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pRP——— i - latter. | day the book is having an attention that THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1895. Paul Verlaine. - Stone & Kimball’s announcement of a | forthcoming translation of the poems of | Paul Verlaine brings to American notice a Ppoet who, save in Paris and among a cer- | tain liter: ew of London, has heretofore | been practically unknown. | Verlaine is now something above 50 | yeare of age. Hisis undeniably one of the | most poetic souls this century has seen, | but if fame finds him during his lifetime it | must be'quickly, for there are not many years left to him. Heisa great invalid— | a terrible sufferer—whose life of late years | has been one of intimate acquaintance | with hospital wards and almost unbearable 1 pain. " He would say of himself, perhaps, that hie sufferings are merited, for Verlaine is pre-eminently a sinner who has repented. His life has been one series of yieldings to temptation, of falling, to rise only again to fall into the most dreadful morass of rices into which, surely, any sane ever plunged. ~He even, years pent two years in prison for the at- pt to murder, in a dive, his closest friend and boon companion—that other almost unknown French poet, Arthur Rim- band, the marvelous boy whose early life he ruined, and who, now, in.a convent on the shores of the Red Sea, expiates the years of sin into which Verlaine led him. “ Verlaine, too, has of late spent several in retreat at_the Chartreuse of Mon- ur-mer, seeking the vation of his . Heisa firm believer in every tenet of the church, but he has apparently no 1alent for the practice of its precepts. In the light of any knowledge whatever | Paul Verlaine at Home. te verse cannot but | of hislife his ex Whether -one reads the | incite to wonder. somewhat schooled, but unmistakably poetic words of his brilliant and promising youth, the plaintive beauty into which his 1 cad age, or the religious ec: e, the impression is always the | the soul there speaking is the soul | of a poet; a poeg, too, with a marvelous | power over the language in which he works. In his “Impressions and Opinions” George Moore i u terrible glimpse of thi “I once saw V the glare of t the caverno sion of burnt-o his fac | Here is his description of how they reached the poet’s home in Paris: “We | 1 not forget = bold, ‘promincnl forehead, | s, the macabre expres- t lust smoldering upon got into an omuibus and then we got into a train. Then we took a cab, and I believe we had to take another train. Weat I. penetrated into 4 dim and eccentric re, that I had heard of before; we traversed cu streets: * * % We | penetrated mu melling and clamorous | courtyards zacian hich lingered B concierges; we climbed slippery st: upon which doors stood wide open. In adark corner, at the endof a narrow| sage situated at the top of the last light of stairs we discovered a door. We knocked. A voice made itself heard. entered and saw Verlai The terrible forebead, bald and prominent, covered by a filthy nigl shirt full of the grease his shoulders; a stained and discolored ers were hitched up somehow He was drinking wine at 16 sous the litre. He told us that he had just come out of the hospital; that his leg was better, but it still gave him a great deal of pain.’’ Moore and his friend had come for a sonpet, which the poet 1 promised the Verlaine was working upon it, and be told them in the grossest language the abominations which he had included in it. They went away in despair. The sonnet, Teceived next day, was one of exquisite and Tofty beauty. That is the mystery—the wonder of this | mysterious and wonderful man. He is purely a poet, purely an esthete in impulse, in thought, in expression. He has ap- parently sounded the height, the depth of Feligious feeling, yet his life, his surround- ings, his conversation are such that the merest glimpse suttices—the merest glimpse is all that is possible to be borne. To afford a glimpse of the man’s thought we give the following (purposcly) literal translation of one of his sonnets. N translation, literal or otherwise, can give the exquisite cadence of the original: God said to me: My son, thou must love me; thou seest My pierced side, my heart beaming and bleeding, | And my offended feet that Madeiine bathed ‘With tears, and my arms aching under the weight Ofthy sins,and my hands! And thou seest the Cross, ‘Thou seest the nalls, the gall, the sponge—and all teach thee To love, in this bitter world where flesh reigns, Only my flesh and my blood, ;my word and my voice. Did I not Jove thee unto death OB, my brother in my Fathe Spirit: And have I not suffered, a: FHave I not groaned in th Have I not sweat out th Borrowful friend, who see! b, my son in the was written? 'me anguish? eat 0f the night? me where 1 am. Social Evolution. « That a Chicago house which generally deals in sentimental literature should consider it worth while to issue a reprint | of such a book as “Kidd’s Social Evolu- tign” is a significant commentary upon the eagerness with which the English-reading public is holding its cup to the fountain of | economic knowledge. Notto be outdone, Macmillan & Co. have put out a paper edition of the book, with a new preface by the author, and propose to sell the new volume at 25 cents, although it is difficult to perceive how they are able to do this without a direct and heavy loss. That this book should have such great and widespread popularity must be a mat- ter of surprise to one who has not noticed the trend of the times. Half a dozen years ago the people who would have cared for it might have numbered a few hundred. To- has been given to no work on social econ- omy since the first publication of ‘‘Gron- lund’s Co-operative Commonwealth.” Nothing could be greater than the differ- ence between these two books. They ap- proach the question of human destiny from opposite standpoints, and argue it to rad- ically different conclusions. et the same people who a few years ago were enthusi- astic over the oneare now equally enthusi- astic over the other. 3 In tracing the progressive steps of social evolution the author notes that while the conviction exists that a definite stage in the evolution of Western civilization is drawing to a close, and that we are enter- ing upon a new era, yet there is apparently & complete absence of any clear indication | seems to be again. loosed, and, after an | moved men’s minds at that veriod of up- 1 | Flower, that progress has been due to the | We ! § |in a supernatura) from those who speak in the name of science and authority as to the direction in which the path of future progress lies, Even our scientific teachers are silent. Having traced the steps in the evolution of life up to human society. science now stands dumb before the problems presented by society as it exists to-day. Even Her- bert Spencer, whose “Synthetic Philoso- phy’’ was to have sned light upon the great problems of human destiny, hasreally been so little able to accomplish any practical reading of the riddlethat hisinvestigations and conclusions, according as they are ealt with by one side or the other, lead up to. the opinions of the| two diametrically opposite camps of ndividuaiists and ~ collectivists into which society is separating. In Germany and in France those to whom we turn for light have proven equally unable to throw any certain illumination upon the future. People and leaders are alike without faith, for there is, in reality, no science of human society. To many the spirit of the French Revolu- tion, which caused so universal a feeling of unrest at the end of the last century, epoch of progress unexampled in the history of the world, we would appear_to have returned to the ideals of society which | heaval. We have, however, little in com- mon with that past season of unrest. We have, in reality, entered upon a new stage of social evolution, in which the minds of men are moving toward other goals. The fruits of an industrial revolution are demanding our attention. The world is becoming unified. An organization with a nervous system of 5,000,000 miles of tel h wires and an arterial system of ra ways and steamships is_a different factor from the aggregate of isolated communi- ties of even 100 years ago. One of the most striking figures of the times is the spectacle of Demos, enfran- chised, recognized, emerging irom the long silence of social and political serfdom. Another significant feature of the new order is,the tendency growing within the churches to assert that rulifion has to do with the present as well as the future; that | Christianity was intended to save not men, but man, to teach us not only how to die, as individuals, but how to live, as society. Still another remarkable sign of the times is the widespread revolt among all classes against_the political economy of Adam Smith, Ricardo and Mill. The time isripe for a new formation of social science by the biologist, who, having established law and order in the lower branches of his sub- ject, has carried us up to human society, | and there left us without a guide. He | must carry the methods of his science on | to where he deals with the phenomena of | life under its last and most complex | ns,}:s‘qn 2 il his brings the author to a consideration | of the conditions of human progress. He | traces the evolution of man from the | brute, feebly holding his own against fierce | competitors, up through the ages until he inds him master of the earth and organized nto society. He finds, with Professor opportunity of those individuals who are a little superior in some respect to their fel- lows, to assert that superiority and to con- tinue it to their descendants. In a word progress depends upon selection, ceaseless stress and competition. Other things be- ing equal, the wider the range of selection the keener will be therivalry, and the more rigid the selection the greater the progress. From this stress of nature rises the highest | forms we can conceive. The law of progress as stated is_inevitable, butin man occur | two modifying elements—reason and the capacity for organization. {'hile thus stating the conditions of progress the author frankly avows that he finds no rational sanction for these con- ditions. In other words, that any organ- ization of society with a system of re- ards according to natural ability can have no ultimate sanction in reason for all ‘the individuals. His welfare in this life is as important to the ungiited as to the gifted, and any regulation under which the former will fare worse than the latter must ultimately, however we may obscure it, be a rule of brute force, pure and sim- le. Thus, while showing that the evo- ution scientist can readily prove that the | hopes of modern socialism are incompati- | ble with the ultimate interests of a pro- ve society, he still admits it asev hat it would be to the personal, im- mediate interests of the masses, who are now inevitably predestined to hardship | and poverty, to put an immediate end to | existing social conditions. He_flatly contravenes the teachings of certain of the later social economists, that the interests of the individual can ever become identical with the interests of society. The ultimate aim of society is | progress—of the individual well being— which society in its march of progress must oftentimes ignore, even to the extent of crushing out the individual altogether. | Strange to say, man’s reason, which has apparently given him the power to sus- pend the conditions of progress, for the good of the individual, has never operated | for this suspension. His conduct through- | out has been such as reason could not | sancti To explain this phenomenon is only possible in the light of what Mr. Kidd | terms the central feature of human his- | tory—religion. A religion he defines as “a form of belief providing an ultra. rational sanction for that class of conduct in the individual where his interests and the interests of the social organism are antagonistic, and by which the former are rendered subordinate to the latter in the general interests of the evolution which the race is undergoing.” Thus it is belief i power, obedience to a higher spiritual law, that keeps the indi- vidual in the attitude of subordinating his interest to that of society. The belief in a future life that shall be better than this keeps the individual patient. It furnishes him an ultra-rational, a supernatural sanction for irrational, unnatural conduct. Two chapters are devoted to a considera- tion of Western civilization and the prog- ress of the conflict between capitalism and | industrialism. The beginning of the Christian era saw the birth into the world of a new force of immeasurable social sig- nificance. TUnder the influence of this force men first began to forget self and | draw together in the bonds of a common | humanity recognizing interrelationship, and subordinating selfish ends to_the gen- eral welfare for the love of kind. It was the altruistic ideals of the new religion that differentiated it from the old ones, and itis the spread of the altruistic ideals that has brought our Western civilization toits present stage. A feature of modern timesis a growing sensitiveness to the spectacle of su_ficring; a spread of the hu- man:tarian spirit. The infliction of suffer- ing even upon_the lower animals and in the interests of science is deprecated. The character of Western civilization has deep- ened and softened. Military organization is giving way to social and political. This spread of altruistic feeling is not an intel. lectual moyement. From the nature of the case the intellect could not have sup- plied any force sufficient to enable the people successfully to assail the position of the power-holding class. Yet this posi- tion has been successfully assailed. The first great _epoch in the history of this pro- cess was the beginning of the “anti-slaver movement in the fourteenth century. This movement had its origin in the dogma that all men are equal before God. It was not an intellectual, but an altruistic move- ment. Thissame altruistic spirit has acted upon the power-holding class, causing it gradually to retreat from its intrenched position, finding faith in its own cause un- dermined. This class in England has made extraordinary concessions by which the weaker class'has been indued with rights which it could never have attained by in- tellectual force, and political force it had none but what the ruling order has be- stowed upon it. Thus the altruistic ideal softens and humanizes the life of the race “caught in the toils of that struggle and rivalry of life which has been in progress | primarily from the beginning.” The rivalry of ex- istence must continue, humanized as to conditions, it may be, but immutable and inevitable to the end. % The author touches upon the rise and decline of the well-known doctrine of laissez-faire, and devotes cousiderable space to a consideration of modern social- ism and the philosophy of Marx, who, he declares, evinces a grasp of the present situation to which few of his critics have attained. Marx’s conception of society as it should be he claims to e a condition in which the laws that have operated from the beginning should suddenly be inter- rupted and finally suspended. But the state toward which we are traveling is not one in which these laws will be suspended. “We are moving, and shall merely con- tinue to move by orderly stages to the goal toward which the face of society has in reality been set from the beginning of our civilization.” The next step of the author’s argument brings us within sight of that goal. Itis an amazing step, which he indicates by the postulate that our human evolution is not intellectual, but religious in character. Since the revival of learning in Europe, he declares, there has been a clear tendency to compure the intellectual de- velopment of the old civilizations, as the Greeks, with ours, to the disparagement of the latter. This, while it is justly con- ceded that our civilization is the highest in kind and degree that the hnman race has so far reached. 4 Judged by the standard of intellectual development alone, we_of the modern European races have, in fact, no_claim whatever to consider ourselves in advance of the ancient Greeks, all the extraordin- ary progress and promise of the modern world to the contrary. The author sees it as the teaching of evolutionary science that there is only one way in which the rationalistic factor in human evolution can be controlled, namely, through the instrumentality of religious systems. Under a rationalistic regime, even should Herbert Spencer's dream of the perfect civilization be realized, there will be noth- ing left for that civilization but decay. fust what ultimate fate awaits the social order under a religious system, or even what that religious system is to be, the author does not discuss. There arve, he shows, two great events to be accomplished in the twentieth century. First, the West- ern peoples will arrive at a social develop- ment under which men shall enter upon the rivalry of life on conditions of social equality. Then these peoples will proceed to fill up the rest of the inhabitable globe, by virtue of racial superiority, the absorb- ing tendency toward other (inferior) races, always beld in check by the altruistic spirit. In this way, he states, England has opened up India, Egypt and other countries to the world. So must Africa, Central and South America and the other lands yet unoccupied by the Western civilizati = The conclusion of the whole matter, as outlined by the author, seems lamentably weak, resting upon the splendid premises in the earlier chapters, but the book as a whole is one of the mostremarkable con- tributions we hayve had to the economic literature of the age. While it is not, as has been claimed for it, “an epoch-making book,” it is a valuable collaboration of facts upon social progress, and is unequaled in the fairness, the liieruli(y and foresight. edness with which it treats, even while di: carding as inutiie, the modern socialistic movement. [New York and London: Macmillan & Co. For sale by the Dodge Book and Stationery Company.] The New Woman. The picture of “The New Woman,” as portrayed by E. Lynn Linton in the char- acter of Phabe Barrington, is not an at- tractive one. Just why a woman'’s intense interest in the principles of ‘“woman’s rights” and her devotion to that cause should rob her of every spark of womanly feeling it is hard to conceive. It seems that the picture must be very much over- drawn. Certain it is that in Phwbe Bar- rington there is not one redeeming quality. Of daughterly, wifely or motherly affection she shows not a trace. Condensed selfishness and egotism form her essential characteristics. As a daughter, her only regret, while standing by the couch of her dying mother, is that she has been_called out of bed on a cold, disagreeable night to. witness a scene that is fisv.asteful to her. She “hated” to see painful things. and it was a bore to be roused from her luxurious bed at this unearthly hour. As a wife, she meets with disdain her husband re- turning from Africa filled with ideal visions of home. Her greetings, instead of {love and tenderness ater long years of separation, are insult and vituperation. As | a mother, she neglects her child and even thinks its existence a personal cause of grievance. These are a few of the phases of tbat degraded character which fill the soul of & sensitive reader with dismay and disgust. Her associates are creatures of almost the same stamp. As she is the leading spirit the disagreeable traits shine fortlr more plainly in her than in her satellites. Among the ‘‘fair’’ excelsiorites there is not one that is pleasant to contem- plate, notwithstanding the beauty of face and form which some were said to possess. The mind is filled only with thoughts of their unwomanly attributes. Those two ignoble personages, Guy Delcroix and Armand Norris, are pictured as de- voted advocates of the burning ques- tion of the day, who leave their neglected wives and children entirely out of the question as things too insignificant for them to bother their weighty brains about. These two add some variety to the | scene, though it cannotbe said to be a very satisfactory variety. The contented and peaceful Armytages afford a pleasing contrast to all this arti- ficiality and shallowness. The occasional glimpses of them that we catch seem like strains of sweetest melody interspersed within a jargon of discordant sounds. These glimpses are all too few for the welfare of the book and the reader. Even Pheebe’s apparent conversion at the eleventh hour fails to soothe, for one feels that if her props had not given way be- neath her and had she not felt in doubt which way to turn, her hali-hearted turning to the right would never have taken place. However, in the last chapter are shown the first flutterings of an awkward con- science in Pheebe, and even some faint signs of a dawning wifely and maternal love. So one closes the book with the hope that Phabe, having profited by her experi- ence and having seen the errors and unsat- isfying hollowness of public life, may find in the quiet, respectable life of a coun- try gentleman’s wife a higher sphere of usefulness than she ever had been able to imagine or appreciate; that Sherrard may in the end haveat least a semblance of that happy domestic life which he so much craved and which he so richly deserves, and that little Euphemia may enjoy some of that motherly tenderness which she seemed destined” to never know. [New York: The Merriam Company. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co.] Thoughts on Religion. This little volume has been arranged by Charles Gore, M.A., from papers left by the late Professor George John Romanes, the author of “Darwin and After Darwin” and of the “Examination of Weismann- ism.” While primarily a biologist, Pro- fessor Romanes, like most thinkers, was actively interested in the modern prob- lems of metaphysics and theology, and at the time of his death, which occurred last summer, was engaged in arranging the de- tails of the volume for which’ this is an editor’s substitute. There are two com- plete essays on the influence of science upon religion, and the balance of the hook is made up of notes for a work in a candid examination of religion. They are for the most gart notes of the most discursive sort, oftentimes mere skeletons of ideas, interesting more perhaps as showing a scientist’s method of work than for any logical sequence of thought. Admirers of the professor will, however, be glad that they have been preserved. [Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company. A Government Class-Book. This is a particularly timely work, now that a knowledge of at least the principles of political economy is becoming so essen- tial among intelligent people. The writer is Andrew Young, whose ‘‘American Statesmen” and “Citizen's Manual of Gov- ernment”” are two useful and well-known books of somewhat similar trend. The present edition has been revised by S. G- Clark, and presents in a simple, compact form a deal of information upon S“b‘i”'s every one wants to know about. It deals principally with definitions and the fun- damental “principles from an exceedingly conservative standpoint of government and government forms, State and national, and of law, municipal and international. As introductory reading, preparatory toa more serious study of the science of gov- ernment, the book has a real value. It is particularly designed for school use, and will be found an_excellent guide-book for classes in political economy. [New York: Maynard, Merrill & C: Easter Cards. One of the pleasant reminders that Eas- ter is near at hand s the coming of Prang’s cards. These publications are more elab- orate and artistic, if that be possible, this year than ever before. One thing which will meet with popular commendation is the fact that the designing, lithographic and printing is all done in this country; they are, in fact, thoroughly American. No lover of the beautifal can fail to admire the elegance of design and rare skill in execution which make these publications S0 deserved])" attractive. [Pub’;ished by J. T. Prang & Co., Boston, and for sale at the bookstores.] “Napoleon III and Lady Stuart.’’ An anonymous translation from the French of Pierre de Lano of a book as little worth the trouble to translate as it was in the first place undeserving of being written. The story of the intrigues of a fashionable beauty with a degenerate ruler, the poorly rendered tale will be of interest to none but those who delight in this sort of gossip about royalty. [New York: J. Selwyn Tait. For'sale at the bookstores.] “A Daughter of the King,” A story of New Zealand country life, by ‘““Alien,” who is evidently a woman. The story is fairly well told, dealing with a tame attempt at daring, with certain hases of married life which abler writers ave long since threshed out. [New York: Neely’s International Library. For sale at the Popular Bookstore.] THE CLAIM ALLOWED. Contractors Warren & DMalley to Be Paid $9000 From the Fair Estate. The claim of Warren & Malley, for work done on James G. Fair's water-front prop- erty in the northern partof the city, has been allowed by Judge Slack. The claim amounted to something over §9000, and this amount, less $420, which was for what was proved to have been unnecessary work, was allowed. The main point of controversy between the contractors and the estate was whether WHERE DONAHUE MADR S START. THE NOTED CAPITALIST AN ER- RAND-BOY IN THE TELLER MANSION. OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA. THousANDS VisiT FISHKILL TO SEE THiS WONDERFUL STRUCTURE. From errand-boy to railroad president is something to be proud of. Peter Dona- hue did this and more, for he became a multi-millionaire and one of San Fran- cisco’s most prominent business men. Mr. Donghue is long since dead, but the mil- lions he left behind him find a pleasing monument in a little, low rambling house at Fishkill, N, Y. There Mr. Donahue began his battle with the world, though this humble be- ginning would not be particularly note- worthy were it not for the fact that the house where he lived many years and probably laid the foundation of his for tune is the oldest in America. The Teller mansion, as it is called, was builtin 1709 by Roger Brett and stands exactly as it was 186 years ago. Itisa long rambling house, built of wood, with a siding of cedar shingles scalloped and overlapping each other. Just to the right of the front door is a small bedchamber containing an elegant rasewood cabinet and ebony wardrobe, with quaint carvings on the panels of the doors. This cabinet was brought over from Holland over 200 years ago. On the right of the hall farther on is the parlor, with a curiously carved mantel. On the left is a large dining-room, where hang the family portraits. The Tellers are descendants of Aneke Jans, Holland’s heautiful but erratic daughter, and her pic- ture, as well as that of Bogardus, the gay dominie of the colony, are to be seen. This ancient homestead is still in the possession of the descendants of the origi- nal occupants, and what is better and rarer, the old furniture so that the interior harmonizes with the interesting historical exterior. During revolutionary times tke dwellers in this famous house entertained hundreds of hungry continental soldiers, who were quartered near by, and in 1783 a great din- | ner was served in commemoration of the .?n.r‘ - T = - THE TELLER MANSION AT FISHKILL, N. Y. 186 YEARS OLD, the money should come from the general estate, or should be paid by the special administrators. By Judge Slack’s decision the special administrators pay the claim. The $420 taken out was for scraping off some sand which bad drifted into big hea{\s on one of the lots previously leveled. The contractors scraped it off without authori- zation, and must therefore pay for the work themselves. PELTED WITH BAD EGGS. How FRANK MCMANUS APPRE- CIATED BEING SERENADED BY A BAND. THE Man WHo BeaTs THE Bic DruM Has HiM ARRESTED FOR BATTERY. When *King” McManus was served with a warrant yesterday for his arrest on a charge of battery pre- ferred by E. J. Neilson of the Ho- tel Langham, he said it was evidently a case of mistaken identity, as he did not know a man of that name and never was in the Hotel Langham in his life. Since then he has discovered the identity of Neilson. He says thatafew days ago the racetrack band-wagon was pulled up in front of his place and the band serenaded him by playing “Pnddy, Will You Walk?” **Crop- Eie, Lie Down” and simiiar tunes. Mc- anus yesterday said : o1 fmid no attention to them for the first two days, but on the third day I told them to stop bothering me or there would be trouble. “They came two or three days after that, but I wasnot in. When I heard of it 1 went and bought a box of stale eggs. Next day they came round as usual, and I was ready for them. They began to play ‘Down went Mc@Ginty,” and & lifted one of the eggs and threw it at the big drum man. It bit him in the face fair and s?fuare. The wagon was quickly driven off, but not before I bhad plastered it all over with the eggs. That was on the 2d of March, and it stopped the serenading, “I have found out that Neilson is the man who beats the big drum, and the bat- tery was in my hitting him with that egg that he had me arrested.” o Members of the band deny the assertion that offensive tunes were played in front of McManus’ place. They say popular Irish airs were played because they are lively and readily attract the attention of the populace. —————— Ireland’s Loss by Immigration. Since 1864, through Ireland generally, and especially in the west, very early marriages have been less frequent. " This decrease of early marriages, especially among women, accounts, says the Registrar-General, to a great extent for the diminution in the average size of families in Ireland, and also explains in part the diminished birth rate, which in the ten years from 1881 to 1890 had fallen from 24.5 to 22.3 per thou- sand of the population. There ought to have been an increase in the Irish popula- tion in the ten years of over a quarter of a million, that being the increase of births over deaths, but this natural increase has been more ttlimtni c&:mterbnhneeog 3‘.' emi- gration, so that in the same peri e pop- ulation sank by nearly luf!e a million.— London Daily News. The_tobacco raised in Beloochistan is exceedingly strong and cannot be smoked by any but the most vigorous of white men. The natives do not appear to be af- fected by it. e Langley’s Directory has 2594 more name than the opposition. Out Monday. return of peace. Baron Steuben and Mar- quis de La Fayette were among the distin- guished guests on this occasion. Thousands of people visit this remark- able house every year, and the occupants never fail to tell the story of how Peter Donahue made his start. There are s interesting things to see, but an old Dutc! oven that is still' in use attracts more than ordinary attention. It may be remarked, en the grandfather of Mrs, J. this city was a Teller, and it is from this branch of the family that she traces her relationship to Aneke Jans and consequent claims to Trinity’s wealth. It is through the courtesy of Mrs. McGee that the accompanying picture is reproduced. OLEVER DEAF PEOPLE. A Lawyer Who Is Stone Deaf and Yet Has a Large Practice. The following remarkable instances of deaf persons, many of them congenitally 50, who are practicing professions and de- pending entirely upon lip-reading for their understanding of conversation, was pre- pared by a gentleman connected with an institution for the deaf, whose name Iam not at liberty to give. A Columbus paper has published some accounts of the stone-deaf Ohio lawyer, in full practice, who depends ubsolm?ely upon lip-reading, and who has tried cases in Columbus courts. For twelve years now N. B. Lutes of Tiffin, Ohio, has depended entirely upon lip-reading to do all'that any lawyer does for his clients in court and in every phase of the practice of the law. The _latest issue of the Missouri Deaf- mute Record gives an account of a lady who reads theiips of ministers and public speakers. Alexander Hunter of the United States Land Office in Washington, D. C., is “‘deaf as an adder.” Though far from per- fect in lip-reading, he has read 150 words given out from the dictionary without makmE a mistake. He passant, that . McGee of as read the lips of Beecher and Booth almost fanltlessly, and has greatly enjoyed tpu]pit and platform orators and some of the great actors, the chief draw- back in reading their lips being the shift- ing of their positions on the stage, so that their lips were at times invisible. Mitchell, the chemist, an examiner in the United States Patent Office, graduated from the Clarke Institute, Northampton, Mass., and, though a poor lip-reader, grad- uated from the Worcester (Mass.) Poly- technic School as an analytical chemist. For many years a totally deaf man has occupied a place in the United States civil service, receiving his first appointment on the strength of admirable papers in the civil service examination. Notwithstand- ing his infirmity, thanks to hislip-reading, he took the regular course at a great uni- versity, recited with his classmates, at- tended lectures and secured his degree. 1 doubt if president or professors knew he was a deaf man. Certainly some of his classmates did not know it. For business reasons his deafness is kept secret, and a keen newspaper man went through the office in which he was employed a few years ago in search of a deaf clerk and failed to find such a man or any one who knew of the existence of such a casein that department.—Popular Science Monthly. ————— An Elevated Lake. ._The lake which has the aistinction of be- ing the most elevated body of water in the world is Green Lake, Colorado. Its surface is 10,252 feet above fi:e level of the sea, and its shores are perpetually covered with snow. The water of the lake is as clear as crystal, and large sections of petritied trees are distinctly visible at a depth of over 100 feet. In one portion of the lake a large area of the bottom is still covered with a standing petrified forest. The branches of these rock trees are of dazzling whiteness, iving them the ng’ rance of having een cut from marble. The maximum dephs of the lake is 223 feet.—Cincinnatti Enquirer. has been kept in place, | NEW TO-DAY. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS Are Now Most Favorable for the Treatment and . Cure of All Chronic Diseases—The Copeland Medical Institute Treats Them and Furnishes All Medicine for $5 a Month. The time to take treatment for diseases of & catarr hal nature is now. The climatic condi tions are most favorable. In fact the best of the vear, the liability to taking cold being the lowest, and one month’s treatment now will do more good than two months in cold and rainy weather. K Time and again Drs. Copeland and Neal have advised persons in desperate stages of catarrhal trouble to wait until summer before taking treatment. Time and again have they urged the necessity of taking treatment while the weather is favorable to a cure. Now is that time. Those who suffer from catarrh should take advantage of all the influ- ences that operate now in favor of a cure. They should not put off treatment until next winier’s stormy days, but should prudently “mend _their roof while the sun shines.” Now is the time, and the opportunity is just what is desired for the worstcases. Do not let it go by, but place yourself under treatment at once and have done for you in the next few months what might not be possible the next summer. STATEMENTS LIKE THIS Have Appeared Time and Again and Prove the Success of the Treatment. Thomas Richards, who lives at 1519 Eddy street, says: THOMAS RICHARDS, 1519 EDDY STREET. ““‘About three years ago I took a severe cold— a common thing in this climate, but a serious lmng for me, for nothing I could do would break it up, and it soon became a case of | chronic catarrh. My eves, ears, nose, throat and, in short, my whole cted by the trouble. My appetite” failed me; what lit- tle I managed to eat caused trouble in my stomach. I could not sleep at night, and wes generally in a bad condition. It continued to gmw worse, until I became alarmed thatmy ungs would become affected. I doctored my- self and tried all the old remedies, but nothing seemed to help me at all. Iread of the success of Drs. Copeland and Neal in cases similar tc mine and concluded I would give them a trial, 1 did so, and now, after a short_course of treat- ment, I am comparatively a well man again. I feel better than I have for years, and cannot sey enough in praise of the skillful treatmant of D peland and Neal. My advice to suf- m chronic maladies is to give them a ferers trial.” A CONTRACTOR’S STATEMENT. A Case Illustrating the Ravages Catarrh. The case of Mr. C. A. Gore of the firm of In- gerson & Gore, contractors and builders, who lives at 754 Market street, Oakland, illustrates the ravages catarrh often causes the general system, affecting all the senses. He states as follows “Before consultin about my troubles, Drs. Copeland and Neal had for a long time been affected with catarrh of the head. For two or three nights a week had no sleep on account of the pain, stopping of the nostrils, constant ringing noises in the ears, dropping of mucus into the throat, general pains in the chest and under the shoulder- blades. My appetite be- came poor and I lost weight and strength right along. Often T would get dizzy and reel like a drunken man while at work, and very often could not work at all, losing considerable time that way. “Since taking treatment with Drs. Copeland and Neal I feel first rate again. I can sleep regularly and my sleep refreshes me. The symptoms are all gone and I feel like another being. I cheerfully recommend these physi- cians to the public generally.” Mr. A.J. Glaze, who lives at 85 Orange street, Oakland, says:' “Having been successfully treated for a bad case of catarrh by Drs. Cope- land and Neal, I take pleasure in recommend- ing them to the public, and if my statement will be the means o pointing others to the way to relief I will be satisfied. My trouble commenced over & year ago with a bad cold, which I could not get rid of. My nostrils were stopped up, first one side and then the other; m: eyes pained; I had head-, aches; I had a dropping of mucus in the back of my throat, which kept ; me hawking and spitting, with a hacking cough. My stomach became involved and I had cramps and bloating and ritting, with smothered-up sensations aft My con- dition gradually grew worse, and I loxt fesh and strength right along. I had read many statements of people who had been cured b Drs. Copeland and Neal, and being acquaint with some of them I decided I would try them myself. I did so, and am entirely satisfied with their treatment. I am feeling splendid and gaining in flesh and strength all the time.” er eninli. 1 ALL DISEASES. The Treatment for All Chronic Diseases Is Only 85 a Month, Medicines Included. Are you afilicted with DEAFNESS? Do you suffer from DYSPEPSIA? Have you severe BRONCHIAL trouble? Are you a sufferer from ASTHMA? go you sugex gmm knn‘\RoioénFmg{Z 8 0 you suffer from VOUS troubles? Do you suffer from any CHRONIC DISEASE? 1f you do, the only cost for all treatment and medicine is $5 a month, and no better treat- ment is known than that of the Copeland sys- HOME TREATMENT. Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the home or mail treatment. A. F. Shaugraw, Dixon, Cal, writes: T feel better now than I have for years,and think [ am about cured of my catarrh. I have recom- mended your treatment to quite a few persons in Dixon, and think you have heard from them. - shall always have & good word for you, and think my recovery something wonderful. When I began the treatment the improvement was slow and I became discouraged, but on onr advise I persevered and now I am thank- ul that I did. Had I not continued I would be miserable to-day. Indeed, as I have said, I feel better than I have for years. If you cannot come to this office write for a symptom blank. $5 A MONTH. No fee larger than $5 & month asked for uni disease. Our motto is: “A Low Fee. Quic Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” The Copeland Medical Tnsttnts, PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 916 Market St, Next to Baldwin Hotel, Over Beamish's, W. H. COPELAND, M.D. J. G. NEAL, M.D. SPECIALTIES—Catarrh and all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat and Lungs. , Nervous Dis- eases, Skin Diseases, Chronic Diseases. Office hours—9 A. M. to 1 P. 105 P. M., 7108:30 P. M. Sunday—10 A. M. t0 2 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail. Send 4 cents in stamps for question circulars, of NEW TO-DAY. LACES. Our Lace Counters Are full to overflowing with 1895 styles — White, Beige, Black and Colors, in all widths, At Remarkably Low Prices SPIECIAIL.: Black Dress Drapery Nets, Pure Silk, 48 inches wide, reg- ular value $1, NOW AT 5oc. KOHLBERC, STRAUSS & FROHMAN, 107 AND 109 POST STREET, AND—— 1220-1222-1224 MARKET ST. ST BI0GE & Cor AL ESTATE ACEN 00 CNERM AUC g oo ¥ OFFICER s £ SROOM TUESDAY, APRIL 9, At 12 o’clock M., at €38 Marlet Street. _I.MPDRT.ANT Gredit Auction Sals, — o THE— Handsomest ard Healthiest Location In | this Growing City, of s TR MAGNIFIGENT Residence Lots, IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF blden Gale Park That great Pleasure Ground of the City of San Francisco, where thousands congregate every day and the choicest as well as healthiest location in the city for a family, home. These magntficent | Erounds are at the door of this property, are main- tained at public experye and can be enjoyed every day without expense by families living in this loca~ tion; and 1895, ARE BOUNDED BY | FELL, HAYES, ASHBURY | and CLAYTON STREETS. As per Diagram. CLAYTON STREET. 2526 2525|265 267 25 .. 100 M £ o ¢ 2 g E 17/18/19 20 21!22 23 187+ B 137:6 5 8 EI;‘; el ER 2 = 421; SR ise R | | - 0‘,2 <l | 3 e w = gz o . 8 Bl = k 5 A q © 02 [0} 2 2 I @ 10 {as|25(25(2s)26 ASHBURY STREET. The entire block slopes gently from Hayes street toward the Park, making the drainage perfect. Strects are all sewered. Fell and Ashbury stréets have cement stone sidewalks in front of the prop- erty. EXTRA LIBERAL TERMS. Only one-quarter cash, balance in one, two and thres years. Interest at 7 per cent per annum. TITLE—The California Title Insurance and Trust Company will issuesa policy of insurince guaranteeing the title perfect to each buyer for the small amount of $10 for each lot. The Hayes-streer cable i3 to bechanged toan electric road and extended to the Clifft House as the great north-of-the-park route. Lots are all numbered; auction flag on premises. | NOTE—To reach these elegant residence lots take the Hayes-street cars to Ashbury street, or the Oak-street cars to Ashbury street; walk north across the Park o the property. Do not fail to examine these elegant restdence lots. All must be sold to close an Eastern sccount. Attend the sale; purchase one or more lots. A sure. handsome profit of 50 per cent within twe years. Catalogues at our office. EASTON, ELDRIDGE & CO., Auctioneers, 638 Market Street. EDWARD §. SPEAR & (O, Auctioneers, 31-33 Sutter Street, POLICE SALE. MONDAY. Monday....... o ..April 1, 1895 At 10 a. in our Salesrooms, NOS. 31-33 SUTTER STREET, We will seil, by order of J. H. Widber, Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco. Sundry Articles of Stolen and Unclaimed Jewel Watclies, Pistols, Knives, Clothing, ete., recovexuey(‘ by the police. A Lot of TRUNKS AND CLOTHING, of the Coroner of this city and county, " 7, “i%F EDWARD . SPEAR & CO., Auctioneers, 81 and $8 Sutter street.