San Francisco Call, Volume 67, Number 179, 26 November 1890 — MEN ABOUT TOWN. [ARTICLE]

MEN ABOUT TOWN.

Short Stories Picked Up From Among the Gossips. P.culiariiies of ths Voten Who Scratoh— The Seven S eepers Outdone— A Cattlcmv's Cimpiaint.

Judge John J. de Haven, one of the newly elected Associate Justices, sat in the rotunda of the Grand Hotel last nuht and discussed the outcome of the recent election.

"Ingoing over the returns," lie said, "I was particularly struck with the peculiarities of voters in scratching their tickets. In Bumboldt County my majority, for instance, was 1170, but it all the votes that were cast for me had been counted it would have been a little more than 1300. In 'many instances Judge Beatty's name had been erased and mine substituted, and a number of voles were cast for me for Superior Judge. On two or three ballots my name bad been inserted for Governor. In all there were nearly 140 voters who thus conjured with my Dome. Now, again, Judge Barnaul and Mr. Geary were opposing candidates for Congress, both to fill my unexpired term and for the one succeeding. It would seem that the votes in both instances should be about equal, and yet for the short term Judge Barham'i vole was considerably larger than for the regular term. There was evidently no reason for It but mere eccentricity on the part of the voters." . ■WOMEN WHO GET 31IAVED. , "A barber who devotes himself exclusively to the shaving of ■women," said O. A. aring to a Cam. reporter, " may seem like an oddity, and yet there is such a man, with an ofli cc on Montgomery street lie has his regular customers scattered about the city, principally, of course, among the wealthy class of people, and he makes his rounds every day, just as a physician would, and charging each one dollar a visit. The business, as yon may imagine, is a very lucrative one, and he has grown rich. But he «till sticks to it day after day. iam told, however, that his business is beginning to fall away with the invention -of new cosmetics that remove the hair without tlu> aid of the razor, and finally destroy it entirely." THE JI'KiXLKY BILL. . ' John T. Bonestell has just returned home from a trip to Europe, having spent several months on tho Continent, mainly at Paris and Berlin. Hp states that the feeling excited among the business men of France and Germany by the operation of the McKinley bill is very strong, and the best evidence of its advantage to the United States is to be found in the fact that tin- exports to this country have fallen oil' in sin enormous degree. Manufacturers of goods used in largo quantities by Americans are 'alarmed, and in many instances are actually contemplating the possibility of being forced out of business or else compelled to remove their factories to our shores. A CATTLEMAN'S COMPLAINT. "There lias been a disastrous falling off in the last few years of the profits of stockraising," said William T. Hunter, a cattleman of Wyoming, who is spending a few days at trie Palace Hotel. "It Is almost entirely due to the operations of the 'Big Four,' as it is commonly known, orinottier words the Armour combine. They have gradually reached out until they now control the entire cattle business east of the Bocky Mountains nnd are now able to dictate their own terms to both lmwrs and sellers. Steers that we got $25 and 830 each for two or three years ago now bring Si- and $15, and there is no escape from it. They send buyers llirounh the West and we are compelled to take what they choose to offer. Some of the stock-raisers tried the experiment of shipping to Chicago, but funnel when thi'ir stock reached that city that all the commission-houses wore under the control of the combine and they were compelled to accept a smaller price than was offered on the ranches. It was either take what wag offered or let the cattle tat their own heads off." KIP VAN WINKLE OUTDONE. Paris Kilburn, the Surveyor of the Port, is something of a story-teller In his peculiar wav, with just a touch of Baron Aluncha'usen In his menial composition. While conversing' with a number of friends but night over a now brand of cigars which have been forced upon him by the passage of the McKinley bill, he grew reminiscent. "An item in one of the daily papers a few mornings ago," he said, "recalled to my mind an Incident that occurred down in Monterey County a few years «go. A well-to-do farmer and his wife were living a few miles from Monterey, and one night, long after they had retired, the wife suddenly awoke to discover that two burglars had entered the house. Her first Impulse was to scream, but thinking better of it she attempted to awake her husband without alarming the trespassers. Shu shook lain gently and whispered something to him, but it had no effect. Becoming alarmed, she sat up in bed and shook him violently. Siill no response. , She became so absorbed . in the attempt to arouse her husband that she forgot all about the burglars and shouted loudly iv his ear. This attracted the alt-ntiou of the house-breakers, and one of them beaming interested went to her assistance. Both labored with the sleeper, but it was no go. lie snored on hs peacefully as ever, until, in despair, the second burglar was called into assist. The. three resorted to every means possible and failed utterly. After a full half hour of ineffectual labor the two burglars became disgusted and left. The farmer slept oil till morning, and when he At last awoke had no remembrance ol what had happened."