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24 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1895. AELICS OF DISTANT DAYS, They Are Mere Fragments of the Lost Civilization of the Mayas. DUG FROM FORGOTTEN TOMBS. Intensely Interesting Antliquities Now at the Academy of Sclences. 5 In the museum of the Academy of Sci- ences there is a really unique and valuable collection of antiquities of a prehistoric American race, the Mayas of Central America, and it is going a-begging for a purchaser. The owner will sell it for a song, and still it goes a-begging. Archmologists are free to declare there is not such another collection in the United States, noteven in the celebrated Smith- sonian Institution, where at best merely a fragmentary lot of Mayan relics can be seen. Years ago many very valuable relics of these most interesting people and their | wonderful civilization were carried away tists were far in advance of the Egyptians, whom they resemble in many ways. Their delineation of the hnman form is quite graceful and approaches truth, but the Mayan artists had not yet begun vo under- stand foreshortening of feet, or features, nor to appreciate perspective, although their drawing is free from the stiffness and crudities of the Egyptians. The Mayas passed away before the Tol- tecs came upon the valley of Anahauc, and a new and entirely different civilization followed, with_the veriest trace of the old one in its veins. Then the Toltecs flour- ished and faded, and generations afterward Aztecs found the beautiful Jands and there built up another civilization, knowing nothing of the ancient races except what came in legends as picturesque and mist- ful as that tradition upon which was founded the national emblem of Mexico. ‘With this much in view the mind may con- ceive some idea of the antiquities of the Mayas, who lived once from the world apart in a wonderful world of their own. In the opinion of Dr. Gustav Eisen of the academy, who has visited the Mayan cities and studied Mayan character writ- ing for ten years, the vessels were nearly | all’ used in temples. They were mostly sacred, for ofierin% food to deities, lamps for burning oil in forgotten shrines and be- fore forgotten gods. Only a few were for household use. i There are two distinct varieties, one | black, and no doubt made from a mixture | of asphaltum and charcoal that cannot be | well imitated in our day, the other red in color, made of common clay and burned | like terra cotta. The potter's wheel was unknown to the makers, and yet their gotwr y is shnpelly, exceedingly tough and well burned. In | composition and design the black pottery Spice Cup SOME CHARACTERISTIC RELICS GARCIA ELQUE The Life of Samuel J. Tilden. Solomon fancied that he had fallen upon a bookmaking age, and undoubtedly he was right. In any age, however, therecan be no end to making many books. So long as books are living, so long they must be recorded. How our libraries had peen enriched could some literary light of old, say, for instance, Ezra the Scribe, have given us the “Life and Letters of Solomon” himself. There was bookmaking for you! There are not enough books in the world so long as there are unrecorded lives of our great men. Biography will always find readers, for heedless though we some- times seem, the science of life is, after all, terested. There is something fundamental in the interest good biography always in- spires among intelligent men and women. It lies at the base of all life and is felt be- cause, consciously or unconsciously, we recognize a oneness, even with greatness. | We are vitally and personally interested in the causes that have gone to make up the notable nature. Events apparently | the most insignificant become pm‘tenmusi in the light of aiter developments. We | want the facts of ancestry, of training, of | environment, and, given these, the task of building that every man's life represents | becomes to the reader a fascinating process. Such a process John Bigelow has devel- oped in his “Life of Samuel J. Tilden,” | just published, in two handsome, sub- | stantial volumes, by Harper & Bros. | That Mr. Bigelow’s life of Tilden is good biography goes without saying to those | whi ax“)e {'..gmilinr with his life of Benjamin Franklin and of William Cullen Bryant. | 1t was his privilege to enjoy aimost a life- | long friendship with Tilden, and he has | also edited the writings and speeches of | the statesman. 3 While he who has served his country well needs, as Voltaire has said, no ances- tors, yet the fact remains that the men | who leave the greatest impress upon their | times usually have had ancestors and an | authentic ancestral record. Greatnessin | any line of achievement is not a s{;oradlc§ growth. Its evolution can usually be very irectly traced. @ The life of Samuel J. Tilden is no ex- ception to this rule. He came of a_long line of honorable ancestry, which it was one of the pardonable pastimes of his last year of life to trace back, in an unbroken sequence, to the days of the Conqueror. he Tildens of America date back to Nathaniel Tilden, who, with his wife and seven children and seven servants, came to this country in the Hercules, in 1634 He was “a man of substance and impor- tance,” and men of substance and impor- tance his descendants in this country have | since been. Elam Tilden, great-great-| grandson of Nathaniel Tilden, married | Polly Younglove Jones in 1902, and to this worthy couple was born at New Lebanon, New York, February 9, 1814, their fourth child, whom they christened Samuel Jones Tilden. A good deal of space is devoted by Mr. Bigelow to tracing the. various more or less famous family connections, all of which makes interesting reading. | Samuel J. Tilden’s grandmother was a re- | miarkable woman and exerted a large in- fluence upon him as a young man, but the relation between the coming states- man and his father, as shown in the book, | is particularly delightful. A. good mxnyi letiers are printed that passed between | them—iull of considerate, kindly friend- ship and good counsel on the father’s part, of confidence, respect and affection on the part of the son. £ ; The bent of Samuel J. Tilden’s mind manifested itself at a very early aze. OF THE MAYAS IN THE MANUEL TA COLLECTION. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] rom Yvcatan to European museums and institutions of learning. Some found their way to the United States and are highly prized. But the Mexican Government has positively forbidden exportation of Mayan, or Toltec, or Aztec antiquities, reserving whatever 1s best for the National Museum in the City of Mexice and making it ille- gal to even chip off a particle of stone from the marvelous ancient cities lying in a | wilderness in the very heart of the virgin forests of Yucatan. In some parts of Nicaragua, notably the region adjoining Mexico, where a dead and gone civilization flourished centuries ago, isolated Mayan relics have been dis- covered. These antiquities were found invariably in the torubs of the Chalchitan and Pechili, yet preserved in every feature, although the human remains had moldered into dust possibly before the Christian era. In the same tombs Manuel Garcia Elqueta discovered a rare assortment of Mayan pottery, images supposed to repre- sent faces of the dcad, sacred vessels used in the temples, articles of personal adorn- ment and household utensils. Senor Elgueta sent his collection to San Francisco, hoping to find a market among the museums and universities, which he thought would eagerly bid against one another to secure the prize. At first he wanted $10,000, but now he is willing to accept $2000 or $1500. For safe keeping his collection was set up in cases in the museum of the Academy of Sciences, where it has remained for some months, unnoticed save by a few scientists and others interested in a civilization that ma have flourished contemporaneous witg that of Egypt, and about which little is known to-day except by analogy. The most _interesting case of the collec- tion by far is that containing sacred uten- sils and images. Many of the vessels are suinwd in colors which centuries canmot ull. There are bands of hieroglyphics and pictures. Probably the character writing contains a prayer or tells a story, but it is plain what the pictures represent. In ev case there is the serpent deit; wmhiepIZd by the Mayas. He is repreyo sented as crawling over a rude picture of rocks, his mouth open wide and his natu- ral form conventionalized. On either side is & priest, or it may be a lay worshiper, kneeling, and with body bowed in suppli- cation. Lines drawn from the nose and mouth, some of them ornamented to look like an arrow with pointed tip, represent speech, and show that the worshipers are in the act of pra iniw the serpent. The dress and wonderful headgear have a deep significance In the study of these strange people, inasmuch as they indicate the Mayan costume. Asin all other pictorial writings of the Mayas these pictures prove that their ar- shows a connection with that of the Incas of Peru. All were made by hands that were adept in the art of fashioning the which have elements of elegance and beanty. The most striking pieces are gaudily painted with glyphs and representations of worshipers before the serpent god. In- cense vessels with narrow tops, mortuar; Eots lookine like short, thick shoes witl andles over the heels, lamps with a god’s head having the eyes gouged out, black spice cups with three feet and of singular shape, red and gray chafing dishes like big hollow spindles into which glowing char- coal was put to keep food warm on top, cups in the form of a turtle that one might look for in a Japanese curiosity-shop—all these form the most interesting articles of pottery in the collection. Besides there vessels into fantastic shapes, many of | Statesmanship was his ruling interest, and from the earliest to the latest years of his life Thomas Jefferson was, more than any other man, his model. His writings shaped the young man’s early thought; the prin- ciples enunciated by him swayed the states- man’s after conduct. When young Tilden was 3 years old he had a severe illness, during ‘which drugs were administered. from the effects of which he never wholly recovered. He was always delicate, nearly always sickly. His whole life was one long struggle with semi-invalidism. His education was got between severe attacks of illness. | His early mental development was re- markable. - He was but 18 or 19 years old when he began writing pamphlets and arti- cles upon the burning questions of the day, and even at that early age he showed the same keenness of intellectual grasp, the same power to comprehend a principle and state it clearly that characterized his ma- turer powers. As a partisan he was by heredity and by conviction a Democrat. Throughout his lifetime, however, he was never an advo- cate of extreme measures when dealing with public opinion or sectional intcrests. This characteristic showed itself as early as 1833, when, some days before the ap- pearance of President Jackson’s nullifica- tion message, he wrote: “I am decidedly friendly to a protective system (though not a prohibitory one) and should regret exceedingly to see it aban- doned, but if it _can only be sustained by roducing such deep and_ settled dissatis- action as exists in the South, and which has enabled a few disappointed dema- gogues to bring us to the verge of dis- union, it must go. Mutunal conciliation and compromise is preached from every quarter, but every man seems waiting for his neighbor to practice it.” He became, even as a young man, one of the recognized forces of his party in the State. As a member of the Assembly he was elected to the convention called to re- vise the State constitution in 1846, and had more than any one else to do with shapin the provisions of the constitution regard- ing the management of canals, then so important a feature of his State’s policy. &hen the troublous times of the decade before the war arnse Mr. Tilden was a free- soiler. He was strongly opposed to the war itself, of which he predicted, long before his fellow-statesmen would believe it, that the are several small images, no two of which are alike nor show a conventional type, that represent the dead. A legend re- mains that the Mayas believed it necessary to bury an image of every dead person with the body to appease the deity, who otherwise would fail to recognize the de- arted one at the gates of their sunny para- 1se. The pieces of pottes numbered 160 and 220 are bron: and prove to be the only two of their kind found in the Mayan tombs. As they bear evidence of a knowledge of met- als, these specimens have a great scientific value. One piece, painted in white and a beautiful shade of green, representing a series of snakes’ jaws on a terra-cotta background, is regarded as a remarkably artistic effort that would do credit to de- signers of the present day. n other vessels are seen engravings of snouts which bear a striking resemblance to those of the mammoth, as much of the Mayan sculpture on temples has fre- quently suggested. - The conventionaliz- ing of animal forms and introduction of the human face and animals into decora- tions on Mayan pottery are here shuwn in profusion. The quaint cups, with tripod stands and_queer spouts, would be accept- able as artistic bric-a-brac, if not, indeed, hignly prized as such from their symmet- rical if very odd forms. All such %otury is exceedingly rare for the reason that the Indians of 8lnwer Mex- ico and Guatemala smash it as soon at it is found, having a superstition that the souls of their ancestors are in some mysterious way connected with those relics. n cases adjoining are stone hatchets, beads; obsidian knives, highly polished; for use in making ucrfflees, sacred ham- mers, likewise highly polished; primitive }ugeu of stone that are not curved, and t;Imhes ut.lfuy tlhe nmai in expression as ose on the columns of the mi, de- serted temples of Yucatan. 2 s little cloud on the horizon meant deadly internecine strife. But earnestly as he labored to avert the war and to thwart the measures that seemed to him calculated to grecipitaw it, when, without any responsi- ility on his part the war came, he never for a moment hesitated as to the course he was to pursue. He felt it was the duty of every citizen to sustain the Government in its resistance to territorial dismemberment, and to this task every energy of his mind was bent. The second volume of the book is largely devoted to the ever-memorable Presiszn- tial campaign of 1876 and the long exam- ination of Mr. Tilden before the Senate committee of investigation into the elec- tion frauds. Whatever of wrong centers about that_page in our politicaF history, certainly John Bigelow has thrown a strong light upon Mr. Tilden’s part in that bitter campaign, and a light in which the statesman’s name must be vindicated from the charge of nrtici})ntion in fraud. If the final breakdown of his already delicate health had not compelled him_in 1880 to Tesign renomination to the Presidency, American history of the last twenty years of this century might have been materi- ally altered. Kven four years later it was a curious illustration of the hold Tilden’s name had upon the party that, but for the belief of its constituents that Mr. Cleve- land was the statesman’s choice for Presi- dent, the “man of destiny” would. in all probability never have received even a nomination. Grgin Much space in the two volumes is de- voted to a consideration of Mr. Tilden in a light in which he is seldom thought of. As in the case of that other great statesman, Daniel Webster, the lawyer is usually lost sight of in Tilden. But it is in bis professional life that Mr. Bigelow shows us glimpses that throw out the man's character in_strong relief. His law practice was really, however, inci- denu":wlu- life. Skill at the bar was the subject in which humanity is most in- | simply one of his accomplishments. And yet no member of the legal profession in ' New York ever accumulated for himself so large a fortune in so short a time. He concentrated his attention entirely upon cases involving large, often enormous, interests. Cases of minor importance he neither invited nor encouraged. If such came to his office they were confided to his subordinates. His professional charges were exceedingly moderate, based rather on work done than in advantages accruing to clients. He never allowed himself to ac- cept a contingent retainer. His cases were won by sheer intellectual force, never by trick or technicality, and he was a relent- less worker, both of himself and those who were connected with him. In the spring of 1875 he became very impatient wit) the dilatoriness of one_of the counsel in_suits then pending in New York against Tweed and his confederates. He sent for the counsel, who had been anything but dila- tory, but who came and concluded his de- fense with the remark that he could not entirely neglect his private business. “When you accepted this retainer,” said Tilden, *‘you said you would not permit your private business to interfere with it.” he counsel said something about not wishing to appear at the bar as a man with one client or of one idea. “'8ir,” exclaimed the Governor, fiercely, “a man who is nota monomaniac is not worth a ——1" Mr. Tilden never married. He never felt the need for other wife or com- panion than his career and his intellectual resources. His delicate health, his keen personal ambition and absorption in public life occupied his entire attention. He never came into intimate relation with any woman_ He had not even the fem- inine friendships that most intellectual men affect. His celibacy and his fortune made him an object of interest, however, to matrimonially inclined womanhood, ruin many industrious people. In addition to this the bank system places the control of mona{ in the hands of individuals and corporations and thereby enables a small class of money-lenders to dominate the in- dustries of the people. The author proposes to substitute for bank notes the issue of title certificates by the Government, to be used for all pur- Bgses of exchange. Such certificates would - as valid as the Government itself and being issued impartially to all producers would prevent anything like a monopoly of money. The details of the system by which the Government would issue the certificates and the methods by which they would be used in the transactions of business are thoroughly elaborated in the volume. The author claims that his sys- tem would prevent panics and produce prosperity, and while it is too radical a change “from the oxiszin% monetary methods of the world to be regarded as a question of practical politics, it is nevertheless an important econ- tribution to the abstract science of money, and can be read with profit by ail who wish to have a thorough comprehen- sion of what money really does in the business of the world. [For sale by the San Francisco News Company; price 50 cents, paper covers.] Religion in Common Life. Books ef sermons are not so pooular as they once were. This fact, however, ought not to tell against the little volume in hand. 1t isa course of sermons delivered at the Church of 8t. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, by various clergymen of the estab- lished church. Among those represented are Archdeacon Farrar, Dean Pigon, Dr. Wace, Canon Brown, Rev. J. F. Kitts and others equally well known. The addresses are full of practical, kindly sense and are signincant because of the key in which they are all pitched. There isa generally spreading feeling, both among the laity and with the cloth, that the church has some duty toward the problems now press- ing upon us. There is the same ring to be detected through the utterances of these conservative authorities in the Church of England that is noticeable in the utter- ances of certain American religious teachers. If Christianity is to survive it must _apply itself to the solution of the and a chapter de7oted to their attempts at correspondence with Tilden makes amus- ing reading. As a statesman, a man among men, a thinker and a diplomat, Mr. Tilden was, all in all,a wonderful personality. His biographer had exceptional advantagesand has used well the material at his com- mand. Whether the reader’s attitude to- ward the subject is one of admiration or enmity, the admission must be made that here was one of the most remarkable men this country has produced, whose impress ugon the century is unmistakable and in- effaceable. [New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco.] Enemies in'the Rear. The author of this book, Francis T. Hoover, says, justly, that ‘‘the complete history of the War of the Rebellion will probably never be written.” He, himself, however, has given us in this story a chap- ter thatis both novel and interesting. It has to do with one of the many forces with which the National Government had to deal all during the war, enemies in the rear, stirring up disaffection and tumult at home, while loyal Northern men were at the front, fighting for National unity. The particular enemy here shown was the organization known as “The Knights of the Golden Circle” or “‘Sons of Liberty.” This was a secret order in sympathy with the South and assisting it in every way. It encouraged drafted men to resist, dis- couraged volunteers, aided rebels to escape, sowed the seeds of discontent in the army and in all possible ways camped on the trail of the barassed Government and en- deavored to hinder its efforts to maintain the Union. The scene is laid among a people com- Bara(ively little known_in literature—the ennsylvania Datch, Now the Pennsyl- vania Dutch are not Dutch people at all, but Germans. Mr. Hoover grew up among these people, and has given us a delight- ful in!igEt into their life and habits of thought. As said before, these people are rarely met with in literature. ey speak a dialect which is_a mixture of Dutch, German and English, sadly corrupted in form and pronunciation, but retaining the German idiom. The result is, to the ayer- age English speaker, iiterally unutterable. Even now there are whole neighborhoods in Southeastern Pennsylvania where very few families can speak anything save this patois, though all can understand and most can read pure German. Mr. Hoover has not attempted to reproduce the dia- lect, but his pictures of the people will be recognized by one who has ever been among them’ as drawn to the life. The Pennsylvania Dutchman is above all things conservative, and he has been gen- erally prosperous. He is kindly and sim- ple-natured—and prejudiced. His knowl- edge is far from up to date. His religion, his politics, his V]shits of thought are nearly what those of his grandfather were. When the rebellion broke out these people saw in it little but a cunning scheme of both Northern and Bouthern leaders to enrich themselves at the expense of the people. They had a horror of the war, the causes of which they knew nothing, and it came to pass tbat in many ways they bitterly opposed the Government in its “efforts ‘to put down slavery. Mis- taught by their leaders and their clerfi alike, they entertained the most absui notions about the whole situation. Into this section a propagandist of the Knights of the Golgen Circle came, to organize a lodge. The movement found numerous adherents, and so troublesome did the order become that the Government was forced to break it up and arrest the leader. A mob of his followers marched upon Reading to rescue him. Here, for the first time, they really came in contact with the outer world, and learned more in one day of what the United States Govern- ment really is than they could have found out in fifty years at home. The author has kept closely to histeric facts, and interest in the historic side of his narrative almost overshadows that inspired by the very pleasant weft of romance running through the historic warp. 8ome of the situations are deliciously funny, and the reader un- familiar with the Germans of Southeastern Pennsylvania will be tempted to think he has been carried to a foreign land. [Boston: The Arena Publishing Com- gany. For sale at the Popular Bookstore, an Francisco.] Title Certificates. One of the most elaborate contributions to the monetary discussion which now en- gages so largea part of the attention of the world is “Title Certificates,” a volume of 235 pages issued by the Currency Educa- tional Association, 392 Grand River ave- nue, Detroit, Mich. It develops a mone- tary system based upon the products of industry and not upon gold, silver or bank- notes. The author claims that as practi- cally everybody is a producer and con- sumer, civilized man requires a safe sys- tem oy which he can exchange what he has produced for what he wishes to con- sume. It is to facilitate this exchange that money has come into use. The one use of money, therefore, is toshow that its holder has given a product valued at the money’s face, and is by this tact, moniing to the practices of society, entitled toa return gift of a product of like value. It foliows, of course, that anything which shows this entitlement does the work of money and is money to all intents and purposes. The use of gold and silver or other coin for this purpose is a survival of a low staga of civilization. The introduc- tion of the system of bank exchange isa great step in_ advance and has proven so much superior to the use of money that more than 95 per cent of our commercial transactions are now carried on in ‘that way, here are, however, two serious defects in the bank system. In the first glwu the banks are insecure. The people have not complete confidence in them and occasion- ally there result from this lack of confi- dence panics which paralyze business and questions of the hour. If Christ is to save the people it must be from their pressing, every-day need. If the church is to be the representative of God on earth it must be- come a vital factor in the daily life of the eople. In a word, the bookis a volume of applied Christianity. The questions touched upon are the ones that the whole world is busy with and staggering under. “‘Individualism and Socialism,”” **Christian Ethics,” “The Religious and Social Uses of Discontent,” “Fairness,”” “Religion and Politics” are titles of some of the dis- courses. The sermons are all of interest, and in view of their source a significant commentary on the trend of modern thought. [New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. For sale at the Popular Book- store, San Francisco.] The Company Doctor, An American story by Henry Edward Rood. The tale deals with people and events in the Pennsylvania coal mines. It is hard to see just what Mr. Rood is driving at. ‘The story shows conclusively that the evils and hardships in the miner’s lot in that particular community were the direct result of infamous oppression by their em- ployers. There is a strike and riots which the detectives are called in to quell. Then a jump is taken, two years further along. The Irish miners are reYlaced by Slavs and Polacks, wages are still lower, oppression greater than ever and misery and ignorance rampant. The conditicn of wretchedness is indescribable and the doctor employed by the mining company is at his wits’ ends to find a remedy for the evil. When he does find one, it is restricted immigra- tion. If the situation were not so desper- ate the conciusion would be humorous. Just what difference it makes whether the men, who are overworked, underpaid, robbed, treated like cattle, generally, are Americans, Irish or the ignorant, swarming hordes from the overpopulated countries of Europe, the author does not make clear. That unrestricted immigration is an_ evil, none know better than the American people, but on Mr. Rood’s own showing, the crimes of which he writes are the direct result of other and precedent crimes, by which hope, opportunity and freedom were slain. [New York: The Mer- riam Company.] The New Moon. A strong story, dealing with a rather subtle question of crime. A young phy- sician tells the tale, feeling himself to be near the end of life. He married, when a mere boy, a woman who proved to be a mere burden upon his after life. Sheis weak, sickly, superstitious and silly. In the course of his practice he meetsa woman the antithesis of all these. They love each other, and the love becomes a noble friend- ship. The sickly wife sees the new moon twice through glass. She knows if she sees itthus a third time death isinevitable. A light seen through a bluish shade at the window she mistakes for the new moon. She becomes terrified—is dying of fright. Her husband is in _attendance, and the su- preme moment of the whole book is the one in wkich he fights out the question whether he shall tell her of her mistake. To keep silent means freedom—to speak will in all probability save her life. The light his wiie bad seen was in the window of the woman he loved. She comes to as- sist him with his sick wife—the party are all ina Swiss hotel, and the building takes fire. The unfortunate lover endeavors to save both women—he does save his wife, but himself receives fatal injuries, while Dorothy, whom he loves, perishes in the flames. The author, C. E. Raimond, has made good use of all these tragic elements. New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale y William Doxey, S8an Francisco.] A Modern Pagan. In this story the author, Constance Goddard du Bois, introduces us to a large and choice circle of London’s apostles of decadence. There isa fin de siecle club whose members are addicted toart for | art’s sake, and a fortnightly dismember- ment of their own sensations and emotions for mutual delight in the spectacle. There is a musical bero whom one longs to chas- tise after the good old maternal fashion. He marries a lovely girl because she loves him and has money, and then proceeds to break her heartand involve some of his other friends in a very quleasnnt and compromising situation, When too late he finds he has fallen in love with his wife, and a good many chapters are consumed in his efforts to win her back. He finally becomes a Christian, forsakes the fin de siecle club, goes slumming and vlays the rielodion at the weekly meeting ina coffee-house. aninfi become very good indeed he again seeks out nis wife, rings her home and the curtain falls upon a scene of domestic felicity. The story 1s admirably told and repays reading. [New York: The Merriam Company. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco.] The Story of Sonny Sahib. Mrs. Everard Cotes (Dora Jeanette Dun- can) gives us in this book another delight- ful glimpse at the English peopie in India. Sonny Sahib is an English waif—a bit of ‘wreckage saved by his ayah from the terri- ble massacre of Christians by the followers of the famous rebel, Nana Daunder Pant of Bittner. His father, an army officer, is away on duty, his mother died while at- tempting to escape. The bady was carried far into the interior and grew upin the court of an Indian prince. Englishmen he never saw until a missionary came to court, and was eventullli slain. Sonny Bahib is a loving, lovable, honorabte little English Ch.lp' and the adventures by which he eventually reaches his countrymen and finds his father are told with a charming grace of style of which Mrs. Cotes is mistress. [wcw York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco.] Recent Fiction. THE SToRY OF A CaNvoN—By Beveridge Hill. A story of mining life, to-day, ina polorado canyon. The motif of the tale hinges upon the legislation of the past few years regarding silver. The effects of the | demonenzauop of silver, and of the Sier- | man law and its final repeal, are brought | out in startling relief in the'story of the undoing of opetown. The suspense, waiting for news from ‘Washington, the brenkmfi \;g of homes, when the miners | scattered like grouse over the hills to pick up their daily food, the paralysis of busi- ness and the wave of despair sweeping over the impoverished West, when the sil- | ver mines closed down, are all graphically | pictured. The story isa strong plea for a restoration to silver of the power that it | bad ““from the time of the Patriarch Abra- | ham to the time of the President Abra- ham.’ [Boston: The Arena Publishing | Company. For sale at the Popular Book- store, San Francisco.] SoME Goop INTENTIONS AND A BLUNDER— By John Oliver Hobbs, isa dainty violet booklet, gotten up in verv pretty style. It is written in the author’s characteristic style, always a little jerky, sometimes epi- grammatic. The tale is amusing and clev- erly constructed. John Oliver Hobbs is so thoroughly artificial in her workmanship that one “small blunder will not excite surprise. She makes the hero of hersketch wear in his buttonhole *‘the petalless calyx ofarose.” She does not tell uswhat it looked like, but declares that ‘it might bave been the emblem of his creed of beauty in unloveliness.” [New York: The Merriam Company. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co.] Coroxa or THE NANTAHALAS—By Louis Pendleton, isan entertaining little pastoral. A young girl brought up in the mountains of North Carolina learns to read, and hav- ing a volume of Shakespeare, and a few others of the ancient Greek writers grows to young womanhood with no knowledge beyond that gleaned from these sources, and no companions save her foster-father and mother and their deaf-mute soa. Here she is found, wooed and won by a young man who succeeds in unraveling the mys- tery that surrounds her parentage. Some of the scenes are exciting, and the whole co_nce);uon is original and well carried out. [New York: The Merriam Company. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Fran- cisco.] THE O Too Maxy—By Mrs. E. Lynn Linton. The discoverer of *‘The New ‘Woman” dedicates this book to ‘“The sweet girls still left among us who have no part in the new revolt, but are content to be dutiful, innocent and sheltered.” The | story deals with the question of higher education for girls. There is one girl, “the | prize girl at Girton,” who comes in for a regular breeze of disapproval. *Her desire was for knowledge—knowledge of life and men and things; and if she soiled her hands when digging at the roots, well, she would rather bave the roots than clean hands.”” The whole story is full of warn- ing to girls of the dreadful creatures the: are likely to become and the equally dread- ful things likely to happen if they elect to have a masculine education, which must inevitably ‘“mentally unsex’’ them, what- ever that may mean. [Chicago: F. Ten- nyson Neely.] THE ROMANCE OF THE SEVERD, from the French of George Duval, by Mary J. Saf- ford, is another phase of our present Napoleomania. It is a tale of the days of ’93. The scene is laid in London and in Paris. The'events of the rise of the great Corsican make a vivid background against which a very readable historic romance is displayed. .[New York: The Merriam Company. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco.] FROM THE FARALLONES. Prospect of a Hewvy Export of Gull and Murre Eggs. From a letter received in this City yes- terday from William Breeman, lighthouse- keeper at the Farallon Islands, it is learned that the crop of seagull and murre | eggs will be unusually large this year. Al- ready the islands swarm with countless | millions of the feathery tribe, and the lay- ing season, which extends from the middle of May to the latter part of July, has com- menced in earnest. It may not be gen- erally known that over 60,000 dozen of these eggs are consumed annuzally in San Francisco. The bakers like them and they are sold quite extensively to families, more, per- haps, for their size than anality. The eggs of auks, sea-pigeons and sea-parnots also abound there in great numbers, being gathered and shipped chiefly for ornamen- tal purposes. he rarest egg in the world is found at the Farallones. 1t is de- posited by the rockwren, a bird for which taxidermists have been known to pay a small fortune. Collectors are anxious to get the eggs at from $15 to §25 each, and a nest brings $5. As far as is known the rockwren is a native of the Farallones, and has never been seen beyond the home cliffs. In no other partof the worid, ac- cording to competent authority, is this rare bird fou A SILENT EXCURSION. The Graduating Class of Deaf Mutes Entertained by Harbor Commis- sioner Cole. Harbor Commissioner Cole gave an ex- cursion to the deaf mute graduates of the State Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institute yesterday, taking the young people around the bay in the tug Governor Markham. The boat left La Rue's wharf shortly before 11 o’clock and headed down the bay toward the Union Iron Works. The students ranged in age from 16 to 19 or 20 years, the majority of them being voung ladies. They appeared to be a most gm)‘py lot as the tug glided outinto the stream, and eyes, finger: were kept going in conv: of delight. From the Union Iron Works the Mark- ham sailed for Sausalito, where a landing was made at the Pacific Yacht Club house, and the lads and lassies roamed over the pretty grounds at will. Again the hands and eyes were busied in silent language as the young people flitted about under the trees reveling in the delights of nature. An appetizing luncheon was spread on the grass and enjoyed to the utmost. While the deaf mutes dined in the pretty retreat, with its hilly background and the smiling bay stretching out before it, the yachts riding at anchor below, and afar off the gleam of spreading sails flashing in the sunlight, a° number of Oaklanc school-children, who went out with the party, furnished sweet music_from man- dolins. To be sure the afflicted ones could not hear the sounds of harmony, but they seemed to enjoy the pleasure of those who could hear as if it were their own. On the return trip the tug went out as far as the heads. It was very rough, and for that reason the ride was' the more en- joyable. The class of mutes consisted of the following: The Misses Fiorence Alex- ander, Bessie Cole, Rose Craddock, Carrie Crawford, Lydia Hatch, Annie Lindstrom, Frankie Norton, Fannie Phelps, Mabel Gande, Tillie Rowe and Rosie Mucha; Gustav Isert, Isadore Davis, Winfield Runde, Will Cotter. Teachers—William A. Caldwell, Mrs. Caldwell and Miss Carrie Hutchinson. In the party from Oakland were: L.G. Cole, G. fi White, Mr. and Mrs. Brayton, Masters George Davis, Will Dawson, Dan Moulton, Mrs. Anne MecGown, Milton Spaulding, Alfred Wilber, Fred Winters, Burchard White, Misses Irene Abel, Ethel Crellin, Grace Dawson, Kitty Fairchild. Camiile Johnston, Julia Leigh, Marion Miller, Eleanor McGown, Lulu Reed, Inez Wallace, Florence White, Miss Cora Jen« kins, Mrs. H. M. Weatherbee, Mrs. Win- ters. hands and arms ng expressions e e Brown’s Skull Was Fractured. John Brown, who lives at1222 Kearny street, met with an accident yesterday morning at the corner of Market and Sccond streets which will, in all probability, prove fatul. He was ariying along in & cart when his horse slipped, and he was thrown to the street. He struck upon his head and was rendered insensible. Upon his removal to the Receiving Hospital it whas found that the man’s skull wae fractured. NEW TO-DAY. THEY TREAT ALL DISEASES. Correcting a Mistaken Impression Regarding the Cope- land Medical Institute. Their Work Is by No Means Confined to Any One Manifestation of Con= stitutional Disorder, but to All Chronic Diseases. $5 a Month, Including All Medicines. Drs. Copeland and Neal are specialists—not | in catarrh alone, not in dyspepsia, or rheuma- tism, or nervous troubles, or blood troubles | alone, not in any single manifestation of deep- | seated constitutional disorder. They are spe- | cialists in chronic diseases—in all those dis- | eases of a complex nature requiring special skill, special education and special training. To the family physician belongs the relief or cure of acute diseases—the averting of imme- diate and pressing danger. To the specialist bclon?s the cure of chronic diseases, the lift- ing of the light and darkness and shadow of life, long endured, the restoration of courage, good cheer, health and happiness from the permanent discouragement, morbid melan- choly, weakness and certain abnormal decline of chronic disease. Great specialists could not be restricted to isolated ~manifestations of constitutional malady. No impression could be more errone- ous than thet the work of Drs. Copeland and Neal is confined to any one disorder, like catarrh or blood trouble. Wherever such an impression prevails it should be immediately corrected. Their work embraces all chronic diseases, which they treat with uniform suc- cess. Five dollars a month is the only fee, and includes all necessary medicines. THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE. Her People Were Afraid She Could Nof Reach the City. The many friends of Miss Edith A. Lawrence, who lives at present at 1216 Scott street, are rejoicing over her complete restoration to health at the hands of Drs. Copeland and Neal, Miss Lawrence’s home is in Nevada City, and | two years ngo her parents thought she would have to die and obi’ected to her coming to the city for treatment because she was so low that | they feared she could not stand the trip. She tells of her recovery as follows: \J Miss EDITH A. LAWRENCE, 1216 SCOTT STREET. “Two years ago I was given up to die, and when I made up my mhnf to eom’i to the city for a change of climate and treatment my folks objected strenuoucly, for they did not think I could stand the trip, but I came and for a time the change ot ciimate helped me, but s I be- came accustomed to the cfi“.nge 1 began to fail again. 1had doctored so much that I was sick and tired of taking medicines, but I felt that I had to do something,so I began treatment egain. I tried several different doctors, but met with the same verdict, I could not get well. By chance I learned of the great Sood beinF Medical l"s;ci WA accomplished by the Copelan tute, and with but littie confdence I appli to them for treatment. They encouraged me to try and Idid. Iplaced myself under their treatment, and it was not long until I began to improve. It was slow at first, but I & uukv ained strength and with it renewed confi- ence. I persevered in the treatment aud in time the improvement was so marked t my friends could see it. It was nearly a ago that they gained at leasi nounced me cured. Ihave !"&m“, pounds in weight. A month or two ago I took & bad cold and got lflshlensd and went back to Drs. and Neal. I took one month of their new and hnprovull trea.ment ":o?s‘hm;;’r p‘ehr:eg‘t’lcy e n. Icannot say e! - ton..tgrul feel that they have saved my life.” THE NEW TREATMENT, Some Expressions From Patients Who Have Tested It. Frank W. Kiff, salesman in the Econom: Meat Market, 419 Kearny street, says: il FRANK W. KIFF, 419 KEARNY STREET. “I have had a practical demonstration of the success of Drs. Copeland and Neal's new treat- ment for Catarrh and Chronic Diseases, and have no hesitation in saying that itis a com- plete success in every particular.” N. 8. Moody, Carson City, Nev.,.writes: “I am well pleased with your treatment. Ithas helped me very much. My hearing has be- come almost as good as it ever was. The ring- ing noises are gone and I can smeil again. 1 have no more of that dizziness end Ilook so much better that my friends remark about the improvement.” George Macdonough, Palo Alto, says: “I never knew anything fo work quite so thor. oughly. Ihave only taken it two weeks and Tféel Tike another person. HOME TREATMERT, Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the home or mail treatment. _ §. Weeks, Santa Margarita, Cal., writes: "xhzufna you last November and had you pre- for me, and now I am happy to say I :cn?b:nurely well and have been for several months.” If you cannot come to this office write for a symptom blank. $5 A MONTH. No fee Jarger than $5 a month asked for an; disease. Our motto is: “A Low Fee. Quicl Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” The Copeland Medical Tnstitats, 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. M,2t05r M, 7t08:30 P. M. Sunday—10 A. M. 102 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail, o Gvestion ommall. Send 4 cents in stamps > ¥ A ‘ . o