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. AAxDBoox FOR HUSBANDS.
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Wpep. me Bride starts Her Crusade OF
Il RefQrm Man Begins toisee Life:
rFI'H admit that words are nothing but
Wind" said Uncle Henry. when he was
dead, sure She wasn't anywhere within
hearing. -but I'd like to call your atten-
fien to the fact also that the same applies
tb b cyclone And after having been
Married since 7 was old enough to vote
row take it from me, son. a mans chances
areIb6tter in cyclone.
sYou take EN- by and large-the women.
|. mean land when they start out to say
55st what they mean it's ducats to dough-
mats sthey don't always mean just what
fhey say. That's the reason why you
haven't got any chance with 'em. You
can dope out where tornado is going to
Nh. but you can't with a woman. She
don't know herself -
The trouble ID when woman goes to
get married she thinks courtship 10 O
s,xnple Of matrimony and all she has got
todcispick out something neat and nobby
that viii match her furs and life is going
tote one long lingering chocolate sundae;
and that's no comic valentine.
jsfen herel You know me. I'm no
shat sided Aigernon with crocheted vest.
L donT wear gold bracelet or a pink
necktie, and never did. But when
Was starring in domestic comedy seven
evenings and three matinees a week,
sty1ng,to dig up nerve and financial back
ing enough TO make my wife that wasn't
then he my wife that is now, used
toshAve so close J had to grow a new face
every fortnight.
tNH used 10 put my trousers between the
mattresses 10 give 'em a crease sharp
enough to cut all my poker friends. and
Isused to wear shirts that looked like
Fourth of July crossing the equator. I
didp't drink anything but ginger ale and
outteruilk and when an auto splashed
me ] said Don't m ention it,
Get the idea? | used to take her out
to all The illustrated lectures and pink
teas, and when she went to a private
female gabfest ! hung around the door
like a sore footed pelican waiting to take
he; home II she was out when called
ld ftay and make happy faces OF the
family 'ultil thee -lCat IL of TO bed and
then d hang g:oInd aud pet the cat.
Siff GS.ahsd vGt, : auediaeNal pkeT com
pared lto-hIl n s,s, nl-..
"she sUrt ~ r0 m ibsp / vac stuck
on her. So did !. lou heiNeu. son; IL
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MODERN BURIAL C4sKETS.
Only no Per Cent. OF the Dead Buried
Nowadays In the Old Time Comm.

An elaborate burial casket lately made
in this city was lined with silk and covered
with silk plush. both lining and covering
being OF a delicate peachbloom pink.
Az least one such casket has been covered
with plush Of Nile green; and plush
covered caskets are made in blue, white,
black gray and purple, purple being the
color most often used Made Of the finest
materials, such caskets are expensive,
ranging in price from $500 to 81 100.
While baskets such as these might ex-
cite wonder. yet burial caskets OF one
sort and another have now come into such
general use that throughout great part
OF the country probably not more than
10 per cent. OF those who die are buried
in collins With this change has come u
great change In burial customs.
The old time coffin was made in one
anciently familiar style. II might be made
OF whitewood or oak or mohoRany,
and Il might be expensively trimmed, but
1t was still coffin; and by the cabinet
maker or the undertaken all cofins were
made. The modern burial casket is made
In hundreds Of styles and it's manufacture
is business by itself.
Burial caskets Of the least expensive
sorts, Of wbitewood stained in imitation
OF oak or mahogany, may be bought at
a cost not much greater than that Of
cofin; and q cloth covered oasket may
now be had as low as so. The great
majority are those ranging in price up to
about 500, and the greatest demand 10 for
caskets black cloth covered.
There are burial caskets covered with
velvet; and metallic caskets Of
aluminium and bronze, burial caskets Of
bronze costing from u 100 10 81 500; and
there are many oaskets, some Ia great
simplicity Of design and others richly
covered, made in various fine woods.
Here is a massive burial casket OF teak
wood, its cost $1,000. Here 10 casket Of
dark red mahogany finished with mar
queterie work, the inlay being Of syoa-
more, the price being 500. Here is q
oasket made Of what is called vermilion
wood, Of a deeper hue than even the
darkest red mahogany sad having a
beautiful grain. and here. is a simple
and beautiful casket Of white mahogany,
this costing $3.50.
Burial oaskets made of the silver maple
arc very beautiful. OF itg natural color
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you get on a. gag often enough you'll get
to believing 1t yourself
Catch the drift Of my remarks? She
had me picked ont. sorted done up in
bundles and labelled FOR shipment. She
could see one long lifetime OF being the
capital it. with faithful Heuny weaving
himself into graceful motifs as back
ground for her illuminating presence.
She had seen the 90 mple, and her faith
In the honest intentions OF Kismet was
quite considerable.
We'll, how bout Il? How did Henny
measure up when the gaze into my
abe do when she found that there is more
than single ace in every deck and that
because everything is for the best II
doesn't necessarily mean that il has got
to be for our best?
well, son, she was surprised. I'm
no word painter. but viii 80 SO far as to
intuition she reached the conclusion that
man is an onion; and, being woman Of
q persevering spirit anu good digestion
she inhtigated an era OF reform.
I'm talking to you as man to man,
and I'm telling you that there Is nothing
SO painful as reform. For another
thing, the trouble is that reformers spend
else. and somebody else never has any
real aptitude for being reformed. Hence.
likewise and moreover. you can catch
mora crabs with hunk of meat than you
can yelling at 'em from the bank.
Man IL human, but the way to his heart
is through his stomach. Which Is. as
might say, a blamed sight easier way 10
play on bis emotions than to 60 around
chewing up the bric.A-brac and wearing
your tongue out against your teeth max
ing noises intended to sound like conver-
sation. But ] guess women rather talk
than cook, and I'm a pretty good
gueseer.
Honest. she started in to reform me-
Her intentions we're good and the chances
are might have been banged around
bit until J. had gone half way. But it
didn't work
SIN a lonesome kind OF an old thing
and wasn't strong for that reform idea
in the first place. II I'd had company
I'd have showed speed, but you take Il
from me It's pleggy sight easier to say
Let's us reform and make IL foot up right
In the end than 1t 10 TO say Now you re-
FORM and let IL 20 at that.
You got to give 'em credit, though.
They keep at t. II anything don't suit
'em they don't brood over II.
They don't 'let concealment like a
worm J. tn bud feed on their damask
cheek. as the foreigner with the pointed
WhiskeTs Used 10 say They don't sit
hike Patience on a monument smiling
Al grief. They stand like the Goddess
of Liberty defying the lightning
ihey We got the tablets 1f the law
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TIE GINGHAM APRoN MAN.
A Newcomer Among These VINO Call Up
the Dumbwaiter shaft.


A Newcomer Among These VINO Call Up
the Dumbwaiter shaft
Many people come to the foot OF the
dumbwaiter shaft in the fiat house case
ment ana call up: Amy nice oranges
to-day2' and @Knives or scissors 10
grind2' and that sort OF thing. but perhaps
the most unexpected Of them all Ia the man
who sells gingham aprons. You rather
expect the other things, but not gingham
aprons. -.
But here they are. and its man that's
selling them. and he says up the shaft;
'lll send them up for you to look at and
you can, take your ohoice. and II you find
one you like send down the money for it.
They're only 20 cents. same as the stores,
but my wife makes 'em and they're much
bigger
And 80 he sends them up and the house
wife looks them over; ana they are good
aprons and good size. and she needs an
apron Just then. and 60 she takes one.
Whether the mans wife redlly did make
them or not she doesn't know: but II she
did. why, her husband must be out OF
work, and altogether they must be IN
pretty hard case and maybe that all
moves the buyer some. But abe really
needs an apron, and so she buys one any
way and puts the rest back In the dumb
walter and the 20 cents wrapped up In
piece OF paper on the shelf beside them.
and then she calls down:
Here's the rest Of the aprons, and
the money for one took"
And he answers back UP the shaft
thank you, I'm much obliged. Good
by
And when she hears his volce again:
sounding 90 natural and unaffected and
unpedlerlike, why. really. she 10 inclined
10 believe the story Is true.
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HERE'S THE ECHAMPIoN FATMAN
Engiand's Jelly Jumbo" Hotel Keeper
and Trainer or Fighters.

England's champion fat man. a a0t
FOUNDER. who is one Of the leading sporting
celebrities on the other side. Is William
Thomas Eoolestone. better known Al
Jolly Jumbo" 1t is his boast that he h
the biggest human being on the face oi
the earth.
| He has carriage. chair and bed spe-
cially built for him and a heavy dray horse
hugs him from placs to place. II he could
have his weight in gold he would be able
to salt away 100000. But with all thie
avoirdupois Jolly Jumbo can move
around as lively on his feet as feather
weight,
In telling how he got his nickname be
famous elephant Jumbo aboard ship
ut Liverpool and that he rendered so
much valuable assistance that the by
ISLANDERS dubbed him Jumbo without
further ceremony His jovial disposi-
tlon he says caused jolly TO be tackled
on later.
The big man soon went into the hotel
business and opened a sporting resort
which has been made the headuuarters
Of many pugilists in recent years. jolly
Jumbo meanwhile learned 20 much about
boxing that he became an expert trainer
OF pugilists.
@0ne Of the most valuable oualities
q trainer can possess he said recently.
lis that OF inspiring confidence In his
man. Well, l have that, and when l am
at the ringaide my lad Is sure to win,
Everybody knows this In 50, and one
day up in Sheffield rival patron who
was backing q boxer played Joke on
me that I shall never forget The old
rascal arranged that turnstiles should
be placed ut every entrance TO the hail,
and OF course when came up couldn't
get through, much less over; so my lad
was nefariously deprived of my moral
support. He won nevertheless. SO that Il
ended happily after all
MY enormity has led me into some
pretty pickles. i can tell you. / weigh
"a stone, with chest 0 feet I inch. thisb
9iH inches, calf as1< inches; paupoh a
feet AZ inches. arm 2s inches and fool
% inches long. Once when ] was going
70 Coventry found . couldn't get into
the carriages, md when asked the guard
70 put me In his van he blankfy refused
so ! had 20 travel as luggage In the
luggage van, ara when ihe portev Saw
me no said Which Side ap, Iyoause I'm
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the maple would be very light, almost
white, bait to be used for this purpose
Ii is 80 treated as to make it gray. and
through. It. is a wood with beautiful
natural markings, and this beautifully
marked gray wood is finished in the made
up casket with a dull smooth polish.
From $500 to $500 the silver maple caskets
cost; more Of them are sold in Philadelphia
than in any other city.
American burial caskets in considerable
numbers are now exported to various
foreign countries. including the West
Indies and South America, and England
South Africa and Australia.
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farther around than UP and down, and he
on myself.
Il have broken the springs and bent
the steps Of innumerable cabs and carts,
and nine times out Of ten the cabbies
refuse to take me as q fare. The railway
carriages have signs that say Seat nve.
but when get in they sSy seat three.
trousers and boots. and once an out6tter
who made me some dress shirts exhibited
one in the window and II took mp the whole
space.
i eat anything want except potatoes,
and as for the anti-fat preparations. don't
you believe In them at all. Exercbe 10
the only thing for fat folks and recon-
mend them all to try it,
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hae been effected primarily by using those
very qualities that in the past have
limited the dolls sphere to the home
diegie. so. 90. r..-.r.
Bove and alteration are good stimuli
y tbe mental viewpoint. Ssays she, and
the child who has been taught or has q
Erafairal fendness for her Illuminate play
fellow Is the one who most quickly re-
sFsbnds TO the teaching that the doh in
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ExpIain,ng Matters,

From tRs YOUTHS CoinpdNioN.
There were some deficiencies In the early
education OF Mrs, Donahoe. but she never
ence. VIII you sign your name heref-
said the young lawyer whom Mrs. Donahoe
had asked 70 draw up deed transferring q
-You Sign Il yonfsiif an IN make me
mark, said the old woman quickly. Since
me eyes gave out IN not able TO write q
How do YOU spell it?" he asked, pen
poised above the proper space
Spell u whatlver way you place, said
Mrs. Donahoe, recklesa)y Shoe ! lost
] can spell.
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II that were not true, then the child might
as we'll learn to love q teddy bear, which
has absolutely no grace Of body, no charm
Of mind, no historical interest or external
accomplishment to recommend it
Miss Dawson expressed surprise that
there are so few doll collections in
America, her information concerning
them taking cosnizance of only three or
four we'll known collections. the pri n-
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spires the child to.

spires the child to. 49,
1T is all very well to love doll, which
has simply no claim on one except just
being a doll, and we do not want to de-,
stroy that germ Of human feeling, but We,
try to make the children see that even.
in the plainest doll there should be some
thing besides an appeal TO one'saifection.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
BULGARIANs OPTIMISTIC
Convinced That Big Powers Will
Recognize independence

SOFIA Oct. 13.-"There is no cloud
on the Bulgarian horizon" sums up the
official view in sofia Of the events that
have transpired since the proclamation
OF Bulgarian independence by Prince
Ferdinand, October 5 The government
IS convinced that the chancelories of
Europe viii swing TO a more favorable
view Of BulEaria's s action al soon as
the danger Of a general cOnhagration
is over
The troops now under arms. includ-
ing the reserves recently called out
reach a total Of 1900 men They
VIII be kept 10 the colors for another
month, pending a settlement Of the ex-
listing situation. The guards on the
frontier have been given stringent in
structiOns 10 keep well within the ter
ritory limits of the new kingdom and
10 avoid clashing with the Turks.
The illness of Prince Boris, eldest
son Of King Ferdinand, is the reason
why the members OF the royal family
We're not present at the festivities in
Sofa yesterday in connection with the
kings triumphal entry into his capital.
The assumption by Prince Ferdinand
OF the ancient Bulgarian title Of car
appealed 10 the sentiment Of the people
and added vastly TO his popularity.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
WILL AID NATIVE LAND
Local SerVians Declare They
Will Volunteer to Fight

Aroused 10 the pitch OF burning pa
triotism and counting any sacrifice
small that may aid in reuniting their
distressed country, the Servians of San
Francisco and Alameda county are
closely following the trouble in the
Balkans. and should war be declared
they viii be early in the fray. Three
hundred men Of the local colony stand
ready 70 volunteer for the Servian
army. and the women are prepared to
sell their Jewels and rich ornaments
and even their household goods that the
war funds Of their native land may be
increased. A fund Of $4,000 is now
being pledged.
Austria must renounce its annexa-
tion Of the provinces of Bosnia and
herzegovina declare the local Servians,
and that slogan viii be firmly articu-
lated at a mass meeting TO be held in
this city next Monday evening at a
place TO be determined upon later. The
local tension is in accord with the
feeling Of all Servians in this country.
While from the capitals of European
diplomacy comes the word that war will
be averted through compromise, the
Servians insist that nothing can stop
them from attacking Austria but the
restoration Of the provinces IN dispute.
Milan NfkOlich. teacher in a local
mechanical school. is chairman of a
committee Of 25 which is planning the
mass meeting for next Monday night
Ella Balich is a prominent member Of
the committee. and so is Bozo Ranko-
vich. formerly a citizen Of the capital
city Of Bulgaria and now prominent in
local Servian affairs.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
ACTRESS TO WE'D
BANKRUPT BROKER
Edna Wallace Hopper Tells Re-
ceiver She Is to Marry
A. O. Brown

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-Edna Wallace
Hopper, the actress, today told Charles
E. Littlefeld, receiver of the failed
brokerage firm of A. o. Brown & Co.
that the head of that firm and she are
engaged to be married.
The receiver was inquiring into the
circumstances under which A. o. Brown
gave Miss Hopper $500 automobile
and transferred to her an insurance
policy on his life for s25,000 Miss Hop
per, who had been called as a witness.
declared that the transfers We're made
long before the brokerage firm got into
trouble.
Mr.. Brown gave me the car on March
g." she said, knowing that of all things
1 most wanted 1 had never received q
motor car. He knew L would enjoy il. y
The young woman then stated that
at the time of the transaction in oues-
tion there existed and still exists an
engagement of marriage between her
and Brown.
Miss Hopper formally declined to give
up either the automobile or the in
surance policy. She also testified to
having received a gift of money from
Brown after returning from an auto
mobile tour which she took alone. The
money was Just gift, to do with as
/ pleased" This concluded her testi-
mony. The hearing was adjourned To
Friday next.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
LACK OF MONEY HALTS
HAMS BROTHERS, TRIAL
District Attorney of Queens
County, New York, Fails to
Secure Appropriation
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-Owing to fail
ure to obtain from the board of alder
men an appropriation of $4,000 with
which to carry on the work of his Of
fee. Ira G. Darrin, district attorney of
Queens county. announced that he
would be compelled to stop the prose-
cution of the Hams brothers and 9TH
ers indicted for crime
L will close all the courts" Darrin
said TO The Calls correspondent to-
night.
Z have done the best can and will
not attempt to do any more work so far
as criminal matters are concerned
have done the best / could with the
little appropriation 1 had. There is no
money left. l have explained the mat
ter to the board of aldermen and have
said that to attempt to go further with
out funds would be farcical"
For several weeks a resolution call
Darrin's use has lain dormant in the
finance committee of the board of al
dermen. An attempt to vote on it was
found to be futile today as sufficient
votes for its passage We're not obtain
able.
Alderman Timothy P Sullivan, chair
man of the committee. assured Darrin
that the measure would be passed next
week
When asked if lack of funds would
interfere with the trial of the Hams
case, Darrin replied:
Il can not do anything else / must
drop everything at once. I can not
work without money"
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
ABDUCTION OF GIRL
REMAINS UNSOLVFD
Miss Lois Forsythe Unshaken
in Her Story of Mysterious
Attempt to Kidnap
Police Believe Girls Mind Tenn
p0rarily Deranged or She
Tried to Elope

SANTA ROSA, Oct. 1S.-while the
happy ending so essential to all good
mystery stories has come about in the
case of Miss Lois Forsythe, the Is year
old Santa Rosa girl the mystery of the
maids queer experience of Monday aft
ernoon is yet unsolved. Miss Forsythe
was brought to her home here today
from Alameda by her father, Henry NJ
Forsythe, a prominent merchant. Both
parent and daughter insist that the
tale told by the latter when she
reached San Francisco was true. The
police are skeptical.
Miss Forsythe stated this afternoon
that she was alone at her home Mon
day afternoon about o'clock. Then a
strange man appeared at the front door
and, with pistol in his hand, entered
the house, intimidating her with the
weapon. His evident purpose was bur-
glary, but his criminal ambition was
easily satisfied, according to the girls
story, for he only took as his loot a
$3.50 gold piece. which was found in
the mothers trinket box.
Then, still intimidating her, he made
her accompany him to the railroad sta
tion, telling her that they were fol-
lowed by two of his confederates and
that If she made outcry she would be
hurt. Docilely she complied with his
orders, going to the Northwestern Pa
cific railway depot, purchasing the
ticket herself and accompanying the
stranger on the train. Not until she
was on the Tiburon ferry near San
Francisco, when Clarence II. Whitney,
the University of California freshman
approached her. did she ask for aid in
freeing herself from her sinister at
tendants.
Miss Forsythe was seen at the depot
by several friends, and they declared
today that she did not act in the per-
turbed manner that would be expected
from the victim of such bold abduc-
ton. Miss Ella Lee, who knows Miss
Forsythe we'll, saw her at the station
and says she was apparently alone.
II. II. Tice,' the station agent, says that
she purchased the ticket for San Fran
cisco with a $3.50 gold piece, evidently
the coin taken from the mother
trinket abox. Miss Forsythe explains
that by saying that the man gave her
that money and that she returned the
change to him.
Two theories of the case are held by
the police here. One is that Miss For
sythe had arranged to elope with some
one and on reaching San Francisco
changed her mind when Whitney met
her. and told him a fantastic story of
abduction The other is that the en-
tire story is figment of the brain
Miss Forsythe told District Attorney
Clarence F. Lea at Santa Rosa the story
of her alleged kidnapping late this aft
ernoon, burt no new facts were devel-
oped. There is not the least trace of a
man in the case and the mystery is no
nearer solution than last night
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
PARIS FEARS CONFLICT
Bulgaria Believed TO Be Danger
Point in Balkan Crisis

PARIS, Oct. 13.-Advices received
here this morning from French official
sources indicate that the danger point
in the Balkans has shifted back to Bull
gsria. While there is no confirma-
tiOn Of the report that Bulgaria has
delivered an uitimatum 10 Turkey re-
Earding the recognition Of her inde-
pendence inside Of three days, there
is reason TO believe that Bulgaria is
determined to make a move If Turkey
and the powers persist in their refusal
TO accept her independence as an ac-
cOmplished fact.
It is believed here that if the Bull
garian army crosses the Turkish
frontier. Great Britain will land troops
for the protection Of Constantinople.
The danger Of a declaration of war
from Servia is considered over for the
present. The French government has
decided to leave Servia's demand for
compensation from -Hunga
10 the consideration Of the powers.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-14
HAWAIIAN MINISTER'S ARE
PERPLEXED BY DIVORCE
Committee Is Appointed to
Study Question, Due to Many
Separations by Decree

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CALL
HONOLULU. Oct THE Hawaiian
ministerial union has appointed a spe-
cial committee to look into the question
of divorce in Hawaii with a view to
taking steps to mitigate what the mem
bers claim must be an evil. Rev. f. w.
Thwing, chairman of the committee.
states that it may be necessary for the
ministers to refuse to perform the
marriage ceremony for divorced per-
sons within a stated time after the
granting of the decree and in some
cases altogether. The number of
divorces principally among Hawaiians
and orientals, has Increased rapidly of
late, averaging one a day for the last
two months. Those familiar with the
situation state that the enforcement of
the Edmunds act here is responsible
for the large number of divorces and
that the situation will be vastly i'm
proved so soon as the marital relations
of the Hawaiians and Japanese are set
tied to fit the requirements of the fed
eral statute