The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1896, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1896. ; 19 THEY FELL FROM GRACE The Crew of a Clipper Ship Misled by a Bogus Preacher. There may be found among the older inhabitants of the City front, if one took the trouble to look them up, a few oi the more weather-beaten who, if their mem- ories were jogged, would recall the time when the Yankee clipper ship Vitula ar- rived from New York andanchored abreast | the old Greenwich dock just inside the right-of-way tine of the old Sacramento steamers. She will be better remembered by the old water-ironters as a Ghristian shi The coming of a religious square-rigger into San Francisco Bay, flying the stars and siripes, in those days, was indeed a surprise to the wharl loungers, who, up to this time, had been accustomed to listen | to woeful tales of brutality from the lips of incoming sailors, many of whom vointed to the cuts and scars upon their | heads and faces, and some there were who called attention to their broken noses as proof that they were teliing the truth. It mattered little to these rollicking and happy-go-lucky sons of the sea whether their smellers had been smashed and their faces cut in drunken brawls on_shore in other ports, the Yankee skipperéand their brutal mates were made to shoulder the blame. Innocent people, and indeed a good many of them, believed the wild tales of these careless sailors, and all ships that had the misfortune to fly the American flag were set down as “floating hel Such, bowever, wasnot the fact and nearly f notall, of the statements made by these men were wide of the truth. 1 know of my own personal knowledge whe speak. Ignorant louts, not sailors, circu- lated cruel and foul slanders against those Yankee captains and their American mates. back to the times when our wharves and bay were crowded with magnificent ships, from the peaks of whose monkey gaffs the starry banner so proudly waved. Among the few that are still with us may be mentioned the names of Tommy Chandler, Charley and Billy McCarthy, Biny Hart and big John Rogers. Chan- dler has long since retired from the saijor business. For years he was a shipping- master, and is now a faithful and trusted employe in Uncle Sam’s internal revenue department. Charley McCarthy is the proud skipper at a shipping-office, and is rolling in wealth. Billy ,I’{art wears broad- cloth, sports diamonds and collects his rents, while necessity compels big John Rodgers to stick to his whitehall boat. He used to get $75 and $100 apiece for sail- ors; he now gets $3 or may be $4 for a man. | _Big John isa character in his way. He is still one of the noted men of the water front—huge framed, deep chested and big | fisted. He is very tall, measuring several inches over six feet. His great big shoul- | ders are as round as those of a bookworm, ! and be wears a shoe that is big enough to make a coffin for a six-month-old babe. He has a face that resembles lager beer in color and upon his upper lip he sports a | mustacbe, the hairs of which areas stiff | as_the bristles that grow on a pig's back. John is a good sailor, having served his apprenticeship in the old school, and I can imagine his weight coming down on the topsail halyards when orders were given to take an extra swing on that rope. He made many voyages across the western | ocean in the old-time packet ships and_to [the East Indies. When Peter Hopkins was Sheriff he put John in command of the County Jail, the inside of which he 1t was while looking after the welfare of murderers’ row that John's seamanship | came into play, for he presided in person | atall the hangings. He rigged the gallows, It is not my purpose here to enter into a | T0Ve the rope, made the hangman’s knot defense—ior ‘they need none—of the fear- my active and exciting life. The Vitula, then, was one of the early- day California fuil-riggea ciipper shi and her captain was a Yankec. b de s and gallant sailors who officered *hose amous clippers; suffice it to say thatl 10w look back on the years spert on board those ships as boy and man, before and abaft the mast, as being the happiest of ; D Up to the time that he took command of the Vitula = 2 reputation was that of a quarterdeck Passed the Farallonesaboutdaybreak, with 1, who kept his officers and himself and adjusted the noose around the cul- prit’s neck in such a way that when the trap fell there were no bungling drops for the sensational newspaper reporter to write about. He is generosity itseif and is poorer in pocket to-day that he was when, forty years ago, he landed on Lom- bard-street wharf, for then he received the few months’ wages that were due him from the ship in which he arrived. Well, to make a Jong story short, we skysails and st'unsails set alow and’ aloft very busy ascertaining which was the 8nd carrying with us the slashing north- : t 5 hardest, the heads of his sailors or those Wester that we picked upafew daysbefore, | parties bought it for us in 1869 at the Gov- of the belaying-pins, and we were told in When suddenly the lookouton the t'gallant | ernment navy New York that we had shipped in a “‘float- | £'0’ksle reported a small boat right ahead. ing hell.”” But our informants were mis- taken, for to our surprise, instead of belay- In an instant she was under our lee bow, | and before we had time to throw him a stream awaiting their full complement of sailots, and as we passed the fort outward bound, instead of a hymn we could have been hLeard, as we mastheaded the main- topsail yard, singing. ‘Whisky Is the life of man. Y hisky, Johnny. T will drink it when I can. Whisky for my Johnny. Dexts KEARNEY. ONOE A FILIBUSTER. Ensign Harry Cooke Content to Let Others Fight Cuba’s Battles. “No, thank you. Captain Roemer can help the Cubans to independence if he likes to, but I've had enough of that sort of thing.” ‘The speaker was Henry 8. Cooke of Dal- las, Tex. In his trunk at the Laclede Ho- tel he has a faded, well-fingered docament, whith reads as follows: (PIERREPONT HOUSE, BROOKLYN, N. Y., Ov. 13, 1869.—Ensign Harry_ Cooke, Norfolk, IR I received yesterday from the Cuban Junta a communication, of which the follow- ing is & copy: “Nueva York November 12, 1869.—Edward " Higgins, Commodore Cuban " he Cuban Junta, considering the de- tention of the Cuba in Wilmington and the want of any other man-of-war at present, re- | auests you to acquaint the officers under your | command that they are honorably discharged, | confirming the verbal communication mado t6 | them at Wilmington by the representative of | the Junta, and they will be happy to utilize their services in future.’ I remain, sir, with the greatest consideration, Miguel de Aldama, President.” } _In accordance with this order you will con- | sider yourself honorably diseharged from the | Cuban naval service. Very respectfully, EDWARD HIGGINS, Commodore Cuban Na It was in’ the spring of 1869 that I re- ceived my commission in the Cuban navy,” said Mr. Cooke when asked to relate some of his experiences in the last Cuban revolu- tion. T was young then and wanted ad- venture. I had served four years in the Confederate navy, having left the Naval Academy at Annapolis when only 15 years old to serve my State, Virginia, in the | Civil War. The adventures I had there reof I | kevt as clean as the deck of a clipper ship. f ought to have been enough, but I wanted | more. The Cuban Junta, or Congress, was sitting secretly in New York City. It aidn’t take much to induce me to help fit outa man-of-war for the Cuban service. To tell the truth, the principal inducement was a promise of a division of spoils. We expected | to capture a steamer from Cadiz for Ha- vana, carrying a big sum of* money, as well as arms and provisions. I wouldn’t | have taken $20.000 for my part of the spoils "had we been successful. The boat with which we expected to do all this had done ood service before as a blockade runner or the Southern Confederacy. It was a Clyde-built vessel called the North Heath then. Afterrunning the blockade several times it was finally captured trying to get into Wilmington. " It was then converted into a United States man-of-war. Private vard at Philadelphia. She cleared from that citv with & small crew for Halifax. In the meantime I was load | ing a supply of small arms, clothing, pro- ing-pins, he pelted us with quotations TOpe her single occupant had caught on to | visions and small stores on to two schoon- from the Rible, ana on Sundays he prayed | Our main chains wi for our salvation. The captain carried his wife with him. Bhe was a sweet-faced New England lady auburn hai h the hook of his ainter and he had climbed up over the ulwarks and jumped in on the main b ders in ringlets, and her sinzing at the familiar way in which he said, “Come, Sunday effect. services had indeed a charming | boys, take a'drink,’”’ at the same time he pulled from the ckets of his monkey- | PO Those of us who lived before the mast Jicket two big, black bottles that were full were man F nn and one Lascar. Every one among us could take his tric at the wheel, haul out a weather earing, fit | 40 havea good time ashore and when | mixed lot. We were made up of Of Water-front whisky, attracted ouratten- nationalities—one Cape Cod Yan- | tion at once. kee, three Irishmen, one Greek, two Eng- e s b lishmen, three Dagoes, eight Dutchmen, | Wasn’t enough left to wet the bo’son’s lips | one blue nose from Nova Scotia, six Scan. | fter fighting tq get the bottle. The pilot | dinavians, three Portuguese, one Russian As sailors, I think, we ranked above the average of crews. The bottles were soon drained. There boat had not yet hove inright, and mixing among us, John said: “Boys, I'm in the sailor business. 1 keep a house, come with me, I'll do the right thing by ye's. You a cringle, turn in a deadeye, clap on a | YOU get ready to ship again 1’11.!10: you a throat-seizine, or strap a snatch block. At the beginning of the voyage we knew more about skysail clewlines, royal bunt- reeftackles and flying-jib than we did about singin »ut by the time that we sighted e Farallon Islands the well-known sea anty, Shake her. wake her. biue dress on, Was pushed to one side for 11ove Jesus, hallelojah; Iiove Jesus, yes I do. In common with others we had heard avbout California’s golder shores and lines, Oh, wake that girl with the ship and give you a good outh “We're all going to leave,” spose up some of the sailors, ‘but none of us are going back to sea. ' We all want something 1o do ashore. You see we are very religious, | and the captain tells us that our services | "It be in demand ashore.’” | ““Oh, that’s all right, boys,” said John without a smile. “I can’t get ye's work ashore as you see I'm in the sailor business, | but I know a man as will get ye’s all nrst- | class jobs ashore. He’sa warm friend of | mine. Pay no attention to the other run- | ners-that 'll come off by and by. I'll in- | troduce ye's to my friend and” then it ’ll ! be all right.” deck. This early morning visitor wasnone | whose head was covered with a mass of | Other than big John Rodgers, referred to | wh which hung over her shoul- | 8bove. Being a Hercules in size and the | Ma |ers at New York. I also got ten rifle | cannon aboard, seven or eight of them | being 60-pound Parrot rifle guns. ‘We expected to meet our man-of-war, ich we now called the Cuba, off No n’s Land, six miles from shore, so as not to violate the neutrality laws,” but a 1ough sea prevented a transfer there and | so we had to break the neutrality laws. [ The cannon, proyisions and whole cargo | of each schooner were loaded on the Cuba | when the vessels were within a few yards of the shore. Afterward, when we were tried 1n New York, our sailors all swore that the transfer. took place six miles from | land, when the fact was that 1 could have | thrown a biscuit ashore. The swearing | got us off, however, though the boat itselt | was contiscated.” The capture took place at Wilmington, i where they were trying to get some coal. | The project was a failure. After their-re- | lease the officers entered the merchant ma- | rine service of the Cubans. The steamer | George B. Upton was purchased and fitted out. Captain Dornin, who had had charge of the Cuba, was placed in command. Mr, Cooke served as second officer. They | cleared from New York for Aspinwali, and took 200 men for the Cuban army with them and a big load of arms, ammunition | and clothing. "They landed-all the soldiers safely one dark night on the north shore of Cuba. Then they continued to Aspinwali and reluades. Several nights were spent in trying to find a | suitable landing ' place on -the south THE CLIPPER SHIP Sl : VITULA OFF THE FARALLON waenl ES, INWARD BOUND. gilded. hillsides. We had great expecta- tions. Most of our good hymn-singers got it into their heads somehow that many | vacancies in church choirs awaited their arrival, while others would go to the mines, get rich there, and then return to their homes in the first cabin of a steam- ship.. But I need not tell the reader that all were doomed to disappomtmem.' In those days sailors were scarce in San Francisco. There was vplenty of *‘blood money” in sight, and the boarding- masters and their runners were reaping a rich barvest. hey werea hard and hardy lot, were these men of the water front. They lived in their whitehall boats, and so eager were they to get sailors that frequent trips were made out as far as the Farallones in their frail skiffs te intercept and, if pos- sible, board some incoming merchantman, at times a very hazardous undertaking. Most of the men who kept sailor board- ing-houses then have since furled their eails and silently drifted to the othershore to tell there of the many devices invented for the capture of poor Jack. When the few that are living read this it wxllwbrlng o their minds the arrival of the Vitula, and I don’t believe any one of them will object to my placing in cola type the plan they successiully put in operation to lure from these religious surroundings a crew that for months with scrupulous exact- ness attended the weekly prayer meetings on her quarterdeck tbat was holystoned and squillgeed for the occasion. L meet a few of them on the streets now and again and it makes me feel old to do 50, as the incident that I am writingabout happened more than a third of a century 2g0. And yet I am glad to meet those bronzed and fearless men of my youn, City front days, for it carries the min It was so understood, and as we passed in by the fort Charlie and Billy McCarthy hooked on to our forechains and I heard | Big John, who by this time had pokgd his | head over the rail, say in a. whisper loud | enough for those of us who were within reach to hear: “Thisisa Christian ship, Charley. The boys want jobs ashore; some want to sing in St. Mary’s Church, There are two vacancies there, ain’t there? | There's a Cape Codder here who wants to teach Sunday-school, a few Portuguese who want to dig gold, a couple of Dutch- men who want to be portersin a wholesale house and two or three Irishmen who want to become bank tellers. secure them the places.” *‘Of course, if they’ve got. religion I'll have no trouble,” answered Charlie. “T'Il 2o right back, notify Rev. Mr. B—" (a noted water-front shark, now dead), “and L'l bring him off when the sails are furled. Tell the boys it'll be all right, John.” Sure enough, no sooner were the sails stowed, the running rigging coiled up and thedecks swept down, than a man climbed up over the mizzen chains dressed in preacher garb, including the white neck- tie and tall silk hat, carrying in one hand a hymnbook and in the other a lot of re- the main-deck capstan, removed his hat, opened the hymnbook and started to sing: Glory, glory, hallelujah, All the sailors loudly cry! The words I shall never forget, for, like the rest of us, I took him for a minister, but he was not; he was a runner for a sailor boarding-house. He induced ail of us to go ashore with him, which we did, and inside of three days every mother’s son of us was sold for one hundred apiece, “blood money,” and distributed among the different liflpa that were lying in the I guess you can | ligious tracts. He took a position beside | side of Cuba, and they finally had to give it up and try the east end of the island within sight of the lighthouse at Nue- | vistas. Some forty men for the (uban | army and a big supply of provisions were | loaded after two attempts. Afterward they learned that the soldiers had all been | captured by the Spaniards and shot, with | their leader, Colonel Lonio. | One more trip- was made and the boat | was then condemned by the Cuban Junta | at New York and its place taken by the Virginius, a faster and stancher vessel. | Cummlnde_r Joseph M. Fry, an ex-Con- | federate officer, was placed in command of | ber, and, luckily for Cooke, the latter | stayed at home this time. The Virginius | was captured by a Spanish man-of-war, El Tornado, and Commander Fry and about fifty of his crew were tried, convicted and executed.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. —_———— The Se! | Is it the sea that gleams In merging breadths 0Of color dark aad wet? Or do the powers That decorate the corners of the world, In some vast erucible dissolve and fuse Virginal mines of ruby, malachite, Jacinth and chrysoprase, 10 pave the floor Of ocean, rough with wrecks and skeletons? Naturé {s now about some myste Bu: while I watch, ere I can mark the change, | ‘e, passionate sun flames through the shriveled cloud, And all the crisp and curling water wakes, { Blue as the naked sky that bathes it. JOHN DAVIDSON. The board of visitors of the University of Wisconsin has just investigated a charge | that President Charles K. Adams is “'a born and bred aristocrat,” and has decidea that the charge is unfounded, on the ground that thadpnsident was born on a farm and worked his way through school and college. MORGAN OF ALABAMA, Pen Picture of the Senator Who Made Collis P. Huntington - Very Uncomfortable, A MAN OF VARIED TALENTS. He Is Said to Know More Than Any Man at Present in Public Life. The Fifty-third Congress was noted for its many members who enjoyed a twenty- {four-hour sort of fame by reason of their osyncrasies, and prominent among the group was Champ Clark, who is now writing a series of articles on the promi- nent Congressmen for the St. Louis Re- public. His latest contribution is on Senator Morgan, whose recent handling of Collis P. Huntington before the Com- mittee on Pacific Railroads is famihar to Californians. Morgan-is an interest. ing character and Clark is another, so that the latter’s view of the former makes in- teresting reading. ‘When Senator John T. Morgan of Ala- bame serves the term for which he was re- which is apt to stick to them as long as “Hunkers” and ‘Barnburners’’ stuck to the warring factions of the New York Democracy in ante-bellum days, or as “Snappers’” and **Anti-Snappers’’ will ad- here to their descendants of a more recent period, or as the names ‘‘Stalwarts” ana Featherheads” clung to the two wings of the Republican party. In longevity it may equal the name “Kuownothings,” which hag survived for these many years. It may be said in vassing that the amusement the silver Democrats derived from Senator Morgan’s happy character- ization of his Democratic opponents was about all they secured in the debate on the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. “He laughs best who laughs last,” and the gold cohorts had the last laugh on that occasion, and it was de- cidedly loud and hilarious. 4 Lord Bacon bath it that “Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man and writing an exact man.”’ The first two qualities Senator Morgan poss- esses in a phenomenal degree. Considering what a busy life he has led, it is incompre- hensible when he found time to learn so much, or, having learned it, how he man- aged to digest and assimilate it. His ca- pacious head in no way resembles a store- house, into which a vast mass of things has been thrust indiscriminately, but rather a well-arranged armory, in which is found every species of weapon, bright and shining, in its proper place, ready for in- stant use—or an intricate machine in which every wheel, cog and pulley does with utmost precision its predestined work; for On every point, In earnest or in jest, His judgment, his prudence and his wit Are déemed the very touchstone and the test Ot what is proper, just and fit. He is an academic scholar and & pro- found lawyer—one of the best in the South. He had never held any civil office, except SENATOR MORGAN OF ALABAMA. cently elected, he writes, he will be 77, will have been in the Senate twenty-four \ears and will be living in the dawn of the twentieth century. Allin all, it may be safely asserted that he knows more than any other man in publiclife. His scholar- ship may not be as accurate as thatof some others 1n particular lines, but he ap- pears to know a great deal about every- thing. In this respect he closely resembles England’s “‘Grand Old Man,” William Ewart Gladstone. He also much resembles him in the grace with which he carries his age. No man, looking at Sen- ator Morgan’s handsome face, massive head, tall and sinewy frame, noting his elastic step, or listening to his eloquence, which flows onward like the resistless cur- rent of a mighty river, would pronounce him past 60. One of my teachers was wont to say ‘“‘Some people have memories like a ta bucket. Everything that touches, sticks. Others have memories like a duck’s back. Everything that touches, scoots off.” Most assuredly Senator Morgan’s mem- ory is of the tar-bucket variety. Evidently he has been an- omnivorous reader; and he is like the Bourbons in one regard, at least—he forgets nothing. If Shakespeare’s dictum, ‘‘Brevity’s the soul of wit,” be true, then Senator Morgan is the least witty of the Conscript Fathers, always excepting William Vincent Allen, who broke all records for long-distance oratory by speaking fifteen hours at one stretch; Matthew Stanley Quay, who con- sumed fourteen éntire legislative days on the Wilson tariff bill, and John P. Jones, whose masterful discussion of silver makes a large book. But these historic performances were only unusual episodes in the Senatorial careers of those eminent publicists. Sen- ator Allen rarely speaks at great length. Senator Jones is not a frequent or prolix orator, and Senator Quay hardly ever speaks at all “in public on the stage.” Generally he takes it out in thinking and scheming. Until the speech above re- ferred to, he had been regarded as the Sphinx of the Senate. Senator Morgan always speaks in ex- tenso. On any subject in which he is in- terested he has so much to say that it re- quires 4 long time to say it. He is never tedious, however. In splendorof diction, in wealth of metaphor, in masterful mar- shaling of facts, in abandance of informa- tion, in lofty eloquence, in intrepidity of spirit, as well as in length of his speeches, he recalls Edmind Burke, who, taken up one side and down tie other, was perhaps the greatest transatlantic orator that ever spoke the English tongue. Macaulay la- ments the fact that Burke delivered some of his grandest orations to empty benches, and some wag declared that Burke’s rising to speak emptied the House of Commons as suddenly as a dinner gong would empty the public room of a crowded hotel. On the contrary, the antouncement that Senator Morgan is up at once fills all the seats and standing room in the Senate chamber and packs the galleries to suffo- cation. tmay be said of him, as Dr. Johnson said of Oliver Goldsmith, ‘‘he touches nothing that ne does not adorn.” Without extravagance it may be affirmed that he exhausts any subject that he discusses. It 18 equally true that he has never uttered a aull sentence in the eighteen years of his Senatorial career. In the frequency of his speeches he re- sembles, though hardly rivals, thag illus-, trious orator, Charles James Fox—for that immortal Whig declared that he had spoken every nizht except two during his long parliamentary career, ana his only regret was that he neglected to speak then, nator Morgan is utterly fearless and perfectly loyal in his conceptions of duty to the people. These qualities have brought him into antagonism to the ad- ministration. It was in the long drawn- out debate on the silver guemon that he fixed uron the single gold standard Demo- crats the ludicrous aickname of ““Cuckoos,’ that of Presidential elector-at-large on the | Breckinridge and Lane ticket, prior to his i election to the Senate. | Henot only stands in_the front rank of those Senators who deliver long speeches | of a high order of merit and sustained | force, but he is equaily at home in a cut |and thrust debate. He uses the rapier | with as much skill as the broadsword. He | 15 merciloss in repartee, as the following | will show. Itis well known that Senator David Bennett Hill is by no means choice of weapons, and is restrained by no sense of delicacy from striking an antagonist below the belt 1f opportunity serves. Most | people of common-sense thorougnly in- | dorse Senator Hill in his tight to so change the rules of the Senate that limits can be fixed to debate and the busihess of the country transacted. So far he has failed, but having right on hisside will succeed at last. General Morgan fought Hill’s pro- posal with characteristic vigor and de- nounced it as unconstitutional. Hill went after him in this fashion: “The Senator from Alabama spoke—yea boasted—of his lifelong devotion to the constitution of the United States. It may be so. I sup- posed that for a very brief period my friend was supporting another constitution, but I may be mistaken. [Laughter and ap- plause in the gallery.] ‘‘The Senator spoke of the wrongs that were about to be perpetrated by this body in the passing of the pending bill. If his contention about these rules is correct then there isno possible danger of any wrong being perpetrated, because 1if the view taken by him is correct there scems to be no method provided by which we can reach theresult. Therefore, if that is true, he can, with the utmost safety, repeat the statement in imitation of another distin- guished Senator from that State that if we pass the pending bill in the manner suggested by me and under a construction of the rules we must walk over his dead body. I donot belicve it. It isan iale threat. 1 have heard of statesmen before who were going to diein the last ditch, but there are some of them .alive now.” Thereupon the galleries roared. A Mephistophelean smile spread over the pailid face of the wily David, and he evidently thought he had struck a blow from which he would get none in return. Bur he was mistaken, for Morgan gave him a Roland for his Oliver in thissavage man- ner, which neither Senator Hill nor some other high and mighty personages are apt 1o forget soou. After expressing the highest admiration and kindliest feelings for Union soldiers, Morgan said: *‘But, Mr. President, I do not have so much respect for those man who are constantly quoting that difficulty whenever they have an op- portunity to make a point upon a brother Senator or anybody about it, but who did not have the pluck to shoulder a gun to go out to fight. My respect does not extend to that class in the cordial way that it "does to men like Morrison, Randall, Paim- er and Bickies, and hundreds of others whose names I might call in the Northern States who came out and took their muskets in their bands and said: ‘We will try the question with you upon the issueof battle.” I am not alarmed lest one of these gentlemen should quote upon me my attitude in 1860 to 1865, for an honest soldier who fought me in the war never does it; only those who hired sub- stitutes and stayed at home and pleaded the baby act, or something of that kind, for an excuse for patriotic delingdency, are in the habit here and -elsewhere of quotine upon me the fact that I belonged at one time to the secession and rebel go ernment of the South. I did belong to i and whena blush of shame comes over m cheek to condemn me for the part I toa{ in that struggle, I shall still be more ashamed of the poor, craven creature who can undertake to impose that as a disgrace upon me; for if there is a man in the world who is entitled to any consideration from the human family itis one like o!d John Knox, or John Wesley, or Martin Lutier and men of that kind, who fought the battles of Christianity and who fought for freedom of conscience against the strength of the greatest combination of political an civil and religious power which ever existed in the world. These are the men whom I revere in history, not those petty po liti- e ——— cians whose figures rise suddenly to the surface like bubbles on a stagnant pool and explode and leave nothing behind them but mephitic odors.”” Morgan served in the Confederate army during the entire war, rising from private to brigadier-general. E In one respect his career as a soldier has no paraliel so faras I have been able to ascertain, anda for that reason deserves to be known of all men. He is the only military officer I ever heard of, from Joshua to Nelson A. Miles, who volun- tarily resigned a generalship to take a colonelcy. - . While others were fussing, fuming, fret- ting, sulking, resigning, or asking to be Telieved about some question of rank, pre- cedence, promotion or seniority of com- mission, he, by reason of his great love for the men in his old regiment, resigned his commission as brigadier to command once more the soldiers with whom he first en- Li:ted. In that action Morgan had no imi- tors. Search through the land of living men, ‘Thou canst not find his like again. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS An Epitome of Sermons of the Week * Throughout the Land. Foliowing is a summary of the principal sermons recently deiivered in the United States and Canada by the leading clergy- men, priests, prelates, religious teachers and professors of the Christian faith. In every instance the full text has been care- fully read and abbreviated : WILL POWER. Will power is an uncertain, freakish thing. It cannot be depended on. The keeping power is not in man, but in God.—Rev. W. H. G. Tem- ple, Seattle, Wash. THE SOCIAL EVIL. | Women can cure the social evil by stamping upon the forehiead of the man the Same brand | of infamy with which they condemn his _vic- | tim.—Rey. C. F. Henry, Universalist, Cleve- land, Ohio. CATHOLOCTSM. Let us pay tribute of honest respect to the Catholic church for what it basdone of good in the past, for the good that it is doing now.— Rev. Dr. Gunmison, Universalist, Worcester, | Mass. LABOR. | The church should regard the rights of the | laborer to be as sacred and binding as those of | the millionaire. The laboring men of to-day.| need justice, not pity.—Rev. H. R. Murphy, Baptist, Lincoln, Neb, LIBEBAL CALHOLICS, The Catholics are becoming more liberal. I have faith in the honesty of their professions, and I believe that they do as much good, per- | haps, as any other religious_sect.—Rev. T. De | Witt Talmage, Washington, D. C. . WOMAN, God is not in the hurricane or in the earth- quake, but in the still, sniall voice. The world will ot be reformed by ironclads and armies, but by woman.—M. M. Mangasarian, Ethical Society, New York. PRESBYTERTANISM. ‘These things I find especially to commend in Presbyterianism: Its stanch adherence to the Bible; its great services in behalf of eivil and religious liberty, and its educated ministry in a permanent vastorate—Rev. J. C. Jackson, Presby terian, Columbus, Ohio. THE QUAKERS. There is stiil work for us to do to maintain the same testimonies as our forefathers did. Though we may be small in numbers our influ- ence is felt more widely than ever before.— | Isaac H. Hillborn, Society of Friends, Philadel- phis, Pa. TRINI1Y CHURCH. The most wealthy church corporation in our country is the Trinity Episcopal Church of New York, and the miserable tenement houses from which it derives much of itsrevenues are a dis- grace to humanity.—Rev. H. W. Thomes, Inde- pendent, Chicago, Il1. THE RUM POWER. We are within ten years of the time when the Christian and moral forces of the country | will enter a mortal struggle with the rum- | selling element, and it is now time to prepare | for the great battle.—Rev. Dr. Meredith, Con- | gregationalist, Brook REFO Any reform which at the present time un- dertakes to strike down the individuals right 10 get drunk or to betor to desecrate the Lord’s day, as a mere individual, is sure to overreach the pubiic conscience and’so overshoot its own | mark.—Rev. G. R. Noland, Episcopalian, Coy- | ington, Ky. CAPITALISTS. The accumulating of money is not so much brain work as it is the use of money al- ready possessed. Millionaires can make all those below them pay toll at their will. Capi- talists take everything from the laboring man except the man himssif.—Rev. B. F. Mills, Evangelist, New Haven, Conn. WORSHIP AND WORK. Worship is important, but worship is only & means. Worship is in_order to_ work. The p that does notlead to work islikea frost-bitten flower. On the other hand, the work that is not iuspired by worsnip is a fore- one failure.—Rev. Dr. Vance, Presbyterian, Nashville, Tenn. . UNITARTANISM. 1\The Unitarians cannot be antedated. There are churches that are always seeking a remote date in history for their origin. No religion except that of the Jews can antedate Unitarian- ism. It is older than -the Christian religion, and was established even earlier than the Bible.—Rey. W. F. Dickerman, Unitarian, New Haven, Conn. SISTERS OF CHARITY. It is the mission of our church to send into the world those angels of mercy and console- tion, whose lives are devoted to nourishing the poor, to attending upon the sick and to going even into the ravages ot war—those angels of grace and mercy, the Catholic nuns.—Rev. Father Farrell, Catholic, Cleve- land, Ohio. OONSCIENCE. Man draws up the channels of divine stréngth and enfeebles his whole moral being when he does not follow his conscience. For the divinest thing in a man is his conscience, and if he has dishonored God in his soul, God cannot honor him in his life with power.—Rev. 8. B. Meeser, Baptist, Worcester, Mass. PROCRASTINATION. Multitudes lose heaven by procrastination. They are ““too busy to be saved.” The pleas- ures of the world they prefer to the salvation of their immortal souls. Sinsare cl vent men from accepting Jesus Savior. We must repent to-day. There is no to-morrow in the gospel message.—Rev. W. G. Partridge, Buptist, Cincinnati, Ohio. POWER OF GOD. ‘What is commonly described as the of man really consisis only in man’s of God's natural powers and their application, Watts, who first studied steam power, and Stevenson, who applied the power, Edison and Morse displayed their inventive greatness in discovering and appiying God’s natural powers rather than by crcating any power of their own.—Chaplain McCabe, Methodist, Scranton, Pa. Erentneas iscovery PERSECUTION. Religious persecution of every kind is abhor- rent, and certainly foreign to the spirit of this age, and the persecution of the Christians by the Turks is as much condemned by every hti mane man AMONE US as that of the Jews by the Christians. Persecution arouses the liveliest repugnance and calls forth the greatest indig- nation from all true men and women.—Rabbi David Philipson, Hebrew, Cincinnati, Ohio. FAITH. Life is hard; life is a struggle; life is a mys- tery, but life is nof so hard but that we can endure it; life is not so much a struggie but that we can win; life is not so much a mystery but that we can” find our way through' it to the land where all is clear. It depends on our faith.—Rev. W. P. Merrill, Presbyterian, Chi- cago, 111 X CITIZENSHIP. The day is past when a dead conscience is the price of party loyalty. They are the best party men who stand for the right, and as & partisan I dare to say that a party does not merit success which must achieve it at the cost of degraded manhood. The day has come when it is good politics to listen to the voice of ighteous citizens. — Rev. 8. E. Nichoison, Kokomo, Ind. THE DECALOGUE. The Decalocue may g0, out of fashion but never out of date. It is not iocal. Itapplies to the Fuegians and the Bushmen of Australia equally as to the Americans and Europeans. Itis not partial, but all comprehensive of man’s dutfes to his neighbors. It makes no class distinctions. There is one law for the rich and the poor, high and low, kings and prisees.—Rev. William R. Tayior, Rochester, TRUTH. There is a Christian Bible, as there are many other Bibles of different names, but there is no such thing as Christian truth, or Jewish truth, or Mohammedan truth. Truth knows no local name, no excluding titles. Whatever is true under one name is true under any name. Christ was-not Christian, Plato was not Platonic, Buddha was not Buddhistic. These were universal men. We have robbed them and betrayed them by narrowing them to the dimensions of selfish ‘and exclusive sec- tarianism.—Rey. J. E. Roberts, Un{iarian, Kan- sas City, Mo. THE NEGRO, l The negro isa welcome guest at every door that leads downward, every door that tends to degrade him, that tends torob him of exalted character, that tends to put him on a low plane. Itisonly when he attempts tostand shoulder to shoulder, on the same plane, seek- ing the same honors, demanding the same re- spect for which others aspire, that the door is slammed in his face.—Rev. R. C. Ransom, African Methodist, Cleveland, Ohio. MANHOOD. We need a higher type of manhood in pro- fessional life, at the bar and on the bench—a manhood that will sentence a millionaire as impartially as a bootblack, We need a higher type of the press and & higher type in the pul- Pit, and, lastly, we need a higher type of Christianity—not a namby-pamby religion, but s religion that is good for seven days in the week and twenty-four hours in the day.— Rev. C. J. Greenwood, Baptist, Utica, N. Y. MODERN CHRISTIANITY. We modern Christians are willing to preach and pray, but we don’t waat to associate with common humanity. The trouble with our nominal Christianity is that it is too tender to be touched, too holy to be handled, too nice to be nudged, too’exquisite to be exposed, too dignified to be desired, too respectable for de- untgeovle, too cultured for common people, too shallow for sensible people and too idealis: tic for every-day people.—Rev. J. L. Gordon, Inaependent, Boston. Mass. CHRIST. Many seem to think that the Gospel is a very complex system. They look into the churches, the creeds and the systems and are confused. They can’t understand and harmonize all these things. After all, at the last analysis, we find Christ to be the center of a great manufacture ing plant as the motor of it all, so Christ is the source of all this truth and life.—Rev. Dr. Smiley, Presbyterian, Pueblo, Colo. HELL. Hell is not a fierce doctrine to frighten peo- ple info heaven; itis a stern necessity, an in exorable law against which all the waves of unbelief beat in vain. The old-fashjoned theology, with its literal fire and brim- stone and bottomless pit. have " passed away. I call that state hell which is bare of all the glories of the redeemed life, whether of this world or the next. Icall that hell which is devoid of all longing or higher things, of all hunger and thirst after right- eousness, of all interest in Jesus Christ, of all love of God. When a man is in that state he is in hell.—Rev. Claude Raboteau, Baptist, Jersey City, N.J. SENSATIONAL SERMONS. One objection intelligent men urge against the church is its own lack of faith. This, they tell us, is seen in the conversion of the pulpit into an arena for the harlequin and the substitution for Scriptural preaching of the quips and jests of the concert hall. Such alleged preaching is like the foam cast up by the sea. It feeds no man; it uenches no man’s thirst. But it does place tbe church under the ban of intelligence and brings the ministry into disrepute. Irrevereng sensationalism, pérhaps, more than all other causes combined; is responsible for the weak- ened hold of b church upon the respect of men of sense ahd sensibility.—Rev. S. G. Nel- son, Baptist, Brooklyr, N. Y. A Town of Celebrities. Ex-Governor Perham, one of Maine's best preserved and happiest ‘“‘ex’s,” enjoys telling a story of a stranger’s visit to & little Maine hill town of fragrant mem- ories, where one of the natives took pleas- ure in politely pointing out the local objects of interest. ‘“There,” said the villager, pointing to a handsome old-style house, ‘‘lived a former member of Con- gress; youaer on that street you see that big square house, where one of Maine's most distinguished sons was born, who was successively member of the Legisla- ture, House of Representatives in Con- gress, United States Senator for a genera- tion and Vice-President; right down there is the modest printing-office where one of our bovs used to work, whence he graduated to become a leading political ed- itor, and afterward Postmaster-General.”’ As the promenade continued around the village the native called the &.ten- tion of the visitor to other old residences. “There,” said he, “is the former home of another member of Corgress, Governor of | the State, etc., and over across there is where another M. C. once resided. Right down the strect there is the old home of Judge C—, and over there is where Judge E—— used to live years ago. We've got a good lot of pretty famous lawyers, editors ana colonels besides, that I haven’t men- tioned,” remarked the escort. By this time the stranger was begianing to get de- cidedly interested, and burst forth with the enthusiastic 'inquiry: “But. good | heayens! haven’t you ever had any com- mon peoplg in your town?’—Lewiston Journal. NEW TO-DAY. There’s one thing certain--that your Big Store reached it's fourth birthday Saturday, and from the number of teie- grams and letters from all over the State of congratulations and the sayings of first!y things from our newspapers in San Francisco, both morning and even- ing, were enough to make our hearts swell with pride. But we’re not throw- ing bouguets at ourselves, but keep our course in the right direction--that of giving you the very best of service and the very highest character of goods at prices that no other house can or will offer. Monday some Very Choice Short Trouser Suits for your boys in those fine blue and black serge cheviots, in- cluding some very handsome styles in Scotches, all new spring styles, for lads between the ages of 5 and 15. The goods are cleverly tailored, and double the money is nearer the actual price. Monday at —$2.50- RAPHAEL’S INCOCRPORATED). THE FRISCO BOYS, 9, 11, 13, 15 KEARNY STREET TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS.