The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1896 5 DR, BROWN TALKS T0 HIS PEOPLE, He Earnestly Requests That They Suspend Judg- ment. ACCEPT HIM AS HE IS. Apologizes for His Appearance, but Offers No Word of Explanation. MRS, DAVIDSON IS CONTENTED. d Lengthy Conference Between Miss Overman, Mrs. Tunnell and the Pastor. )r. Brown, pastor of the First Congre- ppeared in the anom- ¥ ¢ an apologizing neither deny ry next breath for a suspension well known, Dr. Brown is mixed up in other disgraceful affairs besides this, and I am not surprised that he should en- deavor to distract public gaze from him- self by throwing mud on others. He is backed by influential members of the church, and I rather think the searchlight of truth and justice will fall on them be- fore a great while.”’ Dr. Brown occupied the pulpit of the First Congregational Church again last night, taking as his subject ‘“Beethoven.” B DR. BROWN PREACHES. Hls Sermon an Apology for Appear- Ing In the Pulpit and a Pleafor Suspension of Judgment. Rev. Dr. C. 0. Brown occupied the pul- pit of the First Congregational Church yesterday and conducted the services as heretofore. He utilized his sermon as a combination apology and plea—apology for appearing in the pulpit under the pe- culiar existing circumstances and plea for a suspension of judgment on him until such time as he or his congregation might think it advisable to hold an investigation of the charges made by Mrs. M. A. David- son, the alleged blackmailer. There was a well-filled auditorium, com- prising a large number of strangers, drawn thither in evident expectation of hearing something bearing on the great scandal. Dr. Brown opened the services by an- nouncing the hymn in a clear, firm voice. After prayer and arother hymn he read from a memorandum various announce- ments of meetings in the church during the week and then began his sermon, choosing as his text the thirty-first verse 1frnm the fortieth chapter 6f Isaiah, as fol- ows: But they that wait upon the Lord shall re- new their strength; they shall mount up with s as eagles; they shall run, and not be ,and they shall walk and not taint. All Scripture, he claimed, was based on the actual experience of mankind. I want you to follow me in the philosoph ling enough iest, yet they how nt, favorable ven an oppor- ecurd. was exhorting his t of the First Con- to hearken to the truth as found in the fortieth ntally excus- , the womaun ncomfortable public, was psalms at the 1 a happy frame of y a CALL re- lined to view her pres- 1e work of man and 1t that the Lord will y longer in necessary to ac- e downfall of her reverend tment was nothing more ted,” she said yesterday. minary hearing been con- other Judge, I would n receiving the con- ons of my friends instead of lan- etween the four walls of a Jut [ am not in the least discour- e biased opinion of Judge Thank Godq, there is a higher a mere 1 magistrate, and er than any earthly tri- sice be biinded by ‘in- 1an d. t Dr. Brown preached to-day. greatly surprised at this, for it seem: that the natural modesty d have prc to demand a h investi in appear- » the pulpit. Suppose, by way of ar- nent, that he has not been guilty of nal intima with Martha Overman man’s t time—the mere intimation of such hould be an effectual barrier to 1 work itil the charge to the bottom. Outside of this, is the Stockton episode, and heaven knows how many more of similar na- action to-day reminds me of some- that occurred at my old country vears and years ago. We had a itam cock that could crow louder ger than any rooster in the neigh- ood. il the other cocks had sent forth their morning notes and then he would burst into one long appeal that could be heard for miles around. One morning the neighbori roosters rung the echoes with their il a g notes and then it came the turn of our little bantam, S [ as alark he hopped on a convenient bough and se uch a cock-a-doodie- as was never heard before. It was the yrt of his life, however, for the next t he toppled over dead. ell, that is just the way it is with Dr. ywi. He has gained a temporary vic- tory and now he iscrowing over it in the vain hope that the people will lose sight of Jarges inst him. Until n investigation de or he courts an inquiry Lis every appearance in the pulpit of the First Congregational Church weak- u ere has just come to the surface a matter which Attorney Gallagher thinks may have some bearing on the arrest of his'client. It isan alleged conference be- ween I Jrown, Miss Overman and Mrs. rell, which took place at the Cosmo- I, Saturday, December 21, just ek prior to the arrest of Mrs. David- :30 o'clock December 20 Miss an_called at the C smopolitan 1d aiter some parleying engaged a a lady friend. She registered the Mrs. Tunnell and then left, tak- key to the room with her. Just ir Mrs. Tunnell came in is not nown, but that she was accompanied by Miss Overman there seems to be little bt The o'clock it is claimed that Dr. Brown lled and was in conference with the two iies until after 12 o’clock. Of cou occarred at that mee will prob- ably never be known, but llagher pro- pos-s to find out if possible. ‘I would not like to state under oath,” | Y., in 1884 or 18! k of the Cosmopolitan Hotel hat it was Miss Overman who room, yet I am morally con was she. There was some argu- the price, the young lady finally 75 cents, with the understanding one person was to o y the Mrs. Tunnell came in Ido said the cl dent it When v who engaged the room. I pre- both occupied it that nigh:. morning a gentleman called, and ed with them for two or three I have since learned that this man who now claims that he is a blackmailer.” Cosmopolitan house is where Mrs. ncerning whose identity and ce there is much doubr, lived when roached Mrs. Davidson. At least story told by the latter, but she een corroborated as yet. The isoner is confident that the conference wok place between Dr. Brown, Miss Over- an and Mrs, Turmnell, and furtherit was e agreed to place the matter in the hands of the police. % *'As a fact,” she adds, *‘it was given over to Captain Lees on the following Monday, culminating in my arrest just one week e conference.”’ : Atworney Gallagher is thoroughbly indig- nant at what he considers “unjust’ treat- nient at the hands of Judge Campbell, and says he is confident the Superior Court will deal more leniently with his client. “I am confident,” he said yesterday, long it | I'his she construes | has not been denied up to the | cated the unuttered but oppres: was | It was a habit of his to wait| xt morning (Saturday) about 10| se just | but she was accompanied by the | of the text I bave chosen,” he said. “*We | are to wait upon the Lord in the time of | our trials, not necessarily in idleness. But | sometimes it may mean just that. When [ You come to see you are surrounded with | evil, it is not for you to rebel. You need not try to build a bridge when, like the | Israelites of old, you come to a Red Sea. | W There are strange experiences in | all our lives that compare with that Red | Sea. There are more camps of the Egyy ians than those that were overwhelmed | in the Red Sea. | Sach trials are for a divine purpose. ne can do is to wait after one b is best. Let him repeat from Scriptur: “They that wait shall renew their | | strength: | He then cited Joseph and the “vile | charges” that were b; and his subsequent victory and triumph over his enemies. David, Ahab, Paul and Daniel were referred to as having had sim- ilar experiences, as having borne their | troubles with courage, fortitude and pa- | tience, and endeavoring during the period they were under a cloud todo good to their fellow-men. He continued: | These men had not rebelled against Go ’ They continued in patience and sile; They recognized these things were of divine crea- tion, and they waited and renewed their | strength, and in God's time their bonds broke and they came fortn triumphant. Darkness is upon_the deep, but the ship has not gone down. Keep your hand upon the helm. We are to wait upon the Almighty and wait with prayers. At every stage of the jonrney of life there are pitfalls and there is many a victory in pa- | tience. 1 quite agree with Mrs. Browning,who {in one of her great poe I work wi { patience, which is alwa: Other great cxamples of the exercise of patience and subsequent great victories were then cited, his closing words bei { “They that wait upon the Lord shall r. | new their strenzth.” When the pastor left the pulpit at the close of the services many of the congrega- | tion came forward to greet him, and thus tactfully express their confidence in him— flmhes and gentlemen alike. But in the faces and manners of most could be dis- covered that excess of cordiality that indi- ve sense of something to be ignored. This over- done geniali 1s particularly noticeable in the pastor himself. | One of the male members of the congre- | gation was inclined to be too sparing of the pastor’s power of fortitude and failed to rest his eyes full upon the clergvman’s { face. But the quick perception and adroit | tact of the doctor did not fail him, despite | the group of ladies and gentlemen who surrounded him. ~‘Look me squarely in | the eyes,”” he distinetly and_quite dramat- ically admonished his diffident friend; | and the latter did so. ' An attempt was made to interview the octor after his greetings were over, but he fled into his study, remarking that ne | was under orders not'to talk for publica- | tion. It was desired to ask him if he had | determined to ask for an investigation, | and if so when it was to take place. Sev- eral of the prominent members of his con- gregation have signified their determina- tion to ask for an investigation should the | pastor not anticipate them, and in justice to the reyerend gentleman it was deemed proper under the circumstances to give | him the opportunity of announcing to the public his proposed course in the matter. He was found azain later in the ante- room to the Sundav-school room, but be- fore any question could be put to him he dashed into a group of ladies, and, not de- siring to unnecessarily embarrass the preacher by asking pointed questions in the presence of his lady parishioners, the interviewer discreetly desisted. 4 { —_———— - AN INSURANCE SWINDLER. 1ght against him, | power | a A Nebraska Correspondent Tells Something of Mrs. Davidson’s Eastern Record. Brown has received the follow- ing communication, which he has turned over to Captain Lees. It is presumed that from this letter Attorney Dr. | Lloyd received the *tips” which enabled the prosecution to bring out much dam- aging evidence againt Mrs. Davidson: HuMPHREY, Nebr., Jan. 5, 1896. Dr. C. 0. Brown, First Congregational Church, San Francisco—DEAT Sie: Tnree days ago I re- ceived a leter from A. W. Ilihon, in which he informed me of your present trouble with a blackmailer, Mrs. Davidson. He wished me to inform him at once whether that could be the same woman to whose wiles I became a victim in an insurance scheme she had in Albany, N . 1 wired him immedi: the following message: Undoubtedly the same woman. bany rogues' gellery. WIll write. He wired back an answer, but did not say he would take the message to you, and out of fear that the information may come too late I ad- dress this letter to you in hope it might be of some value to you. This woman’s name when she swindled me y Picture in Al- out of $28 was Mrs. Mary Sturgis. She had | been_in’ Albany quite a while before I became her victim, and had endeared herself to lcad- ing church people by her work in prayer- meetings, Sunday-schools and W. C. T. U. work. The first time I saw her was at a woman’s suffrage society of which I was a member, and she was introduced as Mrs. Sturgis. She spoke to us of Christ and repent- ance, and concluaed by representing herself asan agent of & woman’s insurance company of New York, and wanted us to insure with her, Some time or other she had little slips with explanations about insurance, which she distributed among us. Not long after this she calied on me at my residence, 563 Clinton avenue, where we were in business. She had a woman with her by the name of Mrs. Ayers (afterward ariested for attempt to poison her husband). She talked so sensible about her firm and presented everything so favorably that I concluded to take out a policy for $3000, premium $28, which she said included the net assessment. A couple of days after I received the policy which she brought herself, and after handing me the policy, which afterward proved fraudu- lent, she told me she had other serious ques- tions to ask me, and that was whether 1 was insured with our Lord Jesus Christ. 1} told her that as [ was in business I had made ita prac- tice never to talk religion with any one and could not see what that had to do with the policy she handed me. She was seemingly ‘‘that the upper court will allow me to £o | very much shocked at my answer and left into any and every thing that reflects on Dr. Brown's character, or, in_fact, any- thing reflecting on the church in general. There are many scandals connected with that institution, and 1 propose to have themy cxploited before tge public. 4As is shortly after with this same woman who was with her on her first visit. A few days after I received a letter with call for remittance of $5, first assessment. Iimmediately wrote that [ hed paid Mrs. Sturgis $28, including first as- sessment, A short time eiter this she was arrested on Beason street and her past iife exposed in the Albany papers. She was old in crime even then and had passed under different names. One, I believe, was Abbott, the other 1 bhave forgotten. She had not only swinaled people with her insurance company, but had also swindled musical instrument dealers out of large sums. She was sent to the workhouse at Lynn, Mass., for seven years, I believe, and some of the members of the Suffrage Society found her pic- ture in the rogue’s gallery at Albany afler- ward. T have no doubt but that this is the same criminal in a different role, and I think there is a large gang of them. One name, if I remember right, was Sadden, or somethiug like that. I have no doubt she will compell or hypno- tize the young woman 10 a confession of guilt to save herself from prison and still further implicate you. I can assure you of my sym- pathy, to have fallen in the clutches of this terrible woman. 1 regret that I am not now in San Francisco. Ileft there three months ago, and came tomy home in Nebraska. My son and nysell are members of the Second Unitarian Church of Sen Francisco, and my object in writing this letter is to help you if possible in your trouble, which must be a terrible blow to your family. My husband has also a very distinet remem- branice of this woman’s face, as he saw me telking with her at that time. Miss Mary Sturgis was a handsome woman ten_years ago. She was rbout 40 yeers of age, had an abun- dance of gray flaxen hair, large round face, red cheeks, flashing dark eyes and fine form ; about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches tall, weighing, I should judge, 160 or 170 pounas. She has a sweet, low voice; very stylish looking woman. HENRICA ILIOHON. COURSING AT OCEAN VIEW. Dashaway Won the Regular Stake After a Hard Run With Magpie. Grain-Fed Hares That Kept the Dogs in the Rear Until They Made Their Escape. Dashaway—‘‘0ld” Dashaway now— never ran better in the days of his youth than he did yesterday at Ocean View Coursing Park, and those who backed him through the entire stake cleaned up a neat sum. No amountof training or running | seems to take the vigor out of his big brin- dle body,and the best of the thirty-two dogs that chased the elusive hares went down before him in hollow style. The crowd that assembled was the largest that has been on the grounds for months past, and the quality of the sport was fully up to expectations. The draw- ing brought many evenly matched hounds together and unusually heavy betting was the result. The grain-fed hares, some of which have been in the paddocks since November last, were stronger than ever, and in some in- | stances fairly ran away from the dogs, darting into the escapes and leaving the exhausted canines panting outside. This was the case in the run between Magpie and Faster, when the hare. after lead- ing the pair twice across the big field, gained on them at every leapas they drove him toward an escape. | _As usual a number of long shots won | their courses and kept the short-end play- | ers in betting humor. Followingisthe re- | sult of the run down: f. Welch’s Can’t Win beat W. McGovern's Little Jim, J. Tracy’s J O C beat J. Parkinson’s Marvelous, B Kenn, Stamboul Queen beat Biy Farm Kennel's Mission Boy, | M. Traynor’s Valley Maid beat T. Keenan's ¥ C. Evans' vay beat S. Hull's Butcher Boy, E. Tepper’s Menlo Maid beat | O'Brien’s Little Bob, 1d & Robert's Sea | Spray beat M. Traymor's Valley Boy, T. But- ler ie beat D. Tweedie's Whit Villa Kennel's Tempest beat A. Merril A. Merrill's Faster and Faster beat W. art Girl, S, Stewart's Lady Clare mith’s Eleho, W. 1 A. Merrill’s Jenni Browr's Kitty Peas Potrero Kennel’s Lily, Star beat M. Weleh’s Wizard. First ties—J O C beat Can’t Win, Valley Maid beat Stamboul Queen, Dashaway beat Maid, Susie beat Sea Spray, Faster and beat Tempest, Lucky Dog beat Lady Clare, Mag- pie beat Belmont, Evening Star & bye. Second ties—Valley Maid beat J O C, Dash- away beat Susie, Faster and Faster beat Lucky Dog, Magpie beat Evening Star. Third ties—Dashaway beat Valley Maid, Mag- pie beat Faster and Faster . beat J. Trode’s Lucky Dog bea P. Ryan’s Magpie beat F. art’s Belmont beat s Evening Final—Dashaway beat Magpie. Prizes—Dashaway %20, Magpie $10, Valley Maid and Faster and Fester §5 each. g Judge, Ed Canavan; slipper, J. Cranstone. Sunday next two stakes, one for old dogs $2 50 entrance and the other for puppies are billed to take place. The nes for both will be held on Thursday evening at 915 Market street. ——— o+ WILL MAGUIRE SAY SACK? Mayor Sutro Thinks He Will Denounce It in the Funding 8Bill. Mayor Sutro is hopeful that the funding bill will be defeated in the House. “Yes,” said the Mayor yesterday, “I have hopes that the funding bill will be defeated in the House. From the latest advices I have from Washington it ap- pears that Huntington has half of the House, but it is not certain that he can hold all these. If, when the matter comes up for debate, a member arises and makes the announcement that there is a sack be- hind the measure and there isa job in it the members who deciared themselves in a way favorable to the measure will hesi- tate before castini; their votes. “From what I know of Congressmen there are some afraid of being charged with bribery. Now, I do not wish to ex- press any ovinion of our representatives in Congress, but I will say that I think Congressman Maguire will talk, ana it is possible that he may say that there is a sack to be used to refund a debt greater than the capital of the greatest bank in the world—the Bank of England—that has only $70,000,000. “Bribery will be resorted to in order to carry this measure. I say so and could prove it if necessary. The press should act as a unit in this matter and wake up the people to the necessity of fighting the proposition to impose such an outrageous measure upon them. “News of what is being done here is not. transmitted as fully as it.should be, and in order to keep our friends at Washington posted as to what is going on, I have to send them private dispatches. I am in this fight for the people and will stand by it until a certain warin place freezes over. “The Senate? No, there is no hope for usin the Senate. I feel quite confident that the measure will pass there. Our only hope is the House. We are going to have a rousing convention in spite of the octo- pus that will endeavor to pack the house in its favor.”" NEW TROOP ARMORY. The Cavalry Organization of the Guard Intends to Move Downtown. Troop A, the cavalry organization of the National Guard, proposes to change its headquarters from the building on Pacific avenue to some place suitable for armory purposes nearer the ceuter of town. The matter of a change was discussed a few nights ago and the scheme has met with general favor. A committee of three men of the troop is now at work trying to find a building in the neighborhood of Union square which might be converted into an armory. For a couple of years the old light bat- tery, which had its headquarters on Pacific avenue, found it difficult to secure recruits because its headquarters were too far from town. When the battery was transformed into a cavalry troop the same difficulty presented itself and the troop has set about to remedy the evil. If suitable quar- ters can be found in the downtown dis- trict the new troop will give up the tan- bark ring and riding classes which are now features of the mounted branch of the service in this City. The armory now occupied by the troop was built for Light Battery A about six years ago. It is now occupied by one of the Naval Battalion companies, the cav- alry orgapization and a riding academy. OR, MINTON ON ARMENIA Christian Europe aeSilent. but Guilty Partner in the Sul- tan’s Crimes. NO MAN LIVES TO HIMSELF. It Is Time That Men Should Be Their Brother’s Keepers, Says the Pastor of Westminster Church. In Westminster Presbyterian Church yesterday morning the Rev. H. C. Minton, D.D., took for his text Galatians vi:10: ‘*As we bave therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” He took occasion to speak of the Armenian question in the course of hissermon. He said: Christianity preaches the gospel of practical duty. Matthew Arnold says, “Conduct is three-fourths of life,” but if we remember that conduct is the language of character it is nearly four-fourths. The scope of the text is very broad. The Christian should be an all-sided philanthropist. God makes his rain to fall on the unjust and his sun to shine on the evil, and we are to be perfect even as he is perfect. Christ bids us love our ene- mies. More and more the world is caiching this conception. It is the very genius of ethical Christianity. As the world grows smaller by the use of steam and electricity and all that, the thoughts and sympathies of men are growing larger. In as measured b; the world to-day as far from San Francisco MISS MAUD COMPANY OAKLAND, MORRELL THAT AND J. C. WILL PLAY | Drawn by a “Call” ar c playing out their game of diplom ati chess? W. W. Howard, who penetrated Arme- nia, said in the New York World of Sep- tember 15: “The horrors of the present hour in Armenia have not yet heen told, even in a thousandth part.” Well may Scotland’s genius-bard say, “Man’s inhumanity to_man makes count- less thousands mourn,” Our meeting to- morrow night is to give answer in words the world may understand. We are to do ood to all men. Charity may begin at home, but if it ends thereit is not charity. We are less worthy to be Christians if our indignation were less stirred had the Arme- nians been Jews, or Roman Catholics, or Buddhists, or infidels. God bless Clara Barton as she goes with her Red Cross to the sufferers in Armenia. Let our giits go with her. After all, our prayer must be to God for Armenia, for our faith is in him alone. He rules. Kingsand Queens are but puppets in his hand. His lans mature slowly, but they mature. The g\lltnn will play his part and then he will pass off. Only letour prayer be that inthe policies and diplomacies, in the wars and treaties of the nations, he will prepare and pave the way for the coming of his Kine- dom, which is the kingdom of peace and righteousness, and justice and truth. LADIES SHOW EANTTUDE The Fabiola Association to Return the Debt of the Fete, President Fitzgerald of the Reliance Club Assured of a Very Suc- cessful Benefit. OARLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco Carr,) 908 Broadway, Jan. 12. The social leaders of Oakland have de- cided that two good turns merit at least distance, | 9" and acting on this decision theyjare time, there is no city in | d€t ermined that of “7-2) shail be e s the Reliance rendition at the Macdonough next week iccess. When Oakland’s ladies v anything must be successful, it is per- fectly safe to assume that they know what they are talking about. Robert Fitzgerald’s energy in presiding over the Fabiola fete aroused the gratitude ‘RS OF FOR THE RELI THE CHARITY from photographs.] as New York was fifty vears ago. crops of Hindustan affect the mar London and Chicago, and a skirmish i South Africa stirs up all Europe. The unity of mankind is a most commonplace fact to-day. This brings the ethical aspects of life to the front. Time was when every tribe counted every other its natural foe. It is now geen to be wiser to call it its natural friend. Society is a_joint stock concern. Every human being is an integral, though infinitesimal factor in the life and destiny of the world. Modern history only furnishes expanded areas for the enactment of the parable of the good samaritan, “Thisis my neigh- bor.”” This finds its answer as a thing of spirit and not of geography. “‘No man liveth to himself.” Every good man says to himself, “I owe every other man my best. Inso faras I fall short of that best, I rob society and the state and the world. I owe the right my defense, and the wrong—my defiance. A Roman Em- peror said he felt uncomfortable as long as there was a good maniu Rome. Hvery good man should feel uncomfortable as long as there is a bad Emperor anywhere. ity, too. Civilization 1s not Chri stianity, but if they are not inseparably allied, then so much the worse for the one or the other, or both. That religion is of the devil and not of God that does not make men more manly, more loyal to the right, more ten- der to the appeal of the suffering and more valiant in the championship of the good and the true. Nor does distance nor creed stop the Christian’s ear to che voice of that appeal. Does a Thebew massacre the helpless people of Burmah? Does a juggernaut in the name of religion crush the superstitious Hindoos of India? Does a_ Czar oppress or banish the Jews in Rus- | sia? Then a Thebaw and a Czar are criminals before the world and the bloody-wheeled chariot is the means of torture and not of grace. Does the Sultan outrage the Ar- menians of Asia Minor? Then the world that permits his outrages to continne be- comes a silent but guilty partner in his crime. Have 50,000 been slain and are 350,000 people starving, hiding, hunted | like scared wild beasts in that distressed | district to-day? And where is Christian Lnrope? Aré the ethical obligations of | Christian civilization now to be ignored? | Is it not true that men are their brothers’ keepers? I do not need to disguise from you, in the house of God to-day, that the Armenians are Christians. They belong to one of the most ancient and honored communions of Oriental Christendom. It is their misfortune to dwell on soil over which the scepter of the Ottoman empire extends. They have been for ages between the upper and nether millstone. They are not perfect. Nobody is. But the un- speakable Turk is no longer endurable. ‘The sickly despot of Constantinople has outlived his right to rule. Only a pro- found conviction that God rules, and that he rules rignt, reconciles the world to the existence of Turkey to-day, and if the lite and reign of the Sultan are to continue long as'they are, civilization may well in- terpret the fact as the intimation of the Almighty that the time has come to sweep the imperial cesspool of intrigue and de- ceit off the map of the modern world. The sword is the symbol of i1slam. The faith of Mohammed' has fattened on the | biood of the infidel. There is the hatred that is born of such a religion as that, that must be counted as a factor in the sicken- ing situation in Turkey to-day. But apart from that, no question of diplemacy, or finance, or statecraft can biind the eyes of the world to the fact that ris{:t is right, and right only has a right to be. But still the cruel work goeson. Mr. Gladstone in a letter of regret to the mass- meeting in London a fortnight ago said: ““The six great powers, which among them spend more than £100,000,000 sterling yearly upon what is termed their defenses, lie prostrate at the fect of an impotent Sultan, who, with their cognizance, ap- pears to prosecute massacres at his will day by day.” Is there no respite? Must the Armenians die crushed under the heel of the Turk? Shall organized pillage and carnage go on and the whole world sit off in horror while a few crowued beads take their leisure in | of the | they have decided to help President’ Fitz- | gerald of the Reliance Club in return. The | Club, w | and Juliet’’ for the benefit of the Temescal | the football team. | tire season. | Cooper of the Columbia Dramatic School Christianity may be more, but it is human- | abiola Hospital Association and ladies, under the auspices of Mrs. John Yule, their president, are doing all they can to guarantee two packed houses. On another occasion the Ladies’ Relief Society was benefited by the Reliance e members presented “*Romeo Home. Now the relief society has decided to boom the Reliance bene [hese two social elements working band in hand leave all doubt aside,and the club will | certainly receive a substantial benetit. The debt that the club is anxious to wipe out was due to the heavy expenses of players were never beaten during the en- The company is said by Mr. to be the most polish d and talented, | without exception, that he has ever met in the amateur field. The performances will be given Friday | and Saturday, January 24 and 25. I R F T BEDS FOR POOR MEN. The Minna-Street Home Removes to Better Quarters in the Same Block. The ladies in charge of the charitable | institution known as the “Men’s Home” have left their old quarters at 55 Minna street and are now located in a more com- modious house at No. 34 on the same street. The change of quarters was made necessary within the past few weeks for | the reason that the home had not been self-supporting. 1t was taxed to its utmost | capacity, but the number of beds at the disposal of the managers was not suffi- cient to bring in the necessary income. Av 34 Minna street, near First, the Home is admirably quartered. A rather large and neat-looking house’ has been rented and the ladies interested in the work are busy putting things in shape for the accommodation of aboui 100 lodgers. There are twenty-one rooms in the house, and while only forty-two bunks are now in place, there will be twice that number vithin a few weeks. The ladies are work- ing hard to bring_the institution to the notice of the charitable public. They are now providing beds and meals for 10 cents a night and very often gratuitously. Donatious of men’s clothing and of bed- ing_are much desired and if cards are mailed to the home such articles will be sent for. 4 The ladies who constitute the board of managers are: {rs. Hale Rix, Mrs, Waldron Spinney, Mrs. H. 8. Robertson, Mrs. A. O. Eckman, Mrs. 8. Lyon, and Mrs. Wolfe. ——————— The Good Templars. Grand Chie? Templar J. W. Webb is paying offi- clal visits and lecturing in El Dorado and Placer counties. He will on the 18t} inst. address the re- cently reorganized lodge in Sanger, Fresno Connty. The district lodge will convene in Hamilton Hall, Oakland, on Saturday, the 25th inst. The grand chief templar will be present to deliver a lecturo before the lodge at night. On Sunday morning he will preach in Edward Davis’ church and In the Twenty-third avenue Baptist Church at night, delivering a temperance sermon in each. "The order of Templars is very inuch int:rested inand is advocating the proposed amendment to the constitution granting women in California the Tight of suflrage. Clovis Lodge, recently organized In Fresno County. is flourishing. It has already seventy-five members and expecis 5007 to bulld & hall. The Good Templars’ Home for Orphans at Val- Jejo was Kindly remémbered by friends during the holidays, the appeal for good things for the Httle ones and for cothing and 1oys having been re- sponded to. : The executive committee of the Grafid Lodge and the joint boards of the home will meet on the first Tuesday in Kebruary. Volney faylor, the new grand treasurer, will at that time take his eat. 5 *Nirs. 7. C. Stone, grand_lecturer, is doing effect- ive work in Southern California and is organizing & number of new lodges. e A Bewhiskered Society, The *Society of Pointed Beards” is the latest oddity in New York clubland. It starts off with a membership of some fifty men, all _prominent in art, literature and kindred pursuits. This bewhiskered bodv will organize next Monday in a table d’hote restaurant uptown, and there's every prospect that smooth mugs will in course of time be banished from Bohemia. American Protective Association Orator Pays His Respects to Catholicism. NCE CLUB IN| ootk This is the more dis- | appointing to the club, as their football | Brewer Scores the Y. M. L—Two Thousand People Listen to the Speeches. Over 2000 persons were present at the Good Citizenship m eeting he!d in Metro- politan Temple yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the A. P. A. societies. Before 3 o’clock the seating room in th auditorium was all taken, and those who found a place to stand in the galleries counted themselves fortunate. The large audienee was nearly equally composed of members of both sexes, though the men may have slightly out- numbered. Several prominent members of the A. P. A. of borh sexes occupied seats on the stage. H. W. Quitzow acted as chairman. The formal opening of the meeting was preceded by a long organ voluntary, ren- dered by Professor E. Werner. ‘When the last note had lost itself among the echoes Chairman Quitzow stepped for- ward, andin a few short sentences for- mally opened the session. Stating the purposes of the meeting, and referring in complimentary terms to the speaker of the day, the Rev. Ray Palmer, he concluded by saying that since the last A. P. A. meet- ing the wulls of the building had been purified by the singing of **America,” and that the grand old patriotic anthem would be sung again. His reference wasa sarcasm on the Y. M. I rendition of the patriotic anthem at a meeting recently helJ by that organiza- tion in the Temple. Regardless of the ap- plication or other considerations, the re- mark elicited the applause of the audi- ence. The old song was sung and with great spirit. The Rev. Waugh, *‘0ld Father Waugh,” as lie has been known to his many iriends on the coast for the last forty years, offered a short and eloquent prayer, after which Miss Ada Schmied sang with good effect a song written by Clifford entitled, “There’s a Tramp of Romish Legions.” A few introductory remarks were made by Mr. W. T. Brewer, during the course of which he indulged in a sarcastic eulogy of Father Yorke and the Y. M. L. He “had no doubt,” he said, “that the reverend gentleman of Catholic faith re- ferred to would discuss the principal ques- tions at issue in an honest and candid and unprejudiced way over a beefsteak. Un- fortunately the opportunity for such a dis- cussion nad not been offered.” He made ironical illusion to the patriotic_spirit in- fusing the meeting of the Y. M. L., and scored those Catholics from which had eminated certain criticisms of the public school svstem, and in this connection re- ferred to the fact that in the schools of | Santa Barbara are employed, among oth- ers, fourteen teachers from Catholic varochial schools. Those teachers ac- knowledged that they had never attended the public schools. Mr. Brewer said he was not so bigoted that he would deny the right of a Catholic to teach in our schools, but he thought that under such circumstances as these, the Catholic criticism of our school system is little less than intolerant. The Colton children, small boys and girls in patriotic dress, sang a musical A. P. A. song, the American sentiment of which, in connection with the anti-Catholic subtleties, excited an ebullition of applause. Each rendering of the chorus was accom- anied by the wavingof the American tlags held in each youthiul hand. The usual collection was then taken up, and tke remark of Chairman Quitzow that the sinews of war were needed “to carry on the good work,” did not fall on deaf | ears, if one might judge from the merry jingle of the small coin asit was dropped into the Japanese wicker-baskets of the ushers. The Rev. Ray Palmer was then intro- duced, and the large audience settled itself comfortably in the 2000 or more seats preparatory to listening to the address of the day. In part, he said: In the Bible we read of the prophet who went out and viewed the Valley of Dry Bones. And, lo and behold, while he gazed,a wind blew upon them and they came together until at last before the wondering gaze of the prophet - stood up & mighty army. For many years the Catholic ecclesiaticism of this country has been like a “valley of dry bones,’ but now tney have come together and stand forth a great army ready to defend the American flag. [Laughter ] The greatest compliment paid to the A. P. A. is found in the numerous meetings and the grand oratory in which the Catholics are in- dulg(m{ all over the country. If we (the A. P. A)) are what they say we are, it must be & great waste of time 0 pay so much attention to such a low class of people. ~ [Laughter.] We are not warring against the Catholics on account of their religi fight against the Cathoiic women—the mothers, sters ana daughters of the church; many of the Catholics are Christians, and honest and earnest Christians. We make the distinction between the great body of the Catholics and the church hierarchy. We do not deny the right of any man to worship God as he will, but desire to combat the interference of the Catholic hierarehy with the political and civil affairs of our country. Therefore, our fight with the Catholics is political and not relig- ious. He then quoted at some length Black- stone, Gladstone, Macaulay, Henry Clay, Robert Montague and others to show that thinkers in the last two centuries have predicted the aggressiveness of the church in political and social affairs. One thing that amuses me more than any- thing else 1s the great patriotism that is being developed by the Catholic hierarchy. A few dnys ago Cardinal Gibbons addressed a large concourse of Catholies at the raising of the American flag over St. Peter’s parochial school in Baltimore, and during that eloquent dis- course he said that “‘one of the great modern features of the Catholic churcn is its love for education and for country.” At the close of Cardinal Gibbons' address the vast audience joined in singing ‘“‘America” and “The Star-spangled Banner.” How long since the Catholics have learned to sing those grand old patriotic songs? [Applause] It is only within the last few weeks that they have learned the melody of those songs. Before that 1 doubt if the majority of Catholies would rec- ognize either of tnem. Now they are beginning to tell us that they are not in favor of the union of ehurch and state. How long since have they suffered this change of heart? But is it true? By no means. The latest encyclical of the Pope shows that the leopard has not changed his spots, and the present protestation of the American Cath- olies through the Y. M. 1. is due to the wide- spreading sentiment against their interierence with our political and civil and educational affairs. The church is losing power in some of the countrics of Europe. The time is coming when there will be a disunion in France between church and state, and it is the fpurpose of the A.P. A to dispule every step of the Catholic hierarchy in its effort to subject America to the papal domination under which the countries of Europe have struggled for so many cen- turies. We want to keep this country, its Gov- ernment and its schools for Americans, and keep them out of the hands of the Y. M. I. As to the charges which have been made against the A. P. A.'s intelligence, 2ll we can say is that if there is bad grammar, perhaps, among our tpeakers, we do not answer argu. ments as some of the priests do, by calling the opposite side linrs. There are many priests, no doubt, who are willing and able to discuss any theological, Fo!mul or social question honestly and gentlemanly. But it is remarkable how much the priests claim for the Catholics of America. According to these heads of the church, all the great men of this coun"f have been Catholich, George Washington died a Roman holic, but kept it a secret and therefore died a liar in the church of Rome. [Laughter.] All of our great statesmen and military men in the last ‘Wwar were Catholies. I believe that if the Roman Catholics had their wills they would make us all Catholics; if they were 1n a position of power to do o PALMER'SCAUSTICWORDS METROPOLITAN TEMPLE PACKED they would compel us to become of their faith even to the endangering of our school, social and political systems. They would place the Pope at the head of the Government and we would all be his slave subjects. No true Catholic can be & live patriot believ: ing in the Pope’s supremacy. Patriotism does not consist of outward demonstration. The American and Catholic may sing the same songs, and one will be moved by the love of Rome and the other by the love of home. Pa~ triotism_consists in action, animated by a love of equality, “The oniy way the Catholics can improve their patriotic complexion is by renouncin, the Pope of Rome and forswearing forever al allegiance to any and all foreign princes and potentates. ‘““Some of these Catholics say they love our count the Pope says he loves America, and I believe they and the Pops are honest, and that the latter loves it because he would seek to establish herein the future home of the Catholic hierarchy.” [Long applause.] PRINTERS' AID SOCIETY. A Sound Financial Showing Made and Officers Are Elected, The Union Printers’ Mutual Aid Society met yesterday and elected the following omicers for the ensuing year: | of gas might burst the balloon. President, Lewis P. Ward; first vice-presi- nt, A, M. Parry; second vice-president, George E. Mitehell ;' recording secretary, A. J. >. Regaudiat; financial secretary, John R. Winders; treasurer, William B. Benoist; mar. shal, George H. Saunders; guardian, Frank Mooney; board of directors—Andrew F. Smith (chairman), James P. Olwell (secretary), George H. Branch, James L. Shearer, James T. Kelse ohysician, William L. Berry, M.D.; druggf Will B. Kirk. The revorts showed that $350 had been vaid in the last six months to sick mem- bers and that $4100 was in the treasury. The society will celebrate its ninth anni- versary with a pienic, for which arrange- ments will be made very soon. e e Jr. Order American Mechanics. Redlands Council has el H. Andrew M. M. Atwater, R. ¥. Bourlier, condncto Jow wing are the names of officers elected by U. b ! . S. Grant Council: 3 ncaid, I Lord Harmon, trustees for two years. A CAPTIVE BALLOON. to Which xposed. The principal danger in captive work is the always present possibility of the wire rope parting, not because of the obvious result that the balloon, being set free, would at once make off at speed, but for reasons of a very simple technical nature, albeit none the more pleasant by reason of their simplicity. It must be understood that when a captive balloon has been sent up the required height, the neck of the bal- loon has to be tied up so as to prevent the wind from exerting a pressure on the en- velope, and forcing out the gas, which would result in the balloon very shortly losing its lifting power and descending. In free runs the neck must always be wide open, for otherwise any sudden expansion Hence, if a captive breaks away, it is bound to make an unduly rapid ascent, since it is suddenly released from the restraint as well as the weight of the wire rope. . 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