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terested unions. that is--to have not to
exceed two weeks. counting from the
beginning of the arbitration hearing,
for presenting its evidence and argu-
ments. If you accept this offer. and,
for the sake of San Francisco, we
strongly hope you will. all of your men
now on strike will forthwith return to
work
ION these words of August 20, you
will observe. we continue to stand.
We are willing to arbitrate with you
everything open to legitimate discus
sion. We are bound. though. to insist
on certainty about our daily bread.
Let us say now, in a spirit of good
natured protest, that friendly under
standing is not promoted by such Ill
temper as you betray in your recent
communication and late interviews. No
good can come of insulting your long
time faithful workmen. because in a
matter vital to their comfort and hap
piness they do not see things through
your glasses And this is the more i'm
portant because. of their former
pleasant regard for you in your
private character--a regard not yet
quite lost. we are glad to believe, mas
much as they do not count against you
every inconsiderate word falling from
your lips or pen.
may VIC COACiuQC Will I'll cApICo-
sion of hope that you will not turn
loose upon this afflicted town a horde
of hired ruffians of the type for which
James Farley is infamous? You, sir.
an educated gentleman. a husband and
a father must have for such men the
intensest loathing. Turn them back.
Continuing to hope that our pro-
posals will yet be accepted and stern
industrial strife averted, we are re-
spectfully yours,
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees of
America. Division No. 205.
BY R CORNELIUS. President.
u. II. BOWLING, Secretary Treas
urer."
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Strikers Reconsider Decision
to Make Effort to Call Out
Men Working in Carbarn

Had more pickets been available an
attempt might have been made yester-
day afternoon to persuade rs men
working in the carbarns on Geneva
street. not far from Mission and
Twenty ninth streets. to quit work.
These men, it is claimed by the strikers,
have been taking the places of the
electrical workers, car repairers and
carshop men, since the strike and there
is a strong feeling against them.
The campaign to have them leave
work started at Fillmore and Turk
streets and had advanced so far that
an effort was being made to secure
teams to take out the pickets. when it
was decided that not enough men
could be secured to do effective work
and the campaign was called of.
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FATE OF SHERIDAN
IS IN BALANCE.

HONOLULU, Sept. The effort 70
haot the army transport Sheridan.
I stranded off Barber's Point. at high
tide today resulted in a failure. A dis
couraging report comes from the
wreck The steamship is reported to
be leaking. The ultimate saving OF
the vessel is dependent upon the wea-
ther. The Sheridan is lying in such a
position that a southerly storm would
quickly smash her on the sharp rocks
According to statements OF passen-
ers there was much alarm felt when the
Sheridan's steam pipe burst after the
vessel stranded. All the staterooms
were Immediately filled with steam
and thinking the vessel was afre. the
passengers rushed out in their night
dresses in great confusion
Captain Peabody thinks that the ves-
|. sci was carried. out of her course by
a phenomenal current. as her course
was set for more than four miles off
land. He is confident that the vessel
can be. saved.
One engine of the Sheridan is partly
in working condition, which will be an
assistance.
A party of marines made a perilous
landing on the beach.
Captain Peabody was on deck when
the Sheridan struck the shore.
The fnter-island steamer Helene ar
rived here at 9:45 last night with a
I
ed transport. including twenty women
and ten children.
The Sheridan remains on the reef
where she struck. This morning a COM
bined attempt to pull the vessel from
her periIous position was made by the
tug Fearless, the revenue cutter Man
ing and the steamer Claudfne, but, de-
spite all their efforts, the sheridan was
not moved The failure was due to the
almost immediate parting of the lines
attached to the Manning and Claudire.
1t was thought that when more
power was applied and advantage
taken of the high tide this afternoon
the transport would be foated.
Major Devol. head of the transport
service here. Is very hopeful that the
transport Sheridan will be saved from
her perilous position on the rocks
where she now rests.
He had cable yesterday from Can
tain Morrow. stating that all the pas
sengers had been safely landed in Hon.
olulu. An attempt was made yesterday
to pull the vessel away from the reef
upon which she lies, and she was moved
sixty feet toward the open ocean. Her
cargo of 1880 tons of coal Is to be 1stti-
soned and work on this has already
been commenced.
WASHINGTON. Sept The quar-
termaster general OF the army has re-
ceived a dispatch from the quartermas-
ter at Honolulu. which indicates that
the transport Sheridan may be saved
1t says that the ship is held on the reef
amidships. and it is hoped she will
slide off, She was going astern wherf
the main steam pipe burst, DESTROYING
all power. The bottom is intact. Per-
feet order and discipline was main
tanned.
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ton was self-explanatory and did not
need further comment.
At this meeting" said the union
president the members showed plain
ly that they do nc. believe these
stories that there is politics behind our
actions. The men are firm on their
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with you to submit to arbitration all
other pending proposals. you to name
one arbitrator, the unions represented
in your service to name another. these
two to name a third, determination by
a majority of the arbitrators to be
binding, and each side--you and the in.
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Carmen in Mass-Meeting Are Firm for So Wage
and Strongly Indorse Cornelius Policy.

Not an iota of compromise beyond
the proposal to return to work if
promised SO day and an arbitration
of the question of hours was the
spirit and letter of the mass meeting
of the Garments Union held yesterday
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The average woman likes to be
bossed during courtship almost as well
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BIG TASK. AHEAD

operations can be resumed before an
other week.
BIG TASK AHEAD.
When asked as to how soon he
would operate the cars In the event
no settlement is effected, President
Calhoun said that the bringing to the
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The best time to kiss pretty girl is
any old time.
The Dolores star., 1906-01-19

the name of Ruggles. He said he
would go and investigate II some one
would go with him. No one offered 10
go but the proprietor. who said he
would If he could only walk.
81 viii take you on my back" said
Ruggles. And in this way they start
ed. They reached the graveyard wall
where the ghost was said to have been
seen. All at once something on the
other side arose and said: rs he
fat?'
Fat or lean, you may have h;m.
said Ruggles, and he threw Mr.. Chute
off his back and ran for his life. Mr..
Chute got up and ran, too. He got
back TO the tavern first. and was SAID
to never have been lame afterwarl
The cause of their fright prove'l t.
be two men engaged in stealing sheep.
One was hid in the graveyard to uelp
tie them when the other came in from
the pasture with them on his back.
He saw Ruggles with his burden, and
took him for his partner with a shnep.
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Abode of Monarchs
Versailles Palace Saw the Last Of the
Grandeur and Vice OF Bourbon Kings
y
Especial Correspondence.) }

OF all the palaces in Europe, Yer
sailles is the greatest existing re-
minder of the disasters which may
come upon royalty from a wilfnl dis
regard of the rights of their subjects.
Versailles saw the last OF the grand
eur of the Bourbon kings of France.
and the scenes of luxury, levity and
vice enacted in its chambers were
the mocking prelude of the terrible
drama OF the revolution, in which
the people wreaked their vengeance
on the unhappy sovereign who had
turned deaf ear to the nations cries
for life, while with his favorites he
squandered the money wrung by
heavy taxes from his subjects
At Versailles we see the little world
in which the notorious Nine. Pom
oadour. the vicious du Barry and
other royal favorites lived and held
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and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all. possessed of q wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1s43 she married Isaac Pinlham,
a builder and real estate operator. and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and q
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days It
was common for mothers to mike
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in physician only in specially
urgent cases. By tradition and ex-
Perience many of them gained won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took great interest
In the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; so, If we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex-
pressly designed to cure the various
ills and weaknesses Of the body, and
1t was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was rare combina.
tion of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
liar to the female sex, and Lydia 4. Pink.
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this SO far was done freely, with.
out money and without price, as q
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. Its length and severity were toe
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen-
nial year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three sons and the daughter.
with their mother, combined forces to
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restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
SO good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were stepped on the stove,
gradually filling q gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it. for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired . Job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of tho medi-
cine, now called Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York. and brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties Of
the medicine were, to q great extent.
sclf-advertising, for whoever used it
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
lily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success Of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia +. Pinkham and her Vege-
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia 4. Pinlsham herself did not
live TO see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively rs she could have done II
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she wns always careful to pre-
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
careful study. and the details, includ-
ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds OF thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent . vast collabora-
tion of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled In any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
luuukhtcT III INV, tnc pTcseut MTb-
Pinkham. She was care fully instructed
in all her hard-won knowledge, and
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction OF the work when It's origins
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she has continued II, and
nothing in the work shows when tho
first Lydia E. Pinlham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pfnkham,
now the mother of a large family, t$x
1t up. With woman assistants, s.rDe a.
capable us herself, the present Mrs.
Pinkham continues this great work. and
probably from the Office of no other
person have SO many women been ad-
vised how to regain health. Sick wo-
men. this advice is yours for Health"
freely given II you only write to ask
for it.
Such is the history Of Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs the one
great medicine for women's ailments,
and the fitting monument to the noble
woman whose name it bears.
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work on the great aqueducts, and
when the water supply was finished
its course was literally strewn with
corpses.
The greatest glory of Versailles
was under its originator. "The Grand
Monarch" here held revels unrivnied
for their splendor in modern times.
Louis XIV cared less for Versailles
than for some of his other palaces,
but XVI and Marie Antoinette favored
it as place of residence. In its vast
park the young Austrian queen spent
her happiest days, living at the Little
Trianon, miniature palace, and hav-
ing model farmhouse built near, in
which she played at pastoral life.
Largest Fountains in World.
AS show place the park and gard
ems at Versailles are a great attrac-
ton to tourists. The fountains are
the largest in the world, and on spe-
cial occasions, when the central ones,
or great waters" play. thousands
throng out from Paris to see them
The woods contain numerous cum
where marble benches for repose, and
beautiful statuary are found There
still remains. also, near the palace,
the beautiful marble colonnade of a
classic circus. where royalty was en-
tertained with games.
After the enforced return of the
court of Louis XVI to Paris, in Octo.
ber, 1889, Versailles was never again
used as a royal residence.
Its art collection, dating from the
Napoleonic regime. is chiefly modern.
Architecturally the palace, with its
long facades on the west, is monot-
onous. but in detail more interesting,
as it is the greatest example we have
of the work of Jules Mansart (1645-
1909. from whose designs it was
built.
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Woman becomes Broker.

A brokers' office has been opened
in the Mercantile Library Building.
Cincinnati. by Mrs. Carlotta Thomp-
son Brown, who has fitted the place
out handsomely for the benefit of
her patrons.
Mrs. Brown until her marriage
about a year ago was connected with
a bank-the only woman cashier in
Cincinnati. Tired of the monotony
of housework, she has re-entered the
business world.
Keeping house is the most tire
some thing | know Of" said she. after
twelve months of domestic i.fe.
Whether a woman does her own
work or has servants to do 1t. there
is not enough mental stimulus In
Homework for woman who has neld
her own in the business world.
Besides. it is poor judgment to
waste ability on housework which
any one of average intelligence could
do"
Mrs. Brown is the mistress of q
beautifully appointed fiat. presided
over by high-priced housekeeper -
New York World.
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millionaire and had lighted a fire
in the crate that doesn't work, and
hidden everything hideable under the
bed. I put the pie out on the window
sill and drew the inside curtains so
that you never could have seen it
without staring impolitely.
"Of course, was horribly nervous
and kept running to the dressing
table to daub powder on my nose and
poking the fire and peeking out OF the
window every time the doorbell
rang. At last the bell gave a funny
little conventional tinkle I sneaked
to the window and peered cautiously
out. But the visitor. whoever he was,
was standing just few inches too
far inside the doorway to be seen
from my point of vantage. Curiosity
got the better of discretion within
me, and. very carefully, SO as not to
make it creak, l opened the window
and leaned out.
Il hal scarcely touched the sill
when there was whirl of something
white and yellowish through the air,
a splash and then crash! / shrieked
and clapped my hands to my eyes.
When withdrew them all 1 could Gee
was the retreating figure Of a portly
gentleman in a frock coat flying mad
ly down the street with my custard
pie reposing on the top of his silk
hat and dripping over his face and
shoulders like Niagara Falls in win
ter. No. he won't come back. Don't
attempt to console me! I'll never
be able to swallow another mou.hful
of custard pie again as long as live
without choking! Every hope I've
got in the world was sqrashed with
that pie!'
And the tears rolled down her
cheeks and fell into the Are IN the
crate 30 1t wouldn't work.
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CRUSHED UNDER PIE
WERE ARTISTS HOPES AND MIL
LloNAIRE's SILK HAT. :.
Impression So Ardentiy Desired Was
Certainly Made, But Not In the
Right Transformation Under
the Circumstances Simply Mock
cry.

Don't talk to me-" walled the girl
artist wiping a daub of green paint
OF the side of her nose with a clean
corner of her apron. Don't even
look at me! can't bear it! I'm a
failure-a rank miserable"
Tut, tut" interrupted the sympa-
thetic friend, carefully testing the
strength of a tabourette before sitting
down on it. why this sudden de-
pression?"
1T isn't a matter OF depression;
it's matter of impression" correct
ed the girl artist, pulling a screen in
front of her last nights supper table.
What do you think of an impression
list who cannot make an impression? ?"
But l thought you had. you know.
Your paintings"
ut isn't my paintings; it's my
pies" was the astonishing rejoinder.
"and II I've made an impression it's
the very worst possible one / could
make. Listen. and you shall hear.
You remember how we'll my two sub
week? Well, had worked over those
things for six months and my whole
future depended on them.
Perhaps you heard that certain
millionaire was seen admiring them.
Well, he did more than that. He
offered to buy them, and even went
so far as to make an appointment to
call and see me about the prices and
to look at more of my work. You
don't know what that means to an
artist who has been living on tea
and hope. with an occasional bologna
sausage, for two solid years. | had
even planned to pay my three months
back rent and had picked out a nice
new stylish studio on the strength
of 1t. 1 got to feeling SO merry and
wealthy over it that l decided to have
real dinner with my last spare
change. I went straight out and
bought steak and bottle of wine
and beautiful custard pie, one OF
the thick, creamy kind, you know,
with white fluffy dubs all over the
top Of 1t and crust like snowfiakes.
l was madly reckless. Thus does
success turn the youthful head.
when l was ready to receive my
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vindictive Bachelors Form Club.

vindictive Bachelors Form Club.
Because several have been Tilted by
summer girls ten young bachelors of
Roscoe and Rockland. Sullivan county
N. Y. have formed an anti-matrimony
club and decided to live only for them
selves. Every bachelor becoming a
member Of the club is forbidden to
marry under penalty of 500.
The better TO counteract any long
ing for the society of ladies, the club
has leased tract Of land and erected
a clubhouse. where the members con-
gregate and renew their pledges Of
bachelorhood.
Two of the members were Tilted by
summer girls last summer. four have
vowed to marry only city girls and the
four others. while not telling their
troubles. are said to have been turned
down by native beauties.-New York
Sun.
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ir sway over the destinies Of the

their sway over the destinies of the
nation.
So many historic memories are con-
nected with Versailles that only a
few can be recalled when one is actu-
ally in the great palace. One pauses
long, for example, in the vast gal
lcrY of glass;" or hall of mirrors, on
recalling that it was here the victori-
Gus King william of Prussia, grand
father of the present kaiser, caused
himself to be proclaimed the German
emperor, in January, 1871.
So great and so numerous are the
galleries of Versailles. now unfur-
nished-for the palace was plundered
in the revolution-and filled with pic
lures and sculpture, that the visitor
is apt to turn from them with relief
to the many suites of small apart
ments intimately connected with the
daily lives of the three kings of
France who lived here.
In the Kings Apartments.
In one of these little paneled cham
bers is seen the secret door by which
du Barry used to enter the kings
apartments. In another is the win
dow by which the heartless Louis XIV.
stood and watched the funeral train
of his once beloved Pompadour. say
ing: "The marquise has pad weather
for her journey" In the next cham
ber the king died of smallpox.
Here we see Louis XVI receiving
the startling message from Mirabeau,
when he ordered the first legislature
to disperse: I'VE are here by the
will of the people. and we shall leave
only at the point of the bayonet!"
Here is the very gallery on which
the brave Marie Antoinette, unjustly
blamed for the abuses of the court,
stood alone before the rabble from
Paris, thirsting for her blood. on the
terrible night of Oct. Is, 1889, when
the long, cruel drama Of retribution
for the royal house. to end only at
the guillotine four years later. was
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Gen. Hamilton. lapans.e.

Sir Ian Hamilton, in his book on
the Russo-Japanese war, relates an
amusing incident in connection with
his stay at Toxic. where he was en-
chanted by the smiles of the "gei-
shas." He met woman called the
Hon. Miss Sparrow, and asked an in
terpreter to say to her that he would
like to carry her OF in a beautiful
golden cage. The compliment did
not please the woman. She sullsed.
and soon went away. Sir Ian took
some pains to find out why. and he
ventually discovered that his speech
had been translated thus: "As you are
sparrow. l wish you would shut
yourself up in a box. Westminster
Gazette.
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in 1927. Compared with the Louvrs
or with Windsor. England's oldest
royal residence. it is relatively mod.
ern palace.
Probably no palace was ever con-
structed at a greater outlay of treas
ure and lives. Its situation. in wood
ed country. twelve Riles from Paris.
was far too pastora; TO suit the views
of Louis XIV, and he undertook great
works to give the new palace an or
nate setting with a result that its
gardens are without parallel in their
extent and artificial grandeur. Great
difficulty was experienced in getting
an adequate supply Of water. and to
form a reservoir distant river was
diverted from its course. The work
was done by soldiers, and hundreds
died from the exhalations of the river
bed. Other hundreds perished in the
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Expert Advice to the Court.

Jim Webster was brought before a
Vermont justice OF the peace. 1t was
the same old charge. After the evil
dence was all in, the judge. with a
pelplexed look, said: But I do not
comprehend. Webster. how it was pos
s.ble for you to steal those chickens
when they were roosting right under
the owners window, and there were
two vicious dogs in the yard"
ut wouldn't do you bit o. good.
jedge. for me to 'splain how l cotched
'em; you couldn't do it II yer tried
forty times. and yer might get hide
full Of buckshot de berry fust time yer
put your leg ober de fence. De bes'
way fer yer to do, jedge, is fer yer
to buy yer chickens ir de market"