The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 25

5crday Eiamirjer magazine WOMAN'S HOMICIDAL HATPIN INTO THE BODY POLITIC 111 HI LiIHr31V FpfftllCnn POat, but with edges of rior sharpness, l-lijiail CI a WPUIU therefor, eight timet aidangwouiM HEN Assemblyman N. Tavlnr Phillipi introduced a certain bill perlence with hatpins entitles her to speech: Your statement that men's lives are Imperiled by the presence of hatpins, because of a few Isolated instances in which they were made to puncture the vital organs of man is Incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial. More men have been brained by rolling Into the New York Legislature the other day every pair of ean p. heard a pin drop. The pin which pierced the bill was of seethlng-hot tempers have turned their hatpins into temporary stilettos, aiming at a man's heart, and therefore penetrating his lungs or liver instead.

Such women belong to the class of inhuman buraaris who stay the objects of their affections because they love them so devotedly that, they cannot permit them to live. But how many women in a million do such ghastly things More than ever does the San Frnneltto woman whose employment compels her to be on the street after midnight and I am of the number need every si Inches of her hatpin. En route from the ear homeward these black nights, when every lamp post hatpin, It Mr. Phillip bad happened to think of that knife he might have recollected that there are numerous Instances on police record proving that pocket knives ma.y be utilised upon occasion as murderous weapons In the fingers of powerful, vicious men-men so powerful and so vicious that they have commltteed crimes too awful to eon-template; but thus far no one has discovered that pocket knives are a menace to women's lives, and aone has arisen to legislate against them; which shows what a dearth si 4C. LONG ENOUGH York LttfsUtor Wants to WKf the Units ef lU'tpiBS.

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at Aleaor kit ckiek aam.1 vH i(f Ik. attjla M.lart) i 'it' W1 the sort sold by the million annually at counters of dry goods stores throughout these United States Just a common, ordinary, 10-cent hatpin, with the usual characteristics of its kind: a point of needle sharpness at one end, a bit of colored glass at tho other, and some tlx Inches of strong, straight steel wire between. Into that great and august body politic this dime's worth of wire Jabbed Its way under the legislative guidance of Mr. Phillips. By him It was held up to scorn and denounced as dangerous gravely dangerous to mankind at large; for Mr.

Phillips, prowling Industriously about the by-ways of New York, has discovered that hatpins may be utilized upon occasion as murderous weapons in the fingers of frail but vicious women, and terrified with that discovery he proposes to prevent by aherolo measure all possible fatalities of the future. And what is this heroic measure? A foot rule. With this he would carefully mark off the Inches on women's hatpins until but three remain. Fancy trying to keep one's hat on straight with three Inches of pin! Now, in one of Mr. Phillips' pockets when be made the discovery of bis life was a knife Just a common, ordinary pocket knife of the sort sold by the million annually, and with the usual characteristics of its kind: four stout blades with not only It to snip women's hatpins In twain, will reverberate In the very rafters of the Capitol; but who, pray, will appear in the hatpin's defense the luckless hatpin that cannot, for all its sharpness, prick the bubble of its enemy's argument? There have been members of the California State Legislature whom one couli suspect of doing darksome deeds; but un- of legislative activity there really Is in this country.

What do these gentlemen of the Legislature, who will sit" In Judgment heaven help them! on the hatpin, know of its true utilitarian worth? I protest that the trial Is unfair. 1 The voice 6f Mr. thundering forth fierce invectives, witlt eloquence Justified by his noble ambition HATPIN WEAPON gallant acts? Never! H4story out here has been stained with the fingermark of legislative crime; but tarnished with the accusation of being un-chivalrous? Never! I call upon the archives to bear me witness that not once In this Golden State has a foot rule been brought Into the Sacramento Assembly to measure the length, depth, breadth or thickness of any article belonging to woman's wardrobe. Nay, more. The legislator who has a wife delights In teeing her well dressed.

In 'all his career it would never occur to him to lay down laws interfering with her wearing apparel because now and then an inebriated unfortunate seizes as a murderous weapon an article of universal feminine use. Our Callfornian legislators may or may not boodle their souls out and their dollars In, but to the women of their hearts they are adorably Indulgent, and to t'Je rest of the sex polite on principle polite enough to let their little gewgaws generously alone. As for the hatpin, It Is In even greater fashionable demand than ever, because more ornamental and expensive than before. The Jewelers report a steady sale for those set with precious and semiprecious stone. A prominent local firm sold forty-nine pins the other day to a woman customer who wns giving a sky-blue luncheon or some other function where pins and bsttered by pokers than have beet injured by hatpins.

There Is quite as much reason In dragging these homely artlclea Into the halls of State and using them at exhibits to point a moral and adorn a tale, as there is in making a fearful example ot the equally useful hatpin. Imagine, if you cu, Mr. Phillips, bow7ou would like being a woman for an hour on Broadway when the wind Is blowing frantlo gales up and down that thoroughfare. Think of yourself with several pounds of millinery toppling above your brains and nothing under the sun to save that precious bunch of spring loveliness from whirling into (he gutter but a three-Inch hatpin! Why, a dozen of them wouldn't anchor safely the plainest hst that was ever worn. At least tlx Inchet of pin stabbed through the hair and emerging an Inch on the other tide are Indispensable.

Do yov ever intend to run for office again. Mr. Phillips? Don't. It is tolly and madness for you to contemplate It. The women of New York would at once Inaugurate a Gentle Knockers' Club, and the echo thereof would haunt you disastrously, even unto the polls on election day.

You have tried it remains to be seen whether your pet bill will pass to harass and Inconvenience every woman In the State ot New York by making it Impossible for her to keep her head covered. They will declare you a tyrant. Tbey will say things about you that you wouldn't dream were being said, and, finally, actuated by a sympatheUo Impulse, the entire sisterhood will elevate Its lorgnettes to the better see your political The hatpin of your hate will be a boom- ''And what, oh, sir, will you have gained by your zeal What benefit will result from this fatal Impalement of your popularity oa a pin point? The personal safety, forsooth, of 'gentlemen" who go slumming ta New York city! Will the game be worth the snuffing out ol your political randle? Tut, tut, Mr. Phillips? "J4' MM I) iiiiiiiiliffN 4 favors combining beauty, txpenslventss and utility were wanted. They are displayed In the shops In de sv signs innumerable.

Some are set with diamonds. Amethysts are the most Donular. 1 has tailed her, what weapon haa she against attack but the one that It sheathed In her hat? Assemblyman Phillips, please lay aside metal, oxydized, green and Etruscan gold done Into hatpins. And one can buy pins for any price between 2 cents and $75. True, in this very town there are not because within buying reach of most purses.

There are owls' heads, turtles, trumpets, Egyptian acarabei, enamels, silver, gun women with ycur foot rule and listen to one whose ex- lacking Instances where ei aliforpia (Jirl'5 Suelve-ficjpdred- FJae Ouer ti le? to fo(T. OMEWHERB on the lee-road be' who also it engage In mining in Dawson. The most famous of the Gates claims at The Gates family have been well known in this time was No. 28 El Dorado, tho man-Humboldt county for many years. The girl agement of which was sufficient alone to has a charming personality.

She It a tall, lve Mist Gates a big reputation among the slender brunette with brown eyes, which miners of the north. tween Dawson and Nome a Callfor-nla girl is braving the dangers of a twelveJhundred-mlle trip against the 7. usual, she will be among the first through having undergone the fiercest kind of a Journey to get there. When a mining boom tarts, the parties who get there first are usually those who take the biggest risks against the elements, and go through the most dangers. Miss Gates never waits tor the "breaking as the great bulk ot prospectors do, but always starts out a little ahead of tlme.and by her splendid enduranca and courage beats her way into the ice-locked treasure regions before the general crowds begin to arrive.

Those who flock Into Nome early In the spring will find this little lady already in camp, and If she hasn't selected for herself and brother some ot the very choicest locations left In that vicinity. It will be because this last terrific Journey has frozen her powers of perception. r' There have been other remarkable women who have endured all kinds of tortures In the cruel Klondike country, but as a rule tho necessity for suffering these tortures has arisen through the women having failed to realize their original Intentions, and most of their heroic adventures have been forced upon them by threats ot death from exposure or hunger which they had to flea from. Few men and fewer women, with hundreds ot thousands of dollars already accumulated to their credit In that bleak country, are in the habit of walking Into these manifold dangers as a sort of everyday detail to their business. In that respect Miss M.

Gates ot Eureka. Is cer taialr the queen of the new gold fields. most vigorous hardships, unsupported by any other company than two strange men for guides and fire tnalamute dogs for a team. She I Mist M. Gates ot Eureka, She left Dawson on the morning of January 29th to cover the twelve hundred miles that lay between her and the new El Dorado, because she wished to be there before the great boom promised for the coming spring.

She It probably the most prominent mining woman In the golden north, and her present unusual journey la by no means a spectacular freak trip inspired by love of chesp notoriety, nor is It one of those forced marches which so many lone men and women have taken to save themselves from starvation. It Is a business trip, pure jnd simple, and she embarks on it with all the deliberate preparation that a young woman In California might display in driving In her carriage along a sunny road to the postoffice and back. She owns claims la Dawson" and Nome, and finding It necessary to look after botji ends cf her property personally, she takes this hazardous trip, over the snow and Ice, as a mere matter of course. Mlgi G-tes Is a sister ot Uumboldt Gate. a friend of bers sayt "give one the impression of a restlessness and determination to win her way In the world without belp from tho sterner sex." Added to her charm of manner and appearance is a remarkable capacity for business, a rare accompaniment of those graces.

Her business instincts are notably of aa aggressive order, and the energy with which she carries out a project once entered upon makes It difficult Indeed tor even the shrewdest speculators to get the better ef her. She was one of the first to reach Dawson in the spring of 1S93, when the whole Klondike'country was an Elysium for speculators. It was then that the boldest and keenest speculators turned a fortune In a day, and Miss Gate sonn convinced her male competitors that she had Ideas of her own as to the value of mines, the nature of their location and the possibilities of their development. She and her brother got hold of choice ground, and the two managed It conjointly. In the winter of 1S98 and 1899 the waa the sole manager in the absence of her brother, who was away on other deals.

The foreman went to her regularly for his orders, and was free, to admit that her counsel frequently helped him over obstacles when his own wits were not equal to the emergency. When the news of the coal strike on Rock Creek reached Dawson, in the summer of 1898, Miss Gstes was one ot the first on the ground. She speedily obtained control ot some of the most valuable territory In that vicinity, and in a short space of time had engineered a bargain with a large speculating company, by which she was paid for her Interests. "It you want anything done, do It yourself." Is her motto, and that Is why she Is traveling now over miles and miles of Ice-covered prairies in the region of the Bering sea blizzards and blinding snowstorms. In the dead of an Arctic winter.

She could hire a dozen first-class mining experts to go and look after her Nome properties. It Isn't a question of expense or economy. This Journey of herself and guides will be a very expensive one. The guides, Charley Bennett and W. A.

Langelle. are not taking such a trip for their health, and the team of five malamute dogs will cost no small turn, to say nothing of the provisions required on so long a journey. As usual. Miss Gates will be among the first on the ground at the opening up ot the mining rush to the newest gold fields In 1900, and evidently this waa a part of her plan when she decided to go herself and inspect her Nome possessions, and also, aa i his -ta SEEKING HEALTH DOGS,.