The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1896. 11 LITTLE LEE MAY GET A FORTUNE An Unhappy Young Wife and Mother Hears Good News. Her Husband, Though in Jail, Declares He Is Worth Much Property. If Not Divoreed From His First Wife His Dates Shcw That He Is a Bigamist, OAxLAND OrFFicE SAN FraNcisco CAvLL, 908 Broadway, N 4, 1896. The little boy of Mrs. John Lee, the young wife who has left her husband be- cause he could not produce satisfactory evidence that he had been divorced from his first wife, will probably inherit a 1arge fortune. His mother, who was Miss Minnie Diehl, has just received word from Los Angeles that her husband’s name is not Lee, but that he 1s the son of Antonio Schiappa Pietra of Ventura, who died about a year ago while on a visit to Italy, leaving his brother apparently the heir to an estate estimated to be worth about 41,000,000 to $1,250,000. Lee declares he is the son of Schiappa Pietra, and it was often cause for wonder, while Lee was in Oakland, why an Italian should have "such a name, for there is no doubt about Lee’s nationality. He is now in jail in Los Angeles, charred with an assault on a younggirl. In San Francisco he married a woman under the name of John Bisbee, and in this city he married Minnie Diehl, a 17-year-old girl, by whom he has one child, about a year old. Lee’s story as told by himself, is as fol- lows: “I must have been about § or 6 years old,” he said, ‘‘when my mother married Fred Bisbee, a stage-driver run- -ning from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. When I wasabout 10 I was indentured to a man named Higgins, on the Soledad ranch, for $20 a ar and clothes. A Spaniard named Olivas, one of my fatber's | y friends, came to the ranch one day and recognized me and told me who 1 was. My grandfather came later and took me to Saticoy and later to Santa Barbara. Bisbee finally went north and mother ana I fol- Jowed him. I wentto Honolulu when 18 years old and stayed there six years. “‘When I came back from Honolulu I was out of funds and I worxed ali round through the State. Over a year ago I re- ceived a letter from a lawyer, whose name I think is Williams. This was just before my father’s death. He said he was an old friend of my iather, mother and grandfather, and he wanted to make some . arrangements to get me my share of the roperty. My mother wes then in San rancisco. Shortly after this I saw a notice of my father’s death and heard that the lawyers were looking for me. saw my mother and asked her to tell the story of my birth, but she evaded it. ~Just after I arrived in about six months ago, Carlos Angusola, the son of an old friend of my father in | Ventura County, met me, and I found out through him tbat iny mother had made a_very foolish move 1n letting her rights in the estate go sv long. ‘I kno a prominent lawyer,’ he said, ‘who has spent # ot of money to get you your rights,’ and he advised me to fizht the case. About two months ago I received a letter from my moiher, saying she had not done exactly right by me. Sue said ft was a good deal ber faunlt that 1 had been kept in ignorance of who I was. Sue * said she had been keeping it back because she did not want to dig up the past, as it involved several prominent and wealthy peorle, and for that reason hadlet itdrop. nortly aiter my return from Hono- 1 married, in Bhe died seven years after the marriage. ‘1 worked in Oakland and in Alameda County and also on the steamer Harriet, Captain Sanchez, on the Sacramento River.”” Unless Lee was divorced from his first wife he committed bigamy when he mar- .ried Minnie Diehl, as he married the latter in 1894, and says his first wife died in 1895. Friends are looking out for the mterests of the young wife and her chila, and if Lee is really old Pietra’s heir, his family bere will certainly get a share. present they live with Mrs. Lee's mother, © and they are not any too well blessea with this world’s goods. WILL HELP THE BOY. Judge Yule Seeks to Save Oscar Ball- heimer From the Reform School. OAKLAND, CaL., Nov. 24.—There was an upusual scene witnessed in Judge . Ogden’s court this afterncon when "Oscar . Ballbeimer, whose father is desirous of having him put in the Whittier Reform Sehool, was being tried. Ballbheimer is an exceptionally bright boy of 16 years of age, but 0. C. Baliheimer, his father, alleges in his petition that Oscaris anincorrigible {omh who runs away from home and is eyond the control of his parents. The petition also states that at one time Oscar stole from a man named Dole the sum of . 80 cents. When the case was called the father testified to the allegations in the. petition. Oscar was finaily placed on the stand. He said his mother had died some years ago . and that his father shortly remarried. He said his stepmother was not kind to him, and that he faced the winter and slept un- der the trees, waere he got more comtort than he gid at home. Judze Ogden asked the boy if he would not like to zo to the Reform ™ School and learn a trade. The boy looked down at the floor and wiped the tears from his eyes. Hesitatingly he replied, *Well, Judge, I will go there for th: sake of my father, and be a good boy, too. Maybe some day he will love me again as he used to.” Judge Yule, who happened to be pres- ent, interceded ir: bebalf of the boy. He requested that the case go over for a week and he would use every effort in his power to get a position for bim and preveat a biot on his character that would follow him through life. The case was con- tinued. . .- FOR A NEW TOWN. Officers Nominated for the Incorpora- tion of Emeryville. OAKLAND, CaLn, Nov. 24.—A public mass-meeting was held Monday evening at Peladeau Hall for the purpose of nomi- nating officers for the proposed town of Emeryville. Tne foliowing were prac- tically the unanimous choice of the cjji- zens, there being but little opposition: For Trustees—G. Peladedu, H. R-millard, H. A. Randlett, J. Doyle, F. J. Btoer; for Town Clerk, J. George Smith; for Marshal, J. T. Cushing; for Treasurer, Charles G. Mayborn. The above gentlemen are amopg the most prominent citizens of the proposed town. ——————— Unjon Thanksgiving Service. OAKLAND, Car., Nov. 24.—The union Thanksgiving service of the Christian churcnes apout the bay will be held in the Central Church of this city, Thursday at10:30 A. M. An extensive programme has been prepared, the participants being the respective pastors, Dr. W. A. Gardner l gists refund I Los Angeles, | 1 w | 1888, in Oakland & |° >man who-e name I do nou wish to state. | At and D. 8. Ford of San Francisco, Rev. Henry Victor Morgan of Alameda, Pro- fessor A. M. Elston of Berkeley, Mr. Craigie Sharpe of the First Cuurch and Rev. Jay William Hudson of the Central. The pastor, Edward Davis, will be master of ceremonies. John W. Metcalf will preside at the organ, Harry A. Melvin and Charles E. Lloyd will conduct the song service. Mrs. Ada Van Pelt will represent the women’s interests and the popular poetess, Ina Coolbrith, will read a recent poem entitled “Crucifixion.” Thus all will be represented in thanksgiving for National and universal blessings. -~ MISS RILEY’S PRIZE. Won in Another Woman’s Dress who Now Wants the Watch and Threatens Suit. OAKLAND, Car., Nov. 24.—A lawsnit over a zold watch offered as a prize ata masquerade ball Saturday night is among the possibilities of the near future if the word of Mrs. George Dillingham is to be taken. % It was offered asthe first prize to the best dressed lady at the ball. Many were the aspirants for this honor and among them was Mrs, Dillingham. Sbe‘froph;ed a handsome short white skirt and a pink bodice, buv a day or two beiore the event she was taken ill and had to give up the idea of going. Then she said the dress must go. It was too pretty to lie idle, so she began to look around for some one to wear it. A young man who lived at Diilingham’s took in the situation and asked that his girl might have it 1o wear. “‘Why, yes,” assented the good woman, “if she will give' me any prize it may capture.”” He agreed to | this “bargain and on Saturday eveming | brought in Miss Minnie Riley of Golden Gate, who donned the dress. *Ii I win a prize I'll divide with you, Mrs. Dilling- ham,” said Mss Riley. | “You'll do nothing of the sort,” ex- claimed the owner of the dress. “The prize will be mine. I won't charge you | anything for wearing the gown, but if you win a prize it comes to me.’" Miss Riley acquiesced and went off hap- pily. She secured first prize and was given the watch. After taking his girl home the young man returned to his lodgings and told Mrs. Dillingham how | ber” dress captured the first prize, and offered her $5 for the watch. This offer was spurned and a row ensued. Miss { Riley aid not return the dress the next | day, nor turn over the watch. Yesterday Mrs. Dillingham visi Miss Riley’s home in Golden Gate and demanded both, but got neither, Now, sbe says, she will sue. ed Spencer Browne Dead. OAKLAND, CarL., Nov. 24.—Spencer C. | Browne, a mining engineer, died quite | suddenly at his home, 470 Edwards street, | last night. At dinner tabie he exclaimed. | “‘My God, T am dying,”” and expired. - Mr. | Browne was the son_of the late Ross Browne, at one time Minister to China. At the inquest it was shown that death resulted from heart disease. Wants Big Damages. OAKLAND, Car., Nov. 24. — Judge | Frick was occupied all yesterday in hear- ing the case of Thomas O’Donnell against the Oakland, San Leandro and Haywards Etectric Railway, 0'Donnell alleges in his complaint that he sustained damages by the killing of his son to the extent of $30,000. - Caring for the Needy. ALAMEDA, Can, Nov. 24.—The pound | | party of the Relief Society of the Women’s Exchange was largely attended to-night, | when the following well-received pro- | gramme was carried ou! . blin solo, Legende ;\\'wmnwski). H. Wil “Don Cross” (Zel- elected, C. Jack in first cond tenor, Edward Eckert | Scott second bass; reeita- | Harry Sheldon; contralto | s ““Those” Heavenly Depths” (Stolberg), | Mis: Mary Jack-on: tenor solo, selected, C. | ! Ja recitation, Miss Jennie A. Wood; | | barytone solo, Arthur Burns. | The donations were many and varied, {and will go & long way toward making | many homes thankful on Thursdav. The | young people’s work in securing food, | fuel and clothing for the poor is progress. | ing nicely, and already quite a supply of | | goods is on hand at 135¢ Park street, | where they have established headquarters. | MAKING THE OLYDE. ' | It Took Ten Years and Cost the City of Glasgow 350,000, ‘“‘Glasgow made the Ciyde and the Clyde | made Glasgow.” Toward the close of the | last century the true trading spirit had been aroused among the inhabitants of the budding city, and it was not long before they perceived that if the community were ever to rise to eminence in that direction the city must become a port open to the | commerce of the world. The task was one | of herculean dimensions, but they set | toemseives to it with a determination of purpose which was not to be daunted by any degree of difficulty. Muchof the best engineering enterprise and skill of the world have been devoted to the altering, widening, narrowing and deepening of the channel, according to the requirements at oifferent parts of the course. As a specimen of changes that have been made during the process of the | work, it may be mentioned that when | (1839) the act of Parliament was passed | which defined the boundaries of the river, i one of the most extensive textile factories in the couutry stocd in the line of what ! was considered to be the best course for | the river to take, and the water is now | deep enough over the site to allow ocean | liners to sail. Many experiments were resorted to ere | success was acnleved.in the deepening at particular places, and the confinement of the water within the desired limits. Sev- eral of the obstacles encountered might well have deterred the authorities from roceeGing further, had that been possi- | ble. The chief of these was Eldersile | Rock, a mass of dolerite or whinstone, | which was founa to occupy the | bed of the stream over an area of | 925 feet by 320, and which came within 10 feet of the surface of the water. The dis- | covery of this was a shock to all con- | eerned, but the breaking up and removal | of it was at once proceeded with in the ordinary course. It took ten years to do it, however, and durine tha: time 110,000 tons ot rock and clay were raised by dredging at the place, while a sum of $350,000 was found to have heen expended in the operations.—Scottish American. ——————— Adventure With sicilian Brigands. The Giornale di Sicilia of Palermo gives the following particulars of the recent capture by brigands, and subsequent es- cape, of Canon Antonio Compagno, a rich land-owner of Prizzi. Itappears that the canon was waylaid one Sunday evening by five armed ruflians in the public street, and was carried by them the next day to Bisacquino, where he was lodged in a hay- loft, and well guardea nigut and day. He was well treated by bis captors, and re- i gaied with roast and boiled meat and wine, and slept upon a bed. One day, having writter. a letter to his family, at the dictation of the chief of the brigands, demanding a sum of $8000 (40,000 lire) as ransom, he called to the brigand acting as sentry, with the intention of giving him the letter, and not receiving any reply, opened the door o the loft, and found the brigand was asleep. Taking up a gun which he found against the wall, the canon shot the brigand through the head and succeeded in making his escape. The owner of the hayloft has been arrested, but no trace has been found of the bri- ¢ands, although the police are said to be making a diligent search for them. ——————— The air-tight compartment theory of building ships was copied from a pro- vision of nature shown in the case of the nautilus. The shell of this animal has forty or filty compartments, into which air or waler may be admitted to allow the occupant to sink or float as he pleases. —_—— e TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- the mouney if it fails to cure, 25c¢. DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL. REUNION Thanksgiving Ball and Banquet to Be Held at Masonic Hall. For Twenty Years the Society Has Dispensed Charity With Open Hand. It Aims to Make Applicants S1f- Supporting ané Independent of Charity. OAKLAND Orrice SaN Fraxcrsco CALL,} 908 Broadway, Nov. 24. The Dauchters of Israel Relief Society wiil hoid a reunion Thanksgiving night for the benefit of their treasury. The so- clety is the leading Hebrew organization in this county. The affair will take place at the Masonic Temple. There will be an elaborate programme, to be foliowed by a ball and supper. Many thousands of dollars have been used to assist those whose wants become known to the society. Carcful investiga- tion is made of each case. Those who do not deserve assistance are not permitted to impose on the treasury, and every safe- guard is placed around the funds so that each dollar may accomplish that for which it was intended. The committee in charge of the reunion is: Mrs. J. Greenhood (chairman), Mrs. M. Cobn, Mrs. M. H. Coffee, Mrs. A. Jacobs, Mrs. D. Magnes. The_officers of the society are: Presi- dent, Mrs. J. Greenhood; vice-president, Mrs. E. Bernstein; treasurer, Mrs. M. Cohn; recording secretary, Mrs, D. 8. Hirschberg; financial secretary, Mrs. H. Barrett. The programme will be as follows: Trio, Scherzo (Saint-Saens), Walter Liemert, Frank’ Howard, William B. King; vocal solo, “Ouce in the Purple Twilight” (Cowles), Harry K. Melyin; violin solo, first solo Seventh Con- certo (Beriot). Miss Bell Rosentbal; vocal solo, “Dance of the Fireflies” (Guy a’Hardelot), Miss Sofia Newlard; dramatic reading, teer Organist? (Fosse), Miss Freda G Presto and Finale (Mendelssohn), Mrs. Sydney Liebes, Miss Dora Feldheim; vocal solo, “My Dreams” (Tosti), Miss Esther Needham; fiute soio, “Caprice de Concert” (Terschak), Serf Rosenthal; voeal duet (a, b, Carraciola), Miss Sofia Newland, Miss Esther Needham. MEASURING AN ODOR. Science Shows Us the Way to Identify Smells Unerringly. Nothing is more subtle, more evanes- cent, than odor, and one would think tha if ever there were a domain likely to re- main forever free from scientific measure- ment, it would be that of scent. But now comes M. Eugene Mesnard, a French botanist, and proceeds to unloch the main gate of the fastness that had seemed impregnable. He has discovered a simple and easy method of measuring the intensity of an odor, says the New York Journal. Modern authorities hold that the progress of a science is rapid in proportion to the ease | with which measurements may be per- formed in it. Electricity made almost no progress at atl till exact methods of meas- uring charges and currents and the forces of electric attraction and repulsion were devised, and when these were perfected ft went ahead almost at a bound. Who can tell what the science of odors will or will not do, now that the prime essential to its progress has been discovered ? We are already able by the sense of smell to distinguish very exactly between different kinds of scents—every man, with- out special practice, can doubtless recog- nize hundreds of substances with the aid of the nose alone. We can tell whether one whiff of ammonia is more or less pow- erful than another, but we cannot assign a number to éach. The more powerful one might be twice or thrice or a hundred times as powerful asthe other for all we can tell. And who, to go further still, would ven- ture to assign the exact strength of a whiff of ammonia that should be equal to an entirely different odor—say the perfume of arose? Yet all this, and more, M. Mes- nard has done. He takes advantage of the delicate qual- itative power of the sense of smeil—that | is, of its ability to discriminate between odors, be they different only by a very little, He finas that if some very char- acteristic odor be mingled with the one to be measured there is a certain proporiion of the two where they balance, as it were, and form what he calls a ““neutral odor.” In this state the aadition of a very little more of either scent causes that one to predominate. When they are thus bal- anced the intensities of the two odors are equal, and by properly choosing a stan- dard odor we can thus compare all others with it, and, hence, indirectly, with each other. This is the way M. Mesnard goes to | Wwork to make his measurement. The per- ume whose intensity is to be measured , or the object that gives it off, say a bunch of violets, is confined under a bell-glass. The odor of turpentine is pumped in by squeezing & rubber bulb till the “‘neutral ogur” Is obtained, the experimenter “‘keeping watch,” as it were, by smeliing at a connecting tube. Then ‘the mixed scents are admitted, a little bit at a time, into a jar containing glowing phosphorus. The amount admitted is registered by the turns of a hanale, and the number of turns necessary to put out the phos- phorus gives the measure of the quan- tity of turpentine and hence of the in- tensity of the odor that was neutralized by it. yWe may expect, if such measurements as this are 10 be carried out very ire- quently, a great increase of delicacy in smell among those who perform them. At present this sense has been much mneg- Jected. The processes of evolution have passed it by on one side of the human species, although in others—the dog, for instance—it has been marvelously de- veloped, But as certain modern authori- ties have pointed out, man has toa great extent taken his evolution into his own bands. B Perhaps M. Mesnard is giving us a little shove toward an almost dog-like perfec- tion of scent! BBl WHISTLED FOR A HUSBAND, But She Did It Wholly Unawares, and They Lived Happily Ever Afterward. “Talking about whistling,” said the man who was spinning a yarn in the smoker, “reminds me of a curious inci- dent that happened to me in a hotel once —not exactly a tragedy or a comedy, but involving features of both. 1t was ina country town hotel, and I went to my room early to escape the dullnessof the office and write letters to the house. There was gas 1n the room, but after searching I could not discover any matches and there was no bell to ring for them. I decided to waylay some attendant in the Lall, and sat down to my writine. But no sooner was everything still than I heard some one whistling in the next room. First it was a snatch from an opera, then a tender and musical ren- dition of ‘Annie Laurie’ I could not write a line for the witchery of the whis- tled numbers. Once I abplauded, but there was a long silence and I dia not re- peat the indiscretion. It was evidenitly some young fellow who whistied uncon- sciously, and when he was reminded of it ceased to pipe his sweet music. “When he stopped whistling I resumed my pen and wrote my letters. Then 1 thought of the matches and rapped on my neighbor’s door. % say, young fellow, oblige me with a mateh, will you?’ “There was -no response, but I could hear a movement and a kind of chuckle, [ became interested and rupped again. , there, don’t be a dog in the man- ger. Anytody who can whistle as sweetly us you ought tp be obliging.’ “With that the door opened and there stood before me a demure but very pretty young woman, who handed me a solitary maten and shut the door and locked it so quickly that I could not even say ‘thank you,” even if I had not been strickendumb with surprise.” “‘She was the whistler?”’ “‘She was.” “And did you meet her again?"’ “Weil, rather. I had a great big apology to make the next day and I made it—and, well sheis my wife now and I owe my happiness to the fact that she whistles.”— Detroit ree Press. e THE WORK OF BILTMORE. What Is Being Done on George Van- derbilt’s Great Estate. Biltmore, the magnificent estate of George Vanderbilt, at Asheville, N. C., 18 not, as many persons have supposed, merely a rich man’s fad. On the contrary, its 95,000 acres are intended to show what cultivation may do. retary of Agriculture, recently spent a week at Biltmore. On his return to Washington the Secre- tary told his colleagues that he had seen the most perfect system of roadways; an exhibition aiso of landscape gardening that cannot be paralleled; and buildings which, for fitness as dwellings, stables, barns, dairies, propagating-houses, hen- neries and other uses, surpass any within his knowledge. “I consider Mr. Vanderbilt’s work there,” said the Secretary, “just as impor- tant to the agricultural interests of this country as the Department of Agriculture at Washington. He employs more men than I have under my charge, and I think he is spending more money every year than Congress appropriates for this de- | partment, His men are promoted for | efficiency according to the most practical civil service rules. **Mr. Vanderbilt is building up an edu- cational institution that will be of the greatest value to scientific farmers and teachers for the instruction of others in domestic architecture, in agriculture, for- estry, viticulture, dairying, road-making, and other useful sciences. *It is one of the grandest undertakings that individual enterprise ever attempted, and I understand that it is the owner's in- }emion to leave it as a legacy to the pub- ic. “The people down there talk about the enormous amount of money that Mr. Vanderbilt is spending to gratify nis pride and appetite. They. do not comprehend the first letter in the alphabet of his am- bition. While they imagine that it is all due to ceifishness, he is working for them.”—Youth's Companion. AN EVANGELIST FROM KENTUCKY. OAKLAND, CAr, Nov. 24.—No mission conducted in East Oakiand has met with ore success or aroused greater interest than that of Rev. Dr. H. C. Morrison of Kentucky, editor of the Methodist. Dr. Morrison has exceeded tbe time it was originaily intended he should stay at the Eighth-avenue Methodist' Church, but the coneregation still refuse to let hi flocked to hear kim, MRS, TOWNSEND READY 10 SHOOT The Old Lady Remains on Guard All - the Day. Announces She Will - Fire at Aoy Ons Who Moves Her House, But the Superintendent of Streets Declares That It Will Be Taken Out of the Way. BERKELEY, Car., Nov. 24.—All alter- noon Mrs. Mary A. Townsend has been waiting with ready revolver for workmen to commence operations on the contract of removing her dwelling from Shattuck avenue as ordered by the Town Trustees last evening. The old lady’s windows are fastened, herdoors are all locked and the steps lead- ing up to the front entrance of the houss are barred by a board nailed across. The old lady must have sat in partial darkness, for green shutters were down in front of tne windows. But she was wide awake and on the look- out for the expected attack on heér house. Every passer-by was seen by her, and those who stopped were asked through a window what they wanted. *I still hold to the position I took be- fore,”” said the determined old lady to a CALL representative whom she had spied through her window and whom she had asked to account for bimself. *“DoIex- pect them to try to move this house ? Of course I do. I am looking for them every minute. “I shal! not allow them to do it any more than I did last time.” The oid lady’s reference was to a former adventure of Superintendent of Streets Chick, who was induced to desist from moving the house at the point of a revolver heid by M:s. Townsend. “I claim the ground my house is on is private propertv,” the woman continned, “and I shall defend it; and any one who attempts to move the house will find it a dangerous business.” “We are going to move the house off the street,” said Guy H. Chick, Suparinten- dent oy Streets, ‘‘Itis very much in the way and is an obstruction that must be got rid of." Mr. Chick was told of Mrs. Townsend’s vigil and her intention to shoot any housemover that comes within range. *“I guess we'll fina some way of moving the house,”” he said. To morrow morning, Mr. Chick says, the house will be moved. Just what plan will be followed to avoid troublé with the occupant remains to be seen., Episcopal Bazaar. BERKELEY, Cat of St. Mark’s panish are preparing fora grand bazaar and musical and literary en- tertainment, to be given in Shattuck Hail on December 2and 3, aiternocas and even- ings, fflluborlla preparations are under way for the euntertainment as well as for the | fair, the committees in charge consisting of well-known ladies and gentlemen of St. Mr. Morton, the Sec- | Mark’s Church. Among those who will furnish music and literary features for the two day’s fair are: Professor H. Clay Wysham, Mrs. Van Lant, Professor Leekamp, Mrs. L Cohn, Miss Cobn, Sidney Rhorer, Miss Gertrude Tidball, Miss Edith Russell, Miss Neilie Borton, Miss Mabel Chamberlain. The fair will close with a three-act farce entitled “The New Woman,"' to be given under the direction of John G. Housman, with the rollowing cast: Tom Carbury, John G. Houseman; George Wigfall, J. B. Southard; Wolverine Griffin, Mrs. “Charles F. Pond; Victoria Wigfall, Miss Edith Wilson: Barbara Badger, Miss’ Alice Farpsworth; Judge Wigfall, Miss Anita Gom- pertz. The following committees will attend to theivarious departments of the fair: Decorations—John G. Housman (chairman), Miss Kate Welcker, Miss Eila Gibb, Miss Maria Ardley, Miss Dykeman, Miss A. L. Young, Miss Belle Coffin, Miss Millie Parker, Miss Mabel Clark. Arrangements—Mrs. P. Wagner (chairman), Mrs. Cherles D. Pond, Mrs. Lillian Cessidy, Miss Marcia Ardley, Miss Emma Gibb, Mrs. C. Wilder, Mrs. Coil. The flower booth will be looked after by the Flower Mission of St. Mark’s Church. The ladies in charge will be Mrs, Victor Robertson, president of the Flower Mis- sion; Miss Marie Fahrenberg, Miss Fan- nie Ardley, Miss Milhe Kiemiff, Miss Ethel Publa, Miss Henrietta Welcker, Miss Josephine Stewart. An elaborate dinner wiil be served on the first evening of the fair. Those in charge will be Mrs, Captain Patterson, as- sisted by the Ladies’ Aid Society and the following young ladies: Miss Eugenia Hooson, the Misses Nellie, Liliie and Amy Hamlin, Miss Edith Huddart, Miss Lotta Henley and others. There will'be seven booths in the hall, looked after by the following: Japanese booth—Miss Mary Mott, assisted by Miss Amy Mott and Miss E(eanor Stout. Candy booth—Miss Eila Gibb, assisted by Miss Mabel Clark, Miss Lillian Cassidy, Miss Dikeman. Fancy booth—Miss Kate Welcker, assisted gI' Miss Camille Rankin, Mrs. A, L. Young, iss May Boxall. Doll table—Miss Josephine Stewart, assisted by Miss Alice Stewart and Miss Henrletta elcker. Tea booth—Miss Helen Stewart, assisted by Miss Lillian Cassiay and Miss Marie Ardley. Lemonade booth—Miss Belle Coffin and Miss Mary Morton. Icecream booth— Miss Siebe, assisted by Miss Mabel Parker, Miss Fanny Freeman, Miss Eugenia Hobson, Miss Irene Coil, Miss Fauny Ardley, Miss Josie Robinson, Miss Gertrude Tidbatl, Miss Josie Roller. Brief News Notes. BERKELEY, CaL, Nov.24—A chrys. anthemum supper was given to-night in Stiles Hall. b{ytue young ladies of the University Y. W. C. A, A petition is being circulated for the bituminizing of Shattuck avenue, near Berkeley station. Colonel John P. Irish lectured in Shat- tuck Hall this evening on his experiences during the late campaign. A concert was given in the Presbyterian Charch last nignt by the famous Moody quartet. Next Friday evening the quartet will sing in Trinity M. E. Church. The West Berkeley Athletic Club will give a grand entertainmant to-morrow night in Sisterna Hall. WATERLOO. The Final Charges in the Mom Battle. Before the combined armies of Welling- ton and Blucher the French could not stand, but, in spite of inferior numbers, and the manifest signs of defeat, General Bonaparte might have conducted an orderly retreat. The case was different with Napoleon, the Emperor, even though he was now a Liberator; to retreat would have been merely a postponement of the day of reckoning. Against this army Napoleon dispatched what was left of that force which was the peculiar product of his life and genius, the old and middle guard, Most of its members were the entous m depart. Christians of all denominations have and his.work has proauced remarkable r ults, . children of peasants, and had been’ born in ante- Revolution days. Neither intelli- gent 1n appearance nor graceful in bear- | | i Juction Salcs SELLING OUT AGONS, BUGGIES, CARTS SS OF KEVERY DE- SCRIPTION, both New und Second-hand. ——NO OFFER REFUSED.—— 1122-1128 MISSION STREET. MADIGAN & CO. FINE FURNITURE. THIS DAY (Wednesday), 11 A. M., 832 Ellis St., nr. Larkin. FRANK W. BUTTERFIELD. Auctioneer, For A. M. SPECK & CO., 602 Market ing, they nevertheless had the look of per- fect fighting-machines. Their huge bearskin caps and long mus- taches did not diminish the fierceness of their aspect. They bad been seiected for size, docility and strength; they had been well paid, well fed and well drilled; they had, therefore, no ties but those to their Emperor. no homes but their barracks, and no enthusiasm but their passion for imperial France. They would have fol- lowed no leader unless he were distin- guished in their system of life; accord- ingly, Ney was selected for that honor, and, as they came in proud confidence up the Charleroi road, their Emperor passed them in review. Like every other divi- sion, they had been told that the distant roar was from Grouchy’s guns; when 1n- formed that all was ready ior the finish- ng stroke, that there was to be a general advance along the whole line, and that no man was to be denied his share in certain victory, even the sick, it is said, rose up and hurried [into the ranks. The air seemed rent with their hoarse cheers as their columns swung in measurea tread diagonally across the northern spur of the cross-line elevation which cutgthe surface of the vatley. Wellington, informed of the French movement, it is thought, by a deserter, issued hurried orders to the center, or- dered Maitland's brigade to where the charge must be met, and posted himself, with Napier's battery, somewhat to its right. While yet his words of warning were scarcely uttered the head of the French column appeared. The Englisn batteries belched forth a welcome, but although Ney's horse, the fifth thatday, was shot, the men he led suffered little, and, with him on foot at their side, they came steadily onward. The British guards were lying behind the hill-crest and- the Frenci could discern no foe—only a few mounted officers, of whom Welling- ton was one. Astoniched and incredu- lous, the assailants pressed steadily on until within twenty yards of the English line. “Up, guards! make ready!” rang out the Duke's well-known call. The British jumped and fired. About 300 of Ney’s gallant soldiers fell; but there Wwas no confusion. On both sides volley succeeded voilej. and this lasted until the British charged. Then, and then onty, the French withdrew. Simultaneously Donzelot had fallen upon Alten’sdivision; but he was leading a forlorn hope and making no impression. As Ney fell back a body of Freach cuirassiers advanced upnn the KEnglish batteries. Their success was partial, and behind them a second column of the guard was formed. Again the assault was renewed, sut the second | attempt fared worse than the first. To the right of Maitland, Adam’s brigade, with the Fifty-second Regiment, nad taken a stand. Wheeling now these poured a deadly flank fire into the advancing French, while the others poured in a de- vastating hail of bullets from the front. The front ranks of the Fiench replied with spirit, but when the British had completed their maneuver Colborne gave the order, his men cueered in response, and the countercharge began. ‘‘Vive IEmpereur!” came the responsive cheer from the thinning ranks of the assailants, and still they came on. But in the awful crash they reeled, confusion followed, and almost in the twinkling of an eye the rout began. The bat'alionsof the old guard under. Cambronne, retreated in fair order to the center of the valley, where they made their last gallant stand against the overwhelming numbers of Halkett's Ger- man brigade. They fought until but 150 survived. From all sides the despairing cry ot “Sauve qui peut!” rang in their ears. To the final summons of surrender the leader assented, and they filed 1 de- jection to the rear. This occurrence has passed into tradition as an epic event; what Cambronne might well have said, “The guard dies, but never surrenders,” was not uttered, but it epitomizes their character and in the phrase they and their leader have found immortality.—William M. Sloane in the Century. —— BACUKWOODS SURGERY. A Steam Engine and a Pulley Used in Reducing a Dislocation. “Probably as queer a piece of backwoods surgery as has ever been described,” says a frequenter of the region, ‘‘was that per- formed by a Moosehead Lake-guide known as ‘Old Sabattus’ twenty years ago. The man was not an [ndian, as the nick- name implies, but a Yankee, one of those rough fellows formerly characteristic of that locality. This guide was left ona lake steamboat at one of the far-up land- ings while the engineer went ashore with the company. A man named Meservey came aboard, and in fooling around the boat he managed to tumble down into the fire pit &nd put his shoulder out of j0int. ‘“‘Here was a dilemma. The other mem- bers of the party would not be baex for half an hour and the injured man was in great pain. The guide was a man of ex- pedients. He got a rope and tied his pa- tient securely to a post. Then he tied an- other rope around the man’s wrist and hitcued the ioose end of it to the pulley of the engine. He managed somehow to turn on steam and the pulley began to wind up the rope. It drew the arm out tight in beautiful shape and presently the joint snapped back into its socket. Then ‘Sabattus’ jumped around to shut off steam, while the pully kept on winding. *Holy Meses,’ gasped the guide, excitedly, ‘how does it go? Idon’t know where it NEW TO-DAY. Take No Substitute.. Gail Borden Eagle Brand e CONDENSED MILK Has always stood FIRST in the estima- other is tlon of the American People. No “justas good.” Best Infant COSMOFOLITAIN., Opposite TU. S. Mimt, 100 and 102 Fifth st., Sag Francisco, Cal.—The most select family hotel 1n the city. 'Board and room $1, $1 25 and $1 50 per g g o room. Meals 25¢. RKooms 305 750 & day. Free coach to and from the hoteL 100Kk for the coach bearing the name of the Cos H WM FAHEY, Proprieiot. Dr. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 625 KEARNY ST. Established in 1854 for the treatment of Private 8, Lost Manhood. Debility or dm'uflngon bodyand mindand Skin Diseases. The doctor cureswhen othersfall. Try him,, Charges low. resguaranteed. Br.J. ¥. GIBBO; anteed. Call orwrite, CBox 1957 San HcMUNN'S am e QPIUM The pure essential extract drug. 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It was some years afteswards,’”’ says the narrator, “‘that I was present when a lot of summer company arrived at Greenville, Sabattus was ‘there, too, and presently a distinguished looking .man, one of the newcomers, went up to him and said with & meaning smile, ‘Are you the man that practices surgery by steam?’ Sabattus had to admit that he was ‘that same fel: ler.’’—Lewiston (Mé.) Journal. NEW TO-DAY. JECUTTER EXTRA Old Baourbon has been a staple family and medicinal whiskey fora quarter- century. B MARTIN & Co,, 411 Market St., San Francisco. OCEAN TRAVEL. CEANIC S.S. CO. DAYS TC HAWAII, SAMOA, HONOLULU NEW ZEALAND, av AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA, 8. %, AUS1RALLIA for HONOLULU onty, Satur- day, December 5. 8t 10 A M. Special party rates. &S, ALAMEDA salls vis HO\OLULU and AUCKLAND for SYDNEY, Thursday, December 10,8t 2 . ar. Lige to COOLGARDIE, Aust.,and CAPETOWN, South Africa. J. D. SPRECKELS & BROS. CO., Agents, 114 Montgomery street. Freight Office, 327 Market st., San Francisco. 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