The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1896, Page 5

Major-General James, Adjutant-General Barrett and Colonel Carrier, division ad- iutant, held a conference early last week and talked about appropriations. The Lezisiature will be asked to appropriate $78,000 for encampment expenses for two years. It mey be deemed advisable to consolidate the allowance for two years and expend 1ne entire sum in one division encampment. Since the early “‘sixties” there has not been an encampment em- bracing ell the troops of the State. During | Governor Markham’s administration an aliowance of $70,000 was obtained for that | purpose, but the adjutant-general per- mitted the brigade in Soutnhern California to draw its prorata from the allowance and nold 2. brigade encampment south of the Tehachips. All the rest of the troops, however, concentrated at Santa Cruz, and 4 very successful encampment was the re- sult, that the an ineflicient organization.- Inadequacy of ‘équii ment was: observed, but many of the commands - turned:. out promptly, marched five or six miles; went into camp, ‘cooked theirown rations and demonstrated 1heir ability-to perfiorm good servicein the field. The Legisiatur ¢ will'be requested to ap- propriate sufficient- money - to supply the 1reops - with serviceable uniforms, over: coats and blankets. -.Adjutant-General Barrett has gone to Washington. He may te able to -secure from the War Depart- mentus many. good Springfield rifles as the guard needs: Second Brigade. An unpleasant incident occurred at- the Page:street: Armory of the First Regiment last Wednesda ven ing.. General orders No6:°.9, from “Brigadier-Generat Warfield, S econd - Brigade, directed the:troops of th e brigade 1o assemble at their respective srmyories for inspection in heavy marching order; ready for service, at 9 p..M., Novem- be Otie parazraph of the order was: 'as fol- lows:- “The -colonels’ .commanding the First>and Fifih Regiments will -detail members-of their Staff .to - ‘eachof ‘their | companies; these officersto act as inspect-. ors, and to make immediate ‘returns{ through.colonels.” Inanother paragraph -of ‘the order the officers’of the Second Brizade. staff were direcied.to.assemble at Brigade headquar- ters-at: 8 P. M. in heavy marching order. Major.-Chbarles - Jansen was" detailed - fcr inspection of ‘the First Regiment, Major H. B. Hosmer for the cavalry, Major C. J. Eyvans for- the Signal Corps and Major W.- A, Halstéad, - Fifth Infantry Regi- ment. Lieutenant-Colonel Victor D Duboce, commanding the - First Regiment in the absence’ of - Colonel William Macdonald, acted under the first peragraph quoted, paraded the troops promptly, had the in- spection made by the regimental staff and dismissed the command. When General Warfieid and Major Jansen arrived at the armory the inspection was over. The -incident “was unfortunate, as it deprived. the. _troops -of -the . honor of -seeing - General = Warfield = and Major- Japsen; and - it deprived. these officers .of the: privileze “of -seeing -the troops in marching order. - Every one un- derstards that Coloniel Duboce wou d not ‘have dismissed the troops if he had known the.general and inspecting: officer were on the wgy to- the armory. - No discourtesy was intended, and in the light of.ir:struc- tions no disobedience of orders can bs rea- sonably ‘charged. It has been suggested that the division general and-his staff, the Second Brigade general and - his staff and | the First Re:iment’s colonel and his regi- mental “offiéérs should . meet occasionaliy and become so well acquainted that they- | could- exchange .views. without the for- | mality-of printed orders. " In the -Unitea States army officers speak to-each other and exchange views concerning the mean- ing of orders. e H. A. .Wegener has been appointed major and quartermaster- on - the staff' of Genera! Warfield, vice Major-J. H. Man- gels, promoted. Sergeant H. T. Hicks, Comparny C, First Regiment, has been appointed . first sergeant. -Corporal Ashley R. Farless, Company K, hag been promoted sergeant. Private Henry C. Mathewson, Company I, has been promoted corporal. Dennis F. Reardon has been promoied drum-major. Regimenta] Orders No. 20 announce the a ree Jfrom the First Regiment of | tweniy-seven enlisted men. Eleven of these men were discharged ior the good of -theservice. Majr Hugh Sime.is detailed for the summary court..”, NAPA, CaL.,” Nov. 27.—The following 1 telegram addressed to Captain F. W. Bush was received Wedanesday evening: ¢ General Warfield ordérs assembly of your zompany in , merchie order at armory ber 25. : . A. SM1TH, Adjutant. In pursuance of this Lieutenant H. L. Gunn, in the absence of Captain F. W. Bush, notified the non-commissioned offi- sers, who in turn notifiea the privates oelonging to the comvany. The: ar- mory was a scene of activity as the men iouned their uniforms and arranged thejr ° :quipment preparatory to falling in. It was a similar experience to this when the members of Bavery B, now Company H, were callea out during the railroad strike )f 1894. Caprain F. G. Easterby and First Lieutenant H. H. Mulier, who were the | sfficers of Batlery’B, were present at the irmory and manifested their continted nierest in the National Guard., When tne rommand *‘fail in’’ was given bv First Ser- reant Hoffman, the memte:s of the com- sany promptly took their piaces in line horouzhly armed and equipped with s.ankets,’haversacks and cauteens, After i rigid inspection of the company and the ‘quipments, the company was drilled hrough the different military evolutions, Tifly out of filty-three active memb:rs 1ad reported. This is a showing that the Sapa company need not be ashamed of. Third Brigade. CHICO, Can., Nov. 25, —Company A, The recent emergency call demonstrated | ational Guard of this Stateisnot | ,/7 g 5 F(ALITORNIA 2\;@%9 Second Regiment, held an election at the armory this evening, in which ex-Captain J. J. Cahill was elected. Captain Cahill was in command of Company A some five or six years ago and was then recognized as one of the ablest military men in the old Eighth Regiment. After having served in the capacity of captain for two | years he resigned and has since been dis- connected with the guard. Company A is to be congratulated on the election of Captain Cahill, for under his command it will undoubtedly progress with great rapidity. After the election the boys assembled at Cooley’s restaurant, where an elaborate banquet was spread. To-morrcw a team of thirty-one men will go to Marysville to compete with an equal number of men in that company. Every one acquainted with the abilily of both companies anticipates a close contest with a very bigh average to the man. Company C holds the championship over the northern companies as a crack com- pany, but the A boys have been doing 'some hard and faithfol practicing for the past month and will undoubtedly do good shooting. g WOODLAND, Car.,, Nov. 27.—Excite- ment in military circles will be on the de- crease from now until the first of the new year. The last drill of this year took place iast Wednesday night. The last regular business meeting wiil take place the last Wednesday of this month. The drill last Wednesaay evening was followed by a grand Thanksgiving ball, given by Com- | pany F, and was very well attended, when taking into consideration that several other attractions were going on the same evening. The alterations in the armory that were spoken of some time ago are completed | ara add very much to the appearance of the hall. Company F will scon be the | most thoroughly equipped and comforta- | blv housed company in the State. The tlagpole will be put upin a few days | and then Old Glory will be flung to the | breeze to wave over Company F’s armory | for all time to come. *“*Captain Tommy,” the company’s eagle, takes 8s much 1n- |terest in the improvements as any member of the company. Captain Prindle is out again and doing | his regular rdstling to keep everything | ranning smoothly for the company. Sev- | eral visiting membvers of N. G. C. have | been here during the last week and were |loud in their praises of the armory and everything connected with it. TLe recent emergency call of cre- | 8ted no little excitement among the boys as well as the public in general. The call came at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and at ‘S o’clock in the evening, when the roil was called, 52 men out of 57 members answered to their names. This is a grand showing when taking into consideration the fact that it was raining and blowing and that not a few of the boys were work- ing out in the country. The boys were ail ready to go on a tramp, but were a little disappointed | when tliey found out that on!y an inspec- tion was on tap. The inspecting officer was Lieutenant J. G. Lee of the colonel’s staff. He gave . ‘the company a ihorough overhauling and his report oughtio go a long way toward Laving this company thoroughly equipped for any kind of ser- vice, which at presentitisnot. A num- | ber- of ‘guns were condemned and the | cooking utensils were found short; also | blankets. The company will' be found ready at any. time 10 anawer any and all | calls that may be made. At the target praciice several of the boys made scores of-from 40 -to 46. The armory target is attracting considera- ble" attention from the boysat the pres- ent.” The captain' has had 8 22.caliber barrel put into a regular musket barrel, and during the winter months target prac- tice can b2 had in'the morning: The gun is the same weight ana hasa six-pound pull, the same as the other guns. Last Wednesday evening private Cavelle, ‘while shooting at 30 paces, snuffed a candle out. WITH THER OWN PTOL Police Divisions Now Competing for Three Valuab'e Priz:s. The - Weapon Used-Is the One .the Men Carry Daily in Their .- ‘Pockets, NG For several months. pistol practice at the policerange in-‘the basement of the City Hall was stopped, but it'has been re- sumed during the past week. The reason is that a competition is now- on in which every man in thé department is interested. The prizes are valuable and there is the keenest rivalry -among the men to win them. The former competition, which took -all | last winter to decide, was among the men of Captain Wittman’s division. The weapon used was the regular Smith & Wesson .45-caliber. The prizes were a gold medal ‘for the highest- scorer, a silver medal for the next highest scorer and a zold and silver medal for the man who showed the greatest improvement during the competition. Policeman Smith Carr won the gold medal with the highest score, Policeman W. H. Hanley the cold and silver medal and Policeman W. D. Scott the silver medal. _ The competition which is now gojng on includes ail the divisions. The weapon used isthe pocket revolver carried by each officer, and it will therefore be seen that the result is being watched with much greater interest than the preceding one, from the fact that the men are firing with 1he revolvers they carry with them every day, and the whole department is compei- ing, with the exception of Smith Carr, who is barred, as he-is one of the best revolver shots in the country and the otbery would have no chiance against him. For this competition the men are di- vided into sections. Each section com- petes at the range and tue highest scorer 1s selected to compete in the final shoot for the prizes. There are nineteen sec. tions altogether, ten in Captain W:tt. man’s division, four in Cantain Spillane’s, three in Captain Gillen’s and two in Cap- tain Dunlevy’s. There will bs thus nine- teen men to compete in the final, Each man will {ire ven shots, the highest pos- ulk’vll-. score to be 50. he prizes are a magnificent gold star, presented by Colonel §enver of Ehe Bank of California; a mugnificent reyolver, pre- sented by -General Wall, and another re- volver, presented by John £. Klein. Two of the :ections bave aiready com- peted, and it 1s expected that the competi- tion will be closed i about two weeks, when the highest nineteen scorers will shoot for the prizes. Saturday evering Sergeant Blank’s sec- tion competed. There has always been a keen rivalry between Policemen Campbeil and Coogan in this section, and it was conceded that either one or the other wou.d be the lucky man. Coogan with his first five shots made 24, one less than the possible. Heseemed to lose his nerve, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1896. Nuuvanu Valley, Near Honoluls, H. I, One of the Marvelous Tropical Landscapes Painted by M, Fisher, The Foreground Is Brilliant Green, and the Distance Grows With Varying Depths of Purple Haze, ‘While Above the Mountains Is a Patch of Blue Sky. : Reproduced from a pen sketch by the artist.] as he made only 16 with the next five shots, making a total of 40. Camuvbell shot steadily and made 42, so that he will rank among the nineteen. DESERT MAY SOON BLOOM. A Million Acres of Rich Soil to Be Irrigated and Sold at $10 an Acre. John C. Beatty of Los Angeles, presi- dent of the Colorado Irrigation Company, arrived at the Palace Hotel yesterday with Mrs. Beatty. He will remain here several days on private business uncon- nected with the gigantic enterprise con- templated by his company in the irriga- tion of an enormous area of arid but very fertile land in the southeastern part of California. In September, 1894, just as all necessary legislation had been granted to the com- pany by Congress, permitting them to tap the Colorado River and to cut their pro- posed canal across an intervening Indian reservation, discussion arose in the com- pany and some of the stockholders, to- gether with the former chief engineer, began a suit in New York sgainst the president, virtnally for the control of the enterprise. That suit at once put a stop to all preparations for the actual work of construction, to be begun the following month along the course of the big canal previously surveyed at an cXpense of | thousands of dollars. since with a formidable array of attor- neys on both sides, the president of the company alone baving no less than | eighteen lawyers employed to offset an | equal number at work for the opposition. | The case will come up for trial in New The litigation has been in progress ever ! AN ARTIST IN SUNNY HAWAN Hugo Fisher’s Impressions of the Beautiful Islands. Sketching Under Difficulties in a Surf Canoe and in a Wairlw.nd. The Painter Was Enamored of the Tr opical Scenery in Which He Worked for a Y:ar. Hugo Fisher, the well-known artist, has returned from the Hawaiian islanas, where he spent a year sketching and enjoving the dreamy life of. the tropics. While the temptation to take things’ easy was strong enough, Mr. Fisher never for- got his work; but on the contrary, he the bathers and surf- riders, who go through the surf as fast as a locomotive. “I had a novel experience in sketching there. Mr. Peacock of Honolulu gave me a commission to paint the beach. He wanted a view from the 8ea, so I had togo out in a native’s Iittie canoe and sketch in a high sea. The natives were naked and seemed quite at home, but I feared the cance would turn over. While I was sketching one of the boatmen dived into the water. He stayed down for a long time and then came up with a sort of star- fish, with spikes like a porcupine. The two men had a great feast and offered me some of the star-fish, which tasted like an oyster. Wien Iworidsay go ashore the boatmen would let the boat go on top of a big wave and we would shoot through the surf at such a terrific rate it made my hair stand on end, but 1 clung to the canoe and landed safely each time. “‘One of the most entrancina views 1s that at Pali at the end of Nuuanu Valiey, about four miles from Honolulu, There are great mountains to the right and left ana through an opening you get one en- chanting view of a valleycovered with sugar plantations and bananas and in the far distance a range of mountains and still farther off the blue Pacific looking like a painted sea. Pali is over 1400 feet | high. I painted a picture of the Pali, | which was bonght by Mr. Peacock. At the summit where I had to paint there isa whirlwind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, sumetimes more than that. A native on horseback was blown over the cliff. 'When I first went there my paints, paper and traps were blown into the air | far above my head. Betore I could get a good sketch I had to go six or eight times | to the same spot. Even then [ could use | only a small bit of paver and had to take in the scene on separate piecesin the face of the gale. An easel was cut of the A Favorite View of the Justly Celebrated Waikiki Beach, Showing the Characteristic Folia : : ¥ Bananas and Cccoa Trees of th: Hawaiian Islands, [From a pen sketch by Hugs Fisher.) ge of Palms, York on December 15, and ‘it is expected. will'soun after be settled. : - ..The country-to be irrigated by the enor- mons ‘canal constitutes a great inland suaken plain in the eastern part of San Diego County. 1tis the property of the irrigation company and includes .about 1,000,000 acres of land much of which 1s below the level of the sea. It is said to be formed of the deepest and richest alluviai deposits of any valley in the world, that of the Nile not unexcepted, but is without water. In ages past it was the upper end of the Gulf of California, which is still reced- ing many feet annually. The Colorado River, filled with’surface washings far up its course, had, until some great eruption cut off -and caused the present desert, emptied its rich sediment-bearing waters into the original head of the gulf, until now in some piaces the alluvial soil ex- tends down to the remarkable depth of over 1C0 feet. What was at first, subse- quent to some geological change, an in- land sea became after rapid evaporation of its fresh waters a sunken, waterless plain, covered with rich soil that to-day produces unusual growths wherever irri- gation has been tried upon it. The vlan of the company is to surround this region by two main branches of the canal running from the southeast to the northward and aiso to the westward of Salton Ses, one 125 miles in lengtli, the other about 75 miles long, and both sup- lied with numerous lesser branches, form- ing a network over the whole region. In order that they might realize promptly on the enormous investment ot capital reces- sary to the expenses of building the canal tlie company would sell land, with water rights included, at $10 an acre, and open up the whole country to the culture of tie sugar beet, for which it has been proved particularly fitted, and for citrus and other fruits. SQUEEZED BY THE FENDER. Paul Monroy Injured by an Electric- Car at Kearny and Market Strects. Paul Monroy was taken to the Receiving Hospital yesteraay afternoon at 6:30 o'clock to be treated for injuries inflicted upon both his hips by being cauzkt by the fender of an electric-car of the Kearny- street line. ' i Monroy jumped oif the forward end of the car while it was crossing Market street, and in doing so missed his footing and fell under the fender, which caught him :nd squeezed him against the pave- ment. The car was stopped and bad to be E:m’ raised off the track before he conld extricated. At the Receiving Hospital Dr. O'Brien found that both bis bips were injured and possibly internal damage had been done. sketched and painted incessantly and | question, and it was hard work to hold studied nature in her fairest and sunniest moods, that are to be seen or felt only in Hawaii. Wherever there . was any pecuharly interesting scene, or any char- acteristic bit of island landscape or bay, he visited that spot and recorded his im- pressions in color sketches, so that Mr. Fisher returns with a bulging portfolio of beautiful subjects for pictures. And now admirers of his work may lcok for tropical paintings from his brush—a decided change from the snow-ciad Sierra pictures which he liked so well to paint. In more than ove place he had to work under great difficulties. Sketching in a Kanaka canoe in the suri, and at another place, where a man could ot stand against the whirlwind, caused him to imagine that all was not dreamy in “‘the island of dreams.” However he found Hawaii a better place for artists than San Francisco, and he did not object to the risk of being blown over a precipice or toppled out of a canoe when making sketches for pictures ordered by wealthy men in the islands. “I bought back with me but one paint- ing,” said Mr. Fisher. *‘All the rest I left behind in Hawaii, Isoldthem. IfI had twerty-five more painted I could have sold them also.” . In his studio at 319 Sutter street Mr. Fisher is busy arranzing his sketches and painting pictures, as he intends to have some of the most attractive island scenes on exhibition at an early date. He likes to go back over the paths he traveled in the past twelve months and to tell how Hawaiian scenery, people, climate- and natural curiosities impressed him. “On approaching Hawaii, the first feat- ure is Diamond Head, a bold, majestic mountain,” he began. “Cocoa Head looms up next, and you find yourself near. a tropical country with a background of hich mountains all covered with verdure and the most beautiful cloud effects I ever saw. You pass Diamond Head und then come in full view of the ceiebrated Wai- kiki beach and Nuuanu Valley, beyond Honolnlu, a wonderiu! background for the city. Mount Tantaius loomns up in the far distance. Everything is green in the landscape—palm trees, cocoanut trees in the foreground and dense vivid verdure beyond. The scene ‘is most enchanting, the mountaing veiled in a kind of pur- plish, bluish haze with beautiful clouds the paints down. “On'the trip-1o the island of Hawaii I was treated to a most magnificent sunset; it was tropical and glorious. The ride to the volcano, or mountain of fire, I found |- to be one of the most interesting. exposi- tions, the’trail passing through t:.e virgin forest and every tura in the road finding a new scene. All about us were wild ba- nanas, palm trees, fern trees, creeping plants—a picture of tropical glorv, with here and there a coffee plantation peep- ing through the forest, each vista'a beau- tiful sight. Farther up the mountain the flora takes on the character of the tem- perate zone, and at !a-t there is nothing but lava. My party took no guide to the crater. As we stood beside the cavern of fire 1 felt the ground tremble and a sick- ening sensation came upon me. ‘For heaven’s sake let us get out of this,’ I said, and we walked back from the verge of the ciiff. One minute later the spot| where we were standing crumbled away and fell into the fire with a roar; one minute later and had we remained there would be no more artist. “There is a strange bird that makes its home at this volcano, the boatswain bird. It has its young about the cliffs and flies to the sea « distance of twenty or thirty miles for fish to feed them, “The coffee and sugar plantations make pretty landscapes with a background of purple mountains, an intense blue sky and some touches of bright green palms and banana trees. The harborof Waienai, ai which are many of these plantations, | reminds one of the bav of Naples, and is certainly worthy of a visit by tourists.” The waterfalls of Hawaii, where a hundred streams tumble down the moun- tains and eventually over a cliff into the ocean, were seen and sketched by Mr. Fisher; and also the famous rainbow falls, where the prismatic arch dances eternally in the sunshine. The n?mral bridge at Onemea was 1ot missed, for it appears in the portfolio a wall of purple rock 5 DISCUSSED THE LIQUOR PROBLEM Rev. Dr. Dille Takes Up the Subject at the Cen- tral .Church. Work of the American Anti- faloon League as a Factor of Reform. R:v. Dr. Adams’ Address Upcn the Evils of Modern Civilization and Their Remedy. At tbe Central Methodist Church yes- terday Dr. Elbert R. Dilie discussed the liquor problem, devoting particular atten- tion to the American Anti-Saloon League as one of the most important factors con- tributing to reform. He traced the history of this institution since the date ot itsinception at Washing- ton, D, C., a little less than a year ago and described the good work already accom- plished through its instrumentality. The great object of this league is to federate and unify the scattered forces of reform so that they may present a unitea front to the organized ranks of the liquor-dealers. “The Anti-Saloon League,” said the speaker, ‘“affords common standing ground for all shades of political and re- ligious and temperance faith so long as they are opposed to the saloon. It does not ask a man whether he is for high license or prohibition; whnether he isa moderate drinker or a_total abstainer; it does not concern itself whether he takes a glass of wine or aglassof beerat his meais; it says ‘whatever your faith or practice, if you believe that society and the State would be better without the saloon give us your hand.’” “The Anti-Saloon League takes the saloon out of vpolitics and deals with it notas a political but a moral question. The saloonkeeper has no politics but the interests of his business. His voting number is No. 1. When Jay Gould was before the Senate Committee on Railroads they asked him his politics.. He said, ‘In a Democratic county I am a Democrat, in a Republican county a Republican, in a doubtiul county I am doubtiul; but always and everywhere 1 am for the Erie Railroad.” That is the way with the saloon.” The league proposes to work for and secure the passage of a law that shail put the questior of saloon suppression upon the ballot at every election. To the ques- tion how has the leazue worked so iar, Dr. Dille replied: “It has united the temperance forces as nothing else has ever done. “In its great conventions Catholic and Protestant Bishops and clerey, Republi- cans, Democrats and Probibitionists have sat side by side. In ihis State every re- ligious body to whom it has so far been vresented has.adopted it with hearty unanimity, and so have all the temperance organizations. Already a provisional State committee has been formed, and it 1sexpected that a State convention will be held in the near future. It has aroused the enmity and aiarm of the liquor power as has no other movement of the century. The Wine and Spirit News says ‘the Anti- Saioon League will capture the church and the church will captuore the State, and then God have mercy on us poor liquor men who won't be allowed to liveat all.” it has Wwon many victories in States North and South.” The speaker then'by a series of charts illustrated its work. They showed that 40 per cent of the territory of this Nation has driven out the saloon. In Géorgia 88 ouj of 137 counties have *‘gone dry”’—that is they have not a single saloon. In Ar- kansas at the recent election 44 connties went dry to 31 wet, and ‘the State gave a majority against the saloon. In Ohio, 51 counties dry, 36 wet; in Mississippi, 61 dry to 14 wet. “But,” he asked, "*how can local option reach our cities, rum-ruled as many of them are? Well, about one-fourth of the territory of this State is’ now without saloons under the operation ‘of local option; when all the interior counties are freed from the saloon and they are all con- verged in this City, then by local. option we will drive it into the downtown waras and into the lowest streets. Then when we have it isolated and segregated into one cesspool of corruption whose stench and fumes shall appear to rise frem hell 1tself, the people educated a3 they will be by jutting into the sea and clad with tropical ehrubs. It hasa picturesque appearance, this bit of island coast scenery, though the colors to one who has’ never seen Hawaii are certainly startling. Row in a Restaurant, William MecIntosh, the owner of a restaurant. on Howard street, had for a customer yesterday afterpoon P. J.'Rooney. Rooney got into an altercation with McIn.osh and MecIntosh struck him on the head with apottle. Rooney pummeled bis adversary to such an extent t.at both had to be tzeated at the Receiving stretched aiong their tops, and a deep blue sky over all. At Waikiki beach the won- derful colors of the water are like the in- side of the abalone shell, opalescent and constantly changing. The 'beach is a brok n line of gray sand bordered with palms and cocoa waving and nodding, and beyond the scene is a mixture of biue, purple and emerald. For life there are Hospital, one for a cut scalp and the other for & contused shoulder, after which their names were entered ou the prison register, one for an assault with a Geaaly weapon and the other pending further investigation. e ——— TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take laxative BromoQuinine Tablets. All drug- gists refund the money if it fails to cure, 2 that time will, with the surgery of the ldw, cut out. this cancer—this malignant ‘ulcer updn our civilization.” et e BETTER THAN IT WAS. In Speaking of ‘‘Natlonal Ills,” Dr. Adams Thought Excess In Liquor Drinking Was Waning. Dr. George C. Adams, the new pastor of the First Congregational Church, preached asermon to a large audience yesterday morning. The subject was *National 1lis,” but the speaker dealt more with the _methods of curing national evils than with the enumeration of them. " He takes a hopeiul view of thesituation, and would have the pessimist Feep silent and go to work. He took his text from Isaiab, xi, 10 and 11, and explained that the isles of Kedar and Kittim, mentioned by the prophets, were the fartiest west and the farthest east known to the Israelites at that time. Isaiah asks if they can find a nation of the heathen who had changed their gods. And yet Israel, who had the living and true God, was turning away from him. Thisturning away from God was the root of nalional ills, and no remedy will be efficacious which does not reach down to the starting point of a country’s misfortunes. The doctor quoied the saying of Aristo- tle that “man is by nature a political animal,” and said perbaps this was the reason people lcok for a political cura for every ill. This, he thinks, is a mistaken expectation. It is not by party vote that great reforms are likely to be biought about. He elaborated this thought and mentioned the many paries which had made futile attempts to carry needed ret forms. But nevertheless he believed that attention to politics is a necessary part of practical Christianity. No man has a moral right to shirk this civic duty. knew of some men who woulid pray fer- vently for the country, but would not go to the polls and vote. The second t ought Dr. Adams sought 10 impress upon his Learers was that men must not become pessimistic because of the new probiems which are now pressing for solution. We dwell in a transition period and evils seem fearful mainly be- cause they are new. We are facing the most tremendous problems of any age. There is no great danger that we cannot solve them. Speaking of the modern liquor traffic being such a bugbear to many people Dr. | Adams_claimed that in the matter of liguor drinking the worid is not nearly so bad as it was in the time of our fathers. In New England a hundred vears ago at every conference of ministers they had New England rum to regale them. In those old days pious men used to sell Bibles and keep liquor and hops as the same time. In 1835 an advertisement ap- peared in a Salem pul;e at Deacon Giles’ Distillery.” The Rev. T, signed ‘‘Enquire | i G. B. Cheever published a pamphlet satir- izing the idea of deacons, having distil® leries. He was convicied of libel and im- prisoned 30 days. We are distinctly in advance of that estimate of liquor mak- ing. As to remedy for national ills, the pas- tor said: *‘Social reform can only be made by work on individual. souls. Uselessness rather than poverty is the chief evil of human life. R’urk needed to-day is not that of a party, but the deepening of respect for law. Entbrone God .in the in- div,limml heart and the Nation will be safe.” FUNERAL OF FATHER LAGAN. Solemn Mass at the Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue. The service of solemn mass will be held this morniug in the cathedral on Van Ness avenue at the funeral of Rev. Mat- thew Lagan, who died in this City last Friday night. Father Lagan was for about eleven years assistant pastor of the parish of the Sacred Heart. He was heid in high esteem by his people here and his two other flocks at Redwood City and at San Rafael. He leaves an older brother in San Rafael, the Rev. Hugh Lagan, whom he assisted in the church there. Another brother is the prominent physician, Dr. John Lagan. His father is living in Derry County, Ire- land, and is a centenarian. ~Father Lagan was 38 years of age. He was born in Derry County, Ireland, and had lived in this State for thirteen years. Lt e A Christmas Hodgepodge. Preparations are 1n progress for the Christ- mas Hodgepodge which will take place on Saturday next for the benefit of the San Fran- cisco Nursery for Homeless Children. There will be an entertainment during the afternoon for children when no admission fee will be charged, but there will be a_fee of 25 cents for the entertainment in the evening. e~ Fell Sixteen Feet. James McDonald, a laborer in the employ- ment of Crene & Co., 27 streer, was en- gaged yesterday aftzrnoon in stacking iron pipes. He was standing on a crossbeam when he missed his footing and fell to the floor. & distance of about. sixteen leet. fe was taken to the Receiving Hospital in the ambulance, where it was found that he had escaned with the right eyeb a lacerated wound ovi 0w NEW TO-DAY. Stimulating beverages like Tea and Coffec produce a reac- tion that leaves the system ot weaker than it was—only con- tinued use keeps oneup. 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