The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1896, Page 10

10 THEIR CHARITY HAS BEEN BROAD Eighth Grand Council of the Young Ladies’ Institute. IMPORTANT MEASURES. Day Consumed in Reading the Minutes of the Board of Directors. GRAND PRESIDENT VERY ILL, A Rousing Reception to Be Given the Delegates To-Morrow Evening. The eighth grand council of the Young Ladies’ Institute was opened yvesterday morning with 4 mass at St. Mary’s Cathe- dral, the very Rev. Father Prendergast, vicar-general of the archdiocese, officiat- ing. At 10:30 o’clock the delegates met at Y. M. I Hall, corner Market and Tenth streets. As Mrs. I. Wynne, the grand president, is lying very ill at her home in Vallejo, the grand first vice-president, Miss S. A. Grote, presiaed. Other officers were appointed as follows: Grand first vice-president, Mary Donovan of No. 2; grand second vice-president, M. Bar- rett of No. 38: grand inside sentinel. M. Nichols of No. 27; grand outside setinel, N. Nagle of No. 42. The remaining grand officers and board of grand directors are: Past Grand President Mrs. D, F. Ragan, Past Grand President Miss E. M, Comyns, Grand President Mrs. I. Wynne, Grand First Vice- Presiden . Grote, Grand Treasurer W. Flemming, Grand Secretary J. F. Malloy,Grand Directors A. M. Patthoff, M. A. Nagle, M. E. Grote, M. Fly Callaghan, M. Sullivan, M. McManus, N. Winters, L. Terry, Mrs. Rich' ardson, Belle G. Boyle. The delegates and alternates to the Grand Council are: No. 1—Delegates, K. Conklin, Mrs. Sweeney, K. Fitzpatrick, M ; alternates, May Monahan, G. C Mrs.W. Deegan. N M. Donovan; No. 3— Greany, Walsh, Mary Keneally, Tray Maggie inan. No. 2 ¥, Mrs. Lena O'Donnell. No. aggie Nichols, Mnggie Fitz- 4—Oakland, Mrs. K. V. Doyle, Mamie Harrington. No. Watsonvilie, Tda McAdam, Mary Horgan. Napa, Kitue Callinen, Mrs, 27—Antioch, Mrs. F. Wills, M Mrs. M. A. Ward. . J. Wilkes, Minnie E. —Portiend, May Barrett, Kate Maloney. No.41—Vancouver. Lizzie Thomas, Kate Donnelly. No. 42—Butte, Mont., Mamie Nagle, Mollie Holland. No. 44 — Livermore, Mary Concannon, Grace McKeeney. The standing committees are as follows: Finance—Ella M. Comyns, Anna M. Potthoff, Kate Conklin. Appeals—Fannie Elster, Mrs. McLang, Mary Brown. Supplies—Bell Boyle, M. E. Grote, Josephine Malloy. Printing—Mrs. D. F. Ragan, Helen Winters, Lizzie Terry. Each of these standing committees will render reports covering the past two years. In addition the grand treasurer and grand secretary will render their reports for the same period. The Misses Helen K. Winters, L. Terry and E. Higgins were appointed a press committee. It was thought tiat much of this would be gone through with yester- day, but the council was kent so busy with preparatory business that it was found im- possible to do so. Itis now two years sincea meeting of the Grand Council and much work has ac- cumulated. A number of important amendments to the constitution and by- laws are proposed and several resoluticns of vitalinterest will come up for consider- ation. At present the order is in a most flour- ishing condition. A great deal of chari- table work has been periormed during the pastyear, especially in the way of reliev- ing the sick and afflicted and providing !}osihons for members out of employment h treasury at present contains $14,000, yet more than $4000 has been distributed among the sick members, and over $1200 has been paid out of the death beneficiary fund. For each evening and each day after the business before the council has been trans- acted there will be some form of literary entertainment. Wednesday evening Council No. 1 will entertain the delegates and officers at K. R. B. Hall, corner of Mason and O'Farrell streets. . Thursday evening a grand enter- tainment and reception are in order at Merropolitan Temple. Epeeches will be delivered by prominent citizens, and an excellent programme of vocal and instru- mental music has been prepared. Friday evening a grand reception will be given at Native Sons’ Hall. In charge are the following committees: Thursday evening—S, A. Grote, J. T. Molloy, B~Boyle, K. Kennedy, Mrs, Greany, M. Kyne, M. Callaghan. Friday evening—M. E. Grote, A. Nyhan, A. Dwyer, J. T. Molloy. A. Daly, B. Boyle, Mrs. Greany, Mrs. O’Donnell. Most of the aiternoon session was taken up in reading the minutes of the monthly meetings of the board of directors for the past two years. £. Conklin, Mrs. D. F. Ragan and Mrs. Nagle were appointed a committee to draft resolutions of sympathy for Mrs. Wynne in her illness. The following committee on credentials was appointed by the grand president: Miss M. Barrett, Mrs. J. P. Sweenev and A. M. Pothoff. They passed upon the cre- dentials and the delegates were seated. Miss Harriet Scidmore, zn honorary member, was introduced and made a few remarks to her colleagues. The session ended with singing, and an adjournment was taken till to-day, MUSICIANS' GRIEVANCES, There Was No Money for the Park The- ater Orchestra. At the meeting of the Musicians’ Union several matters of interest were discussed. The principal was the closing of the Park Theater on Grove street. The report was made that the manager, A. F. Johns, owes the orchestra $146. When the musicians went for their pay, which amounted to $146, Johus gave them & few dollars and a check on the Columbian Banking Com- pany for §105. The check was presented at the bank, but it was dishonored, something being said aboat Johns having either overdrawn his account or there not being sufficient money to his credit to pay the full amount of the check. The union decided that none of its mem- bers should play at the theater, should ic be reopened, unless the full amount of the indebtedness is paid. The matter of the Russian band at the chutes was not acted upon, and the com- plaint against the Letter-carriers’ band laying in opposition to professional mu- &ciinsswas left in the hands of the com- mittee to whom it was referred. THE HOWARD CLUB. Presented With a Beautiful Flag by ¥red Eggers. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the Howard Club was held last evening at Pythian Castle Hall, C. E. Newman pre- siding. Fred Eggers, one of the enthusi- astic workers of the organization, pre- sented tve club with a beautiful flag in commemoration of the day, being the fiftieth anniversary of the hoisting of the American flag in ‘this State. The presi- dent, on behalf of the ciub, thanked Mr. Eggers and made an appropriate address in honor of the occasion. C. W. Colby, who is the master of the drill corp of the club, reported that the corp is making fine progress and is one of the best in the State. F. W. Davis then delivered a masterly ad- dress on_the principles of protection, and predicted success for the Republican party throughout the United States, and par- ticularly in the State of California. Short eches were made by I. Kincaid, John . Graham, E. F. Lutchen and others. The Lincoln Republican b visited the Howard Club with about fifty members. Henry 8. Martin, vresident of this club, delivered an appropriate address. —————— WAS BUT ONE TICKET, Result of the Election in the Society of California Pioneers. The annual election of officers of the Society of California Pioneers was held yesterday. There was but one ticket in the field and the foliowing officers were elected : President, Elliott M. Root; vice-presi- dents, Niles Searls, J. V. Davis, C. T. Rowland, T. L. Baker and Howard Hayens; treasurer, John D. Tallant; mar- shal, John F. Pinkham; directors, H. N. Tilden, J. N. Jewett, H. B. Russ, E. T. Kruse, Wakefield Baker, Charles M. Plum, A. R. Colton, Leon Schloss and Charles J. King. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1896. AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED, Nuptials of Miss Ella Ho- bart and Charles A. Baldwin. WHITE DECORATIONS. Waiting for the Prie-Dieu De- lays the Ceremony Fif teen Minutes. A SAN MATEO CANVAS TOWN. Dick Tobin Performs Invaluable Ser- v:ices in His Capacity of Best Man. Yesterday shortly after noon, at St. Matthew’s Church at San Mateo, Miss Ella Virginia Hobart plighted her troth | to Charles A. Baldwin “until death do them part.”” If there is any virtue in the old adage, “Happy is the bride the sun shines on,” butler, arrived, bearing an immense par- cel. From fout the ?mn swinging doors of the church peered Walter H pale and anxious. E’: stretched forth a will- ing, neatly gloved hand and seized the package eagerly. A minute later and the strains of the wedding march gladiy re- echoed through the church. trifing necessity had caused the de- lay. Inthe pressof other matters a prie dien on whiel‘x’ the young couple were to kneel while Bishop Nichols promounced the benediction had been completely over- looked. At thelast moment a_telegram was sent 10 town, And the tardy arrival of two white satin cushions delayed the ceremony fifteen minutes. To the'strains of the wedding march the bridal party marched up the center aisle. First came’ the ushers—Count Du Pare, Consul Artsimovich, John Lawson and W. A. McCreery. Then followed the bridesmaids—Miss Jessie Hobart, Miss Florence Mills, Miss Juliette Williams and Miss Mary Eyre. The bride entered es- corted by her brother, Walter 8. Hobart. The om and his best man met the bridal party at the altar. The ceremony Wwas periormed by Bishop Nichols, as- sisted by Rev.de Wolf Cowie, rector of Bt. Matihews. The bride’s dress was of white duchess satin, ornamented with fine Valenciennes lace. The long tulle veil was fastened to the coiffure with orange blossoms, and long wuite gloves and slippers and a bouquet of lilies of the valley completed the costume. The bridesmaids wore dainty toilets of white mousseline de soie over white silk with hats of white chiffon and bouquets of bride’s roses. After the ceremony the guests were whirled away to the Hobartranch. On the green sward, standing under a gigan- tic elm, the happy voung couple stood while they received tlie congratulations of their friends. An immense tent was pitched upon the lawn, and with the aif of palms and greenery converted into a vast, cool bower. Here the tables were spread for the elab- orate bridal breakfast. In the center of the tent was the large round table—the bride’s table. It was all decorated with lilies of the vailey and deiicate sprays of Miss Hobart Entering the Church—The Bride as She Alighted From Her Carriage at the Pretty Little San Mateo Church. {From a photograph taken on the spot by a “Cali” staff artist.] A SKIN GAME OF POKER, W. Cauley, Saloon-Keeper, Says He Was Cheated Out of His Money. M. Kinney, the Complaining Witness Against Him, Had Part of the Deck on His Knee. William Cauley, saloon-keeper, Polk and McAllister streets, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a warrant charging him with robbery and was released on $1000 bonds. According to M. Kinney, 995 Market street, the complaining witness, as told on Monday when swearing out the warrant, he and Cauley and another man were : playing poker Sunday night in a rear room in Cauley’s saloon. They played for about three hours and Cauley got cleaned out. Cauley left the room and returned in a minute or so with a revolver in his hand. He thrust the muzzle of the revolver against Kinney’s nose, picked up $23 that was on the table in front of Kinney and ordered him out of the saloon. Cauley has a different story to tell. “This man Kinney,” he said, “put up a skin game on me. Al Sanford, who has been frequenting my saloon occasionally, came in Sundsy night, and Kinney came in shortly after. “They suggested a game of poker, and four of us sat down, Kinney, Sanford, my- self and another man whose name I don’t know. We played for some time and the strange man left. Then the three of us played a game of freeze out, and I soon lost all the spare money I had, about $1650. I told them I wouldn’t play any longer, and left the room. “I came back in a minute or two and happened to walk round to where Kinney was seated. To my surprise I saw that he had part of the deck of cards on his knee, which was E‘rnmd against the bottom of the table. Tuen I saw that I had been swindled. “I told Kinney that he was a thief and cheat and ordered him out of the saloon. As I bad been tricked out of my money I took it back, and that is all there was 1o it. Ideny that I used a gun, but if I bad not 2ot my money back I was so mad at being cheated that I might have used one. San- jord told me he had nothing to do with the cheating, and he can, if he tells the truth, bear out my staiement, and so can another man named Moffatt. “I have been twenty-five vears in the saloon business in this City and this is the first time an arrest has been made on my premises.”” THE SHERIFF'S SALE OF DRY €0ODS Brings and Holds the Crowds. Anything to last must be genuine. The sale of thestock of James M. Moran & Co., 1009-1015 Market street, between Sixth and Seventh, continues to kold the attention of the dry-goods buying public, ana if one cau judge from the eager and aciive purchasers that crowd the store from 9 A.M.t06 P. M. there must be great inducements offered. Forty- eight-inch heavy all-wool dress serge was seil- ing rapidly vesterday at 25c the yard, and the famous $2 50 P. D. carset at 50c. Tbe 45¢ on the dollar sals ———— The Mechanics’ Institute. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the board of trustees of the Mechanics’ Institute, which was 10 have been held last night, was ostponed until to-night, in consequence of Ay being a legal holiday, 1 ———— The village of Vienholz, near Brienz, in the Bernese Oberland, Lus been partly de- stroved by subsidence and landsli caused by natural springs. The inha tants have been compelled to desert the place entirely. then there is a particularly auspicious future awaiting Mrs. Charles A. Baldwin. The day was perfect. The sun shone out bright and warm and there was not even a vagrant little breeze to stir the old ivy that clings to the stone walls of the picturesque little churoh. 8t. Matthew’s seems specially designed for such a celebration as the wedding of yesterday. A smali stone edifice, moss- grown and quaint, sitaated in the midst of a grove, it is an ideal place for the ex- change of yows of love and fidelity. Captivated by the rustic ¢..arm and sim- Elichy that marked the nuptials of her rother, Walter Hobart, and Miss Wil- liams, the bride of yesterday decided to have the ceremony which urited her to the man of her choice equally unostenta- tious. But the exquisite decorations of the charch—white lilies and pale sweetroses —the elegant turnouts with their correct liveried grooms, and the music_made it a much more elaborate affair. Then there was the rabble, the curious. San Rafael manifested no interest in the nuptials of its fairest daughter and the wealthiest young man in the Siate. No women sought to pass the eye of watchful guard and steal a glimpse at the bride of the millionaire, and not even one little street arab climbed the hedge to feast his eyes on the beauty within. i But if San Rafael was not curious San Mateo was, Its women stood for hours in | the warm, dusty roads that led to the church waiting the arrival of the bridal party. They crowded ihe entrance 1o the sacred edifice. Some of them got under the very heels of the spirited animals that were harnessed to the handsome turnouts that blocked the east avenue. They crowded in one entrance of the church and were expelled by another, and repeated the performance to meet again with the same rebuff. At the Hobart ranch, with its huge tent on the lawn, its vast expanse of canvas raised high as a hedge to shut out the gaze of the passersby, the ubiquitous lmdl-%oy. doubtless impelled thereby by this similar- ity to the circus, burrowed ’meath the picket and searched most successfuily for crevices to feast his eyes on the merry- making within, The greater part of the guests at the wedding came from San Mateo and Bur- lingame. They came in hansom carts, broughams and drags, forming an inspir- ing array as they lined up. The special train ihat left the City at 11:15 brought & handful of wedding guests. Dick Tobin, Baldwin’s best man, went down by the 10:40. He was all spick and span for the wedding—all but his boots. hese he changed at the local hotel for a pair of Jpatent pumps with white duck spats. Ned Greenway went down by the 8:15 and brought his trunk with him, He made his toilet at the village hotel. _ Long before the appointed hoar the Bur- lingame guests assembled ai the church. Mr. Baldwin, accompanied by his best man, Mr. Tobin, arrived early. Then came the bridesmaids, Miss Mary Eyre, Miss Juliette Williams, Miss ?Iorenm Mills and Miss Jessie Hobart. They drove to the church in Mr. Hobart’s famous coach. On top was seated a small array of maids to lend the last finishing touches to the toilet uf the bridesmaids. Shortly after and promptly on time came the bride, riding in her own ‘brougham_ _and accomparied by her brother. Word was passed to the expec- tant groom that his bride had arrived, and he waited with breathless impatience, pale but brave, for his entrance cue, the strains of Meudelssohn’s wedding march, But the cue did not materialize. Ail the anxious gm_om heard was the hum of voices within the church and the noisy ‘uzz without. He pulled out vis watch, and the_coid perspiration dampened his brow. It was here that the geniusof his mopped his brow. He fanned him. The impatient groom unbuttoned his coat. The patient best man rebutioned it. He shrugeed his shoulders. Tobin smoothed his shirt sleeves within the tight-fitting frock coat. Then Pat, Miss Hobart’s best man, Mr. Tobin, asserted itself. He maidenhair fern. Seated at the table be- sides the bride and groom there were: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott Hobart, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Eyre, Miss Eyre, Miss Wil- liams, Miss Hobart, Miss Mills, Miss Casserly, Miss Hoffman, Count du Pare, V. de "Artsimovich, John Lawson, Rich- ard Tobin, Dr. Tevis, W. A. McCreery and Wilberforce Williams. The other guests were seated congenially at tete-a-tete tables. The absence of Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop E. Lester and Miss Head, owing to sicgneu, was commented upon and regretted. 3 Miss Hobart gave each of her brides- maids a breastpin composed of the letters “H’ and “B” in diamonds. Mr. Baldwin presented his best man and each of the ushers with a pin containing a turquoise set with diamonds. No one knows whither Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have arranged to take a wedding journey. They are keeping their futare destination a secret and have not divulged their plans to their most intimate friends. The general supposition is that they will go directly to Mr, Baldwin’s country villa at Mountain View. Later on there is talk of an extended European trip. The presents, as was expected, were ele- gant, varied aud costly. They were dis- played in the library at the villa and were greatly admired. THE P-@ENIX CLUB. It Enjoys Enthusiasm, Speeches. The Pheenix Club made Scottish Hall a scene of Republican entuusiasm last night at its crowded meeting, over which Chair. man Wiliiam Powers presided and the proceedings of which Secretary Andrew Branch recorded. Entertainment of the lighter sort was vprovided by Bertie Briihtling and La Petite Rose, each of whom sang with banjo accompaniment, to the delight of the audience. Miss Rose was especially pleasing. Professor Newman gave piano selections. Dawson Meyer, C. W. Kyle and Ernest Wakeman were among the eloguent speakers of the evening. A song of gmz merit, “The Workma: Jubilee,”” by C. W. Kyle, was sung to the tune, ‘‘Marol ing Through Georgia,”” and 1t gives pro: ilrdol becoming a popular campaign bal- Songs and —— Drank Zeid by Mistake. Mrs. Kate Baldwin, Broad avenue, Ocean View, swailowed two ounces of carbolic acid Monday morning by mistake and in less than thirty minutes died. The deceased left her home about 10 o'clock 4o assist in dressing certain wounds received by one Michael Bor- den, living on the corner of Sycamore and Cap- itol streets. The injured man was not in his room, however, and Mrs. Baldwin began an inspection of the premises. In a closet she found a six-ounce bottie, the contents of which closely sesembled whisky. Without a second’s thought the woman put the bottle to her mouth, drinking about two ounces. It re- guired but a few seconds ior the fluid to get in its deadly work, and when the neighbors, at- tracted by the piercing screams, arrived they found Mrs. Baldwin in & dying condition. Be- fore a physician could L summoned the Wwoman aied, The body was removed to the Morgue. S Sir John Bridge, who is_investigating Dr. Jameson's cngs.' has judicially made a valuable suggestion to bicycle-makers, “Human ingenuity is very great, and I cannot help thinking it would be an excel- lent thing if some one would invent a bicyele that could not under any circum- stances be ridden at more than eight miles an hour, and that no one should be al- lowed to ride any other.” ————————— London’s Common Council, in alarm at the increase of nude pictures at the Aca emy, proposes to license all artists’ mode! and only allow them to sit under condi- tions laid down by the Council. —————————— Sullivan & Sullivan. Ex-Judge J. F. Sullivan and Matt L Sullivan have removed their law offices to Parrott b'ld’g §25-855 Market st. Entrance rm. 610, 6th floor® BEFRIENDING THE ASHLEY SISTERS, The State Woman's Fed- eration for Public Good Interested. CLOTHING FOR THE BABY A Testimonial From = Lillian Ashley’s Old Congregational Pastor. APPEAL MADE TO E.J. BALDWIN Efforts on the Part of Several Ver- mont People to Procure Bonds for Emma. The sad story of the Ashley sisters, of their poverty and despair, especially that of Emma, who made a frenzied attemnt to shoot E. J. Baldwin in the courtroom a week ago, has awakened the interest of a rnumber of charitable ladies in the City, and efforts are being made to relieve them of their distress. “Without going into the merits or de- meritsof the suit,” said a promiinent mem- ber of the Woman'’s State Federation for Public Good yesterday, “‘the case of these unfortunate people appeals to the sympa- thies of their sex, One is a young mother, the second is an innocent girl and the third is a helpless little childi—three crea- tures that woman must regard and religion comfort. They are objects for the minis- tration of taith und charity.” Mrs. M. J. Woodn:an, a member of the federation, and also of the Third Congre- gational Church of this City, has visited the sisters, Lillian in _her room at 81914 Larkin sireet, and Emma in the City Prison. Bhe is a native of Vermont, and is interesting a number of ladies from that State in the misfortunes of the Ashleys, “1 am taking an acting part in trying to assist these poor girls,” said Mrs. ‘Woodman yesterday, ‘‘because I know the facts and many facts that have not been published in the papers. I want tne women of the Federation for Public Good to see them. I want them to see that Lillian Ashley has been more sinned against than sinning, and that Emma Ashley is a pure girl, whose iove for her sister and whose tenderness for that poor little fatherless babe made her attempt a desperate deed. The case was tried with closed doors and the public does not know all the wrong that Lillian Ashley has suf- fered nor just what drove Emma to the act of a mad woman. ““When E. J. Baldwin went back to that country village and met the Asiley giris he was a stranger there. With his white hair and fatherly manners they thought him a rich, guilanthropic gentleman, and itis no wonder he succeeded in drawing Lillian away from her bome to misery and ruin. To show you the standing of the plaintiff in this deplorable case I will read you this testimonial from her former pastor: s PARSONAGE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1380 MaIN ST z REET, WINCHESTER, MaSs., March B, 1894. Tt gives me great pleasure (o testify to the excellent moral and Christian cnaracter of Miss Lillian A. Ashley, & former member of my congregation here in Winchester. We were very sorry to lose her from our Sunday- school, Society of Christian Endeavor and a circle of King's Daughiers, in esch of which she was a userul and loved member. I would commend her most cordially to any Christian people among whom her lot in the fa- ture may be cast. D. AuGusTINE NEWTON, Pastor. “I have written a letter to Mr. Baldwin asking him to make some provision from his millions for this child, who is undoubt- edly his flesn and blood. In acompara- tively few years heand his ranches, mines, city property and racehorses will part,and he might make some little reparation for the wrong he has done before that final hour comes on. 1do not know whether my appeal will reach his heart or not, but my view is the Christian—the humane— view of the case, and my conscience is clear. Iunaerstand Baldwin will be asked to assist in some manner in procuring bonds for Miss Emma Ashley. The idea may seem wildly visionary, but E. J. Bald- win could not well doa more creditable thing, and it would put a new phase on the affair. To g0 on the bond of the woman who attempted to shoot him would be a generous act that would not fail to benefit him 1n the minds of the people. Baldwin's millions may defeat the penni- less woman who is fighting bim in the cause of his own child, but popular opin- ion will try and condemn him. **We have brought the Ashley cass be- fore the protection committee of the Woman's Federation, and even if the federation does not do anything finan- cially for them it may give them its moral support.”’ A number of ladies, among them two of Emma Ashley’s Vermont neighbors, vis- ited her in the City Prison yesterday. They brought her a number of needed articles which would go far toward mak- ing her confinement behind the bars more &ofenhlo. They afterward visited Lillian Ashley in her room. Mrs. Woodman took the baby some clothing, of which the little one stood badly in need. Chief of Police Crowley yesterday, at the earnest request of Emma Ashiey, permitted her to 80 and see the baby she loves so well. An officer in citizen’s clothes took her to the house and remained in the room during her visit. She cried over the child in a pitiful manner, and could hardly be per- suaded to leave it when the time came to return to the prison. Strong efforts are being made to procure bonds for the unfortunate young woman, and it is thought she will be released in a few days, as a number of persons have ex- pressed themselves as being willing to stand responsible for her appearance at her trial. “If my sister is released,” said Lillian yesterday, “I will be able to do somet .ing for our support, for she will take care of baby. We have nothing and I must work, which I can and will do till the dccision is rendered. It’s a!l for this child. If I gain anything from the suit it will be for its support. Iwill bring her up rightly if I can. Sheis E. J. Baldwin’s daughter, and if a few dollars of his millions are forced from him by this suit he will have the consolation of knowing that his own child and not strangers is getiing the beneit of the money. Several kind ladies have called on me with their dear, kind words of sympathy, and I am thankful God does not quite abandon the worse than widow and the worse than fatherless.” DIAMONDS IN FRUIT. Not the Real Thing, but a Close Imita- tion. Fruit diamonds form the latest discov- ery of science. The unpoetic cause was a Tennessee cow. Pearls cast before swine is proverbial evidence ot non-appreciation, but so greatly did the cow mentioned, and her sisters, admire this fruit diamond, that so much thereof was caten as to make the bovine gourmets ill. The own- ers of theanimals became gr-atly alarmed, and consulted medical science. This is how Dr. R. C. Eccles, Brooklyn, happened to make the discovery. ¥ Dr. Eccles succeeded in extracting from the seeds an alkaloid different from and more peculisr than any other known to physicians or chemists. He is sure it is poisonous, and the only known poison which it resembles at all'is strychnine. berries grow on bushes that are from four to five feet high, and are de- scribed in the botanical lexicon as belong- ng to the family of sweet scented shrubs of Carolina allspice. They are about the size of oxheart cherries, with 2 seed in them sbout as big as a_green pea. In ap- pearance they are oblong oval, conspicu- ously tiper pointed, claucous white under- neath and roughish above, and are in sea- son from May to August. They are very uncommon and are only found in some mountainous districts in {‘ennesxee. The alkaloid is obtained in the shape of small diamond-like crystals, which flash and scintillate with all the brilliancy of real gems, and might be readily mistaken for such; hence the name “fruit dia- monds.” The diamond-like crystals are only about the size of a pinhead. Dr. Durand Woodman, secretary of the New York brancn of the American Chemical Society, in describing them said: *‘They are as brilliant as flawless gems, and may be worth as much as diamonds, or less, as further experiments reveal their worth in medicine. At present all we know is that the gem-shaped crystals are poisonous, and it was this element in the berries which caused the illness of the Tennessee cattle. We do notknow, as we have not experimented yet, just how dangerous the poison may be. ecause of its scarcity I should judge thac the alkaloid would cost more than its weight in gold at present. It may prove so valuable that diamonas would be cheap In ecomparison, and again it may prove comparatively valueless. Ido not antici- pate any demand for the crystals to use in- stead of diamonds, but they would prove the best substitute I have ever seen if they would only retain their substance. Dr. Eccles showed quite a quantity before the meeting of our society branch, and I as- sure you that if he had only displaved a few we would have readily mistaken them for small diamonds until be had explained the difference.” BRET HARTE IS A LION. The Famous Old Garrick Club Is More Exclusive Than Ever. Free Coinege of Slver in Ifs Relation to American Securities Held in England. Colonel Alex G. Hawes is in town again, after an absence of a little more than a year. He has been living in London since he left San Francisco, early in the sum- mer of 1895, and will return to England next month for another year's sojourn abroad. Among the old timers of Califor- nia that the colonel frequently met at the Savage Club in London was Paul Fran- zeny, an artist, whose talent is recognized in two hemispheres. Franzeny belonged with Tavernier, Hamilton, Irwin and otb- ers to a group of artists that pro- duced some of the best pictures ever peinted in San Francisco. e left here in 18! ,, and subsequently sent some spirited sketshes of frontier {ile in Arizona and New Mexico to Harper’s Weekly. Fora Iong time he was lost sight of, but was again seen asan attache of Buffalo Bili’s Wild West Show in Paris. The London Iilustrated News gave his work special prominence some years ago. Franzeny has a great schem: on hand now and 1t seems a pity that Tavernier is not slive so the two might get rich to- gether. Franzeny's scheme is to utilize the waves of the ocean to generate light and produce power. When he gets itin operation according to the plans in his | imagination he will supply power for manufacturing in London. The scheme is not original by any means, but this de- tracts littie or nothing from its beauty. Brec Harte, whose fame abroad was gained by the “Outcasts of Poker Flat” and other stories in the oid Overland Monthly, is popular in London. Harte is a good deal of a lion in literary and swell circles. His work is appreciated in Eng- land and his constituency of readers is large and loyal. H. J. W. Dam, formerly connected with the press of San Francisco, is living in London, He has produced one play that has had a steady run since its introduc- tion to the public. He is fairly prosperous and correspondingly happy. Colonel Hawes went abroad to direct the | management of the affairs of the New York Life Insurance Company in Great Britain. Attention to duty in this regard of course reauired much of his time, still he had leisure and opportunity to enter- tain many visiting Americans. He veri- fies all that has been said about *Nealy” Sullivan’s success as a singer in London. When asked about the Garrick Club, to which Thackeray and Dickens belonged, and where they quarreled about the recog- nition of Yates, Colonel Hawes said it was still a famous institution. sive club to which strangers are seldom admitted. Angels may be entertained there unawares, but if so they are enter- tained in the strangers’ dining-room, a place set apart for dinners given by a member to non-members. Admission 10 the hallowea inner pre- cincts of the club can only be ohlainecrby permission of the board of directors, and the permit only allows the favored verson to pass through the *ooms and note the treasures contributed by the famous authors and actors whose genfus was recognized the world over. %he club is rich in treasures of this character. The orizinal sketches and paintings are highly Pprized. 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