The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1897, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCIS BRUARY § 1807 MoRoSC A S OPERA-HOUSE AZAR THEATER ie a Minute Professor. ” Tivou: Opera HousE.—«Aladdin; or, The W onderful Lan OrPEEUM.~ High Ol SUTHO BaTHS— Ba TME CHUTHS ANT at I stre e block east of the Par! nEATER —Mile. Antol 2. February CarForx ette Tre- Races to-day. s This day, February at 11 0'clo CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. bt Probably fair ficial McAdie. ocal Forecast Of “Too Late,” proved rst Christian Church Bost the popu an il ¢ breweryman, s that has Valentine Holt American Revolution. e Labor Exchange was Hall, & withou ¢ en of th tof religious re Jordan con- The Troubled & sailor wharf X erday and wa peace after hav bit Eliot at G > colored c for distur eu-s K g his arm y at 35 Eddy ared that a new ed to cure SUNDAY'S COCURSING. A Good Day’s Sport for Dog Fanciers | at Ingleside. roney at Ingleside was cap- vesterday, Bran- don Belle, an Eastern importation, taking second prize, Will o’ Wisp third. Ben Hur, toe great Eastern crack, fell in very hol tyle before Skyball in n-down, Skyball in turn beir by Brandon Belle. 1 was of a high clat result St. Lawrence defeated he running as a rule Following 1s the & Rossoter's Brandon Belle beat F. ie; M. Welch’s Tipperary beat C gher’s Hazel; Cronin & McDonald’s Sky t B & Rosseter’s Ben Hur; Barte 's Emiu_Pasha beat Trecy’s Spee wn beat P. J. Welch's winole beat Cuy hall; G. Sms nel’s L Kitty s01’s Whit Dillon ¢ rence beat Que Second t :at Brandon Belle, At Sacramento the Eclipse stake was postponed and the other stake was not finished. Lodging-House Tr d yesterday on by false pre- 1 #1000 bonds. is Mrs, Cnristina the lodging-house, Mrs. Merrill and 2 od 10 A machine used cuts 10,000,000 sti arrange- them ove: are pu on s making firms day, and then vat, where the heads irpassing ra‘e of speed. FAGES Piraples, blotehes, blackheads, red, rough, oily, thy skin, itching, scaly ecalp, dry, thin, and r, and baby biemishes prevented by A Boar, the most effective skin purify. beautifying soap in the world, a8 well as st and sweetest for toilet, bath, and nursery, (Uiticura 013 thronghout the world. Porter D. AwD C. CoRrP., -ic Propa, Borion. age- Howto Deautify the SKin," res ently Cured by L00D HUMORS ;fl;"ur ATRESEDIES. ‘BAC ACHE ¥ n 1. « 1 P Kidney and uterine pains, thea- matism, sciatica, aching nerves, and painful muscles, sore lungs re- lieved quick as an electric flash by Coliins’ Voltaic Electric Plasters, t | railroad ties th brougit | the first | LOST HIS TIES Captain Higgins of the Ex- celsior Had to Pay for a Lost Cargo. Mex:can Customs Law: Permi No Surpius and No Shortage. Tue Fact That the Goods Were Washel Ov-rboird in a Storm Is N» Exc ptain Higgins of the steam schooner Excelsior has not a very exalted opinion of Mexicans or the Mexican methods of handling American vessels. The rule in that Republic is to fine a man if he be short in the goods called for by his mani fest, and a fine s0 Imposed if he has more aboard than the bill of la for. On the way down the coast the Excel- sior was caught in a hurricane and 1200 at formed part of her deck- load and nearly all of the starboard bul- warks were washed away. The fact that the steam schooner had been in a storm did not cut any figure in n | the case and the Mexican authorities pro- ceeded to fine Captain Higgins for not bringing his full cargo into port. He ap- pealed the matter to the American Consul nd finally the mattier was settied to the | satisfactio; 1 concerned. While discuss se matter on the Steuart-street w sterday, a_certain | Custom-house officer remarked to Capiain Higgins: *“Why, vou were in luck. You w the schooners Martha W. Tuft and | Czar? Well, you should hear the captains of those vessels talk. Both of them | loaded railroad ties for Mexico ana the uft left here ten ties short, and the cap- tain of the (zar found that when his cargo was all aboard and tellied that tiere was still ten ties on the wnarf. He took them aboard, as the stevedore told him they had been left over from the other | schooner. Now, what do you think happened? When the Martha W. Tuft reachea her destination the captain was fined $:0 in Mexican money for being ten raiiroad ties hort, and when the Czar got in, a few days later, Captain Olsen was fined $50 for having ten railroad ties more aboard than hismranifest calied for. Both the captains | protested, but that was all the good it did them and the fine had to be paid.” Uncle Sam vets even with the Mexican however. Toe Exceisior er 400 tons of salt from Car- hich_duty will be col- lected, while salt from Liverpool comes in fact, the island is nearly all incrusted with | salt, and would maks a company’s fo | tune were it only in the vicinity of San | Francisco. After discharging the Excelsior will probably make another trip to Mexico | with railroad ties and bring back another | cargo of salt. | JTHE SCHOO NER VINE SAFE. | At Least That Is the Information ! Glven to **Captain' Burns | by a Medium. | “Captain” Burns, who makes his head- ‘ quarters witn the J. F. Cunningham Com- y, on Clay street, near East, is author- | Vine, over which considerable anxiety is felt, is all right and will be heard trom in afew days. According to him the chro- | nometer is out of order and the vessel in- stead of being near the Carolines is not ‘wilninb{)fimilu of Kusal. He is a be- | liever 1n spiritualism and asserts that a | medium described the vessel and told him | exactly where she was. The Vine left here on June 10 last and while in one of the Central | ports the chronometer got out of or Captain Luttrell could not procure an- [ other and had to make his way to Corinto | | with the aid of his watch. At the iatter port he secured a chronometer and sailed | for his regular cruise in the southern seas. | From that day to this the schooner has | not been heard from and Captain Mellan- | der, the company’s agent in the Carolines, . | had to go to Hongkong to lay in a supply | - | of provisions on account of the non-ar- | rival of the schooner. | Burns vesterday, **but nevertbeless I am as confident that she isafloat and that | all are well aboard as I am that 1 am alive. A friend of mine, while in a trance, saw the Vine, described her to me, and toid me that the next steamer from China would bring good news from her,” J. F. Cunningham, who is the & ¢s1c s | the vessel, is hoping that Burns is correct, | and is anxiously awaiting the arrival of | the Occiden:al and Oriental Company’s Dore on the 14th inst. ‘Work on the steamer Portland (late the Haytian Republic) is being rushed, and in a few days the new cabins and all the woodwork will be finished. New boilers are to be put in position, and the old ves- sel will be as zood as new. When all the chanees are made the Poriland will be put on the Alaska route in opposition to the steamers Queen and City of Topeka. She P. B. Weare at St, Michaels, the latter earrying freight and passengers up the Yukon River. The Pacific Steam Whaling Compan, will go extensively into the cannery busi- ness next spring. it has a number of establishments in Alaska at present, but in a few weeks a vessel will be fitted out with a full cannery plant, and will go to Chulkat River. There the buildings will | be put up, and everything wiil be in readi- | nes< as soon as tne salmon begin to run. | Tne merchants in the vicinity of Davis and Clay streets will be delighted when | they reach their respective places of busi- | ness to-day. The recent heavy rains | turned the street into a miniature lake | and business was at a stanastill nearly ail | day Satuiday. Early in the day one of the | dealers hung out the foliowing sign: “A liferaft given away with each dollar pur- chase.” Anotuer merchant immediately took ‘the hint and put the following, in | the shape of a sail, on a plank and set it adrifi: *“Good fishing in this pond. For permission_apply to the Superintendent of BStreets.” Sull another placard read: ‘‘No ducks—only malaria—in this marsh.” The Superintendent of Streets took the hint, and all of yesterday a gang of men was at work fixing up the manholes and getting tne sidewalks and streets into prover condition for the next rai Captain Drisko of the wrecker Whitelaw played in bard Juck Egundly. He ex- vected the steamer to be at Folsom-street whart yesierday morning, but when he got there she was gone. After waiting around all day he learned that she was at section 3 of the seawall, and about 3 . M. started awsy to find out the cause of the change. Early in the morning the owner of the vessel ordered her to the seawall, and the capain only iearned of it after waiting at Fol om street six hours. TO CUKE A COL 1+ UNE DAY. gake laxative BrowoQuinine Tablets. ALl drug 81sis Telund Wae money if 3t 1ails 1o cure, Lo¢ g calls | free. ““There is a large salt lake in the island,’” said Captain Higgins, “and it only takes a short time to scoop up four | or five hundred tons with & dredger; in | ty for the statement that the schooner | | American aer. | *'I know that the Vine is overdue,’” said | will connect with the stern-wheel steamer | ¥ | which Attorneys Cormac and Donohoe CO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 1897 SERMONS ON o Wells Supports dJordan. | 1 At the Second Unitarian Church last | night Rev. A. J. Wells recognized the in- | | terest attaching to the Jordan controversy | by preaching a sermon entitled: “The | | Troubled Waters of Religion.” His text | was from St. John, vi4; “For an angel | wentdown at a certain season into the | pool and troubled the water; whosoever | | then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever | disesse he had.” “Just now,"” the preacher said, “church circles are greatly agitated over a sute-‘ | meat by Dr. Jordan of Stanford Univer- | sity. Inacasual reference to emotional religion, at Berkeley, Dr. Jordan said : | A revival of religion in which men losa | | thetr reason is a form of drunkenness no | | more worthy of respect thaa tho kind which | | les fu the gutters, | This would seem to be a reasonabls | | statement, amply substantiated by the | | observations of those who have witnessed the hysterical excitement produced by | professional revivalists. It was qualified the following day by these words: The normal aim of a revival of religion is to | bring the varions impulses of life {uto hare | mony and 10 fix the will to high purposes | | rather than low ones. It shouid build up noble ideas in the place of vagrant dreams. Such revivals of religion rarely take place in | a crowd or undel the influence of & profe sioual revivallst. | Tue so-calied revival of religion too often | alims et productag a temporary manis. 1 | tries to destroy the balance of life, to elimi- | nate common sense and to substitute hyprotic | suggestion for the conscience and the wiil. | 1ts phenomena are those of hysteria or cata- leptic insauity. Its victims rarely wholly re- | cover and are as likely to enter tae prison or the madhouse when the hypnotic spell bas | passed as they are to become healtny members of society, Pure religion and undeflled works fself out in righteous action,while tne destruc- | tion of the sober miud, whether through | drunkenness, narcotism or religious exeit ment, is a step on the road to spiritual death. | | “We are apt to discuss a statement of | this kind from the standpoint of our re- | | | ligious prejudices or prepossessions. It | has accordingly aroused a storm of hostile | criticism, and orthodox ministers have | forgotten the example of the gentie Mas- | | ter whom they worship and have brought | |a ‘railin: accusation’ against President Jordan for Garing to have an opinion of | his own.”” Mr. Wells then proceeded to examine the queston of revivals and the super- naturalism claimed to beinvolved in their | production, and also the phenomenon | called conversion. A true revival of re- | ligion—meaning a new influx of life—was, | | ha said, a good ihing; the modern revival, ‘ | however, was & combination of influences | —ot choras choirs, of moving music, of ; fervent prayers, of enthusiastic speech, calcu ated to produce excitement. ““The appeal,” he continued, “‘is to the | emotions. ‘ | “Tne presence of a crowd powerfully stimulates the feelings. You cannot be quite as cool in the midst of a crowd as you can in your parlor. Given s crowd and a strong_ personality on the platform and the nightly gatberings will Toll up ex- citement as the schoolboy’s ball of snow gathers bulk and weight. The product may be good or evil according axit is a re- vival of the higher or lower elements 1n | | when | ology of the Mind,” if you desire to inves- | | they are philosophically explicable on | mations. religion. There have been revivals of fe | multitudes bave been seized with religious panic; there bave been revivals of love and hope, in which multitudes | have shouted and praved in an ecstacy of | emotion that was chiefly sensnous; there | have been revivals of superstition, ii that of witcheraft in early New nd. He cited several curious historicai in- | stances of epidemics of hysteria pro- | moted by example, especiully among | women, and asserted that the excitament | of revivals, the crowds at the “mourners’ bench’ and “instantaneous conversions’ belonged to this category. “They are so regarded,” said he, by President Andrew D. White in his valu- able work on ‘The Wariare of Science With Theology.” Head Carpenter’s ‘Men- | tal Physiology’ and Mandsley's ‘Paih- tigate the subject. 3 “That every great revival has an inju- rious moral result I very strongly believe. Great siress is laid upon instantaneous conversion, but such sn_experience is for ! the most part mere emotional excitement. It is found, to be sure, in isolated cases, but generally in groups. It is like the | measies or the mumps—it is catching. | “It involves some mental action and | some action of the will, ana 30 is iound in individual cases, but chiefly religious ex- | periences of this kind occur in revivals | and break out like an cpidemic. They are | supposed to have a miraculous root, and | to be the action of the divine spint, But wholly natural grouuds. To use a philo- sophical term, they are who ly subjuctive phenomena, like the faith cures we hear of.” Mr. Wells criticized the contentions of | the revivalists at further lengtn, and ex- | plained what he conceived to be the true meaning of religion. He concluded: “We | may not care for the old forms of faith or | the old-time methods of winning assert to | them and yet bold to the sanctities of reli-, | gious life. We may object to revivals as | irrational, yet believe in a personal rela- | tion batween ourselves and the Infinite | ather. Itis the business of every man | to cultivate the worshipful, the reveren- | tial, the tender and the spiriiualsideof | his nature, and enter into the higher | forms of religion, thus recognizing the eternal nature of religion while confessing the changes going on in human thuught as the universe enlarges around him.” Rational Revival. | At Golden Gate Hall Rev. Harold Bolce : of the new Cosmopolitan Church spoke of | the kind of revival which he and his co- | workers hope to bring aboat. His subject | was “The Rational Revival in Religion.” He prefaced his address with a histori cal analysis of the world’s greatest refor- These wera brought about, he urgued, by some superior mind seeing | through the mass of tangle of forms and | ceremonies which had grown up about the | religion of his day—the germ of truth which was at the ba-e of all religions. He would urge this simpie truth untila | new sect wouid arise and cast aside the | obscuring ceremonials, but gradually the new school of belief would assume cere- monials to which 1t would give more ana more importsnce. Then another reformer | organization in existence. | acter. | Tighteousness. | to Dr. Jordan. would arise, but always the same germ of truth was the inspiration. ““We believe that the world is upon the eve of & new reformation,” he said, *a reformation of thought in religious mat- ters. Everywhere men are looking above ceremonies and sects. The curve of the pulpit is too narrow to embrace the world., “Your love of humanity, your Chris- tianity, your trust in immortality does not depend on history. Imagine all the stories of the Bible to be fables jritten by clever dreamers. This belief would have no effect upon a true Christian. If you could prove Jesus Christa myth and his sayings the work of exalted dreamers, it would not shake my fuith in the inspired thought contained in those pages. “*The infinite is not the head of a sect. Wherever man is doing good for hi fel- low-man he is laying giits upon God’s altar.” The speaker then outlined his plans for the establishment of the Cosmopolitan Church. He conceived that this could be made broader and more tolerant than any It was not his intention to form a sect antagonistic to any scientific or raligions society. His idea was to institute a society where rep- resentatives of all schoois of thought might meet in the common work of up- Iifting mankind, ‘By th s means,” he said, *‘representa- tives of various denominations would not be hurling anathemas at each other upon the quotation, often impe:fecily, of pirt of an address in a_newspaper. iiere they could meet and discuss their differences with dignity.” Mr. Bolce believed that when the expo- nents of the ideas he advocated could make people see that they were thor- oughly in earnest they would have no difficulty in receivinz material back- ing to erect a commodious and artistic hall in the contral portion of the City. Here it is designed to have upliiting entertainments not once a week, a8 in the churches, but every after- noon and evening. These would not be exclusively religious, but would be de- voted to art, science and other subjects calcuiated to result in the betterment of mankind. The Monitor's Gomment. The following appears in the current number of the Monito ROWDY REVIVALS. Dr. Jordan of Stanford being the president of a nou-sectarian institution 1s privileged to pitch into the sacred customs of our dear iriends the Methodists. Among that godly people the revival possesses a sacrosarct char- It 1s the beginning, the foundation of He who wouid attack it is to | them us proiane us he who laid unhallowed hands on tne ark of the covenant. We wonder what will the brethren say now He has described the revival 5 “‘a real drunkenness and no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness of the gui- tar.” The Rev. Dr. Dille and the Rev. Dr. Case have, it 1s true, spurred into the arena to defend tue pecuiiur manifestations of their creed, but nobody minds them. Itis & common error among the secular newspapers to desciibe a ‘‘mission” in a Catholic church as a revival. There is abso- lutely no similarity between them. The mis- sion is a sad_sober refiection on the truihs of faith, the revival is a wild delirium and frenzy like unto that which seizes on the Mus- sulman at the sight of the pejamas of the Prophet. BUTLER'S SUNDAY | | PASSES QUIETLY. | | An Uncle of Arthur Preston Visits the Accused Man. Hz Will Be Examined by Com- missioner Heacock To- Day. The R fugee From Australia Has Preserved a Cool Demeanor Ex- cept on One Occasion. Frank Butler, the supposed monster of the Australian bush, will be removed from | his cell in the City prison at 8:30 to-day | and placed in the prisoners’ room in the building. A. x. United States Commis- cock will bear the evidence | | sioner H. will present for the British Government against the prisoner, after which the ques- | tion will be decided whether there is evi- | | dence enough to justify sending Butler to Australia. The proceedings will in no sense be a trial, the function of the court being to decide whether there is probable | cause to believe that Butler has committed the crime charged, and that he is the same person for whom warrants are now issued in Australia. Atiorneys Stone and Pidwell will ap- pear for the prisoner and contest every step of the proceedings for their client. It is not believed that any substantial part of tle real defe will come to light to- duy. Butler bas been almost as uncom- municetive to his attorneysas to the pub- Lic at large. Throughoutthe entire ordeal since biv arrest the man charged with so many fiendish murders has preserved calm demeanor. He seems absolutely void of imngination and the ordinary emotions. T ere has been but one time since hisarnval h re when he appeured to be moved for an instant. That was when Captain Lees showed bim the S8ydney Mail containing piciures of the rescuing party that discovered the bodies of Preston and Weller, together with the pictures of the dead men and some Dbits of scenery contiguous to the lonely spot where the murders were com- mitted. Butier glanced nervously at the pic- tures, grew a little pale, and those who viewed him closely saw that bis hand trembled. With this exception, there has been no break in the dull monotony of the accused man’s calm demeanor. Tne prisoner was with Captain Lees and two ex-sergeants of the Canadian | | Northwest mounted police for two hours yesterday. Questioned about his life prior to 1891 Butler persistently declined to speak, say. ing that he respected the feelings of his family. “If anything is to befall me,” he said, “it is best that my family never know it. It would do me no good to speak of my past so they would know who Iam,and I shall not speak, at least to-day.” Several hundred people saw Butler yes- | terday and to all he was courteous. He seemed to Miss Thomas Edwards, the trusty who has been in the same cell since last Friday, Butler was not in a very communicative mood yesterday when John Preston Sr., uncie of young Arthur Presion, who was murderea, called upon bim. He seemed | embarrassed, and several times was on the point of making a statement, but would check himself and stat off on an- other subject. To Mr. Preston he ad- mitted having known bis nephew, but as- serted that he had no hand whatever in his death. Pressed to teli all he knew about the movements of the murdered man prior to the tragedy, he gave an evasive answer and said he would give Mr. Preston ail the information he wanted in contidence” beiore he left San Fran- cisco. Asked if he had any memento of Ar-| thur Preston among his effects, Butler | said be had not, but he t ought that | ‘'some friends that Preston had made in New South Wales had one or two trink- ets.” Further than this the man ac- cused of murder would not go, and Mr. Presion had to content himsel! with the assurance that Butler or Ashe would tell him all he knew ‘before leaving Sun Francisco.”" “That man knows all tne particulars about how Arthurcame to hisdeath,’” said Preston 8r. “Whether he murdered him or not remains to be seen, and I suppose it will come out at the trial. It is very poor satisfaction, but I would Itke to know sl the particulars of the boy’'s death. Batler is not a man that is giving much information away. He has a cool head and I doubt very’ much whether he will tell me anything at all. I willcall on him again and if I cinnot find anything eise I may find outl where any litiie odds and ends of mv dead nephew's belongings can be found.” Preston feels confident that Butler will at least give him some satisfaction before bLe leaves San Francisco; but the chances are that the prisoner will give him some ‘fairy tale’” that wiil prove to be false in every pacticular. Butler now denies that he was a mem- ber of te Northwest mouanted nolice jorce during the Rie! rebellion in 1885, althouch admitting that he, in conversaiion with a reporter of THE CALL on Saturday night, said that he was a member of Troop B and was stationed at Qu'Appelle Crossing with Major Short. 1 Butler was not a member of the force he knows a good deal about the Riel re- bellion and the Northwest Territories. In speaking o Major Short, who was in command of *‘A’’ Battery of artillery aur- ing the rebellion, which came from Quebee to take part in iis suppressing, he said | that when the mounted police joined him at Qu’ Appelle crossing the major looked at them critically and remarked: “You look Like dandies. You bave come here to fight not 10 show yourselves off,’” ““You know,” said Butler, “‘we nad pipe- clayed our beits and looked ‘spick and span and it angered the major,” and he laughed heartily #s he spoke of the incident. Then Butler mentioned that Major Short was, shortly after tie rebeliion, kill"d by a powder explosion in ths NEW 70-DAY. thousands. Why not let it cure you? New cures are reporied daily Here Is auother: DR. A. T. SANDEN—Dear €ir: sufferer for about five years. befng i doctors had tifed to cure me without prod uclag Any unil I tried your kleeiric Beit. fou' d out since my nervousness and pal ble This ustonisied me as weil Every ons knows me in 8acram Classes of Men.” It 1§ ocket edition, and will do we 1 to send for th you ean call and consult ihe old doctor. and see the Belt, or send for the book to ¥or a long tim: Kidney Disease, with great pain in the back as Weil as other parts of the bo s my friends, but it Is truly I have Ill"mn: meomm: ddl \‘ou:‘ H!IKY 0 my l’rlann ure cure and does its work we 1and qu ckly. Your gatefal 1 oG E. HIMMEL 1215 1 bird street, Saeramento, PAIN IN THE BACK! YV HEN YOU ARE TROUBLED WITI A CON- tinual pain {n the back or & dull, heavy sensation, together with a stiffaess, so that it rquires an effort o straighte: upirom a stoop- ing position, you can make up your mind it is time for you to look seriously to your health. Such symptoms may be a warning of coming lumbago, rheumatism or kidney irouble. You wil do well to heed the warning of nature, and to assist her in restoring you (o & healihy, normal condition. DR. SANDEVS ELECTRIC BELT Has won a reputation for restoring weak kidneys @1 relleving paiu In the back. it has cured SACRAMENTO, « AL, January 18, 1897. I bave been trested by various doctors for 1 have been a great Tibly nervout d affli ted with severe rheumatism also. The wticial results, and I was 0ot abie 10 find relief ‘After woarl.g It only One wees my puin was ull remove d I have permaneutly cured, us I have had no return'of the tron 8 I am wiliing and giud to t Cal Dr. Sanden has Jately published another edition of his celebreted book, entitled “Three 'will be sent, seaied, iree to any address. You book, if you are weak or aiiing. Oi course, if you live in town, Yor. "His advice is itee and will be of value to you. ' Call SANDEN ELECTRIC CO.. 632 MARKET ST., OPPOSITE PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO. rs—8 A. M. 10 8:30 P. M. ; Sundays, o ertion OF. 20 hver, Colo., 933 Sixteenth streeh DN0LL—auke 50 Mmisiake i e BUMDCI—ES S Naiker sifece wey; Portland, Or., 253 Washington street; 10 tol. Los Angeles Office 204 South Broad. Quebec citadel, which was a fact known to the reporter 1o whom he was speaking. In confirmation ot Butler's statement on Tuesday afternoon when some police- men were ialking to him in the City Prison he said 1o one of them, Policeman | cz]:’og_an; “I was once a policeman my- self. “Where?" asked Coogan, and Butler | replied, “In Canada.’ A reporter of THE CALy saw Butler the | following day and usked nim if he had | been in Canada. He replied that he haa | andi n answer to further questions he said | he was more familiar witn Mauitoba and whe Northwest than any other part of the | dominion. He knew Quebec city, how- | ever, and said he was tnere during a rfo | :bat'occurred one Sunday over a skating rink peing started. “That was in 1889,” said the reporter. “No,” replied Butler, “it wasin 1888,” | and be was correct; it was during the win- ter of 1888, ‘There were other incidents that he re- ferred to Saturd niznt that led to the conviction he was telling the truth. He | now probably sees that there is every chance of his place of birth ana real name teing disogeered, as it would be on record | at the mounted police headquarters in | Kegina, the cavital of the Northwest, and | he is now anxious to save himself from | this exposure by denying that he was a | member of the force. | Captain Lees was for some days in| possession of information that ied him to believe that Butler had been in the North- | west rebellion as a mounted policeman, | and had joined tne forcein 1884. The information he is keeping to himself, but yesterday he wrote a long letter to Colonel Herchmer, Commissioner of the mounted volice at Regina, detailing what he had iearned and euclosing a picture of Batler in the hope that it would lead to his identification. He is supposea to have enlisted in 1834 for three years, and the probavility is that alier serving his term he went to Quebec, and sailed from there to some other country. WANTED—A NEW RELIGION Professor Griggs Tells the Socialists That Is the Need of the Time. Edward Howard Griggs, professor of | ethics at Stanford University, delivered Jast evening what was declared by nearly all of the dozen speakers who followed to be the best lecture delivered before the Socialist Labor Party in many month: Al reflecting students of modern civil- ization,” said the speaker, ‘*have been im- pressed with tbe rapidly increasing dis- turbance in our social and industrial wor.d during the decades immediately past. Prevalent throu:hout Europe they have grown promiuent in ourown land | within a few years. This condition was wholly unanticipated in our land, gov- erned by the people and where each is supposed to have an equal opportunity, According to the point of view this or that | political party has been charged as re- sponsible for it. Partly this may be true, but the s-at is deeper that the measures of any political party. ** The complications of civilization has increased with amazing rapidity during the past few years, thus the probiem with which we deal becomes mostintricate con- stantly.”” The social crisis, he said, was the key to the industrial crisis. “There is no hope of solving the latter unless we solve the former. The industrial prob- lem, the condition of poverty and wealth, increasing so constantly in seriousness, rests back for their ultimate cause upon the type of lile which we seek and upon our social attitude as individuals. In | other words, our essential problem is pro- foundly ethical and reiigious, widely as that fact is irnored et G L SANBORY, VAIL & Co. do all kinds of printing | and engraving. Visiting cards, invitations, us and crests. Sole agents for Berk- g papers. Depot for ““Water- Crown” and “Ideal” fountain HIRSCHBACH BENEFIT, | Musical Stars Will Appear for the Well- | Known Conductor, Who Is | Very I A committee, consisting of Elvia Crox Seabrooke, Annie Su Edmond Rosner, Carl Martens, Ferris Hartman, John J. Raffael, W. H. Leahy and George E. Lask, has arranged a benefit to Joseph Hirsch bach, the weli-known musical director, who is very ill with a heart and lung trouble. The benefit will take place at the Tivoli Opera-house on Thursday afternoon, February 25. A special bill, including the appearance of Guille, the tenor; Mlle. Trebelli, the contralto; Signor Abramoff, the b and Yves Reneynton, the soprano, to; with an orchestra of filty from the Union, will be features. The Tivoli will contribute Von Suppe’s one act operetta ‘Pygma ion and Galatea” with Rbys Thomas, W. H. West, Eivia Crox Seabrooke and Bernice Holmes in the cast, also George E. Lask’s apropos op-r- atic’ bagatede “Waanted a Singer,” with Ferris Hartman, Maurice Darcy, fred Kavanagh, Arthur Boyce, Walter Oham- berlain, Marcel Parron, H. V. Shentz, Anna Schnabel, Jennie Stockmeyer, Gracie Gray, Vers Werden, Sophie Stew- nnz;nd Master Jack Robertson in the cast. " Other_volunteers will later. Sea's will usical be announced be on sale at the bo NEW TO-DAY. There is money in Sc/i/- ling’s Best tea for you and for your grocer. There's money - back for you too—yes, and your grocerdoesn’tlose anything either; we pay him. A Sclilling & Company San Francisco ——————————————————— FEW T0-DAY—aMUSEMENTS. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUS : MEsERNksTINE KREr N Proprietor & Manager —TO-NIGEIT AT 8 sy OUR UP-TO-DATE EXTRAVAGANZA, ALADDIN, Or, THEE WONDERFUL LAMP. Mirth, Music, Ballet and Beauty. GREAT CAST! NOVEL SPECIALTIES! The Cleopatra Ballet! Dance of Houscho!d Divinities! The Latest Sensation. “La Danse des Fleurs Klectriques!' Popula- Pricas. Sa ana Sl nt R’\CING! RACING! RACING! —CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB— WINTER MEETING, 1896-'97 Beginning Monday, Feb. 8, to Feb. 30, Inclusive. OAKLAND HACE TRACK, Racing Jonday, Tuesdny, Wednesday, ‘Ahursday, Friday and Saturday. Kainor ~hine. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. —Ruces Start ac 2:15 P. M. Sharp— Ferry Boats lrave San Franclsco at 12 . and 12:80,1 .00, 1:80, 2:00, 2:30 and 8 p. M. connect- ing wiia trains stopping at the entrance 1o track. Buy your ferry tickels 16 Shell Mound. Returning—Truins leave the Track at 4:15 anl 4345 . a. and immediately after the Iast race. THOMAS #i. WILLIAMS JR, President R. B. MILROY, Secretary. | them in the same h Naked Pills are fit only, for naked sav- ages. Clothes are the marks of civilization—in piils as well as people. A good coat does not make a good pill, any more than good clothes make agood man. But as sure as youd look on a clothesless man as a mad one, you may look on a coatless pill as a bad one. After fifty years of test mo pills stand higher than AYER’S Cathartic Pills SUGAR COATED. office after the 19 h. Tickets can bs procured {rom members of the committee. PATRONAL FEAST. Solemn High Mass and Sermon in Com- mewmoration of St. Bridget. The patronal feast of St. Bridget's Church was fittingly observed yesterday forenoon. At 11 o'clock & solemn high mass was celebrated by Father Cottle, celebrant, assisted by Father Ryan, dea- con, and Father McKinnon, subdeacon. Father McKinnon delivered rhe sermon, which was a eraphic account of the life of St. Brideet, from which he pointed many lessons of piety and patience. The music for the occasion was rendered by a special choir under the direction of Joseph Roeckel and Mme. Ellen Coursen- Roeckel. The vocal numbers were accom- panied by A. F. Johannsen on the violin. The church was appropristely decorated. Smee T e ¥gyptian Wonders. The first of a series of three lectures to be delivered by Rev. Haskett Smith of London, Eng., will take place at the Association Audi- torium, Mason_and Eilis streets, next Friday evening on “The Mysteries and Marvels ot Modern Egyot.” He will leciure at the same plave Monday evening, February 15, and the S e 4 Bigamis‘s in Hungary are comvelled to submit to an odd punishment. The man who has been silly enough to marry two wives is lezally forced to live with both of NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER. ALHAYMAN & (0. (Incornoraced).... . PROpeisast Twaq Weeks--Every Evening Including Sun~ day, Mat, Sat.~ Commencing To-night. THE EMINENT ACTOR. MR. LOUIS JAMES Supported by Guy Lindlev, Alma Kruger and a superlor company. uuder the management of agenbals & Kemper. ALL THIS WEERK SPARTACUS A Dagnificent Scenic Revival of Dr. Bird's Famous Prize Play. A Carload of Special Scenery. Fifcy People on the Stage. SECOND WEEK—®)y Lord and Some La{es (the first time ln San Francisco); “Hamiet” and Ot hello.” TO-MORROW NIGHT! THE MUSICAL EVENT Of the Season. FIRST APPEARANCE OF MLLE. TREBELLI! The Famous Prima Donna Soprano, AT THE CALIFORNIA THEATER. o Tuesday Evening, February 9, At 8:15 0°Clock, Assisted by Gustav Hinrichs’ Symphony Orchestra! SEATS NOW ON SALE. PRIOES .50c, $1, 81.50 o, TRICDLANIER.GOTTLOD & ¢o- Le33ts ATD MATACERS -+~ AND OF THE ALL GREATEST 1s CHARLE§ HOPPER ™ 4 TO-INIGEIT. The one distinct novelty of the year. Five months in New ork. One month i3 Chicago. One month in Philadelphia. One month in Boston. OR! AL COMPANY, INCLUDING George ash, Beth Franklyn, Jonn Flood, Beren ce Wheeler, Svdney Pric Irene Viaucour:, Wiil Cowper, Fanny Denham-Rouse, W. H'Sh ldon, Parney Reynolds, J. &, Furiong, Harry Rawlins. W. P. Motiere. Al the Original Scenery and Effocts. Attraction to Follow—FANSY RICk. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTER MOROSCO...Sols Lesses and Manazo: FIRST PRODUCTION ON THIS COAST Of the Sensational Comedy-Drama, *“A MILE A MINUTE!” 1n Which an Engine and 1 onder Dash Across the Stage at Fuil Speed. Firs Appearance of the Twn Great Quartets, PHENIX QUART KNOCKABOUT FOUR HONGS! DANCES! SPECIALTIE Evenine Prices—Loc, Matinees Marie Bates, —First Time Here of— ARA, ZELEA AND \ORA. Equilibrisis "aud Pedepalisis, and JOHN and BLRTHA GLEASO elty Dancers, remendous Success warn an T T A 5 F‘ufi\’fln‘. THE THE CHUTES. EVERY AFTEENOON AND EVEVING. ORDWAY, Trick Bicycle Rider. The ANIMATOSCOPF aud a Host of Attractions aUnight, Admission, 10¢; Lhiidren, b FRANTZ FAMILY and Novelties without end. Heserved sea:s. ¥5¢; Lalcony, 10¢; Opera-chairs Concerts by the Royal Huncarian Court Or- chestra immediately afier the evening perform. ALCAZAR| z23:2Es: [, TO-NIGHT! uo Glilette’s Funniest Comedy. L4 ”» “THE PROFESSOR! Beautiful Sceuery Every hing Perfect! J. B. PULK aod the Ent.re Company Open Daily From 7 A. 4. to 6 2. M. thing, Inciuding Admission—Adules . = 25e, Children 2vc. and box-seats, SUc. ance in the Orphieum Annex. ntmuous Koar of Laughter! Come and See the Professor’s Specimens. Our Reguiar Prices. Puons for Seats—Biack 991 Swimming Season 1897. General Adwission, 10¢; Children, Ses