The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1896 FOREIGN FLAGS AND THE FOURTH, The Text of Rev. Dr. Case’s Prelude to His Sermon. TALKS OF IMMIGRATION. A Word for the Class of For- eigners Who Came to This Country in the Past. THE RATIO OF POPULATION. America for Americans and Only “01d G ory ” to Be Floated in This Country. In the Central Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday Rev. Dr. Case gave as a pre/ude to his sermon ““Foreign Flags and | the Fourth of July.” He said: he total foreign-born population of our | uniry is now not less than 12,000,000, sarly s fifth of our total population. Count- ng their children to-day our country contains | 21.000,000 of foreign birth and parentage, | am in our great cities, like Chicago and San | Francisco, four persons out of five are of for- | eign birth or parentage. We have twice 2s many Irishmen in America | as they have in all Ireland, and we shall scon | have to emigrate to Ireland if we would escape | Irish rule. We have one Norwegian for every | three in Norway, one Swede for every five in Sweden and a Dane for every eight in Den- mark. Up to twenty years ago the best of the world came to us immigration—not &s now, the aged and decrepit, the paupers, anarchists and criminals. To the immigrants who came pre- vious to 1870 we owe much of our greatness as a nation. They felied our forests, built our | cities, eniarged our commerce, made our rivers navigable, dug our canals, built our railroads. If no Welsh or Cornish had come, who would | have unloc! the stone doorsin Penus; and brou: orth the black diamonds? If no Irish had come, who wou'ld have built our ra:l- roads and docks—and for that matter recruited our police force and run our eity govern- t? If no Germans or Swedes had come, settled the great Northwest piow through the virgin soil of | Would we were rid of Fayette,” and Jeffe were & sea of flam, 1 no immigration atts ecured, we might ha Nation, but we ce 1ave been a very gremt one. We must not forget that the Huguenots who settled the South, the Duten who settled New York aud the Pur attled New itans who igrants. Nor must we | e war thousands of ly left their adopted all mx homes and volunteered in our armies, and were the peers of n -born citizens in hero- and loyalty. English, Irish, Scotch and Ger- m led op & hundred battle-fie me lweed, the Thames, the Sha; om non nd the Rhine marched in our armies, stood their ground in the fiery front of batile, | and shouted—many of them in broken Eng. —ihe watciwords of the Union One-fourti he ion Army was com posed of foreigners, iact ought to rebuke any narrow 4 nism. 1 bear hearty tribute to the excellent char- acter of many of our foreign-born fellow- ci of them are in hearty sym- ) - American institutions and “are ens than some men born on soil.._They .were...not bora _in erica, bul America was born in them. But | the character of our immigration has changed in the last twenty years. Look, for example, &t our immigrants from Italy. Formerly they e irom Lombardy and Piedmont—grand ) of & grand race. But now we bave the i of Naples and the banditti of Sicily: s, organ-grinders, tamale-ped- to-flourishers and Mafia mur- | e worst of it is that one of our | oys, whose father died fighting , as'he walks up to the polls to en vote has that vote neutralized y one of these fellows, who could not tell the | constitution of the United States from a cigsr- store sign. Look at the pursuits of many of the foreign element in this country. Late on statistics show that 75 per cent of the h convicts find their way here—and oue n well believe it from the number of political | ward-heelers, saloon-keepers and pug | ghters which ' that natlonality for nishes. In New England in 1870 the foreign- born element furnished 20 per cent of the population, and that element furnished 75 percent of the crime. That is, it was twelve times as much disposed to crime as the native stock. Fully 90 per cent of the saloon-keepers of this city are of foreign birth or parentage. And this gives us a glimpse at the political as- pects of immigration. It is immigiation which sustains the liquor power; and there is a whisky vote. Immigration is the strength of the Roman Cathoic Church and there is a very compact Cathulic vote. Immigration is | the mother and nurse of anarchism; and there | is an anarchisiic vote. Immigration tends | strongly to our cities and gives them their po- | litical complexion. And there is no more se- | rious menace t our civilization than our rab- | ole and boss ruled and saloon-cursed cities. I | have stood at Castle Garden aud have seen the | great ocean steamers come in past the Goddess | of Liberty, and when they had discuarged | their load Battery Park was black with those | crestures with the thirty-seven distinct smells | of the immigrant Steerage still upon them. | Most of them were paupers bringing noth- ing with them, as Mrs. Partington says, ‘buta | sarcophagus and an elementary canal’”” And I said what a pity the American people should | mingle this brutal and decadent strain with its fresh and vigorous blood. We must do three things: 1. Check foreign immigration. 2. Require a longer residence and a higher intelligence qualification of for- eigners before admitting them to citizenship. We must not cast our pearis before swine nor ive our children’s bread 10 dogs. 3. We must insist that these adopted fellow citizens shall be Americans—not hypheuated Americans— not Irish-Americans, lor German-Americans, nor Itelisn-Americans, but plain Americaus. When the Irishman comes ‘here we want him 10 leave his hyphen and his shillelagh behind him! The man who comes here to wage & political campaign on European issues, to | bring over here tne animosities and the strifes of Europe, isan enemy to our institutions and & traitor to the flag that snelters him. Neither the orange nor the green has any business in America—a plague on both your houses—red, white and blue have got to be your colors here, gentlemen! There is only room for one lan- guage to be taught in our public schools, and that is the English, and there is only room for | one flag in our sky, just as there is room for only one God in Ecaven. A few years 8go, iu spite of the veto of Mayor Jiewitt, a true Americau, old glory was pulled down from the New York City Hall on the 17th of Ireland and the green rag hoisied in its ylace. That can never occur again in New fork, for there was such an outburst of indig- nation that the Legislature passed and Gov- ernor Flower promptly signed a law forbidding | the hoisting of any foreign flag over any pub- | lic building, excepi foreign consulates, in the Empire State. We are going to have a law in this country before long that old glory must lead every procession in this land or that procession does not march, and 1t shall be the only flag borne through our streets on Independence day. But whence comes this insolent demand for the flannting of a foreign flag on a day that is sacred to American memories? It only comes from one quarter. There is no clamor jrom Germans, or English, or French, to carry iheir -honored banners, that for a thousand years have braved the battle and the breeze, | in an American Fourth of July procession, And there is no demand that the green flag sball share the glory that day with the stars and stripes from our feliow citizens of Irish birth, with one significant_excepiion, and it ill becomes the priesis of Rome to clamor for the green flag in America, for it i the badge of their inhmz. It is not the fault of the Irish people that their flag alone oi all the banners of the na- tions means nothing at home or abroad, on sen or shore. Itis the work of the Romish hierarchy, which breatlies on nothing it does not blight, and controls nothing it does not Curse, and which never extended & helping hand to & prostrate people, that unhappy Ire- lund is & mendicant at the world's gates to- day, her soldiers in every army except her own, her flag of the harp and shamrock every- American. the first time and was asked how she liked them, ‘“Well,” said she, “I_don’t like the way they wear their shirts, butif their hearts are | right I am satisfied.¥ No religious test, brethren, in America! 1f anyihing is un-American proscribing & man because of his religion is un-American. If this republic stands for anything it stands for liberty of conscience, and 1 would defend that of my Catholic fellow-citizen as I would my own with my last drop of blood. Religious freedom! Roger Wiiliams, the Protestant, and %g)xd Baltimore, the Catholic, shook hands on at. 1can never be a bigot in religion, but I am a bigot about the flag. That bigotry was worn into some of us by long marches and worried into us by much drilling; it was cbilled into us by lonely picket duty and soaked into us by lying in the trenches and sleeping in themud; it was filtered into us by the dews of nightand drizzled into us by the rains of heaven; it wes starved into us on half a hard tack a day; it was trampled into us by iron hoofs and crushed into us by artillery wheels; it was blown into us by shot and shelland thrustinto us by bayouet and suber. 2 And so we sy that the old flag is good enough for us, and if it is not good enough for Father Yorke I'll engage to raise a_hanasome subscription to ship him aud alllikeminded with bim back to Ireland! g s WILL GO TO EL CAMPO. The Ancient Order of Hibernians Are Preparing for a Joyous Fourth. The general festival committee of the Ancient Order of Hibernians -held the final meeting yesterday afternoon prior to the celebration of the National anniver- sary on the Fourth at El Campo. Captain M. J. Wrin presided and there was a full attendance of members. The reports from the different sub-committees Were very encouraging. Some 200 very fine prizes have been sent in for gate and games. Special prizes will be awarded the winners in the jig, reel and hornpipe contests. An exciting fea- ture of the games will be the tug-of-war contest between teams from divisions 2 and 3 and 9 and 10. The oration to be delivered by James H. Barry of the Star, it was reported, is ex- citing great interest. Mr. Barry is going to deliver a very strong address and new matters in connection with the A.P. A. will be introduced that will create a sen- sation. Besides the Hibernisns, there will be large numbers present from theother Irish societies of this City and Oakland and del- | egations are coming from Sacramento, San Jose and other interior cities and towns. To accommodate comfortabiy all who go to the festival, the steamer Ukiah has been chartered, and this large vessel can carry several thousand people. She is the largest and finest excursion boat on the bay, The following gentlemen compose the geueral committee, and from them the sub-committees have been appointed: Captain Jerome Deasy, county president (chairman); Rev. D. O. Crowley, Bartley Lee, John Ryall, Captain M. J.” Wrin, M, F 1d, John C. Ryan, J. P. 0’Connell, Dignan, P. J. Sullivan, Jennings Ph erick, Michael Boden, M. J. Vaughn, Ru- gene O’Connor, John Coughlin, Jeremiah | Kelleher, Patrick Sheehan, Jobn P. Henry, James Brian, M. Donahoe, J. J. Donahoe, T. B. Hilliard, J. P. McGoldrick, P. J. Manning. M. O'Mahouney, Owen McArale, Martin Fennell Jr., Martin Tracy, R. J. O'Reiliy. O LA HCA GG HOM Spanish Minister to Japan Re- lieved and on His Way to Madrid. Honored by the Emp-ror of Japan. “Our Attitude In Cura Is Our Historical Duty.” Don Jose de la Rica y Calvo, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- | tiary to Japan, who arrived on the Gaelic | Baturday night on his way to Spain, left | yon win approximate 1500. here yesterday afternoon for New York. Mr. de la Rica, for such is his name— Calvo being, according to the ancient Spanish custom,simply the complimentary adcition of his mother’s family name—has been relieved at his own request from duty in Japan in order that he might take some other Government position, where his wife and daughter, now in Madrid, might be with him. I have been in Japan two terms,” said he yesterday in his apartments at the Palace, “first as secretary to the legation and during the last year as Minister. *Last August, a month after my arrival in Japan, 1 signed the treaty entered into by Japan ana Spain in regard to the Isl- and of Formosa. Both countries were verv much interested in that island after the war. The relations between Japan and Spain are most friendly. As an indi- cation of that feeling the Emperor of | Japan conferred upon me shortly before my departure the Grand Cross of the Ris- ing Sun, a token that has been given to some ottier Ministers Plenipotentiary be- fore me. d “My successor in Japan is Don Luis la Barara, jormerly Minister to Brazil. I was stationed at Montevideo, South Amer- ica. three years myself before I accepted the mission to Japan. “I am now at the disposal of my Gov- ernment. Where I may be sent Ido not know, but I asked for a place where my family could be with me. “Cupan relations,” remarked the Minis- ter in response to a query, ‘I know little aboat, as I have heard nothing for over forty days. Our attitude in Cuba is our historical duty. We received that island from our ancestors; it came to us by the discovery of Columbus. To defend and to preserve it is to guard a tradition and a heritage. That is the opinion of every true Spaniard. “I ‘think at the bottom many Ameri- cans are of the same opinicn as the Span- iards. I have sounded a great many Americans in Japan, officers on your war- ships and others. *‘It is & war of races in Cuba. The ma- jority of the insurgents are negroes, with- out morality or breeding.” Don Jose is a man about 40 years of age, of medium height and slight build, and wears a full black beard. HER SKILLFUL EVASION. How a Captivating Parisian Actress Escaped Testifying to Her Age. A servant robbed Mlle. Mars of her dia- monds one evening while she was at the theater. Arrested, he was put upon trial and witnesses were summoneda to hear tes- timony of his guilt. Among these was Mile. Mars. She was greatly annoyed at this, as according to the rules of French practice the witness after being sworn gives his age. Now, the age of Mlle. Mars was an im- venetrable mystery. The day of the trial came, and she was put in the witness-box, every ear was bent toward her to catch the age she would give as her own. “Your name?” said the presiding Judge. “Anne Francoise Hippolyte Mars.” “What is your pro/ession ?"’ “An actress of the French Comedy.” “What is your age?”’ “Umpty vears.’’ “What?"” inquired the presiding Judge, leaning forward. “I have just told your Honor,” replied the actress, giving one of those irresisti- ble smiles which won the most hostile pit. The Judge smiled in turn, and when he asked, as he did immediately, “Where do you live?’ applause long prevented Mlle. Mars from replying. whero except on her own soil. 1 would proscribe no man on account of his rece or hisreligion. Ifeel like the old lady who, when she saw a surpliced boy choir for B LoAxs on watches, jewelry, silverware, at Uncle Harris', 16 Grant avenue. ps, Lawrence C. Cull, Patrick Brod- | | | | | { ENDEAVORERS GO0 EAST T0 WORK, Professor Wiles and Dr. Rader Busy in Wash- ington. FOR THE '97 CONVENTION Would Bring About 25,000 Young People to San Fran- cisco. A FUND OF $25000 NEEDED. State Delegation to Washington, D. C., Will Number About 1500—Sub- scriptions Received. The California Christian Endeavorers are going to make a strong effort to secure the 1897 international convention of that society for San Francisco. The convention this year meets in Wash- ington, D. C., and will open July 14. Itis Professor James A. Wiles, President of the Golden Gate Union, Who Has Gome Last to Secure the li‘adeavm‘r-’ Convention for 1897. X [From @ 'photograph by Bushnell.] 2115, 17—21, 21—19. R. Shea and G. Mc- Donald defeated P. Ryan and D. Rodgers, 2114, 16—21, 21-20. Joe Lawless and D. 0’Brien defeated D. Connolly and 21—15, 18—21, 21—20. J. 3 Sullivan defeated J. McEvely and P. Kelly, 2115, 17—21,21—19. R. Shields and T. Sul" defeated J. O'Donnell and Doc Molloy, 2115, 17—21. 21—19. Joe McAuliffe an Tom Sharkey defeated T. Barry and Arthur Walker, 2115, 18—21, 21—20. P. T.Don- nelly, the amateur chum];lon, and R. Lenihan defeated J. Harlow and J. J. y, 21—14, 15—21, 21—19. P.T. Donnelly and J. Harlow were defeated by R. Lenihan and J.J Feeney, 21—15, 1721, 21-—-20. Union court—Matt Coughlin and P. Duane defeated J. Howard and Ed Nannary, 21—19. 12—21, 31—14. J. Kearney and H. Batzne: / defeutéd H. Mckenny and W. Billings, 2115, 18—21, 21—12. Tom O'Brien and J. Gilleran defeated J. Vincent and J. Dempsy, 21—10, 921, 21—18. B. Heflernan and. Char - Doran defeated R. Lester and Jeff Driscoll, 21—8, 20—21, 21—15. T. Regan and W.Doran defeated P. Madden and J. Keefe, 2116, 1121, 21—6. Dr. Gibbons and J. Freeman defeated P. Paterson and Willlam Keogh, 21-12, 1821, 21—10. L. Kenny and Al Col- lius defeated J, Nelson and E.Williams, 2118, 19—21, 21—19, 20—21, 21—13. R. Lenihan and J. Nelson played J. J. Feeney and T. Me- Manus; each side won two games and the final will be played Saturday next. iy L g e e Anarchist Arrested. David O.Jones, s street-corner lecturer on the principles of anarchy, was arrested by Sergeant Helms and locked up in the Califor- nia-street station on the charge of obstructing the sidewalk yesterday. Jonesairs his notions about governing the people with tne strong power of force, if force must be used, with a seasoning of anarchy. As hegenerally collects a crowd about him, which was the case yester- day afternoon on Pine and Kearny streets, he was lzld to move on, but refused. Hence his arresf ey _an P, —_————— Slashed With a Knife. R. H. Long, watchman at Joost Bros.’ livery stables, on Fulton and Gough streets, found a tramp named Skelly asleep in the barn at an early hour vesterday morning. He woke him up ana-ordered him to leave the place. Skelly went- into the alley followed by Long and turned quickly upon him, slashing open his cheek and upper lip with a knife. Long was faken to the Receiving Hospital, where his wounds were stitched and dressed by Dr. Fitz- gibbon. The police are hunting for skelly. anticipated that 60,000 delegates will at- tend the convention. Califorma’s delega- If San Francisco is chosen as the place for the next convention it will mean that from 25,000 to 30,000 young people will come here, and after t e convention doubtless visit other places in California. Boston had 54,000 delegates, and leading Endeavorers of this City claim that 25,000 is a conservative estimate of the number that would come here. Professor James A. Niles, president of the Golden Gate Union, is now in the East, and he will be one of the California dele- gation at Washington. Rev. Dr. Rader has also gone East for the same purpose, to be early on the ground and talk California from the start. Great enthusiasm prevails among the Endeavorers as the time for choosing the ’97 convention approaches. They say that if the people of the State will do their part in the effort that the '97 convention will come here. The Endeavorers want to raise a fund of $25,000 to help bring the convention here. To assist in accomplish- ing this, & reproduction of the tabernacle of Israel and the heavenly sanctuary, to befollowed by a lecture, may be seen in Calvary Presbyterian Church at Geary and Powell streets to-morrow evening. The tabernacle is seven feet in length and is a complete reproductionin gold, sil- verand fine linen of the original tabernacle constructed by Moses. It cost $15.000 and six years’ study and labor by J. W. Kelch- ner who will lecture about it. A very large picture showing Mount Sinai and the children of Israel in their encamp- ment forms a backeround for the taber- nacle. The admission will be 25 cents. Some of the vessels of gold and silver and some of the rugs were made in Palestine. The vroceeds wiil go into the $25,000 fund needec to bring the '97 convention of Endeavorers to S8an Francisco. The guarantee subscriptions received to date for the convention fund amount to $16,775. Four new subscriptions were re- ceived Saturday. HANDBALL GAMES. Union Court Opened Under Now Man- agement—Exciting Events at the San Francisco Court. Both handball courts had a full comple- ment of spectators yesterday and no lack of piayers. At the San Francisco court P. Ryan, the proprietor, kept up his record by playing in three matches in succession, showing his wonderful endurance. The events of the day were two mixed-up games in which P. T. Donnelly, the amateur champion, R. Lenihan, J. Har- low, the ex-coast champion, and J. J. Feeney vparticipated. In the first Don- nelly and Lenihan defeated Harlow and Feenev, and then Lenihan and Feeney de- feated Donnelly ana Harlow. Both games were closely contested. The Union court has passed into new hands. Billy McManus, the former pro- prietor, has transferred his interest to Terry McManus and W. Doran, and the court was opened yesterday under the new management. Terry is the champion heavy-weight, and as both the proprietors are energetic and popular young men and are determined to further the interests of handball in every possible way their sue- cess should bé assured. There was a lar; number of their friends present in the court yesterday, and several interesting games were played. The event of the da; was a game hetween R. Lenihan and J. Nelson ana J. J. Feeney and Terry Mc- Manus. After each side had won two games it was decided to postpone the final till Saturday next. Following were the games played in the courts: ¥ San Francisco court — D. Rodgers and P. Ryan defested G. McDonald and R. Shea, WHICH SIDE WILL WIN? Trial of the Nevada Bank For- gers to Be Commenced To-Day. Dean and Wife and Joe McCloskey Arrayed Against Becker ‘and Wife and Cregan. The long drawn-out preliminaries for the legal battle between the police and the prince of forgers closed yesterday, as Judge Wallace will commence hearing the case to-day. Becker and Cregan, soon after their a rival at the City Prison, engaged Attor- neys McPike and Dunne to look after their interests. They have been materially as- sisted by Mrs. Becker, who has for weeks been in daily communication with them and ber husband and Cregan. What the defense will be has not devel- oped, although 1t is generally understood it will be a denial that either Becker or Cregan were here when A. H. Dean forged the $22,000 draft on the Nevada bank last December. The appearance within the past few days of Joe M:Closkey and Dean’s wife has caused cansternation in the Becker and Cregan ranks. McCloskey was acquitted on Dean’s confession and a few days later | Years ago he emigratea here from Bologna, IS CRITICISM WS RESENTED, Italian Musicians Declare War Upon Signor Lucchesi. CALLED HIM A SAUSAGE. Point of the Critic’s Sarcasm Turned Against Him. LITALIA TAKES A HAND. Lucchesi Is Advised to Devote His Oifices Chiefly to American Singers. The Italian Philharmonic Society, R. A. Lucchesi, and the three sausages—these are the subjects of the hour in musical circles at North Beach. Lucchesi is a musical critic who turned his attention to the Italian Philharmonic Society, which under the direction of Professor Spadina has produced a number of Italian operas with marked success. The.suggestion made to the Italian Phil- harmonic Society was that it should give as its next opera “I Tre Salami in Barca’’ (The three sausages in a boat), a piece of Italian slang to express a burlesquely poor performance. It was a fatal refer- ence as faras Lucchesi was concerned. tihe champion sausage-making city of the world, and the members of the Philhar- monic Society were quick to recall the fact. One of them, signing hiwself “A Blunt,” promptly contributed a letter to L’Italia, in which he said, among other things: | *‘In the musical rubric of A Sharp there is an interesting piece of news which will certainly please the members of the colony. The Phuharmonic Society has decidea to give as its next opera ‘I Tre Salami in Barce.” Now, I have learned that the news is true, at least Professor Spadina wished to give the above-mentioned opera, and bad already found two of the neces- sary sausages, but he was embarrassed about tue third one, which he wished to be a genuine Italian sausage. On this ac- count I take the liberty of stating that here in San Francisco there exists a sausage, a pure-blooded Bologna sausage, which could make the third in the noble triad, and that Bologna sausage is, in fact, the musical critic himself, A Sharp.” This cheerful pleasantry was not to the liking of the critic, who wrote a letter full of fire and fury to L'Italia, to complain of A Blunt. ‘““We do notaccord it the honor of publication on our pages,” says L'Italia; “it is a series of trivialities, insolences and malignities, such as we all know it is his special prerogative to write. We will, l.owever, reproduce the paragraph which treats of the Philharmonic Society : To the Italian Philharmonic Society I have permitied myself to observe that when it made fub“c appearances and charged for entrance , & critie, I, an Italian artist jealous of his art, have the right to censure and also parody it until such times as it shall have reduced itself to a mere pastime. “‘As for the parody performances of the Philharmonic Society, dear Signor Luc- chesi, were not your concerts also s joke?' goes on I'Italia. “When you tnink that the chorus singers of the Puilharmonic So- ciety are honest laborers who work ten and twelve hours a day and have the patience and the enthusiasm to pass two or three hours afier that in the study of opera, be- cause of their love for art, it is absurd and unjust to ridicule them. “For the rest the Philharmonic lives and prospers among the Iialians; you live, and, we hope, prosper among the Ameri- cans. Stay there, the Italians have no use for you. If you have no occupation go to the seaside for a time. You are too fresh and need a little salting.” This was declaring war with a ven- geance, and now the colony is watcking with interest to see the reckless expendi- ture of ink and paper which will result. Saturday a letter which was pronounced a chef d’ceuvre of vituperation was received at the office of the enterprising journal. | Thne afternoon issue gave it a good write up, without however revealing its exact contents, but 1t was advertised as being on exhibition at the editorial rooms. A big gooseberry or a three-legged chicken could scarcely have aroused more interest, to judge by the number of visi- tors who responded to the invitation. It has already been proposed to auction off the autograph copy of the letter for the benefit of the Philharmonic Society, though the generally expressed opinion is that 1t would not bring in enough to pur- chase three sausages, to say nothing of the boat. went East. Now he hasreturned and will, it is supposed, appear as a witness for the prosecution. Captain Lees and Detective Seymour have been wondnsnaidnously on the case for weeks past and are ready for the trial to-day. Like the defendants they are keeping their mouths shut and will not leave themselves open to attack by the other side. It is understood they have a strong case, The battle is won, so faras the principals are concerned. On the oneside are Becker and his wife and Cregan and on the other side Dean and his wife and McCloskey. ‘Which side will win will be known in a few days. The general expectation is that Dean, at any rate, will be either acquitted or get off with a light sentence for his services to the prosecution. HOW SERPENTS SLEEP. One Peculiar Fact Is That They Never Close Their Eyes. One of the most curious facts with re- gard to snakes is that their eyes are never closed. Sleeping or waking, alive or dead, they are always wide-eyed. If we take a dead snake and examine it closely we shall soon find the reason—there are no eyelids. The eye is protected oniy by a strong scale, which forms a part of the epidermal envelope, and is cast off ina piece with that every time the reptile molts. The eye-plate is as clear and transparent as glass and allows the most perfect vision, while at the same time (as any close ob- server of the habits of the snake can easily discover) it is so hard and tough as per- fectly to protect the delicate organ within from tnorns and twigs among which, in flight from enemies or in pursuit of prey, the reptile so often hurriediy glides. —————— A Strange Death. A young lady met her death at Laval a few days ago in a somewhat curious man- ner. She had been cutting roses in the garden, and when returning to the house stumbled and fell so that the scissors in her hand went through her neck, severing the jugular vein. She died about three minutes afterward.—Paris Letter. Colon: of drif m:xponl annually £26,000 wor Wers. HAMLIN A SPEEDY RIDER, Makes Best Time and Passes Nineteen Men in the Road Club’s Race. Kroetz Wins the Olympic Wheel. men’s Event and Wing Gets .Time Prize. Yesterday was an ideal day for wheeling in the country. In the City it was cold and windy, but in San Mateo County and across the bay, where most of the riders went, the weather was all that could be desired, though the roads are somewhat dusty at this season. This is the time of year when the club cyclers delight in road races, ana every Sunday sees several of these events held, either on the Haywards road or over the stretch between San Mateo and San Carlos. ‘There were three such races last Sunday and three more yesterday, those of the Bay City, San Francisco and Olympic wheelmen. , The two first-named clubs held tneirs across the bay, while the Olympics went to 8an Mateo, partly as a compliment to President Eaton, who resides there, and parily because they thought the roaa would be better than the Haywards course. In the latter they were disappointed, as the road to San Carlos is dusty'and un- even, though not much more can be said of the road over the bay. The Olympics’ race was started promptly at noon, and the men made very good time, everything considered. There were no accidents, save to Hadenfeldt, who panctured a tire and fell back to last lace. Kroetz rode a good race, finishin, grst and making lwons best time. J. K. Jack McGlynn in his usual careful and im- partial way, and was very satisfactory. The following is the tabl E] ] Z g H g2 g CONTESTANT. g 2 g i 2 B 3 IR 1 3:10 2 59 3 14 4 3:05 5 5:15 8 47 7 07 8 i 10 1 12 [H. 13 |A. Celifer... 14 |H. D. hadenfeldt. The Bay City Wheelmen intended theirs to be a ten-mile race, but cut it down to halt that distance, the roads being so poor. The race started at San Leandro at 11 o’clock and finished in Haywards, C. A. Kraft made best time, 12:27, and T. E Barry with 2:15 handicap won _first place, keeping the lead from start to finish. The handicapping was done by Lieuten- ant Dixon, who_in the absence of Captain Caldwell, led a large run of the club to the finish of the race. The following table shows the results: CONTESTANT. rom-mc-»wm-' RECTIEITI ¢ e The San Francisco Road Club’s event started at San Leandro at 2 p. M. There was a larger number of riders in this race than in any others, and George W. Ham- lin, who, by the way, is the champion five- mile road rider of the world, made the best time and upheld his reputation, doing the distance in 12:03. Herode from scratch into fourtk place, passing nineteen men. William McGonigle won the race from the 1:45 mark, and the bunch finished as o i i S P ¥ S follows: ] & 2 e £ 2 B 5 CONTESTANT. 3 *a s 2 H N = 1R 1 |William McGonigle. 145 | 1 2 45 | 1 3 46 | 12: 4 Scratch | 1 5 45 | X 6 80, .| 1 7 1:00 | 1 8 2:00 | 1i: 9 130 | 1 10 5 |1 11 |L'E. Pels 0 |1 12 |H. Zimmerly. 1:30 | 1 18 |Charles Goodwil scrateh | 1 14 |J . 2:00 | 1 15 |N. Lundon 1:00 |1 16 . Web 2:00 | 23351 17 |3 0'Malle 145 | 13:52 | 18 1% H. Washbur 1:00 | 14: 19 |W.H. Pray. 1:45 | 14 20 |A. T Wene 130 |1 21 |May Mever. 1:16 | 13: 33 | A, N. Choynski. 1:6 | 14:45 23 |B A. Fanning 1:15 | 15:01 The handicapping of this race was done by Captain Pixley and Sol Peiser, and they distributed the time allowanges to the large field of entrants very satisfac- torily. Of the other club runs Camera Cyclists went to alnut Creek, the Pacifics to Bolinas, the Gar- den Citys to Stevens Creek and the Golden Gates, Libertys and Californias to Mayfield. There will be no club runs or road races of any kind of tbe big clubs next Sunday. They will go to Petaluma Saturday to at- tend the big meet of the League of Ameri- can Wheelmen there, and spend Sunday as the guests of the Petaloma Wheelmen. R. A. Smyth, official handicapper of the league, will go to Petaluma this morning to arrange the handicaps of the various races. ‘W. A. Terrill of the Bay City Wheelmen returned from the East Saturday. He has been following the National racing cir- cnit, but although he won a large number of races he says the expenses of traveling are too heavy, ana he decided to return to the coast, where he can live at home and race when he feels inclined. He left his team mate, Charles S. Wells, at Hot Springs, Ark., where heis laid up quite ill, as already exclusively told in THE Carr. It will be two or three weeks, Ter- rill says, before Wells will be able to ride again. Terrill will race at Petaluma next Saturday. Frank W. Fuller, George H. Stratton and John F. McGlynn, of the Olympic Club Wheelmen, will leave the end of this week on & three weeks' trip into Lake County. Byron D. Bent of the Bay City Wheel- men started awheel for Los Angeles yes- terday. vgesurdny the g RUN TO TOCALOMA. Red Rock Cycling and Its Friends Have a Pleasant Day’s Outing. The Red Rock Cycling Club had a merry outing yesterday. The club, with its friends, took a run to Tocaloma, stopping at Camp Taylor for dinner. Among the members and guests were: Rome Harris (captain), E1 Lee, William Driscol, Louis Duprat, William Harrison. Peter Richter, George Douglass, Dr. Sichel, Eddie Welsh, M. Lynch, Mrs. R. Harris, Miss Etta Al—- len, Miss Alice Allen and _liss Rossmore. In the evening the club was entertainea by Mrs. R. Harri: LANDING NEWS IN BOTTLES. The Service Captain Bartlett Rendered to Cuban Patriots. An interesting story is furnished by Captain G. Bartlett of the British bark Iodine, laden with sugar, which was ob- tained only through the courtesy of the Cuban patriots, who control the output of sugar from interior points in the islana. Previous to the vessel leaving Philadel- phia the Cuban women of that city shipped large quantities of courtplaster, liniment and medicine of all descriptions, which were safely delivered at a Cuban camp five miles in the interior. Captan Bartlett remainea 1n the Cuban camp for four days. He was able to deliver into the hands of the Cubans valuable documents from the Junta in New York, and in return hes in his possession equally valuable docu- ments which he is to deliver to the Cubans in New York. The bark was anchored about two miles off shoreand a Cuban swam off to the vessel in the nignt with the documents from the patriot camp sealed in bottles, which were connected to his body by ropes and towed astern. In the same manner the documents from this country were taken ashore by the swimmer. A schooner bound to Cienfuegos- with sugar from Trinidad, Cuba, for the United States, and owned by the American Cen- tral Sugar Reéfinery, was sunk by the in- surgents at the mouth of the River Maeti, 80 that the Spanish Government could not collect any revenue from it. The Iodine’s cargo was allowed to belhip?eu to this country through the courtesy of the patri- ots, who permitted the Ameriean Central Sugar Relinery to grind 2000 tons of sug:r. In the camp visited by Captain Bardett there were about fifty cultivated and re- fined ladies of Cuban society, who bad en- listed in the Cuban army with relatives and friends. The patriots are weil sup- plied with provisions. They however, are sadly in need of rifles, ammunition and medicine. In all of the skirmishes wit- nessed by Captain Bartlett the patriots hud by far the best of them.—New York Sun. Mental Grasp. “Quimberly, what is your idea of an in- tellectual woman ?” ‘Wing made the fastest time, 13:05. Ram- say and Stanley rode a dead heat for sec- ond place, tossed up forit, and Ramsay won. The handicapping was done by “Well, she’s a woman who has sense enough to spread a stepladder so it won’t shut up and leave her hanging to the top shelf of a closet.”—Chicago Record. 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