes.
That is enough. / ask no more. In
fact, one is all / desire. If but this one
is granted | will attain the acme of
happiness, the SUBMITS of earthly bliss,
the rare, sweet heights of ecstatic
del
Name your wish, and cut out the
frills.''
The Woman yonder: it is she that
ask. She is my wonderful affinity. my
longing hearts only own, the one whom
my cropping soul has sought through all
the unnumbered ae-"
Cut 1t out! She is yours"
Six months later the Man seated him.
self and rubbed the ring as If he never
could rub it hard enough.
OuCH. SdlQ Tile GcllluS, do hC dP
peared, you are fracturing my ribs
The Man did not walt to apologize
for he was in a hurry.
Didn't you say. he anxiously in
quired, that you grant two wishes?
That's what / said. Are you ready
for the next guess?'
"Oh, you bet / am. L"
Let me first of all warn you that this
is the last call to breakfast In the din
ing car. Have you thought well OF
what you would ask?"
''You can gamble that l have! In fact
there is no room for just thought. It's an
embalmed-beef cinch, "a
You have carefully weighed all that is
involved in this last wish? The prosper
ity and happiness, the health and wealth.
the fame. the
"Yes, yesi I've weighed everything
Hurry up. before she gets home from
shopping!"
Name your wish.
'sThe Woman that you brought-take heI
away from me. Take her to Madagascar
or Beloochistan, or some other place
where Beloo didn't kiss Ann. or-any-
where so that it Is far enough.
AS the Genius few through the air
with the Woman he muttered to himself,
"It beats thunder about these mortals!"
And it does.
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OCCIDENTAL
HCCIDENTHLS
BY A. j. WATERHoUSE.

MANDY WEPT.
r ALWAYS claimed that Mandy grew
About the same as women do.
She had a gentle. loving heart,
That also was her tender part;
Her tears sometimes fountain made
That played and played and played and
played.
If things went wrong. or things went
right;
If woe or joy o'ercome her quite.
Then Mandy wept.
They made her son Congressman.
And down her cheeks the great tears
ran;
They said for Senator he'd do.
And Mandy wept sea or two;
He still kept climbing through the
years,
Just washed along by Mandy's tears;
And when they made him President,
Niobe might know discomfort,
AS Mandy wept.
Full oft at eve her husband found
His darling in eye-water drowned;
And when he asked, What hurts you
so?'
She said. "Boohoo-I do-don't know;
And when at kittys sharp and fiat
He hoarsely muttered, '-Dern that cat"
All, twas a day of bitter woe;
Such language is so brutal-so
Poor Mandy wept.
I'd not malign the gentle sex
I'm subject to it's calls and becks-
No word unkind I'd speak, In sooth,
And yet, dear boy, l dote on truth,
And there is truth in this brief lay,
AS I can prove, or-any way,
I read it all to Mandy dear,
Just as the words are written here
And Mandy wept.
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MATILDA JANE HUMPHREY.

mi ATILDA JANE AYRES has taken
lV to herself her ninth husband.
breaking the record of Kentucky
indeed, the record for herself, but
she was holder of the champion mar
riage belt at the time of her eighth
wedding. says the Louisville correspon-
dent of the Cleveland Leader. Ma
tilda Jane. though only S3 years of
age, has been:
Mrs. Morgan Ellet, Mrs. Nat Lowman.
Mrs. Edward Wicton Mrs. Dumesni
Mrs. Andrew Lowman. Mrs. Ayres.
Mrs Joe Humphrey.
Death, not divorces, has widowed Ma
tiida sJane. No breath aof,scandal. no
ermined court, has sent her storeward
for her weeds.
Matilda Jane was born at Harkins.
The other day she became Humphrey.
But between Harkins and Humphrey
lie history and romance.
When only 16 years of age fate
decreed that she should love young
mountaineer named Morgan Ellet. One
night she and Ellet eloped on horseback
to Campbellsville, ten miles away, and
were married. Her father, who had
opposed the match, followed them on
horseback and met them on the return.
The old man attempted to shoot his
in front of her lord and master and de-
fled her father to shoot. He did not.
Eleven months after Morgan Ellet
went hunting. He climbed a fence, his
gun slipped, the hammer struck rail,
and Matilda Jane was widow
There came a-wooing Stephen
Boards, wealthy skinflint, who held a
mortgage on the home of Mrs. Ellet.
Instead of foreclosing the mortgage he
held he laid siege to the heart of the
pretty widow and they were married.
One day Boards rode away to fore
close a mortgage on somebody's prop
erty. He was shot from ambush and
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WHY THEY WON.

THE man who won the hurdle race,
I'll mention here, my son,
That he never would have won 1t
If he hadn't tried to run.
The man who did the splendid thing.
AS all of us now grant,
He never would have done it
Had he stopped to say, II can't"
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REEDS ADVICE.

One day as he was leaving his Office in
Portland the late Thomas B. Reed was
accosted by a stranger who had been
imbibing so freely that he was seeing
things double After apologizing pro-
fusely, the stranger managed TO ask the
Congressman where he could get car
for the depot.
Mr. Reed replied: 60 to the next cor
ner; there you will see two cars: take the
first one: the other one won't be there"
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oId-Ea.hioned Goodness.

"Old- fashioned" in goodness. new in
the perfect blend of cream center and
chocolate coating. are Old-Fashioned
Chocolate Creams at Haas candy stores,
Phelan bldg. and James Flood bldg.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
THE old STORY

MAUDE Is IN the garden.
nN Culling pretty flowers,
Grace is in the hammock
Dreaming by the hours;
Kate is by the brookside
Where it's nice and cools
=. (Kate is rather jaded
From the grind at school)
Nell Is In the parlor
Just to snatch a nap;
,Esa's on the front porch
Flirting with a chap;
Fannie's In the orchard,
May Is in the groves
And
Mothers In the kitchen,
With red
hot
stove.
Houston Chronicle.
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Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 80 Cali
fornia street Telephone Main 104z.
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ARMY SCANDALS.

OORRUPTlON in the United States army distinctly
AS for intensity, that realized
transcendent ugness of the Taggart affair." for
the officers
this although only about half through
whole of The evidence quite strong that all
implicated the scandal which shocking
dsmssas the of which
follow the OF this trial. the already long
offenders would be much increased.
officers dismissed this
atics not designations
additions the list This for hayear
dishonesty 1t could easily be
without statistics that the things that
unbecomng officer and gentleman thevng
other These
easily found often
but the es probably good suggestive indicators of the
of the other.
The of the pub
lie impression that misconduct of officers spreading The
investigation of offender leads the disclosure
of them. The statistics of dismissas
impression There said be report that Department
semocay indicated that will take
ceedngs of the Wooster trial unless compelled
preeng charges against those who suspicion
of evidence the Taggar If
Will growth the
preston great corrup
which might by energetic courtmara be brought light
acquitted having probably
boycoted by the for cuingWahngton
to whe he
automobile
nickel when he a streetcar-New York Press.
placed boats but
pIanked likely
in hack-Philadelphia Telegraph.
A brought must
use fognmade playthings.-New York World.
Any
deciding the indemnity-ChicasO Reeord-Hersd
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Townsend's California Glace Fruits In
artistic fire-etched boxes. New store now
open, 767 Market street
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
NOT WHIPPED. BUT RussIANIzED.


NV OU'vE been fighting again, john
mo, 1 hain't, ma: honest, 1 hain't-."
But your nose is bloody, and your eye
is black, and your clothing is torn, and"
Yes, but Bennie an me was playin',
an he was the Japs an l was the Rus
slams; an he had to git back anything he
could from me, an / had to maintain my
honor, an"
II see. So my little boy got whipped.
did he?"
mo. not whipped-only just Russian
lied"
THINGS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED.
It is very easy to run swift race
down hill.
If you succeed in getting your head
above the crowd-expect to have 1t hit.
1t requires no great wisdom to know
how things should be done-afterward.
I can tell you how you ought to live
but don't watch me.
There is one sin which all of US feel
should not be tolerated. 1t is the one that
has no temptation for US.
II all of our doings were laid bare to
the world there would be more hermits
than there now are.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23

FOCESubscriber, Oakland, Cal. The
term ''foci' which has been frequently
used recently insthe daily papers in con-
nection with the yellow fever in New
Orleans. is medical term to indicate
the locality of the origin of contagious
disease. It Is the plural of focus. The
statement that a number of cases have
developed in a new foci means that the
disease has originated In a new locality.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23

THE BALDWIN-M. NJ. L.. City The
foundation of the Baldwin Hotel at the
corner of Market and Powell streets IN
San Francisco was laid In 1873 and the
hotel was opened two years later. Sub
seouently the building which now
stands on Market street, east OF the
James Flood building, was opened as
the Baldwin Annex
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23
ms. 9UCTIONS
FROM THE CZAR

CTo Mr.. Witte at Portsmouth
10 A M.
In spite of all this fuss and
splurge
Stand pat. Don't let them bluff
you. Serge.
IL A. NJ
Make peace at once! avoid delay
Accept all terms and come away
II 80 A. M
Hold on. Reject the terms they
make,
For Holy Russia's pride's at
stake.
1910 p. M.
Talk of indemnity decline,
For Linevitch is doing fine!
12:15 p. M.
Mind changed again. Take good !.
advice
And sue for peace at any price.
80 p NJ
Be firm and cautious, yet polite
Do as you 9lease-you know
what's risht.
(Marginal note by Mr.. Witte.)
Thunderan1 ghtningbIueblazes-
andsmokeoffi Damskivitch.
Wallace Irwin in N. Y. Globe.
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

JAPANESE NAMES-J. C. P. City.
Certain Japanese are named counts,
barons and the like, because such is their
title.
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funny to when
in automobile
fora anicke when he gets a seear-New York; Press
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23

torpedo
ridea around in hack-Phidelphi
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PURCHASING A DISCHARGE-O- b.,
Oakland, Cal. A soldier in the United
States army wishing to obtain a dis-
charge from that organization by pur-
chase must make application to the Of
ficers at the post where he is stationed
Discharge from the army by favor or
purchase is announced from time to
time from the war office.
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23

Senator
shown that
boycotted by the for cutngWashingon
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brought
know that American
o fognmade paythngs:-New York World:
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-23

wise needed when
deciding the indemntys-Chicago RecordHead
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-23
INDIGNANT CONSERVATIVES
Discuss Bannerman's ignoring Ireland
in Recent Speech.

Jondon. Dec 22-Thc announcement
made by the premier. Sir Henry Camp
h.lI-Rauncrman, in his speech at Al
hort nail Thursday night has aroused
2 storm of indignation among the Con
sorvatiycs as the result Of which the
ouestior of Home Rule for Ireland APP
ncarS likely to be well nigh forgotten.
Whatever may have been the intention
of lie premier, his action is looked upon
in some quarters rs an adroit counter
move to Mr.. Balfolr'S plan of pushing
the question of Home Rule to the front
in the forthcoming campaign. In any
case il projects Il new and totally I'M
expcctcd theme of contention into the
forefront. 1t had been supposed that
the new government would do nothing
of the kind without FIRST appointing Il
commission to consider the question.
The leading officials Of the Rand rs
q general rule reserve their opinions ON
the matter Of coolic labor but they adj
nit that The action of the government
can have little effect for 1T least Il
year. as 5000 Chinese coolies arc al
ready there. while the original idea was
to experiment with $4,000. The elections
vaal will take place in February.
The Daily Telegraph. an organ Of the
late f}alfOur ministry, in an cditorlal III
this mornings issue. contends that
there is absolutely no legal means al
the disposal of the Campbell
man government by which it can stoF
the expectation Of coolies from China
or their admission to South Africa
without exposing that country TO ac-
ton for damages which It says ma!
easily run into the millions. 1T advises
the mine owners Of the Rand to con-
tinue the importation of coolies and tC
leave the colonial Office to edo it,
worst"
The Johannesburg correspondent OF
the Times says that the general atti-
tude in the region affected is a calmly
expcctant one. He adds that contracts
have already been signed and sane
toned by tho Transvaal government
for II 500 coolies which number will c'I-
able the mines to curry on their opera
tions comfortably pending the f"rna
decision Of the Inhabitants of the col
ony, (which VIII he the same whether
under Il representative or any other
form of government
IF the government" says the cor
respondent. "compcls the population OF
these contracts it Will not only b.
mulctcd in compensation 10 the extent
of at least Il half million, hut it will
create a genuinely serious situation. bI
the other hand. if the contracts should
be carried out no harm will he done
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-23
AN AGREEMENT REACHED
Between Steamship Lines Dividing the
Oriental Flour Trade.

Portland Ore, Dec. CAN agree
ment dividing tcrritorially the Oriental
-four trade between the large trans
Pacific steamship companies came 70
an end yesterday at a. result Of q meet
ing of the representatives Of the diff
fercnt companies held here for the pur-
pose of inducing the Great Northern
Steamship Co. to cOnfine itself to
Oregon and Washington and not to in
wade California. Tho conference failed
to induce the Great Northern to recon-
slider its determination.
The Morning Oregon states that thor"
is no doubt that the Hartman lines
will establish agencies in Portland,
Seattle and Tacoma. and that the Pos
ton Steamship Co. operating the Nip
pom Yuzcn Kaisha lines and the North
ern Pacific will enter the California
field.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-23
BANNERMAN'S SPEECH
Discussed and Governments Attitude
Toward Coolies is CrItIzed.

London, Dec. 22.-Thc announcement
OF Premier Campbell Zimmerman in his
speech in Albert han last night at the
opening of the electoral campaign that
the government has given Instructions
for the stoppagc of impOrtatiOns of
Chinese coolies to South Africa caused
the Kaflir market to open weak today.
Leading shares fell 3-16 to "a. The con-
ScrVatiVc papers refer to the step as be-
ing "thc most serious taken by Il re-
SrOnSiblc government since the attempt
to impose the stamp duty on the Amer
lean colonies" The possibility Of Lord
South Africa rcsigning is discussed. The
prcmicr's reference to Indian affairs in
which he said I'VE shall make our
selves q party to no step involving AN
invasion of the sacred principle Of the
Subol dlation Of the military 10 civil
authority" is taken by many military
men to imply either the recall or the
resignation of General Lord Kitchener,
the chief i'll India, who
successfully appealed to the late gov
crnment in his disputes with the vice
roy, Lord GurZOn of KcdlcStOnr.
While the premier had little to say
on the Irish question. the Conservatives
| will take his announcement that chose
domestic affairs which concern the
| Irish people alone and not us should be
! in their hands, as a reiteration Of the
| policy of Home rule and this viii he
| the battIe-cry of the Unionists in the
| jnDeuding campaISn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-23
FAILURE FOREToLD
Continued from Page One.)

confidently asserting that the others
VIII be brought into line immediately.
The government, however, has succeed
cd in keeping railroad traffic out OF st.
Petersburg moving with considerable
regularity.
The scanty dispatches received from
the interior do not indicate whether
the order TO strike is meeting with a
general response.
The government has issued a reas-
surfing communication declaring that
all necessary measures have been taken
To prevent disorders.
The prolctariat organizations are
marShallinS all their forces to throw
ing INTO the balance. The prevailing i'm
preston is that with the limited funds
at the disposal Of the unions the strike
must spread rapidly and enter a new
and more violent phase or the game
will be lost by the rcvClutionaries.
1t is thought that the leaders will not
hc able to hold their men il line un-
less an immediate victory is scored OF
Il conflict forced and blood shed.
In Moscow, the striking railroad men
and the lower classes, like the cab
drivers who see the bread taken from
their mouths by the strike are already
ut each others threats.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-23
Universal and Equal Suf-
frage Not to Be Granted
The Alleged Douna Will Be
Called Together in March.
ST. Petersburg Says Struggle Is Going
Against the ReVolutionistS.

St. PetershurG Dec. 23.-The En-
peror and his cabinet late last night
reached a final decision regarding the
electoral law. deciding against unlvcr-
sal and equal suffrage and in favor OF
the extension of the law promulgated
Aug 10 last to include, in addition to
the small landowners in the country,
the Workmen and the educated class
es, the small rentpayers i'll the cities.
The details of this law were covered
at the time in these dispatches.
The douma will be convokcd in
March.
In high government circles, the
greatest confidence is expressed that
the general strike will fail.
So far as St. Petersburg is concern
ed, the battle certainly is going
against the revolutionaries.
Unless better results are obtained
elsewhere or the fight enters on dis
tinctly new phase the leaders will be
compelled to beat a general retreat il,
order to save their prestige.
In spite of the herculean efforts of
the local chiefs to cheer on their fol-
lowers, the past As hours have not pro-
duced any extension of the strike.
What was gained yesterday by the
strike of the printers. which was in
complete was offset by the return to
work of 10000 in the Semnovsky mill
and the announcement that 1900 en-
ployes of the Putiloff iron works would
go back Monday.
The governments firm stand effective
ly prevented the strikers keeping up
, the excitement III St Petersburg by
"red flag" demonstrations and by the
old plan of marching from mill to mill
to force the men TO strike.
Non-union. such rs the freight carriers,
began an attack on the strikers. Some
of the leaders confess that the outlook is
discoura ginr and they express the fear
that the organizations We're guilty of 4
hunder in tacl;lins the government with
, out due preparation. Nevertheless they
declare that the province can still turn
; the tide.
The main hoTc Of the strike leaders
rests on Moscow, to which all eyes are
turned and where the to-up is practically
complete.
! a telephone message from Moscow to
night represents the situation there as
grave on account Of the attitude of the
troops, it being reported that tho artil-
lcry were on the verge of mutinE and
that there was a plot to abduct Gov.
; Cen Doubassoff which, however, was
| frustrated.
The government has received no con-
| hrmation of these reports and processes
absolute confidence in the loyalty Of tn"
army, which it says cannot be shaken
by the present demonstration.