The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1896, Page 5

8 THE SAN FRA ISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 189 —_— e e B e e N O R e I e s s B THE RETURNS b CLOSELY WATCHED " Guarded Night and Day - Under Supervision of J. Alva Watt Letters Showing How His Em- ployment Was Effected by the Committee, HIS DUTY MOST IMPGRTANT. What Might Have Happened Were the Vote on President Very Close in This State. Some adverse comment having been made relative to the employment of J. " Alva Wett by the Republican Srate Cen- ““tral Committee.to represent the party be- _fore the Election Commissioners during the official canvass of the vote cast in this City on November 3, Mr. Watt has sub- mitted the following correspondence to Tue CALL for publization: SAN F 500, Nov. 2, 1896. Frank McLaugh.in, Chairman Republican ntral Committe DEAR SIk: Pursuant greement with you, John D. Spreckels rring, I will undertake to personally ntthe Republican State Central Com- mittee in all matiers before the Board of Eiec- tion Commissioners during the canvass of the returns, and in addition thereto, to employ, yay and supervise men to watch and taliy the count; waich the returns night and day, and in eyery menner guard sgainst error and iraud in the canvass. For these services and “expenses, including a!l incidental expenses, I you have set apart the sum 0 payable to my order. Yours truly. JAMES ALVA Wa The following is the reply of Major Tepre: MecLaughlin: B SaN FRa> ovember 3, 1896. Tam S ecknowl embe . Sy in Answer tnereto vour understaud- , &S expressed therein, of our agreement ‘relative 10 the wateh, the {ally of ihe count, eic., before the Board of Eleciion Comm otlers duriug the canvassof the returns - correct, and the sum agreed upon {0 payment | 1o you | ces, $1500, wiil be pai )1 of proper vouchers. ood that the amount men- for such se pre; is_unde «upon tionea includes your fee for professional ser- vices in_represeniing this committee be- e Election Commissioners. > _all vigilance in m Iam respectiuily < MCLAUGHLIN, Chairman. " ‘In explanation of this correspondence Mr. Watt said last night: *It bhas been the custom of former State ntral committees to employ watcuers to represent them during 1he c the official returns, and 1n “all matters relating to the interests of the before the Board of Election Com- s during the canvass. Major i John D. Spreckels re- quested me to act for the State Central * Committee in that capacity, and an inter- view was had resuiting in the writing of 5 rsuznt to that arrangement I have personaliy attended before the Llection Commissioners daily since the day of elec- tion and at every meeting held by them, and besides thai have had constantly on guard, night and day, men watching the ballots in tie vault, accompanying the | messenger in taking the’returns to and om the Registrar’s office to the rooms where the Election Commissioners can- wass the returns, in keeping a special tally _Uf the returns, seeing that no returns not properly ¢ errors which might be of advantage to the * Republican cancidates for the State Senate und Assembly are noted and record of them made for the benefit of those candi- * dates in any contestthat may be hereafter made before tne Legislature for seatsin that body. ““The work which has been done,and which is now being done, is of the greatest importance to the Republican party and is essential to the protection of tue party’s interests, Ithasresulted in accomplish- .ing this end in every particular where they-have been involved in the canvass, *More than that. At the time when the . arrangement was made by the State Cen- “*tral Committee it was doubtful whether the State would go Repubiican, and in a close contest the work which ie now being done might be decisive of the resuit in the State of California and determine iteither in favor of McKinley or Bryan, accord- gly as the work should be carefully done neglected. +- “It was to guard against this tendency as much as anything else that the State C ntral Committee entered into the above arrangement with wme. The work which is now being done is entirely separate and distinet from that which was done under the direction of the State Central Commit- tee at the late election during the count in the booths on the National ticket. That work was provided tor by a special fund raised fcr the benefit of the State Central Committee and has no conneciion what- ever with the work which is now being done for the committee under my direc- tion. “Major McLaughlin of the State Central Commuttee positively declined to advance ny iunds for the benefit of the Republi- canCounty Committee or the campaign committee or the purity committee. He * made those arrangements with me as an jirdividual, without any reference to the to-called campaign or purity committee.” MARITAL TROUBLES. They Cause Chris Savage to Swallowa Dose ot Rat Poison. Chris Savage, a barber at 666} Howard * “street, attempted to commit suicide last night by swallowing a dose of rat poison. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital ..~ and Dr. Fitzgibbon applied the usual rem- dies with satisfactory results. r Marital troubles are assigned as the | cause of Savage's attempt. He bas not been long married, but in thau short time ne snd his wife huve not lived happily * together. About a week ago they broke up housekeeping, and she went to live at - 4003¢ Clementina street. Lust night he hired aroom in a lodging- house on the corner of Sixth and Howard streets. He told a friend when he leit his shop to call for him in fifteen minutes. " The friend did so, and found Savage suf- * fering from the poison. He notified the * police and Savage was taken to the hospi- . tal. His wife called at the hospital to see bim last night. . e —————— -LOEWEN’s BOILING BATH. A Kettle Fall of Melted Lard Capsized on Him—He May Not Recover. Anton Loewen, employed in Aunt Ab- bey’s pakery, 223 Sixth street, was taken “to the Receiving Hospital about 2 o’clock this morning, with his back, Lead and -face frigmmfiy burned. A kettle of boiling lard was capsized and the contents spilled over him. His ecovery is doubtful. -He has a wife and our children who live at 1361 Eleventh \etreet, Qakland. e In Hconor of krave Women. The historic spot at Byran Station, five miles from Lexington, Ky., on which stood a fort where a famous battle was fought near the close of the lastcentury between the Indians and the white settlers, will soon be marked appropriately are counted, and thatall | | | local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has taken steps to erect 3 monument on the site of the old fort. Their most important work, how- ever, is already completed. for they have erected at the spring at the foot of the hill a memorial tablet on which are in- scribed the names of brave women who risked their lives at the hands of the besieging Indians to carry water to their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons within the beleaguered fort. The battle was fought on August 16, more than 100 vears ago, and on August 16 next these patriotic women will dedicate the monu- ment. The well has been inclosed by a stone wall and otherwise suituably beau- tified. The next work of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be the monument for the fort on the hill.—Cin- cinnati Enquirer. ENTERTAINED T0O WELL. One Guest Couldn’t Stand the Attentio of the Whole Hotel Staff. Seated amid the palms and shrubberies of the roof garden, with a soft vapor of after-dinner cigars forming a luminous haze about them, they were discussing the liberality and charm of American hospi- taiity, says the New Orleans Times-Demo- crat. “*Some vears ago,” said W. L. Jones, when it came his turn, “many of you will remember that an Englishman with more money than sagacity built a magnificent hotel at Cumberland Gap. There wasnoth- ing in particular to recommend the place; it was out of the line for traveling men, and possessed no attractions for tourists, but nothing daunted by these deficiencies the Englishman made it a veritable palace. The appointments were magnificent in every particular, and, though I've putup atevery hotel of any I do not re- consequence in the countr: member ever to have slept in a more luxu- rious bedroom. But guests persistently refused to arrive, and one morning when I registered I found only five names on tbe book. Nor was this the worst, for turning back I found even fewer names, until I came to a space where for five days there had teen only one man in the house. There was a man named Loomis, now clerk at the Cordova, behind the desk,and 1 asked him how tuings were going. ‘Goine!’ he exclaimed; then with a long face: ‘When you entertain a man so well that you drive him out of the house, and he the only guest, you're in a bad way.’ There- upon he told me about the solitary guest. It appears that he had called the leader of the orchestra up and said to him: ‘Do you see that man? Keep your eye on him. He's our only guest. We can’t loce him, or the house must close. Give him a of a time. When he gees to dinner take your orchesfra outside the door and play music for him. When he goes into the bitliard-1oom follow him and play music while he shoots the balls around.” When he goes to the bar follow him and play while he drinks. Keep your eye on him, bandmaster; give him music whérever he goes.” Then he called the steward up ana said: eep your eye on that man. He's our only salvation.” Give him a high old time. None of his money goes at the bar. Throw open the wineroom to him; keep him supplied with the best cigars; serve him the whole bill of fare and have extra meals sent to his room.’ “Then they started in on the guest. When he went into the billiard-room the band would play marches while he car- omed and dirges when he massed. When he came out they would follow him to the bar playing a marck, and while the bar- tender poured out bumpers of wine for him they would discourse the drinking song from ‘Tannhauser.” Circus music would be played while he walked around the corridors, and symphonies while he would bring him in cigars, and _the band would play ‘I Smoke My Last Cigar.” When he went to bed the band piayed lnllabies in the Eall and in the | morning he was awakened with the re- veille and Mendelssohn’s ‘Spring Son: For tive days the guest was drunkw the combined effects of food, music, cigars and champagne, and then all of a sudden, while the bana_ was following him to the bathroom playing ‘A Life on the Ocean ‘Wave,” he suddenly crew very white and fell all in a heap. He was carried out on a shutter and taken to the hospital at Hagerstown. Within twenty minutes after he left thre: guests arrived, and the hotel was saved.” ———————— | PREPARTNG A MAP OF THE STARS it Will Locate 20,000,000 of Them, and Still There Are Others. Few people are aware that the great astronomical observatories of the world are enzaged at the present time in the preparation of a map of the heavens in which shall be definitely Jocated probabiy about 22,000,000 stars. The work was authorized in 1887 at a congress in Paris, was begun in 1891, and has cost already, it iz estimeted, more than $2,000,000. It was originally expected that the map would be completed at about the end of the cen- tury, but now it seems probable the end will be reached before that time. When finished it will be composed of 27,000 sec- tions, gnd if they should be connected in their proper places the whole would cover an area of about two acres. The possibility of making such a map was suggested by the progress in photog- raphy, by which it was found tne camera couid be maae to fix on plates what be- fore could only be se:n at intervals through the telescopes. By this process every star up to a certain magnitude—the fourteenth, as originally planned—will be shown in its exact position, just as the maps of the earth accuiately represent the locations of cities and other objects. The stars to be represented on the map comprise only about one-third of tne total number of those that have been brought within the vision of man by tke powerful telescopes. An estimate of this total number places it at 60,000,000, which is about ten thousand times the number that can be seen with naked eyes in all the sections of the heavens around the earth. Most men have experienced the sensation of awe that attends a silent contemplation of the heavens on a clear night, and have been overwhelmed by the immensity of the visible universe. How much more marvelous is the fact that be- yond the blazing suns that meet the wan- dering gaze are millions more revealed by the gias«, and, for all we know, countless other millions buried in the ‘‘darkness behind the stars”” that have yet defied science.—Chicago Tribune. [ Gt A Deontist Tells aStory. Among the guests at Willard’s is P. M. Wiiliams,a prominent dentist of Lockport, “There came to my notice the other day,” said he, “‘one of the most re- markable cases bf third dentition of which I ever heard. An old lady of 70 vears had been toothiess for many years. She wore false teeth instead of her lastnatural ones. *‘Some time ago she complained of her false teeth giving her gums pain, and at last came to me to try and have the mat- ter remedied. Much to the surprise of both of us, Ifound that she was cutting a new set of teeth. In a short time she had cut an entire new set, above and below, and they all seem 10 be as sound as the teeth of a person in the prime of life. But the thing that must seem beyond belief, and which is yet true, is thatone of the new teeth bad agold filing in it. “In a jaw tooth on the lower left side a piece of gold about as large asa match- head was found, roughly, though solidly, imbedded in the crust of the tooth. The only way the affair could be explained was through the fact that the lady several years ago svuhowednfald filling oat of her former teeth, and it is supposed to have worked around in her body, like for- eign substances will sometimes do, until it came out in l'gu remarkable manner I have indicated, ‘Washington Times, WE have just received entirely new and ‘beautiful lines of banquet lamps and onyx ta- l ia commemoration-of that event. The |741 Market street. bles much cheaper than nice goods have ever been sold hen":!ore. Banborn, Vail & 0.0.. dined. After dinner relays of negre boys | YOUNG DRUGGISTS GIVEN DIPLOMAS Emerge From the Chrysalis to the Pillmaking Stage. University Fharmaceutic De- partment’s Commencement Exercises. SOME ELCQUENT ADDRESSES. Twenty-Six Graduates Receive plemas and Five Certificat:s of Proficiency. Di. The {wenty-third annual commence- ment exercises of the department of phar- macy, University of California, was held last nignt at Native Sons’ Hall. The hall was tastefully decorated with the uUniversity colors, blue and gold. From the ceiling were suspended long streamers of xold, while Japanese lan- | terns of various odd shapes added to the | artistic effect. On the stage were: President Martin Kellogg, William H. Searby, Ph. C., the dean of the facuity, C. Hadley Carson, M.D., and most of the faculty inthe phar- maceutic department. The programme was opened with the overture, “Raymond,” by the orchestra. Rev. George Edward Walk, A.M., then delivered an eloquent address. It was introduced by reading the poison scene irom " Komeo and Juliet,” after | which Dr. Walk broadened out and | treated the general sibject of pharmacy in a very interesting manner, giving some excellent advice to those just branching | forth in the profession. After the rendition of a selection from Beyer by the orchestra Dr. Carson deliv- | ered the valedictory address for the fac- | ulty. The address was interwoven with a skein of spontaneous humor that kept the audience laughing, while it appreciated the good advice given to the graduates. He said: “Let the example of the learnea men in the professions—they whose names shine in the intellectual world as stars of the | first magnitude—spur you on to an effort | at emulation. *He who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a_true benefactor of mankind.’ “You have heard of the attempt, have | you not, to fix the philosophers’ stone be- | fore the sixteenth century? In this latter | day the search seems to have resolved | itself into making money by manufactnr- | ing soothing syruaps, ‘In those olden times such thinzs as | ground oyster shells, brick dust. and vari- | cus other articles of indigestible quality | used to jorm prescriptions. Many a man Las narrowly escaped disintegration while pounding some shctgun prescription | around with & mortar and a pestle, | _ *“Look at the ancient bolus, for example. What a cumbrous_thing it was. Now we | have pills of smail caliber but wondrous | powers of execution. *‘In the drama of life we cannot ail be | star players, but we can at least do our | best aud keep the stern dictates of duty | before our eyes. | = *Do not be discouraged because the lines | of your lives happen to fall in rough | places. Itisacommon thing for a phar- | macist to be called from his comfortanle | couch at 2 o'clock in the morning to 1 flicted with cholera morbus or colic. “You carry w you to-night the best wishes of your alma mater, and her earnest desire that you all may realize your fondest ambitions.”” The candidates {or graduation were then presented with their diplomas upon the stage by Dean Searby. He took advantage of the occasion to | compliment them all upon the work they had done, and expressed the hope that their lines of life would fall in pleasant | places. As the graduates received their diplo- | mas and stepped from the stage the friends of each gave hearty applanse. The names of those upon whom the honor was conferred are: _ Frank James Atkinson, Daisy M. Bowen, Edgar Bridgewater, Joseph Michael Campo- donico, Edward Martin Cherry, Orlando Paine | Crozier, John Joseph Crowly, Welling- | ton Irving Clayes, Arthur Edgar Du- | prey, Emilio Attilio Ferrca, Edward Rus- | sell Hanlon, William John Haber, | Vincent Walter Hopkins, Thaddzus Burton Hougnton, William John Jackson, Eugene Aloysius Kiely, George Ashby Laubersheimer, George llem’{ Philip Lichthardt, George Wil- liam Minstrell, Royal T. Moore,George Thomas | Noe, Adea Marian Parr, Darius Leopold Per- rone, Helen trace Reynolds, Otto Scholl, Ed- ward Louis Wegener. 3 The conferring of the degree of graduate in pharmacy fell to President Kellogg. “You have all attended the whole of the prescribea course,”” he said, “and have done_the laboratory work required. Ac- cordingly, the board of trustees and the faculty have recommended that you be given diplomas of graduation. I take pleasure in presenting them to you.” President Igtllcrfg then stated that in accordance with the general practice of universities throughout the country before taking the final exercises for graduation pupils were required to have served a cer- tain length of time in pharmacies to ac- quire the beneficial results of actual prac- tice, He regretted to state that five of the pu- pils, through no fanlt of theirs, had found this impracticable, and therefore could not take the final graduation exer- cises. Their names were the Misses Eliza- beth Dudley and Lida Talcott and Messrs. Leonard Leavy, Armand Briggs and Ar- thur Deibert. Amid generous applause they were called to the stage and presented with certificates of proficiency. The exercises ended with a rendering of the march *‘La Fiesta,” by Roacovieri. D0G AND HEN CHUM TOGETHEk Black-and-Tan Scratches Up Worms for Baby Chickens. Black-and-tan dogs are not expected to earn their own living any more than dolls and other such pets, but the Indianapolis Sentinel reports an interesting exception to the rule. Asthe story goes, the mis- tress of the dog isalso a deeper of hens. One of these was sitting upon a *'cluteh’” of thirteen eggs and Don, the black-and- tan, soon became very curious to know why she stayed in the barn =o closely. The dog, as it appears, ‘had formerly been given to teasing the hen, snatching her food away from her and otherwise making himself a torment, but the inter- course had gradualiy turned into friend- ship, and the two would sometimes be seen lying and squatting side by side in thec;'nn on a bit of carpet in the back orch. pDnring the three weeks that the hen sat on her eggs Don used to pay daily visits to the barn and sometimes would stay with ner by the haif-hour. hen the chicks came out of the shells. Don was intensely interested. All day long he scarcely lefi the barn. The next morning, when the hen step) off the nest and with a cluck called her brood after her, Dou followed. The ben fell to scratching and the fluffy formulate a vprescription for a child af- | chicks darted hither and thither, picking up the tidbdits which the mother had un- covered. “Good!” said Don fo himself; “I can help in this business,” and to the terror of the cbickens he ran in among them and began turning np the soil at a lively rate. Then he sat down and waited. The mother hen called back the chicks to the newly scratched earth and soon they picked it clean. Then tne dog took another turn. And so the_.good work proceeded, to the great delight of ali the parties, THIS WHALE WAS A RACER. She Drew the Boat Under and the Men Had to Get Out and Swim, Will Taylor, son of Captain Thomas S. Taylor of the whaling schooner Rising Sun_of Princetown, has arrived home, having left that craft on Hatteras ground a few days ago with 250 barreis of sperm oil below batcbes, taken since leaving home, March 30. Mr. Taylor wenton the cruise for the benefit of his health, which had been undermined by close application to his desk in a Boston postoflice. He tells of one exciting incident of the voyage, by which a boat’s crew narrowly " escaped death. His story is as follows: *July 8 we raised a school of whales bound across our course and going fast to windward. The mate’s boat got away speedily in chase, and with oars and sail attempted to overtake the herd. The captain’s boat followed, and we, hoping to cut in ahead of the heard and believing that a sail would assjst, started to get the mast in its step. efore this could be accomplished we met a big cow whale squareiy head on, and an iron was socked in on the instant. The whale proved a lively one and full of fight, and going in an opposite direction to our course tore the whale line from the bow chock and swept it aft. . “But fortunately the line canght and held under a cleat on the bow, or it woula have cleared that side of the boat of everything above the rail. The boat was whirled around, but the tow line teing out of place made the boat tow at an angle. She began to move furious!y through the water with two men hurriediy striving to prize the line into place. They were unable to accomplish this, and the boat began to careen and show symptoms of swamping. One man lost his head and jumped overboard, but was immediately seized by my father and hauled in, **The first tub of line ran out over the bow st lightning speed while all this was going on, and with equal rapidity the line from the other tub began to follow suit. But suddenly it snarled in the tub, and nearly the whole bunch came out at once and buzzed forward, striking with a thud | and catching solidiy somewhere forward. The whirling mass of line narrowly es- caped catching our men asit passed across the thwarts, and did catch a paddle,which it whirled forward amid the ruck as if to complicate matters. “While the captain was rescuing the man cverboard the turns came off the log- gerhead, and but a half dozen coils re- mained in the tub. “‘The captain seized the line to take nesw turns, butat that instant the boat went down head first. The captain was washed over the stern, and as he went snatcned at the long steering oar, but it pas-ed through his hands and out of sighturder water. “I clung to the boat until I found she was geing well down, then et go, but I went so deep that I swallowed lots of water before I shot upward to the surface. “When i came to the top of the water I found all the crew swimming around with only one oar to support the entire num- ber. My father can’t swim a stroke, but he had on a jacket which can be infiated with air, and he did very well by itsaid. “We kept up for a while, when ail at once the boat came to the surface. The line had parted and ithe whale had gone clear. “We clung to the boat until the mate’s boat came to our assistance and picked us up. We had been in the water abount fifteen minutes and had had sufficient whaling for that day. Nothing was_seen of that whale afterward.”—Boston Daily Glabe. R b Y e . A PRESSING ENGAGEMENT, How General John W. Fostar Came to Leave China, Speaking of General Foster, I heard a story the other day of how he persuaded Li Hung Chang to allow him to leave China. The Chinese Viceroy became very fond of Fos:er, and he offered variousin- | ducements (o get him to stay in China and act s one of the foreign advisers of the Government. General Foster, how- ever, did not want to stay in China, and he told Li Hung Chang that 1t was impos- sible for him to do so. “But why is it impossible?” said Li. *‘Is it a matter of salary? If so, I think we can fix that.” General Foster is a diplomat. He did not want to tell the Viceroy that the real reason for his not wishing to remain in China was that he liked America better, so he thought a moment and then evaaed the question. d he: *“Your Exceliency knows I wonld like to stay. I like you and I am fond of the Chinese people, but 1 have an imperative engagement in the United States for this summer, which was fixed before I came out here, and which I am bound to meet.’’ Here General Foster stopped. He knew the curiosity of Li Hung Chang’s Chinese nature would not let him resi until he was told what that engagement was. He was not disappointed. In a moment the Viceroy asked: *“What, eeneral, is your imperative en- gagement?” ‘It is with my grandson,” replied Sec- retary Foster. *‘He is just seven years old. I have promised to take him out fishing on Lake Ontario this summer, and if 1do not carry ont my promise I will lose face with him. He will think his grandfather isnot a man offruth, and 1 will set a'bad example for him. Now, your Excellency, accoraing to the doctrines of filial piety and as a disciple of Confucius, knows the duties which a parent or grandparent sus- tains to his child. You must see that I cannot break my engagement.’” Earl Li reflected a moment. No matter how bright a Chinese is, hz is slow to ap- preciate a joke, and the Viceroy at first took the matter in sober earnest. " He said that if General Foster wanted to fish he could give him plenty of opportunities in China, “Why," be said, “there are beanti- ful lakes inside the palace grounds. They are full of all sorts of rare and game fish. If yeu will I will get you permission to fish there.” “‘Ah! said Secretary Foster, “but how about my grandson and the doctrines of Confucius?” *'Ob,” reptied Li Hung Chang, who by this time had come to see that General Foster was joking with him, “if you don’t want to, we can’t make you stay, but we would like to keep you just as long as pos- sinle.”” He did keep General Foster as long as he could, and he was especially anxious because he thought that Foster's staying in China wouid make the path of his own son, Lord Li, more smooth, and mignt possibly save him from death.— g{.gek H. Carpenter in the St. Louis obe. e e .. An Archbishop’s Wit. The stories that'are told of Archbishop Ryan's wit would fill a small volume. A well-known priest cailed upon him one day to ask for & vacation on the ground that his health required it. As he was noted for his frequent absences from the parish, the prelaie could not let slip the oppertunity. He eranted the leave of ab- sence promptly, with a recommendation. “The physicians say that you need a change of air, father?” “They do, your Grace.” ‘‘How would it do, then, to” try the air of your parish for a month or two as a change?” He remonstrated once with a priest whose silk hat had seen its best days be- fore the war. “I would not give up that hat for twenty new ones,” said the preist. *‘It belonged to my father, who feli in the rising of ’48”" “And evidently fell on the veplied the archbishop.—Household TO CURE'A COLOD IN ONE DAY, Takelaxative BromoQuinine Thblets. All drug- gists refund the mouey if it fails to cure. 25¢. WORK PLANNED FOR OLD WOME They Should Be Hired to Clean the City Hall Corridors. Scheme of the Women’s Educa- cational and Industrial Union. THE PRESIDEN1'S REPURT. She Gives a Most Satisfactory Account of the Society’s Present Condition. The Women’s Educational and Indus- trial Union he!d its annual meeting last night, and the following-named officers were installed: Mme. Louise A. Sorbier, president ; Mrs. Paris Kilourn, Mrs. Nellie B. Eyster and Mrs. P. D. Hale, vice-presi- dents; treasurer, Mrs. L. C. Fraser; record- ing seeretary, Mrs. C. F. Kapp; corre- sponding secretary, Miss Marie B. Sorbier; associated directors, Mrs. Dr. Cachot, Mre, Margaret Deane, Mrs. H. Lewis, Mrs. R. Searles gpd Mrs. Joseph Spear. The advisory board for the year are: Judge M. Cooney, Richard Chute, S, J. Hendy, James D. Phelan, Joseph Spear Jr., Mrs. Richard Chute, Mrs. 8. J. Hendy, Mrs. H. Highton, Mrs. Senator Mahoney, Mrs. A. A. Sargent. The reports showea that the union has been collecting the wages of poor women when unjustly withheld. In the employ- ment department 392 women applied for work and 200 employers applied for help. The bureau is free to members and all poor Women. The sccial department gave musicales every Tuesday evening, which were free 10 all women and their escorts. The treas- urer reported $1010 in the treasury. The secretary thanked in detaii all the bene- factors of the union and paid a tribute to Mme. Louise A. Sorbier (their president) for having union open ard bringing it to the present success. Following the reports the friends and members of the union present were fa- vored by Mme. Roeckel with songs, and by Miss Treadwell with a recitation. Miss Douglass played a mandolin solo. Re- {reshments were served by the young ladies of the union. The president in her report expressed the thanks ot the union to Mrs. Phebe Hearst, Professor Duavid Starr Jordan, Hon, James G. Maguire and Marcus Rosen- thal for donations. She spoke as foilows: Friends and members of the union, this is really a day of rejoicing for those of us who are interested in ihis union, for surely our ef- forts have been biessed with success. Three years ago to-night a tew of us who would not listen to the idea of closing the door of the uunion, belleving we would be helped to keep it open, were certainly not rejoicing. We knew thata grest uphiil work was to be un- dertaken, since it is easier to start a new in- stitution than to resuscitate & dying one, bu. we believed it our duty to try and save it, and certainly we were well rewarded for our perse- verance. The following year found the union still liv- ing, continuing the good it was created for, not i debt of one cent and. had still in the treas- ury $258; the next year our treasury had $289, | and this year it nes over $1000. I must not forget at this point to tell you thatin our ef- forts to preserve the union three yearsago I appifed (o muny of our wealthy citizens, ask- ing them to give our union one dollar 2 month 10 help toward its support. Several kindly ac- quiesced and a few are still helping ns. Among those I wrote to wes our well-known philanthropi Mrs. Phebe Hearst. Her kind letter alone wouid have well encouraged us. She promised us $5 a month instead of $1. On the following Christmss she gave us monthly subscription, and we may well say that she is the greatest beneiactor of our unton. Then Professor David Starr Jordan gave us a very instructive and interesting illustrated lecture which brought back $295. After this Hon. James G. Maguire and Marcus ! Rosenthal gave w8 & debate which adaded to our treasury the sum of $221. And this year 400 of our friends g!rlimpflled in a carnival which brought back $912. 1have been trying to procure the cleaning of our City Hall for the poor women. These women, whom no one wiil employ because of their age, and whom the Almshouse will not admit since they are invalids, are in great need of work and cannot get relief. Now our City Hell Is in such a filthy condition that it is a disgrace to the City, and these women could keep it in a condition which would be an honor to San Francisco besides being a blessing for these unfortunate women who because they are good and honest are suffer- ing, many of toem of huunger and cold—a fact which is & disgrace to our fair Califcrnia, ‘where so much is done for the comtort of criminals and notbing for this most deserving class of unfortunate women. In San Francisco we have many homes for young womeu, but God help the poor old Women, no one wants them. Another thin, we hope 10 have is & free gymnasium for women. How restiul it would be for many of our woman clerks and students who are bent over & desk all day to have such a place to benefit their heaiith. Also our cooking school needs many improvements which are impossi- ble in this nall house, and besides, we hate 10 gO to any expense in & heuse which we may have to leave at any moment the landlord may wantit, Innearly all the cities where the Women'’s Educational and Industrial Union is in existence, they own their own home, and certainly this union ought to have ene. DEAN FARRAR'S BOYHOOD. In His Youth He Lived With Ear Close to Nature’'s Heart. In “The Life Story of Dean rarrar,’ which appears with many illustrations in the first number of the Temple Magazine, we are told that he was 8 years 6ld whea his parents returned from India. The scene of his boyhood changed when he was 8 years old from Avlesbury to the Isle of Man, his parents having taken a house on the shores of Castleton Bay. During the next <even years he lived with his ear close to the heart of nature, in a spot where the rush of life was unknown. A love of nature has remained one of the most powerful influences of his life, and the mention of the island still brings to the Dean'’s face a far-away look of ten- der memories. “The Manxman” is one of his favorite books to-day; and he speaks in graceful praise of those graphic pictures which Hali Caine has drawn of the institutions and scenery of the isle of Man, pictures which will preserve to pos- terity much that is passing away before the onward rush of the tourist. One event in his school life stands out with awful vividness in the Dean’s mind to- day. It was the firein 1844 by which the whole of Kin: William’s College was de- stroyed; and tuat there was not one fatal accident is due 1n_part to *‘Fred Farrar,” to use his boyhood’s name, tor he was.one of the first to give the I shall never forget,”” he said, “‘waking up at night with the suffocating smell of smoke and, when I opened the door at one end of the long dormitories, being met by the bursting flames. “I roused my brother, and we ran to- getier from bed to bed waking up the boys. Then came the fearful suspense, while we all stood huddled togetherina aark passage, waiting for the key to be found for the only sate door of exit; and the joy when it was at length opened and we rushed pell-meil out of doors, bare- footed and with scarcely anything on but our night shirts! It was a Decmber night, and the cold was intense; but the succeeded in keeping the | $100, and this year she has doubled her | g | l wonderful sight of the flames issuing fiom the windows made me forget every- thing else. It was the grandest and most awful signt I ever witnessed. Fortunately my brother and I had friends to take us in; and afterward we- were placed, along with other boys, in a house, until the col- lege was rebuilt, and trusted entirely by ourselves, without a master being placed m charge.” A STRANGE PET. It Was a Red Fox and Known by the Name of Koxie. At Mr. Phelps’ home camp on Minne- tonka there were, of course, a number of dogs about, including Pounle d’Eau, a litter of seven puppies, a rattlesheaded retriever called Buffalo and a faithful old pointer called Tige, now almost upon the verge of dissolution aiter a long life of glory in the open country. Poorold Tige! Itisoneof the saddest things of sportmanship to have 10 see a favorite bird dog grow old and hopeless. Tige was so helpless he could not walk far, but was anxious as ever to go when he saw us siart out along the woods road. He would walk a little way and then give in, iying down in the road and whining pitifully at realizing that his strength was gone forever. But most interesting of all the home menagerie was the red fox called Roxie, one of the oddest pets I ever saw. Roxie 18 about two or three years old, but much smaller than an aduit red fox should be, thanks to the life of captivity. In he youth Roxie would bite any hand ex- tended to her, but her owner whipped her so conscientiously that he broke heren- tirely of that habit, =o that she is now harmless. Roxie is, however, too wild by ineradicable nature to be on terms of close | FRAUDS EXPOSED friendship with many. Mrs. Phelps can EiCk her up at will as though she were a kitten, but nc one else can caich her with- out pulling her in by the chain to which she is attached. Sometimes I would get up to reaching distance, and would scratch her ear, an operation much relished by herand some- times she would eat from one’s hand; but always she did this under provest, with little whines and grunts of protest ana contempt. As neariy as I could tell, that was just the feeling Roxie had for human beings—one of contempt. Sometimes she would stand and look at one with hereyes half closea in the most unmistakably cyn- ical fashion one ever saw, showing plainly enough what was her estimate of human- 1ty. All day long Roxie was barely still, but was running full length of the chamn most of the time, and very often carrying 1n her mouth a chip or bit of wood, which was her fashion of play. She would dig holes in the earth to some depth, but preferred to hide in her hollow log, which served asa kennel. With the reiriever puppy, a round, curly littie fel- low of a few weeks cld, she was on the best of terms, and would play with it by the hour, never hurting it in the least, though often its sharp teeth must have hurt her ears. At night, when shut up in her log house, Roxie would utter a loud wail of protest, a curious, indescribable whining howl, biended with a snufile or cough. None of the dogs about the house ever troubled Roxie, and they seemed in- ciuded in her general contempt for all things mundane.—Forest and Stream. A TERRIER'S DEVOTION. Lost His Own Life in a Brave Effort to Save His Master’s. To the sagacity of a fox-terrier dog Mr. and Mrs, Dan C. Donovan, living at 2521 North Grand avenue, owe the life of their little son, Dan, aged 2 years. In rescuing the child from a hideous death the saga- | cious brute sustained injuries from which it died after suffering the most intense agony for more than two hours. An effort was made to save the life of the animal by amputating one of its legs, but the poor littie brute expired on the friends witnessed the operation, and when they were told that their hercic little pet could not survive the operation there was not a dry eye in the party. The tragedy occurred in thisway: The child was playing in the yard with the dog yesterday afternoon when he discov- ered that the gate leadin barn had been left open. He rar out onto the sidewalR and was making for the crowded street as fast as his chubby lees could carry him, when the dog noticed his peril and ran to the rescue. The noble animal began to bark vociferously and to jump upon the baby in an effort to knock him down. All unconscious of his danger the little fellow manfully held his legs and started to climb down off the curbing into the | gutier. The dog took up his position in the street and kept on barking and trying to prevent the boy from going any further. At this juncture a heavy wagon drawn by two spirited horses came dashing by. One of the wheels passed over the dog’s hind leg, mashing it into a shapeless mass and rolling the brute for some distance. The canine {ello«l piteously and so frightened the baby that he sat down on the curbstone and opened his eyes in wonderment. Tisen he became frightened and began to cry. The dog’s how!s at- tracted the attention of Mrs. Donovan and several of the neighbors, who ran out and picked the baby up just as he was in the act of scampering off down the street. Had the child’s mother been a moment later he would in all probability have been ran down and killed or frightiully maimed, as the street at that point is always crowded with vehicles of every description. Two Jines of electric-cars pass the Donovan residence, and had the little fellow succeeded in getting past the ‘wagons his life would certainly have been crushed out under these modern jugger- nauts. Some one picked up the dog and carried it into the house. Mr. Donovan was tele- phoned for and arrived on the scene shortly after. He sent for a veterinary surgeon in the hope that the dog’s life might be spared by amputating the in- jured leg. Dr. Farrell chloroformed the terrier and took off the macerated mem- ber, but it was found that the cruel wheel had crushed its vitals and that it coulo not possibly recover. The sorrowing little group that gath- ered about the operating table presented a dramatic picture not without its pa- thetic side. The dog had been a great pet in the family and was the constant play- mate and companion of his toddling little master. It was so frightfully crushed and mn:igled that every time it moved it suf- fered so intensely that it whined and cried in the most pitiful manner. Its suffering wus eased by the chloroform, but before the operation was finished the brute re- covered from the effects of the opiate and again began to howl with pain. As though it realized that it was going to die, it raised its nead and crawled to the edge of the table to lick the hand of the baby whose life it had saved. The effort proved too much for the animal and with a gasp that seemed almost human it fell over dead. There will be a funeral at the Donovan residence to-day. Little Dan will bury his pet with ail the ceremony his baby in- stincts have taught him. Older hands will dig the grave, but the grief-stricken toddler will cover the body with earth, and he will not be the ohly mourner who will stana about the mound.—St. Louis public. C ly Feathers. ‘While there are probably hundreds of men who make a business of killing birds for their feathers, the best kngwn of the feather hunters in the west is Hamlin Smitb, the white chief of the Cocopah In- dians. Their reservation includes mostof the land on Madeline Bay. In the marshes of this broad sheet of water are found the egret, heron ane crane in large numbers. Smith reached S8an Francisco a week or so ug:'whh several bags of feathers, chiefly t. The load weighed less than four unds, but it netted Mr. Smith $1575. 'ven the heron’s fsathers come high. ‘They fetch at wholesale from $8 to $10 an ounce. One heron, Mr. Smith says, will yield often feathers worth §150. If herons back to the: | | are more plentiful than egret they are more profitable hunting, because there is only a smail tuft of covering on the greet that 1s marketable.—Portiand Oregonian. City Nicknames. ‘Washington—The City of Magnificent Distances. Pittsburg—The Iron City. New Haven—The City of Elms. Cincinnati—Porkopolis. (The name has sometimes been applied to Chicago.) Ancient Rome—The Mistress of the World. . Aberdeen—The Granite City. Indianapolis—The Railroad City. Raleigh, N. C.—-The City of Oaks. Chicago—The Garden City. London—The Modern Babylon. Baltimore—The Monumental City. St. Louis—Tne Mound City. Boston—The Hub of the Universe. Brooklyn—The City of Churches. Brussels—Little Paris. (The name fis sometimes applied to Milan,) New York Clty—Gotham. Detroit is known as the City of the Straits, Lowell as the City of Spindles, RBoston as the City of Notions, the Puri- tan City, the City of Culture, the Modern Athens and the Hub of the Universe; Philadelphia as the City of Brotherly Lova and the Quaker City, New Orleans as the Crescent City, Cleveland and Portiand as the Forest Cities, Springfield (I!l.) as the Flower City, Rochester as the Flour City, Hannibal as the Bluff City, Buffalo as the Queen City of the Lakes, Pittsburg as the Smoky City, Kenkuk as the Gate City. Cin- cinnati as the Queen City of the West, Bangor as the Queen City of the East, Nushville as the City of Rocks and Louise ville as the Fall City.—Boston Journal. Gifted Authors Denounce Phrenology and Phre- nologists. The Ignorant Cheats, Buffoons and Falsifiers Go Down Before Scientific Facts. Phrenology, or the manipulation of heads, is a dirty and obnoxious practice, and a source of danger also to the practi- tioner and to those whom he may later on examine professionally. A phrenologist is liable to contract itch, leprosy, small- pox, or many other contagious and loath- some diseases, and communicate them afterward to other persons coming in con= tact with his hands during an examina- tion. The public should carefully shun phrenologists and their deceptive and un- healthy practice, for serious consequences may result from it, as has been proven in many instances. It is largely through imaginary youths and ignorant, unscru- pulous and ungrincipled charlatans that phrenological quackery has hoax=d and deceived many simple people. What lit- tle prestige it has gained is being rapidly dissipated by science. There are, how- ever, several of the most debased phreno- logical frauds in this community who ars continually imposing on the people and eking out a miserable existence by the practice of their unprincipled methods. For the benefit of those desiring a clear comprehension of some of the many evils, | s = Y. operating table unaer the surgeon’s knife. | *770* and false claims of phrenoclogy, the | Mr. and Mrs. Donovan and several of their views of a number of eminent authors and scientilic authorities are herewith sub- mitted: ““We have already said that in our opin= jon Fool and Phrenologist are terms as nearly synonymous ascan be found in any language.”—Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag- azine, Jan., 1823, page 100. “Phrenology * * The dogmatism and arrogance of its advocates were really be- ginning to be tiresome—and the foily had asted rather too long.”’—By Lord Francis Jeffrey, M. P., famous Judge in the Scot- tish Court of Sessions. See Edinburgi Review, Sept., 1526, page 318. Carlisle | (Reminiscences 1L, 14) describes Jeffrey as “Instinct with honesty, intelligence.”’ “Phrenology * * One of the most ex- traordinary theories that ever disgraced the unfortunate science of mental phil- osophy. * * No man of distinguished general ability has hitherto announced his adhesion to their creed.””—Robert Southey in Quarterly Review, London, 1836, page 182. Southey was an ‘‘eminent English author.” Coleridge (Biographia Literaria) refers to Southey thus: ‘‘Best gifts of talent and genius, * * subser- vient to the best interests of humanity.” “Where the phrenologist has made the prognosis and we have ourselves ccmpared 1t with the conduct of the party, has been unfavorable.”'—Fraser’s Magazire, Lon- don; 1840, page 509. “The skull is, as any observer may easily satisfy himself, no good guide to mental endowments.”—Popular Science Review, London, 1869, page 388, “‘Experimental physiology and path- ology, by suggesting other functions for much of tue brain surface, are thus di- rectly subversive ofmuch of the Fhrenology of Gall and Spurzheim. * * Psychology and experience alike contribute to discredit the system and to show how worthless the so-called diagnoses of character really are. * * It is capable of doing positive social harm.”—Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, 1885, pages 847 to 849. The attempt to determine differences in functional capacity irom the examination of the head evolved all the difficulties con- nected with the examination of the brain and a great many more.”’—Science Supple- ment, New York, March 25, 1887, page z99. “The ignoranece of those who practice phrenology as an art, their illogicality, impudence and rapacity for fees. * ¥ Every one is an unconscious physiognom- ist without having analyzea expression; phrenologists make use of this common ability in _estimating character.””—The American Naturalist, Philadelphia, Pa., July, 1888, pace 613. “There is nothing in common between modern cerebral localization and the views of Gall ana Spurzheim.”—Century Dictionary, New York, 1890, page 4458. “Catchpenny bumpology—it graduaily fell well nigh altogetuer into the hands of quacks. Itisnot too much to assert that to the majority of people phrenology is thus associated with more or less vulgar dens of its more popular expounders. To inyite the attention of passers-by these persons generally adorn their consulting- rooms with hideous bald plates, each sup- posed to be typical of * * bumps, * * depend for their existence on the vulgar craving for the occult.”—Saturday Re- view, London, April 26, 1890, page 500. “Pracucal phrenology now is really but a shrewd empiricism based on physi- ognomy, and not upon the classical bnmgu atall. * * Physiology bas quite extin- guished the science of bumps.”’—Medical Record, New York, Dec. 15, 1894, page 738. Cerebral localization. * * Nothing so far permiis us to suppose that there exists a center of judgment, a center of intelli- gence, a center of conscience, etc.’’—Le Progress Medical, August 15, 1896. Trans- lated and published by Pacific Medical Journal, San Francisco, October, 1896, **Another discovery retently made is a big surprise to scientific students. It is that the intelligence of human bei and brutes does notreside * * in thefrootal lobes, or ‘cerebral hemispheres,’ which compose the upper and front portion of the brain. During many years past ex- Kerimen!s repeated over and over sgain ave seemed to prove this. * * Professor Munk of Berlin * * has succeeded in removing the frontal lobes and the * * patients have beer apparentiy as bright ever ¥ * asintelligentasbefore.”’—New York Journal, October 11, 1896, page 19,