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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-11
NUGGETS BATTLE
WITH GIANT FOR A
$4,000 STAKE
Acterneier DwarfS Sue Former
Manager Rossow for
Money in Bank.

This IL a story Of two dwarfs who
are pitted against Q giant to-day In the
Supreme Court.
The dwarfs are sueing the giant, be.
cause, they say, he took their money
and gave them his name. After six
teen years they have decided their own
rame good enough, and although they
arc dwsrfs they have managed to get
up sufficient courage to tell tho giant
just how much they feel about 1t.
or course, they are modern dwarfs
and he Is q modern giant. so that ex-
plains why they've taken their griev.
ance 10 court,
The dwarfs are Franz and Carl Ac-
terme!er known In vaudeville, In this
country and abroad, as the Rossow
Ai!dgets The giant is Herman Rossow.
II appears, according 10 Charles c.
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from Be-uaty OF the BEST while many prices from
half to third less than those charged BY other grocers Is
prisng that popular with the thrifty housekeepers
New lork The wonder that any hosekecpcr should trade
where except at Buffers The first trial purchase invariably makes
steady customer
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patton, pain in limbs, sleeplessness,
belching OF gas, biiousness, sick
headache, nervousness, dizziness and
many other similar symptoms.
II your appetite is tickle and moth.
Ing 'e,lpts YOU, or You belch gas, or II
you feel bloated after eating, or your
food lies like lump OF lead on your
stomach, you can make up your mind
that AT the bottom Of all this there is
but one ause-fermentation Of undi-
gested food.
Prove to yourself after your next
meal, that your stomach Is as good as
any: that there 3 nothing really
wrong, Stop this fermentation and
begin eating what you want without
fear Of discomfort or misery.
Almost instant relief is waiting for
you 1t is merely matter of how
soon you take some Dlapepsin.
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MRS. TAFT INTERESTED
IN WORKING WOMEN.
Meeting to Be Held Under the Joint
Guidance OF Herself and
Miss Ann Morgan.

= WASHINGTON, March ll.-Under the
guidance OF Mrs. William H. Taft and
Miss Ann Morgan, daughter OF j. p.
Morgan, a meeting to discuss the wei.
fare OF working women will be held al.
the Public LIBRARY here March 10.
: Miss Morgan has been interested IN
this matter for some time, and Mrs
Taft has been given 4 part in It at her
own request, Oe!ns particularly inter.
ested In tae women employed by the
Government.
The specific matter before the meet.
Ing at this time will be the conten,ion
OF the women In the bookbiniers' de.
partment that they should be retog.
nized BY the Civil Service Commission
a. bookbinders and not simply as skilled
iaeorers.
Mrs Nicholas Longworth and Mra
os,ar suaus will be at the msstlaE.
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ROASTED MAN
ON SALOON STOVE
AFTER BEATING
Judge Orders Sullivan's Pho.
tograph Taken for Evidence
Against Assailants.

Robert Sullivan looked more like
hamburger steak, well done In spots ard
rare In Others, than man when he
appeared In the Yorkvllle court to-day
as complainant His appearance was
such that later he was officially photo.
graphed at Police Headquarters,
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- ZHE .AZAZAWIA.- -

Germany. OF the law firm Of Edward NJ.
Burghard, No. 20 Broadway, counsel for
the Acterme!ers, that Rossow "discov-
cred" the n!dgets In Saxony In 1891 He
saw great possibilities in them from q
commercial standpoint, and proposed to
their father, a poor farmer. that he
uossnw) be permitted 10 take the littls
fellows away with him. \ contract was
signed. Rossow agreeing TO pay $3.50 per
month to the father and defray the
travelling and living expenses OF the
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LA TOILETTE 10 SPEAK.

Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette. Of wis
consin, will be the speaker at a meeting
to be held by the Civic Forum at Car.
negle Hall tomorrow evening to dis
cuss Direct Primary Nominations"
Senator La Toilette is the father OF thu
direct primarily system In his state,
where il has been IN operation for SOW
eral years His views are along differ
ent Ire. trOm those of Coy. Hughes.
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dwarfs. At that time Franz was four.
teen and Carl eleven.
Paid Only $35 a Month.

It is alleged tina, Rossow has travelled
all over the world with the m!dsets.
even into remote corners Of South Amer.
lea and Africa, and Notwithstanding he
has amassed a fortune Of half million
dollars, has never paid more than ss5
per month TO the elder Actermeer since
the midgets became OF age. Their sal
aries on the vaudeville stage have
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WE ARE SELLING THESE NEW LAID EGGS BY
The MlLLlON-te best evidence that they giving unqualified
satisfaction Compare them with eggs bought elsewhere
dozen and the quality is Identical But THE COST is CUT
IN HALt-at the nearest James Butler Store, and this makes
big difference to most housekeepes with everything you buy
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PeerIeSS-the great Spring
tonic and strengthener; apure
malt liquid food for women
and children; 3 bottles On
Csc; bottle, ....... ~
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brother, wilhSlm, out with them o.
their manager, Rossow didn't like II
Sue for Money In Bank.

The dwarfs consulted lawyer, with
the result that an injunction was OBJ.
tuined from the Court restraining Ros.
SOW from drawing on the savings bank
accounts. amounting In all to about
SlJitO
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THE SONG CARUsO SINGS.

The words and music OF Heavenly
Aida" a. sung by Caruso In Serdrs opera
AIDA" At the Metropolitan Opera House,
will be given with neat SUNDAYS World.
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KING EDWARD POSSESSES
POWER OF AN AUTOCRAT

The resolution passed at an unem-
ployed meeting in London the other
day. calling upon King Edward to
issue an order permitting his out Of
work subjects to dig for minerals, is
not quite as ridiculous as it appears
to be on the face of it. says Pearson's
weekly.
Strictly and legally speaking. the
whole of the mineral wealth of the
empire is his majesty's property, as is
also, for that matter, every acre Of
ground that covers and contains it.
Theoretically at all events. there is
nothing to prevent him from granting
the asked for permission.
In certain other directions. too, the
king has still great power left. He
could empty every Jail in Britain by
stroke OF his pen. and keep them empty
so long as he chose to go on exercising
to the full his prerogative Of pardon.
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES

THE M0ON--An Inquirer. Berkeley. Cal Does
the moon affect the weather or vegetation on
earth? What Is the time for pIanting seeds7
A very generally received idea is
that changes in the weather usually
coincide with the changes of the moon.
A series of observations at Vienna some
years ago gave 100 new moons with
So changes of weather, 100 full moons
changes of each quarter 63 changes.
The result might be supposed to indi-
cate that the new moon brings the
fewest changes of weather, which is
directly contrary to tradition. At
Munich. Germany, observations were
taken for over 20 years of the condi-
ton of the moon on every rainy day.
The sum of these days gave the large
proportion of rainy days during the last
half of the lunation, or during the
waning moon. But similar observa-
tions made in Montpelier. France. dur
ing the same period showed a sSrectly
opposite result.
AS to the traditions about the time
Of the moon to sow garden seed. such
Is founded neither on fact nor rational
theory OF any kind, and need only be
tested to prove It's entire absurdity.
COMMUNITY PROPERTY-A s.. Petaluma
Cal. How can community property be arranged
where there are no children so that either the
wife or husband shall come into the fun posses
sion upon the death Of the other?
The law of this state says that upon
the death Of the wife the entire COM
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munity property goes to the surviving
husband without administration II
the husband dies the law SAYS that
one-half Of the community property
goes to the surviving wife, the other
half being subject to the testamentarv
disposition Of the husband.
SANDWICH ISLANDS-A. s. Jack.or -,
What island are known the Sandwich ISLAM I;
The group known as the Hawaisa,
islands was formerly called the SAM
wich islands. They were discoveries
by Captain Cook in 1873, and he nanoed
them for Lord Sandwich, then f1rSf
lord Of the British admiralty.
swINE-A- R. s.. Porter Valley. Cal. w..
IN California can nnd registered b. s,1s,
for sale? S"ins
The query department does not 81
vertise any one or any product. conse-
quently can not furnish the desired In
formation.
LOST PAPERS-N. c., Oakland. caK NJ
naturalization papers were destroyed by the bie-
IRE In San Francisco. Am told that / M, >
take out new papers. What must I do to "a
tablish my citizenship
As you do not state where you Oh
tanned your papers the only answer
that can be given to your query Is that
you communicate with the county cIerl<
OF the county in which you obtaInad
such papers, and he will advise vo,,
what to do.
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on a smaller surface many OF the
real, the eager types of city life;
there is much of the same metro
politian conflict, ambition and
pleasures.
While I have been in San Fran
cisco I have been reassured OF the
attitude of the west and of Ca1ifor-
MIA toward the theater. The vests
attitude toward the salacious play
is absolute; it will tolerate what
New York seems to crave to see.
What goes in New York fails in
the west. In fact. the further a
certain sort of play goes west from
New York the more money is lost
on the venture; in California there
is failure. That is because the
west is normal. The outdoor life
here is conductive to cleanliness In
viewpoint. You see clearly and
frankly out here; you are uncon-
taminated.
There is no reason why there
should not, be an independent
theater playing on big scale here.
In the east-I have been fighting
for the Independent theater for 20
years. I have been all alone in
New York; at times 1 would get
awfully tired. but I persisted and I
won out.
The Easiest Way" Eugene Wal
ter's play, which is at the Belasco
theater, is the biggest success In
so years. / have been vindicated in
my fight. my standards have won
a triumph
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DUCHESS DIED AMID
TREASURES OF DEEPDENE

Deepdene. where Lily. duchess OF
Marlborough, died the other day, was
at one time the home of the originals
of Flaxman's Dante designs. now in the
possession of Lady Haversham. These
were executed on the commission OF
Henry Hope. who was the Maecenas Of
the young England party. 1t was to him
that Disraeli dedicated "Coningsby'' in
1874, because amid the glades and gall
leries Of the Deepdene this work was
conceived and partly executed" The
gem. perhaps, of Lady Haversharn's s
Deepdene souvenirs is, however. the
original manuscript of the well known
lines on the letter "H, !" popularity at
tributed to Byron and Maria Edge
worth, but now generally regarded as a
composition OF Miss Fanshawe.-West-
minister Gazette.
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and theater the other night-my
memory said 1t was the Baldwin ho-
tel. l was on Market street near
Powell. 1 turned to look at the
massive pile of stone and steel.
My face was turned toward the i'm
posing structure, but I found I
could not see. There were tears in
the way. And I saw today that
Lucky" Baldwin was dead. Gone
with his hotel and his theater and
his other activities. Everything
about the corner was different. I
am confused in striving to crowd
out the new and paipable with that
which is so obvious in my memory
but so ghostly in fact.
Why doesn't somebody write play
on San Francisco life? Not neces-
sarily on the life of the new city
that is not so unusual, that is not
sui generis OF California and the
west, as was the old city, the city
OF miners and uncertain ideals and
struggling efforts.
But there has been struggle, too,
in your newer city, II might call
the rebuilt city new-in a civic
sense. Wonderful work has been
done here, tremendous energy has
been expended and the result Is
visible and substantial But what
1 might say about San Francisco
today is what every observer
might say-what has been said be-
fore. It seems as If the energy OF
the nation must have been concen-
trated here during the few months
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Rights and Du-
hes Of Univer-
SHY Professors
official mountebanks

official mounebanks ike Schn On the contrary the university
teacher by virtue of his calling Office takes special
make his voice and influence heard and felt in promoting good
citizenship The of his usefulness in that field
direct ratio of the davor that he with such Schmt
the people who made Schmitt.
The Citizens League of Justice is vital and necessary ns
tuition Of California politics. As institution it all singular
similar organization foot the Ptsburg
sending municipal boodlers to JAIL In Philadelphia many
other cities like organizations with
results They stand for clean politics and good government
they have stay But the Scms don't like them anywhere
1t sort of job that they up Scmit OF
in Ineligible language Examine this gttering passage
Schmitts minority report
informed
shall
what their duties shall
practice for leaves the question of
entirely subject
the legislature.
The who that would be better
night school than laying down the
masters voice have got badly twisted the machine
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Baldwin S
Prophetic
Eye

down Women he had wronged tried shoot him. but the bullets
few harmless His horses the great America He died
muimilhonaire a the age of 81
Luck had part all this but the important part.
Baldwin of imagination Like E. H. Hartman, he had
the prophetic for the of trade industry
and he had the courage of his faith Baldwin
at all in the ordinary His whole life spent foutng
the English shop keepers golden rule Take of the pennies
and the pounds will take themselves Baldwin
pennies but he the big things
and, IN the language OF the street. che
Baldwin the first appreciate the commercial and
industrial significance Of the Comstok lode that worked for
Pacific financial revolution whose receding
yet quite subsidized On that prophetic of hidden
he built his first fortune He understood what the
stock meant for San Francisco and this prompting he created
another fortune AT the time when he built Baldwin
theater seemed daring get away citys
business CENTER but there luck about this choice The pro-
phetic eye had shown him the way.
What matter if fire. assisted by careless business methods
oumbed this great fortune dust and ashes? Baldwin had
looked ahead and realized long before others great
OF southern California and had acquired splendid pincpay
heart Of that wonderful country His foresight made
for he had the courage back his judgment with his
last dollar.
His luck doubt had much do with his financial successes
but the important element Today people only
beginning realize that the Tahoe region destined
OF the Fairgrounds of America Baldwin understood this
thirty ago. and he bet his judgment
OF imagination ened with courage; gambler you like but gifted
with eye for the thing.
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days ago, and l had a
vocal difficulty in con-
veying what sudden i'm
pressions l had acquired
as l entered the city and
surveyed during the first
hours of my visit it's
changed conditions.
Now, L might say, as I
am preparing to leave
! my old home, 1 am emo
tionally confused by the
bewildering new impress
sions and sentimental
recollections that 1 have
experienced during my
stay.
My pen seems to have
inherited some of the
hesitancy which before
was in my voice.
YOU have a different
city here now from the
place I knew. 1 walked
past the Baldwin hotel
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Yield of Prune Tree
Estimated in Pounds


fame for his traffic he vast
1saieo IN ROUNDS
life IN Sacramento his wonderful
him clerical position in the Southern Pacific
Spoue of the few
NJ Hays when
and good is told he
worried by question,
the
from those Of
that locality, Sproule ready information
suddenly mperturbable Spro inquired in
peculiarly aggravating
Nr sproue what is the yield of tree?
weight of fruit produces
Sproulc and dvhou of his
steel
THE yield of healthy when full
pounds
After that Hays referred to sproule information
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dwelt upon. 1t Is too
obvious for comment.
Temperamentaily San
Francisco has the force
and vim that 1t always
had. though the life to-
day might be filtered
through richer hotel
lobbies and clubs In
which the conventional
attire predominates more
than it did at one time.
Your activity of today is
more concentrated. I
might say that the op-
portunities for studying
the psychology of mod
ern city life are greater
in San Francisco than
they are in New York.
The extent Of New York
Is incompatible, of
course, with San Fran
cisco's area and popula-
ton. but here you have
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Impertinent Question No. SO
What Was the Bifferesf Moment of Your Lffe7

For the most original ittest this quesonhe
bnefer the better-Ihe Call will pay FIVE DOLLARS
For the next five answers The Call will pay ONE DOL
LAR EACH. Prize winning answers will be printed next
Wednesday and checks mailed the winners at once Make
your answer short and SEND 1T ON A POSTAL
CARD to
IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS.
THE CALL.
to n. avenue city.
Giving the wago to 1adv
to F H. street. .sanJ
missed
to Harry Duboceav
it.
pnze TO E. H. GOrH Sal
Tuoo o'clock vhen wife tired
sleep -e
pize o lomon, Greens street city.
hred girl he hired.
o G.
Oh, fudgel
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Room With One Door
Satisfies a Drummer

decided
show business and be homan built Spokane
and to be abandoned of Hayward stepped
and persuaded capitalists
charge.
AS there personally popular the northwest than Hay
ward especially travelling his proposition accepted and he
installed
order fifty play the Hayward bought fine clothes and
also large diamond stud The day took charge
travelling the and they all made the hotel
Hulo Hayward and BATH, yelled
as he the office
The supply exhausted speedily and there still
long line of dummer all expressions
forced stand in line and
told to be satisfied with what
At the end of the person.
exhausted and and
he could vial O MS wrath.
Now what do want? beloved the newly appointed IT
suppose room and that a bawh" a
No. sammered the frightened Il
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BIames Rude Boy for
Blow From an Engine

Downy Harves locomotives should him. He hopes
that IS not an account OF their being compelled steam hauling
hood OF pounds
This
day last week Of Downey v charged him. and had
he been of lighter frame might have resulted
O
Barnes of while
that the engineer after he him. leaped off the carefully
ned the locomotive whether collision paid
20
this explains BILLY"
Salada beach nhed
the castle of partner, H. H. McClusky.
leaving for home and happened standing track alb
orbed the highly Miller
when / thought rude small boy had struck
Jim saidyou the Mr. Miller Jim
have exceedingly rude boys They actually hit me-
Jim walked exclaimed For Bnyl An
oided
to not
me-
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The wealthy miner who is hesitat-
ing between an automobile tour and
the acquisition, by marriage, of a
good cook might compromise by
choosing the wife and letting her use
gasoline as the vehicle of her culinary
operations.
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King Alfonso's persistent attempts
to ride in an airship despite the vig-
orous objections of his wife seem to
be successful only in so far as they
get him "rise" out of his royal
helpmate.
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By the injudicious use of comma
a testator unwittingly reduced the
value of his bequests 10000 per cent
His punctuation probably has been
amply supplemented in dashes and
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For permitting Ruef to partake of
a midnight supper at the county Jail
a deputy sheriff has lost his job. Thus
the contention that midnight suppers
are bad for the health finds new
and ardent champion.
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grouches and sometimes find carving knife handy The knife is
not to blame and the delinquent egg capital oense but
combination with cumulative crouch they may play the mischief
So the whole world debtor this philosophical ergeantfor
whom the desk of police station becomes pulpit He might
deed be twin with Michael Joseph Conboy.
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amuses, but does not edify One Schmitt, in
fated with a little brief authority, plays
such fantastic tricks before the legislature as
make the plain citizen laugh. The university
professor does not forfeit his citizenship nor
become subject to the censorship of absurd
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Bewildering gNewlmpressions
And Sentimental Memories
by
DAVID BELASCO
For The CAL

that have passed since the catas-
trophe. But that isn'tsan aspect OF
San Francisco life that need be
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Note and Comment

In sentencing Coffey to the mill
Judge Dunno has put him where he
belongs.
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straight ticket with single motion has always
been favorite device Of the politicians II
saves labor, of course. but this is in fact, only
an excuse for civic laziness 1t ignores the
fact that it is voters duty to make himself
acquainted with the merits of the several can
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He CALL has not statement of any ineligible ground
Of opposition Hoohans bill for removing party
from ballot hv
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exclamation points by the heirs who's
legacies were affected.

After a considerable period of ST.
lence DR.. William ]. Long, nature
faker by the judgment of T. Roose-
welt, opines that wolves are not as
bad as they have been painted DIR.
Longs courage is doubtless bolstered
by the proximity of March 4.
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HE wordy preachment directed at professors of the University
of California because of them have exercised citizens
right join and work with the Citizens League of Justice
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IS perhaps necessary inquire cuously the life
history of Elias Baldwin, but that superficial aspect
Of his which inspired suggested popular nickname
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that slew the blameess cook that boiled and
baked and stewed for all comers in Chicago
So much one learns from the philosophy of the
desk sergeant delivered in sermon shape to
the reporters, of the press, for the seed had
fallen on good ground Thus we find nre-
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EVARE the deadly crouch the hard boiled egg
past present that fatal carving
- knife but the crouch nerved the mortal thrust
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ddas and thereafter his ballot with
safe rule that these days of highly elaborated politics
who from azness or partisan feeling always straight
ticket not good useful citizen An has right tc
straight ticket but he should be encouraged this
by making easy 1t he still insists swallowing the medicine
straight he down the line with stamp according
his common law right be fool tool but there
the world why his neghbors should facilitate the process
The single valid objection the of voting machines has
been that they invited straight voting because that easy
people feared take chances apparently device The
perfection OF election IS constant struggle with the
sonal equation bedeved of crooked politics
There other behind the party circle
SIRE OF politicians to make for their personal advantage
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may deSerYe SOME CONSIDERATIONS II IS DelteT
TO be born lucky than rich, the saying runs.
Baldwin undoubtedly was born lucky and his
good luck seemed to hold all through a long
life, with the possible exception of one bad
streak when his big hotel and theater burned