The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1897 has been of great bemefit to California. The convention is becoming ioo cosmo- politan, too large to handle, and will soon have to be divided into divisions. Mrs. R. T. Osborne, Detroit— It has ghown us the magnitude of the organiza- tion and made us realize the good it is do- Sirs. B. F. Sawtell, New York—It has brought us nearer to Jesus Christ. Miss D. A. Williams, Elmira, N. Y.—It as taught us that our home missions need looking after as much if not more han the foreign. A. D. Harmon, president of the Ne- braska Union—It has brought about a deepening of spiritnality and an awaken- 2 of increased zeal in missionary worl Kate E. Johnson, Winters, Cal.—Faith has been greatly strengthened in us. Qar earts are full of the praise of Christ. Ex-Congressman Marion Cannon, Ven- a— It has broadened the ideas of Caristian arches, broken down the idea of sect. take such action sure honesty and integri Rev. A. B. Philputt, president of the Pennsylvania Union— San Francisco and the Pacific Slppe ave been shown the proportion of re- ous zeal which bas been awakened in State affairs as to as- ¢ in office. ladelphia, i the East by the C ment. San Franci world how to receive a great convention. e gttt PAVILION OPEN. blic Invited to Inspect the Decorations. Those in charge of the various booths | haye been requested to allow the booths | decorations to remain as the, until atter the concert on Tuesday even- g The building will be open ali Tuesday, and the public are cordiall vited to inspect it. Those who may have been unable to accept the invitation on Saturday may t convenient to come to-day, and may be red ofa good opportu- arrangements which have ronounced so perfect by those setent to judge. Californla arters particularly are deserving of r h they will be practically because of Oakland da will take awa the ,en- 1ty contingent. n'charge of the concert tire Alameda Co The committ The organization will eventually | it ! has found it necessary to reserve snother section, amounting in all to about 425 | seats. These will be on sale to-day. Gen- | eral tickets of admission will ba on sale {at 50 cents each at the Pavilion to-nigut. | All those having reserved-seat tickets will |apply for entrance at the Grove-street | doors, and thus avoid the crowd at the main entrance, which will be the only door where tickets of general admission will be accepted. A corps of ushers, selected from those | who have served during the convention, will be in attendance and will doubtless handle the matter of seating with the | same facility and ease which has charac- terized thefr work during the entire series | of meetings. It should be distinetly un- | derstood that the unused tickets for the | concert on July 6 will not admit to the | concert this evening. They must be ex- | changed for the tickets which have been prepared for this date. bl b SIGHT-SEEING. | Plans for the Entertainment of the Delegates. To-day the sight-seeing expeditions be- | gin. Over 6000 Oaklana tickets have been issued to Eastern delecates. These will pass the pleasure-seekers cver the ferry and over the various streetcar lines in Alameda County, provided they wear tate Christian Endeavor badges other than those of California. The Alameda County Industrial Expo- sition has been opened for a week, and everything is in shape for iuspection. No trip into the interior of the county and through the various cities could give any such idee of the resources of the county as | will a few hour#’ visit at the exposition. The doors are wide open to all these bear- | ing State badges or carrying the tickets. | Theride around the loop through Ala- | meda, over the scenic Leona Heights line, the Piedmont Gravity line, or the Berke- | ley road may be enjoyed by the visitors. | The Pennsylvania delegation will start early for Monterev. They will remain there over night and take the eighteen- | mile drive. Kree guides will still be fur- ni-hed by the Chinese Christian En- | deavor societies for those who have not | seen Chinatown. The Cliff House and the park will have attraction for many | others. | _One hundred of the Massachusetts En- | deavorers will leave for the Yosemite to- A PIONEER IN * FLOATING” WORK. s A. P. Jones Tells How the Gospel Is Spread Among Marines by Christian Endeavorers. of Christian work enters and far-reaching »ating socieiies of Christian )t much that is historical, jescriptive of this mission- ong mariners has happened The “romance to the quiet largely to come t but Miss A. P. Jones of Falmouth, the founder and head of the wor! y privately yesterday. The waves are “stony ground’’ for the ze r surely, and a ship’s foc's! alous sowe are earnest devoted Christian men scrub- bing decks, serving guns and reefing sails on many naval and merchant vessels or serving as officers thereon. their Christian fortitude a good deal, but stick bravely to their faith and they tian Endeavor work but noticeable change s floating Ch has made a small in some directions, Think of prayer mestings in the fighting tops of Unce Sam’s battle-ships! Well, on the Massa- chusetts, Indiana and Oregon the fighting tops are the favorite retreats for a little season of prayer. The naval constructors have not yet provided chapeis cn men-of- war, and there is small chance for one or three or four devoted men to retire for quiet prayer about the decks. So the withdraw to tne fighting tops, a hundred feet or so above all scoffers, and kneel behind the armored rims beside the Hotcbkiss gun. A quariermaster and a seaman have de- scribed this experience in letters to Miss Jones. Someiimes they go up alone and tometimes three or four will hold a pray r | service there. On meychant vessels bosn’s locker is sometimes used. .On last Easter morning the few Chris- tian men on the Minneapohs, 2float in the Mediterranean, attended a communion service directed by the cuaplain in an eight-inch-gun room, and the gun car- Tiage was the communion table. ‘““The navy for Christ” is the spirit of floating endeavor. “Comfort bags” are a feature of the work. They are pretty bags, like a grand- mother’s workbag, about 8x9 inches in size, with a drawstring, and into each one goes a testament with alot of passages marked, a Christian letter from the donor, needies and thread, scissors, wax, patches, courtplaster, vaseline, bandages, pins. buttons, etc. They are often n.ade up by ladies in Indiana or Kansas, who have never seen a sailor and who send them to the floating Endeavor society at some port. Twenty are coming from Kentucky to Tacoma now. They are received with keen appreciation. Then when sailors leave one port for a distant one carrying any man who is a Christian or in whom a floating society is interosted the society at bis destination, if there is one, is written to to look after and welcome him. Boys from Liverpool who are now afloat will be looked up when their ships arrive here. Sailors the { the front during the conven- | s a thorny field for religious zeal and | tian devotion, but for all that there | It cultivates | | are often asked to homes at the ports they find themselves in. Membership is recognized wherever a Floating Endeavor Socieiy exists, and the seafaring member of a society in China is welcomed as a member in Philadelphia, Literature is collected and distributed. This work was organized accidentally, and then “just growed.” In May, 1890, the United States revenue cutter Dexter was at Woods Holl, Mass., near Fal- mouth, and some Christian men on board sked Miss Jones, an active Christian Endeavor worker, for 4 Christian pledge of some form. Father Clark consented that the Christian Endeavor pledge and ted to the needs of lite, and her adaptation was adopted on the Dexter, on which a society | of sixteen members was formed, including the first lieutenant, now Captain Kilgore. Three days later a little group of sailors | 1n the merchant marine service asked to be aliowed to organize the same way. It was a year before it reached the navy. From this beginning the Christian En- | deavor work grew on the waters slowly bu naturally, for 1t appealed strongly to the devoted few here and there among sea- faring men. As it took in size 2nd shape the work became an organized one, The | work is now organized in twenty Ameri- | can ports, including San_Francisco, San | Diego, Santa Barbara, Whatcom, Aber- | deen, Hoquiam, Tacoma, Eureka and | Portland on this coast, and in six | foreign ports. The organ zation is two- fold—the regular ‘‘floating societies’’ on land composed largely of Endeavorers in- terested in this field of missionary work and the societies on individual ships. The latter are always small, and through the constant changes of sea life are generally transient. Tuere are societies on abou! thirty vessels from battle-ships to sponge- fishing boats. From the heginning about 5000 seafaring men have signed the pledge. In the navy there are societies on the Massachusetts, Oregon, Indiana, Minne- apolis and Thetis. The organization of a society on the Charleston on the high seas in 1894 resulted in the Christian En- ), W I I deavor Sailors’ Home at Nagasaki. In the merchant service are many little “‘prayer circles” and regular correspondence and 1eports are kept up. Much has been done among the fishing vesseis of the Atlantic. All naval vessels have chaplains, but the chaplain is an *‘officer” and the sea- men are only men, so there is a gulf there thac cannot be bridged to establish genu- ine fellowship with the chaplain. The Christian Endeavor societies accomplish this, and when officers are members the barriers of rank disappear in the meetings. “A bumboatman at Philadelphia,” said Miss Jones, “‘toid me that five years ago it was a rare thing to find a Christian man in the naval service, but that now it was not a rare thing to see a Christian En- deavor pin on a sailor's uniform. With very few exceptions the masters and offi- cers of shins encourage this work. A number of them bave told me that they notice a change in the sentiment and at- titude of seamen toward Christian work since they can see more of it They show who affiliate with these floating societies more respect and more readily accept kindnesses from Christian workers.” e L1 s 3 ReUiley SSsseoo=o: LR O T CEELES W v WY ) T CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS VIEW THE CITY HALL DOME. The concert in the dome of the new City Hall yesterday afternoon was one of the attractions provided for the enter- tainment of the Endeavorers, and a large number of them enjoyed it. The crowd was not a stationary.one, but kept moving, so more people heard parts of the concert than could be accommodated in the rotunda and galleries at one time. The orches- tra, under the direction of John Marquardt, occupied the large bandstand in the center of the rotunda and rendered the fol- lowing programme: March, from the opera ‘“Queen of Sheba” (Gounod); overture, “Festival’’ (Weber), closing with the anthem “America’”; “Ave Maria,” for orchestra and harp (Schubert), arranged for his orchestra by John Marquardt; waltzon themes from ‘Hansel and Gretel” (Humper- dinck); grand opera fantasie, “Lohengrin” (Wagner); (a) “The Lost Chord,” (b) “Graceful Dance” (Sullivan); grand opera fantasie, “Mar. tha” (Fiotow); “The Nightless Land” (Pinsuti); “Sounds From the Metropolitan Opera Season” (Beyer), potpourri—it opens with tho march from Meyerbeer’s “Le Prophet ski’s opera “Boabdil’; “Evening Star, Pagliaccl,’ followed by “Intermezzo” from *‘Cavalleria Rusticana,’”” by Mascagni; ballet music from Moszkow- song from Wagner’s “Tannhauser’’; march, “Nibelungen’; “Intermezzo,” from Leoncavallo’s “I and finale overture *“Tell,” by Rossini; grand medley of American airs (Moses). In the evening another concert was given and the arc lights in the upper dome were lighted, showing the beautiful stained glass 1o good advantage. A brief address was made by Mayor Phelan, which was as follows: Ladiesand Gentlemen: On behalf of the City Hall Commission I am pleased to accept the finished dome of the new City Hall. This practically completes the work of construction which, having been begun in 1872, with many interruptions has continued up to this time, This is no place nor time for eriticism, but it is the judgment of people competent to know that the design and construction of this rotunda and dome is the most creditable part of the work of this great public building. The honor of the design is aue to the architect, Frank T. Shes, and Commissioners Creswell and Broderick. To the contractors, who have consclentiously carried out the specifications, much praise is due. So far as possible the materials entering into the construction have been of California production or manufacture, and the beautiful marbles which you see come from Mono, Inyo, Amador and San Diego counties and are fine and decorative. The art glass, iron, steel and bronze are California manufacture. The City is therefore to be congratulated, not only that the work, after this long lapse of time, has been finished, but that it has been finished so well. It is & matter of curious interest that in this dome California now possesses as a work of man, in harmony with the gigantic works of nature, the highest dome upon the American continent, it being 335 feet from the curb line to the flame of Freedom's torch, It is therefore thirty feet higher than the dome of the National Capitol. So Mount Whitney in the field of nature and the City Hall in the field of art overtop any similar eminences in the whole United States. The dome and the rotunda are estimated by the architect to have cost $£420,000, which he states to be the most economically built structure of its proportions in the world. This part of the building was finished in less than three years’ time. It is the City’s intention 10 establish & fire-alarm service in the upper galleries of the dome, which are invisible from this point, 5o that alarms may be immediately sounded, the dome commanding the business and manufacturing sections, as well as a large part of the residential district. “The dome Atself is a great adornment to the City, inspiring the citizens with a just pride in their municipal In all countries civilized people endeavor to express the beautiful, the durable and the useful in their public united in this structure. building. 8o, utility and beauty are works, and San Francisco is therefore not backward when we regard the lines, the elevations, the material and the workmanship of the central dome of the City Hall, pal entrance. From the rotunda the corridors radiate into the building itself, and hence this will hereafter be its princi- Let us express the hope that the administration of public affairs by the chosen servants of the people, who daily will pass 10 their respective tasks through so beantiful an entrance, will oe influenced by the perfection of art, the economy of construction and the satisfaction and reward of duty well done, for which this dome will stana forever as & monument to all those—designer, commission, con- tractors and laborers—who were honorably associated in its construction. day. Friday night another hundred of that delegation will leave for the same destination. The Tennessee Endeavorers will _spend three days around the bey and on Friday will leave for Los Angeles, where they will spend Sunday on their way home. Part of the Vermont delegation will go home to-day. Many will visit Monterey. They will visit Los Angeles this week, Yosemite next week and start for home July 26. The Vermont Association of this City will give a reception 1o the visiting Vermonters next Friday evening. ‘Wednesday is S8an Jose day, ana thou- sands are planning to visit the Santa Clara Valley on that day. Thursday the visitors will be entertained at Santa Rosa. VISITED BERKELEY. Many Endeavorers Pay a Call Upon the College Town. BERKELEY, CaAwn, July-12.—During the day about 500 Endeavorers visited the State University, coming to Berkeley in parties of from five to twenty. L'he library was open and the young visitors were shown about through the halls and al- coves. Through their presence the grounds presented the busiest scene on the campus since the close of the univer- sity in May. Large numbers are expected to-morrow from among those who wiil be entertained in Oakland. The 5000 passes over the streetcar lines in Oakland, which were given out to-day to be used to-morrow, will entitle fhe Endeavorers to free rides to Berkeley over voth the Telegraph-avenue and Grove- street systems. AT THE PRESIDIO. All day long Saturday and yesterday the cars that run toward the Presidio were filled with strangers who were anx- ious to see the most beautiful military post in the United States and to gaze upon the marine view that is to be obtained from that point, as well as the scenic pano- rama presented by the mountainous shores of Marin County. On Friday not less than 3000 persons, nearly all strangers, visited the post and yesterday the num- ber was even greater. The comments of the visitors were of the most complin en- tary nature and mnearly all were loud in their praises of the beauty of the scenery. Not a few were disappointed yesterday on account of a heavy fog that rested on the bay and for a time obstructed a view of the Golden Gate, many having gone to the point named for the express purpose of seeing the world famed gate. During the afternoon of yesterday Colonel Evans Miles, the post commander, took a party of Endeavorers out in a large carryall and had them driven over the grounds. A MODEL CITY. The Good Name Given San Fran- cisco by a Boston Journal. BOSTON, Mass., July 12.—The Journal will say to- morrow, editorially: San Francisco has belied its reputation during “Endeavor Week.”’ Its newspapers unite in declaring that throughout the vist of the hosts of young people with the Christian Endeavor badge, it has been the quietest, the most decorous and moral city in the country. The conyention has made an impression on San Francisco from its very size. Never before have so many people been assembled on the Pacific seaboard. Hotels, boarding-houses, private dwellings, have been crowded to their roof; but, though this kind of a visitation was unusual, it bas testifisd that policemen, car conductors and other persons whose callings brought them into close contact with thronss, and subjected them to some inconvenience in the handling of strangers, were patient and courteous. One or two local theaters, it is added, have allowed mild fun to be poked at the Endeavorers, but that was only on the score of their frugality, and as they were probably not there to hear it, no great harm was done. But though San Francisco was unmis- takably on_its good bebavior, it could not transform itself at once 1nto another Bos- ton or Philadelphia. For the first time in the lives of many of them, the Endeavor- ers saw the odd thing called a *'Con- tinental Sunday.”” The churches ‘were open; the attendance there was good; the preseuce of the guests of honor lent an added fervor to the serv- ices. But the saloons were running at full blast; three ball games were going on and there were cricket, horse races, target shooting and the usual Sabbath diver- sions of the gay, argonaut metropolis. But as for crimes, scandals and sensa- tions, they were conspicuous by their ab- sence. It is naively explained that while the Endeavorers were on their way across the continent, somebody in Southern Cali- fornia suggested that the San Francisco press refrain from publishing accounts of tragedies and evil doing during the con- vention. Thereupon the press “went one better’”” and reported that the people themselves refrain from crime; then there would be nothiag of the kind to chronicle. The public took the newspapers at their word. For one week, at least, San Fran- cisco has been a model community. NEWS NOTES. Many persons seem ignorant as to when and where tickets for the concert can be had. The committee would be glad to have the powers announce that they can be bought at either Sherman & Ciay’s or at the Pavilion to-day and to-morrow. Miss M. Katharine Jones of New York City, secretary of the young people’s de- purtment of the Boards of Home Mis- sions, will be given a reception Tuesday evening at Calvary Presbyterian Church from 8 to 10. All visiting missionaries will also be entertained and all interestea in missionary work are invited to be pres- ent. Mrs. A. M. Sprague, sister of General Miles, and her two daughters of Westmin- ster, Ma: are in_the City visiting Mrs, Caotain Eldridge Miles. - The '97 committee will meet at the Pa- vilion this afternoon to audit bills, -521 Montgomery Ave. NOTES FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD How the New Uniforms Are to Be Inspected and Approved. The Guardsmen Will Have to Follow Regular Army Rules in Target Practice, The Fifth Infantry, Second Brigade, Is Beady to Go to Camp Shafter. The board that had been named o attend to the matter of procuring uniforms for the mem- bers of the National Guard starts out with a good idea, which if carried out to the letter will be the means of securing first-class, dura- ble and perfect-fitting uniforms for the men. “We donot propose,” said Colonel James F. Smith of the First Regiment, Second Brigade, one of the members of the board, “to have the same trouble with uniforms that was noticeable when uniforms were procured some years ago. Every bidder will have to furnish a sample uniforr in accordance witn specifications, and the same will have to be approved by an inspector from the United States army, and after the award shall have been made to the lowest bidder every uniform will be inspected by the United Sta.es army inspector and bear his stamp of approval be- fore it is accepted by the board. Another thing, no money will be advanced to the con- tractor and payments will oniy be made when the goods shall have been accepted and deliv- ered. We propose to secure uniforms that will be a credit to the State.” The uniforms that were worn by many of the men who were out in the Fourth of July parade were anything but creditable to the commands wearing them. In many instances they fitted like & meal bag would if ithad a ho.e cut in the enG and was thrown over the shoulders and_tied with a hay rope. The bad fit was brought out in.strong conftrast when the men were comgared with the regulars, who but a few minutes before preced:d the guardsmen in the parade with uuniforms that fitted almost like a glove. The State pays a liberal price for uniforms for its citizen soldiery and it is entitled to that which the sp-cifications call for. At a_recent meeting of the officers of the First Regiment of ithe Second Brigade the matter of having the streets kept clear by the police during the parade on the Fourth of July was discussed and the discussion resulted In the adoption of the following preamble ana resolution: HEADQUARTERS FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, ) N. G. C., 25 Page sireet, SAN Fraxorsco, July 8, 1897, L W. Lees, Chief of Police, City—DEAR SIR: At the regular meeting of the board of officers of this regiment, held this date, the following pre- ambleand resolution was presented by Li-utenant- Colonel Duboce aud passed unanimously: WHEREAS, The National Guard of this City bave for many years past paraded through the principal sireets under serious disadvantages on account of the public overstepping the lines neces- sary to parade within, thereby breaking military for mations, inconveniencing outer guides and at times necessitating forcing their way throuch the assembled crowds: aud whereas, the Police De- p.rtment on the occasion of the parade of July 5, 1897, did. by a well organized and systematic effori and attention to deail, keep sald streets clear for the parade, thereby maxing it & possi bility and a plessure to parzde in co.umn of com- panies with both guides free of obsiruction, 1t is hereby. Resolved, That a vote of thanks be tendered to the Police Department of the City and County of San Francisco by the board of oflicers of the First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C., 10 show their sincere apprectation of the' avle and eflicient manner in which the streets were kept clear upon the occa- slon of said paraae. Very respectfully your obedient servant, JAMES F. SMITH, Colonel Commanding. [ofiicial ] A. J. KELLAHEE, Captaln and Adjutant. Last Saturday afternoon Colonel J. F. Smith, commanding the First Infantry, Second Brig- ade, Lieutenant-Colonel Duboce and thirty- three of the line officers siarted from this City for Tiburon and from there by special car went to Ukiah for the purpose of arranging details for the camp to be held near that city in the latter part ot the current month. The officers held a meeting with the trades- men of Ukiah and made all arrangements for the furnishing of supplies for the commissary department. Each company will provide the substantials for the men and each company will have its own Cook. The officers discussed the manner of laying out the camp. Taere will be twelve streets in additior to the regimentalstreet. In a shaded grove twelve tables, each fifty feet long, for company mess, will be placed in posiiion. Then thers will be separate messrooms for the regimenial officers, the non-coms, the band | and the sanitary corps. The first of the military camps to be held in | this part ol the State is the one that will'be | beld at Sants Cruz, commencing Saturdey next. That will be Camp Shafter, named for the brigadier-general commanding the De- partment of California, and it will be the camv of the Fiith Infantry Regiment, Second Brigade, Colonel Fairbanks commandin, Orders issugd last week ¢ Colonel Faire banks direct thut Company E, a Rosx; C, Petaluma; D, San Rafaei, and H, Napa, shall report to Caplain D. A th, adjutant of the regiment, ai the uarrow-gauge ierry landing in San Francisco at 7 o'clock on the evening of Saturday, the 17t inst.; that companies A and F, Oakland, and Company G, Alameda, and the regimental band, shall report o the adjutant at the narrow-gauge mole in time o take the train that will connect with the 7:45 P. M. boat from San Freneisco, and that ( pany B, San Jose, shall report to_the adju upon the arrival of the train in Sa There are also orders for the comm officers. Captain William Elliott will be the officer of the day and Lieutenant B. F. Phillips officer of the guard the first dav., As the men are going for camp duty they will wear the service uniform, which includes campaign hat, blouse, uniiorm pantaloons, leggins and woolen or cotton shirt. They will carry haversack, canteen, meat tin and blanket roll. The camp is to be !aid out under directions from the regimental-quartermaster, Licuten- antJ. H. Hendy. A suggestion was made to the effect that the first call be made at4:43 A. M., and that reveille be sounded at 5 o’clock, as has been proposed jfor the Third Brigade, that next will camp at Santa Cruz. It is probe able that the Fifth will not act upon the sug- lgest.on. but that the first call will be one hour ater. Corporal J.T. Wyckoff, Company H, Fifth Infantry, Second Brigade, has been pro- moted sergeant, and the foliowing named pris vates of Company H,same regiment, have been made corporals: G. A. Wright, James Shanks, T. Muarois and Fred Salkeld. A. F. Nagle and L. W. Kohler have bsen made cor- porals of Company E. Orders nave been issued from headquarters for the shoot by the several branches of the service in accordance with the new regulations, which went into effect on the third of last month. The men will be required to shoot at targets the same that are used in the regular army, and they will have to shoot asdo the regulars. The first shoot for which orders have been issued is for skirmish firing for a trophy to ve offerea by the adjutant-general’s ofiice. The company engaged in the practice will fire at 600 yards from the target while standing, will then advance 100 yards, and during the ade vance will deploy io one yard beiween files, will when at 500-yard distance is reached fire while moving in quick and in double time while going a distance of 100 yards, then halt and fire two volleys in & kneeling position, tnen advance in double time to within 350 yards of the targets, then halt, lie down and fire two volleys, than advance in double time to within 250 yards of the targets, kneel and fire rapidly five cartridges, retreat to the 300-yard line, kneel and fire three volleys, retreat to the 400-yard line, halt, kneel and fire five vol- leys and then retreat to the 500-yard distance and fire two volleys while kneeling. Captains O’Brien, Refhers and Farrell have been appointed on the sanitary staff that will accompany the First Regiment, Second Brigade, into camp at Ukiah. Swallowed Diamonds, Native workmen are employed in the mines of Kimberley, Sonth Africa. They are closely guarded, carefully housed and fed. and have a number of amusements maintained for their especial benefir. They are kept, therefore, from any great temptation of stealing the precious stones, but at times they resort to all sorts of tricks to conceal the diamonds. Only quite lately a compounded native was suspected of having swallowed valuable diamonds. The native was carefuily watched, and the result was that ten dia- monds, weighing 350 carats and valued at $5450, were recovered by the officials. On another occasion a convict was in- capacitated for work through a leg dam- aged, as it was believed, while engaged in breaking stones. The leg was carefully bandaged and nursed by the convict him- self, but as there were no signs of improve- ment the doctor of the company was called to examine the limb. To his utter astonishment he found that the convict had self-inflicted a deep gash in the calf of the leg, and upon probing the wound the medico totched some hard substance im- bedded in the flesh. Furtherexamination prought to light a parcel of beautiful dia- monds tied up in & rag. The wound has not healed yet, and it is feared that the native will be a cripple for life, This shows what painful devices will be re- sorted to in order to secure the precious gems.—Philadelphia Record. —————— Crushed. “This is the most cruel yet,” wailed the rising young poet. “What is?" asked the common-sense person whe had dropped in to smoke a few of the poet’s cigarettes. *‘The Gabbock’ says I do not exhibit a single stigma of dezeneration.””—Indian- apolis Journal. 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