The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1896. DE KEEPEES, Business at the big siore, ok no. What we advertise is placed in our big windows under the glaring and searching light of day. Our methods are different than most stores’. We ain’t afraid to let the light of day shine upon anything we advertise or what we say. e have been asked by many people to continue our sale of| last week for another week. 9lany, of course, thatcouldn’titake advantage Saturday, many that couldn’t come during the week and are better able to buy this week than last. Ghrough the efforts of the masses of this town we have built up one of the largest businesses on the coast, and we are at all iimes ready to comply with any request whick will cement the ties of friendship between our house and you stronger and sironger. Continuation Wonday! Rosebuds of Jpn‘ny, said many people that saw those protty Suits at S70. Chey’re the cleverest lot of goods that| we’ve ever gathered together un- der the roof of the big store. Ghe assortment is truly bo~ wildering. U those pretty andi bright effects that are so Spring~ like, so dressy: prettyoverplaids that are so fashionable, thatyour tailors want S40 for, in those very fashionable single-breasted | town a-talking again next weok. sacks; awfully swell goods. | Ghen come those fine Black| i’s higher in character, fit and I you have time to-day, come down town and take a look in our big window and you’ll see these remarkable values. set the town a-talking all during last week and they'll sot the Continuation ]onday/ Ohose beautiful Scotckes in pretty Spring colorings, both light, dark and medium, ithat other stores are getting 374, §72 and S/0 for; pretiier goods never left a tailoring shop. Ohere’s some of those fine Blue and RBlack Worsted Serges among ’em in cutawaysand sin- gle and double breasted sacks. Ghe Price Orat Se? the Gown fl-aalh'n_y, -~-87.00--- i Creoy &ou know our class of goods is different from most stores’ ; finish. Clay Worsteds in cutlaways; gar- ments for dress occasions; also in single and double-breasted sacks; one of the grandest ag- gregations of goods that’s ever been shown in this town, and not @ suit in the whole line that’ll cost you less than §20 down lo 878 in other stores. Ohe price that.set the town Raphael’s (Fncorporated), ———Ohe Frisco Boys——— 9, 77, 73 and 75 .Z’éarny Street, Owo Entire Buildings. | sacks; awfully clever goods; Coniinuation Wana’ay.’ Hgain those very fashionable RBlue and Black Gwill Cheviots in single and double breasted such goods as your swell tailors skow, but they won’t show ithe price; garmeonts tha? are up-to~ date in every particular. GCre Pr e Ghat Se? the Gown A-Calkin 2, “'9’5« 00‘-- S / vf, 7 Al 1= " INNUAL CONCLAVE OF THEOSOPHISTS, Preparations for Gathering the American Members at New York. SUCCESSOR OF JUDGE. An Unknown Man of Great Power May Lead the Es- oteric Branch, SECRECY OF HIS IDENTITY. Peculiar - Qualifications Required for the Head of the Woaderful Society. NEW YORK, N, Y., April 18.—The Theosophical Society in America will hold its annual conclave in New York City, The co ion will be the t in the history of the or- ganizction. The nouncement that the meeting wi ce in New York will prove a surprise, as several weeks ‘ago an official notice was sent to all the branches naming Chicago as the place. The change was made for a peculiar reason. It the result of the request by a mysteri adept in the society, whose existence had been unsnspected, and who made known his wish in a communication to the execu- tive committee. That the highest body in society should thus bow to the wishes of a stranger suggests that the explanation must b: one out of the ordinary. And such is the case. In the Theosophical Society there are two bodies, called the exoteric and the occult, e former is the society known to the world, which holds open meetings, discusses philosophy and religion ard carries on its propaganda like other re- ligions and humanitarian institutions. The occult is a secret body of adepts, pos- sessing psychic powers, and is under the direct guidance of the great beings known as Mahatmas, who reside in Thibet., ‘This s credited with doing most of its work on the invisible planes, influencing the souls of man, goiding nations and taking part the governance of the affairs of the net generally. In the occult hody there is no such thing as the election of officers. The chief is apyointed by the Malatmas and is an adept on whom the mantle of leadership naturally falls by reason of nis develop- mos ment. Mme. F ky{was head of ‘this body during her life a ucceeded by W. Q. Judge. When the latter died on | March 21, last, itlooked as though there was none to succeed bim. Among the qualifications 1 for such leader- ship are the power io leave the body at will and transport oneseii to any distant a-talking, $70.00. and the Mahatmas by thought-transfer- ence. No one was known within the ranks of the society to possess these powers suf- | | ficiently developed and there was consid- | erable anxiety until an examination of Dr. Judge’s effects was made. A complete surprise was in store. A | document was found which stated over | the departed chief's signature that there | Theosophical Society in America. | was in the society a real adept who had | Dr. Anderson was a remarkable child. veiled himself in such obscurity that nis | He could read at the age of four, and en- very existence was known to scarcely half | listed in the United States cavalry at the many papers on medical science, and has published two weli-known theosophical books, ‘‘Reincarnation” and ‘“Sevenfold Man.” Magazine, and is editor of the Pacitic Theosophist. He is president of the San Francisco Theosophical Socieiy, and a | member of the executive committee of the He founded the new Californian | | @ dozen members. Mr. Judge named him | as successor. But the paper contained an | injunction that his name and identity must be kept a secret for aspecified ume, said to be one year. Mr. Judge’s indorse- ment secured a prompt acceptande of the new head, albeit he will remain unknown |for months. The unknown is not an | official in the Theosophical Society, but as an adept the executive committee did not hesitate to defer to his wishes. The principal event at the coming con- | vention will be the election of a new presi- dent in place of Mr. Judge. This is an | affair of the exoteric organization and | does not carry with it occult leadership. | If the new adept were known he could doubtless be elected, but as that would in- name cannoc be presented. It is believed, however, that he will be at the convention incognito, as it has leaked out that he is now in New York. will be chosen president, but there is one I obstacle in the way. The headquarters | ure in New York, while all of Dr. Buck’s interests are centered in the place of his residence, and he says he could not move. An arrangement might be made, however, whereby he could be represented at head- quarters by Claude lvalls Wright, who is ex-secretary to both Mme. Blavatsky and William Q.Judge and resides there. If | Dr. Buck does not permit the presentation of his name no one can say who may be | selected. Dr, Buck is a physician of note and for many years was dean of Pulti | Medical College, Cincinnati. All his life | he has been a deep student of mysticism, Egyptology and mathematics, and is saia | to have one of the most valuable libraries | of mystical works in the country. | He tirst heard of the Theosophical Soci- | ety in 1879, and wrote to Mme. Blavaisky for information. She received the letter in London as she was boarding ship for India, and dashed off a characteristic | deck as a table. The doctor joined at | once. His wife became a member in 1885, and the following year W. Q. Judge visited Cincinnati and initiated the doctor’s two wife’s two sisters, making seven theoso- phists in one family. The doctor has been president of the branch in Cincinnati since its formation, a member of the executive committee of the society in America for many years, and last year was | elected vice-president. Since Mr. Judge’s death he has been acting president. He isover six feet tall, of massive build, has a high forehead and a strong, though kindly face. He is a skilled parliamen- tarian, and for years has presided over the annual conventions. He will doubtless be | called upon to take the chair at the com- ing meeiing. He is author of ““A Study of Man,” a theosophical scientific work, and | is a prominent contributor to theosophical | publications. Next in importance will be the election of a vice-president. Dr. Jerome A. An- derson of San Francisco may be named for s office. He holds the strings on the Pacific Coast. He place and to communicate with disciples | also is a noted physician, is the author of volve the disclosure of his identity his | Many think Dr. J. D. Buck of Cincinnati | reply, using the top of a barrel on the | sons and one daughter and the doctor's | | work for theosophy. | age of 16. Though self-educated he passed | without preparation an examination , in- | cluding a course of twenty-seven studies t of the California public school system, and | got a percentage of 96. He was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, and | completed his education in the medical | department of the University of Califor- | nia. He is president of the Alumni As. | sociation of his department of the uni | versity, and is a fellow of the San Fran- | cisco Gynecological Society and many | other medical associations. E. August Nordsheimer, a wealthy dia- | mond merchant of Maiden lane, New | York, is treasurer of the society, and will | doubtless be re-elected. Claude Falls Wright will be one of the may prove a dark horse. Should he con- sent to being nominated he might be elected to almost any office, from presi- | dent down. Though only 29 years old, he is believed by many to possess strange powers, but he transforms himseli into a veritable sphinx when approached on the subject. Like the late Mme. Blavatsky, he is constantly doing things calculated to dumfound conventional people.y He hates conventionalism. His hair and beard are a shade of red which produces an almost luminous effect. His fund of learning is prodigious. He is quiet, re- | i | making a good impression on pcople and then of shocking them by eccentricities believed to be deliberate. He eats only one or two meals a day, sleeps little, and | thinks nothing of sitting at his desk eighteen hours at a stretch. He has lectured in almost every State in the Union. He is the author of ‘“Modern Theosophy,” and of innumerable articles and papers. Mr. Wright is a native of Dublin. He studied for the ministry, then applied himself to civil engineering and wound up studying surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. A remarkable incident | brougnt him into the Theosophical Soci- | ety. He was calling on a young lady in Dublin one evening when she suddenly fell at his feet and went into a trance. 8he said that she had a message to deliver and that she was instructed to say that he was to go to Mme. Blavatsky in London and ‘He packed up at once. Mr. Wrightis a first cousin of Dr. Edward Wright, librarian of the British Museum. His mother is a daughter of Lady Salkeld and his father was a cousin of General Falls of Crimean fame. The Theosophical Society has root in every part of the world and delegates will be present representing the four quarters of the globe. Bome confusion was created by the change of place of holding the con- vention, and as a result a list of delegates who will attend has not yet been made up. The following are among the most promi- | nent members, some of whom have already announced that they will be in New York: Mrs. Alice Cleather of London, wife of Colonel Barclay Cleather of the Royal Ar- tillery ; Baron Opparnan of Belgtum; Din- sha P. Ghadiali, electrician and Parsee philoropher of Bombay, who is now in this country; Dr. Frank von Hartmann of chief personages at the gathering, and | | fined and mild-looking, and has a habit of | 1 Germany, physician, philosopher and aun- | thor of many mythical works; Judge | Edward O'Rourke of Fort Wayne, of the Indiana Supreme Court; Ernest T. Har- grove, barrister, of Middle Temple, Lon- don; Lady Olivia Peterson of Paris; Miss Katherine Hulard, the Dante scholar and poetess; Samuel Janer Ronan of Sancti Spiritu, Cuba, now in this country; Charles Johnston, F.R.A.8, and M.A., of the Ben- gal Civil Service, the famous English Ori- entalist; Professor William Crookes, the great English chemist, who invented the Crookes tubes, so largely used in X-ray experiments; Mrs. Benson, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose two sons recently organized a theosophical society im London; Fred J. Dick, engineer in the British Civil Service at Dublin, and Ca- mille Flammarion, the French astronomer. The delegates in this country will repre- sent almost every State, and most of the Canadian provinces will also have dele- gates. 1t 1s said that there will also be present ten members of the mysterious medieval Rosicrucian Fraternity. The principal session will be held in the concert-nall at Madison-square Garden. A string band, | composed of New York theosophists, and including Schench, the cellist, and Herr- | mann, the violinist, will be in attendance. | After the convention, which will end | Monday or Tuesday, a reception will be given in the evening at 144 Madison avenue, where the society has a $50,000 beadquarters. The building contains | many curiosities. The walls of one room are covered with Hindoo and Japanese sa- cred pictures and symbols, and one frame incloses aleaf from the sacred Bo tree, un- der which, 2500 years ago, Buddha at- tained enlightenment. In a glass case isa complete set of Brahmin tools of worship, numbering twenty-three pieces, believed to be the only set in Amer; The sar- cophagus containing one-third of Mme. Blavatsky’s ashes is in the same room. ;n the library is a collection of valuable esoteric works and manuscripts, including about twenty manuscript volumes from the pen of the late General Abner Double- day, who was once president of the Theo- | sophical Society of New York. It is expected that & bronze bust of W. Q. Judge, on which work .is now being rushed, will be completed in time tobeun- veiled. The Manitoba School Question. LONDON, Exa., April 18. — The St. James Gazette, in an article on the Mani- toba school question, says that Sir Charles Tupper’s speeches on the subject indicate clearly and concisely the policy of the Canadian Government in the matter, The Dominion Government, the paper says, has been consistent and Xersistenl in try- ing to dis‘)o!e of the difficulty without needless delay upon the lines of the Brit- ish North America act, and the act under which Manitoba became a part of the Do- minion of Canada. Sons of Duclista to Fight. LONDON, Exa., April 18.—The Standard says a duel is imminent between the sons of Count von Kotze and Baron von Schra- der, arising out of a quarrel between their fathers, which resulted in the recent death of Baron von Schrader, from the effects of a wound received in a duel with Von Kotze. ——— Markets for American Tobacco. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18.—Be- fore the House Ways and Means Comimit- tee to-day Representative Clardy of Ken- tucky advocated the enactment of some law, reciprocity or otherwise, which would open to American tobacco the markets of France, Spain and Italy, and especially France. ! | i CENTRISTS T0 Will Ask to Be Informed of Measures to Stop Encounters. JOINED BY JOURNALS. Leading Germaos Also Unite in the Clamor Against Fights of Honor. AS A XIND OF GOTTESGERICHT. Ki ling of Schrasder by Von Kotze Regarded as a Judgment of God. BERLIN, GerMaNy, April 18. — The party of the Centér in the Reichstag has lor von Hohenlobe in 1egard to the recent German duels and ask to be informed what measures the Government proposes to take to prevent similar encounters in the future. The question will also be raised in the Prussian Landtag. This movement of the Centrists finds support in the highest social quarters and is also championed by all of the leading Berlin and provincial newspapers, and it is sig- nificant that a journal of the character of the Cologne Gazette, in a series of articles on the subject, deplores the injury to its { prestige which the court continues to suf- fer from its supposed sympathy with dueling and appeals to the Emperor to in- tervene and rigorously put a stop to the practice. In the meantime the increasing public sentiment against dueling has prevented a series of duels which were expected to arise out of the Kotze-Schraeder affair. The meeting which was arranged between Barons Lancken and Lahn has been stopped, and several other impending en- counters are off. Lieberecht von Kotze and hisfamily have leit Berlin for the south of Europe. Their exactdestination is kept secret. : A majority of those who are fully in- formed as to the quarrel between Von Kotze and Schraeder consider the death of the latter as a kind of Gottesgericht (judgment of God). When the scandal was first bruited in the summer of 1894, Schraeder was designated in the United Press dispatches as the originator of the trouble which resulted in Kotze’s long string of misfortunes, his unjust imprisopment under the order of the Emperor and his subsequent private trial and release with a tainted name, amounuing to sociai and official death. Schraeder was Kotze’s accuser and ra- mained his bitter enemy even after his in- nocence had been proved. The newspa- pers allege that Schraeder addressed a let- OPPOSE DUELS, decided to put some questions to Chancel- | | ter to the Emperor prior to the duel en- | ! deavoring to clear himself of any share in | the scandal, but it cannot be learned that | | any such letter exists. There has also been a complete change | |in the attitude of the Emperor. For a j long time his Mujesty placed the great- | est reliance upon Schraeder, but latterly { he turned against him, and his studied | contempt for him was shown by his omis- | sion to send a wreath to his funeral and his refusal to permit the use of the| | Friedrichskirche or the Garnisonskirche | at Potsdam for the deceased master of cer- | emonies. In spite of the action which the Emperor had taken, however, a large contingent of court society testified their respect for the deal duelist. The Dowager Empress Frederick, al- | | though very strong in her condemnation | of the practice of dueling, sent to the fam- ily of Baron von Schraeder a message of | sympathy and condolence, and also sent a | wreath of roses to be placed upon the | coffin. The body of Baron von Schraede: | was taken on Thursday to Ratzeburg, | | the family seat. The parish clergyman re- | fused to give the body a Christian burial. and Court Chaptain Wendelandt officiated in his place. The Ratzeburg veterans fired a volley over his grave. The delay in taking any action agairst von Kotze for the killing of von Schraeder has created a widespread suspicion that the authorities are desirous that the popu- lar feeling against dueling shall abate be- | fore any application is made to tne law, | uot wishing to brand the custom as an ab- | solute offense. In support of this idea it | is observed that the Hamburger Nach- | | richten, Prince Bismarck's organ, in an | | article on the subject indi s @ certain | | reaction in favor of the practice, contend- | | ing that the higher classes cannot wholly | abandon the usage, which has a distinct- | ive social value. The report circulated by the German | and foreign press that there has been a re- | | newal of the Dreibund treaties is an out- | come of the meetings of the Emperor and | King Humbert and Emperor Francis Jo- | seph of Austria, but they are greatly at i variance with the open facts. | | The treaty between Germany and Aus- | | tria is not subject to periodical renewal. It | | bas no fixed term of duration and theo- | Tetically continues forever, though prac- | tically it can be repudiated at any time. | The treaties between Itaiy and Germany | and ltaly and Austria, however, are ipso ; facto renewable every five years unless | they are respectively renounced upon | | either side one year before their expira- tion. The last renewal of these treaties was made in 1892. The Hamburg Corre- spondenz. an official organ, denies the sug- gestion that any question of renewal or alteration of the Dreibund past was in- volved in the recent meeting of the mon- archs party to that alliance. { A considerable number of members of the Colonial Association are forming a new organization in consequence of the very general dissatisfaction in colonial ! circles by the scandals affecting Dr. Carl Peters, Prince von Arneberg, chairman of the Reichstag Committee on Colonial Affairs. and Dr. Hammacher, leader of the National Liberal party in the Reichstag, are at the head of the movement. Some reflects of the disturbances be- tween the natives and Germans in South South Africa are to be seen in a menaced } uprising of the natives in German-African erritory. A dispatch from Damaraland says that the Herros are raiding the white settlers and that Major Leutwein, the Governor of German West and South Af- rica, with 800 troops, is about to take the field to restore order. Crown ;Prince William and his next | [ | | | | younger brother, Prince Eitel Frederick, | accompanied by the Empress, started last evening for Ploen, where the yong Princes will pursue their studies in the Cadet Col- lege. The Empress returned to Berlin to- day. Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, Min- ister of Foreign Affairs, maintains that in accordance with diplomatic rule and usage the newly appointed United States Em- bassador, Hon. Edwin F. Uhl, connot officially represent the United States Gov- ernment until he has been formally re- ceived by the Emperor. - The reception of the Embassador by his Majesty has been fixed for May 2. The Berlin theosophists in connection with the society of which the late William Q. Judge, the president of the American society, was the head, have held a meet- ing and adopted a memorial upon his death. There has been a new accession to the American colony in Berlin in the person | of the wife of the Councillor of the Russian legation, Baron Bachme:ieff, who was for- merly Miss Beale of Washington. l‘lll‘." TRIP, Railroads Make Reduced Rates to the Conventions. CHICAGO, Irt., April 18.— Western roads have agreed to makea rate of one fare for the round trip for the Republican National Convention at St. Louis. The same rate has been agreed to for the Dem- ocratic convention to be held in Chicago. The Prohibitionists wili be given the same rate for their convention at Pittsburg. Tickets for St. Louis will be good to return June 21, to Chicago July and to Pitts- burg M 3 The anadian Pacific has put in a through rate from Atlantic points to Aus- tralia, via Vancouver, which is $10 below the Southern Pacific r: a San Fran- cisco, and there is much_trouble over a division of the American lines’ cut rate in consequence. When the Southern Pacifie appealed to the chairman of the associa- tion for relief it was informed that the road could make what rate it pleased to maintain equality, but the Western Pas- senger Association lines are claiming a bigger percentage than the Southern Paci- fic is willing to concede. > MANNOW PL DS GUILTX. With Windrath He Committed Murder and Robbery. CHICAGO, IrL., April 18.—Julius Man« now startled Judge Horton and sent the revolvers and red pepper plots into total echipse Friday by getting up and declaring that he and Joseph Windrath were guilty of the murder and robbery of Carey B. Birch, cashier of the West Chicago Street Railway Company on June 23 last. The court informed the prisoner that he must not feel too certain that his plea would se- cure leniency for him. Windrath's ate torney and friends pleaded with him to have him also 2dmit his guilt, but the prisoner refused to do so, claiming that he was innccent. In his confessien Mannow involved a third person, Albert Schalk. No attempt will be made to prosecute Albert Schalk for conspiracy to rob, as he has become a witness for the State. When 1t was ascertained that the efforts to _have Windrath plead guilty were futile Judge Horton ordered the trial to proceed. TR S Felief for Armenians. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18.—Pri- vate advices received here from Constanti- nople state that the Red Cross is doing a great work in Armenia. No one is inter- ferins' witn them, and the Porte has de- clared in writing both to the English and American legations that no one shall in- terfere with the great charitable under- taking. Every permit that has been asked for bas been granted. The Red Cross agents are in the heart of the recently dis- turbed districts, and special protection is given them.,