The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1896, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCI CO CALL, JANUARY 6, 189 OR. BROWN IN THE EYES OF HIS BRETHREN. While Loath to Judge They Say He Must Justify | or Go. CHURCH TRIAL POSSIBLE. | | Drs. Williams, Rader and Graif | Plead for Suspension of Judgment. MRS, DAVIDSON ON HER PAST. Another Missing Witness—First Con. gregational Church in Mourn. ing—Dr. Brown Il For the first time since Mrs. Davidson’s arrest she tells bow she came to be sent to | the Women’s Reform Prison. Her story | is a remarkably peculiar and weird one, but she relates it with that same earnest- | ness which has characterized all her ut- terances. She contends that she was guilty of no wrong, but was the victim of designing persons. The Congregational ministers are dis- posed to withhold their judgment of Dr. Brown until the preliminary hearing of Mrs. Davidson is concinded. Dr. W. D. Williams and Rev. William R. | Rader, both prominent divines and both | friends of Dr. Brown, speaking yesterday in behalf of the Congregational ministry of the City and vicinity, said that judgment should certainly be suspended until the law had taken its course. Afterward, if Dr. Brown could not satisfactorily explain the appearance of evil, he would be de- prived of fellowship with the churches and ministry, Dr. Graif, an eminent Baptist minister of Oakland, entertains similar views, say- | ing thav Dr. Brown should be given all latitude possible to explain away the | damaging charges now standing against | him. He expatiates on the peculiar temp- | tations of a pastor and the popular preju- | dice likely to exist in the case of any cleri- ! cal scandal. Treasurer Johanson of the Young Peo- ple’s Society resignea his position yester- day. He was a member of Mrs. Davidson’s | Bible class and had confidence in that lady’'s innocence. The resignation was made at a meeting of the society yester- day afternoon. C. G. Nagle upheld Dr. Brown and said that he would eventually clear himself of the charges against his good name, e MUST EXPLAIN OR GO. Dr. W. D. Willlams and Reva. Willlam R. Raeder’s Views on the Scandal. “Justification or dismissal.” These words by a prominent divine in dis- cussing the position of Dr. Brown give the key to the situation as viewed by the Congregational ministry of the City and State. Dr. Brown's clerical brethren are follow- ng the example of the greatest of min- isters in refusing to pass judgment. They declare that they will not, individually or collectively, express or even entertain be- lief in his guilt until the close of the legal investigation. They express sympathy with him if innocent, and pity for him if guilty. In either event they consider the case an unfortunate one for the cause of Christianity and the standing of the church. Dr. W. D. Williams, pastor of Plymouth church and one of the pillars of Congre- gationalism in the State, was seen by a CarL reporter at the close of yesterday morning’s service. “I am loath to discuss the case,” he eaid gravely, ‘‘for my position in the matter is a somewhat peculiar one. If the First Con- gregational Church fails to take action at the close of the Brown-Davidson trial it may devolve upon Plymouth Church, ac- cording to Congregational polity, to'call a council to consider the matter. “I trust things will not come to that pass. I have known Dr. Brown for twenty years and believe that his failings are rather in the line of vaulting ambition and a quick temper than of the lapse from virtue of which he is accused. I have never had any doubt of his integrity and always believed his life had been an up- right one. “I do not believe that if he comes out of the trial with the shadow still resting upo uhim he will force us to demand an explanation of the appearance of evil. He will either furnish such explanation or withdraw from fellowship with his church and his brethren in the minisiry. Sup- posing that in the course of the trial the | charges are not refuted, as we all hope they will be, and he apolies to the Bay Association for credentials, then, I appre- hend, will come the tug-of-war. “But remember that the charges are by no means proven against him. It would appear that they are made by bad women, and that fact is in his favor.” Dr. Williams, who is one of the most popular pastors in the City, and one whose | integrity has never been called into ques- tion, has attended the trial. Rey. Wil- liam R. Rader, the pastorof the Tkird Congregational Church, has also been seen giving close attention to the progress of the case. He, too, is a friend of Dr. Brown. “I don't know what to think. I am plunged into darkness as to the case,” he | said yesterday. *‘My knowledge of Dr, Brown would lead me to believe that, should he not be abie to explain the seem- ingly criminating circumstances, he will do what is right. He will not bring us to | the point of necessity of dismissal by a council. “Certainly there can be no excuse for ecclesiastical interference until the law has had its way. We bave noright to judge until the case is closed and Dr. Brown has had ecclesiastical hearing. The attitude of the ministers was shown by the resolutions adopted by the Congre- | gational Ciub on Monday. True, there | have been some devlorable developments since that time, but I am sure we are a unit on a suspension of judgment until the proper time." Both gentlemen referred to a congrega- tional council held a year ago for the pur- pose of acjusting the differences between the Americans and Armenians in the church at Fresno, which was called by the Tulare church and the First Church of Oakland, as being the nearest parallel case in California. At the time of Henry Ward Deecher's connection with the famous Tilton scan- dal, a small church at Andover, Mass., tired of the dilatoriness of Plymouth Church, Beecher’s charge at Brooklyn, called a council for investigation. The | council found itself in the condition of a | “hung jury” and dissolved. Afterward Piymouth Church called a council, in which most of the States were represented, the greatest council of the kind ever called, The findings of the great council exoner- ated Beecher. If, in the progress of the present trial, Dr. Brown does not disprove the charges made against him, and does not resign his pastorate, the first step in the procedure, according to Congregational polity, will be that the First Church, through its offi- cers, ask an explanation of the damaging statements. If this be not forthcoming, or not satisfactory, the church, individu- ally or conjointly with the pastor, may call a council of churche: If this be not done it will devolve upon another church, and according to usual custom the church geographically nearest and, if there be any doubt as to location, the church strongest, in a numerical sense, to call such council. If the finding of the council be that the pastor is guilty, in case of such forced council, the pastor would be deprived of the fellowship of other churches because of that guilt, and his church would also lose the privileges of such fetlowship because of its negligence. Plymouth Church would be expected to take the initiative in such a course because of its contiguity to the First Church. The Bay Association of Congregational Churches will hold its regular meeting this month. The meeting would regularly occur next week, but because of the possi- bility of Dr. Brown’s asking a hearing from that body its session will be delayed. EEEE T DR. BROWN PROSTRATED. His Absence From the Pulpit of His Church Yesterday Caused His Flock Pain. T was glad when they said unto me, “Come into the house of the Lord.” This is the inscription that spans the arch over the sanctuary of the First Co! gregational Church. But there was no glaaness within the great edifice. It was all gloom. There was sorrow in the hearts of those who attended the morning and evening services at the church yesterday. That sorrow was everywhere manifest. It was seen Jn the serious faces, the faltering voices, the moistened eyes, the bowei heads and the earnest prayers of those good people who daily walk in the foot- prints of the Savior; those good people whose sorrow was their pastor’s sorrow and who now sorrow with him, who were usually “glad when they came into the house of the Lord.” Professor Lloyd of the Pacific Univer sity conducted both services yesterda He 1s a comparatively young man, ex ceptionally bright, profoundly learned. | As a scholar and theologian he stands among the first. His discourse in the morning was more of an instruction, an instruction on the conscience. In the evening he directed his remarks to men, showing their value to the and civilization, and how the Nation and civilization are dependent upon them for the glory and triumph of the future. Tie professor was followed with marked at- tention by his listeners. He made no ref- erence to the cloud of scandal now low- ering over the church. Dr. Brown was not present at either service vesterday. It was stated by his friends that he was ill at his home. The ordeal of the witness-stand on Saturday | had been followed by nervous prostration. Therefore he remained in bed all day, and was nursed by a faithful and loving wife. His absence from the pulpit, especially in the evening, was perceptibly painful. Had he been there in all the triumph and splen- dor of his former self, how glad would have been his faithful followers as they ‘‘came into the house of the Lord.” Asit was they were lonely without him. They missed him from the throne. They sor- rowed for him. There were tears in the voice of the choristers. All prayed fervently for “‘those who were in trouble.” Then, ‘| with bowed heads, they went out into the night. e gt WHERE IS SHE? Mrs. McCoy Who Was Expected to Testify Has, Like Mrs. Tun- nell, Disappeared. A new witness whose testimony was ex- pected to corroborate a number of state- ments made by Mrs. Davidson and Mrs. Thurston was discovered yesterday in'the person of a Mrs. McCoy, who up to the day after Christmas resided on Mission street, near Twelfth. Mrs. McCoy, however, like Mrs. Tunnell and Mrs. Baddin, has mysteriously disap- peared as though the earth had swallowed her. Strenuous efforts on the part of in- terested parties are being made to locdte ker, but so far they have been barren of results and in all probability will remain so. It is stated that a few days prior to the day on which Mattie Overman confided her “heart’s secret” to Mrs. Thurston she called on Mrs. McCoy and told her sub- stantially the same story of her relations with Dr. Brown as has been published in numerous interviews with Mrs. Davidson. It will be remembered that on the Mon- day before Christmas the alleged black- mail on the part of Mrs. Davidson was re- ported to the police. The following Thurs- day, which was the day after Christmas, Mrs. McCoy left her lodgines and her whereabouts has not as yet been estab- lished. She told the laadlady of the house that she was going north, probably to Se- attle, but further than this made no state- ment. It is presumed that Mrs. McCoy became coenizant of the fact, probably through Miss Overman, that the scandal would inevitably become public and con- cluded that rather than be involved in the difficulty she would make her departure until the matter quieted down. —_—— A PECULIAR STORY. Mrs. Davidson Tells How She Fell Into the Clutches of the Law. Mrs. Davidson, about whom so much has been written and said during the past seven days, has at last made a statement concerning the time spent in the Woman'’s Reformatory School and the causes lead- ing to her incarceration. It is a wonderful, weird story, and she tells it with that same earnestness and seriousness which characterizes her every utterance. “I had not intended to speak of past events,” she said yesterday, “‘at least not now, but as I have nothine to conceal or to be ashamed of, there is no reason why I should continue to allow people to think ill of me. My family is one of the best in the New England States, and I have always been associated with only first-class people. To go into all the details of my Young days would not interest the people of San Francisco, because it matters noth- ing to them whether I was well born and used to the best society oy only skimmed along the ragged edge. , with the mere mention that I have been twice married, finally settling in Lynn, I will proceed to the ‘interesting’ feature, as viewed by Dr. Brown and bis friends, of my life. “I opened a piano and music house at | time.” Lynn some ten or twelve yearsago, and from the very start my business prospered. I sold pianos on commission or simply rented t%em if the parties so desired. One day a lady came to me and said: ‘I would like to buy the piano which I rented some time ago, but haven’t any money now and you will have to wait.’ ““I" was not allowed to do that kind of business, but as the lady was good, I con- cluded to submit the proposition to the house. This I did, and received their con- sent to sell the piuno on the conditions named by the purchaser. Some time after this the same thing occurred, followed | quickly by several sales on the same con- ditions. *‘One day I started for Boston, only a few miles away. It was excessively warm, and as I stepped from the car I fell to the ground, and of what happened immedi- ately afterward I have not the slightest recoliection. ~In fact, it was many months before I regained my senses. I had been prostrated by the heat—sunstroke, I suppose—and | while 1 was in that condition the case, which ended in sending me to the reform schoel, was brought against me. I never knew what became of my business or the nature of the charges brought against me, or on what grounds they secured my com- mitment. “Months after my release I met the prosecuting attorney and he told me that 1t was a miserable shame that advantage had been taken of my condition. He was sorry for the part e played, and assured | me that he was confident of my innocence. “As an evidence that I stood well 1n Massachusetts, I point to my eight years’ business record. Had I been dishonest or guilty of anything *shady,’ as it 1s called, do you suppose for a moment that I could have secured a situation involving the handling of large sums of money ? “For two years I was connected with a large wholesale grocery house at New Haven, then accepting the New England agency for the corset house ) still have the honor to represent. Such, in brief, is the | locked in his house and Mrs. Tunnell ap- parently ready to answer his call.” THE OVERMAN GIRLS Bore an Unenviable Reputation In Walla Walla—Considered Black~ mallers. PORT ANGELES, Wasn., Jan. 5. —A prominent man of this city, while speak- mg to-day of the Brown scandal in San Francisco, said that in 1888 and 1889 he knew the Overman family in Walla Walla. The father kept a hotel and the girls were in a dressmaking establishment. The girls had the reputation of being blackmailers, and were started in business by a premi- nent merchant, who advanced them §$1000, A clerk in_ nis store was compelled by one of the Overman girls to put up $300, but friends afterward recovered it. Itis also said that these girls made an unsuc- cessful attempt to blackmail an attorney who was about to get married and who is at present practicing law in Tacoma. The young ladies always dressed well and were prominent in church affairs. CAUSED A SMILE. Miss Overman’s Attempt to Study Stenography and Typewriting Results In Mirth. PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 5.—It is not gen- erally known that the family of Miss Mattie Overman, who has secured so much notoriety in connection with the Brown-Davidson scandal in San Fran- cisco, was originally from Alsea Valley, just south of Yaquina Bay, then in Benton County. The father wasJohn Overman, and he conducted a small ranch. They were miserably poor. The rank of children was as follows: Lizzie, who was afterward married several times; Ollie, REV, WILLIAM RADER. [Reproduced from a photograph.] history of the charge which has been made so much of. 1am notashamed of it, and I know the good Lord will not allow me to suffer for an act I never committed. I was the victim of designing persons, who tork advantage of my helpiess condition. All this I can and will prove at the proper e MR. GALLAGHER TALKS. Is Inclined to Think Mrs. son the Victim of a Scheme. Gallagher—Dr. Brown Lloyd—I object. Incompetent, and immaterial. David- irrelevant His Honor—Objection sustained. “Say,” said Attorney Gallagher yester- | day, “it strikes me that something like | ace the records of the | preliminary hearing of the Brown-David- | son case when it is fully finished. Of | course there may be something more than | this, but if Judge Campbell k-eps up bis | the above will present lick the future successful hearing ot my client’s cause will not be jeopardized the least by the records of the Police Court. “It is apparent to any one that the prosecution is fully agreed on one thing and that is that Mrs. Davidson must be held to answer at all hazards. There is evidently a combination or clique to down this poor woman, that being the only way in which Pastor Brown can hope to hold up his head even a little bit. “‘Considering the matter as a whole it is one of the most remarkable cases of preju- dice I ever came across. Mind, I do not charge that thereis an actual conspiracy to down Mrs. Davidson, but I do say there are many things which are as remarkable as the position assumed by His Honor Jud.e Campbell relative to the admission of certain testimony. It looksto me very much as if Captain Lees had adopted an easy means of getting back at both Brown and Campbell. ‘It will be remembered that some time ago Dr. Brown made a vigorous attack on the police department, as did also Judge Campbell, though the latter followed a dif- ferent line altogzether. The critici of Judge Campbell by the Grand Jury is not to be lost sight of, neither is the attack of Pastor Brown on his Honor. The Police Court Judge was given an opportunity to defend himself from the same pulpit whence he was denounced, hence 1t fol- lows that a certain amount of gratitude must exist in cerrain quarters. Of eourse all this, as I said before, is purely a matter of conjeciure, but it all dovetailsjwith re- markable accuracy. “I have been criticized for propounding certain questions to Dr. Brown while the latter was on the witness-stand. I fully understand that to prove Dr. Brown guilty of immoral conduct would not en- hance the chances for acquittal so far as my client is concerned. But it is only by the introduction of such evidence as this that I can prove the intent of my client. It is preposterous to say that the prosecu- | tion can carry its case to a certain point and then say to the defense, ‘You can go no further.’ “The case is parailel with that of a man robbed. He must show intimidation asa factor else the charge falls to the ground. The defense in a case of this kind certainly would not be denied the right to show that no intimidation had been used. 1 can show that my client acted the vart of a friend—that 'she was merely a go-between, and consequently it is necessary to intro- duce such evidence in order to establish the good intent. ‘*A peculiar jeature of the case and one that has interested me a good deal, though it proves nothing so_far as Mrs. Davidson is concerned, is that Dr. Brown has never denied the charge made by my client. I | consider that the strongest evidence of his | guilt. He waited over three weeks before beginnin: an investigation, and then when he did make the char.e of extortion it was not backed up with denial. % *‘It is quite possible that he did not think such a course necessary in view of the fact that Miss Overman was securely afterward Mrs. Charles Dubois of this citv, Alice, Addie, Mattie, Dr. Brown’s friend; Lillie and several smaller children. The family left Alsea Valley about twenty-two years since. Overman had gone to Eastern Washington and selected Walla Walla as a place of residence. He returned and announced it as his inten- tion to move. The children had no suit- able clothing, and it is narrated that sey- eral neighbor women volunteered their services and contributed labor by sewing for some days before their departure. They left finally and went to Walla Walia, and later to a small farm near that city. The subsequent movements of various | members of the family have already been | printed in the papers. When she left Alsea, Mattie was about 5 years old, and is th:refore now about 27. She was in Spokane a while, and engaged with a sister in dressmaking. They ap- veared to have conducted themselvesin a manner that did not commend them to the entire community of Spokane as mod- els of propricty and modesty, for a Spo- kane paper said that the announcement of Mattie Overman that she intended to 0 | to San Francisco to study slem‘:grnpfiy ;and typewriting caused a broad smile among those who knew her. S SHE IS NOT POPULAR. The Sentiment of Members of Dr. Brown’s Church Turning Agalnst Miss Overman. The members of the congregation of Dr. Brown's church are rapidly losing their respect for Miss Mattie Overman. They feel that she has been the direct cause of Dr. Brown’s troubles and do not care to shield her. The fact of her many escapades in the Northwest, from Montana to the Sound, is injuring her canse. It was first thought that she was as innocent as Sunday-school teachers usually are. It now turns out that she is a divorced woman. Miss Overman’s escavades in Montana, Washington and British Columbia are ali coming under the flashlight. It was stated at first that her divorced husband, Don Siiveira, was dead; that he had been shot and killed at the Fambling table. It now turns out that Silveira is very much alive. He is a waiter in a restaurant at Great Falls, He is known in Montana under the sobriquet as “Digger Don.” Silveira tells some things of his former wife that retlect on her character. The story comes from Seattle thav Miss Overman’s name was connected with sev- eral escapades that young women with a pro!‘:er conception of the good usually avoid, Miss Overman was also a resident of Vie- toria, B. C., for a time. She and her sister conducted a dressmaking establishment in that city. Their parlors, so the story goes, were frequented by a gay set at late hours at night, e e DR. GRAIF FOR DR. BROWN. He Preaches on the Relatlon of Pastors to Many Kinds of Fe- male Admirers. A large portion of the sermon at the First Free Baptist Church, Oakland, yes- terday morning, was devoted to the Brown scandal. The speaker, Rev. Dr. Graif, said it was atimely admonition always, but especially now, that ministers and lay folks resolve to be more carefully guarded in their so- cial relations and keep their tongues from speaking guile, He continued: Painful recent events open afresh the dis- cussion of the clergyman’s relation to the female admirers of his flock. Itls no unusual thing for a popular pulpit orator with com- manding brains and fat salary and swell church to become the idol figure of worship to & number of women, some of whom, perhaps, are disgruntled or divorced wives that find balmand charm in hisready sympathies, others likely are maidens of a sentimental type that gush over his looks and eloguence, while gnlb(bl‘i' & third ciass, keen-eved and cold- ‘]xoude scé:eanex;!, plniy an“!;im 2 game of in- rigue and flattery in order to entrap and blackmail. " P Often, too, there is lrfoodl' body of noble ‘women, who, adoring purity of character and A robust, hlgh grade intelléct, and electricity and grace of utterance, and finding all these qualities adorning the life of their pastor, set him up as the object of their peculiar affection and regard. Asa rule the clergy is less tempt- able on the side of indiscreet or unchaste con- duct than others, although iow and then the cloth has shamefully scandalized its Foly of- fice. In the majority of cases it is truer to pre- dict his innocence than his guilt. However, unsanctified human rature is more quick to suspeet the moral leper behind a pious mask than to detect an angel-whiteness amid the storm of mud-throwing. Whether Dr. Brown is the victim of a coterie of designing women, or & veritable lady-killer —he deserves, until the Police Court proves him unwort! to be protecied from the slings and arrows of a world all too easily given to detraction and eriticism. Of two judgments we may generally suy the more lenient one is the one less likely to need revision. The 1Aulldlt‘ed eye flings its own yellow compiex- on on the face of the person it beholds. It the reverend gentleman has fiippantly or foully tampered with sacred social proprie: no doubt he has already suffered unspeakable tortures of mind over the thought of his dual life and its possible exposure and terrible pun- ishment. Soon by due processof law, unaer the fierce light of the publicity of trial in open court, his true self, whether wanton or grossly libeled, will be uncovered. Patiently aw all the facts. It is but inexcusable haste to condemn a man without a fair, impartial hear- ing. Itis no false charity or predetermined blindness to men’s moral obliquities to caimly sift all the evidence beifore hurling forth the fiery torrents of indignation or unleashing the lightnings of Sinai. A minister’s unsullied nawe is a priceless treasure, and to_blacken or traduce it however groundlessiy is not only to smirch his reputation but to blast his future. While the case is pending let whispe ing gossip sink into solemn hush and slim; tongues cease to wag their sly insinuatio and reckless lips stop circulating their deadly poisons, No divine can be too cautious in avoiding the very appearance of evil. Even Henry Ward Beecher's magnificent fame and luster of gen- ius never fully emerged from the cloud of scandal, though millions believed him guf ty of only little imprudenties of forehead-kissin, and nice, fatherly caresses. While fleet-foote rumor runs wildly to aud fro, and excitement bubbles and foams high, it is well to keep cool, and regard a distinguished moral teacher in- nocent until clearly proved otherwi Amid all this clack of tougues and click of wires, and this diatribe concert in_various quills, it is hard, of course, to get at the precise truth. Time will sober the reason and clarify the at- mosphere, Better suspeud judgment than pil- lory and gibbet a guiltless man. Under the sway of passion even immaculate virtue itself | has been made to wear the thorn-crown and quiver on crucifixion nails. Thus it is evident that an important resolution for the new vear is to keep the tongue well disciplined and undefiled. 1t Dr. Brown does not stand forth & martyr and a ‘saint amid these inquisitorial fires of public investigation, it is time enough to ask Jove to aim his thunderbolts and mingle our tears of regret with blushes of shame. A RUSSIAN WANDERER. One a Life Exile Paul Sang Is Now Eager to Return to His Na- tive Moscow. In a Sixth-street lodging-house, waiting for permission to return to his native country, is a man who has not yet arrived at middle age, but who has had the varied exverience of being condemned to life exile 1n Siberia, of being twice expelled from France and subsequently of wander- ing through Spain, the northern part of Africa and the United States. He is Paul Sang, a native of Moscow, Russia, and he bas been in this country for the last five years. During his stay in this City he has been engaged in diversified writing for different publications. To the local4ournals he has contributed three poems—‘The Appeal While in a Prison Cell,” “The Conqueror” and “The Cosmopolitan’’—all reflections of his peculiar personality and experience. Speaking of his life the young Russian said last night: 1 was arrested in 1885 for having expressed and published nihilist sentiments and I was exiled to Siberia for life, but in 1888 I was pardoned at St. Petersburg. In 1833 and 1884, when the late Alexander was Czar, I wrote against the policy of the Russian Government and its_persecution of those whose religious belief aid not conform with the Orthodox church. The Golos, one of the leading papers of Moscow, published my articles. After my return from Siberia 1 was in France for a time, but was expelled from that coun- try in_ 1890 ana again in 1891. Itwas the same old charge—nihilist sentiments. Russia and France were really allies. France needs Russia’s assistance in the event of war with Germany and Russia needs France in financial matters. When I left Russia in 1888 I had a passport permitting me to be absent from the country or five years. It wes issued to me by the Gor grnor of Kurland, one of the Baltic provin 1showed that paper to the Russian Consuls in Spain and in Africa, and when I explained my ute condition T was assisted by the Cox- from their private means, the Russian Government, untike most other countries, fur- nishing no fund to their Consuls for such pur- poses. P Tlree years ago Ilost the passport. in Color- ado while working on the railroad. I have just written a letter this evening to the Rus- sian Consul at Waskingcon asking him if he can furnish me a doeument that will enttle me to cross the frontier into my own country. 1f his reply be favorable I shall haye to in- form him that I have no present means of defraying the expenses of travel, for lately I have been sick and, in consequence, my earn- | ings are almost exhausted. To-night is the Russian Christmas eve, there being a difference of twelve days between tne Russian caiendar and the common calendar. 1 was born Christmas day, 1860, by the Russian calendar, and 5o to-morrow, January 6, 1 shall be 35 years old. For three years 1 have never heard & word from my felatives, many of whom are well-to-do people in Moscow. e rG i A Noted Woman. Since the excitement in the stock mar- ket it 18 not very likely that Miss Alice Cornwell of London will open an office in Wall street. The war scare has at least frightened her to such an extent that she will remain in London. Only a few weeks ago it was reported that Miss Cornwell would certainly open an office in Wall street. There is much that is odd in the ersonality of Miss Cornwell. She is the ondon Hetty Green, rinus the green um- brella, black bag and gold-bowed spec:acles. Miss Cornwell has the additional advan- tage of beauty and literary talent, and is only 34 years old. She is the most noted woman in London, and is much better known as Mme. Midas, under which nom de plume she is a frequent contributor to a well-known weekly paper, which she has owned for seven years, and which consti- tutes her one fad. Like everythin: else she has touched the paper is a gold mine. Miss Cornwell made her debut as a pro- moter of the Midas gold minein t e Ar- gentine Republic. It proved to be a gii:ter- ing success. Once she went to Kimuerley, South Africa, and, after some personal investigation, purchased a diamond mine which had been abandoned. In no time it was being reworked 1o large profit and has since become one of the most valuabie mines in the diamond fields.—New York York Advertiser. e ———— 0dd Foods From Germany. The many German provinces are large exporters of odd foods to the United States. Besides such common products as sauerkraut, sausages, pickled herrings and soused mackerel, they send hares and wiid boars in the winter time; a curious con- fection called matzapan, which is made of whnite sugar, cream and blanched alniond: various kinds of bread, flasny and confec- tionery. Occasionally they send cabbages and potatoes. The former are smaller than our own, but are usuaily more deli- cate and finer flavored. The latter are small, round and altocether inferior to our own product. Other {oods are goose- breasts, which are dried, smoked and pickled; special kinds of ham, for which, it should be added, they charge special prices, and a very delicious mushroom, which is grown in caverns along the Rhine and the other river courses.—Philadelphia Times. —————— Sala’s ¥iery Temper. George Augustus Sala had a peculiarly uncertain temper. Once at a dinner given by him in honor of Henry Irving, Lord Rosebery, who was among the guests, made a speecn, gently bantering the actor, Sala instantly took offense, and delivered a terrific tirade which began with, “Archi- bald Philp Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, you have dared this night to insult a mai, who has served his country in every quar- ter of the globe.” And so on at great length, with tremendous vehemence. The table was thunderstruek, but Lord Rose- bery made another speech, which soothed the fiery veteran, and finally reduced him to tears, [SCORES THE SOLID EIGAT The Rev. W. W. Case Lays a Great Many Evils at Their Dpor. Chooses as His Text “Let His Days Be Few and Let Another Take His Office.” Dr. W. W. Case of the Howard-street Methodist Church deliversd a severe ar- raignment last evening of the “‘Solid Eight” and took the Civic Federation to task because it has, as he said, assumed too lofty a position and not stooped to cleanse the lower evils, such as dives and improper pictures on billboards that ap- pear 1n different places aroun_d the city. He chose his text from psalm cix ““Let | BLACK TN THE FCE Black in the face means that your liver his days be few and let another take his office.” 9 : “I think,” said the doctor, “this might apply very well to the ‘Solid Eight.” It is astonishing how the Bible has a text for everything. ; | ““The question is being asked, Should | the Crvic Federation Jive or die? It has i done something in the past, but it has | not done all it should have done. | ““Its purpose is good; the question of | municipal government is a live question, | and one which will receive yet more atten- | tion in days to come. E { “The cities are mow controlling the | masses of the people, but politic- in the | ity is run by rings, and the people, you i and I, if we vote at all, we vote like serfs. | You and I are too respectable to go to a political caucus or to attend those pre- | | | | | liminaries where the pipes are laid and the machinery prepared. And you and 1 led along littie innocent lambs, here issomething practical in the idea of a civic federation, but not much for itat the present time. 1 do not know if we should blame the Civic Federation as much as the people who have shown so much apathy. “Manly support is wanted to help it ac- complish its aims. The Civic Federation has been a little bit on the high horse | and allowed lowly things to escape its at- [ ] tention. There exists a multitude of evils that first should be considered, and ' this blindness is not for lack of public sym- pathy. “Let a clergyman be accused of immor- ality, and all the people within the city walls hold up their hands in holy horror. This is one 1ndication that there is left a trace of morality in the human race. This is a poweriul indication, and it shows there is a moral sense right here in San Fran- cisco. But why do not some of the City Fathers have a little of this moral sense? “It would not take them an hour t ‘rame a law which would cleanse oif every billboard in this City. Why don’t they do it? Have they no sisters, no mothe wives? “It seems to me that il a man has a sperk of manhood in him he would sweep | away these vile things that debauch our children. Must we get down on our knees and pray? Must we get up great, big pe- titions? “I hold the Board of Supervisors re- sponsible for it and all the evil it engen- ders. “'Let the Civic Federation get downa little from its stilted position and take these things into consideration. *Let it punch up our City Fathers and see that offices and contracts are not given to favored bidders. More men than are employed are on the City’s payroll. “Let the Civic Federation awake and form a committee of a hundred men and let these things be thoroughly looked to.” i i i it i | FIENDISH PLEASURE. { An East Indian Woman Who Was as Cruel as She Was Boautiful, In person the Begum Somru was small, with a graceful, softly rounded figure, a complexion of dazzling fairness, large black eyes full of animation, delicately chiseled features, and a hand and arm of such perfect symmetry that native noets | sang of tliem as matchless wonders of beauty. Her dress was always in exquisite b taste and of the costliest material. spoke Persian and Hindoostanee fluent Her manners were charming. and her con- versation spirited, sensible and enyagir But as a set-off to this long array of per- sonal attractions, her character v e- testable. She was cruel, vindictive and treacherous. If ocne of her servants dis- pleasea or disobeyed her, she would order his nose and ears to be cut off in her pres- ence and watch tbe mutilation with gusto, while she placidly smoked her hookab. When one of her dancing girls offended her by attracting the attention of a favor- ite «fficer, she, in a fit of furious jealousy, ordered the unfortunate girl to be buried alive. Therawas a small vault under the pavement of a saloon in which the nautch dances were heid, and in that vauit the Begum saw her victim bricked up. 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