The San Francisco call., 1910-08-14

SO many years. returning it in the shape of Office.
A VENERABLE HAT
The world is very small Last week l met for
the second time hat that had seen 45 years before
1000 miles away. This ancient and we'll travelled
hat on James K. Hacketts head and it was
given to him by Charles Fechter, who used it in
his great role Don Caesar de Bazan." He was the
greatest of them all, but l am bound to say that
Hackett worthily carries on the tradition.
Fechters business" was peculiarly vivid Take,
for instance, the way he illustrated his penniless
condition. Hackett jingles tattered wallet with
couple of pennies Fechter with single rapid mo-
ton of both hands pulled his breeches pockets inside
out His motions were quick as cat. No man
ever saw Fechter draw sword. 1t was out before
you knew it. | never anything like it except
the way Maclyn Arbuckle pulls his pair OF guns
in The Round Up 1t was sort of s1eight of
hand. But would like to see Hackett play "Ruy
Bias" and The Dukes Motto for old times sake
A NEW KIND OF POLICE.
One rather queer feature of the episte to Coggins
that appears to have escaped notice was the fact
stated by the governor that a Pinkerton detective
had been employed as long ago as April, 1906. to
shadow DR.. Van Lew and compile his biography
day by day. We are not told who employed the
Pnkerton man, but it is explained that his activities
were interrupted by earthquake occurring in that
month There was something of the sort believe
but why convulsion of nature occurring in San
Francisco should draw off detective from Chico
is not clear, unless it might be new phase of
the call of the wild. Who employed him. Doctor
Pardee was governor then and may have patronized
the Pinkertons Governor Glett used the Southern
Pacific detective agency for the same purpose 1t
seems as if had discovered new kind of police
1t may be that the state officials will bear watching
but the public would like to know how the state
department of secret service is maintained
We have dozen different kinds OF police now
looking after the morals and manners Of our people
In journey from San Francisco to the racetrack
across the bay we run the gauntlet OF four different
kinds of police and these are only the regulars.
With the increase of gumshoe artists that nothing
but an earthquake can stop it might seem that one
half the population making living by watch
ing the other half
The Boston Transcript earnedly speaks of Mrs.
Katharine Tingley OF San Diego as ~hierophant7
This does not mean that the lady is a quadruped,
but is merely Bostonese for 'priestess.''
learn. from the Fresno Republican that
'Visaa lady" left her false teeth out by night on
the lawn in front of her house and they bit incau
tious householder who ventured out in his night
shirt to chase cats.
FORTY PER CENT OFF
Now here is something from the Mountain View
Register and Leader to put everybody in good
humor with California:
The west is the home OF brave men and true
women; our shirt bosoms may not shine with dia
monds, but beneath them beat hearts of gold We
of the west have been thrown in with
and with Gods handiwork of ocean,
mountain and plain, and the and sublmity
of it all have become part OF ourselves We
stand upon the earth. rather than upon pavements,
and the best men the world has produced
will produce stood with their feet upon the
ground Way out here where the sun sinks to
in a bed of molten splendor by the Golden
gate doubly blessed, in that have such
and varied industries that the and other
pirates of high finance of the effete and cultured
east inure only to limited extent and we
prosper not by centralized wealth but in spite of
Our farms are scenes OF plenty, with good home
markets. and our fruits shipped all over the civ
ilized world Our hills ranges are dotted with
a million cattle, horses and sheep, and our mines
pouring millions in gold to earch the
world and keep Wall street from going bank
rupt And above all. people are happy and
contented and thank God every day and night that
they live in California
Let this be substituted for Hamlet's wretched
soliloquy for who would feel the oppressors wrong
the proud mans contumely the whips and scorns
that patient merit of the unworthy takes when he
knows that the pirates of high finance of the effete
and cultured east can only inlure us to a limited
extent Forty per cent off the oppressors' wrong
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