The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JA ARY 18, 1897 SHRINERS VISIT TRUCKEE'S PALACE Crowds From Sacramento and San Francisco Entertained. Find Enjoyment on the Toboggan Slide and the Skating Rink. Pleasures of a Winter Day End With a Banquet Tendered by Townspeople. TRUCKEE, CAL, Jan. 17.—To-day has been a gala one for the many who visited the Truckee Ice Palace. Three cars bear- ing members of the Mystic Shrine, their familiesand friends arrived at 6 o’clock this morning from SanFrancisco, and a svecial train from Sacramento arrived in the afternoon. The visitors enjoyed themselves at sleigh riding, coasting and ghs running from Truckee to r Lake a he Donner 1ce Com- pany_pon n crowdea all day. The Donner Company has one of the most perfect ice plants in this vicinity. ] sitors realize—many of them for rst time—how varied is the climate of jo winter sport as mortal had, and under a clear sky and b returning thirty-six bours. To-night the toboggan slide was running its full capacity. The skating rink within the ice palace was crowded, and Lere were no tes enough in town to supply all who wanted to enjoy the exer- cise. t at the Truckee Hotel, and W. R. Epaulding of the Truckee Lumber Com- pany gave a banquet at the Whitney House to the visiting box manufacturers, ever ——————— 3 Mot Alarmed About the Plague. NEW YORK, n. 17.— Accord- s little plague Coursing at Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, Car., Jan. 17.—Forty day's coursing match, to Little Wonder, Hand~ Pade spring secor ki third. MERKLE 8 PETRIFIED FOOT. to their homes again within | The Shriners made merry at a ban- | | He Uses the Sole for A Whetstone and | He Gave Away a Toe, A hunting party from El Paso, Texas., returned from an expedition, tells of the marvelous discovery up in the mountain regions of what seems to be one the greatest living wonders. The find is nothing more nor less than a man, liv- ing and apparently in good health, yet having one foot completely petrified. The tale is a pretty stiff one and would not be credited were it not vouched for by gentlemen of well-known veracity and honor, who furthermore have and are ready to exhibit the little toe from the petrified foot, -which was shortly before their visit and which the owner was kind e h to give them as a souvenir. The man with the petrified foot is an | ex-cowboy, Bill Merkle by name, who has | | 1gnatius Church. broken off | lived in the m early twenty-five years. Up to ars ago Merkle lived the mos outaoor lives, but | about that , in trying to get out of the way of a stampeding drove, he was thrown from his horse right in the track of the cattle, the herd sweeping on resist- lessly prostrate body. When picked up by his companions a few moments later, not a bruise was dis- covered anywhere upon his body, but both bones of theleit leg appeared to below the knee. No physician was called in, Merkle's friends merely using the simple means in their power to set, splint and bandage the broken limb. According to Merkle's account, in an in- credibly short time the bones seemed to be knitting together, but pretty soon it be- came evident that the texture and color of the flesh below the fracture were under- going a change. . In the course of a month it was deemed advisable Lo remove the bandage, when it was discovered that while the fracture had indeed rennited the lez below had ready begun to show unmistakable ev dence of hardening. Since then siow the process has continued, till now ¢ entire limb below the break is a complet: petrifaction. Strange to relate Merkle declares there is no pain anywhere in the region of the e ° old fracture, and while the weight of the | petrified limb necessarily retards his progress he can stand upon it and even iake a few steps, and his general health is excellent. Of course there is no sensation in the d member. It may be struck, atched or pricked with impunity, and, ftibg the foot across his right knee, Mer- kie uses it as a wi etstone, sharpening knives against the hardened ) How- ever, if the foot be placed in the fire a sen- sation of heat is transmitted throughout the entire body, becoming painful in the immediate neighborhood of the old frac- ture, —Philadelphia Time: GERMANY LEADS Emperor William’s Army Is Than That of France. Since the law passed by the Reichsiag on the 20th of June, 1806, Germany has taken a great stride in advance of France in the matter of military organization. Our entire effective force in infantry amounts to 324,000 men, while that of Ger- many foots up a numerical superiority of solaiers. On our side of the Vosges the perma- ment garrisons are gnarded by 2427 com- panies, forming 585 battalions. On the other side of the frontier they number 2498 companies and 625 battalions, a ma- jority over France of forty battalions. The expenses present a considerable difference between the two countries. The pay of the French infantry officers, accord- ing to the war budget, is nearly 43,000,000, but that of the officers of the German in- fantry is not less than 48,000,000. In time of peace our soldiers are kept on two meals a day, costing 52,000,000, while the soldiers on the other side of Ruine are kept and fed on one meal a day by means of an appropriation of 60,000,000. Does not this comparison justify thelaw: creating a fourth battalion in each one of the 145 army corps regiments named ? It is believed that the appropriation which will be asked for on the opening of the session of the Chamber will be for thirty additional battalions for 1897.— Courrier des Etats Unis. ————— There has been no change in black- smith’s tools for 300 years. el b el THE Cough that “cutsitke aknife” can be re. hieved at.once, aud soon cured with Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant. 1f blllous, take Jayne’s Palnless Sanaiive Pills, { Larger 40,000 foot 864,300, giving the Germans | | | WALTER HOBART’S $2500 BEAUTY. ¥ The most aristocratic og in San Francisco to-day is Dimples, Walter Hobart's $2500 beauty. She is now nine months old and begins to look Iike her beautiful wother, Totsy, the champion of Old English brindle white bulldogs. Dimvles achieves particular fame by reason of her father's aristocratic lineage. He is the celebrated Old English prize-winning bulldog, Napa, which dog has a wonderful record throughout Europe. lionaire and arrived in San Francisco on November 26. Dimples was imported by the young mil- Though she belongs to a breed of dogs that never lets go in a fight, Dimples is as gentle as the famous little lamb tnat followed the fabled Mary everywhere she went. She generally stands with her tongue out, as shown in the picture, and is a great favorite at the stables, 1316 Pine street. CELEBRATION OF A CATHOLIC FEAST A Day of Special Devo- tion in St. Ignatius Church. Sermon by the Archbishop and Installation of Sodality Officers. Rov. Joseph Gleason Pronounces an Interesting Homily in St Francis Church. The feast of the Holy Name was solemnly commemorated yesterday in St. A solemn high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Edward Allen, 8. J., who was assisted by fathers of the Society of Jesus. Riga's sublime mass was sung in iis entirety by the male choir, the solos being taken by Dr.J. J. Morri- sey, Mr. Rowan, L. Berger and G. Wood. His Grace Archbishop Riordan de- livered an eloguent sermon on the feast and the gospel of the day. In the handsome chapel of the Gentle- men’s Sodality an interesting ceremony o0k place. The chapel had been beauti- fully frescoed and illuminated with many new electric lamps, and when mass was celebrated at 7:30 A. a. by Father Fried- man, 8. J., the sanctuary presented a bril- liant spectacle. The gelebrant was as- isted by the Rev. Joseph Hickey, S. J., spiritual director of the sodality, and Father Friedman preached to the mem- bers. After the first gospel the following named officers were invested with the ribbon and medal of the order of their re- spective offices: Jemes R. Kelly, prefect; patrick, first assistant prefect; Thomas R. ond assistant prefect; Frank J. ctary; John J. Barrett, a: John E. Fitz 0 Reg: Mc. William Han- cock, Ri coll, James Keogh, John Faby, members of the council, Jofiu Colson, guardian of probationers; John O'Gara, assistant guardian; John E. Pope, roll prefect; P. Morrissey, J. J. Powers, George Springer, William Hannon, assistant roll pre fects; John 8. Wilbank, Librarian; John Char- land, Willism Hicks, P. Dillon, J. F. Dwyer, assisiant librarians; Laurence Walsh, chief marshai; Richard Purcell, Martin Carrick, Jeremiah Looney, assistant marshals; Maurice E. Pope, vest Louis Springer, John McCarthy, R, M. Ni on, assistant prefects ; James Keogh, John Ji N :vada, stand- ard bearers; Charles L. Etner, organist; Thomas M. McCurdy, Thomas Wiitz, J. Law- as Panozini, Albert McCarty, Vine ell, Dr. J.'J. Gallagher, Thomas O'Brien, J. F. Gallagher, H. Hingsbergin, 8. Cunningham, William J. 0’ Brien, choir. Rev. Joseph Gleason preached before a large congregation at 8t. Francis Church last evening on the gospel of the day, the second Bunday after Epiphany, St. John ii, 1-11. He said that this gospel has been interpreted the most widely perhaps of all gospels of the liturgical year. It tells of the marriage feast at Canaan. At the marriage of Canaan the Savior and his apostles were invited; but it was a wedding among poor veople, and -evi- dently the groom acted hastily in inviting too many guests, for the wine ran out. Here the Blessed Virgin showed her ten- derness; she went to her divine son and said: “The wine is running out.”” She appealed to him in the most hnman way possible, not that she sought him to per- { form a miracle, but that he would find some tactful way out of the difficulty. Then in the little towns about Nazareth Jesus was regarded as a man of fine sense, as the son of the carpenter, of Mary. But he was unkown in his divine character. St. Luke says that from the time Jesus returned from the Temple to Nuzareth he lived with his mother and was subject to her. When she told him at this marriage that thay the wine was running out, be said to her: '‘Woman, what is that to me and to thee; my time has not yet come.” This expression has been quoted in the face of the Christian world that here Christ insulted his mother—the grossest interpretation possible. For im- mediately after he asked for jars of water and turned them into wine. The, words cannot have the meaning of insult 'to his mother. What then meant, these words? He could explain to her that his time for performing miracles had not yet ar- rived at that exact minute. The expres- sion, “‘What is it to me and to thee?” is Hindoo; it was understood by those who heard the Savior use it, but they saw in it no insult. The Savior's parables- were illustrations of his moral doctrines, taken from the daily life of the people of his days. The Hindooism cannot be translated correctly irto our language, and the literal transla- tion is harsher in onr ears than its real meaning. The expression 1s notan insult, because this orientalism was used in every- day life with conrulg. As to the word “woman,” in the Hebrew language it is the highest term of respect ihatcan be paid a female, even’ more than “mother.” Jesus never called the Blessed Virgin “‘mother,” but ‘‘woman.” One of the most scholarly of Protestant commenta. tors of the Scriptures gives the free trans- lation of Christ’s words as: ‘‘Mother, leave that to me; my time hasnot yet come,” L £00D ROADS FOR THE WHEELMEN Seven Highway Bills Be- fore the Present Leg- islature. The Work of the State Improve- ment Committee of the L AW Excellent Recommendations of the State Bureau of Highways Just Issued. One of the most important questions coming before the public at the present time is that of roads—‘‘good roads,” as the wheelmen who are moving mightily in the matter designate it. With them is working the Burean of Highways, which have just issued a report upon the thor- oughfares of the State. One can under- stand how much care is expended annu- ally upon roads when it is known that exclusive of the sums spent on the streets of cities, towns and even many villages | nearly $2,000,000 was used in repairs on the highways of California during the fiscal years of 1884 and 1895. During the eleven years from 1885 to 1895 such data as could be gathered from the records of the. various county officials shows that, not including private subscriptions of money, labor and material and poll tax paid for generally in labor previous to 1893, and cost of construction of bridge: etc., the highway expenditures reache the enormous sum of $18,000,000. Even with this great outlay it is well known to those familiar with any fraction of the mileage of the roads of the State that they are deplorably bad. As acanse of this the bureau points out that the work has been carried on without method or system, and the money injudiciously expended. To start with, the roads have been located without regard to the typog- raphy of the country. In numberless in- stances highways have been laid out over rolling and bill land, arouna corners or through boggy and poorly drained acres, to the permanent detriment of public rights and convenience. The bureau insists upon the intro- duction of the requirement that roads must be located upon the best grades and alignments which the nature of the coun- try will permit. Considering that the roads are the lines along which, for all time, must be moved the traffic of a rowing civilization, this principle should £ imperatively enforced. The report also calls attention to the natural conditions, climatic, geological and typographical, favorable to road con- struction. The absence of severe winters, which work such injury to the highways in many Eastern Btates, the presence of abundant building and repairing material and the character of the ground surface in the valleys and through mountain passes make good roads possible, perma- nent and plentiful all over the State, 8o strong & hold has the good-road ques- tion taken upon the public that seven bills for the improvement of highways will go before the present Legisliature, all of which will undoubtedly pass. The sub- ject has been treated favorably in the Governor’s message, and a large majority in the Senate and Assembly is desirous that the bills should become laws. The proposed enactments were drawn up by the Highway Improvement Com- mittee of the League of American Wheel- men, which orghnization is actively en- gaged in the highway work with the great National League for Good Roads. One of the bills calls for a regulation width of wagon tires. This was recom- mended by the State Bureau, and pre- scribed that three inches for wheels of ordinary farm and road wagons, and the minimum width of four inches for tires bearing loads between four and six tons; tires of five inches for loads hetween six and eight tons, and for loads over eight tons a tire-width of six inches. Charles G. Michener, chairman of the committee, states that the most impor- tant bill is that for the establishment of a system of State highways, and that one- fourth of a mill on each dollar of taxation be set apart for the construction and re- pair of roads. This wili take the matter out of the hands of the Bupervisors of the counties and bring about a State system for the maintenance of the public highways. Mr. Michener also states that the bicycle-bag- gage bill will pass with flying colors, as the railroads will not oppose the measure. Those transportation companies readily understand that this privilege granted wheelmen will encourage them to patron- ize the passenger trains; whereas, if the biker were charged freight on his ma- chine he would in many cases ride it in- stead of paying for its transportation. This would mean the loss of many a fare, and with good roads throughout the country hardly'a wheel would ever go into the baggage-car. 5 . A man weighs less when the barometer is high, notwithstanding the fact that the atmospheric pressure on him is more than when the barometer is low. As the pres- sure of air on an ordinary-sized man is about fifteen tons the rise of the mercury from twenty-nine inches to thirty-one inches adds about one ton to the load he has to carry. LABOR LAWS ARE WELL REGARDED Some Favorable Reports Received From Sac- ramento. Proposed Labor Bills That Have Passed the Second - Reading. Convention of Union Men Discuss the Various Measures in Which They Are Interested. The California Labor Convention met yesterday at 915} Market street to hear reports on the fight for new labor laws now being waged at Sacramento and to keep up Interest in the struggle. James Rose occupied the chair. Credentials were presented by Frank Cooke of the Sacramento Labor Conven- tion and the Sacramento Book-binders’ Union, J. D. Campbell of the Carpenters’ and Joiners' Union No. 22 of San Fran- cisco, Louis F. Reeber of the Journeymen Bakers' and Confectioners’ Union, Henry Carstensen of the Amalgamated Wood- workers’ Union and C. N. Moreno of the Sacramento Typographical Union, all of whom were seated in the convention. Delegate Macarthur of the Sailors’ Union, who wag appointed a committee of one to represent the convention atthe capital, reported on_the various bills pre- pared by the State Labor Bureau and re- vised by the Ban Francisco Labor Conven- tion. He said that ail the bills had been resented to the Legislature in both flnuses and six of them acted on by the Committee on Lapor and Capital of the Assembly, : Assembly bill No. 17, entitled, ‘“An act fixing the minimum rate of compensation for labor on public work,” making the figure $2 a day, had passed its second reading and was going to the third or tinal reading. The bill to establish a bureau of labor (No. 44 in the Assembly) had its title al- tered by the addition of *'and to appro- priate money therefor,” instead of leav- ing it to the discretion of the Labor Com- missioner to establish bureaus whereso- ever he pleases. Los Angeles and San Francisco are named as the places for labor bureaus. A section was introduced providing for voluntary arbitration in labor disputes, and the bill was further amplified, but it was not recommended, and consequently is as if it had not been introduced. 2 Assemmbly bill No. 80, providing for the employment of citizens of the United Stattes upon public works within the State, was reported favorably, and the au- thority to decide citizenship was given to the Labor Commissioner. Sanford of Point Arena introduced a bill providing for a limit of ten hours for aday’s labor in logging camps and saw- milis. This bill has been fayorably re- ported. Some difficulty was met in getting any one to introduce tbe bill providing for the examination of steam boilers because it was technical and not intelligible to the laymen of the Legisiature. Mr, Mac- arthur urged that it would take consid- erable pushing in the committee by engi- neers Interested in its passage. With regard to the bond for public works, several measures concerling it have been introduced, providing fora bond for the protection of laborers, Macarthur suggested that the amount of the bond should amount to one-half of the contract price, instead of the whole, as offered by she convention. He therefore recom- mended that this matter be reconsidered by the convention. Bills have been introduced changing Labor day from October 1 to September 1, abolishing poll and road tax, exempting seamen’s and fishermen’s wages from at- tachment, but the last one was laid aside. Several schemes are on hand to disrupt the State Printing Office, and a bill has been brought up to furnish free textbooks for the public schools. An act providing a lanch hour for em- ployes was dropped, as it was not re- garded as a constitutional measure. Macarthur concluded by stating that everything seems favorable to the labor bills, and everybody at Sacramento was friendly to the movement. The Sacra- mento Federated Trades is doing every- thing possible for the success of these bills, The bakers’ bill has been introduced in both houses, but it has not yet come up in the committee. All the other bills will likely come up in committee during this week. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the movement for a department of labor in California is not a party measure, and the convention adjourned. A B CITIZENS’ MEETING. Proposed Labor Laws Indorsed In the Soclalists’ Hall. A meeting of about 250 people was held in the old temple at 115 Turk street yes- terday afternoon. It was opened by J. W. Rose, who intréduced George Lafayette, president of the United Bricklayers' Union, as chairman. A committes presented the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That we, the undersigned citizens of San Francisco, indorse the_“proposed labor laws” recommended by the State Labor Com- missioner and presented before the State Legislature of Californis, fo immediately re- lieve, assist and protect the suffering unem- ployed by passing the “labor laws” as recom- mended by the State Labor Commissinner, articularly Assembiy bill 44, “An act to es- ablish and support a department of lubor and sppropriate money therefor,” and Assembly Dbil1 150, ‘‘An act to define the duties and lia- bilities of employment agents,” which we de- sire passed verbatim, The committee reported that a petition with 12,000 signatures wou!d be taken by the Labor Commissioner to Sacramento for presentation to the Senate committee to-night, asking for favorable considera- tion of the proposed laws. Speeches were made by E. D. Laynet, Mrg. Cafe, Georze Speed, . Berg, C. H! Holcomb, George Lafayette and others. OHEOK-RAISERS. Iugenious Methods Used by Swindlers to Accomplish Their Purposes. The recent arrest of the ringleaders of regular check raising and forging syndi- cates has been a revelation to the public, but has made generally known a state of affairs of which bankers and secret service men have been aware for many years. The Government offered a reward many years ago for a writing ink which could not be removed by acids or other chemi- cals. There were hundreds of inks offered and not one of them met the require- ment. Those that actually were indelible were worthless for writing and would not flow, while the best of those that would flow were only inde!ible when allowed to lie a long time on a porous paper. - ‘What is rrue as to ink is true as to the thousand and one mechanical devices for protecting commercial paper, which have en put upon the market. There are four or five firms in New York alone which have made from $1,000,000 to $4,000,- 000 each by the manufacture and sale of articles of this kind, not one of which but has been ‘'heaten’ scores of times, and t not one of which is of the slightest value except as against the efforts of the merest tyros in the check-raising industry. So profitable has become the forging and check-raising industry that capital- ized syndicatgs have deliberately engaged in it and have stolen great sums in an in- credibly short-time. - Carelessness in making out checks is, of course, a fruitful source of crime, as in meany instances the possibility of making a safe alteration is glaringly before the eye. This temptation has brought many a young man to ruin, but the losses from this source are. trifling compared with those from the regular professional check- raisers. These gentry have an equipment of tools and chemicals as complete in their Way as the tools used by burglars, and the manufacture of these articles, especially for criminal purposes, is quite as exten- sive as is the manufacture ‘of burglars’ tools. The outfit consists of three or four kinds of acids for removing inks; all the various cutting machines used for cutting out figures in the body of:the check, a device at one time supposed to be inyal- nerable, but one of the easiest of all to beat; a complete supply of twenty differ- ent kinds of delicate brushes and a palette of artists’ colors. These cqlors and brushes are used to re- store thelines in tinted paper after the tint has been taken out by the acid used in re- moving the ink. Great sums of money, by the way, have been spent in the manufac- ture of this tinted paper—money entirely thrown away, as the knayes have processes which restore the tint wherever their operations may have destroyed it and re- store it so perfectly as to utterly defy de- tection. The nippers are used especially to beat the figures out of the check or araft by the various machines made for that purpose. With the nippers, which are curiously and delicately pointed, the minutest particle of paper can Es picked up and deftly handled. The width of the figure is measured, and then the expert kmows, provided he does not recognize it at a glance, which he gen- erally does, just exactly what machine cut it. With his own corresponding machine he cuts the same figure from the same kind of yi’npey—lor a stock ol every variety of paper used is part of his equipment—and fills in the cut-out figures by the aid of the nippers and his materials for dressing and hardening down the surface after his work is done.—New York World. —————— OREMATION GETTING POPULAR. The Prejudice Agains Disappearing. Cremation, as a means of disposing of the bodies of the dead, when first tried in New York State on December 4, 1885, at- tracted a great deal of attention, and there was also considerable discussion as to the relative merits ot the new method as compared to the usual custom of un- derground burial. Many people were superstitious regarding incineration. People were at first loath to give consent to this disposition of the bodies of their friends and relatives. Those who favored the new method urged its adoption, giv- ing as their reason for the change that it was cleaner, cheaper, and did away with the necessity of elaborate funerals. It was also urged that the incineration of bodies of persons who had died from contagious diseases would lessen the dangers of con« tagion and would be the safest way in ‘which to dispose of such bodies. On the other hand, the fear of burial alive caused some strongly to advocate incineration, says the New York Tribune. Asan aid to the adoption of the new method, indorsements were secured from ministers and from others, in which they say there was nothing unscriptural in dis- posing of the dead by means of fire, and advocating the method as more cleanly than burial. The first incineration in New York State was at the New York Fresh Pond Cewnetery, on Long Island, facing the Luvheran Cemetery, just north of Fresh Pond station, on the Long Island rail- road. This was on December 4, 1885 Since that time, despite assertions by some to the contrary, incineration has grown in popularity, and it is said that there is an increase of fifty incinerations a year. The number of cremations at Fresh Pond up to the beginning of the present year is given as 1881 Of this number 1213 bodies were those of men, 98 of boys, 496 of women and 73 were the bodies of girls. Thirty-five dollars is cbarged for the incineration of a body. This charge is only for the mere consum- ing of the body by means of heat, the body being placed in an airtight compart- ment of an immense furnace. Enough ashes are left to fill a small-sized urn. It takes several hours to dispose of a body, after which the ashes are collected and placed in an-urn which has previously been purchased. Often the ashes are taken away by friends and at other times they are deposited in alcoves in the walls of the columbarium where the body has been incinerated. By the request of friends endeavoring to carry out the Ee culiar wishes of the departed the ashes are often taken and thrown to the four winds. There is a charge for the door which is placed in front of the niche. The urns may be bought for from $950 up to $45, while the niche in the wall costs from $15 to §25, according to its location in the wall. To the cost of the incineration, which is $35, must be added the cost of the urn for the ashes and the niche for the reception of the urn. When the body is borne to the columbarium in carriages there is ex tra charge, according to the number of car- riages brought into service. Witn this method there is no necessity for the pur- chase of a burial lot, althouzsh many peo- ple bury the ashes. The maximum cost for incineration, including the purchase of an urn, the leasing of a niche to receive the urn, the door of the niche, and all ex- penses, not iancluding the hire of car- riages, does not exceed $125.0r $150 at most. POLICE OF TWO OITIES. London’s Deal With Burglars and Those of Paris With Murderers, Some interesting comparisons have been made between the police of London and those of Paris in connection with the an- nual report for the year 1895 issued from Scotland Yard. In the first place it has been ascertained that the London consta- bles cost less than that the Paris sergeants de ville, or agents, although they are one- third more numerous and have to deal with a more extensive population. The London Metropolitan Police, for instance, are supposed to patrol an extent of terri- tory larger than Paris, with the extramu- ral” boroughs of St. Cloud, Meudon and Sevres incluaed. The Paris “sergots,” as the criminals call them, arrest annually about 267 mur- derers or perpetrators of bloodthirsty assaults, whereas in London there were only an average of eighteen cases of ac- complished or attempted assassination in ayear. In the matter of burglary, how- ever, London eclipses Paris. The great British metropolis harbors a small army of housebreakers, who in general do suce cessful work, while the housethieves on the French side of the channel are fre- quently handicapped by thedoorkeepers. The figures from the Scotland Yard re- ort show that during 1895 there were 5625 cases of burglarious entry into houses and shops.. For the same period in Paris there has been an average of 979 burglaries, e Struck by Meteors. Somebody has saia it is rather curious that in view of the number of meteorites that fall to the earth every year no one has ever been killed or hurt by one. This isa mistake.- In the year 616 a meteoric stone fell in China, shattering a cart and killing ten men. It may be asserted that the population of the Mongolian empire is o dense that it would be difficult to miss a Chinaman. But other countries have known eimilar accidents. About the close_of the seventeenth century a Cap- wain Willmann reported that two of his sailors wera killed at sea by the fall of a nine-pound meteorite. Not long after this a monk waskilled near Milan in the same way, while a meteor.which fell near New Concord in 1860 broke a railroad tie n two, t Incineration BOLCE COMBATS THE OLD THEOLOGY The Reporter Preacher Pleads for Natural Religion. Opposes the Formalism of Creeds and Urges a Return to Theism. He Offers a Plan to Make the Religion of Humanity Take the Place of All Others. Rev. Harold Bolce, formerly a newspa- per reporter and lately founder of the Cos- mopolitan Church, preached at Metropol- itan Temple last night on “The Religion of Humanity—A Substitute for Theol- ogy.” The discourse was somewhat combative and critical of old creeds and the speaker’s plea throughout was for a return to pure theism and for confidence in human des- tiny. He said: ‘The laughter of & child and the song of a bird are as sacred as the solemnities of theology. We need a return to primitive ideals and we must learn to worship in nature's cathedral. ‘4 do not believe much in sermons as such. The world needs but to be re- minded of its duty. We want to preach the old gospel of God, the same that was sung in the Vedic humns and among_the old shepherds of the Holy Land. This re- ligion is older than the aposties.” The following excerpts are a sample of the new minister’s ideas: “Every church has certain spiritual ideals to.which it aspires and certain re- ligious traditions which it labors to have humanity espouse. All that is beautiful in these aspirations and memories enlists our sympathy, just as that which is fun- damentally good and true appeals to all cultivated and liberal minds. “But with these teachings have been retained theologic symbols, sacerdotal forms of worship and anthropomorphic conceptions of God. which have served:a great purpose in the development of hu- manity, but which are no longer necessary as spiritual helps to enlightened religious souls. “We do not reject the old-time symbols in a hostile sense, but in the same spirit lin which we put aside the abacus and other nursery adjuncts when we enter higher schools of Jearning. “Upon this old theology, with its fables, its incredible prodigies, its limiting beliefs 1 God and man, and all its fantastic and poetic miraculism—a childlike theolog that has thrilled and satisfied humanity in the kindergarten age of man’s develop- ment—vwe look back musingly, lovingly, just as we conjure to memory the toy wonders, the wooden heroes, and all the bewildering imaginings of childhood, or revel in the imagery of Greek or Norse | mythology.” Killed in Battle. . 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TAE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNOLL OF the Clty of San Jose, having by ordinance en- titled “An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of bonds of the City of San Jose,” eto, passed on the 21st day of December, 1896, and approved on the 23d day of December, 1808, ordalned that there should be lssued by Sald city of San Jose six hundred high school bullding bonds, of the denomination of $125 each, and font hundred sewer bonds of the denomination of $100 each, both classes 0f bonds to bear interest at the rate 'f 14 per cent per manum, payable semi. annually, and also by said ordinance authorized aud directed the City Clerk of sald clty to give notice inviting proposals for the sale of said boads, now therefore Public notice s hereby given that the City of San Jose intends Lo issue one thousand bonds aforesaid, aug that sealed proposals will be received at the oftice of sald City Clerk, at the City Hall in San Jose, California, until the hour of .3, on the eighth day of Febr which time, Or ks s0on thereafter a: Mayor and Common Council shall duly convene, said bids will be opened), for the purchase of the whole or any part of said high school bullding and sewer bonds, or either_thereof. 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