The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1897, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1897 LI FOR ALE ALK ! g Mrs. Stanford to Part With Many of Her Valuable Acres. The Money Wili Bz Used to Pay Off the Legacies. The Property Includes Scme of the Finest Tracts in ths Vast Estate. Mrs, Stanford is going to sell over a balf million dollars’ worth of land. She 80 decided last night and completed ar- rengements at once. The property will be put on the market immediately. Me- Afes Bros., real estate agents, of 108 Montgomery street, will make the sale. The property consists of five ranches in different parts of California. Altogether there are acres of land, much of it very fertile. It will be extensively advertised, both in the East and on this coast. Theidea is to sell each ranch as a whole if possible. This property is part of the so-called Leland Stanford estate, which itself is arate from the endowment of Stanford Tre valuable and extensive Vina, Grid- léy, Palo Alto and other ranches, together forming a total of 88,400 acres, have noth- ing todo with this sale. They cannot be sold. the upiversity, having been given to it by Senator Stanford during his lifetime. It will be remembered, however, that Benator Stanford made provisions in his will for twenty-seven legacies, amounting to over $1,000,000. Some of the legatees were relatives, others were friends of Sen- ator Stanford. Mrs. Stanford has been paying money to the different legatees as fast ag it has been possible to realize fzrom the property. This sale is primarily intended to raise mortey to make further payments on the legacies. Itisalso vartof a general plan to settle up Senztor Stanford’s personal estate so that, all ciaims being paid, she niay tarn over the balance to the univ y, for it was Senator Stanford’s wish e university should get even more efty than that with which he origi- endowed it. ition to these fine ranches, valued a half million dollars and now offered for sale, Senator Stanford’s estate includes over a hali million dollars’ worth of other real estate in City lots and swnall 1anches and & half million dollars’ worth of stock the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. This1s all separate from Mrs, Stanford’s own property. After the pres- ent sale is consummated the other land will eventually be put on the market. It will thus be seen that after all the legacies shall have been paid, there will be neariy $1,000,000 to turn over to the miversity to sweil the munificent gift of millions already bestowed. Mrs. Stanford first contemplated this sale 8 month ago, and incidentally men- tioned it at that time. She said nothing more about it, however, until last night, when Mr. McAfee was summonea to her residence on Nob Hill, and there the pre- parations were perfected. The appraised value of the fine ranches is slightly in excess of $500,000. The egents hope to sell them for more than that. The Copeland ranch, of 2000 acres, in Tehama County, is one of the properties 10'be converted into cash. It is appraised at $100,000. It adjoins the Vina ranch, ihat belongs to the university, and a large part of it is river bottom land fronting on the Bacramento River. The soil i3 rich and black. The land is covered with live oaks, and is irrigated throughout with an unlimited supply of water from Deer Creek. The ranch was originally intended for a fine horse farm, similar to that at Palo Alto. There are buildings and im- provements on it that cost Senator Stan- ford $50,000—barns, sheds, stalls, race- tracks and other conveniences peculiar to & first-class racehorse farm. The place is planted to grain and alfalfa, and there is an orchard. The railroad and the county Toad cross the ranch. The Vina railroad station is close by. The Dr. Irwin ranch of 3000 acres, ten miles from Martinez, in Contra Costa County, is another of the farms offered for sale. It is valued at over $90,000. Formerly it was a part of the well-known Government ranch, so called. It is valley land. The soil isa rich loam. At present it is rented and is planted to grain. There ié some marsh land slong near the bay and that is used for grazing. This ranch will be sold as one piece or in small hold- ings, as 1t has already been surveyed for subdivisions. The McCoppin ranch of 320 acres, two | wiles from Ban Luis Obispo, will also be \sola. It belonged to ex-Postmaster Mc- Coppin of Ban Francisco. It is very fertile, and.is particularly adapted to the growth of grain, beans and vegetables. Some of it last year yielded as much as twenty-five sacks of barley to the acre. It is situated near the narrow-gauge railroad and county road to Port Harford, and is close to the Ban Luis Ubisvo Racetrack. There is a cottage and a few outbuildings on the place. The Stillman ranch of 280 acres, about & mile from the center of the town of Red- lands, in San Bernardino County, is also for sale. It isin the midst of beautiful orange groves on a sloping hillside ove: looking San Bernardino, Highlands, Men- tone and other towns in the valley. Two riilroads—the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe—run within a block’s distance of the place, and county roads bound iton ali sdes, Dr. Btiliman, an old-time Califorman, after whom it was named, bought the place twyenty-five years ago. He intended to make it a wine ranch and to-day a large part of it is set to wine grapes. There are also peach treesand spricot trees. The original but little msed winery and brandy-still, together with a small packing-house and a cottage, -.are all the buildings. Every square yard of the land 1s under cuitivation and it is all rich, productive land, irrigated from the Sunnyside ditch, one of the oldest watercourses in that part of the courtry. \ The land is especially adapted to oranges and there are about 100 orange trees on ihe place. It is supposed to be worth over $30,000. The last piece of property of the present © listcontains 1200 acres of picturesque hill- side land immediately back from and that pro nal| / They are forever the property of } DR. WENDTE SPEAKS IN DEFENSE OF DR. JORDAN. Rev. Alfred Kummer, Pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Disagrees With : Stanford’s President. OAKLAND, Car, Feb. 4, 1897.—Dr. C. W. Wendte came to the relief to-day of President Jordan and issued the following open letter to the ministers who are criticising the Stanford professor: | The discussion evoked by recent utterancesof President Jordan on revivals seems to one of your readers, at least, to be uncalled for. President Jordan was addressing, without notes, a congregation of iberal thinkers lixe himself. There was no intention of giving to the world his utterances, much less o attack any local religious movement, of whose existence he was quite unaware. A reporter who was present caught a fiying expression from his lips, and evidently nos correctly, as there are current two or three different versions of what he said. Even as given in the newspapers his remark is far from being absolutely condemned by the orthodox clergy, the Rev. Dr. Dille, amoug others, agree- ing with President Jordan as 1o the irrational and demoralizing character of some revivals. Dr. Coyle’s declaration that he never saw an ex- hibition of this kind is very surprising. The writer has witnessed the most d isgusting displays of religious excitement and emotionalism, in | waich not merely reason, but decency, were thrown to the winds, and this in the churches of leading denominations, North and South. 1tis true a better, saner, more wholesome spirit prevails in the movements conducted by Mr. Moody, Mr. Munhall and others. But this is mainly becausc of the growing ascendency of that reason in religion which the university does so much to foster. The church might take 10 heart St. Paul's terse comments on the fanatical excesses of the church of hisday: “In the church I had rather speak five words #ith my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. Brethren, in understanding be not children, be men. Jesus told us to worship 6od with all our hear; and mind and soul and strength; that is, with our feelings, our reason, our daily service and our moral and spiritual aspiraiions. This brlanced piety is the ideal to strive after. To attain it we need to cultivate, in most of our churches, the rational part of our nature, and to resirain the emotionelism to which religious people are so prone. Imagine Jesus of Nazareth conducting & modern revival. Compare the more or 1ass sensational methods there employed to the heavenly calmness, the sober appeal, the spiritual instruction of the Sermon on the Mount. any case do not let us be unjust to Professor Jordan by imputing to him sentiments and motives which he never entertained. = And especlally do not let us condemn him for successive changes of opinion in religion, so long as these changes were all in onedirection—forward into light and freedom. 4 “When I was e child,” said the great apostle, “I spake as a catld, I understood as a child; but when I became s man Iput away childish things.” The truth is, the great universities of our country. with few exceptions, stand for intellectual freedom; for the unfearing and unre-, strained application of the reason in all things philosophic and religious, as well assclentific. This means that the current suparnaturalism | is doomed, and that Christianity, divorced from ¢redulity, miracle, emotionsl exc:ss, traditionalism and creedal subscription, is to take the | place of the existing churches. This transformation 15 going on with ever-increasing power and speed. The recent utterances of Professors Howison, Hudson, Gayley, | Jordan aad Le Conte are only responsive echoes of the sentiments of President Harper, President Schumann, ex-President White, Presidént | Eliot, President Low, Professor Briggs, Lyman Abbott, Dean Farrar, Washington Gladden nd scores of others still nominally in the orthodox chureh, but in reality not ofit. Truly, the religious freethinker can say to-day jubilantly with the reformer, Ulrich von Hutten, three centu- ries and more ago: “The sciences are studied, arts flourish, knowledge and true piety increase—it is a joy to Live!” CHARLES W. WENDTE. REV. MR. KUMMER'S PLEA FOR REVIVALS. As a minister of the Gospel, now engaged with my ministerial brothers in revival work, I have been greatly surprised and deeply grieved at the following statement which you made in your sermon on *A Sober Mind” before the Unitarian Society of Berkeley on last Sunday, January 31: “'Stimulants produce temporary insanity; whisky, cocaine and alcohol produce tem po- rary insanity; and so does a revival of religion—one of those religious revivals in which men iose all their reason and self-con- trol. . This is simply a form of drunkenness, no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness of the gutters.” This statement is not only historically false and unscientific, but in extremely bad taste from one whois not a minister but a scientist, and therefore, according to the “scientific method,” not qualified to speak intelligently upon a purely spiritua! method of propagandism. \ The charge you make against revivals is the same that the Pharisees made and which Peter refuted on the day of Pentecost. That revival, as you must know if you are familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures, was not the first nor the last. All along the line of history from Pentecost through the first centuries; after the dark ages to Luther and Melancthon, the Renaissance, to Calvin and the Wesleys, to Jonathan Edwards, on to Moady and a thousand other evangelists of these times, revivals have been ap- proved of God for the spiritual and intellectual awakening of the world. I have seen Mr. Moody, B. Fay Mills and other great { revivalists, 1n mass-meetings, put the test to ascertain what proportion of their great andiences of Christian people started in the religious life through the influence of revivals, and the testimony has always been that an overwhelming majority were con- verted through the power of revivals. What will you, President Jordan, say to this undeniable fact? You are the president of a coliege, and, therefore, you are supposed to have studied colleges in every possible relation. You must, therefore, know that very few educational institutions have escaped the excitement which you decry with a mind that is evidently far from “sober.’’ Allow me, learned sir, to reccommend to youa careful study of the educational tebles furnished by Dr. Dorchester and Goneral Eaton. From these tables you may learn that of the 30,000 students who'are now pursuing regular college courses in this country, almost one-half are Christian. At Amherst, William+, Middlebury, Jowa, Berea, and many denominational colleges and universities, three out of every five students are Christian. Revivals are common in colleges; especially have they been o in recent years, At Princeton, nearly all of the last thirty classes have experienced seasons of revival, and a faw years ago over 100 were converted in a single term, and there was preat excitement, still not as much as over a modern game of football. At Am- tierst, Williams, Dartmouth and other Eastern colleges revivals have been the rule rather than the exception. And at Oberlin, DePauw, the Northwestern University, and in many other Western colleges, revivals are frequent and powerful. Yale has had no less than forty revivals, resulting in the conversion of at least 1500 souls. Dartmouth has had tenor twelve revivals, resulting in the conversion of more than 300. These and similar statistics are easily accessible to any one who is in search of the truth, and he who overlooks them or willfully perverts them may not hope to escape the criticism of better informed or more honest toilers in the fields of culture. tian young people we send to you from our Ckristian homes, many of whom made their religious start in revivals, if you would help these young people to warm up the icy atmosphere of Palo Alto, made icy by your skepticism and moral indifference, if, as the novlest college presidents have done, you would foster a revival spirit rather than promulgate the skepticism, infidelity and waterialism of Voltaire, Colenso and Paine among theselstudents at Palo Alto. But your remark is not only historically false, but it is unscientific and extremely ill advised. You are supposed to know the meaning of words; the etymology of tne word “‘revival” is 5o easy that no.profound Latin scholarship is necessary to see its full import, and, therefore, you must know that every religious awakening has its analogy in nature, in art, in science, and in every form of human learning; there are seasons of depression, “‘winters of discontent,” to be followed by the blossoming spring of an awakening, sunshine, fruitage and prosperity—that has always been the order in nature, business and Providence, or grace. You insist upon the sclentific method. You say that the utterancesfot thelozians ars of little or no value upon scientific matters; they know nothing of scientific observation and classification ; they may be graduates of Yale, or Cambridgs, or Leipsic or Tubingen; they may;have pursued faithfully and for years post-graduate courses; they may have taken the honors of their cla: but, according to your dictum, they must never dare to attack your materialistic vaporines, nor your science—“falsely 3o called,’ for, forsooth, they are not supvosed to have the mental astuteness to understand these things; thatis all plainly the spirit of the president of Stanford University. Well, so moteit be. But, sir, we ask you to take your own medicine; we want you to sbide by the scientific method. What, let me ask, do you know of revivals? How many have you ever attended? Wers you ever at the altar as a seeker of salvation? If you wereand were sincere, in what estimation will you hold the man who pours forth contempt upon that most sacred moment in your life 28 But if not, with what authority can you speak upon a matter to which you have never given your mind, much less your heart? Christisnity, too, has its laboratories. Were you ever in the refining fire of a red-hot revival? Did you ever, in deep humiliation and prayer, apply the chemicals and scalpel of rigid self-examination, consecration and the searching, cleansing power of God’s spirit? ~To ask these questions is to answer them. What rignt have you, then, according to your own scientific {formula, to denounce revivals, and spesk of “whisky,” “cocaine” and the “gutters” in the same breath with a word which, to all God’s true people, stands for the most sacred memories, the purest aspirations, the most wholesome reform, and the most radical and lasting work of the spirit of God? Your words are sacrilegious, born 1n spiritnal blindness, and unworthy the “sober mind’’ of a common crossroads schoolteacher. Your utterances and conduct as a Unitarian preacher have a still more serious bearing. We, as parents and patrons of your | sehool, bave rights which, if you are a man, you must respect; if you will not respect them you simply prove vourself entirely unworthy and unfit for the sacred interests reposed in your hands. We do not propose that you shall, without protest on our part, make skeptics and infidels of our sons and daughters. Ifyou had the wisdom you ought 1o have, and a tithe of the “sober mind” of which you so conceitedly boast, you would keep out of pulpits, and especially out of Unitarian pulpits. ‘You are not a preacher. In the humble judzment of many good people, you make lamentable failures whenever you attempt to preach, for it is evident you have no preparation for that sacred work. You will allow a humble Methodist preacher ta apoly your own seientific method when he asks you to stick to ichthyology, | concholozy, ceals and whales, for about these matters you are capable of instructing the public, but let others who have been spe- clally called, and who bave given the best yeais of their life in special preparation for their work, who have studied sacred history and philosopby, and who have felt revival fires in their own personalities, let them preach the Gospel of the Son of God and bring about the spiritnal awakenings and missionary enterprises which makes trips to the Sandwich Islands and the seal countries pos- sible and safe for you, a student of fishes. You will never be a true educator until you know something experimentally of the revival spirit. We make this statement both as pnilosophy and history. This is what the editor of the Boston Journal says: It isa well-known fact that religion was both the basis and motive of the establishment of the older colleges in the East, as well as of the newer institutions of the West and South. Harvard was founded because of the dread of leaving an {lliterate ministry to the churches; Yale was established for the nurture of a more rigid orthodoxy than that prevailing at Harvard and for the education of & ministry for the New Haven colony. So of Princeton, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Amberst and others. The religious idea was prominent and | | fundamental in their establishment; they were born in that species of excitement which you have the su- preme folly to condemn; the Western colleges are in a large number of instances, whether denomina- tional or not, the direct outgrowth of missionary movements and revival power. Towa College was jounded by the famous Andover Band and has always been an active agent in evangelization. At Oberlin, in its earlicr years, a banner waved from the flagstaff bearing the inscription, ‘‘Holiness to the Lord,” and a spirit of aggressive piety has marked that institution in all the slages of its growth down to the present moment. At Harvard, in the earlier days, the students were required to render the O:d and New Testaments from their originals into the Latin, and many other religious studies and duties were imposed. Allow me, now, in a final word, Professor Jordan, to remind rou of a fact which you seem constantly to forget, that you stand in a representative place and capacity; that even if in your secret thought you are a modern destructive critic, a materialis- tic evolutionist, a despiser of evangelistic fervor, and a Unitarian, occupying Unitarian pulpits on the Lord’s day, you do a stupid thing and make a fatal blunder when you air your skepticism and disseminate your speculations and insult the Christian con- science of your best and most numerous patrons. The wisdom of the serpent should be combined with the harmlessness of the dove, but the combination will never be made by one who possesses neither. You have yet to learn the patience, the humility and the silence of the troe scholar. 1If speech be silver, then, indeed, is silencs golden to men who occupy vositions so diffizult to fill and so delicate in all their various adjustments as a college presidency. How many students would there be left at Palo Allo if every young lady and gentleman who has gone there from evangelic- ally Christian homes would pack up his trunk and leave your college? Will you seriously attempt to answer that question and in the future endeavor to act with that equipoise, that judicial fairness, that *‘sober mind,” which should characterize a college president? Avrrep Kvxmes, Pastor First M. E, Church, Qakland. GONE AFTER SCHUBERT. The Pay Which the Cashier Received and the Rapid Life He Lately Led. south of the Stanford University campus. It is bounded by three county roads—on the 'north, east snd south—and on the west by the pretty Los Trencos Creek, which forms the natural boundary line beiween San Mateo and Banta Clara coun- ties. Covered by liveoak trees, commanding a fine view of the Santa Clara Valley, the bay and the mountains, and only a balf mile to a mile from the university build- ings, this property will be advertised as particularly suited to suburben resi- dences, to homes for parents wishing to live near the university during the time their sons and daughters attend as col- lege students. This property is valued at however, had to pay for this policy, the custom in such cases, and it cot for each ysar. 1t is said that Schubert has no re- sources, and if this be 5o and he cannot at least render a quid pro quo in his dilem- ma, he will bave to suffer the conse- quences of his misdoing. Some verbal comment has been made that the salary he received was not sufficlent on which to live properly; but Colonel Young hasa different siory to t 1l regarding th “‘He received $70 a month besi his board and room, and had an attendant the same as any of the guests to wait on him,” said the colonel. “He certainly had money enough to meet all reasonable expen 10 say the least. What he did with the money which be took from ‘the Detective Ross Whitaker left yesterday morning for Yuma to bring back E. W. Schubert, the defaulting cashier and bookkeeper of the Russ House, who was No, learned sir, you would be in better business and would much more please your patrons and the Chris- | over $200,000. That part of the place used to belong to a mysterious wealthy ranch- man named Couits, who was a refugee from Krance, and who sold out to Senator Stanford and fled to parts unknown. Two Darglars Arrested. James Johnson and John Peterson were ar- rested Wednesday by Officer C. Peters and de- tained at the California-street police station arrested there on a telegraphic dispatch from Captain Lees on Wednesday night. It will cost §250 to bring Schubert here, and that amount was yesterday handed overin cash by Colonel Young, the pro- prietor of the Russ. This expense, with the amount of the defalcation, which is $1200 of itself, will have to be borne by the American Surety Company. This company bad a $2000 guarantes policy on Bcuunbert, and any on a charge of burglary. The prisoners were detected leaving the room of John Bowen, 33 Pinkney alley, with & supply ol bed-clothing in thelr possession when they were arrested, sum inside this amount which he might et from the Russ House the compan, would be liable for, Schubert himseii, botel I donot know, but I believe from what I hear that he lately entered on u%-erui:l fast livin “ hubert appears to bhave done a good business in Denver during the lively lgmn there some years ago, when he had charg: of the Oxford. When hard t mes after- ward came he seemed unable to live with- in his income and fell into uniortunate ways, which have resulted thus injuri- ously to him.” e TO CURE A COL O IN ONE DAY. gake laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All d §ista refund the money if nhuawou‘sn m | We ship nothing that does not go at least MACHNERY FOR | THE PEARCE MIKE President Penrose Here to . Get Hoisters and a Mill. N:w Bonanza Producing Oae Hundred Tons of Ore a Day. Som: Particulars of Ons of the Most R:cent and Biggest Discoveries in Ar zona. Professor R. A. F. Penrose, president o the Pearce Gold Mining and Milling Com- pany, Pearce, Ariz., is in the City. The Pearce mine, in which he is a large owner, has up to the present time been developed by the use of borses and whims, It is now the intention to geta heavy plant of machinery to place on the mine. This will materially expedite the getting out of ore. *Up to the present time we have taken out between 15,000 and 18,000 tons of min- eral,” said Professor Penrose, “from a deptn of about 300 feet. The time has ar- rived now when we need a good plant. This means, of course, improved hoisting machinery, cages, about 600 feet of tram- way for carrying the ore to the binsand other apparatus. “Beside this we will put on a large mill for the successful treating of the ore. Hitherto we have been shipping the product of the mine to Pueblo. We load the ore on the Southern Pacific cars at Cochise, a station fourteen miles irom our mine. We haui the ore there by wagon. “About 100 tons aday is the output. $50 to the ton.’” Professor Penrose is of the chair of econo- mic geology and mining in the Chicago University.” He has been for several years past interested in mining in Ari- zona. One of his partners is John Brock- man, the pioneer of New Mexico and Ari- zona, who was on General Howard’s staff in_the Apache campaign Professor Penrose will examine different kinds of mac.inery while bere. The mine, which is fourteen miles from Bis- bee, will be well equipped. THE BIKER MONUMENT, The Petition From the Pioneers for a $15,000 Statue Goes to the Legislature M:xican V:terans Join in the Request to Honor Baker—A Balief That the Bill Will Pass. W. L. Duncan, one of the members of the Society of California Pioneers, who cornmanded a company under the elo- quent and brave Colonel E. D. Baker dur- ing the war, introduced resolutions at the recent meeting of the Pioneers for a $15,000 monument to Colonel Baker. The resolutions were sent to Sacramento Wed- nesday, to be presented to the Legislature, Mr. Duncan believes that the Lecislature will appropriate the amount desired for the monument. “The Veterans of the Mexican War,” said Mr. Duncan, “have drafted similar resolutions, and they went up to Sacra- mento this afternoon. Our resolutions went to J. A. Waymire, who will present them. From all 1 can learn we will have agood show to get the $15,000. In all reason, we ought to, for it is high time California was doing something to com- memorate the brave deeds of Colonel Baker. “I commanded a company under Col- onel Baker, and am the only one I now know who served similarly under him, though there may be others. Colonel Jerome of the Custom-house, who is a nephew of Colonel Baker, believes the woney for the monument will be speedily obtained.™ The resolutions, which were offered oy Mr. Duncan, seconded by Sam Halliday and adopted by the Pioneers, and which have now gone to the Legisiature, are as tollows: - WHEREAS, We, the Soclety of California Pioneers, having heard that a bill is now pending’in the Legislature of this Siate to appropriate the sum of $15,000 for the pur- pose oL erecting a monument or statue in Golden Gate Park to commemorate the memory of the late Colonel E.D. Baker; and wherexs, we recognize the fitness of sach pro- ceedings and_having great regard and esteem for our hero, patriot and statesman, who not only showed his patriotsm and gallantry in the war wiih Mexico—especially at tho battle of Cerro Gordo, where he commanded and_led a brigade after General Shields feil—but after- ward gave up his life for his country at the battle of Balls Bluff while fighting in the defense of our Union; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the Pioneers of California, in meeting assembled, do hereby urge the members of the Legislature (o pass the bill as introduced by the Hon. James A. Waymire in the Assembly ana Hou: F. 5. Stration in the Senate 1 that to the veterans of the Mexican War is due the fact that the broad domain of California is now a portion of ‘our Federal Union. Aund also that the vetersns of the Civil War fought to retain our State and maintain our Union. Our lamented Colonel E. D. Baker fought and achieved distinction in both wars, so he should be remembered. A DAY FOR LUTHERANS. They Will Celebrate the Four Huu- dredth Anniversary of the Birth of selancthon, Thae following address to the Lutherans of the City has been issued: Four hundred years ago on Tuesday, Feb- ruary 16, Philip’ Melancthon was born and twenty years later became the powerful and indispensible ally of Luther and the German Reformation, In the evening of that day the Lutherans of every nationality in Sen Fran- cisco and around the bay will unite iu com- memoration of his birth. The exercises will be heid in the First English Lutheran Chureh on Geary street, near Gough. Addresses will be delivered by prominent Lutheran clergy- men, among whom are Rev. Dr. Bushuell of Oakland, Revs. E. Nelander, Ph.D., H. Gehreke and C. Moenl of San Francisco' and others. Theday is one of world-wide celeb- ty. ‘Wherever thers are Lutherans, and especially in Germsnr, the home of Melaucthon's sotivities and of the Lutheran reformation, tiere the four hundredih anniversary of elaucthon’s birth will be observed. No pains are being spared to make this celebra- tion around San Francisco Bay a real honor to 1 man celebrated. The i ot a hollow tit.e given to the colaborer with Luther, but one earaned by him. Even the twentieth century may learn trom fact that never since his death nd writing so generally and carefully studied as now—ihe four hundredth anniversary of his birth. Six nationalities will be represented in this celebration and nearly all the Lutberan pastors will take part in ‘hfl. services. Special music will be fur- nished. Melancthon was the writer of the Angs- burg contession, which i the bond of La- theran uniiy, and also of a defense of the con- fession, which is the fullest and completest | setting forth of the Lutneran doctrines in an offcial way. During Luther’s life he wes his | constant companion and adv . whom he also outlived about fourteen ye: PERKINS' REPLY. His Views on the Wisdom of the Ar- bitration Treaty. In reply to a letter from Judge M. Cooney regarding the arbitration treat: Senator Perkins has sent tne following: UNITED STATES SENATE, ! ASHINGTON, D, C., Jan. 28, 1897. § _Hon. M. Cooney, Phelan Buiiding, San Fran- cisco, Cal.—MY DEAR JUDGE: Ithauk you very much fo’ your letter of January 21, relating to the proposed arbitration treaty, for I find that my mind has been traveling in exactly the same path as your own, which has been edu- cat d to follow out the intricactes of law and hrough it we % our affairs inexiricably entangled with thos: of European powers, so- that every poiitical disturbance abroad 'would produce disturbance at home, We have thus far been fortunate—I do not think most of us.recognize how fortunaie—in being entirely free from European political entanglements, and I should deem it & great misfortune if we should ever be so connecied with European affairs as to become one of the Dowers which are always on the verge of war with each other. Lam in favor of arbitration of international Qifferences and of Cifferences at home grow- ing out of the relations of labor and capital. But I am of the opinion, as you are, that in the former case an arbitration commission can be formed to dispose of disputes which, when settled, will leave us free of European influence as we have thus far been. While these are the general grounds on which I object to a treaty of this kind, I have specific objoctions on the score of the char- acter of the final arbitrator, who is, in my opinion, bound 1o decide in favor of England in any ‘case that might come before him, Yours very truly, GEORGE C. PERKINS. mme e o Denounced as an Outrage. The Building Trades Council has adopted the protest of the San Francisco Stone-cutters sgaiust the cutting of stone at Stites quarry and working the men over the regulation hours and for less than the reguiar wages paid to workmen in that craft on State work, which was denounced as an outrage on all honest labor. e Berlin pays a salary to a professional bird-catcher, who keeps scientific and edu- cational institutions supplied with birds, birds’ neste and eggs, and he is the only man in the emnire permitted to do so. NEW TO-DAY. One of the per- fected scientific dis- coveries of recent years is cocoa. [t has in an incredibly short time taken front rank as THE drink of all drinks. It is always delight- fully refreshing, and when it’s fresh and pure is more strengthening than any ordinary food we can eat. GHIRARDELLI'S cocoa is made here. Always fresh and guaranteed to be pure. 32 CU. AN EXCELLENT MEA Properly prepared and promptly served, can always be obtained in THE GRILL ROOM OF THE Decidedly the P A I ACE Dining Apart- ment in town. Most Popular 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 NEW TO-DAY. ~ MUNYON CURES BY MAIL Thousauds Have Been Cured Through Prof, Munyon’s Free Medical Advice. Munyon’s Medical Institution, 1506 Arch street, Philadelpbia, is the pest one of its kind in the world. It employs a large staff of skilled specialists to diagnose the cases not only of people applying per- sonally for treatment, but those in all parts of the country who send 1n personal letters asking the best methods of being cured of various diseases. Thousands of these letiers are received every week and a staff of irom ten to fifteen doctors are daily empioyed in dictating replies through the medium of as many stenog- raphers. These letters are received in the strictest confidence and promptly an- swered with tue best melical advice ob- tainable. No effort wiil be spared to see | that each case is thoroughly diagnosed and the proper remedies to effect a cure | are prescribed. For these services no fee | is expected. A separate cure for each disease. Atall druggists, mostly 25¢ & vial. | Address Prof. Munyon, 1505 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa. CAUTION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE | STATE OF CALIFORNIA: Many un- | serupulous drug cutters, who, having | forced the selling price of MUNYON'S ; REMEDILES to cost, and, therefore, not desiring to sell them, will tell you that | these remedies are not good, and will try to persuade you to take some other preparation, which they will recom- mend as belog better. Such men ars not deserving of your contidence or patronage. Therefore do not be de- ceived by them, but INSIST upon gete ting M UNYON’S. Philadelphia Shoe Co. No. 10 Taimo Sr. STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT Al Best | on |l Eart, Well, $1.50. $1.50. {1l OUR GOOD NAME Flas never been questioned. 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