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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26

Behold, another San Francisco artist
Peters, and the silver disk that may
henceforth adorn the Peters breast was
bestowed, with complimentary embel
Hshments, by the judges of the art ex-
hibit Of the Worlds Fair at st. Louis,
a third Of whom were foreigners-and
inferentiaIly, not predisposed to COM
pliment Americans unduly. Hence the
value Of the compliment to Mr.. Peters
and to San Francisco. Or shall we,
in Difference to Monterey, where the
artist did much of his best work, mag
unanimously say ''and to California? !?
Be that as it may, the medal came to
a California artist, the second to be
thusIy recognized, for, but a few weeks
previous, had Jules Mersfelder been
similarly honored-the clever chap
whose studio at Merchant and Mont
gomery streets has come to be Sat
urday salonette for the quick"
And then there's Amedee Joullin, he
who writes history as he lays his fig
ures upon his canvas. Although his
decoration and diploma as Officer of
public instruction" from the French
Government, is an old story-fully
three weeks old-yet my provincial
pride will not permit me to pass it
unnoted when it comes to a demon
stration of what outsiders think of our
local painters. And, fellows. that's
the knowledge we need.
Think of it-three Californians
(Mersfelder is essentially a Californian,
getting his early training down on
Montgomery streeD recognized within
a month above the masses Of clever
exhibitors from home and abroad.
Now here's a legitimate chance to
burn a few Roman candles.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26
house for a high jinks.

house for a high jinks.
The accompanying picture by Amedee
Joullin hangs on the west wall of his
studio at 207 Sansome street, far
enough away from the salon picture
that won him academic honors not
to suffer by comparison.
Indeed, not less we'll drawn is the
smaller canvas-and drawing Is said.
by those who love him, to be Joullin's
artistic sin, and against which, by the
way, 1 most earnestly protest What
ever may in earlier years have been
true of Joullins carelessness as a
draughtsman, there is no record of 1t
now-not a trace.
In color and in composition this pic
ture is but trif1e less arresting than
his Death Watch but infinitely
worthy deep and abiding study. Be-
sides, 1t tells story that twenty years
hence will be sought for feverishly by
historians and ethnologists, for Joullin
has. with infinite pains, gone into the
TRUTH of things. The design on the
basket, the weave Of the blanket. the
infinite detail of the Indian garb. are
true to tradition, and true to the small
est factor.
For this all lovers of American his
tory should be grateful-for the day is
not far In the future when the native
American Will be no more.
Then comes the day when we shall
need Joullin's pictures. And may he
give us more of them, more of their
exquisite feeling, Of their traditions.
their stole tragedies. Here is a field
Of work that to-day is full of color,
romance and dramatic intensity; and
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26
KING THWARTS PRINCE
VICTOR IN HIS WOOING
Leopold Fears Consent 10 Match
With Daughter Would Anger
France.

France.
PARIS, Feb. 25.-There is excellent
authority for quoting letter received
this week by a friend from Prince
Victor Napoleon. This may not be
the precise phraseology. but the let
ter Is in substance as follows:
Reports that the Princess C1emen-
tine and myself are desirous to marry
are true, but her fathers refusal is
fiat. I returned yesterday from VII
emma, whittier went to beg the EN-
peror Francis Joseph to intercede on
my behalf. He readily consented. I
can also count on the kindly offices
of the King OF Italy In the same re-
gard.
Princess Clementine's fathers OBJ
lection is based on the ground that his
friendliness with France makes i'm
possible the alliance OF his daughter
with a pretender to the French
throne. However, he knows i have
no such pretensions, and If I had.
such a remote possibility should not
be allowed to interfere with the hap
piness of two persons. II the throne
were offered me to-day I would turn
it over to my brother Louis, for I
nave no ueSlTe 10 carry on my SnOul-
ders the burden incumbent to such a
task. / have told the King this. but
nothing 1 can say will change his
fixed idea that my being a pretender
in name makes me ineligible to his
daughters hand"
Dispatches from Brussels announce
that Princess Clementine, whose
strength Of character is remarkable,
has determined to marry Prince Vic
tor with her fathers consent. or, If the
Prince consents. without It, Clemen-
tine loved her cousin. the late Prince
Baudoin. eldest son OF the Count of
Flanders. who was killed in a duel,
to her great grief, which the. Queen
tried to utilize to send Princess Glenn
entine to a convent. but the girls en-
ergetic character rebelled.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26

skirts. The least little thing you do
may seem a double entendre'-Mr.
Cawthorne genially prefers 1t double
entender" as spelt.
You were here last with Alice Mel
sen, weren't you?" I inquired then. 'fn
the influenza scene?"
In The Fortune Teller" he added,
then grinned I'm doing an influenza
scene in Mother Goose now. This cli-
mate of yours is a bluff. I've had
cold for days. Couldn't have been on
tonight but for Mrs Cawthorne-she
dosed me up last night and did me
more good than the doctor. But I'm
hoarse and all the audience knows
about 1t is that I'm laboring harder
than usual. Rather hard on US chaps.
You can't get your JUNCTION over the
footlights when you're sick and with
out your JUNCTION you're nothing"
Never heard it called that before.
but it's quite true" 1 murmured, then
asked: Your 'antskvisters, as the
comedian delightfully."- mixes and mud
dies it-"your family theatrical fam
ily?"
"Nein." Mr. Cawthorne emphasized.
I've a brother a clergyman in Chi
cago. I'm the last of thirteen. born in
New York: the rest all born in Lon
don, and began by singing Gus Will
liams' songs in public at the age of s
years and 2 months. Afterward I was
billed as the pocket Gus Williams
Next year I'm going to be starred in
'Tammany Hall as a German politi-
clan. 'Tammany Hall is musical
comedy by John McNaIly, Jean
Schwartz and Jerome"-then Mr.. Cav
thorne stopped, laughing and breath
less, then added that's ALL
Thank YOU" 1 said, mot quite. How
much of Mother Goose is yours? The
very best of it. they tell me-that bur
lesque on the military drama and the
parody on The Old Oaken Bucket "
L thought of that-the parody-in
the middle of the night Cawthorne
chuckled. Then 1 wakened my wife
and told it to her and we sat up and
laughed like a couple of fools. But
when 1 told it down at the theater no
one could see the joke. They said: Are
you kiddin'. or do you want to spoil
the show?' Erlanger shifted, too; but
he told me to try it. Went big, too.
Knew 1t would
'Because?"
Because my wife said 1t would" the
comedian replied, as if that settled it.
Always try everything on my wife,
and it goes if she says So"
There are those that say women
have no sense Of humor-'
'Fudgei" said Mrs. Cawthorne's hus-
band My wife never made mis-
take yet" Ladies, it is yours.
Second acti" Loud came the call,
and with 1t the comedian disappeared.
I saw him next from the wings in
Mother Goose's hunting suit. and even
the orchestra was a-grin at his Social
Eclat." 1 watched him all through 1t
myself, then through the transforma-
ton scene, where Mother Goose be-
comes beautiful; found another
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26
BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS

But alas and alackl IT'S only when
pugilistic honors are won by home lads
that the populace throws up it's hat
and howls-the old tale of the physical
before the spiritual and mental.
But even as the great universe moves
on in its course, so will the change
come to mems minds-and just as
slowly. But surely as the solemn old
sun blinks at us each day, so surely
are men becoming Influenced by art
using the term in it's broadest sense
that which inspires men with high
ideals and appreciation Of the bcauti-
full rather than of the strong, the bru-
tai and the simply physical.
The picture that won the Peters
medal is the property of the Lotus
Club of New York, called After the
Gringo Came" 1t is, of course. a night
scene, with all the subtle, indeflnable
charm of the Peters moonlights.
Soon after the exhibition at Clax-
toms Mr.. Peters will take his babes
with their faithful nurse and his un-
sold pictures-which, by the way,
promise 70 be but few-far away from
local memories, away off to London,
where he will settle himself in the
midst of kindred spirits. And happi-
ness to himi
Here he will find Orrin Peck, the
proud master of the house of Whistler,
the house that possessed so many wind
ing stairs. that Whistler often declared
that some d-n teetotaler built it."
In spite Of the compromising stair
ways it is said that the straying Bo-
hemian is nightly fond of the home
Of the painter-cynic, albeit a sorry
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-26
GRAND OPERA
POPULAR WITH
MUSIC LOVERS

The Importance of a great grand
opera season, from the social as well
as the musical standpoint, is evidenced
by the manner in which all San Fran
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
JARRELL's NEWSPAPER

When the pile of exchanges came into
the newspaper offices of eastern Kansas
last night, one of the first papers that
the editors grabbed for was the Holton
Signal, which Frank farrell has Just
bought. Half of the editors in Kansas
know FARRELL personally and the other
half know him through his work, and
they were curious to see how he stack
ed up" He has written miles and miles
of stuff for daily papers. but this is his
first. experience in running a country
weekly-hence the curiosity.
Now, every newspaper man on earth
is an advocate of the short saIutatory.
In giving advice to another man he will
invariably tell him to cut his saIutaterv
short, but when he comes to doing it
himself 999 out of every thousand edi-
tors want to take the public into their
confidence to such an extent. and they
want to make so many promises, that
they string their salutatory out to a
half column or more FARRELL is the
thousandth man who is the exception.
He got his salutatory into three and a
half lines 1t is as follows:
AN ANNOUNCEMENTS.
J. F. farrell has bought the Holton
Signal of Thos. A. Fairchild, and will
endeavor to be a worthy successor of a
worthy predecessor.
This is a model salutatory. but 1t il
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
.JAYHA AWKER J0TS

An lola baker turns out five hundred
two-pound loaVes of bread every DAY
to ill a single order. 1t is delivered
piled in a wagon like bricks.
St Marys. admits that scarcely hair
of the YOUNGSTERS of that town pay any
attention to the curfew bell any longer.
st. Marys is fortunate if any of them
do.
i. H. Brewster. who lives near In
dependence, shelled a quart of corn
from a single ear. and he says he mas
eighty-f1ve acres full of ears OF the
same kind. Axs
Is it suggestive or ironical that the
man who caught a thirty-three pound
fish CHATS what he said it weighed) at
Cedar Point should be named Fritz
Drinkwater?
Holyrood asserts that the lack of
houses out there is keeping the young
folks from getting married. Cupid
ought not to allow a little thing like
that to interfere with him.
The westmoreland Recorder bragg
ged a little about a bunch OF millet
six feet and eight inches tall that 1t
had and the st. Marys Eagle prompt
1y covered it with some seven feet and
six inches tall. That's the way 1t
grows in Pottawatomie county.
The women over at Atchison are do
ing so much decorating for the Corn
Carnival that the Globe says they are
also expecting TO decorate lnS ldlCAL-
string. 1t is to be hoped that it won t
be so covered up with decorations that
outside people cannot find it.
Bert Headley. who has been making
an exceedingly bright little paper out
of the Gaylord Sentinel, has taken in
H. Kelley Pratt as a partner. Mr..
Headley gives his readers assurance
that the new man will add to the pa
per. in spite of the fact that he parts
his name in the middle.
A Trego county paper says: "Secre-
tary Coburn is a little too conservative
sometimes. He estimated the Trego
county wheat crop at nine bushels per
acre, but we have heard of none SO
low as that. The average yield must
be nearly twice nine bushels But
Secretary Coburn did not estimate
Trego county's yield at nine bushels
The county had 69,599 acres and Mr.
Coburn places its total yield at SS5, ,536
bushels, which would be something
less than thirteen bushels an acre.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the

EFrom the Atchison Globe.J
Don't depend on the committee; do
it yourself.
Cantaloupes are like men: some are
all right, and some are not.
Some women think if they can Just
have black silk skirt they are all
right.
Some peoples bodies are not COM
posed of ordinary flesh and blood: just
grease.
A good many of us are in the posi-
ton of Japan: Giving up good deal
for peace.
Some people are so dirty that If you
should throw them against wall, they
would stick.
An Atchison woman. who has a very
brilliant and constant smile, is called
'Sozodont" behind her back.
Its not my affair."" John Compton
said today, but lean women should be
barred from the Farmers Prosperity
Parade
When grief overtakes a woman and
catches her without a handkerchief
and she has to sniffie and wipe her
eyes with her hand, her tears may be
more genuine than those of the woman
who buries her eyes in a dainty hand
kerchief, but it is the handkerchief
woman who gets the tender sympathy,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Several papers over the state are quot
ing the State Journal as giving General
Hughes full name In the interest of
absolute truth it must be stated that the
State Journal has never published Gen.
Hughes name in full-the best it has
ever been able to dc was to print a few
sections simultaneously. If the linotype
operator doesn't get tired before COM
pleting it, and If quitting time doesn't
come too soon, the State Journal, with
it's usual enterprise will attempt today
to publish General Hughes approx
mately entire name. 1t is as follows;
Adjutant General John White F'rierson
Falls Neil Hughes. K. N G. There may
be another section in it, but this is a
matter of doubt. General Hughes is not
quite certain on that point. 1t is sup
posed that when the general arrived IN
this vale of tears the Hughes family
was flush on names, having secured a
job lot. AS a rule the general makes
use of only the initials of the first three,
u. w. F. but he is saving the balance
for use in case these become worn and
do not track.
The Kansas City Star reports that
Billy Morgan is to remodel Hutchinson
and make it look as much as possible
home from Europe. This causes one to
wonder if Billy is to be the baron.
It's pretty late in the day for old Bent
about Solomon and the Queen OF Sheba.
A careful search of the state fair
premium list fails to reveal any prize
offered for the best set Of whiskers or
for the shiniest bald head. Everything
else seems to be pretty we'll covered.
state Superintendent Dayhoff was in To-
pelxa yesterday.-NewS item.
Didn't you feel the earth tip up?
The Topeka small boy will take his
slate and books under his arm next
Tuesday and try TO make the best of it.
He might as we'll look on the bright
side of this school business-maybe he
will see a dog on the way that he can
throw his slate at.
Mayor Davis isn't the only man who
has trouble in keeping the lid on.
There's the man with the straw hat on
a windy day, for instance.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrorn the chicago News j

TF'rorn the Chicago News.1
Unclaimed bulldogs play fast and
loose.
Many an upright piano is adownright
nuisance.
Women are just like girls-only a
little more SO.
An awkward boy is chip on the old
stumbling block
when the swallows homeward fly
the bartender is busy.
Diamonds are trumps during court
ship-and clubs after marriage.
A crank is a man who will not permit
his neighbors to turn him.
Too many sermons are aimed at the
pocket books of the congregation.
Pity may be akin to love, but kinship
does not always indicate friendship.
A man may imagine that his head is
going round when in reality it's only
the wheels.
When you see g. woman dragging a
child down the street she is leading an
unhappy life.
An old bachelor says it's as danger
Gus to send kisses by mail as it is to
deliver them in person.
It isn't at all difficult for a man to
have the patience of Job--if the boils
happen to be on his neighbor.
After a woman discovers that her
nose gets red every time she cries she
doesn't try it on her husband so often.
A horneIy. girl gets lot of attention
from all the girls OF her acquaintance
If she happens to have a good-looking
brother.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
LAWRENCE HANLEY.

That duo of death, whisky and NOR
phine, has claimed it's inevitable prey.
and the body of a brilliant young actor
awaits disposition at the hands of the
charitable. Sad is the story of the
bright Shakespearean student who died
pauper's death in the county hospital
after he had tried to the limit the
patience and charitableness of those
who had been his friends while they
hoped for his reformation. So strong
a hold the drug had upon him as wholly
to pervert his nature and render him
ungrateful for all that had been done
for him. Ministrations of friends and
charity of persons who recognize gen.
ius could not avert the untimely end
of Lawrence Hanley.-Los Angeles Ex-
press.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

suspected that farrell forgot about it
until time to go to press and then he
had not time to write more. That pro-
bably accounts for it.
There are the usual number of mis-
spelled words and typographical errors
that creep in when a city newspaper
man tries to read proof on a country
paper There is also the usual amount
of Local" and additional Local. but
there are lot of paragraphs on the ed
itorial page that have a point to them
and do ones heart good to read.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
KANSAS CONNENT
THE PAY-IT-BACKERS.

! And SO Chauncey paid it back too.
Tom Kelly should write him a letter
OF congratulation on the adoption of
his tactics. Probably Chauncey saw
how well it worked with Thomas t.
and decided that what would go in
Kansas ought to go in New York. Ac-
cordingly, when he was yet a great
way or Chauncey began calling and
protecting his innocence Then he
came on and paid up, all the while
protesting his innocence. OF course in
Chauncey's case it was "his company
that did this, instead of Chauncey
himself. So far it is not related that
he has paid back any of the twenty
thousand year that was paid to him
self personally. Probably he will con-
t1nue to tell how it was forced on him
by the other more active directors
who were not doing business in a per-
functory manner as he was. Then,
after he has told this story times
enough so that it is no longer new, he
may pay up that too. This is the reg
ular course that seems to have been
adopted under the Kelly plan,-Hutch-
inson Gazette.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
Saratooa's Pavnshops.

"I never had such stock of fine
diamonds before" remarked the pro-
prfetor of one of the largest pawn
brokfrg establishments in the city yes
.terday. He brought out a small box
and showed q quantity of the costly
gems.
"I should think the people who have
diamonds would hold on to them this
month to wear them while on their
vacations?" 1 inquired.
"Oh these are not from Albany
people. This month is practically
dead for our regular business. The
most of the stuff comes from Saratoga.
It's funny, but there isn't a licensed
pawnbroker in the Spa, so when the
sports go broke they've got to come to
Albany to raise loan on their vaIua-
bles. Albany journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
ARE THESE WOMEN MURDERERs


There is an inexplicable situation in
Kansas just now. In three counties, in
three different parts of the state, three
women are charged with the murder of
their respective husbands.
Is there any psychological explana-
tion for this circumstance, or is it only
a strange coincidence?
In DOniphan county Mrs Mamie
Mitchell is now on trial for the murder
of her husband, who died from a pistol
wound a few weeks ago. The question
for the jury is whether Mrs Mitchell
killed him or whether he committed
suicide. The pair had quarreled violent
ly and had separated.
In Pratt county Mrs. Rosa Null is
charged with poisoning her husband.
Another man. with whom she is sup
posed to be infatuated. is mixed up in
this case.
In Saline county Mrs. Susan Caldwell
| is lying in Jail, charged with killing her
husband with an ak. This is the most
inexplicable case of all A woman who
had led a comparatively exemplary
life, and who had lived with her hus-
band for 80 years, is accused of murder
ing him in cold blood in a most brutal
way. One can scarcely believe it possi-
bic, yet there is circumstantiaI evidence
surrounding the case pointing towards
Mrs. Caldwell as murderess, although
the motive for the crime is lacking.
Are any or all of these women guilty
or are they unjustly accused? If they
committed these murders, what does II
mean2 Here is a problem for the
| psychologist,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

''One disadvantage of being a living
ex-president is the possibility of seeing
some later occupant of the office make
his administration look dull and dinky
by contrast" says the Kansas City
Journal. One thing is certain, how
ever. The future president who makes
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELoR,


No man is wise to his own children.
A man can gain lot of public conf
dence by not going into politics.
Some women seem to show more OF
themselves by their dressing than by
their undressing.
A girls idea of an interesting man is
one she can keep making love to her
when she tells him he mustn't
It Is awful easy to think what a lot
of money you would give away in char
ity when you haven't got it.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09
Profits of the Packers.

In his Postscript" to .'The Great
est Trust in the World" in the Sep
tember Everybody's, Mr.. Charles Ed
ward Russell asks:
IF the packers profits were small
and their business unproductfve,
would they now be defending those
prohts and that business with the
most elaborate, intricate, and costly
system of espionage and influence
ever known in commerce? If their
profits were small. could they make
those monstrous investments in stock
yards and packing plants that have
given them the sole command of
every cattle market in America? If
their profits were small. would thew
continue to extend and amplify their
business? If their profits have been
small, whence has come the money
with which they have bought rail-
gas plants, banks, trust companies,
newspapers, elevators, factories, grain
companies, private car lines, leather
trusts, department stores. until they
have become the most diversified and
among the largest capitalists in the
world? On the basis of the alleged
figures of profit given by Mr.. Garfield
1T can be demonstrated in black and
white that already in this year the
packers have spent in exporting wit
vertisements, hiring extraordinary at
torneys, getting control of cattlemen' s
associations, hiring detectives, and
using influence. three times as much
money as they will make in the en-
tire year-if Mr.. Garfield is correct.
Is it necessary to be idiotic to prove
our loyalty to our party? No out
slider knows or can know the real
profits of the real trust. The talk of
having seen any books that show
these profits is mere fantastic dream
ing, for the simple reason that to ex-
hibit such books would convict of
criminal offenses all the members of
the trust and forty or fifty of the
foremost railroad officers of the
United States. That being the case,
we might as well drop this phase of
the inquiry"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-09

Andrew Lang thinks that "brusque'
and month are two words for which
there are no rhymes. but the Chicago
Tribune suggests that ''rusk" and
''millionth" might be used in an emer-
gency. They might possibly be all
right, provided one had taken out his
poets license at so recent date that
there would be no question as to its
VALIDITY