The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1895, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1895. 25 _I nteresting Ite ms From Important Points in Alameda County. BLACKWOODWILLCONTEST The Widow Alleges That the | Decedent Was Unduly | Influenced. | HARRISON STREET OPENED, | Insurance Men Cannot Act Inde.i pendently of the Agents in part of the defense. Yesterday Detective Charles Foster, who has also been working up evidence against the prisoner, was sub- venaed by the defense. An Editor’s Ignorance. _Editor Wilson of the colored organ, the Elevator, was in the Police Court to-day to be sentenced_for libeling Thomas Pear- son, the City Hall gardener. The editor | filed an affidavit for a new trial, saying that he thought, when he waived a jury, | he was merely going to have a prelimirary | examination, and did not understand be | was on trial, | next Wednesday. His case wiil be decided Bassett Is Back. Councilman J. M. Bassett returned home to-day from Eureka. He says that sur- veyors are now at work on the proposed new railroad from Red Bluff to the coast and that subscriptions are coming in at a lively rate. He reports the prospects for the road as peing very promising and San Francisco. | owners along the route very generous. | OaRrAND Orrice Sax Francisco CAry,) | 908 Broadway, Nov. 80. | Mrs. Eliza C. Blackwood, widow of J. Blackwood, who died nearly a year ago and left a very valuable estate, filed a pe- tition this afternoon asking that the pro- bate of the purported will be revoked. | About a year ago an agreement was ar- | rived at between the heirs to adjust the | matter am The year within which a contest can be brought is about to close and to protect herself Mrs. Blackwood has filed her contest, as she was not at all sure that the agreement would be strictly ob- served. The petition allezes that, so far as the widow knows, the decedent died intestate and asks that the so-called will be revoked. She alleg made under duress and that the decedent was under menace at the time. Some of the heirs are children of the first wife and it is alleged that Mrs. M. J. White is neither a relative of blood nor by marriage and is entitied to nothing. Blackwood divorced from his first wife and the ow is also anxious that she shall not partake of the estate. There are about a dozen beneficiaries named in the alleged will and the contest will undoubtedly be resisted. Several of the beneficiaries are residents of Ala- meda County, where the Blackwoods are well known and where they resided for many year: Smilie Is Not Smiling. At 10 o'clock this morning the grading at the foot of Harrison street was finished and the street w. pen to the water front. The midnight visit of the Mayorand a gang of men to the scene was told in this morsing’s Carr. To-day there were two officers on duty to see that no attemot was made to fence up the street, but no such attempt was made. The opening con- sisted in removing a pile of lumber which has been stacked across the street for the past two years. The lumber is the property of Robert and James Smilie, and consisted of abonut 50,00 60,000 feet. The men worked till this morning, and horse-scrapers were called into service they graded in the guleh. Mr. Smi new nothing beforehand of the opera- tions of the Mayor, and when he came down to the wharf this morning he found his lnmber all removed and a couple of officers on the street. It was stated at Smilie’s office that the firm leased the land from the railroad company. Mayor Davie acted on the theory that an open and dedicated street He says it has been or forty years,and he proposes to open.. As is well known the ori Portoi’s map of tie city showed all the streets running north and south open to the water front, and if this and other maps are sufficient evidence of dedication, nly Harrison, but Castro, Brush and thers must be open public streets er. i not within recent years been south of First, because ther 1s a muddy strip of marsh land to be crossed. When Pardee was Mayor the question whether Harrison was an open street south of Firstand across this strip of marsh to the water front was consid- ered, but no conclusion was reached. It isthe intention of the Mayor to open | eral other streets inthe same manner Harrisen street was opened last night, but thus far no_intimation has been con- veyed as to which street will be the next one so extended. No definite announce- ment will be made in advance of further openings, the idea being to prevent injunc- tion proceedings. Ministers Warned. An Oakland minister having been warned that a man named Kimball, whom he was befriending, was not to be trusted, he wrote to San Quentin for information. He re- ceived the following letter: SAN QUENTIN, Nov. 29. Beware of one callinug himself “Bayard Sa- ville,” and, I am informed, now traveling un- der the name ofi John G. Kimball. Heisan arrant scoundrel and confidence man. Minis- rs and churches are his specialty. He has I n and tried to beat nearly all the minis- of San Francisco and Oakland aud numer- also hotels, etc. Give him a wide h, and, “trost him not, he is fooling thee.” Put brother ministers on their guard, and, if vossible, catch him and deliver him to the e, 68 it would be an act of real genuine 10 society and churches in particular. Kimball is still in town, but after the publication of the letter he wiil probably move. ef At the Macdonough. An attraction of more than ordinary merit, ‘The War of Wealth,”” will be seen for the first time in this city next Monday and Tuesday evenings, December 2 and 3 Something particularly good may be ex pected, for it is the latest, and,; according 1o the critics of the San Ffrancisco papers, the best effort of the successful author of “In Old Kentucky,” and it is given under the management of Jacob Litt, a manager known from one end of the country to the other for the perfect manner in which he mounts his plays. The De Woif Hopper Comic Opera Com- pany, the best light opera organization in the country to-day, will play an engage- ment_at the Macdonough Theater, begin- ning December 12, for three nights and a Saturday matinee. *“*Wang” and “Dr. Syntax” will be presented. Seats on sale Monday, Defemger 9. Lodge of Sorrow. Oakland Lodge No. 171 of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, will | hold their annual memorial services in the Unitarian Church Sunday afternoon. The rostrum of e decorated with flowers, palms and ferns in - abundance. and the decorations have only been begun. Fifty tall and stately palms ve been placed about the rostrum and other parts of the church. Woodwardia ferns are present in an abundance. In the center of the rostrum is a life-sized elk, mede of white flowers and ferns. Near-by is a floral chair, across the back of which is_written in colored flowers the word “Vacant,” commemorative of the one member who has been called to answer the summons of the Grand Exalted Ruler of All. Indifferent Insurance Men. The mecting of insurance men held last evening was a failure. An hour after the advertised time the attendance was too small to adcomplisH anything. The meet- ing was not called to order. The agents talked matters over, but decided that nothing could be done. Being so near San Francisco the Oakland agents cannot act independently. The-best of feeling pre- vails on this side of the bay, but no con- solidation can be effected till the San Francisco agents come to terms. Detectives as Witnesses. Detectives Holland and Herbert have been subpenaed by the defense in the trial of Louis Mublner for murder. As both the detectives have been working up the case for the District Attorney’s office, the s that if a will were made, it was | he Unitarian Church has been | Siedentopf Is Free. W. N, Siedentopf was acquitted in Judge | Ellsworih's court last night of the last in- | | dictment brought against him by the { Grand Jury last year, for misappropriating public money. After brief argument the case was'submitted, and in a short time the jury agreed upon a verdict of not guilty. HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in | Brief Chapters. { OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ) | 908 Broadway, Nov. 30, § Smith, the weak-minded individusl who | purloinéd & mailbag from the cerrier’s wagon, | was held to answer to the Circuit Court. Bail | was fixed at $2000, Judge Ogden to-day denied a motion for a | nonsuit in the case of Paxton against the | Southern Pacific Company and further hearing on Monday next. The Coroner held an inquest this morning on the body of little Tommy Silya, the nine- year-old lad who was drowned yesterday while fishing in Alameda Creek ac Alvarado. A ver- diet of accidental deatn was returned. There has heen collected on the second in- stallment of city taxes the sum of $59,617 07. Last year at this time about #30,000 had been turned into the treasury on the second install- ment, showing.quite a ialling off this year. Hon. M. K. Walker, ex-member of the Ne- braska Le ure and lateadjutant of the Sol diers’ Home at Grand Island. Ti in Oak- land on the 21st 1nst.,with his family, and with them is tne guest of his brother-in-law, Rev. James Curry of Temescal. Henry McKay was arraizned in the Court this morning be e Judge Fri charge of assault with a deadly weapon. His 00. He is nor’s scalp 1perior open with a rock on Novembe On Mouday evening the and instramental concert copal Church, corner Ninth and streets, West ‘Oakland. Some of Oakland’s best singers have consented to take part. The entertainment is fora w hy object. Mike Gormley, who has just finished serving sentence fo: ringing diseased meat into the city, was to-day turned over by the police to Constabl ze of Brooklyn, to be tr on the charge ¢ olating a law of the Fruitvale sani- tary district in killing the diseased cows there. The case of maintaining & nuisance against A.P. 11, who keeps a hog and chicken ranch out near’ Joo Dieves’ place, was warmly con- tes! Justice Lawrence and a jury d before Wednesday ait . The charge was pre- preferred Dy n Simons. The jury dis- agreed. Councilman J. M. Bassett has filed a com- munication with the Board of Health asking an official investigation of the water it to make supply of both the Con: Water companies. The Counciln analysis made of both suppl will come up at the next r the Board of Health. nts an . The lar meeting of The Dyer Estate Company has been formed and articles of incorporation filed. The ineor- he purpose of buying se dealing in real es- is $100,000 and the 00, Harold P. Dyer. Edith A CHURCH DEDICATION. Germans of Alameda Open a New ! Building to Public Wor- ship. Harrison street, unlike Cas- | Retirement of a Veteran Editor. The congregation of the German Evan- gelical Lutheran Church of the West End will dedicate its new edifice on Haight street to-day. At 10:30 o’clock there will be services in German by Rev. M. Ongerth, father of the pastor, the sermon being de- livered by H. E. J. Ongerth, the pastor. Englisn service will be held in the after- roon at 3 o'clock by Rev, J.J. Martin, pastor of the Santa Clara-avenue Metho- dist Church, the sermon being preached by Rev. E. Bushnell of the English | Lutheran Church of Oakland. The choir of the Oakland Lutheran | Church will furnish the music, directed by 1J. C. Walling. In the evening services will be held in German, Rev. H. Gehrcke delivering the sermon. | Conductors Deny It. | The conductors and motormen of the Alameda electric railroad are much wrought up over the report published that they are given to flirting with girls. They declare that the rules are strict in this re- | gard and they obey them. Many times, | they claim, silly girls ride on the cars ana | talk to them. They do not talk back nor | encourage it, but busybodies see it and | think they are encouraging it. They say | they have a much more wholesome regard for their positions than for the fleeting | pleasure of exchanging eiry nothings with | | the girls, but they can’t run away nor teil | people to shut up. Retirement of Editor Krauth. 1 F. K. Krauth, the venerable editor who | bas for twenty-seven years owned and | edited the Alameda Encinal, published his fareweli yesterday afternoon. He hassold | the paper to James W. Travers. Mr. | Krauth will continue to live in Alameda, | however, owning a home and other prop- erty here. Mr. Krauth is upward of 70 | years of age, and has been encaged in | printing and newspaper work for sixty | years, occupying every position from | “devil”” to editor and proprietor. Club of Nations. | Alameda has a unique organization ( known as a Club of Nations, which meets | once a month at the houses of members. | The last meeting was at the residence of | R. Frank Clark, on Friday night, and the entertainment was devoted to Me decorations were Mexican, some of those who took part were attired in Mexican costume, and the refreshments were all of Mexican viands. Mexico was treated in essay, song and yerse as to its geography, products, laws, people, traditions, music, g“:i' and a very instructive occasion was ad. Notes of Interest. Ed Ingerson has arrived home on the ship 8. G. Wilder from a trip to the Sand- wich Islands. The marriace of hiiss Nancy Bell Culver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. { Culver, to Ernest George Simon, will take place Christmas eve at the residence of the bride’s parents, 1186 Park street. It now appears that the Christian So- ciety will build its church at the northeast corner of Park and San Jose avenues, in- stead of Park street and San Jose avenue, as was at first announced. Park street and Park avenue run parallel and are only a block apart, hence there 1s frequently con- fusion of location. Paul Bowman, for -several years princi- al of the West End School, is now teach- ing at Irvington. The concert and ball of the German Ladies’ Relief Society of Alameda will take place next Saturday evening, Decem- prosecution is puzzled at this move on the ber 7. ordered a | kon a | 8 Costa and Oakiand atter | Conductors Declare They Do Not Flirt, | co. The | | ANKIQUS O SAVE SOULS, | | | President Huntingten Nearly ‘ Gave Major Robinson a | Chapel Car. i | MR. KRUTSCHNITT STEPPED IN. !The Major and His Wife Compromised ; on an Annual Pass Over South- | ern Pacific Lines. | OAKLAND OFrIcE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,} 908 Broadway, Nov. 30. “President Huntington is not such a bad man after all. I really belicve there is a great deal of the true Christian spirit in him. He would, I am sure, share my | joy if everybody in California should be converted.”” These words were spoken to- day by Major Frank Robinson, whose | | name is associated with philanthropic in- stitutions in 8an Francisco, Oak%land and | Ban Jose. Major Robinson has long cherished the idea that he would be able to run a “chapel-car”” up and down the State and hold religious meetings at sidings, where the car would be left. He wanted to run | such a car as the “Emanuel,” now in the yards at San Irancisco. Recently the | major called on President Huntington and told him of his ambition. The railroad | megnate expressed great interest in the | spintual foture of California and seemed greatly impressed with the plan of Major | Robinson. As developments proved Mr. Hunt ing- | ton was more sympathetic than practical. He thought tbat a chapel-car was a good idea, and was on the point of promising the major a car bearing the arins S. P. when the thought occurred to him to send for the general manager. | So Huntington’s man Krutschnitt was sent for, and was asked about chapel cars. Mr. Krutschnitt is more anxious about the perfect working of the Southern Pacific | svstem than he is about the salvation of the people of California, and be did not second his chief’s notion about chapel cars. He said they were a nuisance, they were always in way and that they were fruitful cause of inconvenience wherever they were side-tracked. The experience of the general manager of the road with the chapel car already in commission has con- vinced him that it is wise not to utilize any more old éars for relizious purposes. So Major Robinson’s car proposition fell through., Mr. Huntington said he felt per- sonzally inciined to grant the favor to the jor, but he made itarule never to oppose a practical opinion from an employe in whom he had confidence. “But he did_the next best thing,” said the major. “‘He thoucht that if my wife | and I were at liberty to travel all over the State we could carry on our work with as much_effectiveness asif we had a special car. He expressed a willingness 10 give usan annual pass if T brought him an indorsement of my project by some people who were better known to him. This I did, and the next day Mr. Hunting- ton gave me an annual pass for myself and “'iri'. We intend to use it to the glory of God.” 0 sooner was it known that Major Rob- inson had been thus favored by Mr. Hun- | tington than several ministers of the gospel thought that they should receive a | like courtesy at the hands of the railroad compan, 3 ‘ A president of a presbytery made an ap- piication for a pass, but was surprised when hie was told that he was in receipt of a good salary and was backed by a wealthy church, who could well afford” to pay for their pastor’s raiiroad travelin Mr. Huntington’s iriend Robinson is in r?(,('ldu of nothing but a stray collection. and during the hard times of the last few years the collection business has not been | very remunerative. “We intend to open a State tour, thanks to President Huntington,” said Major Robinson to-day, “‘in a few days, and will go wherever the Southern Pacific lines are laid. We are due in Petaluma on New lear’s Day and from there our itineracy carriesus to Fresno, and we may go farther, I expect that many lambs will be gathered into the fold through the kindness of Presi- dent Huntington.” BERKELEYS FESTWITIES Junior Day Celebrated in Fitting Style by the Class of '07. 5 | “Hence the Hitch,” Written for the i Cccasion, Presented With a Col- | lege Cast. BERKELEY, Can, Nov. 30.—To-dav was Junior day at the university, and the | class of 99 celebrated it with the usual farce, concert and promenade. The farce, which was held this morning in Shattuck Hall, compared somewhat favorably with | the one rendered last year, but the non- appearance of the orchestra, and hence the utter lack of music save the singing of | the '97 Glee Club, detracted much from | the success of the performance. An opening nddress was given by Class President Craig, who told, after the man- | ner of a burlesque, of the many excel- | lencies of the class, what '97 had already } done for the university and what they pro- | posed doing. When he had finished the | audience seemed at a loss to know whether really meant what he said. The play was entitled Hitch,” and was written by Miss Lena T. Sherman and Miss Vida Redington. The foilowing was the cast of characters: | Pninip y perten, a senior, James Bishop; Charles Johke, a junior, Dudley D | morenci 8. Poone, a soph., Henry | Mary Smith, a servant, Bernard Miller; Wii. | lium Swaggert, a senior, John Newland | Samuel Stringbart, a junior, Clay Gooding: | Margaret Montgomery, a co-ed, Maud Sutton : | Mrs. Ashchop, « landiady, Ethel Olney; Mari¢ Smythe, cousin to Upperten, Agnes Herm, In the afternoon, from 2 until 4 o’clock, the university band gave 2 concent in Stiles Hall, at which this programme was rendered : March, “King Cotton” (Sousa); waltz, “Murmur of the Breezes” (Moreno); cornet solo, *‘The Lily Polka’’ (Casey), C. C. Davis, '98; reverie, “Wayside Chapel” (Wilson); march, “The Honeymoon” (Rnseyi{: barytone solo, “Peerless” (Southwell), A. E. Anderson, '98; waltz, “Visions of Paradise (Bennet); march, “Independentia” (Hall). The promenade in the gymnasium this evening was by far the most successful event of the day. Because of the limited number of tickets issued the hall was not overcrowded, as has been the case at many of the recent university parties, and every- thing was favorable to make it a gay affair. Percy G. McDonnell served as floor mana- ger, and the reception committee was made up of A. W. Ransome, W. I. Hupp, K. Davis, N, English and W. W. Everett. Social Purity Meeting. The women of Berkeley have taken up the subject which has recently been dis- cussed by the women of San Francisco, that of the cangerous menaces to which | to take his remarks as a joke or as if he. “Hence the | | many young girls of to-day are submitted. They propose to hold an open mass-meet- | ing to-morrow afternoon .at 3 o’clock in the Trinity Methodist Church, at which the question will be discussed. The audi- ence will be addressed by Mrs. 8. C. San- ford of the Oakland Humane Society and also by Mrs. Dr. Ketlogg-Lane. Mrs. Bangs, local secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, said to-night: “*Our organization, as well as the suffrage and political societies, have been discussing this matter more or less ever since the movement against the evil was started in San Francisco. The meet- ing to-morrow will be the first public one we have held, and we hope that out of it will grow a serles of other such meetings, | which we are very certain will be fruitful of much good. We have no cencrete cases upon which to work, but the session was called for the purpose of publicly express- g our sympathy with the great move- ment.” May Change Management. A change of management in the Berke- ley Electric Lighting Company is pending. For some days pastJ.J. Mason, a Berke- | ley real estate man, has been engaged n buying up all the shares of the company which” were on the market. The shares were originaliy valued at $3 each, but they are now going at $1. So far Mr. Mason nas secured 3686 shares. The assessment of $1 per share which was levied on the stockholders some time ago, becomes delinquent on December 10, | at which time a meeting of the directors | I i | | | | will be held, and in case the men for whom Mr. Mason has been making the purchase of stock | succeed in obtaining a controlling | interest, it is expected that an entire reor- | ganization of the corporation will take | place. The present officers of the com- | pany are: President, W. E. Sell; vice- | president, Anson Blake; secretary and | manager, W. E. Topham’ directors, C. C. Judson, General Theodore Wagner, J iGefirge Gardner, A. S. Blake and W, E. Sell. | Letters Testamentary. Mrs. Mary J. Storck has applied for let- | Storc In his wiil the deceased leaves “ everything to his wife, Mrs. Storck. The | estate is valued at about $7000. ters testamentary upon the estate of L. C. | FIREMEN MUST RESIGH, Six Men Notified That Their Ser- vices Are No Longer Required. Superintendent Fleming of the Tele- | phone Company Is on the ; Retiring List. 0AKLAND OrFicE SAN FraNcrsco CALL,) | 908 Broadway, Nov. 30. § Six resignations have been demanded in the Fire Department and no one kunows where the ax may next fall. It is thought that it will not finally be sheathed until the long-looked-for change in the head of the department has been made. The names of the men whose resigna- tions were asked have not been made pub- lic, but two of the unfortunates are known to be Superintendent Fleming of the Tele- phone Company and John Cuddy, a West Oakland politician. For a long time the extramen have been neglecting their duties and drawing sala- ries while paying small amounts to others for running to fir It has generally been | considered that the extramen in the Fire Department are given their positions on | account of political patronage, and it | rarely, if ever, happens that they attend a fire. So notorious hrs this practice be- { come and such a great expense to the city | that Mayor Davie, in one of his recent messages to the Council, showed how money could be saved by employing a few trained firemen at a regular salary and dis- charging the large crowd of extramen who draw salaries and very few of whom | work. The Mayor stated that he had | never seen the extramen attend a fire, and they were simply a lot of expensive orna- ments Nothing mdre was heard of the matter untii to-day, when it became known that resignations were in order. All the men whose resignations are asked are Republi- , and as it is known that the full com- plement of extramen is to be retained, it is said that the purpose of the Commis- sioners 1s to find places for a few of their Populist friends. The personnel of the Fire Commission is he same as the Police Commission, and as | five policemen have been discharged | within the past week and another will probably follow next Tuesday, it is very | evident that the machine is at work, and | the next turn of the crank is being watched with great interest by the two depart- | ments. 5 1i the Coramissioners could have agreed the chief of the Fire Department would have been changed months ago, but that is only a point on which Wilson and Peir- sol cannot agree, =0 Chief Lawton has lived eight months under a Populist ad- ministration. .. "THAT CALAMITY. Mr. Editor: In last Sunday’s CALL there is a communication and also a diagram showing that a great calamity will likely befall this globe in 1901; that the planets will be in alignment witk the earth on one side, and all the other planets on the opposite side of the sun. I thinkthey will be as greatly scattered in 1901 as they are now. Iu is six years to December, 1901. At that time Mercury, Venus and Mars will be just where they are now, or nearly | so. Merceury makes a revolution in eighty- eight days. In six years it will make twenty-four complete revolutions around the sun and thirteen days on the twenty- fifth revolution. It will be near where it is now. Venus makes a revolution in eight | months. In six years it will have made | nine revolutions, and will be near where it is now in December, 1901. Mars makes a_revolution in two years. In six years it will have made three com- plete revolutions, and in 1901 will be near where it is at the present time. Jupiter makes a revolution in twelve years, hence in six years it will be just opposite where it now is. o Saturn makes a revolution in a little less than thirty years, and in six years it will have advanced about seventy-two degrees in its orbit or the one-twenty-ninth of one revolution of 360 degrees. Uranus makes one revolution in eighty- four years. In six years it will haye made one-fourteenth of a' revolution and wilt be advanced in its orbit about twenty-four degrees. Neptune makes one revolution in 165 vears. In six years it will have advanced one-twenty-seventh of its orbit or about thirtcen degrees. How an aliznment can happen under these conditions it is not eafi' to see. ence we conclude that there will not be a calamity of the kind indicated in 1901. But it the alignment should happen another question arises. Does the com- bined attraction of these planets produce earthquakes? It isnot necessary now to discuss this question. 8. B. McCormick. 270{xgcdnle, Stanislaus County, Cal., Nov. » 1895, Supposed to Be Boevitch. The body of an unknown man was found by Boatmen J. McAvoz‘lnd Michael Fay yester- day afternoon at the foot of Lombard street. From the coincidence that it was without hat, coat and shoes, it is supposed the body is that of J. Boevitch, the restaurant waiter who jumped futo the bay from Howard-street wharf 4 on the 16th inst. e oS S D HoME-sEEKERS may find a home at Brittan ranch. Auction December 7 by McAfee Bros, * i 'DUMAS, FILS. BY ALICE KINGSBURY-COOLEY. So the gentle, courteous Dumas is dead; he who so sympathized with the unfor- tunate that he could be truly called their friend; he who idealized the best of them, so that the world pilies now as much as condemns. I have played the poor, heart-broken Camille and can recognize what possi- bilities for a great lesson for good her sufferings teach, could all read the lesson aright. 1n 1889, having just completed the bust of General Robert E. Lee, I wished to make a companion-piece to the bust of Dickens I had made some time before. So I wrote to Alexander Dumas Jr., inclosing a notice of the bust of Leeas my only credentials, asking for some photographs from which to make a por- trait bust of himself, as there was no such work of art for sale in this country—at jeast I had not been fortunate enough to see any. In due time I received a cour- teous reply. With this note came two portraits, one of which is a photograph and one an en- graving. 1 was exceedingly pleased to receive them and the kind letter in which Dumas Fils, in 1889. [From & photograph in possession of Alice Kingsbury-Cooley.} they were inclosed, but neither answered my purpose, for I needed a perfect profile, a front view, and, if possible, one taken from the back, but I felt a great delicacy in writing again and asking for these par- ticular views, necessitating three different sittings and the expense thereof; also fear- ing, being unknown to him, that he might imagine some one was writing merely to get his letters and portraits. So I tried in the different cities I visited to obtain such vortraits as I needed, and time passed on without my being able to procure even one portrait of the great dramatist, I played with the great Matilda Heron in *‘Camille” when she was in the height of her power and popularity. This was in Pike’s Opera-house, &ncin‘nnti. What an ideal performance it was! I had a com- glete change of costume in one act, and as had a pretty new pink silk gown I in- tended to replace my cotton with silken hose and sport fine slippers, but taking a little too much time in dressing I slipped Dumas Fils. [From an engraving.} upstairs in my stocking feet with my “silken hosen’” atd pretty slippers in my hand to see when I should be wanted, and lo, the curtain was up and the stage was waiting for me. Thecallboy had forgotten his “call.” Hastily dropping the silken hose I slipped my feet in the slippers as the comedian came to the center door and cailed gruffly: *‘Come on, come on!"” And I wenton, minus the pretty stockings and bouquet I expected to have. One day I did not go to rehearsal, as no “cail” for me was up. The next dny the genial Matilda said Z “V;{,hy were you not at rehearsal yester- ay “I was not ‘called,’ ”’ I replied. “Well, if [ owned a theater I would pay you to come to every rehearsal for your sunny face,’’ she answered. Now was not that kind, from the at actress to the siruggling beginner? I liked Fac-Simile of Dumas’ Note to Alice Kingsbury-Cooley. her, so I painted for her a white camellia, and she gave me a couple of large Roman pearls from her necklace, that I wore after- ward as earrings when I, too, playea “Camille” and made people weep at my SOTTON. 1 also performed in this Blay once with that Queen of Bohemia, Dora Shaw, a beautiful poetess, but no sach actress as the Heron, whose little daughter, Bijou, I saw years afterward play Juliet with the tiny fairy Fay Templeton, whom I had held in my arms when a laughing baby, as Romeo, How sorry I was when the news was flashed from St, Louis that the great artist had gone mad; bhad come before the foot- lights shaking her white hair and singing: I'm as happy as a big supflower. Mad, quite mad! Alas, the fate of such superlative gemus! The story of Dumag’ life should teach writers a lesson of patience and persever- ance, to hold on with a tenacity of pur- pose that nothing can shake, and, if there 1s genius there, lo, the reward comes. I heard a funny anecdote of Dumas recently, sa1d not to have been published before. A young and ambitious piaywright wrote to Alexander Dumas Jr., who had awak- ened famous after publishing “Camille,” when his former works had been treated shabbily—that he had a great play, but as he was poor and unknown ‘‘would M. Dumas kindly appear on the title page as collaborator ‘with myself, and thus aid a struggling genius?”’ Dumas replied: “How dare you wish to harness a horse with an ass?” The ambitious one sent this retort courteous: ‘‘How dare youcall me a horse?” This so pleased Dumas that he wrote: ‘“Send on the play.” RELIGICUS THOUSHT AKD PROGRESS An Epitomo of Sermons of the Week Throughout the Land. Following is a summary of the principal sermons delivered in the United States and Canada by the leading clergymen, priests, prelates, religious teachers and professors of the Christian faith. In every instance the full text has been carefully read and abreviated: .—A great heart is indispensable to . The name of Napoleon is doomed to & second place, our nineteenth century magazines to the contrary notwithstanding. Rev. Clarence T. Brown, Congregationalist, Salt Lake City, Utah. INTEMPERANCE.—Intemperance rests upon America as a blighting curse. It is the nod- ding plume in the ranks of wickedness that is making its deadly charge on humanity. But it has a thousand enemies to-day where 1t had ar ago.—Rev. L D, Steele, Presbyterian, lie, Tenn. Nce.—However learned & man may be itis quite possible he may be spiritually ig- norant, and the most illiterate man, if taught by the spirit of God, may know more than he and be able o teach him.—Rev. Alice P. New- ton, Methodist, I'hiladelphia, Pa. QUESTIONS OF THE LOUR.—The questions of the hour are social questions—above all ques- tions of tariff or finance, however they affect commereial prosperity —they are questions that involve the very exisience of society, moral questions, so closely allied to religion that the church must notice them.—Rev. Hen- ry Branch, Presbyterian, Ellicott City, Md. CHURCH KERS.—The church is not a “Saints’ Rest.” Itisnotanasylum. It is nol a hospital. It is not & vlace even where our chief duty will be to saye our own souls. The church is a great army. Itis en_organization of workers.—Rev. W. Macefee, Methodist, Co- lumbus, Ohio. Love.—Love is the essence of religion. It is the outburst of a heart that God sees. It is the sum total of the commandments. Love asa Christian grace is the sum of all graces. Love can’t do & wrong thing. Love can’t do an im- ure thing.—Bishop Foster, Methodist, at Bhicngu, 111 BasIs OF RELIGION.—Religion must have some all-controlling thought or idea. There must be some ceniral figure or some life-giving prineiple. Confucianism rests on a code of morals. Buddhism rests upon a system of buman philesophy, but Christianity rests upon the character and integrity of a person.—Eev. G. W. Giboney, Presbyterian, Spokane, Wash. CHARACTER.—Character is what God knows. Your reputation is what man thinks you are. Character may, and usually does, make one’s reputation, but not always. Circumstances may so control that & good person is thought evil and an evil person good. Character is in- ward and reputation outward.—Rev. C. A, Hare, Baptist, Indianapolis, Ind. Deprs UNPAID.—The requisite of prayer is restitution. If you have wronged a man you must repair the injury before God will hear you, Iiyou owe hima debt you must cancel it. The trouble with a great many people is right along this line. They don’t pay their debts.—Rev. D. L. Moody, evangelist, Atlanta, Georgia. ROOSEVELT FoR PRESIDENT.—If the State of New York would propose the nams of Theo- dore Roosevelt for the Presidency and enough other delegates could free themselves from the cowardice and political bosses to nominate him at the next National Convention there are enough people in these United States who be- lieve in bis brave stand to elect him.—Rev. Johuston Myers, Baptist, Chicego, Il1. MoNEY.—Money is king. We give first rank to the man who has it and pass by on the other side the man who is without it, 1o matter how wise or good he may be. We are not in love with the moral reformer, nor with the reform, if it affects our money-making.— Rev. Dr. Young, Baptist, Richmond, Va. THE GOLDEN RULE.—The golden rule is the ospel in & nutshell. The world is suffering From a failure to observe the golden rule. No- where is this failure more noticeable and work- ing more harm than in the business world. The rush to get rich makes men forget the golden rule, which insists upon e fair balance and & just deal—Rev. F. Bergsuesser, Luth- eran, Allegheny, Pa. HaPPINESS.—Without God there can be no true happiness. All that the world can offer cannot recompense man for the 10ss of his soul. It is only b{‘ self-control, by abstinence from the worhf's pleasures, by mortificatior of our aprnum and our passions that we can hope to gain that superlative, that complete happi- ness—the reward God has promised us all in the end.—Rev. Father Murtagh, Catholic, St. Joseph, Mo. CHRISTIANITY.—Christianity comes as the fulfiliment of the most real elements of our numan life. It rounds out our love by opening it to the boundless love of God and ali human- ity. It fills up our joy by refining and uplift- ing and hallowing our truest pleasures. finishes our hope by letting us see God’s plan in the world and showing us the certeinty of its success.—Rev. W. H. Jones, Episcopalian, Cleveland, Ohio. ADAM AND EVE.—Adam is not the name of an individual, but a descriptive term. Its original meanings are ‘‘the earth man,” “red earth,” “low born,” ete. Eve also is not an individual name, but signifies womankind in general. Paradise is not a place to be located geograph- jeally. It meens, literally, a pleasure land, and stands for a condition of enjoyment, a state of sensibility and_ consciousness; in a word, life itself.—Rev. L. H. Squires, Universal- ist, Rochester, N. Y. THE NEW WoMAN.—She is in trade, she is in all the professions, she is in shops and stores and factories, she is in schools ana colieges she 13 almost everywhere in active life an feeling with her brothers an equal responsi- bility in the high aim of meking life and the home and the work better, sweeter and more beautiful. We hail ber with joy and bless God for the new woman,—Rev. R, H. Pullman, Universalist, Baltimore, Md. BIGOTRY.—A man is not liberal simply be- cause he holds advanced or radical opinions. Whether he is liberal or not will depend upon the spirit in which he holds them. If that splirit is parrow, unsympathetic, scornful, in- tolerant and irreverent, such a man is not lib- eral. He isa bigot, no matter how freely he has discarded the traditional creeds or how vehemently he denounces the authority of Pope, council, church or priesthood.—Rev. C. W. Wendte, Unitarijan, Oakland, Cal. PATRIOTISM.—Our flag should be a symbol of purity. We should cherish cur institutions and principles. Anarchy and lawlessness should be put down by the strength of public opinion, or with arms, if necessary. We should honor our heroes. We should teach our chil- aren to honor them. We should cultivate an intense American spirit. There is no room in this country for any other flag than Old Glory. Above that flag nothing but the Bible, for without the divine word we should have neither flaff nor country.—Rev. Dr. Dinsmore, Presbyierian, San Jose, Cal. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.—Our public schools are justly forbidden to enter the domain of re- ligious instruction. Even the pupils, perhaps unwieely, are much given to the discussion and application of subtle problems beyond reach of the child’s mind. And g0 we are forced practicelly to adiait that there is no definite provision for the systematic instrug- tion in the things of the spirit, save the meager hour of the Sunday-school. This is the one attempt to bring our children into open, direct and social contact with the at varieties of morals and religion.—Jenkin Lloyd Jones, In- dependent, Chicago, Iil. E BIBLE.—The Bible will stay here as long as there is on earth government and states- manship; as long as there is a court of law, jury in the box, a witness on the stand or judge on the bench. 1t will stay as long as there is a true literary culture and a desire for more, as long as one poet walks the earth, as long as a melody seeks expansion and as long as men seek by brush or pencil to render permanent the passing glories of life and time. —Rev. James Vernon at Nashviile, Tenn. PRIESTHOOD.—A priest is an embassador of Christ. His place is to do and say what h master would do and say if placed in the same circumstances, and on this acconnt the Catho- lic priest becomes at one time a spiritpal father and at another a spiritual physician. His life is an unselfish life, His motive is a supernatural motive, and neither power nor adversity changes him. 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