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THE SAN‘FRANCISCO CALL, MO DAY, MAY 18, 1896. ISLAM OR THE KURDISH SWORD. Suffering Armenians Given the Choice of Dread Alternatives. FORSAKE THEIR FAITH. Sixty Thousand Profess the Creed of the Persecutors and Are Spared. | TURKISH LUST NOT APPEASED Christians Tremble at the Wrath of Abdul Hamid—The Kilis Massacre. OMAHA, Nese, May 17.—Mrs. A, N, Peller of North Bend, Nebr., has received mail advices from & friend in Aintab, Turkey, which are of particular interest at this time in reflecting the feelings of a downtrodden race—the Armenians. The | name of the writer is withheld, as it might endanger life. are as follows: AINTAB, Turkey, March 19.—[t is now | more thun five months that sword and fire, famine and cold have been doing thei fearful work among us. Not less than 200,000 of our people, largely men and from intiuential and productive classes, have fallen victims of the fury of our perse- cutors. More than 60,000 of our number | have, under threats of instant death, pro- | fessed Islam. Thousands of our sisters | and daughters have been violently carried off to the harems of Turks and Kurds. Not less than 5000 of our principal men, including many Gregorian priests and Protestant pastors and teachers, are lan- guishing in Turkish dungeons, arrested on utterly baseless charges and given no op- portunity to vindicate themselves. Nor do we see any signs of marked im- provement in our condition. It is true | maessacre and open plunder have been for- | bidden, but our Moslem neighbors are still maintaining a fiercely insulting and | threatening attitude toward us as a racc, and even were they constrained to aban- don their bloody purpose the fanatical | fury of the Moslem people, among whom we iive, having been so fiercely inflamed is quite sufficient, even against any feeble efforts the Government might be con- strained to make, to complete the work of destruction already so far accomphshed. Three possible courses of action are open to us: First—We can surrender all that our fathers have clung to during their vears of oppression and suffering; | : can abandon our faith, profess Islam, and lose ourselves and our children in the mass of our Moslem masters. Second— We can go on patiently dragging the chains of our oppressors and bearing their insults and abuses, wasting away our lives d our strength in ignoble. servitude. Third—We can seek in other lands and among liberty-loving people new homes and new hopes of enterprise and hope. Some of our people have already tried to adjust themaselves to the first condition named, but even now their wails of an- guish and remorse that are making their lives an insupportable burden warn us that death isa thousand times to be pre- ferred to a life so basely purchased. The second alternative is no- doubt still open tous; we can repudiste all our claims and aspirations for manhood, we can sur- render all hope of progress and take up again the old servile iife of the past. We should p rhaps be allowed to retain our name, our traditions and our faith, but how dwarfed, cramped and corrupted! Meanwhile other and Christian lands open hospitable doors to us and extend us sympathy and generous aid, and bid us welcome to share with them the heritage of Christianliberty and civilization. Will our Sultan permit us to emigrate? He evidently regards us asa dangerous and pestilential people in his empire. Rather than further disturb the peace of his subjects by continued efforts to crush d destroy us, wil] he graciously permit to withdraw and leave him and his people to the undisputed possession of this land? More of our blood certainly cannot be needed to appease his wrath, and as for our property, we will be content with whatever his magnanimity will atlow us, We should be glad if arrancements could be made by which we could secure for our future use some reasonable part of the property we leave behind. The facts concerning the massacre at Kilis are these: Kilis has a population of about 20,000, of whom some 2000 are Ar- menigns and 1000 Greeks and Jews. The rioting began without warning or appareut cause at about 10 o’clock on Friday morn- ing and continued until 2 . M. on Satur- day. One hundred and two persons were killed, of whom one was a Greex and three (one a' priest) Catholics. Forty were wounded and thirty professed: Islam. Nearly all the Christian shops and about 150 houses were plundered. All along the road Armenians were in the greatest ter- ror, and we found one of the vrincipal khans on the Aleppo road had been plun- dered, and expressions.of hatred of Ar- menians were frequent and ominous. | Extracts from the letter | SRR I IN DREAD OF DEATH. Abdul Bamid Cawuses the Arrest of Hun- dreds of Armenians. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, May 17. —The Sultan has not yet recovered from the fright into which he was thrown by the news of the assassination of the Shah of Per: The arrests which began almost immediately upon the receipt of the intel- ligence have continued during the past two weeks, until now more than 1500 Armenians have been taken into custody. Of this number fifty-two have been exiled to Anatolia. Notwithstanding the fact that so many Armeniaus have been arrested the agita- tion against the Sultan is rather a mong the young Turks than the Armenians. A number of young Turks have also been ar- rested and sixteen of them have been sent with the exiled Armenians to Anatolia. Seventy-three Turkish students at the m ilitary college at Kuleliah have been ar- rested, but the reason therefor is not known. The students of the Armenian college at Galata bave each been sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for having in their possession subscription lists for the relief of ti.e Armenians in Zeitoun. THE CHOLERA IN EGYXPT. | overboard. enty-three new cases of cholera and twenty deaths were reported here yesterday. For the week there were 216 cases and 161 deaths. Every steamer leaving the port is packed with people fleeing from the scourge. CAIRO, Ecyrr, May 17.—Eleven fresh cases of cholera were discovered here yes- terday. The deaths numbered nine. g i SLAUGHTER IN AFRICA. Palace of Emir Malekis at Bida Blown Up and Two Hundred People Killed. LONDON, Exa., May 17.—A dispatch from Lagos, on the West Coast of Africa, says that the palace of the Emir Malekis at Bida has been destroyed by an explc- sion and 200 people killed. _— . CATBOAT CASUALTY. New Yorkers Knocked Overboard and Drowned. JERSEY CITY, N. J.,, May 17.—A party of six men, all residents of New York City, came to this city this afternoon to take a sail in the cabin catboat Edna of the Oceanic Yacnt Club, owned by Elmer Cockran of New York. Mr. Cockran was one of the party, and two of the others were Richard Kelly ana Martin Gilday whose addresses were not known. When the Eana was off Rodin’s Reef the boom jibed, and Gilday, Kelly and & third man, whose name was not learned, were knocked The latter was rescued, but Gilday and Kelly were stunned and sank immediately. Tbe bodies were not re- covered. Two el ATLANTA HOTEL BURNED. Two Firemen and a Guest Said to Have Lost Their Lives. ATLANTA., GA.,, May 17.—The Mark- ham House was destroyed by fire to-night, causing a loss of $300,000. Two firemen are reported to have been killed, and one guest or servant was seen at the windows after the botel was wrapped in flames, Whether this person escaped is unknown. The fire started in a restaurant on Decatur street, and quickly spread to Patterson’s Livery stable. The hay in this building was ablaze in & few minutes and gave the flames such an impetus that the city's entire department could not for two hours stay their progress. The block is bounded by Lioyd, Decatur and Collins streets and on the south by the railroad tracks. e o e FLOWERS 1IN PEOFUSION. Tributes to the Memory of the Late Colosiel Cockerill. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 17.—The re- mains of the late Colonel John A. Cocke- rill, a former presiaent of the New York Press Club and a well-known journalist, who died in Egypt on the 10th vlt., lay in state at the Press Club rooms to-day. The club was appropriately draped, and fioral offerings from the Herald, to which jour- nal he was attached at the time of his death, the Elks Club, Congressman Harry Miner, Masonic clubs and even from in- dividuals and societies in foreign coun- tries were displayed in the greatest pro- fusion. The interment will be at 8t. Louis, Mo. LAKE MICHI A Schooner Is Sunk in Collision and Five Are Drowned. CHICAGO, ILL., May 17.—The steamer Onoko ran into and badly wrecked the schooner Mary D. Ayer off Gross Point this evening. The Ayer was being towed in by the City of Duluth when she sud- denly collapsed and sank. The captain and four of the crew were drowned. A boat from the Duluth rescued two men. The names of the drowned are: Captain DISASTER. William Williams, Mate Chris Matson, Henry Shira, seaman; Tom —, seaman; Fitz —, cook. The saved are ander Stern. William Greer and Alex- e A Fremch Cyclist Wins. PARIS, France, May 17.—At the Seine Velodrome to-day Worin,a French bicycle rider, beat John 8. Johnson in a match race. The distance wus 2000 meters. PURT DRCHARD ORNDOCK Its Strength Demonstrated by the Recent Test With the Monterey. No Indication of Settling or Weakness in Any Pcrtion of the Siructure. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—The board appoint:d by the Secretary ot the Navy to test the new drydock at Port Orchard, Puget Sound, of which Captain Nicoll Ludlow, U. 8. N., was president, has made its report to the department. The board began its work by critically examining the dock and all its accessories, then tested the pumping plant, which worked well, though a little below the re- quirements, which they think probably due in a great measure to the quality of coal used under the boilers, and inexperi- enced firernen. They examined the cracked casing of No. be supplied. The leaks around the dock were those usually found in wooden docks, but not excessive, and these decreased after the ship bad been in dock twenty- four hours. The Monterey, with a displacement of 3848 tons, was docked twice, once at each end of the dock, and both before and after, as well as during the time she was in the dock, levels were taken on all parts of the dock. There was no indication of settling or weakness in any part of the dock, though the ship was in the dock twelve days. The drainage system worked very effi- ciently, though it indicated the necessity of having & very complete system of iron screens over all inlets to the sub-floor drains to keep out the innumerable fish. The sheet piling extension in front of the brick discharge culvert, which had been injured (one of the results of a break in the coffer-dam some months ago), aid not discharge properly and will have to be repaired. The caisson did not fit the inner stone groove,consequently did notland properly. This the contractors will have to remedy by cutting the groove deeper in some places. Some of the blocking was washed out of place in filling the dock and will re- quire to be refastened. Deaths at Santa Monica Home. LOS ANGELES, CAL., May 17.—The latest death report of the Soldiers’ Home near Santa Monica is as follows: Issac C.Dodge, late first lieutenant of Com- pany I, Thirty-seventh Iliinois Infantry; ad- mitted in November, 1895, from San Francisco; age 62. Died from heart fuilure. James Winter, late of the U. §. in May, 1894, from Downey, Cal. AR H i te of C G, Ei acob H. Long, late of Company G, Michigan Infanirys admisted n Febrlsrrlv}?, 1893, from Fairbanks, Ariz.; age 68. Died irom pneumonia, Great Movtality at Alezxandria—People Fleeing From the Scourge. ALEXANDRIA, Ecyer, May 17.—S8ev- ' August Schwall, late of Company I, Fifty- seventh [llinois Infantry; admittea in Novem- ber, 1894, from San Jose, Cal.; age 61. Diedat Ban Jose while on furlough, 3 pump and decided that a new one should | LIBERALS MY GAIN CONTROL, Struggle for Supremacy in the Presbyterian Assembly. PEACE NOT IN SIGHT. Rev. Dr. Withrow to Be Pitted Against the Conservative Candidates. THEIR STRENGTH IS DIVIDED. The Theological Semfnary Question Will Be Revived at Saratoga Springs. NEW YORK, N.Y., May 17.—The peren- mal quarrel in the Presbyterian church over the old and new methods of Bible study is to have a fresh airing this week at Saratoga Springs. There, on Thursday at high noon, opens the one hundred and eighth session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church North, and the pains and distresses engendered by the in- terminable Briggs case are to be again en- dured. This time, from the present out- look, there is a promise of a season of greater severity than the church has yet experienced in its long and bitter succes- sion of accusations, trials, deliverances and communications, of which Dr. Briges, Union Seminary and the Bible have been the subjects. The dawn of peace which was promised at the great me€morial love feast at Pitts- burg last year isnot at hand. Unexpected developments in unexpected quarters have 1evealed new resources in possession of the liberal minority in the church. Some of the heavy fighters of other as- semblies are chosen ‘commissioners this year and they have their battle planned for them. Both sides are now canvassing to gain possession of the organization of the assembly, anda the canvassing proceeds on lines very like those made familiar in volitical functions of the day. Strange to say, the minority has been time ana again on the point of capturing the assembly by shrewd maneuvers in the canvass for the moderatorship. These tactics areagain in play. Last year, at Pittsburg, the conserva- { tives, outnumbering the liberals four to one, saved their cause at the last moment by uncovering the schemes of the New York Presbyterian bankers to secure the defeat of Dr. Booth. This year action began at Chicago. As in the past two general assemblies the candidate advanced on the liberal side as the champion of peace and work has the high rank of a busy and successful city vastor. As before, they propose, in opposition to the conservatives, a man with the repu- tation of soundness in the faith and stanch conservatism. Such a man in 1894, and again in 1895, receiving the vote of every liberal in the assembly, gathered such strength from the conservative side as to bring him within a few votes of the moderatorship. Rev. Dr. John L. Withrow of the great Third Presbyterian Church at Chicago is named for that office by Editor Gray of the Interior (newspaper) as a representa- tive of the ‘‘progressive” type in tne church. Inan editorial announcing Dr. Withrow’s candidacy, the Interior de- scribes the theological gquarrel in the church as a difference of type of man, not of doctrine, and calls upon the church in the coming assembly to disregard this difference, and to recognize, in the inter- ests of the efficiency and happiness of the church, the equal value of both divisions in the common cause. Coming from this source the candidacy of Dr. Withrow has aiarmed the conserva- tive party beyond measure, They see in it a repetition of the fight of last year, when Dr. Page was forced out from the conservative side to stand as the repre- sentative of the liberals. “It is a well-laid plan and I fear it will succeed,’” said one of the oldest and most experienced campaigners, “If elected,” he continued, “Dr. Withrow will place no barrier in the way of undoing all that the assembly has done for truth in the past five years.”’ Editor Gray and the Interior may be classed as resolutely and unchangeably in opposition to the settled course of the con- servative party in the church, He op- posed in his paper the trial of Dr. Briggs and Dr. Smith, the deliverance in regard to the errors in the Bible and the disap- vroval of Union Seminary. His nomina- tion of a candidate, whoever he might be, would in iteelf arouse the conservatives. But there is more to cause uneasiness in this quarter. Dr. Withrow cast his vote in the Chi- cago Presbytery to receive Rev. Frank V. Vrooman as pastor of the Kenwood Church in that city. Mr. Vrooman's reception by the Chicago Presbytery created a furor in the West that was equaled only by that caused by the Briggs case in New York City. According to his own statement, publicly made at a meeting of the presby- tery, he “'did not expect to find a rational being who believed in every article of the Westminister Confession of Faith.” He denied & full and clear belief in the Doctrine of the Trinity as is commonly accepted, and stated unequivocally his disbelief in the inerrancy of tbe Bible. After an examination of his belief by a full presbytery, Mr. Vrooman was re- ceived after an avowal of his belief in and acceptance of the confession which Le had previously discredited, one of the votes in bis favor being that of Dr. Withrow. This action of the presbytery has resulted in a complaint and a protest which may find for the case a place on the calendar of the the moderator’s chair. He is a conserva- tive of the conservatives. His family name is enough to settle the faintest sug- gestion of doubt on that score. Personally, as editor of the Herald and Presbyter, his influence has been constant and unceasing on the side of the oid order of theological belief and Biblical stndy, He has been through the thick of the fight at Cincinnati in the Smith case. The New York conservatives would be satisfied to rest their trouble with Dr. Briggs and the Union Seminary in his hands. But there is another conservative above the horizon—Dr. David E. R. Breed of t he First Church, Pittsburg. Dr. Breed wall not abate one jot or tittle of the strictest orthodoxy in pulpit or seminary. He stood asa forlorn hope of the conserva- tives two years ago, amid the almost solid liberal delegation from Chicago, in the desperate fight on the Theological Semi- nary question at Saratoga. r. Breed, moreover, is a man of great strength of character and fine personal appearance, af- fable, agreeable and popular. Beinga pas- tor and not an editor would give him ad- vantage over Dr. Montfort in such a con- test, for the ministers of the Presbyterian church are not overfond of their editors. One factor in the contest is the strength of the Western home missionaries, who come in force to the assemblies. The can- didates for moderator chosen by the lib- eral side have been men of strong mission- ary spirit, and this vote has been cast usu- ally on their side. With two such men as Dr. Montfort and Dr. Breed to divide the conservatives, there is much ground for the hopeful view of Dr. Withrow’s chances indulged in by the liberals., The attitude of the New York Presby- tery toward the General Assembly is sure to awaken a bitter contest at Saratoga. That attitude can best be described as de- tiant. The Pittsburg assembly ordered the New York Presbytery and, in truth, all presbyteries to not receive students edu- cated at the Union Theological Seminary, because that institution persisted in its contumacious treatment of the assembly. The New York Presbytery as well as other presbyteries not only di: regardea this order, but they criticized and condemned the action of the assembly in issuing the order as unwarranted and unconstitutional. The conservatives are prepared to view this act of the presby- tery with fiery eyes when they reach Sara- t oga. The New York delegation, which is almost solidly arrayed against the New York Presbytery in this action, is greatly discouraged at the outlook. They expect a bitter fight and they anticipate a losing fight as well. ‘*A reverse may strengihen us”—the words of one of the leading New Yorkers. heir only consolation. Equally important with the selection of a moderator will be the consideration of the low financial status of the great benev- olent boards of the church. The home and foreign mission boards are practically | bankrupt, and such bas been their con- dition for two vears. They came before the assembly last year with the enormous debt of & half million of doliars. To raise this sum the boards had hy- pothecated every scrap of stocksand bonds In their possession, the accumulations from legacies of many Bevond this their renl estate possessions on Fifth ave- nue were weighted with heavy mortgages, executed to raise money to build the great Presbyterian palace on that thoroughfare. Not acent of credit was available to either board, and a plain statement to that effect was made by the treasurers at the Pitts- burg assembly. A grand committee was appointed to raise & $1,000,000 memorial | fund for the benetit of the boards. This committee has been at work the past year, and the result of its labors will be made known. The theological seminary control project also comes up again, having been re- submitted to the seminary boards for further action. Such action has been taken, and the committee will assemble to-morrow at the Adeiphi House, Sara- toga, to digest and prepare a report. The report cannot be foreshadowed at this writing, but it will be in line with the pre- vious action on the same subject, recom- | mending further supervision and control by the assembly of the temvoral and spiritual affairs of the Presbyterian theo- logical seminaries. STAONG EVIDENCE IGAIAST BLANTHER Continved from First Page. turer; neither was he acting as an agent for Appleton’s ‘Modern Art’ publica- tions. He had some of these art works on hand, which he hsd bought at the exposition at Chicago and wanted to raise a little money by selling them. If he committed this crime insanity must nave prompted him to it. This is at least my opmion. “He would frequently become very de- spondent and threatened more than once to take his life. He secmed to have at times a suicidal mania. I have often wor- ried, fearing he woula do something of this desperate nature. “His religion was of the Buddhist and theosophical order. He would sit in my office and enlighten me on the mysteries of these cults. He attended the meetings of the Theosophical Society on Post street regularly. “He visited quite frequently the National Guard rooms on Ellis street and was quite a favorite with the boys.” ‘When questioned about a nightgown found in Blanther’s valise yesterday by the police, which appeared spotted with blood, Mr. Dodge said: “The nightgown that was in the valise in Blanther’s room I saw some two weeks ago. I saw those spots then, and Blanther called my atten- tion to them, saying: ‘This might be taken for blood, but it is some acid that I spilled on it.” “He was a pronounced goldbug in his political views, and often expatiated on that subject by,the hour, “The note of mine found by the police yesterday (Sunday) in Blanther's room, to the effect that I could not meet a cartain engagement, was written by me some days ago, and went to his house by my little brother. It related to some writing that he had asked me to do with him. “Speaking of his peculiar literary ability he wrote a story entitled ‘Jailer,” which he had endeavored to have published in the Argonaut, but unsuccessfully. “This story evidenced the strange turn of his thoughts. The story begins before the creation and continues in allegorical style. The character Jailer is death. “I bave always been led to believe that there was some woman who controlled his actions, and who was at the bottom of his extravagancies. I never heard from him who this woman was, as he was not the kind of a man that would bandy the name of a woman about. I also believed he was General Assembly. Since the action at|On good terms with the woman when he Chicago Dr. Withrow’s vote has been the subject of explanation and an apology in the public press. “I was actuated with a desire to avoid contention,” are hiswords. *I recognized his lack of technical training, but his wish to ba with us offset the errors 1 belisved he would outgrow. I thought it would do less harm to receive him than to create a contention in the Presbytery over his re- ception.”” t is this action and this explunntion of his action that is the basis of opposition to Dr. Withrow on the part of the leading conservatives. ‘‘He would be a man pli- able in the hands of the crafty liberals,” is the comment of a conservative. Dr. Frank C. Montfort, editor of the Herald and Presbyter, will stand as the candidate of the Western conservatives. There is not a shadow of a doubt as to what Dr. Moatford would do were he in left me in Oakland. “Judging from the results of the crime the instinctive feeling I have always heid as to his morbidness on the subject of death and his capacity to do some desper- ate act has been confirmed. 1 havea faint of the rings should be published in the newspapers as in the event of the mur- derer disposing of them the person pur- chasing them could at once communicate with the police and give a description of the man who sold or pawned them. 1t was assumed that if Blanther was the murderer of Mrs. Langfeldt he must have been driven to the deed by dire necessity, and the fact thathe took the diamond rings from her fingers led to the conclu- sion that he did so with the intention of seiling them to procure funds to leave a city where he could not find remunerative employment. A sketch of the rings was drawn by the jeweler, who made them for the mur- dered woman, and yesterday morning copies were made and given to detectives with instructions to visit every pawnshop in the City with the object of ascertaining if the murderer had pawned them. success attended their efforts could not be learned, but from Captain Lees’ smil- ing countenance yesterday it was apparent that ne had a trump card up his sleeve. To all inquiries, however, the wily Captain said that he had no information to impart. It might bhave been from some definite in- formation about the rings or something of as much importance that he had dis- covered while searching Blantner’s room at 828 Geary street, or from the letters which were found in Mrs. Langfeldt's room and a portion of which were trans- lated into English by a German linguist yesterday. Has Bianther left the City? This was the great question at police headquarters yesterday. Detectives Byram and Wren were, it is supposed, close on his trail, but they reported at police headquarters last night without him. Detective Gibson was also close on his trail yesterday, but like the others was disappointed. It was re- ported last night that a man answering Blanther’s description had engaged a room at 131 Monteomery street on Satur- day night, but Gibson, who went there late last night, found that the man was not Blanther. It was the general impres- sion that Blacther had aot left the City and all the boats leaving the ferry and the trains leaving the Oakland mole were closely watched by detectives in the hope that he would attempt to get away. But he did not make his appearance. From the fact that he had hinted at suicide to some of his acquaintances, there is a strong belief that he will not be cap- tured alive. The police are satisfied that he is the murderer, and his absence from his room at 828 Geary street and other circumstances lead irresistibly to the con- firmation of that suspicion. Captain Lees was so anxious about the capture of the murderer that he did not seek his bed, but personally hunted up evidence against the murderer and was in a hack the greater part of the night. He was in his office ull day yesterday and did not leave tili last night. Chief Crowley was also on hand last night and early yes- terday morning and was kept posted as to the movements of the force searching for the murderer. Several of the detectives did not have & wink of sleep and some of them up to a late hour last night. There is the keenest desire on the part of every member of the force under Captain Lees to capture the murderer and that consummation is expected ai any moment. e PICTURE ON THE RETINA. Captain Lees Smiles and Says It Is Like Hamlet's Whale in the Ciouds. Captain Lees spent all of Saturday night in wakeful study of what Mrs. Langfelt’s muraerer could look like. His vigil wore on the old man’s good nature and made him cross until he read the morning papers, in which, and especially in the illustrations, he found something to make him laugh. ““This brings me back,” said the captain, “to many years ago. It was in the days when there was no water service in this City excepting by water-carts, with their ten-gallon buckets hanging behind. The driver of one of these wagons and a butcher who is here now were two sus- pects. A woman of the half-world had { been murdered and the evidence at first sight implicated both. “‘Subsequently, as the meshes became entangled, the butcher was seen to be in- nocent, but the water-carrier's guilt be- came more apparent. This fellow, bow- ever, bad gone off to Virginia City, where he murdered another woman, and, being caught and convicted, he was hanged. “‘But, this is not what I startea to say. ‘At the time of the Marie Smith mur- der in this City some German or other for- eign scientists had sprung the proposition that a dying person’s eve retained an im- pression of its last view, esvecially when terror or horror was an element at the last moment. In other words, a person being murdered, and looking at the murderer, would photograph his countenance and general make-up in the retina of the eve. It was said that by developing this won- derful results could be obtained. “Well, I tried it. I got Drs. Gray and Rowell and lots of others. They were the most prominent physicians here and men who would be prominent arywhere. They prepared the eye of the woman to be pho- tographed.” As Captain Lees strung out the story drawing upon his reminiscences his entire frame shook with merriment at his recol- lections. “Well,” he continued, *“you would hardly imagine what we saw in that mur- dered woman’s eye. “‘Sure as gospel there was a perfect pic- ture. Jeff Davis, beyond a doubt, was the murderer, according to the negative, or I never in my life saw a correct picture of him. “By turning the negative at a slant an- other likeness appeared, and for the mat- ter of that the lights and shades made any picture the fancy would call for.” Under these circumstances and the fact that the murderer of Mrs. Langfeldt must necessarily have stood at her back while cutting her throat, photographs of a flee- ing murderer secured from the dead woman’s eve must be drawn greatly from imagination. So thinks Captain Lees. A FOUNTAIN OF LAVA{j Rev. Dr. Dille Tells of His Experience in the Hawaiian Islands. Rev. Dr. Dille of Centraul M. E. Church has just return-d from Honolulu after a six-weeks absence from this City. Dr. Dille went to Honolulu to dedicate the First M. E. Church there. He says that the church is out of debt and has a mem- bership of nearly 100. Un April 28 he and a party of twelve visited the volcano hope, however, that it may be proven he is not the guilty man.” Sy SEARCH FOR BLANTHER. Whereabouts of the Rings — The Murderer May Take His . Own Life. Captain Lees on Saturday night at- tached the utmost importance to the rings taken from Mrs. Langfeldt’s fingers after the murderer bad finished his bloody work. He was particularly anxious that a ski of Mauna Loa, which was in eruption, and he says that the sight was well worth the hardships of the journey. Ir of the crater were two fountains of molten lava. One of these wasat least 150 feet in diameter and it reached a length of 400 feet. The other was smaller, but the flow of both was continuous for days. While on the mountain the d;mrt was caught in a regular blizzard and suffered intensely from the cold. t 2 2 In speaking of . the political situation at the islands, Dr. Dille said that there is still a great desire for annexation on the part | of the Government with the United States. What | were on duty all day yesterday and | In the center |t | section. REINCARNATION AND AFTER DEATH, CountessWachtmeister Says | Men Create Their Own | Hell. | | HINTS OF SECRET FORCES | | Dr. Allan Griffiths Says Mens Are Reborn on Earth Many Times. TWO0 THEOSOPHICAL LECTUBES‘ An Argument for Cremation on the Theory That the Asiral Body Haunts Graveyards. The advent of the Countess Wachtmeis- ter of the Colonel Olcott faction of the Theosophical Society has caused a stir locally. There were two largely attended meet- ings last night, one in Beethoven Hall, addressed by the Countess under the hos- pitable wing of Golden Gate Lodge, and one in Red Men’s Hall, a few doors east, where Dr. Allan Griffiths of the Theosophi- cal Society in America spoke to an equally large and appreciative audience. Before beginning his lecture Dr. Grif- fiths was asked to explain the difference be- tween the two factions of the seekers after truth. He said that the Theosophical So- ciety, of which Mme. Blavatsky was the founder, was first organized in New York City. J. Q. Judge, the predecessor of President Hargrove, was the first vice- president and secretary of the American Judge was a great power because of his superior skill and judgment indraw- ing men and women to him, and he made the American section a great organization among the followers of the “Ho, ab oriente, phos'’—the light from the east. ‘When Madame Blavatsky died, Judge stepped into her shoes, he being eminently well qualitied for the position by reason of his occult knowledge and his intimacy with the adepts or Mahatmas who con- template the affairs of this life from the snowy summits of the Himalayas, in Thibet, where Abbe Huc saw so many miraculous phenomena. “Jjudge was much higher than a mere student,” said Dr. Grifliths in an inter- view last night. ‘‘He was the highest chela. | “Colonel Olcott was only an exoteric | member, not an esoteric or student of the occult. His knowledge of occuitism was what placed him at the head of the order. | Judge worked Without salary and never | used his power to benefit himself.”” “Karma and Reincarnation” was the | theme of Dr. Gritiths’ discourse. It was | up to the standard of his able efforts and | was liberally apolauded. | Beethoven Hall,in the Hotel Savoy, was | jammed with people. Aiter all the chairs | were taken several rows of men and | women were obliged to stand against the walls. The Countess Wachtmeister is a vortly lady, on the shady side of 40. She has a full, rich voice, which she uses to ad- vantage, and she speaks in the accent of an educated English woman. Her subject was “D-ath and After,” and it was han- dled from the theosophical point of view. She spoke of having heard Dr. Spurgeon in London deliver a sermon on hell, in which he pointed out the horrors of that place so vividly that women trembled and burst into tears. She said that no one dreaded death so much as the person who believes in the existence of hell. People may create their own hell on earth by vile and wicked and malicious thoughts and people the space around them with devils born in their own minds. Thoughts are entities that will re- turn to torment the person from whom they issue. “We sorrow for the dead,” said the speaker, ‘‘but they do not sorrow for us, They yearn for the time when those they loved on earth may meet them.” The seven parts of man intertwined with the body were then described by the speaker. The astral form, said the speaker, could, at the command of a magnetizer, leave the body of the magnetized and travel to distant points. Some theosophists, of thelr own voli- tion ,could go into a trance and send their astral souls whithersoever they chose. | The speaker favored cremation as a cleanly and sanitary method of disposing of the bodies of the dead. It would also | prevent burial alive. 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