The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1896, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1896. ““Booh!” On afternoons, when baby boy has a splenddi throne, in nurse’s | e any monarch on ach wise my bandkerchiet 1 hold before my face. | And cautiously and quietly I move about the | j place: T hrn“ with a cry, I suddenly expose my face to d bear him laugh and crow when I | | view, [ rascal tries to make belleve that he | n T first began, he stared, and | stared and ferther out e nurse agreed it was a “er s that same wee, toddling, 1 d kick his little heels when I say i too old to play the | gs of Childhood. | Hurrah for a b; Wouldn't it be world should ta one single more nau be easy enot the same t began at in the ody ex- over there voice to say d of you to reward , it’s very to think that,and T am you by telling you a 1t isn’t true—that is, that only children arer hty. And here is another secret. There are nd kind m with gravy eads, who believe that chil- ok all goi 8 secret. wspapers on t hope vou don't, that the Sultan i ill people just as if it | as the ni hundreds of e just for fun. are too far away about, ecanse the very bad Ay e killing settlers Tight over he in Arizona agair | Besides that, English people and Ameri- | cans, who cuzht to be t sending ships | full of good th: o0d thoughts to | all the poor benighted heathen nations, | are taking time to call each other bad names. It’s funny about these things. If two bovs get to fighting at school and really 20 to work to hurt each other, the | determined ring | finger at his son and heir, and his voice | had a which rather frightened that young person. The boy liked his own way, and the ternal opinion Mamma and the codc boy in the world and whims. pline and undertook to same in judicious doses. was that he had en- | ved quite too much freedom. iling aunts ard grandmothers thought Bert the dearest humored all his The “Governor,” as the youne hopeful half jocosely and called his father, said Bert needed disci half proud! administer the This bright morning of the new year Bert had been instructed father’s office. The suggestions that to him were distasteful in “You have bee: peatedly,” the governor are not to allow th rir You are not to tardy t to oc ou are to rise at 7, when to report at his | were there made the extreme. at school aid, “and you ur z shirk your cold bath, | Walter Strong. re- | n. | e first bell | Bert took his father's lecture yery seri- | ously indeed. He had gone up to the office | expeécting to be offered some jolly sort of | present or outing, a continuation of the | Ohristmas treats. Perbaps those same holiday festivities had rather demoralized | the lad, for he was not, even in honor of the day, particularly good humored. | “The governor expects just a little bit | | too much,” Bert said to himself sullenly, | as he walked along the street. | _ “Where on earth does the fun come in, I'd like to know? | ‘“I'm to walk a_chalked mark ail the time, it seems, and I am to think of every | body’s pleasure except my own.” | Bert had ce ainly feasted too gener- | ously on holi sweets. His temper v worse and worse, and brooding upon his wrongs and sorrows he soon began to tind them unendurable. He stalked along with head down and a puckered brow, kicking viciously now and then at a friendly dog that followed him. | Bert had not thought much about which | way he was going, when suddenly he | found himself face to face with his chum, | | were good stout boys, and that is the next best thing. The British captain was in a dire ex- tremity, and quieting his conscience by some process he took the boys on board. The youngsters had no chance to repent. after they had inspected their new quar- ters and surveyed the situation generally. When they attempted to go up on deck again they were ordered back in no geutle tones, and found themselves virtuaily prisoners. Two frightened white-faced lads were Bert and Walter before the Jo lly Susan had passed the Golden Gate. B etween terror and seasickness they were w retched indeed. Nobody brought tea and toast to the wretched lamps of humanity that huddled into most uncomfortable berths: nobody brought hot-water bags when their feet grew cold and their heads were coals of fire. Instead coarse sailors laughed brutally, and the second mate came swearing co- viously to kick them up on deck. Where was the sense of treedom the boys had longed for, had given up their football games and their mothers to en- joy? Nobody seemed to have the good taste even to stay away. There was no rest by day, no matter what spasms of seasickness racked the young mariners. At night, too unhappy and too uncomtortable to sleep, the boys lay and thought of their trouLles, whispering together when nobody was near. Weeks and months wore away, and the seasickness, at least, abated. Otherwise their situation, thought, grew worse and worse. They were set tasks too large for them, beaten and tortured when they failed, treated with uniform unkindness in any event. At last Walter, numb with cold and weariness, fell from the rigging and was sertously injured. The Jolly Susan had sailed far in all this time. Whither she was bound, what ports she the boys | entered, these were things the runaway sailor-boys scarcely knew or cared. They grew strangely hopeless after awhile, and when the ship was in port they were kept below as at the first, helping the cook, and performine other tasks less to their liking. When Walter was hurt by his fall bis senses seemed to desert him. Perhaps his nerves were already overstrained to the breaking point, and perhaps it was only the accident that did the mischief. At any rate Walter was certainly crazy, and Bert was so terrified at this new ca- lamity that he was not much better off. rom a photograph taken for the “Call.”) and you are to dining-room at ha finger nails in ord “After br ou ay w to_school. you are to appl hours are ove e botn carfare and health. yourseli, and when ou may come to my off present yourself in the | The boys e st 7 | spection—shoes blacked, all ready for in- clothes brushed, our lessons for half an hour and then you are to look over Thereby vou iwill At school udy ONE OF HIS STURDY LITTLE HLELS STRUCK HIS SLATE. teacher hey are exceedingly naughty, and v s besides. But when two nations make up their minds to go to war everybody waves a flag, and even the schoolma’ams seem to think it is a grana time. Qu ing and killing are not the only bad things in the world, though they are | the most dreadful. Somebody says we mandment against | it would make all the rest unne v. And surely | if everybody told the truth and nobody cheated the New Year would seem pretty clean and bright. Only—there’s something else to learn first. It’s love. ‘‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- seif.” If everybod; would be ve would sa; “Go away see you.” But then we're not to love only our good neighoors and those that never did wrong. The sunshine and the rain fall on every- body alike, and that advice about vour neighbors sounds as if love were meant to do the same thing. It might be a little hard, too, if every- body were to begin to be good the same day, and a little tiresome if everybody got good exactly alike, 2 Perhaps, after ail, the dear old, stum- bling sinning world that God made is best, and the New Year that comes to us a bet- ter one than we could make for ourselves. hav d a com- told the truth some people angry with others, and to those they treated kindiy, -you are so bad I do not wantto Two Runaway Mariners. “You are to turn over a new leaf, young man.” Bert’s father shook an admonishing There will be errands for you to do, and they will keep you out dinner-time. At dinner freshly washed and bru polite. ‘*After dinner you ca: | agreeable to your mother and sisters. of mischief until 1 wish to see you ished, quiet and n make yourself 1t they wish you to do so you may escort | them abroad: if not, you read aloud or sing with Ruth and Jo. sephine. “In_any event o'clock, unless it venience to keep you wit “That is all, sir, for to. vou 2 Happy New Year.' you will retire at 10 uits your mother’s con- | h her. -day, and T wish may perhaps | ved each other darkly like a pair of brigands. “What's the matter with you?’ Walter grumbled after a while. “Nothing; what's got you?"’ 1e same; let’s go take a walk.” Without the necessity of word of mouth | the lads turned their faces toward the wharves. pretty little vessel was preparing to for the Hawaiian Islands. Bert and | ter looked matters over with a com- mon interest that needed no words. Per- haps Walter did condescend to jerk his thumb toward a little group of Kanakas who were preparing to embark. At any rate, these fellows soon absorbed the at- tention of both boys, and were much flat- tered thereby. | Their faces were soon wreathed in | smiles, and hugging their queer musical | instruments, the Hawaiians began to sing | and twang the soft melodies that to them | are easier than silence. | They were full of joy at the prospect of going home, these chiidren of nature. Their white duck trousers flapped in- | gloriously in the stiff sea breeze, but they were sublimely unconscious. | The sea was like a mother to them, and | | after a week on its bosom they would sce | again their beloved islands, | Bert and Walter couldn’t understand a | word of the songs, but the thoughts within them were easy to read. | “If we could live where they are going we'd never have to work nor study any more,” Bert ventured after awhile, ‘No,” Walter responded quickly, “nor | listen to any more beastly New Year's lec- tures.” Bert scowled sympathetically, and the | lch\lms understood each other better than ever. Silence reigned for a lon, boys were thinking hard an need of speech. “You can just about live in the water out there,” Bert said after a while, *‘and the wind is as warm as m Jesides, in some of the islands you needn’'t wear neckties nor black your shoes, nor any- thing.” | The temptation was too great. | Together the boys rose, and without an | instant’s hesitation set about finding the Eapiin of the ship. | That captain chancea to be a sensible man, and he only laughed at the would-be runaway boys. | “I'il take you outif vour fathers will ! pay the passage money,” he announced, | and no amount of dignified urging coulc induce him to accept the two impromptu | sailors. i The boys hoped to the last that the cap- | { tain would relent, and they waitea | patiently till the vessel got under way for | i ge. the hospitable Kanakas still | | singing and beckoning on deck. | Walterand Bert roamed about discon- | solately, thorouchly convinced that life | had no further interest for them unless | | they could go sailing— Across the raging main Where the dancing doiphins play, | And the whales and the sharks. | Are a-h aving their la : awa Ten thousand mil, 5 | An English ship, that looked about half | a mile long, was ready for sea except that ‘ she was short of men. time. Both there was no | that they were boys of | thought about it, n | agree to do a thing Bert and Walter were not men, but they | Both boys tried to jump overboard in midocean. The captain, who was notafter | all such a bad fellow as sea-captains go, | was touched at last at the sufferings of the | two landsmen. Giving the bovs a little attention at last the captain learned of the circumstences under which they had shipped, observed good families and well brought up and felt himself in a di- lemma. The boys were given comfortable quar- ters at last, and received medical aid. Bert was worn to a shadow of his former plump and rosy self, and the lines in his tace would have wrung his mother's heart if she had seen them. Walter badly injured, and in his de- Hrium he raved of the home he had left, or babbled happily of other times and D Sing to me, Bert,” he would call out in the middle of the night; ‘*sing, quick, quick Ang Bert, not knowing how else to quiet his friend, would choke back his sobs to sing the old songs they both loved now. One nicht Walter was” more quiet, and after along sleep he remembered every- thing. “Bert,” he said in a weak voice, “Bert, ou do think we shall ever go home Bert thought it extremely doubtful, but bis spirit rose to the occasion. e s,”” he answered. “I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we should start home to-morrow. “Do you remember that New Year's sermon I got so mad at the governor about? “Well, I've thought about that and ights and days too. could repeat the whole “1 believe I thing, word for word. **And Y sn't it a great lecture? L 7 when the bell rings—jolly g00d breakfast and school, the governor's office, dinner, stay with mother and the girls—say, how would you like a chance to do all that?” There were y,and the and moan ed. “IUs all my fault any way, for getting You into this scrape. ‘‘Neither of us would ever have acted so alone—why is it that when two fellows g it never scems wrong trl afterward, and then most likely it seems worse ‘than anything you could ave thought of by yourseli?” The two onely boys talked “themselves to sleep at ast, and for a time their troubles were forgotten. tears in Bert’s voice any- sick boy opposite coughed ('oncllulzd next week. DONALD SERIES—NO. X. FOR TINY BOYS. Here is a story which was told to Donald not long ago, arid I am sure all the tiny boys will enjoy it just as much as he did, Once upon a time, a long while ago, there lived a great big, big boy, five years old. “Oh!” (I think I hear you say)‘a boy five years old isn’t a big, big boy.” No, he was not a very tall boy, and not an old boy, but Le felt as if he were as big as the biggest giant that “Jack the Giant- Killer” had ‘ever met; because at Christ- AN OAKLAND TURNOUT. [From a photograph by Mores.1 ROSWELL FRANCIS FIELD, EUGE (e} A-BY LADY,” VOLUME, “LOV. FIELD'S YOUNGEST SON AND THE INSPIRER | “BOOH” SONGS OF CHILDHOOD.” | [From a photograph by Stein of Chicago.] monial on the Christmas day and the nighy preceding. WEAVER IS INDORSED, The Associated Charities Pass Resoln. tions Deploring the Efforts Being Made to Remove Him. The iriends of Superintendent Weaver of the Almshouse are rallying to his sup. port and striving to stave off the thre ened change which is expected to take place at the next meeting of the I}oani ot Health. The Associated (?haritleq have always taken an active interest in the welfare of the establishment, and have nothing but good words to say for the superintendent and Mrs. Weaver. At'a meeting of the organization held yesterday the following preamble and resolution indorsing the present manage- ment and deploring the efforts that are being made to bring about a change were adopted: WHEREAS, It has been publicly stated that Governor James H. Budd has recommended that the Board of Health of San Francisco re- | | | | | | N AND MANY OTHER POEMS IN THE mas time “Santa Claus’ had brought him something that only big boys had in those ays I know you are anxious to learn what it W Well, it was a beautiful slate—oh! s0 big and black and smootk, with a white pine frame, upon which were marked all the letters of the alphabet, besides won- derful pictures of animals and ships. Around the edge of the frame was a strip of bright red felt, held in place by a piece of cord, which was twisted in and out of | the little holes which had been bored all along the edge of the frame. ‘The little boy took a strong piece of twine, to one end of which he tied a soft sponge, then, after passing the cord through one of the holes, he tied a nicely trip in four days. Whenever necessary she will stop at salmon canneries between Astoria and Portland for cargo. On her first southern trip she has fif- | teen passengers and a full cargo of general freight. The passenger business between San Francisco and Portland will be con- | fined to the regular large steamers of the | Oregon Company. | As_freights on the way-port steamer are low, it is believed that this new competitor | will cause a rate war with the onposit steamers, and the resul with much interest by the coast. The situation with regard to Southern Pacific competition to Portland remains unchanged. will be await shippers all along sharpened siatepencil to the other end— | then he was fixed. My, how anxious he | was for school to open, so that he could | show all the other boys how much better | his wonderful slate was | seratchy tin ones. | When the day came he was so excited he | could hardly wait for his mother to get him ready and fix him his nice lunch, but | at last he started with his new slate slung | over one shoulder. At first he walked along quietly enough, | but when he came in sight of " the little schoolhouse and saw the boys running to meet him, eager to find out what Santa Claus had given him, he kicked up his heels and commenced to run, too. Alack! Alack! The first time he lifted up his sturdy little heels one of them struck his adored slate behind his back and there was a crash, while pieces of broken slate flew in_all ' directions. The poor disap- pointed little boy looked for a moment in dismay at the empty frame, and then sat down by the roadside bemoaning the loss of his treasure, surrounded by his sym- than their old e —— | Oriental RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS. It Will Be Ushered In To-Day at St. Basil's Cathedral With a Grand Vesper Service. Christmas bells will ring out merrily at the Cathedral of St. Basil the Great on Powell street, where the vigil of the Na- tivity of Christ or Christmas will be uskh |ered in by a grand vesper service at 7 | o’clock this evening. At that hour Right Rev. Dr. Nicholas, Bishop of Alaska and the Aleutian Isles, assisted by the resident clergy of the Rus-| sian church, will officiate, vested in all the splendor characteristic of the Greco-Russian Orthodox Catholic church. | On January 6 of the Gregorian calendar | occurs the Christmas day of all in com- munion with the Russian cburch. o'clock Monday the liturgy of 11iS CHRISTMAS DINNER. [From the paint ing by Knaus.] vathizing schoolmates, over whom he had | expected to “crow” that very day. And so, after all, the littie boy had to use hisold tin slate all that year just the same as the other boys. FIGHTING FOR FR:EIGHTS The Oregon Company’s Competition for ‘Way-Port Business May Precipitate Another Rate War. ‘fhe Oregon Railway and Navigation Company having settled the subject of passenger rates, for the present at least, is concentrating its energies on freight busi- ness between San Francisco and Portland. It intends that no business that can be se- cured by attention to interests of shippers shall go to competitors, and in following out this policy the company will hereafter take and deliver freight, and passengers, too, at way ports. To make this possible the South Coast, a steamer smalier than the company’s regu- lar vessels, has been put into service. The South Coast is expected to arrive in this ort to-day on her first round trip. D. C. ’Reilly, assistant general freight agent of the corporation, is on board, coming to San Francisco for the purpose of inducing shippers to patronize his line. Being a small steamer, the South Coast can enter way ports and steam from one wharf to another here and in Portland to discharge and receive freight. She will carry passengers to and from Arcata, Eureka, Marshfield, Empire City, Astoria, Portland’and San Francisco, making the Great will be celebrated in the San Fran- cisco church. dedicated to his honor, Bishop Nicholas acting as celebrant. A1l the Russian clergy will assist. On ordi- nary occasions the liturgy used is that of St. John Chrysostom, but on certain days of the ecclesiastical year the greater liturgy of St. Basil is substituted in the Russian church, the Church of Constanti. nople and all the churches in communion therewith. At the conelusion of the liturgy or mass, the Bishop will give the solemn beneaic- tion with the.crucifix, the people venerat- ing the same. He will then invite certain of the faithful to “‘eat a bit of bread with him,” which 1s a modest term for a grand banquet, at which it is customary for the Russian Consul to preside. The great feast is alsocommemorated by the divine liturgy on the two days following, Tuesday and Wednesday. . Thisgreat religious celebration, in Russia itself, inaugurates a season of long con- tinued social activity, brilliant entertain- ments following for 'many weeks, Dur- ing the three days of Christmas and the two days following all Russians who can afford it keep open house where they are living in a region in which they form a distinct colony. The distinctively na- tional customs have been, to a great ex- tent, lost in San Francisco and the United States generally. The congregation of St. Dasil's Cathedral is composed of Syrians, Greeks, Slavonians, Russians and others. 80 various in types of national character as to lose a great deal of the uniformity that marks many foreign-born citizens of a more clearly defined race. A common move the present superintendent of the San Francisco Almshouse; and whereas, the man- | agement of the Sau Francisco Almshouse, un- | dér the superintendency of Mr. Weaver, has ty at home and abroad, ency and excellence in all the United States; and whereas, it is with- in the knowledge of the Associated Charities of San Francisco that under Mr. Weaver's man- agement this public charity has been cone ducted in a manner to most benefit the poor and unfortunate who were obliged to seek its shelter; and_whereas, never before in the his- tory of "this City and State bas the Almshouse of San Francisco been drawn into partisan politics and treated as part and parcel of the spoils system ; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the Associated Charities of San Frincisco, do deplore this attempt to de= grade the government of this City by turnin its charitable institutions over to the control of politicians, and then in the sacred name of charity and in the best interests of the City we do petition the gentlemen composing the Board of Health of San Francisco to be true to the reputations th s borne in thig community use to imperil the inter- ests of this City and the welfare of the unfor- tunates in the Almshouse by removing an official whose competency and worth have been established by years of successiul work, Be it further, B Resolved, That the secretary is hereby in structed to transmit a copy of these resclutiong to the Board of Health. A VICTIM OF MORPHINE. Jack Shea, an Ex-Convict, Dies in the City Prison. Jack Shea, an ex-convict, died in the City Prison yesterday morning and his body was taken to the Morgue. He was arrested on Sixth street Friday morning for being drunk. Some hours later he blamed a fel« low-prisoner for stealing his hat and struck him in the face, drawing blood from hig nose, Clerk Sullivan of Judge Low’s court saw the blow struck and preferred a charge of battery against Shea. Shea was 27 years of age and addicted to the use of morphine and cocaine, which had reduced him to a mere skeleton. About 5 o’clock yesterday morning one of the “trusties” noticed that Shea was rest. less and twenty minutes afterward discoy- ered that he was dead. Shea had been several times arrested, and 1n 1883 he was sentenced to five years in San Quentin for robbery. His brother James, about fifteen years ago, was shot dead by Policeman Presho, now deceased, been a credit to this anking second in effi ar_the Potrero, and another brother, named Patsey, was sentenced to twelve years in Folsom Penitentiary. While serv- ing his time he was sen! to an insane | asylum. Of Special Sales. During this month prior to our annual stocks taking we shall hold a series of Special Cash Sales in every department, Each Special Oifered ‘Wil be exhibited In our show windows ang will be marked At Prices Unheard of Before And will comprise the following linest LACES, RIBEONS, GLOVES, NECKWEAR, HANDKERCHIEFRS, DERWEAR, HOSIERY, SILKS AND TRIMMINGS. EXAMINE OUR SHOW-WINDOWS, FIRST CLOSIG-OUT SALR! —-—3000-—~ Silk Remnants. 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