The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1895, Page 16

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1895 The Rev. Milton Grober was traveling overland to San Francisco. There was a look of high exaltation upon his clerical countenance, and an air of sup- pressed eagerness pervaded his whole elerical person, for the Rev. Milton Grober was on an errand of enlightenment to the Pacific Coast. He was the pastor of a large and flour- ishing-church in a beautiful city in West- w York. His congregation was wealthy, his people were devoted, he was 1} in the full enjoyment of good th, and regarded as an influential man in omination of which he was 8 member. the Rey. Milton Grober was not one take his ease in Zion. He was full of zeal in the cause of evangelization. 3ethany congregation had an enviable record for liberality toward foreign mis- sions. ‘The church supported a mission- ary in ‘Upper-Whangee, two native teach- ers in *Ballyboo, a reader in Jingari and three converted students in the seminary at Tully-fow-Whooparee. Ev ar in nal reports of the general s ary the foreign board Bethany congreg tion received consecrated zeal toward the heathen in his blindness. But this was not all. There bad lafely come into the city where the church wa nu of Chines in New York a yet enough of a the East to be tl , who, common enough rity in inland cities of of lively interest. To the Rev. N ober the advent of these intere heathen seemed guite providential. While foreign missions were at a premium in Bethany the home mis- gion field had of late languished in inter- est. The native product in heathenism is lacking in picturesqueness. There is a certain squalor and incompleteness about him, and one always has & suspicion that visions of fleshpots lurk behind his inter- est in spiritual affairs. Butthe introduction of the real,live Orien- tal heathen into Bethany Sunday-school was the signal for a general revival of inter- gstin home mission work. The first heathen brought a fellow. These two brought thers, until a good sized class was formed. n Gr hen it was discovered that owing to lin- | uistic -difficulties it was impossible go deal with them in a class, and eventu- plly each pupil was assigned a teacher, whose sole charge be was, to be led to the light. Later it was noticed that the most successful teachers were the young ladies of the congregation, and that pf these those most endowed with per- Bonal attractiveness were the best adapted to quicken the seed of repentance and of paving faith in the gropine Celestial mind. Bo, in time, it came to pass that the ser- wices of all the pretty voung ladies in the church were finally enlisted in the task of lucking Chinese brands from the burning. &he regular Sunday-school classes were forced to fall back for teachers upon the moreelderly or the plainer ladies and cer- tain of the spiritually minded young men of the congregation. As for the young men who were not spiritually minded they grgued and pleaded with the girls for a time, until at last unable to compete with the 'triple alliance of opium - smelling heathenism, fascinating silk handkerchiefs presented at frequent intervals to fair teachers and precious jewels to be won for prospective crowns, they retired to other churches, where the girls were less fully consecrated and had an occasional smile fof non-heathen and American oung men. But the Chinese Sunday-school in Beth- gnv grew apace, and the Rev. Milton Grober, who 1f he had not been a clergy- man would have become a leading states- man, became deeply interested in the Chinese .question. e watched eagerly the progress of all leg‘islutiun on the sub- jeck. e exclusion laws seemed to him the crime of the century against a people for whoin_America had an indubitable mission. .Every fresh outrage which the apers ' published as perpetrated against he Chinese on the Pacific Coast filled him with a sense of remorse for the sins of his people. He read with pain of the growing feeling against John among the workin, people of California. - Whenever he hear: of a batch of new-comers being refused landing his indignation knew no bounds. *“We are imr danger,’”” he said to his people one Wednesday evening at midweek lec- ture, ‘‘of being put on record by this in- famous exclusion practice, as an unchris- tian, record-breaking nation. I shudder at the thought.” And all the young Chi- nese teachers shuddered with him. In ministers’ . meeting, " too, Mr. Grober also gave free vent to hissentiments and waxed gealous, indeed, when he learned that he stood almost alone among his brethren as & champion of the Chinese. *You should go to San Francisco,” said the Rev. Dr, Broadaxe to him, at last, “and Bee what the Chinaman in America reall. is belore you condemn those who thin they havé had enough of him.” To Mr. Grober the suggestion seemed a wise one. He knew that he could speak to the gener- ous-souled but crude nmf)e somewhat preju- diced people of California out of a fuglnen of knowledge touching John’s spiritnal state. His was no merely commercial re- lation with the Oriental, for Mr. Grober, desg)te hisenthusiasm, would have shrunk, with trueEastern reluctance, from wearing ‘; much as a collar that had passed rough John’s cleansing methods. But be had come in contact with the China- an on a spiritual plane, which, after all, e is convinced is the only plane upon honorable mention for its | a center of activity quitea | S n this s'ope, &re even | | which the Chinese problem will ever be | settled. | So he intimated to the ladies of his con- gregation that he deemed it is his duty to go on a mission to the Pacific Coast, there to fight for the Chinaman in the very thick of the opposition and cruelty to which he is a victim. With commendable zeal the ladies had raised a purse of several hundred dollars, and at the moment of the opening of this sketch the Rev. Mr. Grober was rapidly drawing near to San Francisco in the ful- fillment of his important duty. No sooner had he reached this City than he proceeded to put himself in communication with cer- | tain choice spirits representing the Celes- | tial empire on this coast. He had brought | letters of introduction from one of his most | promising Sunday-school boys to sundry | cousins and friends of his, and decided to present them without delay. He woula need a little time to grasp the situation before | undertaking to show the white people of | the coast their error toward their man and | brother, but he knew Charlie’s letters | would put him on the right track for all | necessary information. ' The Chief of Police, to whom he applied | for aid in_hunting up Charlie’s cousin, shook his head when hesaw the inscription | on the envelope. “That Ah Hung,” he said, “is one of the biggest rascals in all Chinatown. It takes | two men to watch him and keep track of | balf the deviltry he is up to.” The Rev. Milton Grober regarded him iciously. It pained him to think how mere race prejudices could warp the judg- ment of an honest seeming man like the Chief, and prompt so deliberate an attempt 0 P n a stranger’s mind against a fellow-being. “I have had great experi- ence with the Chinese,” he said, stiffly, | “and usually manage to call out the better | elements in their nature. I find it the | onlv way to deal with them.” |. “Yes,” said the Chief, dryly, 1 should think it might be effective. “I confess, however, that save in a general nay, I am | not familiar with the better elements of Chinese nature.’” Then he called Ah | Bung, the court interpreter, and (old him | to glance over Mr. Grober’s letters. Ah Bung read them end grinned. The | 1ast one, however, he read a second time, | casting a sly glance out of the tail of his | eye at the Chief. Then he handed them all back. “All belly good letter,” he said, and not a line changed on his smug | countenance. Nevertheless, the Chief’s suspicions were aroused, albeit he said nothing. He offered | Mr. Grober the services of a guide, but his offer was declined. “I shall see for myself with unimpaired judgment,’’ was the clergyman’s commendable reflection. So he departed to hunt up Ah Hung, and meantime ihe Chief sent for two of the best detectives at his disposal, and was closeted with them for a long time. 1t would take too long to detail the Rev. Milton Grober’s investigation into the Chi- nese question in San_Francisco. It was conducted, he flattered himself, in a spirit of absolute impartiality. In all his re- searches he was ably seconded by Ah Hung, who, as an earnest_believing China- man, rejoiced to welcome his white brother and further his efforts to understand the situation of this much abused people in the land of the free. Mr. Grober told him- self that he saw much to condemn, much that was shocking in the extreme. He considered it a disgrace to the people of California that these people should be compelled to burrow under ground like rats; that the sanctity of their homes might be violated at any moment by raid- ing police. He wrote one letter to the ladies of his congregation, in which he described in touching terms how Ah Huug had told him that the Chinese are actually forced to keep their little girls in cells be- hind grated windows, so determined are the lice instigated by American pref'u ice to seize and deport these children that the persecuted Chinese may not educate them and take them home. He was taken to the theater to witness an historical drama, which, in his letter, he characterized as shorn of all the garish and sensuous vani- ties by which our own theaters seem to attract giddy youth and lead it astray. The temperance of this frugal people re- commended 1tself to him, ng held it up as a shining example to the young men of his congregation, writing at length, and with deep feeling, of the earnest- ness and religious zeal of this little understood people. He had rather a curi- ous adventure, that revealed to him this Chinese characteristic. In company with Ah Huug and a number of others who were revealing Chinatown to the clergy- man, he was on a tour through a hereto- fore (by him) unexplored part of the quarter. They had drunk tea in the big restaurant on Dupont street, and Mr. Grober had addressed the Chinamen there assembled, telling them about the ‘“boys” in Bethany Sunday-school. Then, follow- ing his guides throueh many winding ways, they plunged twenty-five feet under ground, into the very bowels of China- town. Rounding a sharp turn, the leaders opened a door and they came sud- denly upon a grou of China- men .busy as Mr. Grober had never before seen them. They were crowded about a table, eager and excited. Atoneend sat a sleek Celestial, with a counting-rack and many stacks of coin before him. On the table was a tray of beans and a curious, funnel-shaped contrivance, through which the beans were made to drop, one by one. Even the %nides looked some what startled, and the assembly, seein, the clergyman, set “P an excites clamor of shrill, monosyllabic cries, and pressed closely about him with eager, in- quiring faces, There was a hurried con- sultation, while beans, iunnel and coin were swept out of sight. At last, in a Jull of the tumult, Ah Hung explained to Mr. Grober that they bad surprised the Celes- tials in the worship of the most secret and terrible of all their gods. No white man was ever admitted to these sacred rites, and the worshipers were alarmed and enraged at his introduction there. “Poor Chinaman,”” Ah Hung said, ‘“‘him no know he false god. Me flade they killee you. You buy many prayers, may be he forget. You no be killee.” The re- sult of the confab was that the clergyman garted with all the money he had about im, his watch and sleevelinks, in the furchnse of prayers to propitiate the un- known deity whose worship he had inter- rupted, and was finally allowed to depart in peace from the scene of the game. his little encounter so reduced his somewhat limited resources as materially to shorten his sojourn in the City. He had, however, collected a large amount of valuable data, and had arranged to ad- dress the people of San Francisco at Met- ropolitan Temple on the following Sunday night, when, one ¥riday morning, he re- ceived a dispatch from the Chief of Police requesting his immediaie presence at his ce. ‘Wondering greatly at the summons Rev. Mr. Grobernevertheless obeyed it promptly :nd was received by the Chief with a stern ace. “I believe, Mr. Grober,” the official said, “that iyou are deeply interested in the wel- fare of the Chinese?’ Mr. Grober bowed in pleased acquies- cence. *You have a daughter, have you not?” pursued the Chief. The clergyman was startled. His one daughter—his only child—was at home. She was the apple of his eye, his chief helper in the Sunday-school, the light of his widowed life. {Ie could only look his amaze. The Chief touched a button beside his desk, and a sergeant appeared. “Tell McLean to come in,”’ was the order, and in another instant an officer en- tered leading a_tearful young lady, who, with a cry of “Papa! Papa!” rushed for- ward and threw her arms about the be- wildered clergyman. Between alarm, amazement and nerves, it was some time before Mr. Grober could seek or receive any information as to how his daughter, whom he had supposed to be safe at home several thousand miles away, should sud- denly be sobbing in his arms in San Fran- cisco. Presently, however, he realized that the Chief was saying: ‘““When I saw how desirous you were to take care of the Chinese on this coast, Mr. Grober, I concluded I would do well to look after you. could have done so more promptly, but that our own Chinese interpreter played me false. Here, however, are your watch and buttons. The money you parted with at the game the other night is, I fear, lost. This is & telegram your daughter re- ceived, telling her you were fatally injured in San Francisco and bidding her come to you at once. It seems her pet Chinese pupil was calling upon her at the time. I understand visits of that sort are quite the correct thing in the East—we woolly Westerners aren’t quite so cultivated as that yet—but, perhaps, Miss Grober can best finish the story.” “It was_Charlie, you know, papa,” the girl sobbed. *‘He was at the house for his extra lessons. He seemed so interested in Bible history—and the telegram came. He was so kind—knew all about the trains and told me just what to do. I was so grateful—and oh, papa! it was he all the time!” She became so hysterical that the Chief was obliged to take up the narrative. “The Chinaman arranged to have the dispatch sent by some of his friends here. The letter you had to Ah Hung explained the whole devilish business. She was to have been met by them here. Good heavens, man! Do you trust vermin like that in the East? And—well, I'll spare vou the details; but you may be thankful there are people at this end who understand the heathen Chinee and his ways or you’d be minus a daughter to-day and Charlie-boy would have his white wife. McLean met the overland at Sacra- mento, secured the scamp, Charlie, who was in the smoker all the time, and ac- companied your daughter to San Fran- cisco. Itwas a pretty scheme, but it failed this time.” xR R OR R R R R XAk The Rev. Milton Grober did not give his pro-Chinese address in Metropolitan Temple on the following Sunday evening. Instead, he left for the East on the Satur- day evening train, accompanied by his daughter, whose narrow escape still filled him with terror. The Chinese Sunday-school that once THE COMPANION OF A SHARK. By E. A. Willard and W. C. Morrow. Four of the five men who sat around the card table in the cabin of the Merry Witch regarded the fifth man with a steady, im- placable look of scorn. He could not face that terrible glance. His head drooped, and his gaze rested upon some cards which he idly fumbled as he waited, numbed and listless, to hear his sentence. The more masterful one of the four made a disdainft] gesture toward the craven one and thus addressed the others: “‘Geentlemen, none of us can have forgot- ten the terms of our compact. It was agreed at the beginning of this perilous expedition that only men of unflinching integrity should be permitted to participate in its known dangersand possible rewards. To find and secure the magnificent treas- ure which we are seeking with a sure pros- pect of discovering it, we must run the risk of encounters with savage Mexican soldiers and marines, and take all the other dangerous chances of which you are aware, As the charterer of this vessel and the leader of the expedition I exercised extra- ordinary care in selecting my asso- ciates. We have been and still are equals, and my leadership as the outfitter of the expedition gives me no advantage in the sharing of the treasure. As such leader, however, I have employed, unsuspected by you, many devices to test the manhood of each of you. Were it not for the fact that I have exhausted all reasonable resources to this end, and have found all of you trustworthy except one, I would not now be disclosing the plan which I have been pursuing.” The three others, who had been gazing at the crestfallen one, now stared at their leader with a startled interest. “The final test of a man’s character,” calmly pursued the leader, ‘is the card table. Whatever there may be in him of weakness, whether it be a mean avarice, cowardice or a deceitful disposition, will there inevitably appear. If I were the president of a bank, the general of an army or the leader of any other great enterprise I would make it a point to test the char- acter of my subordinates in a series of games at cards, preferably played for money. It is the only sure test of char- acter that the wisdom of the ages has been able to devise.” He paused and then turned his scornful glance upon the cringing man, who mean- while had mustered courage to look up, and was employing his eyes as well as his ears to comprehend the strange philosophy of his judge. Terror and dismay were ele- ments of the expression which curiously wrinkled his white face, as though he found himself standing before a court of inscrutable wisdom and relentless jus- tice. But his glance fell instantly when it encountered that of his judge and his weak lower lip hung trembling. “We have all agreed,” impressively con- tinued the leader, “‘that the one found guilty of deceiving or betraying the others to the very smallest extent should pay the penalty which we are all sworn to exact. A part of this agreement, as we all remem- ber, is that the one found derelict shall be the first to insist on the visitation of the penalty, and that should he fail to do so— but I truss that it is unnecessary to men- tion the alternative.” There was another pause, and the cul- prit sat still, hardly breathing, and permit- ting the cards to slip from his fingers to the floor. “Mr, Rossiter,” said the leader, address- ing the hapless man in a tone so hard and cold that it congealed the marrow which it pierced, “have you forgotten?’’ The doomed man made such a pitiful flourished in the vestry of Bethany Church is not now so prosperous as of yore, nor is Mr. Grober so enthusiasticas of old upon the Chinese question. AprLiNe KNare, R A COLLEGE LIGMAY Scheme to Donate the Mer- cantile Property to the University. It Cannot Long Continue to Run Under Existing Clrcum- stances. The Mercantile Library is fast nearing a point at which something must be done to help it on, or it will go to pieces. For quite awhile past some of the directors have been advancing money to pay the current expenses; but such a state of af- fuirs can last for but a limited time, and the end is drawing nearer with every day. The proposition to consolidate with the Public Library has not met with success. The various plans so far proposed have all failed, and now comes the latestidea—a suggestion to turn over library and prop- erty to the State University, to be used by the affiliated colleges or not as the regents see fit. The plan comes from Edmund Tauzsky, an ex-president of the library association and at present one of its members. He suggests that the property be turned over to the State University under two condi- tions. First, that the university pay off the $75,000 which is now due by the asso- ciation and secured by a mortgage on the property on Van Ness avenue and Polk street, and second, that while free to the college students the public be admitted to the privileges of the book-shelves for 50 cents 2 month. The property is worth wmuch more than $75,000, the amount of the mortgage upon it. ‘Che building has a frontage of 120 feeton Van Ness avenue and 110 on Golden Gate and Elm avenues. It fronts on these three streets and is well lighted from every side. It was built with the expectation of adding more stories if it would ever be necessary to do so, and the foundation is, therefore, provportionately strong. The library has u Fon its book-shelves 70,000 volumes, man; of which are very rare and valuable, an all are properly indexed and arranged. The value of the library alone is equal to the amount of the mortgage, but if donated at all the whole property will probably go together. . The debt of $75,000 which hangs over the institution is what is slowly wreck- ing it. The interest on this debt amounts to about $450 a month. The library has between twelve and fifteen hundred mem- bers and their dues of 50 centsa month make a sum barely sufficient to pay this interest, without considering the current expenses of the library. Mr. Tauszky intends to enlist the sym- %nt}ueu of the Alumni_Association of the niversity of California and be is confi- dent that some understanding can be reached between the association and the university which will lead to the transfer. It is problematical whether or not the affiliated colleges will accept the gift of the property for their use, but in any event it 18 believed that the university will be glad to take possession of the magnificent col- lection of volumes which are now upon the shelves of the library. struggle for self-mastery as the gallows often reveals. If there wasa momentary flash of hope based on a transient deter- mination to plead, it faded instantly before the stern and implacable eyes that greeted him from all sides of the table. Certainly there was a fierce struggle under which his soul writhed and which showed in a pass- ing flush that crimsoned his face. That went by, and an acceptance of doom sat upon him. He raised his head and looked firmly at the leader, and as he did so his chest expanded and his shoulders squared bravely. “Captain,” said he, with a very good voice, ‘‘whatever else I may be, I am not & coward. Will youn kindly summon the skipper?” Without any change of countenance, the leader complied. “Mr. Rossiter,” he said to the skipper, “has a request to make of you, and what- ever it may be I authorize you to comply with it.” “1 wish,” asked Mr. Rossiter of the skipper, ‘“‘that you would lower a boat and put me aboard and that you would furnish the boat with one oar and nothing else whatever.” “Why,” exclaimed the skipper, aghast, looking in dismay from one to another of the men, ‘‘the man is insane! There is no land within 500 miles. We are in the tropics, and a man couldn’t live four days without food or water, and the ses is alive with sharks. Why, this is suicide!” The leader’s face darkened, but before he could speak Mr. Rossiter calmly remarked : “That is my own affair, sir;” and there was a fine ring in his voice. R T R T The man in the boat, bareheaded and stripped nearly naked in the broiling sun, was thus addressing something which he saw in the water close at hand: “Let me see. Yes, I think it is about four days now that we haye traveled to- gether, but T am not very positive about that. You see, if it hadn’t been for you I should have died of loneliness. . .. Bay! aren’t you hungry, too? I was a few days ago, but I'm only thirsty now. You've got the advantage of me, you see, because you don’t get thirsty. As for your being bungry—ha, ha, ha! Who ever heard of a shark that wasn’t always hungry? Oh,I know well enough what’s in your mind, old chappy, but there’s time enough for that. You see, I hate to disturb the pleas- ant relation which exists between us at present. That is to say—now here is a witticism—I prefer the outside relation to the inside intimacy. Ha, ha, hal T knew you'd laugh at that, you sly old rogue! What a very sly, patient old shark you are! Don’t you know that if you didn’t have those clumsy fins, and that dreadfully homely mouth away down somewhere on the under side of your body, and eyes so grotesquely wide apart, and should go on land and match your wit against the various and amusing species of sharks which abound there, your patience in pursuing a manifest advantage would make you a millionaire in a year. Can you get that philosophy through your thick skull, old Sharky ? “There, there, there! Don't turn over like that and make a fool of yourself by opening your pretty mouth and dazzling the midday sun with the gleam of your white belly, I'm not ready yet, old chappy. God! how thirsty I am! Say, did you ever feel like that? Did you ever see blinding flashes that tear through your brain and turn the sun black? Oh, butit’s jolly, though—almost as amusing as you are. ““Bay, old Sharky, you haven’t answered my question yet. It’sahypothetical ques- tion—yes, hypothetical. I'm sure that’s what I want to say. Hypo—hypothetical question. Question; yes, that’s right. Say, Sharky, suppose you'd been a pretty wild and frisky young shark, and had kept your mother anxious and miserable, and had drifted into gambling and had gone pretty well to the dogs. Bay, ol chappy, do sharks ever go to the dogs? Now, that’s a poser. Sharks; dogs. Oh, what a very ridiculously, sublimely amusing old Sharky you are! Dreadfully discreet you are. Never show your hand excepton a show-down. What a glum, jolly old vil- lain you are! “Pretty well to the dogs, and then braced up and left home to make a man of yourself. Think of a shark making a man of himseif! Ha, ha, ha! Now, I call that amusing.. Man of yourself. And then— Easy, there! Don’t get excited. [ only staggered that time and didn’t quite go overboard. And don’t let my gesticula- tions excite you. Keep your mouth shut, Sharky; you’re not pretty when you smile like that, AsI wassaying—oh! ... “How long was I that way, old fellow? Good thing for me that you don’t know how to climb into a boat when a fellow is that way. Were you ever that way, Sharky? Comes on like this! Biff! Big blaze of red fire in your head. Then— then—well, after awhile you come out of it, with the queerest and crookedest of augers boring through your head, and a million tadpoles of white fire darting in every direction through the air. Don’t ever get that way, Sharky, if you can pos- sibly keep out of it. But then you never get thirsty. Let me see. The sun was over there when the red fire struck and it’s over here now. Shifted about thirty degrees. Then I was that way about two hours. “Where are those dogs? Do they come toyouor do you go to them? Thatde- pends. Now, say you had some friends that wanted to do you a good turn; wanted to straighten you up and make a man of you. They had ascertained the exact situation of a wonderful treasure buried in an island of the Pacific. All right. They knew you had some of the qualities useful for such an expedition—reckless, daredevil, afraid of nothing—things like that. Un- derstand, Sharky? Well, all swore oaths as long as your leg—as long as your—oh, my! Think of a shark having a leg! Ha, ha, ha! How is that for real humor, old chappy? Long as your leg! Oh, my! Parden my liberty, ola man, but I must laugh. Ha, ha, ha! Oh, my! “All of you swore—you and the other sharks, No lying, no deceit. First shark that makes a slip is to call the skipper and be sent adrift with one oar and nothing else. And all, Sharky, after you had pledged your honor to your mother, your God and yourself to be a true and honor- able shark. Say, Sharky, itisn’t the hot sun that is broiling you and covering you with bursting blisters and changing the marrow of your bones to melted iron and your blood to hissing lava—it isn’t the sun that hurts, nor the hunger that enaws your intestines to rags, nor the thirst that changes your throat into a funnel of hot brass, nor blinding bursts of red fire in your head, nor lying dead in the waist of the boat while the sun steals thirty degrees of time out the sky, nor a million fiery tadpoles darting through the air. No, Sharky, it is none of them that hurts, but something infinitely desper and more cruel—your broken pledge of honor to your mother, your God and yourself. That is what hurts, Sharky. “It is late, old man, to begin life all over again while you are in the article of death, and resolve to be good when it is no longer possible to be bad. But that is our affair, Sharky, yours and mine, you bold-eyed, wide-mouthed, hungry old villain, and just at this time we are not choosing to discuss the utility of goodness. But I don’t like that sneer in your glance. I have only one oar, and I will cheerfully break it over your wretched head if you come a yard nearer. . . . “Aha! Thought I was going over, eh, old chappy? BSee; I can stand steady enough when I try. But I don’t like that sneer in your eyes. Don’t believe in the reformation of the dying, en? You are a contemptible dog; a low, mean, outcast dog. You sneer at the declaration of a man that he can and will be honest at last and face his Maker humbly, but still like a man. Come, then, Sharky, and let us see which of us two is the decent and honor- able one. Stake your manhood against mine, and stake your life with your man- hood. We’ll see which is the more hon- orable of the two, for I tell you now, Mr. Bharky, that we are going to gamble for our lives and our honor. Ha, ha, ha! Gamble for our lives and our honor! “Come up closer and watch the throw. No? Afraid of the oar? You sneaking coward! You would be a decent shark at last did the oar but split your skull. See this visiting card, you villain? Look at it as I hold it up. There is printing on one side; that is my name; itis I. The other side is blank; that is you. Now, I am going to throw this into the water. Ifit falls name up I win; if blank side up yon win. If I win I eat you; if you win you eat me. Isthatago? “Hold on. You see I can throw a card 80 as to bring uppermost either side I please. That wouldn’t be fair. For this, the last game, is to be square. So I fold one end down on this side and the other down on that side. When you throw a card folded like that no living shark, whether he have two legs or only a tail, can know which side will fall uppermost. That is a square game, old man, and it will settle the little difference that has ex- isted between you and me for four days past. i “Mind you, if I win, you are to come ‘alongside the boat and I am to kill you and eat you. That may sustain my life until I am picked up. If you win over I go and you eat me. Are you in the game? Then here goes, Sharky, for life or death. * * * Ah! Sharky, you have won! And this is a game of honor.” * x ox % ® x % x % A black, smoking steamer was steadily approaching the drifting boat, for the lookout had reported the discovery, and the steamer was bearing down to lend suc- cor. The captain, standing on the bridge, saw through his glass a wild and nearly naked man making the most extraordinary signs and gestures, staggering and lurch- ing in imminent danger of falling over- board. When the ship had approached quite near the captain saw the man toss a _violently and turned to see the steamer card into the water, and then stand with an ominous rigidity the meaning of which was unmistakable. He sounded a blast from the whistle and the drifting man started approaching and observed hasty prepara- tions for the lowering of a boat. The man stood immovable, watching the strange apparition, which seemed to have sprung out of the ocean. The boat touched the water and was pulled lustily forward. “Pull with all your might, lads, for the man is insane and is preparing to leap overboard. A big shark is lying in wait for him, and the moment he touches the water he is gone.” The men did pull with all their might and hallooed to the drifting one and warned him of the shark. “Wait a minute,” they cried, “and we’ll take you on the ship.” . The purpose of the men seemed at las to have dawned upon the understanding of the outcast. He straightened himse!f as well as he could into a wretched sem- blance of dignity and hoarsely replied : “No; an honest man will pay a debt of honor.” And with such a light in his eyes as comes only into those whose vision has penetrated the most wonderful of all mys- teries he leaped forth into the sea. PRINOIPAL AND PUPILS. Case Against T. B. White for Battery Upon a Boy Dismissad. T. B. White, principal of the Washing- ton Grammar School, appeared in Judge Joachimsen'’s court yesterday to answer to the charge of battery upon Willie Wilson, one of his pupils. The testimony was that Willie engaged in a fight with another boy, who called him names. Principal White ordered Willie to go to the hall where punishment is admin- istered to bovs breaking the rules, but ‘Willie refused to go and was punished. Prosecuting Attorney . Dare argued strongly for a conviction and urged the court to make an example of the defendant. He knew that many of the teachers in the public schools were unfair and punished pupils without reason and in instances witbin his own knowledge had not pos- sessed the manhood to apologize when proved to be in the wrong. The Judge said he was satisfied a wrong had been done the boy, but dismissed the case after admonishing the defendant to be more careful in the future. A NOBLE LIFE SPENT FOR AND WITH SUFFER- ING WOMEN. A Life's Work Perpetuated tarougn a Faithfal Daughter, and Records of Priceless Value. [SPECIAL TO OUE LADY BEADERS.] What a vast amount of misery and suffering has been prevented by the clear- headed foresight of one noble woman! She had struggled, labored, and sacri- ficed for the welfare of her sex. The eyes of the women of the world were upon her, As she recalled the past, and trled to penetrate the future, a smile of supreme satisfaction passed over her honest face as she remembered that her life’s work would be perpetuated. The room in which she sat contained hundreds of volumes of records; and, turning to her daughter, she said, — “My daughter, this room, as you well know, contains the records of my life’s work, in which for many years you have go diligently assisted me. ¢ By earnest application you have com- passed my methods; and it is a happi- ness to think that when I leave, the glorious work will, through you, go on. ¢ The mission is a noble one. Doas I have done: never permit a woman’s ap- | peal to go unheeded. ¢ These records tell of every case ever submitted to me; and it is my wish that the facts they contain shall in time prove a much-needed education to the women of the world.” ¢ Thus did Lydia E. Pinkham hand over to her daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Pink- ham, what may be termed the salvation of her sex; and that wonderful remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, which all druggists consider as standard as flour, goes on redeemin, hundreds of women from the fenrfui consequences of female diseases, FREE AS AIR Dr. McKenzie’s Catarrh Cure Can be Had at Joy’s. The celebrated Catarrh Cure of Dr. McKenzie has made a name for itself in | the remote places of the Globe. Hundreds | of testimonials by rich and poor attest the value of this Catarrh Cure. To prove its efficacy, ™ 4 i FREE 1 5iove i2 ok, To prove its merit. A SAMPLE will be given to you free. The more chronic the case the better. CALL for free sample or treatment. E. W. JOY, BALDWIN PHARMACY | Cor. Market and Powell Sts. QUR CLOSING-0UT sarnm TAN _SI:IOES 0c ON THE DOLLAR Proved such a wonderful success that we have declided to con= tinue the sale ONE WEE_E LONGER THE RUSH LAST WEEK FOR 'TAN SHOES Was wonderful. 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LADIES’ TAN OXFORD TIES, pointed or narrow square toes...... -..$1 per pair, LADIES’ TAN SOUTHE DAITOW Square toes. TIES, polnted or ... 81 b0 perpair. LADIES’ FINE TAN KID OXFORD TIES, hand turn soles, latest style polnted or square toes $2 per pair, YOUTHS AND BOYS' TAN LACE SHOES, solid soles. Youths’ sizes, 11 to 2. 8{ '?g Boys' sizes, 2% t0 534, 1000 PAIRS OF MEN’S TAN CALF SHOES, at.... #3per palr. : Regular price $4. WE WILL SELL ALL BLACK SHOES at the SAME PRICE. IF OUR SHOES Are not as represented return them and we will refund the money. By the Above You Will See That You Have All to Gain and Nothing to Lose by Buying Your Shoes at NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO. 812814 MNARKET STREET, PHELAN BUILDING. Telephone 5527. LI PO TAI JR.’S Herh Sanitarium, No. 727 Washington St., Cor, Brenham Place, above the plaza, San Francisco, Cal. Office hours- A. M. to },D fi(.,l tod4andStos > C3 BAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 1895. 3 619 Geary. street. 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