The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1897, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1897. s to leave ard Pro- pour visitor who is a of Washington without organ wondrous str church, stand at the corner of Tenth and G streets, N. W,, is, because of its central locati and lice auditorium for conventions of res and concerts, ana cer and intellectual who gatherad in ton previous to 1¥65 were obliged 25.—No | s from the great | organ of the First Congregational Church. | butes more than most | to seek some other denomination with 1 which to worship, for although attempts | were to plant a Congregational church that proved at in 1864, and 1865, that a church wasorganized. early history of this organization the law ot God and man seem to have been close- ly associated, for services were first heid in a building since occupied by law offices, and when that lease expired the Colum- bian College law building was secured. The cornerstone of the edifice now used was laid in 1866, General 0. O. Howard as- made all successful were taken it was not until November, as early as 1847 the first measures | In the | | sisting 1n the exercises, and the building | : | the organ, whnich is still considered one of =100 X £ was occupied two years later. Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., now president { of the Howard University and the author of the Christian Endeavor hymn, “God Be With You Till We Meet Again,” was installed pastor in 1870 and served suc- | cessiully fifteen years. Prelessor Bischoff has served the church asorganist since 1875. At first his choir consisted of eight or ten uncompensated singers, then a pzid quartet was formed, interesting as having had in it Miss Min- nie Ewan, now singing in Paris, and Douglass Miller, the tenor, who is still serving in the quartet of soloists. Several yearsago the orzan gallery was enlarged; | the finestin the city, was placed therein | and the choir was increased tosixty chorus singers led by a quartet of fine soloists. The choir work is made a great feature of the church’s attractions. One Sunday evening in each month is set apartas choir evening, when almost the entire | service consists of the tinest musie, some- times complete works being rendered, at other times a mixed programme being | prepared. During the coming winter Dudley Buck's “Story of the Christ’”” ana *“Christ the Victor’’ will be Tendered, as i u}mmmmv:r’mnmnu:ruvu:iunmumm!wr:mull"' i CHRIST CHURCH ALEXANDRIA WHERE GEORGF WASKINGTOAN WORS! (Wi CRURCH . s | well as Rossini's | _——— ‘Stabat Mater.” | On such occasions the church overflows, | and it is always well filled 1o hear the | preaching of the scholarly pastor, Rev. Stephen M. Newman, D.D. St. John’s Episcopal Cnurch, corner Six- teenth and H streets, N. W., is said to b2 i the finest example of Doric arcoitecture | in the city, so although ihe congregation has almost outgrown the building, they refuse to enlarge it lest its symmetry be destroyed. The interior is furnished in the elegantly quiet taste of this very ex- | ctusive congrezation. Beautiful stained- glass windows have been placed, in mem- ory of departed friends. Conspicuous | among these is one which Ptesident Arthur gave in memory of Lis wife, bearing the inscription: *To tte glory of God, and in | | memory of Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur. | Entered into life January 1, 1880.” Oq the window sill below is a brass slab placed | there by the vestry in memory of Chester | A. Arthur. Another window Is inscribed to Bishop Pinkney, who was Bishop of Maryland. Bishop Leonard of Ohio, pastor of this church for nine years, presented a beau- | tiful semi-circular window. On either | side of the altar are memorial marble slabs, one in the memory of the first rec- tor, Dr. Hawley, who served the church twenty-eight years; the other of Dr. Pyne, | the second rector. Latrobe, who was architect of the Cap- | ito! bailding, desizned the church erected in 1816, There President Madison wo | shiped, when there were no buidings be- | tween the church and the Executive Man- <] 75 G Dl B iy et AL ot S 19 i 2 4 SAINT JOHNS CHURCHTIBI6 Wi TrITHE % EXECUTIVE(MANSION,IN THE D STANCE A— SAINT, U ORNS fenURCHY I8 7 sion. Secretary Seward, President Arthur | River, about six miles below Washington, | one which the Lees occupied, as they and many others of national fame have regularly attended service in the present building. At present Attorney-General McKeuna, Judge Fuller of the Supreme Cour! and Assistant Secretary Porter oc- cupy pews there. Since the early days the parish has undergone numerous geographic changes, seven parishes, one of which far outstrips its mother in size, having been formed | from the original St. John's. The churcn reaches out in many di. rections, supporting an orphanage, St Mary’s Chapel, a beautiful missior chapel baving in addition to the usual organiza- tions an industrial school and mothers’ training class; assisting largely in the support of two other chapels and con- ducting a mission known as Snow Court Mission Chapel. The parish numbers in ali about 1300 communicants, and the amount of money expended during the | year was about $42,000. The rector, Dr. Alexander Mackay- Smith, is aided by two ministers, two vicars and a deaconess. On the Virginia side of the Powmacl is the old town of Alexandria, founded in | 1748, under the name Belhaven. Interest | in the town centers mrainly inthetactthat | it is largely identifiea with the life of the “Father of his countrv.” Whena boy, living at Mount Vernon with his brother, be daiiy rode inteAlexandria on horseback and many of its people whom he had | trained as militiamen went with him in his campaign with Braddock against Fort Duquesne. Oid Cbrist Church, where | | Wushington was vestryman and a regular attendant, is the point toward which the American pilerim journeys when he visits the capital, and be does noc turn away without having sat in Washington’s pew. This edifice was erected in 1765 of bricks | brought from England. The pew the first | President occupied, number 59, has been | | preserved exactly as it was when he sat in | it. It forms three sides of a square, two | seats facing each other and one arainst | { the wall. Sitting in the latter, which | | Washington preferred, the visitor realizes | that the country’s father soueht spiritual | omfort, not physical, in attending | church. Almost opposite this pew is the l | interesting spot, came each Sunday from Arlington. The outside effect of the building has never been changed, but the spirit of ad- vance was too strong in the church to permit the interior to remain antique, so several years ago stained glass wicdows took the place of the small, old-fashioned panes and a fine new palpit was pur- chased. However, the love for the old having revived the ladies of the church have comparatively recently replaced the old windows, furnished a fac-simile of the old white pulpit, with winding stairs, to take the place of the uncomfortably new one, and by its side the same reading- esk that stood there in Washington’s day. The graveyard around the church is an with many a strange epitaph inscribed on the brown stones that bave marvelous heads carved upon them. Sy - D ONE PHASE OF HYPNOTISM AND ITS RELATIO A long heard will s, among that multi ude a faulty chin. is from the side of violet-scented charity, thank heaven. And it is safe to lurk behind for the trades of hypocrisy and dealings in this werld’s devious ways. Ths prceessor’s beard was long, and he was given to the habitof stroking it in- !mm and downward, which process re- ealed the point of his chin to ve aboutan inch below his mouth. I confronted the professor in bis lair at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in answer to an | advertisement which was about as fol- lows: “Wanted—By a professor of Lypnotism and phrenol a young man of good ap- pearance znd understanding toact asa subject. Call for full explana- L fo'med me that the solemn person with the big beard and slender legs was a pro- fessor of necromancy and spiritualism as well as hypnotist and phrenologisi: that | diseases without the aid of es, things in & voic a fat man and was wonderfully out of place, went, said the professor ¢f many e that plainly belonged to “you called about the advertis Have you ever been in this busi- , you see I give exhibitions in this room every day, an’ I want to add the hypnotic feature to it. I've got several students takin’ lessons in hypno- tism, an’ I want somebody to help me— somebody that'll take a-holt of the thing an’ learn the business. It's got to be s.mebody that's sell-possessed an’ quick witted, au’ it’s got to be somebody that's cot perve. In this business the principal things’s nerve, an’ when you understand that tully, you've got half of 1t learnt, 1 want somebody that'll learn hypno- tism, and I'll let you into a thinz you don’t know--that is, I can teach a!l there iq to it in five minute: n five minutes. ley ain’t much to it—in fact they ain’t B:hin’ to it. Phrenotogy’s the main thing—business, love, marriage—things like that catches them. You can learn that in a month, you can study on these charts an’ heads, an’ you can also study ;. my head”’—he used some kind of oil On bis hair—“and then in a short time you could take part of the regular trade. *“You wouldn’t need to study astrology, unless you wantea to, for that’s harder— there’s lots of figgerin’ to be done in order to cast a horoscope. This curin’ up in a couple of days. doubt. **Ob, you don’t understand. You ain’t go: the savee of the business, as the feller said. To cure withcut medicine is one of the simplest things goin’. Nine-tenths of veil a multitude of | without medicine ’s simple, can be picked | I expressed much wonder and some | | the people you getare people that have | nothing the matter with 'em but doctor’s medicine. They're chuck fuil of it from top to toe, an’ the day they leave off takin’ it they get better. Others simply imagine they’re sick whexn they ain’t sick azall. IU's easy enough to make that kind imagine they'ie getiiug well again, ain’t it?” ‘ “You say I could learn hypnotism in five minutes, bow to cure without medi- | cine in two days and geta complete edn- cation in the science of phrenology 1n a month. Now, I think I would feel rather uncertein of such rapidly acquired knowi- | edge, “Nej; you wounldn’t if you’d think about {itlike I do. WhenI getup here to ad- dress this room full of men and women I see all kinds. Isee some that look like sharp fellers, and they may be fellers that know a heap more than I do. let that balk me. I jist say to myself, | ‘These here are only human men an’ Baut Idon’t | wimmen,’ an’ I know if any smart feiler | | says anything to me to try to tangle me up I have the confidence of the majority an’ can turn the laugh on him every time. But they seldom try that.” Here the professor leaned forward and ran his hand across my bead from ear to | ear. Then he nodded his own with every indication of satisfaction. *You could do it; you could do it O K. A litile narrow between the years, but | you'd get there. You're a natural bornd | orator.” After this tribute the professor left me | to treat a patient with blarney, and I sat | thinking of a night in the mwm:-veiled years of yore. Isaw a schoolhouse filled with faces and heads. I dreamed of a tow- | headed urchin with feet wide apart, hands behind his back clasping, in the fevered effort to stay his fast speeding heart- | sirength, a brimless straw hat. Then I re- | membered a whirling sensation before the eyes and a choking sensation behind the neckband of the checked hickory shirt, a staggering attempt to relate how— “Two little kittens one stormy night—"" No, no, professor, you're wrong there. Still I may have developed the histrionic power later ou, But the professer returned. | | | | | ‘nydrmpnnlu: was dubbed, “A Hand- “What would my duties be in the ca- pacity of subject?” The learned man was in a beaming humor after the consultation with his pa- tient, and I heard hard money clinking in his pockei as he drew his chair near | mine and lovingly planted his hand apon my knee. “Just this: I wantayoung man who's smart enogh to hold his tongue an' fill his pockets—understand? A young man tuat’ll go partner witn me when he learns the business and share the profits. They's | money in it—Iots of money when times is | The rent on a place like this”—ap | empty store building—“ain’t a great deal, | good. an’ that's all the expense they is; the rest's profi. But times is hard in this town an’ I wouldn’t stay here above a couple of weeks at the most. There are too many here in the business. I've been here seven months now, but when I gei a young man to jine in with me I'm goin’ to move to some smaller town. “Now I'm a-gowmn’ to be plain with you an’ tell you what you'd have to do, Come beiore my class ana let 'em experiment | on you. Let’em send you off into a byp- notic state easy—ses? Justdo what they tell you to. you in a state—understana? No, : they won’t be no hatpins stuck intoyou, n or no such stuff as that; that’liwilldo for some, | but that ain’t the way I carry on busi- | ness. “The pay for the first month wonidu't | be much, but aiter that, as I said, you could begin to feel heads and work on percentage, and if business is good you can make $5 a day. I've made $25 a day in this here room. But that was when 1 first came here; times ain’t so good now.'* The great man sighed. “The fortute-tellin’ grafi's a good one, too. My wife follers that when she, well. Sick? Yes; ves, she’s got a li.tle touch of the consumprion.” “Why don’t you cure her by your method without medicine 2" “Young man, if business, don't try it on your own family; git a M.D, for that branch of it, see? You | see them pietures of heads over there or | the wali? Drawed 'em myself.” The pictures were outlines in charcoal, some of them divided up into town lots and each division numbered. One head with shelving evebrows and protruding lips was marked, “A Kind Father’; an- other, of a simpering idiot, was desig- nated, ‘A Loving Mother,” while an in- fant whose cranisl development suggested Make "em think they’ve got | ou ever do go into the | 1 some Child.” The glory of it all was, however, a group composed of two boys, a hollow-cheeked woman and a bewhisk- {ered man. It wasdone in several colors, | like the famcus Primrose family picture, and was called, “A Happy Family.” Itj was the professor and his family. i | Some device resembling a beer smgn | leaned against a tree in the foreground. | The professor said it represented the coat | of arms of his wife’s family. | “Let vour hair grow long, young man, | | an’ come into ibe business. You'vegota read forit; might be a lee-tle wider be- tween the years”—and he eyed the defect with a very disapproving air—*wideness between the years meaning bulldog | bravery, which is the same as nerve. But long hair gives a romantic look to a man, and th:t takes well among the wim- | men folks. Jist as long whiskers make a man look wise an’ give hima holt on the men. Men have confidence in these here whiskers of mine.” He stroked them and blew his lips out until they showed two red lines in the | dark shower of beard. “Man is an animal,”” he resumed, “that can be led like a sheep. I can go out here on the street an’ stand an’ leok up an’ have ten other fellows lookin’ up inside of ten minutes. Like the other aay I was down at the lee-vee and I saw some car- penters workin’ on an old schooner. I stopped an’looked at’em. Here comes a man with a hammer on his shoulder an’ be stops; then anotner fellow an’ another | philosophy. N TO WHISKERS till I judge there was twenty-five standin’ therean’ nothin’ tosee but two old jackieg | carpenters planin’ boards. I went away across the street an’ then walked back an’ asked an old fellow what them men was lookin’ at. ‘Iden’t know’s ’e; ‘they was here when I came along an’ I stopped.’ “Human nature, see? “Ican put on a plug hat an’ git in a hack with some stuff in bottles I claim will cure consumption an’ liver complaint an’ a dozen other things, no more alike than buttermilk an’ whisky, an’ no mat- ter if the stuff’s made up of horseradish an’ tobacker, the more airs I put on the more I'll sell. People have confidence in a man that leads an’ goes on like he knows his business. That's why I tell you it takes nerve in tuis line. 1f you’'ve got nerve you'll pull tnrough, no matter how much or how little you know, for nerve always finds a way out of a hole.” 1 asked for a day 1o think itover, which he graciously accorded me, and I took my hat from a table where I left it as I en. tered. In doing so I knocked a small American flag out of avase and it flut- tered to the floor. The professor stooped and raised it, held it at arm’s length on a level with his eyes and said: *“The Amer- ican flag is a great an’ noble institoot; I fought ior itand I bied for it.” Then he placed it in the vase again. The door closed behind me upon the professor, with his frauds and his more than mote of human reasoning and true And as I turned my faca to- ward the busy city where the stream of clattering feet are ever beating out the m asure of life and haste and worry, of destiny aund death, I thought that man in the midst of his silly pictures could in his blunt reasoning fit this pressing tide in its | true measurement as certainly as he could | correctly apply the tape to his own beard. Enough of wisdom to find men’s weak- nesses and profit by them; enough ol philosophy to be a knave. And men will turn from the way of truth to follow the light of the iil-smell- ing torch of hvpocrisy and ignorance, for | there has rot been, nor is there yet, a true science without the outward growth of suckers, which time and reason and learn- ing tind labor in plucking from the mother stem. G. W. 0. It has been computed that the death rate of the globe is 68 per minute, 97,790 per day, or 35,717,790 per year. The birth rate is 70 per minute, 100,800 per day, or 36,817,200 per year, reckoning the year to be 36514 days in length,