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12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1896. - THE PICTURE OF A THOUGHT Think of a Cat and the Modern Camera Does the Rest. DR. D. S. JORDAN’S VIEWS Stanford’s President Starts an| Intellectual Tem- blor. TALES AS WEIRD AS ALADDIN. He Tells of Strange Experiments, and Local Thinkers Open Their Eyes in Wonder. President David Starr Jordan of Stan- ford University has set scientists and the thinking men of San Francisco to wonder- ing what has befallen him—ull on account of a strange monograph which appears under his name in the ‘‘Popular Science Monthly” for September. The article, which shook up the thinkers i the Pacific Union and Bohemian Clubs as some temblor might shake the earth, vears the strange title, “The Sympsycho- graph: A Study of Impressionist Physics,” and before one reads to the end he finds the cold man of science, ‘the professor of classified knowledze’” as he has been called, dealing, with great sang froid, with stories as remarkable as the tales of Alad- din, apparently giving credence to facts as weird as anything ever told of adepts in the occult, stories that tax the beleiving powers of the ordinary layman of the nineteenth century as much as the fable of Acteon, the celebrated hunter, who, having seen Diana bathing, was forthwith changed 1nto a stag and hunted to death by his own hounds. Some of the members of the Pacific Union Club became so exercised over the strange revelations that they have written to Alcalde for further details of what was done. The learned doctor of physics, psychics and other forms oi knowledge simple and occult, tells of the wonderful doings of “The Astral Camera Club of Alcalde, or- ganized 1n November, 1895, for the pur- poses of -scientific research through the medium of photozraphy.” By long de- grees the club, s: the professor, went iar beyond the experiments of Professor Roentgen and the achievements of the famous X ray, and got to a point whereits experts could photograph a cat, or any such physical organism, withoat the pres- ence of the animals, the photograph being transferred to the sensitive plate in some strange manner by the exposure of the plate to the intense e of a man who bhad in his mind a clear mental picture of the cat. In other words, under the latest demonstrated theory, so Dr. David Starr Jordan narrates, it is not necessary to have a cat before & camera toobtain a cat’s | photograph. Aill that the expert pho- tographer needs is a thinker who concen- trates his mind on some given physical object, and the operator says to the thinker who sits for a _cat’s photograph, “You think of a cat and the camera does the rest.” The sage of Stanford brings the reader to the story in its fullness by easy stages, beginning as follows: As soon as the news of the marvelous experi- ments of Professor Roentgen had resched Al- calde, the Camera Club began work on the X rays and on the larger problem of the signifi- cance oi pholography without yisible light, They had no dificuity in repeating tne usual experimenis. They got an outline of the skeleton of & canary, the shadow of an empty | pocketbook, the bones of & finger surrounced by a gold ring and the location of an mbedded shot. Thus those strange rays of light, or odic force, invisible to our eyes, because none of our ancestors ever had a chance to gaze upon them, disclosed the presence of objects which had else lain forever in darkness. [n addition to this, the green light of thevacuum tubes provoked that uncanny feeling which always precedes and presages a great discovery in occult science. From this feeling the club was safe in predicting that far greater dis- coveries were to follow, and that the X rays would not end in mere repetitions of Roent gen’s triumpbs in “skiography.” In this they were not disappointed. Pro- fessor Inglis Rogers of London found that not only could pictures be produced in darkness by means of invisible force, but that the in- visible waves sent out tnrough the ether by the mind could also affect a sensitive plate. Just as one sensitive mind at a distance re- ceives an image sent out from the psychic retina of another, so could the same image be concentrated and fixed upon a photographic plate. Professor Rogers in a matter-of-fact way lcoked for a few minutes &t a_postage-stamp, then retired to a dark room and gazed through the lens of the camera at the sensitive plate. T.e figure of the postage-stamp was on his mind, and from hismind 1t passed out through ihe sensitive ether to the plate made ready to rcceive it. The result was & photograph of the stamp—small and a little blurred, but showing the undoubted fentures of the gracious Queen aud the words “one penny.” Thus was the bridge between psychic power aud photo- graphic sensitiveness made once for all. This connection established, there is naturally no limit to the application of the principle. From the foregoing experiment Dr. Jor- dan is able to conclude, by logical pro- cesses, that the principle is really not new, and that some such marvelous powers have been known to exist through all the ages. He says: It thus bocomes pinin that the invisible rays of Roentgen are not light in the common sense, but skin rather to the brain emanations, or odic forces, which pass from mind to mind without the intervertion of forms of gross matter as 8 medivm, and to which gross mat- ter in all its forms is subject. Nor is this principle new in the philosophy of man. The wise of all ages have held that mind is sovereign over matter. Besides this general law it has been known to our fathers that in the eye of the dying man is Impressed the last scene on which he looked in life. ‘With iustruments of precision we may examine that scene, and by skiilful photography we should be able to secure and fix it for all time. The achievement of the delicate task of photographing a cat from a mental image, as Dr. Jordan relates, does not belong wholly to the California Club of Alcaide, part of the fame belonging to English in- vestigators, who went beyond the experi- ment of photographing a stamp from a mental image. Dr. Jordan says: It §s therefore not necessary for this experi- ment that one should gaze at an individual stamp. To think of a stamp will serve as weil. Recognizing this fact Cameron Lee, another English experimenter, attempted to secure the NEW TO-DAY. OOOHOODOG nge of Water and climate can have no serious effect upon the system if the drink- ing water is slightly charged with Fred Brown’s JAMAICA GINGER. Pleasant and efTective for all stom- |l ach disorders and for cold. Sold everywhere. FRED BROWN C0., Philadelphia. image of a thought. Placing his own eye in the focus of a lens in absolute darkness he thourht intensely of the face of a certain cat. After & long exposure, NECEsSATY on account of the comparative grossness of the photographic materials, a picture was formed. The negative shows a rounded outline, evidently that of the enlarged pupil of the eve,and in its center was formed a faint imafe, which could be mis- taken for nothing other than a cai. An ac- count of this experiment was given in the daily press, but its true bearing was first seen &t Alcalde. After the foregoing experiments became enerally known through the daily press, r. Jordan says, Asa Marvin read a paper on tiese discoveries, cailing the Camera Club’s attention to their astral signifi- cance and showing that they demon- strated, in a unique manner, the triumph jof mind over matter. The president of Stanford then tells of the experimcent, the following being his report: Having thus shown the broad principles on { which studies in the new psycho-physics must Test, Mr. Marvin described a special contri- vance or applicatiou of these principles to the | work of the Camera Club. He had devised a camera with a lens having curved fucets arranged on the plan of the eyve of the fiy. To each one of the seven facets léd an insuleted tube provided within by an_elec- tric connection, so that electric or odic im- pulses could be transferred from the brain or retina through the eye of each different ob- server to the many-faced lens. From the lens these impulses woula be converged on a sensi- | tive plate, as the rays of light are gathered to- | gether in ordinary photography. |~ From the members of the Camera Ciub seven ng greatest animal magnetism reatest power of mental concentration caosen for the experiment. Connection s made from the eye of these observers to the corresponding paris of the lens; then ail were (o remain in utter darkness and perfect silence, each person fixing his mind on a cat. They were notto think of any particular cat, but of & cat as represented by the inuate idea j of the mind or ego iiself. This wes highly im- portant, for the purpose of Mr. Marvin was not | simply to fix by photography an ephemeral recollection, as Mr. Rogers and Mr. Lee had done; it was 1o bring out the impression of | ultimate feline reali: The innate image in | the mind was the object desired. One man’s | thought of a cat would be indiviaual, ephe- | meral, a recollection of seme cat which he had | some time seen, and which by the mind’s eye would be From seven ideals, sym- pathetica | developed. This combination is the essence of sympsychography, a term suggested by Pro- fessor 'Amos Gridiey of Alealde, as distinet irom the ordinary ideography of Rogers and Lee. The personal equation would be meas- rably eliminated in sympsychography, while the cat of the human innate idea, the | astral cat, the cat which “never was on ses or | 1and,” but in accordance with which all cats have been brought into incarnation, would be more or iess periectly disclosed. In accordance with'this plan the experiment was tried under the direction of Asa Martin. By the courtesy of the secretary of the club, Miss Corintha Jones of Alcalde,we are enabled 10 present & copy of the resultant sympsycho- greph in advance of the publication of the regular bulletin of the society in which the | apperatus used is figured in detail. | Tt will be noticed that this picture is unmis- takably one of a cat. But it isa cat in its real essence, the type cat as distinguished from humanimpressions of individual cats. s achievement, like the earlier ones oi Odin, | Roentgen, Rogers and Lee, opens great vistas for juture scientific research. The next ex- periment will be by similar meaus to photo- graph the cat's {des of man. . As might be expected in a first attempt there is a lack of co-ordination of the parts. Mr. Gridley, the schoolmaster, had planned his cat on alarge scale, a huge cat iuce with gra: | radiant whiskers looking directly at the b Most of the others thought of the cat in lateral view or profile. These variant and vagrant individual impress peared on the camera before the other w were co-ordinaied and the refiex influences came back from all to one, regulating and co- ordinating the thought of the cat. Thus these preliminary impressions are recorded as ghost pictures in various places about the ylate be- fore the ultimate composite view was achieved. The delay 1n this regard has darkened the cen- ter picture, interfering e little with its perfec- tion of definition. This darkening would probably appear in | other experiments on account of the long ex- | posure (sixteen minutes) thought necessary | Tor & picture of this kind. | On the éat's cheek is a curious black spot | or stigma which has not been fuily accounted | for. From its sharpness of definition it must | stand in some relation to each of the seven | persans whose thoughts were centered upon t. One suggestion was that this was the | blind spet on” the retina in each of the sym- psychoerephers. But the blind spot marks the poiut of entrance of the nerve which goes back to the brain. While it may not have visual power it is not unlikely thatitisa point of special activits in ideography. This suggests that the black stizme may be the yeilow spot, or the macule lutea, the point of acute vision, a region on the retina where | odic forces would mnaturally be absent. Mr. | Marvin himself inclines to the opinion that & microscopic examination of the negative will 2= A 7 ) / 7 L ! /1 i '7 / PROFESSOR DAVID STARR JORDAN, Whose Remarkable Paper on What He Terms “The Sympsychograph” Has Greatly Interested Local Scientists, Whose Credulity Will Be in Suspense Until the Scientist Returns From Alaska, God AL The very lowest astral matter merges directly into the highest physicai. There are no breaks in nature. The jellyfish is an ex- ample of almost pure astral substance. The visions we see in dreams are the creations of | our thoughts outof this same astral substance, and remain just so long as the dreaming im- agination holds them ixxau—nnd they may | ome daybe photographed. The materlaliza. tions of mediums are only eoncentrations of the same astral matter down so close to the vhysical that they can be plainly seen by the naked edve and of course could be easily photo- graphed. That which the Alcalde Club has accom- plished through the power of their united | wills has been the condensation of an image formed by thought in the astral matter and brought within the range of those chemical Tays, to which the photographic plate re- sponds and precipitated upon it. Astrono- mers, as Professor Jordan well knows, have succeeded in photographing millions of stars invisible to the naked eye, simply because the sensitized plate records these higher vibra- tions. Thought has not beem photographed, nor will it ever be, but the form which the thought undoubtedly produces in tne astral matter has been in this and many other instances. Such experiments are most useful, because they all tend to break down that materialistic conception of the universe which even science itself has been at so much pains to solve. Between the point where the ear no longer recoguizes vibrations as sound and the point where those same vibrations reappear as light there lies a great hiatus for the human mind to explore. Every portion of it is unquestion- ably discoverable. Whether this will be done by scientific instruments of precision, or, as theosophy claims, by the evolution of more perfect or new senseé faculties, cuts little fig- ure. Every one who has developed to the slightest degree his psychic has entered it. Every scientist who invents an instrument capable of detecting and recording these higher yibrations has also entered it and both ought to be co-workersin this unknown field of future possibilities. All such experiments, therefore, are to he weleomed, and by the theosophlst they are, for they are the direct scientific proof of his theories. at these ex- periments have attracted the attention of a scientist of Dr. Jordan’s world,wide reputation | is a fact for which humanity may be grateful. Itremoves such things en!lr:li from the do- main of superstition and charlatanry, to which scientists have heretofore been only too The Thought-Picture of a Cat, of show that this stigma has likewise the form of & cat and that 1t will be found to be an ideo- morphic germ, or centrum, where the co-or- dinate thought of the cat has first impinged on the plate, and from which the image of the cat has concentrically arisen. Meanwhile the cat of Mr. Thompson, the anitor, who alone couid answer the question, ay in the darkness under the warm stove and purred soitly. The composite photograph which Presi- dent Jordan furnished the Popular Sci- ence Monthly appears with this article in THE Carp. lhe whole experiment has at- tracted considerable attention in local circles. Whether materialist, spiritualist or theosophist, the average thinker mar- vels, as well he may, at the strange reve- lations thus gravely announced by the sage of Stanford. ¢ The article of Dr. Jordon has been widely read and commented on by men of scientific attainments. The following in- terviews show their opinions. Dr. Jerome Anderson, who is widely known through his prominent position in the Theosovhical Society, regards the dis- covery asa clear advance in science and also a corroboration of the theosuphical theory. He said: .The experiments conducted by the Alcalde Club, as mentioned by Dr. Joréan in the Popu- lar science Monthly, in which the club sue- ceeded in producing the composite picture of a cat, 1 look upon as a scientific confirmation of theories long advanced by theosophy. They mean that the human mind Lias 1he power of causing a finer form of substance, tecanically called by theosophists “astral matter,” to sssumeshape. Alimatter responds to thought, the human body being an ever-present exam- ple of the power of the mind over even coarse physical wmatter, as it may be changed by changing the mode of thougit 1o & remark- able extent. The image produced by the Alcalde Club, however, is in the astral matter alone referred to, which is much more plastic than the phy- sical, and responds almost instantaneousiy to thought. Vibration throughout the universe is continuous, and where vision disappears at the violet end of the spectrum chemical ac- tion is most active, showing that force is stiil acting in matter, ouly the human eyeis in- capab.e of perceiving'it. Within the domain of this chemical portion of the spectrum and above ihe point where ordinary vision ceases “ic meny possibilities which the future scient- ist must discover and every ove of which will confirm the assertion of the theosophist of the existence of this astral matter and the relation it bears to the human body. the “ Popular Science Monthly.” Which Professor Jordan Wrote for | prome to relegate them. When such men take old of them they undoubtedly receive that intelligent scrutiny and accuracy of observa- tion to which their importance entitles them. Dr. W. W. Gamble, the theosophical lecturer and writer, said: This is merely & confirmation of what the- osophists bave long known and taught. Itis highiy important, however, to the Western world, and coming from the source it does it should carry great weight. These experiments are corroborative of those recently made by Dr. Baradue in Paris and explained jome length a few weeks; since 1n THE SUNDAY CALL. Itisa scientific demonstration of the astral plane, and Dr. Jordan himself recognizes that. From the way in which it was done I should say they did actually succeed in photograph- ing thought—materialized thought. We claim that the whole universe is mereiy materialized thought, that man is actually surrounded and lives in his own thought, peoples the space Atz‘round him with the imuges of his own crea- on. The universe is ail built up of thought. Thoughis are often a long while in becoming objectionized on this plane. Our after death life is actually a contemplation of those thoughts we have created. We see, aiter death, the actual process by which these thoughts of ours are formed into astral pict- ures. Every thought have is actually hetographed in the estral light—that plastic dy surrounding aud interpenetrating the world and known to the scientist as ether. This is the great negative plate of nature spoken of in Dr. Jordan’s article. It receives all the impressions of thought. From that negative plate of nature these thoughts are in_time developed into ma- terial objects. Of course those objects take various forms; some are built up as plants, as trees; others as animals, and, 1n fact, the whole earth itself is built up of the thougits of men. What we cali the astral light is reaily nature’s great workmog. - Thoughts are real things and there should be. nqmlnuer{nnngn in the discovery that they can photographed. Not only do we form images of all that surround us, by our thoughts, live as it were among our thoughts, but man actually creates the model of his own body, around which the physical cells are formed, just as an architect forms the model upon which his building is erected. We look eround San Francisco and see the whole nature of the landscape changed by the archi- teciural structures created by the thoughts of men, and in this wlg on other planes, in fact, does'man surround himself with the creations of his own thought. Professor George Davidson, looking at the discovery as related by Dr. Jordan from the point of view of a strictly scien- | it tific man, felt inclined to doubt it. Still be would not enter nto a critical discus- sion of Dr. Jordan’s article in the Popular Science Monthly because he had not read He said: +Until T have read the whole thing and dis- cussed it in my own mind I won’t give an opin. ion-on this subject. At present my judgment isadverse from what I have heard of it. With what little evidence I have I don’t believe it, and the odic force that has been revamped. This thing was brought to my notice by Mr, Jones, engineer of the gas works, who read the article of Dr. Jordan. rhe odic force business was brought up thirty years ago as one of those mysterfous things that cou:d notbe ac- counted jor, and it was dropped. In factit was never accepted by scientific men. It was one of those things that are shoved before the public to account for sll unexplained phe- nomena and never accepted, so it died a nat- ural death. If this thing were accounted for by reliable men I would accept it, but asIun- derstand it there is no satisfactory authority uoted. I must read this article, but so far 1 on’t believe it. Eduard C. Jones, engineer of the gas company, is s gentleman of scientific leanings, who has been making experi- ments with the X ray. The resuit of his experiments formed the theme of a paper read last week pefore the Technical So- ciety. His interest in the mysterious rays led him to give the article of Dr. Jordan more than ordinary thought. In speak- ing of it he said: I'm afraid it is a hoax. My idea of the pic- ture is that it is a composite photograph of séveral cats, with the negauves blurred over ior effect. That is how I regard the wonderful icture that Dr. Jordan says was made by men ooking at a camera in a dark room. Itis a Flly that such an article should have appeared n the Popular Science Monthly instead of in Puck. However I'm not prepared 1o say that it is a hoax, although some one may have been imposed upon. The scientists at the State University are much interested in the wonderful resuits recently attained by the use of the sym- vsychograph. While none have stuaied it to any extent, as yet, still they are hope- ful that the wonderful invention will prove to be all that is claimed for it. Professors Harrison, Slate, Reiter and Cory were interviewed yesterday with re- gard to the invention and all expressed their interest in it. None of them having studied the sym- vsychograph they were not prepared to go into details regarding its practicability, but all were agreed that shoald the new invention do all that is claimed for it a great step in scientific advancement will have been made. T. B. Wilson, who has given the subject some serious consiaeration, when asked his views upon it, said that he had ex- pressed himself in relation to the matter in a paper read before a society in this City a short time since and the substance of what he said then is as follows: The digestive processes of the mind are not 80 much unlike those of the body as one might suppose. The digestive orgaus of the body are stimulated 10 healthy action h{ proper food ; £0 is the mind stimulated to heaithy action by proper thoughts. Thoughts are things. Thoughts are as substantial and material in their realm as a bar of iron is substantial and material in its realm. Nor do though!s origi- nate to die in the mind. They are fike seeds of the vegetable kingdom which are carried hither and thither b{ air currents to tind ledg- ment in rich soil in fallow ground or upon beds of rocks. Thoughts are projected irom the mind into the astral world and upon wings ot ether currents they rush away to be dissi- pated or to find sympathetic entertainment in the mental realm. We are not only ourselyves advuncad or retarded in our spiritual unfold- ment as our thoughts are pure or impure, but are responsible, in some degree at least, for the harvest they bring to others when they find lodgment in the mind of others. To illustrate: Suppose you allow yourself to become 0 angry at some one that you would have pleasure in giving him a sound thrash- ing. Let us follow the current which you haveladen with angry thoughts until you de- positits burden on the mind of one who is still more deeply agitated from anger. Let usfollow his thoughts, now re-enforced by your own, to the mind of one who is bent upon murder, but who lacks thought-strength to commit the act. He hesitates until his mind is stimu- lated to action by the inrush of the combined angry thoughts of your own and those of the fecond mind, when he commits tne deed. What relation would you sustuin to the crime? Weculd you not be morally a participant in the murder? and would you not gather spiritual thorns and thistles from that sowing of angry thoughts? Whatsoever & man soweth that shall he also reap. Epidemics ot crime are the harvest of angry thoughts rushing in upon & common center. Lynching, rioting and other similar demon- strations of mental activity are the outcome of inrushing angry thoughts. Who has not seen a gatherirg of merry-makers plunged in a twinkling from the lofty thoughts of peace, good-will and jo down to the black pit of foul hatred and murderous desire? When our thoughts are spoited with desires that are not the loftiest nor the purest, thes may find lodgment in fertile minds and dis- g“;;;;nge purpose to reform, it lheredbe such o0se, and encourage to greater degrada- tion if that desire predominates, ’l'hoxur hts ;no‘o%be meade powerful forces for evil and for Of course, thoughts may be photographed, President Jordan will return from Alaska about October 1st, and it is believed he will be able to throw considerable lighton the Qquestion when he arrives. During his absence scientists and theosophists alike will be in painful suspense. PATRIOTIC HIBERNIANS. An Admission Day Picnic to Be Held at Harbor View by Division No. 2. At yesterday’'s meeting of the committee arrangements were completed for the Bipqi«; of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, ivision No. 2, to be held next Wedn "‘:'k Admission Day, at Harbor View ark. . This will be the twenty-seventh annual picnic held under the anspices of Division No. 2. It will be attended by a large num- ber of the members of other divisions. An attractive programme of athletic games, races and dances has been pre- ared and day i - l;“‘d. a most enjoyable day is antici ————.——— LoAXS on watches, jewelry, siiverware, at Uucle Harrls', 15 Grant avenue. TLABOR DAY AT - THE 86 TENRLE Splendid Programme Pre- pared by the Local Labor Council. MUSIC AND SPEECHES. Rev. Anna H. Shaw Will Deliver an Address on “Woman’s Freedom.” THEY WILL HAVE NONE OF IT Socialists Refuse to Jein in the Demonstration — Happenings in the Labor World. The socialists will not take part in the Labor day festivities. They declare that their time for celebrating is May 1.and under no circumstances would they vary from the European custom, for 1t is in the Old World that “Labor Day,’”” as under- stood by them, is correctly intepreted. In spite of tnis diversion, however, Labor day will be acknowledged in a manner be- fiiting the occasion by the San Francisco Labor Council. The committee on ar- rangements is C. Shuppert, W. McArthur, T. F. Burns, J. Hill, Thomas Hurd, Edward Rosenberg and W. C. Ackerman. The festivities will be held at Metropoli- tan Temple and an interesting musical and literary programme is promised. As now arranged, the exercises will be as fol- lows: Overture, National medley; opening remarks, T. F. Burns, President San Francisco Labor Couneil; vocal selection, Mrs. J. Morrissy; poem, “The Judgments of Labor,” written for the oceasion by Miss Gabriel M. C. Furlong and dedicated to the San Francisco Typographical Union No.21;address, ‘“Childrenof the Trade- Unions,” J. J. Galyin, member San Francisco Typographical Union’ No.21; banjo selection, T. Bree; song, “Sing, Sweet Bird,” Miss M. Aspen;: address, ““Trade-Unionism, Its Neces- sity,” Andrew Furuseth, member Sailors’ | Union of the Pacific; song, "Rlllfi" written, composed and sung by Professor Henri Fair- weather; address, “Woman’s Freedom,” Rev. Anna H. Shaw; finale, “Home Sweet Home,” orchestra. There will be no parade or other outdoor demonstration, but every sympathizer with the labor movement is expected to be present. The socialists, under the leadership of Charles D. Sunflower, held a public meet- ing at the corner of Market street and Grant avenue yesterday afternoon. The police made no attempt to break up the meeting, although a crowd of several hundred blocked the street: Bunflower made one of his characteristic speeches and was followed by James Andrew, labor candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. The latter pointed vut the evils of the present Government as viewed by the party he represented, laying particular stress on the fact that in the Socialist Labor party none of these condition existed. Last night at Pythian Hall on Market street the regular weekly meeting was held. The cha‘rman of the evening was T. T. Anthony, who made a few brief re- marks fitting to the occasion. G. B. Ben- bam and G. Aspden gave appropriate readings, after which the speaker of the evening, E. T. Kingsley, was introduced. This_gentleman, it may be remarked, is the Socialists’ Labor pnr!fi candidate for Congress from the Fourth District. The speaker selected for his subject “Confusion.”” In a direct and general way he criticized the attitude of the two old parties, claiming that they were con- fusing in their argumentsand that neither really benefited the workingman. He | referred incidentally to the fact thatthe socialist labor party was already organiz-d in seventeen States and he expected to see every State in the Union fall into line before November. There were tens of thousands, he said, who would cast their votes for Matchett and Maguire, the Social- ist labor party candidates for President and Vice-President. The campaign committee of the Social- ist labor party is extremely active at pres- ent. They havs the full legal number re- quired to get their candidates on the mu- nicipal ticket, and the same is true of the Fourth Congressional District. The State ticket, however, is not faring so well. As twenty days yet remain before returns must be made, the campaign committee believe the full 3000 signatures will be ob- tained. During the coming week J. F. Foues, prominent in Oakland political circles, will leave on a novel electioneeringtour of Northern California. He proposes to tour that end of the State in a wagon, deliver- ing lectures where he thinks they will do the most good and scattering socialist literature with a lavish hand. James Andrews of Berkeley will leave on a simi- lar mission next week. LIVED FOR CHARITY. Rev, Edward P. Dempsey Speaks of the Good Work of Saint Vincent de Paul. Rev. Edward P. Dempsey delivered a discourse last evening at the conclusion of vespers upon the iife and labors of St. Vincent de Paul. The subject of the ser- mon was a priest of the seventeenth cen- tury, who devoted his eatire life to the alleviation of human suffering. Through his labers numerous asylums, homes for the aged and other charitable institutions were founded throughout Franee. Healso institated the order of the Sisters of Charity, whose ministrations to-day re- }ievda the poor and the suffering in every and. The Saint Vincent de Paul Society, a large branch of which exists in this City, is devoted to the charities advocated by its patron and Father Dempsey made an earnest appeal to the members of the Cathedral congregation to become con- tributing members of this society. “You who aresurrounded by everything you need,” he said, “know nothing of these people who are so poor—but they exist in the parish. g “The charity of thiskind is the kind that the Almighty God wants of us. The charity that does something practical for the poor is the charity of Christ. Would that the spirit of St. Vincent would find an active, zealous place in every member here. Remember, the Scriptures from beginning to end are filled with promises to those who follow the practices of which St. Vincent de Paulis an exemplar. Re- member that even a glass of water given in his name will not be unrewarded. We will never miss it. Remember, we are brothers and sisters of tbe same God."”” —————— Red Branch Ficnic. The Knights of the Red Branch Rifles will hold their ahnual picnic at Shell Mound Park next Sunday, the 13th inst. The proceeds of the pienic will be devoted to the released Irish- Americans who have been confined in England for the last thirieen years. There wili be’| numerous cash prizes and other ariicles suit- able for the occasior. There will also be a magnificent programme of athletic_sports, in- cluding & tug-of-war between the Spring Val. ley Water Works men and the Kn‘l)snu of the [Red Branch Rifies for a purse of $100. —————— ONE million will read echanics’ Fair Daily.” Advertise now. Mysell Rollins,22 Clay,* NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. SPECIAL SALE 000 Choree Frencl Dress Patterns! The BestValues Ever Offered in San Francisco. $10.50 Dress Pattern 44-INCH FRENCH NOVELTY BOUCLE AND CHEVIOT PLAIDS, colors Heliotrope and Red, Green and Tan and and Green, Brown Navy and Brown. $7.00 Dress Pattern 44-INCH NOVELTY FRENCH TWO-TONED BOUCLE, colors Black and Red, Black $7.00 Dress Pattern 50-INCH NOVELTY FRENCH CAMEL’S - HAIR BOU- RETTE, colors Navys, Ol« ive, Browns, Hunters and Black. $5.25 DressPattern and Olive, Black and Brown g NcH GENUINE FRENCH and Black and Blue. TWILLED CHEVIOT, col- ors Browns, Greens, Navys and Black. Samples of above goods sent free to any address. e o 1882, 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. OLOBERR BOWEN & CO0. Our harvest is beginning. We're gathering in the world’s crop of freshly ri- pened fruits—first, figs; then raisins, nuts and orchard fruits. SPEC!AL SAVING SALE. Monday— Tuesday— Wednesday Pasha Blend Coffee 1b. 30c reguiarly 37}c Improved blend Italian Vermouth bot. 50c regularly 60c doz. $5.50 Jams and Jellies jar 15¢ regularly 25¢ Best that California made in 1895. Making room for this year’s harvest. Eastern Biscuits tin 20c regularly 25¢ Fresh, crisp, delicately flavored best we can find. French Mushrooms F. LeCourt regularly 25¢ tin 20¢ Charles o 20c “ 15¢ Tomato Catsup bot. 15¢ regularly 20c Mail orders have close personal attention of the firm; questions answered cheer- fully; write. Send for September catalogue, free. 426-432 Pine 215-217 Sutter :S.F. Mall orders 2800 California filled at i Pine Street store. 1075 Clay, Oakland. 8 THE VERY BEST ONE TO EXAMINE your eyes and fit them to Spectacles and Eye- glasses with instruments of his own invention, whose superiority has not been equaled. My suc: cess has been due to the merits of Y WOrk. Office Hours—12 to 4 P. 3. NOTARY PUBLIC. (CHARLES B. PHILLIPS ATTORNEY. law and Notacy 633 Marke: gile Palace Hotel. el 570, LK “"Felephone; o Boys’ Stylish Shoe Boys’ and Youths’ razor toe Calf Shoe—made like our fine shoes fcr men. Has that grace and ¢‘snap’’ about it that makes you feel proud of yourself. The Factory Price $1.75 and $2.00. e STORE CLOSED TUESDAY. Big Shoe Factory, 581-583 Market St. Store clo: oP.M Redemption of Dupont-St. Bonds TREASURER'S OFFICE, CITY AN D COUNTY of San Francisco, September 2, 1898. Holders of Dupont-street Bonds issued under an act of the ~tate Legislature enijtled “An Act to Authorize the Wideninx of Dupont Street, in (ho City of San Francisco.” adopted March 28, 1876, are hereby notified that the undersigned will r= ceive sealed proposais for the surrender of sald Bonds as proviaed by Section 13 of said act, at his office in the new City Hall, San Francisco, until 120'clock noon of TU KSDAY, September 15, 1896, ‘The amount to be applied o the redempiion of sald Bonds 1s about ninety thousand dollars (890,000). Bidders will state at . hat rate ihey will surrender their Bonds for payment, lss cflmr::- due. No proposals above par will be con- sidered. B ds to be indorsed «Proposals for Surrender of Dupont-street Bonds.'" A, C. WIDBER, Cliy ana County Treasurer. THE SUCCESS of THE SEASON The GRILL Ladies ROOM OF THE PALACE HOTEL. Direct Entrance from Market St OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT. isonous Porzhes, DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS SCIENCE IN NEATNESS ? 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