The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896. AN ORPHANAGE | THAT 15 A HOME: Conducting a Place on New Lines for Parentless Children. LOVING HELPING HANDS | fancy work and pictures. flower-] ; laden atmosphere, and the little b are made up by the children with as uch care as if arranged by professional imakers. | In these rooms the girls dre taught one | of the branches of successful housekeep- | | ing—a lesson they will never forget. The sexes are Kept separate and in the center of the building are the rooms of the as- sistants, who.at a moment’s notice, ca: sttend to the wants of any of the childre in the night. The furniture and bedding | of the-e rooms have all been contributed | by kind people who have taken an interes: | the work. There is, however, a lack of airs, but this has been supplied by the | ider boys having built out of odds and ends | of boards substantial benches. Some of the | sleeping-rooms are neutly decorated with Oue of the cottages on the grounds, | “’h)ctl has been designated as “Rest Cot- tage,” is being fitted up in furtherance of the ideas of the lady managers. Mrs. | | William N. Aderson, an oid-time resident | How Little Ones Are Cared for at | the Presbyterian Asylum at San Rafael. A FARM TO BE ESTABLISHED. Boys to Be Taughi Trades and Girls Housewifery and Made Useful | Members of the Community. 1 t ladies connected | church decided for orphans and vterian parents, as | Rerks of San Rafael and at whose house the first Presbyterian prayer-meeting in that | | place was’ held, is fifting up a room in | | that cottage at her own expense, and she | opes that others will follow her example. “‘This,” she said, “is intended for poor | girls who work in shops or stores the year round and whose limited wages will not vermit them to go to the springs. They will be allowed to occupy these rooms for ! aliruited time and wili therefore enjoy a | rest in the country—a luxury that they | cannot have at summer resorts on ac- | count of their scarcity of means. This of | course is not a money-making arrange- | ment.” | Mrs. Noble, the resident member of the | board of managers, wife of the Rev. W. B. | Noble of the Presbyterian church, supervisory ckharge of the home. <tto Atouran- | ek a committee appointed to view the Dow g farm, | d a_balf miles east of this place. | hope in the near future,” she sa secure a farm in this count nual meeting held Wi i on is eighty acres, p STRONG LOBBY FOR THE WILMERDING, But the Regents Have Not Yet Decided on the i i | Location. ‘ | Disclosure of the Intentions of : the Testator in Regard to | This City. GOVERNOR BUDD OUTSPOKEN. | He Declares He Will Enforce the | Regulation Regarding Absentee Regents. Wilmerding’s bequest of $400,000 to es- i tablish a school of mechanical trades was teasantly | the topic discussed at the meeting of the ter and al board of regents at the Mark Hopkins In- | THE CHILDREN IN THE ORPHANS’ HOME AT / .’,’/i:l/z,‘l/, | /f | | SAN RAFAEL. It was also the | re a farm on educate | fe and to es for young women 0 obtain at nominal re they could rest for a pin that direction was the of the orphanage. They in the past was known as rt House,'’ at one time a fa; ing-house in beautiful flower- an Rafael, located almost in the atter in charge, a perfect home for the o are sheltered ". Edgington, a who occupies | terday, as she , scrupulously | ghted and sunny dining- the little ones were par- noonday meal. A more nd heslthy lot of little ones, age from 20 months to 10| years; it would be difficult to find any- | where. There was noticeable an absence | of tbat severity and rigorous discipiine that is often noticed in institutions where children are brought up under the care of | those who are not related to them except by ties of kindneas and devotion to those who are parentless. There was not even that restraint often observed at boarding £chools. ; Each child seemed to have the same in- dividuality that children have in their homes. Little Jennie, the pet of the home, only 20 months old, who as a_babe was rescued from the slums of San Fran- cisco, having eaten a genteel sufficiency, sat on & bench hugging a rag baby almost as large as herself and appesred to be as content as any one of her age could wish ranging in to be. | “The children in this house,” continued the matron, ‘‘are broaght up on different lines from those in many institutions. It | is our purpose o make this as near_home- | like as it can possibly be made. We do not want to let them feel that they are the children of charity. All buta dozen who are in the kindergarten grade attend the | public scoool with the other children of San Rafael, and they are, Iam pleased to | say, treated just the same as the other | pupils. & | “‘We have a little cottage on the grounds where the smaller ones have hindergarten instruction. Then in these large grounds each child has his or berown little garden. | e boys plant vegetables and the girls | wers, but there are quite a number of | s who have flower gardens, for they to Jove the beautiful flowers as much | he girls. They plant, rake, weed vater their respective sections, and | how delightea they are when they 3 get out after school hours to dig and work | und! The older boys help in ‘the reral work about the home and the | 1s are taught to sew and do the mend- i the same as they would in a| They are all like a great family of | brothers and sisters, and so well do they i get along that there is no need for punish- H ment. We hope that we may be able to continue in this work as we are doing it | now. ““Help? I have to assist me in the man- agement of our f Mrs. Katie Mc- Pherson and Mrs. Laura Denholm, two very kind and motherly ladies. Mrs. Mc- | Pherson Joves each little one as if it were her own, and the love of the children for | bLer is reciprocal. 2 “We have herc & playroom, and use it night and morning for devotional service, and on Sunday the children all go to Dr. Noble's Sunday-school class. The little ones have plenty of recreation. There are swings for ihe girls, also sKipping-ropes, and for the boys thereis a gymnasiam i{ the yard.”’ The rooms on the upper floor—more than a dozen of them—with the excention of one used as & ho-gital. are used assleep- ing apartments. hey are all bright, cheerful, well lighted and well ventilated, and each is filled with the fragrance of the small running stream. in fruit trees, and the place is very pro- ductive, If we can secure that place we will establish our farm there. We will teach the boys all that can be taught them on & farm, and we will teach the girls all that a girl shonld know to become a good | housekeeper, either for the city or cou ‘We shall establish trades for the teach them something besides to make us of the chil r care. Before we make a sele shall visit two or three other t have been suggested. When the fa our plan of rest cottag We are pleased have already met with and we in make our orphanage what it is now, a he in every sense of the word. The Ith of the children has been excellent, only a few cases ot the mumps, and these nto effe, have been cared for by Dr. William F. | Jones, the Health Officer of San Rafael, |} who sees to the health of our family. “A more contented lot of chiidren than we have I have never seen and tney all dearly lovely Miss Edgington, who is a most loveable lady.” WAS HE A DESEATER? The Man Seen by Captain Hell- quist Supposed to Be a Soldier. A Prisoner From Alcatraz Missing Since Monday Mora- ing. The man and boat seen drifting out through the Golden Gate on Monday by Captain Heilquist of the schooner John A is supposed to he none other than a de- serter from Alcatraz Island. On that day a soldier named Herbert, | who has been sentenced from Vancouver 0 three years and six months’ imprison- ment on the *Rock,’”” as the military men term Alcatraz prison, escaped and has not as yet been found. From information obtained it appears that Herbert’s punishment on the Rock had been made rather severe. He had,in addition to his long-pending-term, been confined in the tank for fourteen days upon bread and water. Having served this time, he must in some manner have given offense to those in authority, as he no sooner got out than he was again com- mitted for fourteen days more, upon the same bill of fare. From this his last term he got out on last Sunday, and to his comrades he made the threat that before he would again spend fourteen days in the dungeon he would commit suicide. morning, about half past 8 o’clock, when the prisoners were allowed out of their cel| to labor about the grounds, Herbert asked permission from the sergeant in charge to be excused for a few minutes. The request was granted, and when the twenty minutes, which is the limited time ailowed upon an occasion of thischaracter, | had expired Herbert failed to report for A search was instantly made about | | the island, but no traces of the missing | man could be found. The officer in charge ordered a boat to be got ready and manned | and search instituted along the shore line | duty, nd, but the result was barren of stcees: The boat’s crew reported that no tidings of Herbert couid be found. It is now surmised that the man and boat seen by the captaimn of the John A were none other than the unfortumate military aeserter, who either secured a boat along side the island or swam out to a raft and cutting it loose drifted out with the tide, willing to take bis chances of being rescued, shot or of becoming food for the fish. Two hnndred and thirty thousand people hl\':olfieennéa to sell or deal in beer in Great Britain. It has fifteen acres | stitute of Art yesterday afternoon. | up by the Goverr m then we shall put | | present the advantages of that progressive | city, consisted of H. J. Corcoran, Califor- | nia Navigation Company; Fred 3. West, | { ban: | 1an, Alfred Bouvier, C. F. Fargo, Herman | Thomas J. Lamb, Joseph Leggett and | | Professor Buchanan. | nia, Pasadena, and rrofessor H. B. Ard- | the Governor readily perceived tihat the | busine: | session, so it was agreed tv adjourn, when | other place than San Francisco for the | On Monday | | the testator there was a gift of $350,000 to Gov- | ernor Budd attended the session and pre- | sided. Regents Hallidie, Miller, Martin, | Houghton, Kelloge, Lynch, John E. Budd, Phelps, Wallace, Denicke, Rodgers, Black, ! Chase, Waymire, Slack, Reinstein, Jeter, Foote, Secretary onte and Attorney | Mhoon were present. The subject of imposing on students a fee of $10 a term for incidentals was called tle the matter Judge Wal- | a resolution that no such | be imposed. | The matter was postponed, on the state- ment of Attorney Mhoon that “the regents had no power to charge a tuition fee. The minutes were corrected and a reso- luti ti he Sutro site for the s was adopted. of acceptance as prepared y of the board for record in races letters from Sutro z , August 9 and August also the deed of October &, 1= iture waiver letter of May 2, 18 solution sacknowledging the ans of the donor in connection 1e Sutro Library. In conclusion the site is gratefully accepted, and Sutro's | profound appreciation of the good oi the commonw nd his devotiion to learn- ing are fitly recognized. Vhen the Wilmerding site was reached in the order of business the rooin was well filled by capitalists, professional educators | and other leadi: itizens of the State. The Stockton delegation, sent down to «er; James Marsh, Grangers’ Union; F. B. P banker, and H. G. Bhaw, | “was at the head of the Oak- | Among citizens of San Francisco attend- | ing were William Alvord, James D. Phe- Scoussler, J. R. Freud, E J. McCutcheon, The Legislatare was represented by Sen- ator Percy Henderson and Sigmund M. | Bettman, chairman of the Assembly com- | mittee on Public Morals of the last session. | Charles H. Keyes, president of the Throov Polytechnic lnstitute of Califor- | ley of the University of California were there. b | There was so much talent in sight that could not be transacted at one an adjournment was taken until this| morning at 10 o’clock. William Alvord, Frnident of the Bank | of California, replied to some questions | propounded by Governor Budd, ana said | Mr. Wilmerding never thought of any school site. It was his idea to take the poor boys off the sireets of this City and | teach them a trade. | C. F. Fargo, the old-time business | partner of Mr. Wilmerding, said: *I| knew Wilmerding, and took him out rid- ing every day for two years. I went over to the Potrero with him. He thought the school site should be south of Market | street. He never thought of any other place than San Francisco. I knew Wil- merding from the time he came to Cali- fornia, He worked for me for $100° a | uaqnl'l’l and was finally admitted to partner- | ship.”. i It was suggested by the Governor that if Wilmerding's money was made in the | liquor business it came from the interior. r. Fargo replied: “Wilmerding's for- tune was made in the New York stock market. The liquor business probably made $500.000 for him."” E. J. McCutcheon, the lawyer who drew | Mr. Wilmerding’s will, thought it would not be violating professional confidence to recall the fact that in one will drawn for establish a school of art 1n 8an Francisco, but when it was announced that Mr. Bearles bad given the Mark Hopkins man- sion for an art institute Mr. Wilmerding had bis will changed and substituted the trades school for tue art school. 3 *‘Mr. Wilmerding was =0 apprehensive that something might hapren to him that he sent to the Bank of California for his box and took therefrom $400,000 of securi- ties, with instructions to have Mr. Alvord | talker. GREAT BREAK IN NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. PRICES THIS WEEK ! Finding ourselves HEAVILY OVERSTOCKED, owing to the backwardness of the season and the unusually vast magnitude of our purchases, we have determined TO ACCELERATE 'TRADE TO ITS UTMOST and to that end we have THOROUGHLY OVERHAULED AND 'MARKED DOWN EVERYTHING to figures that buyers who study their own interests will |SAN FRANCISCO FAVORED take immediate advantage of, for SUCH A BARGAIN OPPORTUNITY HAS NOT BEEN PRESENTED IN YEARS! LACE DEPARTMENT! At 15¢c, 35¢ a Yard. BUTTER ORIENTAL LACE, 6, 9and 11 inches wide. in a large variety of pat- terns, regular value 25¢, 35c and 50c. At 20¢, 25¢, 30¢, 40¢, 50¢ and 60c a Dozen. WHITE and BUTTER VALENCIENNES LAC endl i special this week at per dozen yar at greatly red Also finer qualities d prices. . 50c and Up. At 17 BATI 2 shade, 35¢, Hc, Toc and §1per yard. 30¢, 40¢, 50c and Up. ;N INSERTIONS, BANDS, I ill be offered at 20c, Oc, T3¢, 90c and $1 At 10¢, 15¢, 20¢, 25¢ a Yard Up. CAMBRIC, AINSOOK AND SWISS GUIPU EMBROIDERY, with In- sertions to match, latest designs, will be offered at 10c, 15¢, 20c, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c per yard. NECKWEAR! NECKWEAR! 0, $3.50 and Up. 'f [ IN LACE COL- OLLARETTES, FRONTS, ete., the newest creations, i EXTRA SPECIAL! At $1.25 a Yard. 186 pieces EMBROIDERED MOUSSE- LINE DE SOIE, black ground, elabo- rately embroidered in colors, 24 inches wide, regular value $3 50, will be placed on sale at $1 25 a yard. 10c, 50c and 60c | ed at$1, $2, $250, $350, §4 | PARASOLS ! PARASOLS! At 75 Cents. | CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in black satin, line):l, value $1 50, will be offered 5 each. At #1.00. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in Gloria Silk, lined, will be offered at §1 each. | At $1.00. CARRIAGE PAPASOLS, in Gros-Grain and Surah, with ruffle trimming, all | silk, will be offered at $1 each. | At $1.50. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in Gros-Grain and Surah , two ruffles, value $2 50, will be offered at §1 50 each. At $2.00. | CARRTAGE PARASOLS, in Gros-Grain Silk, ruffled trimmed, silk lining, value $3, will be offered at §2 each. At $2.50. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in White Chif- fon with black polka dots, value $4, will be offeredat $2 50 each. | At 75 Cents. | LADIES' 22-INCH WHITE PARASOLS, suitable for seaside, will be offered at 7oc each. LADIES' KID GLOVES! At 75 Cents. | 2000 pairs -BUTTON KID GLOVES, in back, regular value $1 25, will be offered at 75¢ a pair. i At 75 Cents. 2000 pairs 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in brown and tan shades, aleo black, reg- ular value $1 25, will be offered at 75¢ : & pair. | At 75 Cents. 11800 pairs 5-HOOK KID GLOVES, in black, regular price $1 25, will be of- fered at 73c a palr. At SO Cents. 1750 pairs 4-BUTTON DERBY KID GLOVES (large buttons to match gloves), in red, brown, tan and navy, | also black, regula; lue $1 25, will be offered at 80c a pai | At $1.00. 1650 pairs 4 BUTTON SUEDE GLOVES (large buttons), in tan, slate, brown and mode shades, also black, regular value $1 50, will be offered at §1 a pair. At $1.00. 1500 pairs 4-BUTTON DERBY i | | f KID | lish red shades, extra good value for | $1 50, will be offered at $1 a pair. At $1.25. | 1000 palrs +BUTTON FRENCH KID GLOVES (large buttons to match | gloves), in tan, mode and brown col- Ors, also black, extra value for §1 75, | will be offered at $1 25 a pair. SPECIAL PURCHASE! About 450 pairs FINE PURE WOOL WHITE BLANKETS (slightly imperfect), bought at a nominal price, to be sold this week at far less than mill cost. They com- prise cradle, crib, cot, single bed to the extra size blankets. 23" OUR NEW CATALOGUE is now DENTS ONLY, to whom it will be mailed free on receipt of addres being distributed to COUNTRY RESI- cream and white, black embroidered | G LOVES, in tan, red, brown and Eng- | HOSTERY 2 SILK ONDERWEAR At 15 Cents a Pair. 100 dozen BOYS’ BLACK RIBBED COT- TON HOSE, extra heavy, made spe- cially for boys’ wear, regular price 25c. At 25 Cents a Pair. 150dozen CHILDREN'S FINE RIBBED MACO COTTON HOSE, double knees, heels and toes, black and assorted tan shades, regular price 35¢ and 40c. At 25 Cents a_Pair. 200 dozen LADIES' FINE MACO COT- TON HOSE, extra hign-spliced heels, double soles and toes, black and as- sorted tan shades, regular price $4 20 per dozen. = At 3314 Cents a Pair. 175 dozen LADIES’ 4-THREAD BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, extra high- spliced heels, double soles and toes, ermsdorf black, regular price 50¢c. At 50¢, 75¢, 85¢, $1.25, $1.50 Each. LADIES' SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, low neck and sleeveless, in cream, black, pink, sky and lavender, regular price 90c to $2 25 each. At 75 Cents Each. LADIES JERSEY RIBBED EGYPTIAN COTTON UNION SUITS, high neck, leng sleeves, regular price $1. CORSETS. CORSETS. At $1.00. LADIES' SATTEEN CORSETS, extra long waist, two side steels and patent loo eyelets, embroidered with colored sil flossing, perfect fit guaranteed, regular value El 50, Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strets. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stree ‘ Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests, Murphy Building, Market and Jones Sirgets. deliver them in person to the Board of Re- gents for the school of trades. He was greatly interested in the success of the Cooper Institute of New York.'” Thomas J. Lamb, the business manager of Mr. Wilmerding, said the Potrero was frequent 3 mentioned as a proper site for the school. “If1 should say that when Mr. Wilmerding died he expected the school to be located in the Potrero I shounid state a fact. Mr. Wilmerding oiten no- ticed the numerous crowds of idle boys on the streets, and once he said to several of them that they ought to be learning a trade. One of the boys responded: ‘How can we learn & trade? Tuey won’t let The Governor wanted to know to whom the boys referred in saying ‘“they won’t let us.’ Albert Miller was po-itive that the trades unions were meant. James I). Phelan said that Richard Frend knew, and Mr. Frend said that Josepn Leggett under- stood what was meant. Several wise regents, who saw that the board was off the track, intervened and re-established the direct course. Herman Schussler, chief engineer of the Spring Valley Water Works, Professor Buchanan of the Cogswell School, and Churles J. Keyes, president of the Poly- | technic Institute at Pasadena, enlightened he regents on the sibject of mechanical schools. S Mr. Schussler observed that California boys were remarkably quickwitted. He | advised the board of the danger of going too far with scientific training, and spoke of the value of knowledge in the handling of the ax. saw, hammer, trowel and the square. The boys should be taught to | estimate on the guantity of brick and jumber required. He thought a small be- ginning should be made on cheap land south of Market street. Had Rev. Anua Shaw been present at the meeting to hear Professor Keyes she might_have changed her mind about Pro- fessor Griggs of Stanford being the ideal man. Professor Keyes is a fascinating Surely the regents nchowledfed that they had been entertained as well as instructed by the masterly fashion in which he presented his argument. When the regents on the Berkeley side were too closely pressing Mr. Keyes for an admission that the school should be established near the university he said: “We are saffering at our leading uni- versities just a little bit with the idea that a master mechanic is not quite as good 8s a professor of Greek or a leading lawyer. There is among professors a sort of feel- ing that it is not quite as respectable to work with the hand deftly as to work with the hand quiet.” Before the adjournment Governor Budd notified the board that he intended to en- force the law declaring vacant the place of any regent who should be absent three months without leave. I shall make new appointments at once to fill such va- cancies,’ said the Governor.” TWO ANGRY WIVES. They Swear Out Warrants Against Their Husbands for Battery. Two wives, smarting under a castigation from their husbands, swore to_complaints for their arrest vesterday. Mrs. Katie Wheeler, wife of E. T. Wheeler, 1648 Market street, appeared in Judge Conlan’s court. She said that on Monday night, after she and her husband retired, he got out of bed and went into another room; that she jollowed him, and he struck her three or four times in the face with his fists. .. “Mrs. Bessie Lang, wife of Charles Lang, | who has a cig‘r-sund on California street, opnosite the Stock Exchange, appeared in Judge Campbell's court. She said she went to her husband’s stand on Monday to ask him for some money and he kicked her out. Fight With 8 Madman. Vincent Ostrowski, an insane man, was ar- rested on Haight and Stanyan streets yester- day mornin, %y Policeman Moran. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital in the wagon. As he lert the wagon he tried to away from Moran and Policeman Gaynor knd a despernte struggle ensued. Steward Bucher ran to the assisiance of the 3”"""“"‘ and it required all their efforts to drag him into one of the padded cells. atrol 3 AN AGERESSIVE CAMPIGH That Is What the Woman Suf frage Association Will Wage. The Planks That Have B:en Already Secured for the Party ! Platform. ‘ Within the past week the womao suffra- their platform. Unlike the other parties in the State, we are united in our purpose and have but one issue—woman suffrage, | pure ana simple. We want but four planks in our platform—one HRepublican, one Populist, one Prohibitionist and one Dem- | ocratic, each and all declaring for the i same thing. On these four, securely held together and strengthened by the earnest | efforts which the women_themselves will i make during the campaign, we hope to | ride to victory at_the November election. | Three of these vlanks already have been | prepared and given to us by the Republi- | ean, Populist and Prohibition representa- | tives, good sound pianks that seem to be | able to weather the storms that will beat | upon them during the next five months. i Ido not know why the reporters insist | upon quoting Miss Anthony as saying we | coerced the Republicans into indorsing | woman suffrage. She never in public or in private has said anything that could be construed in that way. methods of the suffrage representatives were as far as possible from coercive. | Nothing of the kind was necessary. membering the spirit of friendliness and courtesy that was shown to us at that con- vention, we feel that we cannot protest strongly enough against having such re- marks attributed to us. On the other hand, we do not under- stand why the men of other parties insist | that the Republicans did not adopt the | plank in good faith and that they will not vote for the amendment. This amend- ment was submitted by a Republican Legislature, the State Comvention two years ago adopted a woman-suffrage plank, TeE Cair—the leading Re- ublican newspaper of the party— as indorsed it in the strongest possible manner, and the Republican | press generally throughout the State is 1avorable to the movement. If, during the campaign, tbe Republican speakers should fail to advocate it; if the Repub- lican press should aliow it to_go by de- faul:; if the returns from the November election show that Republicans failed to vote for it, then we shail know that the party has acted in bad faith, and the Re- pubiican women of the State can deal with it as they think best. Meanwhile, the action of the Republican Convention shall have our respect and confidence. At the Populist Convention we were made to feel that we were in the house of our friends. When we took the train for Sacramento we found the San Francisco and Alameda delegates on board, and others joined the party at various way stations. They surrounded our seats in the carand, in the warmest and heartiest terms, expressed their symbathy and co- operation with the woman suffrage move- ment. At the State House Hotel, where we had enzaged our rooms, they crowded our headquarters to extend greetings, and there were few delegaies who did not wear the little woman suffrage badge on their coat lapels. We were told that there were not more than half a dozen men in the convention who were opposed. At the convention hall we were escorted to front seats amid cheering and waying of hats, and several times were invited to address the delegates. It seemed thatas if every man present took us by the hand and assured us of his friendship and sup- port. It was not necessary for us to appear before the platform committee as the woman suffrage resolution was inco: ated without a dissenting voice, an rists bave secured two more planks for | bas the maniiness an All who were at the Repub- | lican Convention will testify that the| it H . o - : | was unanimously and enthusiastically | adopted by the convention. We were many times assured that it | | would receive almost the entire Populist | vote of the State. This was not the action of a small body of men leading a forlorn hobe, but of a political party which polled over 68,000 votes at the last election, and has a prospect of an ncreased strength at | the next. arty expediency, for many of the mem- ers expressed grave doubts as to whether the votes of women would add strength to the Populist organization, for a few vears at least; but it was the act of 300 sincere, | intelligent, independent men, governed | by their convictions of right and wrong, | and standing squarely upon the question of principle. This party is founded on | the basis of individual representation and | the justice to | recognize that woman as an individual | has the same rights as men, and they de- | sire to grant to her what she never should | have been deprived of. | There was never any doubt as to the | action the Probibition Convention would | take on this subject. From its organiza- | tion it bas stood for woman suffraze, and | women have sat_as delegates in its con- ventions. The Woman’'s Christian Tem- perance Union is the most thoroughly and | effectively organized body of women the | world ever has known and has been largely | instrumental in securing much salutary temperance legislation and educating pub- | lic sentiment in this direction. The State Suffrage ociation feels that the ladies of the W. C. T. U. do not need any assist- | ance from them in looking a¥ter the Pro- | nibition party, or, rather, that this garty | does not need ‘‘looking after” bg anybody. | But as a mark of honor and deference the | State Suffrage representativesattended the | Prohibition Convention at Stockton last Thursday, and were received with the most istinguished attentions. The eleventh amendment was indorsed with- | out a dissenting voice, and, doubtless, will Re- | Teceive the full strength of the party vote. | ‘The most interesting question now un- | der discussion is, What will be the action | of the Democratic convention upon this | subject? The politicians of ali parties tell us that it will be a waste of time and money to go to that convention, as we | will be sent away empty-handed. 'We do not consider the advice of politicians as always sound and we most assuredly shail visit the Democratic convention and ask them to extend to_us the same considera- tion as has been shown by the other po- litical parttes of the State. There is noth- ing whatever in the pure Jeffersonian principles, upon which this party is founded, to prevent its indorsement of an act to enfranchise women. It will have nothing to lose by such action at the | present time; it may have much to gain. Should woman suffrage carry in Califor- nia, of which there is an encouraging pros- pect, this party will not want to stand in the attitude towards Democratic women i of baving done what it could to prevent their obtaining this rizht or vrivileve. 1 1n no other Stafe in this Unich 18 there ! such a spirit of fairness and justice toward | women as bas been shown by the men of { California in these last three political con- ventions. It is aninsultto the Democratic men of the State to say that they have not this spirit in as great a measure asthe | men of the other parties. Until they |themselvu prove this by their own acts, the women of the State will refuse to be- lieve it, and we insist upon a suspended judgment until the 17th day of June. Many letters have been received urging that some official action be taken relative to the paper of Professor H. H. Powers be- fore the Woman’s Congress. Thisisamat- ter exclusively under the control of the congress, which is a body entirely separate from the State Suffrage Association, but | neither the writer nor the paper is of suffi- cient importance to warrant official notice. Such papers are apt to be of more benefit than barm. There is nothing women need so much as to be roused from their condi- tion of lethargy and indifference and to begin to think apon the social problems and living issues of the day. So long as they are only coddled and flattered their stronger faculties lie dor- mant, but when & man stands on a public platform and brutally tells them that n 1t was not done as a matter of | {of place among the broad, shock and they begin to ask ‘‘where they areat.”” Professor Powers' coarse senti- ments did more, perhaps, to stir women up and set them to thinking than did all the beautiful and ennobling addresses that were made. The most anfortunate feature was the odium that it cast on Stanford University. For the first time its _friends had to blush for that great institution of learning. Powers is a new man and is decidedly out Togressive educators for whom Stanford is distin- guished. A -professor entertaining such 1deas respecting women is not fit tobea teacher of girls and the sooner he is retired the better it will be for the creditof the university. The reputation of Staniord, however, was fully sustained by the splendid addresses of President Jordan, Dr. Ross and Pro- fessor Griggs. Apropos of the latter gen- tleman, Le is undoubtedly greatly an- noyed at the prominence he has attained as the “Ideal Man.” No man couid be more entirely free from egotism or a desire to pose before the public. His daily life is characterized by a simplicity, a defer- ence to the opinions of others and a sin- cere recognition of the wmerits of those around him that are as admirable as they are rare in one so gifted and so praised. 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