The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1895, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1895. BERKELEY IN MAY. How happy are the birds in the glad month of May! Herein Berkeley on the slope of the hills the sun is warm and full of the cheer of summer; and the birds are in the midst of their courtship and’ nest- ing. What a plastering of mud nests there is among the swallows! what a search for eligible sites for homes among the merry wrens and the blithesome linnets! what a fashioning of dainty little nests by the | humming-birds! The bush-tit has swung her marvelous purse of lichens among the liveoaks, and the goldfinch has tucked her soft little basket in an apple bough. All are happy and busy with the promise of the spring. / As I walk through the fields and over the hillsI am greeted with a multi- California Bush Tit. tude of songs that make the air glad with their cheer. From a post by the side of the half-grown patch of grain a meadow- lark tunes his mellow pipe and gives forth tones of such a varied, fiute-like | quality that it sounds like the piping of | some inspired pastoral shepherd who knows his love is near. There he sits in his streaked coat of buff, with vest of gay yellow and crescent of biack upon his breast singing to his demure little dame who sits upon her nest. It is not an easy mnest to discover ina field of grain, so deftly is it concealed, but once found is well worth all the pains be- | stowed upon its detection. It is a dome- shaped structure, woven of fine grasses, | and contains some four or five white eggs, rather thickly sprinkled with reddish- brown dots. Happy is he who can find such a prize as this, and, after admiripg the beauty and poetry of the life it reveals, go his way in peace, contented to have seen without coveting! The song of the linnet is ever in the air during May. Iknow of no bird which, if its song be a true guide, has a lighter and more exuberant heart. There is much of the freedom and nonchalance of unre- strained delight in its tones as it pours forth a flood of impassionea song in the midst of its flight. The linnet, or housefinch, as it is called in the books, is doubtless the most abundant bird found in these parts of Cali- fornia. The bright red or crimson of the head, throat ana tail coverts make the full-plumaged male a very showy fellow, although his mate is content with a quaker garb of streaked gray. He is accused by the fruit-growers of being something of a mischief-maker when cherries are ripe, but let that be for the present. Itis May, now, and the cherries are too small and green to be palatable. The linnets are quite content with a diet of seeds, while the oftice of parent is the all-engrossing subject of in- terest. The linnetis a persistent suitor, and [ have often seen two males paying assiduous attention to the same female, singing and displaying their charms of plumage, while the indifferent object of tkeir rivalry would fly about from tree to Plain-Crested Titmouse. tree in a vain attempt to escape. The coquetry of linnet nature would ultimately soften in favor of one of her admirers, however, and the defeated one wouvld fly off, nothing daunted, to display his gai- lantry in more promising fields. Thusdo we see the drama of life played out upon the mimic stage of the bird world. Down through the canyons which far- row the side of the Berkeley hills wend clear silver streams of mountain water, hurrying on their way to the sea. Let us take our way dnrinfi the heat of the noon from the grassy hillside into the cool shade of one of these canyons, beside tne bahbling stream that is making perpetual/ music in the springtime. Here the live- oaks spread their branching limbs over the lJand. and close by the water’s edge the willows and alders sway to the gentle in- fluence of the salt breezes that have come through the Golden Gate. An emphatic little pee wit greets usas we enter the quiet of the canyon, where the breeze singsin an undertone and the sil- ver-tongued brook sounds in a subdued murmur. Looking about- for the humble musician who does his best to enliven the scene with his apology for a song, we see, perched upon a bush, a quiet -Iittle .bird with large eyes and a broad beak edged with bristles, His plumage isa dull olive on the back, brownish or greenish in tone, with a dull white breast tinged with pale sulphur-yellow. There he sits upon the bush, flirting his tail emphatically at every utterance of the pee wit and snapping . viciously at any stray in- sect that chances to fly near. Our new acquaintance is the western flycatcher,and & very pleasant little fellow he is to know, | life. | ing limbs of the liveoak. | birds 1 limb to which it is attached. with his old-fashioned W?&'_s and simple quiet life by the stream. is mate, I sus- pect, has hidden her mossy nest in some little niche in the clay bank of the canyon, among the roots of some old' tree, perhaps, for I have often found it in such situations; and [ dare say she issetting upon five deli- cate white eggs, thicklf’ speckled . with brown, for such is the habit with these little folk; and, furthermore, 1 think there is no doubt that she listens to the pee wit of her lord and master with all the pride and delight of a dutiful wife and a proud mother. Here indeed do we find that life of rural simplicity for which we have 5o often sighed in vain! Let us learn from the pewee the virtue of contentment with little display, but a warm heart. The western flycatcher does not have the canyons all to himself these heydays in May. Snugly tucked away in a hole in arotten liveoak a pair of Vigors’ wrens have made their home. Higher up in an- other oak, where a limb has broken off, and the water has trickled into the heart | of the tree, leaving a small cavity, a plain- crested titmouse, dressed in her lead-col- ored attire, is tending her numerons brood of young. Away off among the bay trees that nestle in the upper Fart of the canyon a clamorous California jay is squawking in a harsh but altogether good-natured sort of a way. Even he— noisy vagabond that he is—knows the joy and sorrow of having a home and fam’ly on his hands. though I fancy the cares do not weigh very heavily upon him in the daily routine of his plundering, rollicking His nest is a clumsy affair of sticks, built among the liveoaks and containing from four to six greenish-blue eggs, rather thickly spotted with brown. ~Samuel’s song sparrow, too, has found a place for her nest in the canyon, in a wild tangle of | blackberry vines at one side of the road; but the crowning glory of nest architecture is concealed in the all-includ- It is the nest of the California bushtit, the tiniest of all except the hummers. A plain mouse-colored little fellow is the bushtit, with a blithe, high-pitched, little lisp of a Samuel’s Song Sparrow. note, ever in motion and ever in good cheer. Heis a sociable little fellow, gen- erally traveling in bands of fifteen or twenty, from one liveoak to an- other, gleaning among the leaves for insects. The chief interest in this bird, however, centers in the nest. Hanging from some moss-grown branch of a live- oak, it looks like a cluster of Jichens loosely thrown together; but examine it and note the deftness with which the gold streamers of moss and dull-colored lichens have been woven into a compact fabric. Observe the ingenuity and skill with which these tiny architects have concealed their large nest, which hangs some six or eight inches, or even a foot, below a 1tis a purse- shaped structure completely closed at the top and bulging somewhat below. At one side, very near the juncture. with the branch, is an opening barely larze enough to comfortably insert .the little finger, through which the parent birds may enter into the cosiest little chamber, heawily lined with feathers, that was ever de- signed by bird or man. Here are laid some eight or nine white eggs, to be assiduously tended by the fond mother. It is one of the loveliest bits of bird lite with which I am acquainted. But there are birds more splendid far than the quiet life of domestic simplicity into which we have thus far had a glimpse would lead us to suspect. Bullock’s oriole, that gay wanderer from the tropics, is sounding his loud, clear song from the tree tops; the black-neaded grosbeak is making music to the best of his ability in the orchard and grove, and lo! the thrush is in the fall glory of his song. The plumage of the male oriole is black and orange in the main, with conspicuous bars of white on the wing. The back, top of head and throat patch are black, leaving the rest of the body varying from yellow to intense orange and red. He is a beauti- ful bird, as from the top of a maple or elm he sounds his loud, wild, yet sweet, call to cheer the mate, who from her basker cra- dle in the weeping willow broods over her treasures and dreams of the hapgy family that will soon be hers—alas, for how brief atime! The black-headed grosbeak is a far less graceful bird than the exquisite oriole. As the full-plumaged male flaps through the air his conspicuous markings of white, black and vellow appear somewhat over- done and flashy to me. From his heavy beak down he seems rather gross, although 1 donot find him any the less interesting Bullock’s Oriole. on this account. His song; t0o, is not wild and spontaneous and buoyant like the oriole’s,although lond and sweet, but seems rather perfunctory and monstonous in 1ts range. Even his nest will not stand com- panson with the delicate, deftly woven vepsile basket of the oriole, for it (3 loosely built of sticks—so loosely built in fact, that the eggs may frequently be seen through the bottom from the ground. The four eggs are of a dull greenish blue color, heavily . spotted with brown. In spite of his unwieldy appearance [We Divide the Loaf NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. Dreams in Dress Goods This Week. New Colored Dress Goods. FANCY BOUCLE PLAID, 44 inches = wide, black zonalcq] 400 tusis on & “Deux tons” ground — an elegant sulting. 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CHILDREN'S INDIA SILK BUT- 10° TERFLY BOWS. swell assort- ment in dots and solid colors, Each GENTS’ BAND BOW TIES, fancy c atiern 20 Each MAIL DEPARTMENT. A postal card request will bring you a copy of our new catalogue. None distributed in the City. —y TINCORPORATED SER SHOW WINDOWS 937, 939, 941 Market Street SAN FRANCISCO. “INCORPORATED. g song, I should feel a sad lack in our summer days should this happy fellow be removed. When other songsters are silent he still sings in his loud warbling strains, troubled little by the heat of the day, and if nis plumage be not so fustidiously elegant as the oriole’s, it is, neveriheless, showy and gay. At sunset the cicada is sounding his high, palpitating love-call from the meadow, when suddenly, out of the sacred calm of evening, full and rich and varied as the tones of an organ, swells the song of & thrush. The most inspired singer of all, with his rich, gurgling full- ness of rapturous sound, has waited until all the lesser munstrels have done their partin the day’s chorus, and now, from his bush in- the thicket, as the shadows darken around him, he becomes infuged with the subtle delight of the sun- set sky, the sweet odors of the evening and the cool air of the night. **Qui, gui, qui, quia, quia, quis,”’ he sings, with his little throat gshaking and trembling with the resonant quality of the sound. Well | can he afford to be clad in olive, and dusky, with an obscurely spotted breast, with such wealth of song at his command! His whole composition is too delicately attuned to admit of showy colors. Notice his large bright eye, his half-calm, half-timid manners as he stands upon a twig in the obscurity of the foliage, his long slender legs and delicate beak. He is a creature apart from the vulgar throng that surround him, and the ex- clusiveness of his hours of tong show that be is not unconscious of his superiority. As the month of May advances the landscape assumes more and more the typical aspect of summer. The rains have ceased for the season and already the well traveled roads in the country are growing dusty. From a bush by the road a vivacious, high-pitched song issues. It is intricate, rapid and varied. At times we catch such hastily uttered phrases as the following: *‘Tit-a-trea-troa-trea; tree, tree, trea, tree, tree; trit-a-tree, tree, tree”; but the end- ing of the song is frequently lost in & con- fused jumble of sweet tones. Ifweare pa- tient we may detect a small blue bird considerable less than the sparrow in size, with restless, animated movements to cor- respond with his song. It is the Lazuli bunting, one of the commonest of the minor songsters of summer. The plumage of the male is very gay, with the back of azure and breast of reddish brown; but the female, like $0 many of her sisters, is rather obscurely robed in brown, with but a trace of the bright colors of her mate. Thelr nest isa cup-shaped structure of grasses, in which are deposited four or five pale blue eggs, generally unspotted, al- though occasionally slightly dotted with points of brown. Continuing our walk, a flash of gold crosses the road and disappears among the thick growth of bushes. Thither let us follow where the summer warbler is sing- ing his high vivacious crescendo of a song, like a sudden fragment of joy. A little sharp fine metallic tsit arrests the ear, as we pass through a clump of scrub oaks. It is well to pause when a new note greets the ear in the course of a woodland ram- ble, and, with eyes alert, await devel- opments; for the birds are always ready to display themselves to the unobtrusive observer. A little brown perky bird soon flirts into view and greets us with a low, narsh, rasping chatter, which at times changes §o a more gutteral tone. It is the Western house wren, a bird very closely resembling his Eastern reiative, but he is living in a2 more undo- mesticated state. See him bob about from branch to branch, his tail thrown back, his wings half re]axed, and head down- ward as often as up. Soon the mate appears, and both birds show very marked signs of uneasiness. Their nest is certainly not far off. A search of the neighboring liveoak limbs discloses a scar on the under side of a branch, where 3 few fine sticks protrude, and this is the secret of the anxiety of the parent bird. They need not be uneasy, though, for however preda- tory our intentions might be the hole is far too small to admit the jnsertion of a hand and the seven or eight heavily anrinkled brown eggs are quite safe from all intruders. Full of the beauty and wonder of the fe we have seen, we wend our way home- ward, cheered by the exhilarations of the oriole’s song. Chuck, chuck-a-choo, chuck, chuck, chuck. chuck he sings in a rapia, vivacious strain as the wind rocks him to and fro on his perch at the top of a ma- drone tree. We betake ourselves to the dusty road, where a snake has left his track as he journeyed over the land, and where the d»imdy rint of the quail's foot tells of the ban tEnt but late hurried into the bushes. Thus sassos the month of May among the birds. Their lives are not, as many suppose, utterly irresponsible and free from care, but, on the coptrary, ever varied and ever altering—influenced by every change of season, hurried on by every new impulse of their being, guided by that destiny in which their own wills play but a minor part. May is the time when the species is to be perpetuated, if at all, so the whole energy of the bird nature is directed to that end. It is a wearisome ordeal for the mother, but a happy one nevertheless, for life means more to the palpitating spirit at such times and the bird is exalted to a nearer kinship with man. There is the delight of house building, the conjugal felicity of the mated pair, the pride of the mother and the sweet solicitude of the father, the pangs of disappointment, the wearisome doubts and cares of rearing the young, the training for the flight; an then. when all is done, the sundering of tender ties—the parting of mother and off- spring. Each goes its way to fight the stern battle of existence, Iolf'awing the dic- tates of its own nature and doing what little it can to make the world a more beautiful and & more intense reality. MORE TINE FOR MCDL, The Secretary Has Until November to Pay His $250 Fine. Possibllity That Durrant’s Attor- neys May Make the Case a Point for Appeal. Judge Murphy yesterday granted a stay of execution to November 1 in the con- tempt case against Secretary Henry J. Mc- Coy. This, it is understood, is to give the sec- retary time to obtain money to pay the $260 fine and avoid the alternative of being locked up for five days, but no statement in relation to the reason has been made in court. When the case was taken up yesterday there was no appeal by Mr. McCoy or his attorney. No statement of any kind was made for the secretary and it was apparent that the petition for postponement had been made in chambers. Judge Murph‘iv ascended to the bench at 10:30 o’clock and immediately he said: “I have concluded to postpone the sen- tence of $250 fine or five days’ imprison- ‘r:zenlt“ngnmst Henry J. McCoy to Novem- er 1. That ended the matter, and Mr. McCo: nn:nAttorney Sawyer departed from th}; €O . ' It is expected that the attorneys for Dur- rant will make the McCoy case one of their points of appeal to the Supreme Court in the event of conviction, though Jurors Truman and Crocker have testified that they were not in any degree influenced by the remark that Mc(',?oy made. John Sclnécld- Brief Will. John George Schneider disposed of a $2000. estate in one of the briefest wills ever offered for probate in this City. The document is: SAX FrRANCISCO, August 14, 1895, I, John George Schneider. give and bequeath to my wite. Hannah Schueider. my bovse and jor on Ferrie streot as a gift. Witness whereof my sig- nature, JORN GEORGE SCHNEIDER. ————— BANK STOCK is the only paper scientifically made for preserving’ the eyes. The Mysell- Rollins Company, 22 Clay st., printand bind it.* THE SPIRIT THEIR THEME Joaquin Miller Will Lecture at the First Unitarian Church. BISHOP WILSON IN THE CITY. Clerical Discussions—Mormon Mu- tual Improvement Soclety. Fall Bazaars. Rev. J. Cumming Smith and Rev. F. R. Farrand have prepared the following pro- gramme, which will be followed at a con- ference on the Holy Spirit to be held under the auspices of the San Francisco Presbytery on the 22d and 23d insts.: Tuesday —2—2:30 P. M., devotional exer- cises; 2:30—2:45, address on_‘“The Personality of the Holy Ghost,” Dr.E. G. Mathena; 3—3:15, “The Holy Spirit 'in the Old Testament,” Rev. R. Vaughan Griffith; 3: :45, “The Holy Spirit in the New Testament,” Rev. D. Hanson 4—4:15, ““Holy Spirit in Conversion,” Ross; 8-8:30, devotional exer- i 0—9, “The Holy Spirit as_an Inspirer and Instructor in the Bibie,"” Dr. John Hemp- hill; 9—9:30, *“The Holy Spirit in Sanctifica- tion,” Dr. H. C. Minton. Wednesday—2—2:30 p. M., devotional exer- cises; 2:30—2:45, *The Spirit as Enduement for Services,” Rev. H. M. Bevier; 3—3:15, ““The oly Spizitaslatercessor,” Rev.D.G. B. Stéwart; 30—3:43, “Expectations of Spiritual Re- sults in Christian Work,” Dr. J. M. Condit; 4— 4:15, “The Great Revealer,” Rev.James M. Thompsen ; 8—8:30, devotional exercises; 8:30 —9, “The Holy Spirit as Comforter,” Rev. J. Cumming Smith; “The Holy Spirit at Pente- cost,” Dr. Robert Mackenzie. Rey. F. R. Farrand will preside at the afternoon and Rev. D. M. Ross at the evening meeting on Tuesday, and Rev. J. Cumming Smith and Rev. D. G. B. Stew- art at the same meetings respectively on Wednesday. 5 The joint Mutual Improvement Associa- tion, composed of voung people of both sexes belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held its monthly meeting at the church headquar- ters, 538 McAllister street, on Friday even- ing. Fast day will be observed by the saints to-day, and this evening President H. S. Tanner will discourse on ‘‘Reasons for Being a Mormon.” Next week he will leave for Southern California, and on the 20th inst. will hold a conference at Los Angeles. o The synod of California will hold a two days’ session at Sun Jose, commencing on the 17th inst. Rev. Arthur Crosby, prin- cipal of the Tamalpais Academy and retir- ing moderator of the synod, will preach the opening sermon. A minister and lnr man from each Presbyterian church in the State will compose the body. Rev. F. B. Farrand’s morning theme will be “Dying and Contact with Death.” 1;1 the evening he will discourse on *‘Jew- s The Christian Endeavor Society of How- ard Presbyterian Church will discuss *‘Missionary Heroes and Heroines” at its meeting this evening. Evening services will be resumed at the First Unitarian Church to-day. During this month there will be a series of four sermons on the Unitarian church of America—concerning its organizatiop, his- to{ly, purpose and relation to the people. he Channing Auxiliary .has instituted a course of lectures and conversazioni at the First Unitarian Church. On the 12th inst., Joaquin Miller will deliver a lecture on “London Folk Coma-nfively," on the 19th, Margaret Collier Graham will lecture on “Impediments.”” ‘“Evolution of the Moral S8ahction” will be Professor William H. Hudson’s theme on the 26th inst., and on the2d prox. there will be ‘“An Evenin; ‘With Henry IV,” by Hannibal A. WiE liams. Mrs. Ballington Booth will address the Society of Christian Work of that church on the 21st inst., at 3 p. M. The Ladies’ Union of Trinity Presby- terian Church is making preparations for a bazaar on November 16. Rev. J. Cumming Smith of Trinity Prese byterian Church has just compieted a cotrse of lectures to the Chbristian En- deavor Society of his church. His themes were ‘“Ambition,”” *‘Spirituality,” “What | Is Culture?” and *‘Relation of Young Peo- ple’s Societies to Civie Reform.” He is arranging lectures to be delivered this fall on “John Knox,” ¢8t. Chrysostom.” **St. Augustine,” and other revered char- acters that figure in church history. Professor E. E. Barnard of Lick Observa- tory has been engaged to deliver lectures on astronomical themes at the First Uni- tarian Church on the 17th and 24th prox. Bishop Wilson will preach at Centenary Methodist Church to-day. The Clericus will discuss a distinctive doctrine, “The Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist,” to-morrow. Rev. William Ballard will be the essayist. The theme for consideration next week is, “Full Lib- erty, but No License, in' the Use of the Re- vised Prayer-book,” and will be presented by Rev. Hobart Chetwood. There will be an adjourned meeting of the San Francisco Presbytery at Howard Church to-morrow afternoon, for the trans- action of minor .business not completed when the presbytery was in session. The feast of the dedication will be ob- served at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin until Friday of this week. The observance commenced on Friday. Rey. T. J. Lacey, head master of Trinity School, will deliver a lecture on “The Church in Colonial Times the Cradle of Liberty,” at 8t. John’s Church this even- ing. Next Sabbath evening his subject will be “The First American Bishops,’ and the succeeding lectures will be on “The Vine Out of Egypt, or the Church Filling the Land,” and “The Secret of the Church’s Phenomenal Growth.” to be given on the 20th and 27th inst. The aim of the course is to popularize Episcopal church history. The building of Trinity parish, Red- lands, 18 soon to be moved to a lot on Ce}on street and Olive avenue. he Eighth-avenue Methodist Church of Oakland tendered a rac?non to its pastor, Dr. 8. J. Carroll, on Thursday evening. This will be the third year of Dr. Carroll’s pastorate of the church. The Southern California Conference of Methodist churches has received a deed of gift to proiaerty valued at $22,000. The proceeds will be used for the suppo}t of the conference’s supernumeraries. Rev. C. J. Larson was elected delegate to the General Conference of Methodist churches by the Mission Cenference at Astoria. The seventh anniversar; Congregational Church wil by a concert this evening. Archbishop Riordan will administer con- firmation at 8t. Mary’s Church on the 27th inst. at 11 o’clock. Nine members will be added to Trinity Presbyterian . Church to-day. There will be three baptisms. The feast of St. Francis Assisi was cele- brated on Friday at 8t. Boniface’s Church. There will be a parish rally of St. Bren- dan’s Branch, League of the Cross, at Brendans Ha!l on Wednesday evening. A Loyola Assembly No. 1, Y. M. C. U., will fi" an entertainment at Union-square all Thursday evening. The operetta ““Genevieve” will be given at National Hall, Ellis street, on Wednes- day evening. The proceeds will go toward purchasing a .flag for Company D, League of the Park be celebrated |of the Cross cadets of Sacred Heart Church. Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper was'elected a dele- gate from California to the National Tri- ennial Council of Congregational churches which will be held at Syracuse this week. e Held for Grand Larceny. Edward Johnson, a bunko-steerer, was yes- terday held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Low in $3000 bonds on the charge of grand larceny. On Monday he induced Chris ‘Weidenbach of Paso Robles to go with him to the Oad Fellows® Cemetery, where they were Joined by two other men. Cards were pro- duced, and Weidenbach foolishly drew out of his pocket to show that he had plenty of money. Johnson grabbed the money snd ran, but was pursued and captured. FOR THE GERMAN SCHOOLS, A Grand Entertainment for Their Bens efit by Many German Socie- ties Combined. To-morrow night the Independent Ger~ man Congregation, San Francisco Turn Verein, Turn Verein Vorwserts, Mission Turn Verein, Mission Turn Schwestern, Mission Lodge No. 10, Order of Hermann Sons, and Carpenters’ Union No. 304 will give a grand benefit entertainment for the German schools of the_ City at the Colum- bia Theater. A grand instrumental and vocal concert and gymnastic exhibition have been in rebearsal for some time, and the following programme will be rendered : Overture, orchestra; “Einzug der Gaeste auf der Wartburg” (Tannhauser), R. Wagner; mixed chorus, San Francisco Turn Verein, con. ducted by Professor F. Fischer; march’ and movements with the silver wands by 100 athletes; song, ‘Love Light of Her Eyes” (J. W. McKenzie), Miss Minnie Powell, accompanied by the composer; roundel’ with ‘song, by sixty girls; overture, or chestra; parade march (W. Baum, ariner), Columbia ~ Zither Club, conducted by Pro- fessor Max Maier; barytone solo, J. P. Grode jens, accozipanied’ by Professor F. Fischer; ex- ercises on horizontal and parallel bars’and vaulting-horse, by the best athletes of the come bined turner societies of San Francisco; “Dag erste Lied” (F.Gumbert), Mrs. H. Wiener, ac~ companied by Professor J. Greven; “Flag of Liberty” (arranged by Professor J. . Melens zie). mixed chorus of San Francisco Turm Verein, conducted by Professor Franz Fischer * “Hail Columbia,” orchestra. Reserved seats have been placed at the popular price of 25, 50 and 75 cents. 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