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12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1895. CONGRESS OF WOMEN, Second Annual Session in San Francisco To-Day. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION. Susan B. Anthony and Anna H. Shaw to Attend the Meeting. SUSAN B. TO SPEAK HER MIND. WIill Tell the Women of San Fran- clsco What They Want and How to Get It. Mayor Sutro will deliver to-day the ad- | by the ladies of the Woman and argued and written to prove that women should own the money they earn and have a voice 1n the government of the land. At first she was scoffed at and reviled, put neither ridicule nor abuse could silence Susan B. Anthony, and to-day her name has become a name for the new woman to conjure by and for the tyrant man to quail before. Twenty-four years ago when Miss An- thony was last in California she was strug- ling to obtain believers in her mission. f’eople listened in half contemptuous won- der and the majority of them looked upon her as a crank. The quarter of a century that has elapsed since she was here, how- ever, has brought a large portion of the world round to her way of thinking, and yesterday when Susan B. Anthony arrived in Oakland she was given a ro’yal welcome s Congress, where she is to speak as the brightest or- nament of the week’s session. In spite of her advanced years, Miss An- thony did not seem to be fatigued by her long journey when she was seen in the af- ternoon at the house of Mrs. Sar%eut on Folsom street. One would naturally ex- pect to find a woman of determined aspect in this champion, who has stood by her guns through so many rebuffs, but the old lady proved to be as gentle-looking and sweet-voiced as if she had never stirred from her own hearthstone. : Something above the middle height, with a rather slight figure, Miss Anthony gives one the impression of an intellectual woman whose physical health has never been over-robust. - Her delicate, clear-cut features in repose_have a sad, somewhat worn expression, but when_she smiles her whole face lights up, as if illumined from dress of welcome at the opening of the sec- ond annual meeting of the Woman’s Gon- | gress of the Pacific Coust. The hour of the | convening is 10:30 A. M., and the place | within, Her soft, white hair yesterday was parted Madonnawise, in the prevailing fashion, and her pretty gown of black satin, relieved by a becoming touch of resolutions were right and just, and they were adopted. Then the congress ad- journed, to meet in Rochester on the 19th of August.” In answer to the question where Miss Anthony herself was during these stirring times, she answered that she was teaching school in New York. My father and mother attended the congress in Rochester and they were per- fectly charmed with Mrs, Stanton’s ideas— their letters were full of nothing but con- gress. I did not believe in women votin, at that time, though I heartily indorse all that was said about equality between men and women in work. Two years later, however, when another congress was held, Horace Greeley had the proceedings re- ported in the Tribune, and it was reading those articles that converted me to the cause. Since then I have devoted my life to the work of woman’s suffrage.” ‘When asked whether there had been many stumbling-blocks in the way, Miss Anthony admitted that her path had been strewn with cares at first. “ ‘Let your women keep silence in the churches.’ That was the text they always hurled at our heads. Before giving a lecture I have known every minister in the town to de- nounce us from the pnlpit beforehand, calling us_infidels, because they said our speaking in public was in direct opposition to St. Paul’s teaching. As a rule, on the night of the lecture the ministers arranged prayer-meetings at the same hour, and made the women understand that their soul’s salvation depended on attending the meeting.” It was not in any spirit of reproach that Miss Anthony recalled these souvenirs of oppression, but rather with a gentle satis- faction. “See how things have changed, now,” she said, and her pale face lighted up BUSAN B. ANTHONY, Golden Gate Hall, 625 Sutter street. It is expected that many progressive women will attend the sessions of the congress throughout the week, and the audience at the opening to-day promises to be quite large. The notion that the congress is to be a demonstration in force of the modern woman, or the new woman so called, isnot exactly correct. The congress should bring to the discus- sion of questions bearing on the home life the clearest intellect and the widest ob- servation of writers and speakers. Men of force and character, as well as women of intellect and sympathy, will join forces 1n the work of the session. The opening address to-day will be de- livered by Mrs. Barah B.Cooper, presidentof the congress. At the forenoon session a paper on ‘“Hereditary Influences” will be read by Rev. Eliza Tupper Wilkes of Oak- land. " During the afternoon session Miss Millicent Shinn of Oakland will speak on “Early Home Environment,” and Miss Anna M. Stovall, principal of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Training School of San Francisco, will read a paper entitled “The -~ Kindergarten Gospel.” Miss Stovall’s contribution should surely open the field to a wide and fruitful range of discussion. She can speak from prac- tical experience as a resolute and sympa- thetic teacher, who has not known a day’s vacation from her work in the last fifteen years. Some of her earliest fiupils are teaching in Hawaii, others in Mexico and some in California. Miss 8hinn will doubtless submit a paper worthy of much consideration. She isa Jady of more than ordinary attainments as a writer and has firesumnbly studied the subject of “Early Home Environment’’ in many of its most interesting phases. i ) MISS ANTHONY’S VIEWS. The Eminent Woman Suffragist Speaks About Her Work. “When I began life as a young woman girls had to live in their father's homes till they found husbands. If they were forced to earn their ' own living there was nothing open to them but teaching, factories and housework. And what wages! Fifty centsa week was nearly all that girls got for laboring all their waking hours in the kitchen.” Miss Susan B. Anthony, the famous woman's rights champion, was speaking of the far-away days of her youth when she recalled these memories in an inter- view yesterday afternoon. For forty-five years this remarkable woman has lectured i At Uil W\’:l‘\s“l e ‘|‘f|‘4l"fi/‘, 7 K Wik AR R BT THE VETERAN LEADER OF THE [Sketched from life.] EQUAL SUFFRAGISTS. color at the throat, showed that Susan B. Anthony does not despise the minor de- tails of dress. She did not begin at once to talk of her mission, as a fanatic would have done; on the contrary, just like any well-bred so- ciety woman Miss Anthony began to chat about indifferent subjects—her former visit to California and her pleasure at again meéting her old friend, Mrs., Sargent. ‘When asked how the idea of advocating suffrage first suggested itself to her mind she smilingly disclaimed having originated the idea that women should vote. *‘I was not in the first movement, but I tell those who were there that if I came into the work late I have never done anything else but work at it from the time I did begin. ‘It was Elizabeth Cady Stanton who be- gan the woman’s movement. Her father was a lawyer, and as a young girl she saw much of poor women coming to ask him how to keep money for their families that they had earned and that drunken hus- bands had the right to draw and spend. Elizabeth was only a little bit of a chick, but the injustice of this thing rankled in her mind. ***The money is theirs,’ she would say to her father. ‘Yes, but the law makes what they earn their husband’s,”’ he would an- swer. And_ that made Blizabeth Cady Stanton realize that the laws were not always framed justly. *“When she was a young marriea woman she was sent to London as a delegate to a world’s anti-slavery convention. An- other woman delegate was Lucretia Mott, a Quaker preacher. Both these women— who had worked as bard as the men, mind ou, in the cause of anti-slavery—were re- {nsed seats as delegates, becanse they were women. They left the meeting together and walked the streets of London in indig- nation. “That was in 1840.' Eight years afterward M Stanton and Mrs. Mott, who were visiting together in Auburn, put a notice in the paper, asking women to meet in a congress to demand equal recognition in work and wages. Mrs. Stanton wrote out a set of resolutions, and she had the sagac- ity to see that the right of voting was what women must ask for if they wanted equal recognition in work and wages. “Mrs. Mott could not understand this: ‘Now, Liza, don’t make thy work ridicu- lopds by saying we women must vote,’ she said. “Mrs. Stanton held to her resolutions though, but she had not the courage and experience to make a speech for them in the crowded meeting-house where the con- gress was held. A few men were present, but only one would make a speech in favor of women voting, and that was Frederick Douglas — just out of slavery himself. Douglas presented Mrs. Stanton’s resolu- tions in such a clever speech that many of the women present began to see that the Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE ' with a radiance that made her look almost young again. ‘“Now & woman who is a speaker or a preacher, can go almost anywhere, and the ministers are willing to have her. Look at Miss Shaw, how much demand she is in! They are going to have a Woman’s Christian Temperance meeting in London soon, and 300 pulpits in London and the neighborhood have been thrown open to those women from all parts of the world— not only ordained women, but temper- ance speakers.” Miss Anthony then went on to tell how, gradually, almost inch by inch at first, concessions had been made towards the cause of equal rights for men and women. In 1860 a law was passed, in one State, making the earnings of a married woman her own. Ten years lator women i municilpnl suffrage in England. In 1 the Isle of Man gave full suffrage to women. Now New Zealand and parts of the United States and Australia have fol- lowed suit. “In all the British colonies women have municipal suffrage, though in England itself it is the taxpayer, whether man or | woman, who votes for the local board, | school ‘board, etc. You see their basic idea is property—the property-holder votes—while our basic idea is that the in- dividual votes.” “And do you think that women will eventually vote everywhere?'’ “I know they will,” declared Miss An- thony, with perfect and joyful conviction. “Look at the progress that has been made during the last quarter of a century and then imagine what even another ten years will bring forth.” There was one more subject on which Miss Anthony was asked to give her opinion, and that was the new woman. ‘‘She is more wide-awake intellectnally than the old woman,” said the woman- suffragist, who evidently was glowing with admiration for the new woman. “The height of the old woman’s ambition was to serve a good dinner; she limited her aims to the making of puddings. Now boys and girls are educated side by side, and the re- sult is the new woman—one who knows how to use her intellectual faculties and makes the most of the talents God has given her.” Recalling her forty-five years’ service in the cause of equal rights, Miss An- thony remarked that she was not in any sense discouraged. The progress re- cently made in the movement was espe- cially fimtflying, and she referred with evi- dent pleasure to the fact that amendments proposing to confer the ballot on women were pending in California, New York, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon. In her l_zudgmtu:t the cause woula ulti- mately triumph. She knew that no dis- franchised men ever asked for the ballot. Suffrage had been extended by statesmen in behalf of the laborers in England and the negroes in the United States. There was no influence of statesmanship in be- half of woman_suffrage. Everything that women gained in this respect had to be contended for against obstacles often in- terposed by clergymen and other men exercising moral weight in society. Miss Anthony was asked, “In Denver and Leavenworth, where women vote, do the degraded women rally at the polls and strive to kee?thabetwulement of woman- ey It us e opposil lcavanwort‘lx,” said Miss Anthony. “Dr. Neely, who was a candidate for Mayor at one election, becoming convinced that a effect in | large majority of the registered women would vote against him, sought to gain an advantage by sending carriages to houses of ill-fame and bringing out all the in- mates of these houses to his support. He expected that the presence of women of this class at the voting-places would deter voters of the better class from going to the polls; but the result was exactly the op- Eosne of his expectations. When voters eard of the scheme public sentiment turned a%ainn him in consequence of his action. It will be so in every election. “‘Now, in Denver,” continued the able advocate of equal rights, “a larger ratio of women than men registered and voted. In Colorado women vote at all elections, State and municipal, but in Kansas the ballot in their behalf extends only to municipal and school district elections. The strong point in favor of ballot for women is in this: that it will compel both political parties to nom- inate candidates of the highest character. A woman would no more vote fora low- down man than a good man for a degraded woman. The high ideals entertained by each sex for the other here becomes a great influence. Herein the ballot for women will promote the cause of temperance. The convention will not nominate the barroom aspirant for office, because the leaders will at once comprehend that the better class of women will not vote for the saloon rounder. It is in the order of politics that each Earty will nominate the candidate who has “the best chance of obtaininga large vote. To get the ballot for women, both parties must join. “In Colorado Governor Routt was the foremost advocate. He was influenced by his wife to get the resolution considered in the committee on platforms in the Repub- lican convention. The People’s party fol- lowed the example and the Democrats came in line.” Speaking of the operation of woman suf- frage in Wyoming, Miss Anthony men- tioned a reception given to her and Anna Howard Shaw when en route to the coast. There were present Federal and State Judges, the Eovernor and his staff, city officers and many other prominent people. The character and standing of the people present, men and women alike, told very plainly that woman was recognized and her influence respected in Wyoming be- cause she had the ballot. In Missouri the audiences were almost wholly composed of women. Men did not care to be present simply for the reason that women had no influence there in pub- lic affairs, and it would be of no political or personal advantage to attend. Miss Anthony was asked: ‘“Has the ballot for women advanced the cause of temperance in Wyoming?’ “It has diminished the power of the saloon in politics.” o Speaking of the State legislation and government of Wyoming generally she said that the affairs of the commonwealth were intelligently administered. “The cause of education has been pro- moted. There is an educational standard for voting. The school system contem- lates that every child in the State shall Ee educated. If there is a single child liv- ing in a district remote from a school- house a teacher is sent there to teach the child at least three months in the year. If there are three or four children in the same locality the teacher remains longer. There is a general atmosphere of equality and a respect for women which can hardly be expressed in words.” Answering a question if women in vot- ing would not be greatly influenced by the church—by the clergymen—Miss Anthony remarked : ““To some extent she will be influenced by the church. But, admitting this, is it not a better influence than the saloon, which controls the votes of so many men ?” The eminent champion of the ballot for her sex told interesting anecdotes illus- trating the Frejudices which many reachers and church deacons cherish, In gdensburg, N. Y., she said there wasa Presbyterian minister who has been preaching there for thirty f'eara. and dur- ing that time had never allowed a woman to utter a vocal prayer at the regular weekly prayer-meetings. “Why, in Keno. Nev., a town we passed through yesterday, only one preacher in the place is in fayor of the ballot for women. The Methodist {)arson there preaches against it hot and heavy. The colored porter on the train I found to be opposed to woman suffrage. He did not want suffrage extended unless sgciety would be benefited by the exten- sion.” ““‘Well, Miss Anthony, are you going be- fore g{h,e National Convention again next year?" “Oh, yes: we shall keep up the work. Agitation is education. recollect how we worked when Mr. Sargent was in the United States Senate. His speeches there did the causea world of good. I did not know then how to utilize his effort, but since then when Senator Palmer of Michi- gan—not Illinois—spoke in our support I had caught on to some tricks of the trade, as you newspaper boys understand. I got a brief abstract of his speech in advance and gave it to the Ass. iated Press, and it went all over the United States.” “Are you going to speak your mind plainly to the women of San Francisco?’’ I shall surely do so, and I tell you this, that every single speaker at the Woman’s Congress will ultimat‘elg come to the con- clusion that she must have the ballot to bring about the good work she is engaged in. Itisa signthat the cause is advancing when you see the Mayor of San Francisco introducing our speakers and opening the meeting.” Miss Anthony has not been in San Fran- cisco since she was nere with Elizabeth Cady Stanton twenty-four years aga. She will” go this morning to Taber’s to be pho- tographed. Yesterday afternoon she” put Rev. Anna Shaw to bed, as that lady was booked to speak in the evening. Susan B. remarked, ““We young folks, you know. can get along without much rest.” B ANNA SHAW PREACHES. The Kind of Christlanity Needed in Our Everyday Life. Rev. Anna H. Shaw of Boston, who ar- rived here yesterday morning from the East for the purpose of attending the ‘Woman’s Congress, occupied the pulpit at the First Congregational Church last evening and delivered a sermon to many more people than could find seats in the roomy edifice, which was crowded to the doors. Susan B. Anthony with a party of friends occupied one of the front pews, while Mrs. Sarah Cooper sat with the speaker and Dr. C. 0. Brown in the pulpit. Mrs. Cooper said a few words calling at- tention to the women’s meeting and ex- tending to alla cordial invitation to be present. Dr. Brown introduced the speaker of the evening. He referred to the previous occasions upon which he had spoken to the people of the coming woman, and said that it zave him great pleasure that at last she had arrived. “*‘Some time ago,”’ con- tinued Dr. Brown,” Mrs. Shaw felt that she had a call from God to preach the fi)spel. 8o, after a while she induced the ethodist Conference to ordain her. Now there is a suspicion floating about that she would like to vote, and I give you notice now that if she wants to vote she will. After this is accomplished and the results felt and appreciates she may take a notion to go to Congress.” 1 her opening remarks Mrs. Shaw took occasion to correct th@ general impression that she was ordained a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. In that de- nomination she applied for ordination and was met by oinu-%gank refusal. Latershe appeared before the Methodist Protestent Jonference, before which body her ordina- tion vows were taken. Mrs. Shaw announced the text and pro- ceeded with her discourse, which was drawn from Acts xxvi:19: ‘“Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.” ‘‘Each age,” said the speaker, “‘has its roblems in sociology as well as religion. he question of this” age is not, Is there a God? nor are we deeply concerned in the few superficial speculations as to the reality of a future existence. These ques- tions have been settled and admit of no further discussion among right-minded eople. PWhat 15 it to be a Christian? This is the question that presents itself to every one of us. ““What are the essential requisites of the Christian character? What have we who enter the synagogue that those who remain outside have not? ¥ 5 “Some define Christianity as identifica- tion with church organizations and con- formity to its ritesand ceremonies. But we know that a person may belong to ten churches and yet not be a partaker in that sgixitual life which is the only life. If t! g!} it is not a conformity to a creed what isit “The word gives us no definition of Christianity, but leaves us to draw conclu- sions from general grinciples. Religion is defined, but not C! ristianitfi. ‘What was this vision from heaven of which Paul was not disobedient, referred to in the text? “To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. “‘At midday, O King, I saw in the way alight from heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me, and them that journeyed with me.’ ““This was the vision that Paul saw. “It is hidden from no man. Christianity is to live with Christ and in this light from heaven that is briFhmer than the sun. Christianity is more than a belief, more than an action, more than a creed, more than a ceremony ; it is a vision, a life. ‘‘Once when I was pastor of achurch down in New England one of my people came to me in deep distress—a woman, the wife of an agnostic. Her husband was dying and had refused to have Christian services at the funeral. Seeing that the matter was troubling his wife (he wasa kind man in his home life), he relented and expressed a desire for me to officiate, with the provision that an essay which he had carried for many years should be read in conjunction with " the services. This essng proved to be a severe arraignment of the doctrines of Christianity. Itheld that only weak minds could believe in Chris- tiznity, because Christ was a myth and the church had been founded by Paul from a vision. ‘It held that any system founded upon a vision could not ‘stand the test of sound reason. I thoughta great deal about this essay and its fallacious argument, perhaps by reason of the strange manner in which it came to me. “Founded upon a vision ? ‘“Everything great and good upon this earth to-day and all the glory of the past have been founded upon visions—visions form the motive power of the world. No man or woman has ever or will ever reach greatness without following a vision, “Years ago in London a band of men and women met to discuss methods look- ing to the abolition of slavery. Cady Stanton was one of the women delegates refused a seat after long and bitter discus- sion. She was sent up in the gallery to listen and learn, but refused a voice in the proceedings. The treatmeant she received there induced her to think of, not the emancipation of the black man alone, but of the white woman as wel. She had a vision, of which I stand here to-night as a living reality. Our visions lead to a higher life, to nobler aspirations, to heaven.” AGRICULTURAL STATIONS. Experimental Farms Have Been Opened by the University at Pomona and Santa Monica. George Hansen, manager of the 8i- erra Foothill Agricultural Xxperiment Station at Jackson, Amador County, has been sent by Professor E. W. Hilgard, di- rector of the agricultural department, University of California, to the south to survey and lay out the stations at Pomona and Santa Monica. The Pomona station is situated in the very midst of a well-settled and beautiful country, about equally distant from Po- mona, Chino and Ontario. The popula- tion thereabouts takes a great interest in the work going on at the station, and it is the intention of the department to make the grounds around the residence as at- tractive as possible. A reservoir of 60 feet diameter offers splendid opportunity to display waterlilies ana aquatic plants; a corner of poor soil will be devoted to a rockery, furnished with cactus, opuntias, aloes, yuceas, etc.; a garden of economic plants will be prettily designed and well stocked, and a lawn will connectall the places of attraction. At Santa Monica the University has ac- uired from the abolished State Board of ‘orestry a place most beautifully located, thoughbut partially improved. " The new survey by Mr. Hansen will be the begin- ning of the systematical improvement con- templated. The foreman’s cottage over- looks a beautiful slope of the middle bench in the Santa Monica Canyon and the view opens over the ocean and the long wharf of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The appropriations for the forestry sta- tions for the time since the University manages the property have started only from the last session of the Legislature, but the careful management of the agricultural department will soon tell on the grounds so well formed and shaped by nature. Mr. Hansen’s career from his arrival in California is but an example of how won- derful the ways of life work. It iseight ears afio since he was a neighbor to the ardheaded octogenarian selling news- Eapers around Lotta’s Fountain, and sold is bunches of violets in the company of the gamin found there at any day. But in those surroundings he well preserved the knowledge attained as graduate of the Royal College of Horticulture at Potsdam, Berlin. On the strength of his surveys, mapsand like work, he was given a chance to prove his worth in the university grounas, and he soon was sent to Jackson to pioneer his way when establishing the lovely sta- tion he now calls his home. The remote- ness of his place, twenty miles from a rail- road, has prompted him to devote all his spare time to the exploration of the flora of his neighborhood, and every leave of absence from his charge was applied to a trip in the Sierras, his wife accompanying him on all his botanizing expeditions. A well-written booklet, *‘Where the Big Trees Grow,” tells his experience and gives his impressions about those fiigantie mon- uments of past ages in such affectionate words that his book is regarded just as worthy from a literary view as all botan- ists have considered it from a scientific. Nearly one dozen plants have been dis- covered as new to science by Mr. Hansen, and part of them ‘received his name as species from the professors classifying his collections. The list of species has in- creased to almost nine hundred, and many universities here and abroad have favored him with_orders for his collection. The Stanford University and the Shaw Botanical Garden at St. Louis, Mo., have applied to him, and from abroad the uni- versities at London, Berlin, Geneva, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Breslau. THE CONGREGATIONAL OHUROH. Rev. Dr. Williams Preaches of Its Prin- ciples and Characteristics. The Rev. Dr. W. D. Williams of Plymouth Church delivered a discourse last night on “The Congregational Church.” A much older name for the Congrega- tional church, he said, is “‘Independents,” which he thought very aptly describes the traditional and present policy of that de- nomination, to maintain the right of gnva@e judgment and the belief that na uman interpretation can be infallible. “Each church,” Mr. Williams said, “is a self-governing body, affiliated co-opera- tively with every other Congregational church; as a consequence, when an emer- gency arises a Congregational church can act figucker than a great ecclesiastical body. ‘‘Finally, the Congregational church has helped the Nation politically, doctrinally, educationally and evnnge)icufly." —————— The Greek re;mblics raised money for war by “inviting” wealthy citizens to con- tribute. 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I had some feeling in the case, but that did not affect my testimony in the least. The statements frequently made that I sent Swalm to the penitentiary is all bosh. It was not my evidence, but the evidence of George Shreve that convicted Swalm. “So far as the proposed book is con- cerned, I snap my fingers at it all. I know what there isinit. The work is in- spired by a man who is using Swalm as a tool. Whatdoes he know about my record asa banker that the public does not al- ready know? My business career has been reviewed and rewritten a thousand times. I have been painted as black as_any crim- inal that ever figured in the public press. Idon’t think that Seneca Swalm can say anything worse of me than has alread been said. As to what may appear in his forthcoming story cuts no figure in the case, because I believe that I will have a fair trial by an honest jury and that is all Iask. IfI had an opportunity to attend to business I could straighten up the af- fairs of the Peoyle‘s Home Bank in thirt; days and the losses of depositors woulg not be more than 25 per cent. “But what can I do, confined as I am within these walls?” continued the ex- banker. “Give me thirty days of liberty and I will straighten out thetangled skein. Give me freedom of action for a month and I will defy Seneca Swalm and the men who are setting him on me. I don’t be- lieve Swalm is doing any of this work of his own volition. If he has any feeling of resentment against me I don’t know it. I was not the person who caused his con- viction. Idid not pursue him and perse- cute him, as the newspapers have said 1 did. When I was on the witness stand in connection with Swalm’s case I simply told the truth. I could tell no less and no more, could I? So far as anything he can say about me is concerned I don't care a snap of my finger for it. If Swalm tells the whole truth in his little book he will hurt himself and some other people that I could name a great deal more than he will hurt me.” BORN IN A HOUSE-WAGON. An Infant Arrives in the Camp of the Destitute Travelers From Washington. M. E. A. Lasley, the mattressmaker, who traveled all the way from Port Ange- les, Wash., to San Prancisco in a house- wagon looking for work, which he failed tofind, is camped on the sand lotat Seven th and Mission streets, awaiting the recovery of his wife, who gave birth to a son in the house on wheels Saturday moruing. The entire family occupied the rolling home since August last, and have experi- enced rather hard times. There are three children and the new-comer, and the ‘":ilz. means of sunport they have had was | rived from the sale of a pamphlet describs ing the trip from the north. \ ‘While the wind carried the sand around the lot yesterday the infant and its mother reclined on the bed, which occu- pies the frontend of the wagon, and seemed as happy as though she was housad in & palace, beyond the fact that the destitute condition of the family worried her. Lasley was stretched on the floor, read- ing a paper. When asked how they were getting along he threw aside the paper and said: “T have not been able to get anything to do and we are hard up. If some of the good people of San Francisco knew of our condition, I believe they would help us.”’ “Bat we don’t want clothes,”” added Mrs. Lasley. “The children need shoes, but that is all in that line.” ““Well, I need clothes; but we need other things worse. Just as soon as my wife is well we are going to Colorado, as I have been offered an agency for a ball-bearing sickle and think I can do well with it. “We will show the people along the route our outfit, and, now that we have the only baby that was ever born in a house on wheels, I think that will be some attraction. Just at present we will need money, but of course will accept anything the people want to give us. ‘“We are not mendicants, but when a man is placed the way I am now, he will not hesitate to accept charity. I am will- ing to work, but can get nothing todo. I even tried to get a jobsweeping the streets, but was told I had not been here six months, so I could not be put on. I counld get no work along the line of our travels, though I tried everywhere. It was work wanted, not charity.” BUTOHERS WILL REJOIOE. Preparations for a Day’s Outing Have Been Made. The Butchers’ Board of Trade will have one of the grandest picnics of the season at Shell Mound Park on Wednesday. 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