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(From a STAFF Correspondent
ONDON, July Arthur Bourchier,
the prominent London actor-man-
Lager, is looking to the United
States, whence is coming the man
uscript of what will probably be his
next Offering. In other words, both
Bourchier and Sir Gilbert Parker are
waiting with interest to see what sort
of an adaptation Eugene Presby, who
dramatized "Rahies." has made Of the
latter's novel, The Right of Way,
which Kyrle Bellew will play in the
United States and which Parker is most
anxious for Bourchier to have in Lon
don.
THE character Of Charley Steele ap
peals to me immensely" said Bourchier
to the writer yesterday. "and If Mr..
Presby has done his work well, as
have no doubt he has. 1 am practically
sure to reopen the Garrick with The
Right of Way in the autumn And
even should Bourchier not produce this
piece, 1t is still more than likely that
he will begin business with an Ameri-
can play, for he Is under contract to
produce Miss GLADYS Unger's "Shert-
dan"-which was accepted over two
years ago-within a short time. This
piece by the young American autnoress
Is of course, q costume play IL taxes
us to the period of the dramatists's
second marriage, and the scenes are
laid at Wanstead and Gretna Green
To America. also. are looking the
many folk who are interested in the
future programme Of the London Wal
dorf, which has just been vacated by
Cyril Maude in consequence of the un-
expected sudden collapse of the Angli-
cized shore Acres" BY the time these
lines are printed the Snuberts. who
control the Waldorf. may have decided
on a fall attraction, but at present no
end of rumors are afoat regarding the
opening piece. One thing seems GER
tain, however, that it will be Ameri-
can, and conflicting reports announce
productions of "Fantana" and The Isle
of Champagne" while there also seems
a chance that-either George NJ Cohan
or Henry E. Dixie will be seen at the
playhouse in Kingsway. Either would
be sure of an enthusiastic welcome
from theater- -goers.
Meantime, with both Paul Kester's
play, Dorothy o. the Hail. and Pres
by's "Raffies" drawing big houses In
the metropolis. Londoners have just
heard that the author of Leah Klesch-
ma and "The Belle of New York" has
arranged with Charles Frohman to
write the book of new musical play.
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FRANCIS j. HENE Y :
AND MRS. BEL WIN
TO WE'D IN FALL

The news of the engagement of Mrs.
Rebecca McMullin Belvin and Francis
j. Heney, which they have conffded to
a few of their more intimate friends,
comes as genuine but very pleasant
surprise to the very many friends and
acquaintances they have throughout
California. Both Mrs. Belvin and Mr..
Heney are out of town at the present
time, she having left week ago for
Williams, Ariz., where she will be the
guest of her sister, Mrs. E. B. Perrin,
for a month, and Mr.. Heney being in
Portland. They viii return here next
month and their wedding is to be cele-
brated in September.
Mrs. Belvin was one of the daughters
Of the late Mr.. and Mrs. John McMullin.
who came to California in an early day
from the South and owned vast tracts
of land In the San Joaquin Valley, south
of Stockton. There were several daugh-
ters, all very beautiful and charming,
and after Mr.. McMullin's death their
mother returned to Kentucky with her
family. The other sisters are Betty,
now Mrs. Charles Weller, Anna, now
Mrs. Jack Hays, Lilo, now Mrs. Edward
Perrin, and Susie, who was Mrs.
Thomas Williams and whose death oc-
Cured several years since.
The family have always been very
prominent socially here, although of
late years they have been out of the
city much of the time. Mrs. Belvin has
just returned from a trip to the Orient
with the Misses Ada and Alice Sullivan.
Francis Heney has won reputation
for himself within the past few years
as a prosecuting attorney and is an
extremely brilliant lawyer. He is at
present assistant United States Attor-
ney General for the prosecution of land
frauds and has achieved noteworthy
results. He is a popular man person
ally and has a host of friends here who
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KOREA INTRIGUING
AGAINST THE
JAPANESE.
From a STAN Correspondent.


Z VICTORIA, B. c.. July 14.-News has
Y been received from Korea OF this
v frustration of on intrigue to cede
the island OF Kanto. OF Northeast
Korea, to Russia, with a view TO Sc
curing a secret treaty with Russia by
Korea to balk the Japanese possession
of the peninsula Under the guise OF
a protectorate, Japan Is in possession
of Korea, and the Korean Emperor
and court are struggling vainly to pre-.
serve the freedom of their country.
Some patriots who fomented a revolu-
tion In Southern Korea have been ar
rested by the Japanese and are being
tried at Seoul. Recently Kim Seung-
mum, Confucian scholar of note, was
arrested by the Japanese secret service.
charged with intriguing to conclude a
secret treaty between Korea and Rus
sia.
Kim had special facilities permitting
him to have an audience at any time
with the Korean Emperor, and he Sc
cured the consent of the Korean En-
peror to the conclusion OF a secret
Russo o-Chinese-Korean treaty in order,
IL possible. TO nullify Japanese infiu-
ence In the peninsula. Kim further ad-
vised his sovereign to cede to Russia
the island OF Kanto, toward the mouth
Of the Tumen River. in consideration
of the conclusion of the proposed
treaty. He succeeded in obtaining a
large sum OF money for the purpose
of the negotiations, and was about to
leave Seoul for North Korea to ac-
complish his scheme when he was ar
rested by the Japanese police. who had
been informed by the spies. so many
of which are IN service in and about
the Korean palace. Because of the
unearthing OF political intrigues. the
Japanese have caused the arrest OF the
Vice Ministers OF the Korean Home
Department and OF the imperial house,
hold. and 130 other officials.
The Korean seas are being disturbed
by native pirates. the pirate ships. with
crews of about forty armed men IN
each. haunting the coasts of Nokdo and
Chi Chollado. and seemingly keeping
communication with the insurgents
who have risen against Japan. Two
Japanese fishing boats belonging to
the ChemuIpo Marine Product League
are reported to have been captured and
their crews are missing. 1t is surmised
the fishermen have been killed by
pirates. The insurgents at Ulsan have
taken to sea robbery and have carried
Off several Japanese fishermen. The
fate of the prisoners is not known.
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Smart Set Gossip.

are waiting to congratulate him on his
good fortune
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott McAllister have
recently gone to San Mateo, and will
occupy their cottage there for the rest
of the summer and fall
Mr. and Mrs. T. Danforth Boardman
are among those who are sojourning
In ROSS valley for the summer months.
Mrs. A. Head, who has been in Eng
land for the past year with her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. A. ].
ephson, has returned to
California on business matters, and is
at present staying at the w. b. Bourn
home in this city. II is probable that
her stay will be rather brief.
Mr.. and Mrs Warren p. Clark have
closed their home on Clay and Laurel
Rafael.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace HILL, who went
East short time ago. are now in Mas
sachusetts and are thinking Of taking
a house in Cambridge for the winter. as
their son, Horace Hill Jr.. will be a
student at Harvard this year.
Charles Warren Stoddard is at pres
ent at Congress Springs. where he will
spend brief time
Mrs. Arthur Page has returned to her
summer home in Belvedere after a visit
to the Yosemite Valley.
Miss Elsie Sperry. who went East last
month with Mrs. Frank Havens to
spend the summer at the latter's coun-
try place at Sag Harbor, has not been
well since her arrival there and is ex-
pected home In the very near future,
having been obliged to cut her visit
short.
Mrs. L. S. B. SAWYER is spending a
week as the guest of her daughter. Mrs.
Edward Bishop. on the Bishop raanch
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the day he and he able do again.
although he professional beauty, he resembles Cleo
in that age wither his infinite
Variety
Now, goes back "ould sod" if he should
his Gracious Majesty King Edward VI-and he will
him if that debonar monarch is above gound- will
of equality American sovereign newined by three
headed judiciary
Unhappy that which gain is others loss. There is
of subdued melancholy certain polite circles Mr. Har
detection What instance the feelings
couy and amiab Sir Courtenay Bennett his Maesy
sentative on these shores over this incident which he is compelled
officially regard of backsliding? Only himself
that question related of this honest
gentleman that he was day gazing with unconceaed
wonder the dome OF what City Hall and
there accosed by fellow countryman oced relieve his ev
dent perpexity:
That Mr Bennett is the City Hail."
God bless soulp calculated the Consul you don't tell
may be forgiven he
perpexy Mr. Harsons deserion of the Union Jack 1t
be that the Consus plight resembles that of another
his the late Sir Wd LAWSON who thus described
his perpe caused by the extraordinary and unexpected be-
havor of Mr.. Chamberlain:
Certainly @ h he G cambsr sa taken h EXT
heard of the other day. who did very extraordinary things
Isa 5i aea s9a
Greer any shape but that sixty-hve
bloom of youth and he keep it. for isn't he the broth
of boy? So may the heavens be his bedbut II
goes revisit his native land under the protecting wing
great eagle is yet with kindly feeling
"Civs Americanus sum-"
1t might seem San already about. all the
shacks needed for emergency business and that halt
might be called.
The Young Mems Christian Association appear
afraid money Rockefeler spare
put better
The eorbids railroad passes the close of
the present year but there will be many
year although they will probably be called something
else.
The Howardstreet property owners wholly within their
rights objecng obstructive railroad track blocks
rather than facilitates the work of putting that thoroughare
shape for business
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AMERICANTHEATER
PLANS INTEREST
LONDON.
From a STAFF Correspondent.

From stan correspondent
ONDON, July Probably it will
be some time before the recent
Il prophecy of an American man
ager is realized and London be-
comes mere suburb" of the
United States so far as the stage is
concerned, but there Is no doubt that
at present the scene of theatrical In
terest has been definitely transferred
from the metropolis to the other side
of the Atlantic.
To begin with. London has just
learned that 1t will have to hear from
New York what the forthcoming new
plays of Messrs. Alfred Sutro and
Henry Arthur Jones are like, and is a
little piqued in consequence. Nor is
this surprising. for play-goers here
fancy that 1.-The Price of Money"
which Sutro has just written for W.
H. Crane, may prove second Walls
of Jericho" and naturally would like
to see 1t first; while as for The
Hypocrites," the Jones play with
which Charles Frohman has decided to
reopen the Hudson Theater, London
has been awaiting this piece with
especial interest 1t is hoped that the
author may regain with 1t the ground
which he lost with The Heroic
Stubbs'-which failed so disastrously
and this is quite likely to happen.
for Jones has a way of hitting and
missing alternately.
Meanwhile 1t may be stated on the
playwrights own authority that his
new piece for America is drama and
to be classified with Mrs. Danes De-
fence" and 1.-The Liars" though the
story and incident are widely different
from either of those plays. The scene
is laid in the small southern English
town of Weybury, while the charac-
ters number fourteen and form little
coterie of English county society AS
already announced, Jones is sailing
for the United States next month to
superintend the production there.
Alfred Sutro has less need to worry
over the reception OF his new piece.
for although he has not yet dupl-
Gated the success of his Walls of
Jericho" his Perfect Lover" which
Americans are also TO see next sea-
son, ran for over a hundred nights at
the London Imperial, and his -'Fasci-
mating Mr.. Vanderveldt'' has passed its
seventy fifth performance at the Gar
rick, where 1t provides Arthur Bour-
chier and Violet Vanbrugh with some
of the best chances they have had
lately.
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LOS ANGELES RECORD.
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Special Correspondence of The Call
NORFOLK. Va, July 1.-THE Gov
IN ernment of the United States hav-
ing appropriated last year $250,00O
and this year $1,375.0O0 to aid the
jamestown Tercentennial Celebration,
one fact is settled beyond peradven-
ture. and that is that in 1907 the most
magnificent international naval rendez-
vous and military encampment that the
world has ever seen will be on view at
the exposition near Norfolk, Va.
The President OF the United States
has invited all the nations OF the world
to be represented on that occasion by
such of their naval vessels and such
regiments OF their soldiery as ii may
be convenient to send, and all of the
principal countries of the world have
accepted the invitation.
BY 1907 the United States will have
in commission some OF the finest battle
ships afioat and will also have great
feet Of cruisers. torpedo-boats, de-
stroyers. gunboats and submarines. 1t
is probable that more than half of
these will be- continuously at anchor in
Hampton Roads. and itsis unlikely that
any country possessing navy will be
without a good representation during
the entire period OF the exposition.
We are so apt to consider things by
their money value that 1t may be in
teresting to know that a competent
statistician OF the United States navy
has figured that the war vessels of our
country taking part in the exposition
will at no one time represent a cash
expenditure of less than $3.50. 600,
and on special occasions may reach the
quarter-billion dollar mark. 1t is rea-
sonable to presume that the gross value
Of foreign ships will at least equal the
value of our naval representation, and
therefore 300,000.000 to 500. 0.O00,0 900 of
dollars will be represented by the ships
in Hampton Roads. This latter sum is
more than hve-sevenths OF the entire
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BY the Outsider.

at San Ramon, in Contra Costa County.
Mrs. CASTOR Ashe has returned to her
ranch in San Benito County after a
stay of a few days in town. Mrs. Ashe
and her family, who have been at the
ranch since Immediately after the fire,
will come up about the first of next
month and will go to Sausalito to re-
main during the winter.
Captain Sydney A. Cloman, United
States army, who is so well known and
so popular In San Francisco, arrived
here a few days since and is the guest
of Captain and Mrs. William Haan at
their quarters at + ort Mason. Cap
tain Cloman is here, en- route to the
maneuvers at American Lake, Wash,
and will be in the city until about
August l.
Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. Randolph
Miner of Los Angeles, who are so well
known here, are at present spending
some time at Coronado.
Mrs ]. E. Shoobert, Miss Fanny Shoo-
bert and Miss Lillian Shoobert who
have been abroad for the past three
years, are now in New York, and Mrs.
Shoobert is expected to come to Cali
fornia In the near future. The Misses
Shoobert will remain in the East with
DR.. and Mrs. Frederick w. Bancroft
(Mrs. Bancroft was formerly Miss
Ethel Shoobert), who have recently
left Baltimore, where DR.. Bancroft has
been taking a post graduate at Johns
Hopkins University. and are now in
New York. where he has been rendered
a very fine appointment in connection
with one of the large hospitals.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Wright will
take possession of their. artistic cot
tage in Alameda about August l, by
which time they expect it to be COM
Melted
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HARRISON AMERICANUS.

TILLIAM GREER HARRISON poet, playwright athlete
tNI affairs the Admirable Cichton
CISCO has joined the Americans Tis we'll; bid him
welcome and power to his elbow. 1t took three
Judges complete the obhee Judges exercised in the
of ceremonial that took aspect of almost religious
episode recalls that famous dialogue
Emerson Margaret DAYS when the
philosopher, gazing the moonit lake. exclaimed:
Margaret, this is poetry"
Nay, Waldo" amended the lady, "it is religion"
With the knot securely tied had been by forty
parsonpowe Mr.. Harrison shall He only
licked Jim without taking advantage
plexus said himself fifty miles
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TWO PARKS-M. E. C. W.. City. The
area of Golden Gate Park. San Fran
cisco, is 1013.9 acres. The area of
Central Park, New York, is S43 acres.
TO RESTORE COLOR-A s., City
The following is given as method to
restore color to fabric that has been
destroyed by acid: Apply ammonia to
neutralize the acid, after which an ap-
plication of chloroform will in almost
every case restore the original color.
DISTEMPER-D. B., City Bad sani-
tary conditions, crowded or poorly
drained kennels, exposure to dampness,
lack of fresh air and exercise conduce
to the development OF distemper in
dogs. This disease is contagious and
is sometimes contracted from bench
shows. If a dog that is priced shows
any sign Of distemper 1t is better to
call in some one familiar with the
treatment of the disease rather than
risk amateur attempts to cure the
animal.
THE JOKER-Novice, City. The
joker makes fifty-three cards In the
pack in poker. The person holding 1T
has the right to call for anything he
likes, If by so doing he can better his
hand and make it superior to those of
his opponents. For example: If ace,
king, queen, knave and ten of diamonds
should be out against ace, king, queen,
knave of hearts and the joker, the lat
ter would win; or IL four acres were
out against four deuces and the joker,
the latter would win, as the latter
would claim five deuces.
TELEGRAPH. W., City The first
electric telegraph dispatch sent from
one point to another in the United
States was the one sent by Professor
Morse from Washington to Baltimore
May 81, 1914. The first electric telegraph
in California was opened September %,
1853. The line was built by Sweeney
e. Baugh and extended from Point Lo-
bos to the Merchants Exchange on Sac
ramento street, below Montgomery In
1852 the California Telegraph Com
pany was by city ordinance granted
the right to erect telegraph posts, but
the system was not in working order
until the latter part Of the following
year and after the Sweeney & Baugh
telegraph sent the first message.
THE SEASONS-B. L. NJ. s., City.
Generally speaking. we say that winter
commences with the beginning of De-
cember, spring with March. summer
with June and autumn or fall with
September. This Is not astronomically
precise. The winter solstice is the
meridian passing through the point
where it touches the tropAc of Capri
corn: the summer solstice is the one
touched on June 21. Both the spring
and the autumnal seasons cross the
equator March 20 and September %. re-
spectively. The day on which the sea-
sons commence varies with localities,
according to the mean time.
For instance, according to Washing
ton, D. c., mean time, the seasons for
this year are scheduled as follows:
Spring, March 81, a. M; summer, June
%, a. M: autumn, September %, 6
D. m; winter, December %, l p. m.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-19

California glace fruits and choice can
dies. Full stock. Townsend's residence
and factory, 1920 Valencia ST., and the
Emporium, Post st. and Van Ness ave.
Order by phone. Special 37S. q
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SURE ENOUGH-"What is meant by
sure thing man?'
"Oh, l suppose one of the fellows
who says i told you So"
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ing their London visit and solves the
vexing question of precedence in one
instance by asking that the daughter
of the president sit at his side at
dinner.
London at last gets cafe where
a good dinner may be had, the es-
tablishment being said to rival the
best.
Criticism of the methods of Amer
lean packers results in rapid in
crease of business for Canadians.
Indications in London are that the
British government by the liberals
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will be upset beore long. Chamber
lain predicting the fall of the cabinet.
Irish athlete who came to America
to enter business is ordered deported
by the immigration officers at New
York on the ground that he is near
ing a physical collapse as result of
athletic feats.
New liner La Provence defeats the
Deutschland in their race across the
Atlantic and breaks the record from
New York to Havre.
Western Ontario and eastern Mich
igan are swept by a terrific wind and
rain storm, causing great damage.
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conciliatory policy, which, according
to reports, the pope will not sanction.
King Edwards apparently success
full efforts for an Anglo-Russian en-
tente give a severe shock to the
kaiser, who finds himself once more
beaten in the diplomatic game and
fears serious obstacle to his aspira-
tions.
All the talent and beauty of the
London stage will take part in the
great benefit production to be given
in honor of Miss Ellen Terry's jubilee.
King Edward makes especial efforts
to show honors to the Longworths dur
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FOREIGN.

Rockefeller makes Compiegne his
headquarters, and orders bicycle
from Paris for trip in the forest.
Russian cabinet member deny
they have resigned. Premier Goremy-
kin again confers with the emperor
and a change Is expected soon.
Bishops of France hold an unau-
thorized meeting at the palace of the
archbishop of Paris and vote for a