The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSD MARCH 12, 1896 11 that be believed that she had sincerely re- | had been approached by a man named pented. Miller, wio intimated he had been sent b; = ]:s\’.»Dr. Rader then took up the exami- | Mr. Gallagher, and that she had been og nation: fered moueg if she would swear that Dr. \What was the immediate cause of the publi- | Brown had been seen in a compromising cation e Stockton affair? position in her lodging-house. The wit- rO! 1 & statement made by Mrs. David- ness expressed the opinion that his visitor simply came to him to get him to raise the alleged bid of the other side. Before d you ever pay a v it to the editors of the € to the Stockton mat. Yes, s admit that she had never seen either him or Miss Overman before the day of her visit. Mrs. Brown was put on the stand at the request of Mr. Nagle and corrected her testimony of Tuesday by saying that she had misunderstood the question which was asked her as to whether Dr. Brown had told her of the Stockton kissing inci- dent. She said that she was deaf in the left ear, and added that Dr. Brown had r, I did. _ The witness then explained that he had Jearned that Mrs. Davidson’s statement, ziven to the papers aiter her arrest, co *d a reference .to tbe Stockton inci- that he haa gone to the y editors the daily papers and that they had > mention that matter Davidson’s statement on his an aftidavit show- ie matter was not based | i(]a her of that matter shortly after it but on an attempt of Mrs. | gonureq Ckton to blackmail him. He then " There was some merry gossip and specu- { iation by the audience as to whether Dr. Brown whispered his confession into her f ear. stated that Mr. Garret, the City editor of the Examiner, a later decided that he would s it was likely to be ast and then be tele- All the papers were | sed from their pledges and the appeared in all of them on the In response to a question by he denied that h i ever paid n $600 or any other sum of | ae: TWO STRANGE STORIES. A Couple of Witnesses Cast Some New Light Upon the Intricate Case. At the ovening of the evening session the Rev. Dr. Scudder led in prayer, after which Dr. Brown was recalled to the stand. In answer to a_question by Dr. Tenney, the pastor exhibited the fo iiowing letter: DayTON, Wash., March 8, 1896. Dr. C. 0. Brown, San Francisco, Cal.—DEAR SIR: The following telegram received from EBan | Francisco Examiner this A. M. Your brother has publ announced that you | demanded money trom Brown for Mrs. Tun- . Tunnell at V ams aroused the ire of D wn somewhat by asking him if he did not say that for forty-eizht hours after the arrest of Mrs. Davidson he did not know dation under followed this up by hether his faith in God and avior had gone from him. The wit- s admitted that for the time it had, quoted Job, who, the Bible says, had for a time lost faith in God, for his defens The scene had quite a dramatic element it when Dr. Brown began to quote 8 whether there was any fo him. 3 Mr. W 4loW yOu space rates. EXAMINER. 1 most emphatically deny having told any one I demanded money from you for Mrs. Tunnell or any one else. If anything I know would be of interest to you before the ecclesi- | astical court, please call on me for afidavit, f he still refused to give the de- | Yours truly, M. H, ParroN, Dayton, Wash. the conversation with Mrs. Cooper | The pastor said he had been very favor- ng Mrs. Stockton. ably impressed with Mr. Pation, but made answer as follows: | knew nothing of his antecedents. In an- esaid | Swer to a question by Mr. Tenney, Dr. . | Brown said he had received the letter after the counctl had adjourned for the iraged feeling following te} the arrest of the alleged | IcKee took a tand by asking Dr. | { { ord was the next witness. | He said he had been employed as a detec- tive, and had met Mrs. Tunnell at 132 matter rearance and D disapy l,fif S | the famous Overman-Tunnell letters. He d come into possession of the letters | through Mrs. Tunnell leaving with him | some of her effects on the eve of her de- | parture. Before she leit she came to him iming, My God! I have lost two im- exclaimed Mr. Nagle, Dr. attorney, rising in great excite- This is mere hearsay testimony. o representative of Dr. Brown was resent, and this is only second-hand evi- ce. 1 move we proceed,” remarked a mem- f the council. H Bickford proceeded. He said he | had sold the letters to toe Examiner for | $30, and_did not know where they were { now. He had an impression, but did not w positively, thut some one went to ¢ Mrs. Davidson | Dr- Brown with a proposition to sell him the letters. He had loaned the letters to you know h ckton affai ton’s name was | 1 believe be Rev. Mr. Rader then questioned the | witness. 'Mr. Bickford denied having sold | money for their publication. He could | not say positively that any one had tried to sell the letters to Dr. Brown. Mr. Parkinson tben took the detective band. In answer to his inquiries Mr. rd stated that he found the letters | B |in a valise in a five-gallon kerosene-oil can. The papers were lying loosely amia 1antity of books and old shoes. ou any right to open the valise or look into the oil can?” a ques- | Parkinson. 3 wthat |~ opened the things because I thought if anything wrong was going on it ought t “But had yon Tunnell's letters “1 had aright like any one else to show up anything wrong that was going on,” Bickford. > rejoined Mr. Parkinson in a very ic tone, ‘‘you thought there was something in it for you, and as soon as s | you found it out you sold the letters to the % | paper. Isn’t thatit?” reputation n the state- e m then con- any right to open Mrs. Mrs n eceived t had no rred to me in | t oce sneer, which Dr. Brown answered. i Bickford then said he had been offered | money by a morning paper to find Mrs, ery by Dr. Brown to | Baddin, but bad failed. : after Mrs. Tunnell had gone | Interrogated by Dr. Mooar, Bickford Dr. Brown declared that | said he thought he had a rizht to open, t remember having sent ad- | read and publish Mrs. Tunnell’s letters. however, that he thought Mrs.| *By what right,” asked Dr. Mooar. yoke the truth when she said such | y the right of public morality,” an- er came to her house. He then ex- | swered Bickford. that it was probably written at| ‘“And you consider yourself the custo- request of her sister, Mrs. Ashby. | dian of the public morality, don’t you?” s caused Dr. McLean to ask why Mrs. | asked Dr. Mooar, in a winning tone, where- have burdened Dr. Brown, | at a laugh arose. n, with_writing a letter for her| Mr. Nagle then took the witness in hand but Dr. Brown could not give | and badgered the witness to his heart’s answer. content. Mr. Nagle involved the ex-detec- [cLean—Miss Overman’s first ex- | tive in a veritabie labyrinth of compromis- those letters, you said, did not | ing questions, all intending to prove that the witness was mixed in a deep, dark, and perhaps blackmailing conspiraCy. Wher- ever the questions became too searching and personal he had one stereotyped answer, ‘I don’t remember.’”’ He ac knowleged that, although a detective, he was a whitener and kalsominer between times. e witness admitted that in the middle ast January he had twice visited Mr. Dray at 1041 Mission. asked him as to his business. He was then questioned as to where and how he worked was he a bossor a journeyman, and about a great many more things, until the mod- erator stopped the questions with the in- | quiry as to how thie evidence thus brought out bore upon the case. Mr. Nagle said it was for the council to decide. Eie did not know what was in the minds of the councilmen, and to this Dr. McLean, the moderator, said they did not know what was in Mr. Nagle’s mind either. The crowd tittered and Mr. Nagle dropped that particular line of examina. ator McLean spoke of the letter 1al deli frs. Ea spe ton sat was the statement that Miss Overman d have made to the investigating com- did not satisfy you,why aid you thi 11d satisfy the committee?® did mot think it would. I depended more n what I would say than upon her state- | That was_the statement that would have | been given Mrs. Cooper? | Yes, Judge Advocate Woodhams led the wit- ness to deny that he had ever called upon | Mrs. Davidson to take part in the prayer | meetings after he had paid her the $500, a to state that she had twice after that time taken part, but without his invita- | He was asked by the same gentleman if he had ever coniessed to Mrs. Davidson that he loved Miss Overman. The witness shatically stated that this was a lie on part of Mrs. Davidson, and that the eport of her preliminary trial, as pub- | lished in THE CaLL, would show that on one day during ber directexamination she fad made noless than forty-five distinct false statemenis, and that on her cross- examination she had lied all the way through. He refuted the statements that he had ever promised to pay Miss Over- man $35 2 month or that he bad promised to pay her way through college. He said that he remarked once in the presence of his wife that he wished he could afford to | for a university education for Mis: an, as she always showed such an sual love for books and knowledge. Did you ever mak dson for the retu agiethen asked if he rented the let. ters to the Examiner and if he consider-d it honorable to rent another man’s prop- erty and receive an income fromit. The witness was non-committal, and Mr. Na- gle said, “That’s all.” Dr. Brown then asked leave to put a question, and he said: “Did you ever hear Mrs. Tunnell swear upon any other occasion?”’ “Yes, sir. She said ‘M once.” This seemed to be all that Dr. Brown { wanted, and then Mr. Tenney asked ques- tions. | _*“Are you holding that nforey for Mrs. | Tunneli?” he asked. “I'll have s talk with her when she comes bac was the reply. s*Are vou holding that money for Mrs. Tunnell?” Mr. Tenney repeated. “I’I1 teil you when I have a talk with her.”’ I ask you again,’” persisted Mr. Ten- ney. ‘‘Are you holding that $50 for Mrs. Tunnell?” “I decline to answer,” replied the wit- ness. Then Mr. Tenney continued: “Why did you come here to-night?”’ “J wanted to come.” “Did you speak to any one before you came?” L ~I snoke to Mrs. Cooper, at her house.” +Did she think 1t a good idea for you to I have her on that subject in my | 1ave, both by letter and verbally. hat 1 Wro! atcnel. The letter was produced and read. was as follows: SAN Fraxcisco, Dec. 23, 186 videon: 1 shali expect to see y at the stroke of noon in my oflice. C. 0. BROWN. Dr. Brown explained that this note was ten after he had a conversation with | re. Davidson at her room on_the subject returning the money. The note, d not reach Mrs. Davidson until 1y after she left her room to avoid ice, and that he regained possession Mrs. Halligan, the landlady Mrs. Davidson, who found it among the ovened correspondence of her tenant. He said, in answer to a question by Mr. , that he thought the scandal was ated by his refusal to make a loan to Mrs. Davidson after he had vious times loaned her similar It M Dav ymptl “Yes; she thought so.” “That will do.”” Mrs. Hilda Barton was called then. She said she lived at 16 Graham place. She knew Dr. Brown and had known Mrs. Tunnell for some time. She used to attend the meetings of Allen’s mission in Oakland and seemed to know more about the Bible than any one else, and so she took notice of her. Then Mrs. Tunnell called on her. The witness knew Miss Overman also, for she was introduced to her the day before amou On the sugeestion of Attorney Nagle he | aescribed a vigit paid him by a woman who said her name was Mrs, Wilson, and that she lived at 654 Mission street, where she kept a lodging-house. This woman told a story in the presence of the witness and Miss Overman to the effect that she the woman left Dr. Brown forced her to | afternoon, and the envelope was stamped | hing at all | Tenth street, and had read the originals of | n attorney, but with no ulterior motive. | the letters, but admitted having received | asked Mr. | rred to vou, doctor, | ' No,I1didn’t,” answered Bickford, hotly. ou have only been | *‘Butyoulost nothmfi: by the transac- spic f us? tion,” remarked Mr. Parkinson, with a| Mr. Nagle then | fy God’ more than | she went to Tacoma. She met Miss Over- wan at Mrs, Tunnell’s house. She used to see Dr. Brown at Allen’s meetings, too, and Mrs. Davidson. Mrs. Tunnell had called upon her, and | when she complained of har& times Mrs. | Tunnell had told her to trustin God. She | said she had a house and lot in Galt, and she said she would give them to the wit- ness, but the witness never got them. She | said then that when Mrs. Tunnell left she | did not see her again, and when Mrs. Tun- | nell came again she said she had been in | Tacoma. he witness asked how Mrs. | Tunnell had found the money, and Mrs. Tunnell told her the fare had been paid by Dr. Brown, and he had given her $10 spending money besides. Mrs. Tunnell told her at the time that| she had seen Miss Oyerman in Tacoma, and that Miss Overman wasina * and that she was in love. The witnes asked what the scrape was, and Mrs. Tun- nell would nat tell her; all she could say | was, Didn’t I tell you that Mrs. Brown | was jealous of Dr. Brown 2"’ Then Mrs. Tunnell told her how she had put’ §100 in acompany and she cleared $100 in cash and said she had $100 more in the bank. She would not tell where she got the money, When she left she ap- gearedA to be going in the wrong direction. he said in explanation that she was going to see Mrs. Davidson; that Mrs. Davidson | wasa friend of hers. Mrs. Tunnell said | she was coming back to see the witness, | and that she would bring some letters with her, but when she did come the witness | would not let her in. Then Mr. Tennev questioned the witness as to what Mrs. Tunnell had toid her of | Miss Overman. The witness said again | that Mrs. Tunnell had told her Mattie | i Overman was in a scrape and that she was | in love with some one, but the ‘‘some | | one’s” nanie was not mentioned to her. _Mr. Nagle objected strenuously to the line of cross-examination, but his objec- | tions were overraled. When Mrs. Tunnell left for Tacoma, the witness continued under Mr. Tenney’s cross-examination, she was so poor and shabby that the witness was seriously thinking of asking the mission she be- longed to to help the woman, but when | Mrs. Tunnell returned from Tacoma she was very well dressed and had plenty of money. | More questions were asked as to the money which Mrs. Tunnell had, but all of these the witness answered satisfactorily. Mrs. Tunnell had never told her where she had obtained the money. The witness proceeded to tell how Mat- | tie_Overman took Mrs. Tunnell's letters | and clothes, and what she left the witness | took and packed them in a satchel. Mrs. Tunnell told the witness that Mattie was going to college, and that Dr. Brown was paying Mattie’s expenses in the college. Mrs. Tunnell, Miss Overman*and Mrs. Davidson slept at Mrs. Davidson's on the night before Christmas eve—the evening of the day on which Mrs. Tunnell said that she had $100 in the bank. Mrs. Turnell sent for her to come to Mrs. Davidson’s that night, because Mrs. Tun- nell, as she said, and Mattie were in a heap of trouble. The witness reiterated that Mrs. Tun- nell offered her a house and an acre of | land and a horse and cart at Galt, because | she wanted the witness to live with her | | and a Mrs. Smith there. Before she went | away she told Mrs. Barjon that besides | the $100 in bank she had about as much | in her coat. She did not tell the witness | that she got the money from Dr. Brown, | but that she got it from tbe same source | as that whence she received the $5 pieces. On cross-examination by Mr. Parkinson the witness stated that Mrs. Tunnell told | her that she (Mrs. Tunnell) had gone to | the Overman home in Tacoma for the pur- | | pose of taking care of Mattie Overman, | who ‘“‘had got into a scrape.” | “Was it such a scrape as a woman would | e likely to get into who had fallen in love | tha m asked Mr. Parkinson. Mr. Williams asked whetter Mrs. Tun- nell and the witness were not believers in | the second coming of Christ, and whether | it was not because of that belief that Mrs. | | Tunnell wanted to make her a present of | the house and Ict in Galt, | The witness replied that such was the fact; that they believed that the second | coming of Christ would-take place in three | years. Mr. Nagle on the cross-examination drew | | ont of the witness the fact that Miss Over- | | man went back to Tacoma twice—once in July, 1504, and the next time in the fall. | “I think it was in the summer time,” | added the witness. *“But I can hardly tell | the difference between winter and summer in_California—they are so very much | alike.” [ The witness said that she became ac- ! quainted with Mrs. Cooper four or five ni:(}~ a and was introduced to Mrs. Cooper by a man whose name she rather | tartly refused to divulge. Much merriment was cansed by the an- | swers of the witness. She said that she [ saw Dr. Brown in Dr. Allen’s church on | | one occasion. “When was that?"” asked Mr. Nagle. “When he was there’” was the very posi- | tive reply. | When asked as to what part of the | | church Dr. Brown was in when she saw | | him she said that she could not tell be- | | cause the seats were notnumbered. Then, | | when the question was put as to whether | ixhere were any services in Dr. Allen’s| | church last October she replied no—‘a | | preacher did run away with the money.” | On the Sunday before Christmas eve, | “the Sunday before she skipped out of | town,” Mrs. Tunnell knocked at her door, but the witness refused to admit | her, because if she should admit Mrs. Tun- | | nell her husband would tear up or burn | | the letters which Mrs. Tunnell wanted to | leave with her. | “How do you know that?” asked Mr. | gle. Because.” replied the witness with a | smile, “my husband burns up my letters | and I did not want him to destroy any- | body else’s property.”’ In the course of the examination by Mr. Nagle Mrs. Barton said that she had zone | to Dr. Brown’s house on Monday or Tues- | day night, on which Mrs. Tunnell was in | Dr. Brown’s house. She did not go into | the house, but waited outside for the pur- | | pose of seeing Mrs. Tunnell, who was wanted at a council of the Christian Co- operative Society. A boy went in through the door and she thought she saw | Mrs. Tunnell inside. She could not swear positively that it was Mrs. Tunnell, be- cause the witness did not have her glasses on, skebeing very near-sighted. The witness followed this up with the | | statement that the Co-operative Society | sent several people to Dr. Brown’s house | to inquire for Mrs. Tunnell, but they got | | no satisfaction. Mrs. Tunnell was an ofii- | cer of the society, and her presence was | desired at a very important meeting. The kb i | ! f | | other officers thought that she would bet- | ter be at the Co-operative Society’s meet- ing than in Dr. Brown’s house. | _The witness also told about having seen | | Dr. Brown at the Hayes-street entrance to | | the park in company with Miss Overman i one day. | _ Dr. Brown took tlre stand and said that in the month of January he attended the Allen mission one night. At that time | Miss Overman was in Tacoma. She left this City in December, 1894, and returned lin AUF 8 He denied that he was ever alone with Miss Overman in the park or any other place. Dr. Brown denied Mrs. Barton’s state- ment that Mrs. Tunnell was in Dr. Brown’s | house on a Monday night, because she left on Sunday night. He told also of a visit made to him by Charles Darling, who represented that a friend of his had in his possession several letters of a very damag- ing nature, of which it might be well for Dr. Brown to possess himself. ’ “That means that there is a price on them,” suggested Dr. Brown to Darling | on that occasion. “That’s about the size of it,”” was Dar- ling’s remark. Dr. Brown would have nothing to do with the matter and the man went away, | When the council had retired inwo se- cret session a Mrs. Friedlander came up to Dr. Brown in an excited manner and asked to be allowed to appear before the reverend body. Her wish was complied with and she testified that for scme months she had lived opposite Dr. Brown’s church and had never seen him enter the’ build- ing in company with any other woman than his wife. The council then adjourned until this afternoon. | engagement of the happy young couple PINK AND WHITE WEDDING Nuptials of Miss Greenebaum and Alfred Simon Last Evening. SCHLESSINGER THEATER PARTY | Friday Night Whist Club Meets. Theater Parties at the Audi- torium This Evening. Mrs. Sobriski, Dr. and Mrs. Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. H. Melindy, Mr. and Mrs. Cheeseman, Dr. E. Davis, Judge Coffer, Mr. and Mrs. Moritin, Dr. and Mrs. Green- ough, Mr. and Mrs. F. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Neuman. WHAT CAUSES MISERY. Jordan Says It Is the Degeneration Resulting From Unearned Happiness. All attempts to secure happiness with- out doing something to deserve it ulti- mately result in misery, and misery is an evidence of degeneration in the individual. Such was Dr. David Starr Jordan’s theme in his lecture delivered last night in the hall of the Academy of Sciences be- fore the Stanford Alumni Extension Clab. During his discourse he said: A person is not really in a condition of misery because he is sick. Darwin, the great- est scientist of the century, was, during many years of his life, & sick man, and yet he was not ma, The wedding of Miss Stella Greenebaum, daughter of Mrs. Herman Greenebaum, and nieceof Mrs. Louis Sloss and Mrs. Lewis Gerstle; and Alfred Simon, son of the millionaire merchant, H. L. Simon, of the firm of Stein, Simon & Co., was | solemnized last evening at the residence of the bride’s moth-r, 1914 Pacific avenue, | Rev. Dr. Voorsanger officiating. The | was announced about three months ago, a short while after Miss Greenebaum’s return from an extended European t. In addition to the high standing of the contracting parties, the wedding last | evening was all the more interesting on account of thedelicious little romance con- nected with it. It is the romance of a love at first signt, strengthened and nurtured by congenial | y bea cause of misery, but not sickness, but not necessarily cter, ignorance, f0ol- ness. evil choice. evil environment, adher- to conventionality may lead to misery. Mis is a personal element; a man is mi erable because of his degeneration. “Poor iolks have poor ways,” an expression of an oid lady in the Georgia mountains, explains the existence of much of poverty and misery. Happiness comes from accomplishing some- thing—irom having done something to de- { serve it. In all animals the process of receiv- ing impressions is essentially.the same, and sensation is_reccived, communicated to, the brain and reflected back to the place receive The instinee of lower animals is the automatic response to the brain reflection; the intellect of man is the choice of a response. All our knowledge comes from nerve contact inone way and another with external things. A man is degencrated to the degree that he falls short of what he might have been. In the long run there is no conflict between what is best for the individual and what is best for toe race. ¥ Nineteen-twentieths of our thieves and mur- MR. AND MRS. ALFRED SIMON (FORMERLY STELLA ‘GREENEBA‘:M.) tastes and sympathetic qualities. Both bride and groom are excellent musiciars, and possess literary talent of no mean order. Standing under a bower of apple blos- soms the young couple were united ac- | cording to the impressive rites of the Jew- ish church. Miss Anna Simon, sister of the groom. afficiated as maid of honor and Louis Si- mon, brother of the groom, acted as best man. The bride was attired in a magnificent gown ot cream white satin. The jupe, elegant in its rich” simplicity, was cut en { train, and the slightly decollete corsage was elaborately trimmed with Duchesse and rare bld point. A bridal veil fastened to the coiffure with a wreath of orange blossoms completed the exquisite costume. After the ceremony congratulations were in order, and dancing was indulged in until 11 o’clock, when an elaborate supper vas serve The bridal presents were handsome and numerous, and embraced many costly works of art, rare bric-a-brac and much elegant silver and cut glass. Mr. and Mrs. Simon will leave to-day for a southern bridal tour. and on their réturn will occupy the Bimon residence, corner of Franklin and Pine streets, as Mrs. H. L. 8imon and Miss Anna Simon leave for an extended European visit. The theater party given by Miss May | Schlessinger in honor of Miss Schwabacher | and her fiance, Charles Rosenbaum. on Monday evening, was a most delightful affair. | The party, thirtv-four in number, after enjoying the stirring melodrama at Mo- | rosco’s, were driven to the Schlessinger | residence on Broadway, where a delicious | supper was served. - The guests were seated | at two long tables, one of which was hand- scmely decorated with pink blossoms and theother with Jacqueminot roses and wkite lilies. It was past 1 o'clock before the adieux were said and the last guest de- parted. The wedding of Miss Georgia M. Wight- | man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John | Wightman Jjr., and Douglas B. Crane of | the Occidental and Oriental Steamship | Company was celebrated at noon on Mon- day at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on | Fulton street. The church was filled by a Jarge numberof guests invited to witness | the ceremony. The interior of the edifice i had been beautifully decorated by the young friends of the bride. St. Josep: lilies, smilax, ferns and acacia blossoms were used with artistic effect in the adorn- ment of the altar and pulpit. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Emma { Wightman, as maid of honor. Robert B. | hurch was the best man. Benjamin S, Sturtevant, C. Churchill Pryor, Frank H. Crane and Arthur Thornton officiated as ushers. Rev. Edgar J. Lion, rector of the church, performed the ceremony. The reception | which followed was held in the Maple Hall | of the Palace Hotel and the bridal party | and a few intimmte friends partook of the | wedding breakfast, served in the adjoining | conservatory. Later inthe afterncon Mr. ! and Mrs, Crane left for Coronado Beach | and Santa Catalina Island. Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop E. Lester (nee | Hobart) have sailed from - Earope for New York on the steamer St. Paul and are ex- | pected to arrive in the latter city next Sunday. Miss Ella Hobart and Miss Vas- sault will meet them on their arrival in ew York. The silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. Schwabacher will be appio- priately celebrated at_their residence, 2100 Jackson street, next Sunday evening. Theopening concert of Mme. Maternaand Franz Ondricek at the Auditorium this evening promises to be a most fash- ionuble as well as an artistic event. Nu- merous parties have been arranged for the cecasion, prominent among which are John Parrott and a party.of twenty and | Mrs. Clark W. Crocker and a party of six- teen. Among others who will ufiso have large parties are Mrs. 8. Schwabacher, Mrs. J. Neustadter, Mrs. M. Gunst, Mrs. Greene- baum, Mrs. L. W. Rosenstock, Mrs. R. P. Buckingham and Mrs. Korbell, who will have a party of thirta-’fo.ur. The Friday Night Whist Club met last Friday evening at the residence of Mrs. Witham, 2410 Washington street and en- joyed a game of whist. An excellent mu- sical prozramme was rendered by Miss Daisy Witham during the prozress of the game. The highest scores for the evening were obtained by Mr. McBride, Mrs. An- drews, Dr. George E. Hanson and Judge Coffer. After the award of prizes a de- licious menu was served by the hostess. Among those present were; Mrs. Witham, Miss Witham, Mr. and Mrs. W. Witham, Colonel and Mrs. H. Engels, Dr. Davis, Mrs. Slack, Dr. Andrews, Mrs, Andrews, Mrs. Payson, Mr. McGilveray, Mr. Chick, Mr. Bratton, Mr. and Mys. Tripp, Mr. Mc- Bride, Miss Green, Mrs. Green, Mr. and [ | derers are produced. not by heredity but by corrosion, because conventionality leads them | to do evil. | _ The general effect of the stimulant is to de- | stroy the veracity of nerves. It isan attempt | to feel vetter when you have not done any- | thing to feel better for. Perhaps the man who | would accomplish the best results wouid take no stimulants whatever. | There are a good many people who try receive religious happiness by working them | selves into a series of sentimental thrills, or | by mingling among the enthusiasts, but this is not religion. There is no love that ends in | selfishness, { When a student comes to me, as students { have done, full of remorse because he has been | on & drunk, I know that he will go off and do it again, for remorse in itself is not a cure. The great effectiveness of the work of the Sal- vation Army, I think, lies not in their relying upon the feeling of remorse for wrong, but in | interesting the individual and getting him to work doing something. The general end of the louble life is that the lower life will predominate. The best way | is to hold aloof from the lower tendencies altogether. Any condition of tfe based on being zood on Sunday and bad on Monday is destructive to the communiry. _What people generally are talking about in a city is a pretty good index to the character of lation. In Hayana, Cuba, when I was , the prevalent conversation was and the great hero of the place was who had just won the big prize v ticket. s to secure the rewards of skill ng used the skill end in disaster. The most disagreeable thing that tne chil- dren of San Francisco are subjected to is the language of suggestion of the bulletin boards, All these things and the trials that are held and reported through this City’s newspapers are fatal to love, fatal to life The so-called sowing of wild oats results in injury to the spinal column. When wild oats grow luxuriantly no other crops can grow. Itis said of Starr King that he did not like the rotten side of things: Chis class of literature that is called realism treal, is not true to lifeatall. Itought to be banished from every decent man's library, AN OPINION MODIFIED Judges Must Be Careful About Instructing Juries to Acquit. The Practice Is Dangerous, and to Be Invoked Only in the Clearest Cases. The Supreme Court has rather modified the terms of the opinion in the Knuth case by a decision filed in the case of An- drew J. O’Connor against O. S. Witherby, filed yesterday. Inthe Knuth case the court said that whenever, in the opinion of the trial Judge, the evidence given to the jury was not suf- ficient to justify the verdict rendered, he could, in the exercise of his discretion, set the verdict aside. The decision caused some commen among the lawyers of the City, and it was generally. considered a dangerous theory to go by. In the case just mentioned this theory is much mcdified. S. Witherby was sued by Andrew J. O'Connor for the amount of an assessment on 100 shares of stock which he was supposed to ho'd in the Consolidated National Bank. With- | erby contended that be did not own the stock. The case was tried beforea jury, the case was submitted and then the plaintiff moved that the court instruct the jury to find for the plaintiff and the in- struction was granted and the jury brought in its verdict accordingly. The defenaant appealed and one of the points made was that the court had no authority to instruct to acquit. The Supreme Court sustained the ruling of the lower court, and in answering the point made as to the instruction says: We do not think that the judgment should be reversed because the court instructed the jury to find_for the plaintiff. Of course such an instruction could not be upheld when there was conflicting evidence as to the material facts which the jury had a right to pass on, but when there is 1o substantial conflict of evidence as to the facts determinative of the case, or such tacts are admitted, then the judg- . ment will not be reversed for such an instrue- 'tion, although the practice is hazardous and can be sanctioned only in the clearest cases. The opinion was written by Justice Mc- Farland, Justices Temple and Henshaw conceurring. The statistical returns of the various Methodist bodies give 25,000,000 as the total merabership throughout the world. NEW TO-DAY. 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