The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1897, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 DARK-SK I find to my surprize that the Bell case 1s not so greatafunction as other court triais I haveattended. Tne audience is smaller. There fewer women present. The reporters take 1 fe more easily. An attorney now and then betrays a womsnish desire for the last word, and repeats # thing upon dis- | €OV Ty that it is a good th People tit- ter applausive'y and without fear of the bailiff’s gavel, at the Judge's facetious asides, which like all stage asides are sig- nificant, to be uttered in a distinct voice, and to be list d to at least with smiling deference, though a lively hilarity would better testify to one's appreciative powers. | rather informal, though, and I suppose the judicial ermine does become rather i if the burden is never to be litted from one’s shoulders. But the Bell case is very interesting de- the I of sce essories. It ttraction, the o zitimate at- all family squabbles »n of human vature in s, the showing-up of char- Itisa ksome ie @ spiie k ich 1is mother bas de- obstinate, dissipated boy, the bit between his teeth, s and strains with all the strength n weakness to wound those who stubb: e been nearest to him. He has been wrouged, or cies he has—I haven’t been envugh 1n court to decide esides, as Judge Coffey re- res bis mother, or his fos- comretent; wholly under 1 of Mrs. Pieasent, their colored He wisbes her removed the guardianship of the minor Bell And she, in defending herself, race upen him. oitiable, shameful story, and the s are tenfold more pitiable, more the ¢ Lousekeepe om 2're a drunkard, mother, an imbe- le—and worse.” ud they ring tue changes on this and | nd explain charge and counter | And one feels ashamed for them Leart; but tney, fortunately nately, are intoxicated with g wine of revenge. Each heeds own suffering in his s pain. % of the late Thomas Bell, | e, of Mysterioas Manor 1661 Oc- ia street, is what veople used tocall a tressy woman.” She appeared in court in a black and green silk gown, lace med, with a large white Lat with lace 1 black plumes it. Her face is arp featared, but she has fine eyes s of brown bair. hing but the diffident in- ticipated. Mrs. Bell may on insists she is, a child in the that wonderful old woman, Mammy Pleasant; butin the courtroom e neither iooks toward nor consults the She advises with her z positively and decidedly, og her remarks with the ineffective gesture of the gloved female band. | She stands at times so near to the willful angered boy who has called her mother for nearly twenty years that one would think she cou!d not resist laying a moth- ery hand, with both appeal and forgive- ness in ics gentle touch, upon his broad shoulder. Bu', apparently, the thought of reconci ion is as far from him as from ker—and I wouldn't describe Mrs. Bell as a motheriy woman. So tbere she stands and whispers into her lawyer’s ears the facts and dates which shall expose the chamelul details of this wild boy’s life. d there he sits and moodily murmaurs that into his attorney’s ear which shali embarrass and humiiiate and shame tke wife of his father. * . Miss Marie Bell—Miss Marie Therese Be as her brother calls her, in stilted imitation of the legal phraseology he has been hearing of late—sat apart from the other celebrities the day I was in court. She, too, was gayly dressed—the outlines upon of her round, childish face, with its watch- ful eyes, sketched dim!y behind the mask of white chiffon on vest and o green veivet She wore red roses in her light a here was a repose about the young girl that contrasted with Mrs. Bell’s quick ments and strained, intent posture: But it may bave been simple stolidity— merely atience of a phlegmatic tem- jera 5 While on the stand Fred Bell, under the Jawyer's sharp questioning, was compelled | to te that in the course of a drive with disr -putable companions he had pawned | his young sister’s ring. | It wasn’t curiosity that made me look | tuward uen. 1 felt apologetic, pained 1 others should have | tistened (o that which must have hurt her | sorely. But Marie's round, young face was smiling behind the thick white veil— smiling with a sort of innocent, babyish | ed Bell's lawyer, “You're | Her man-] veil, above a white | | spending at | isn’t anyihing funny—to a sist | probably INNED | triumph that the enemy had been drawn | into making a damaging statement. My sympathy was quite wasted | Sur the Maker of women who are destined to become law-court celebrities tempers the thickness of human integu- ment to the winds that shall blow thereon. Or perhaps Nature, that practical dame, bending all her wonderful, housewifely | energy to meet the emergenct, heaps ad- | ditional flesh and-blood wraps upon the nerves that would tingle and quiver and bleed with the agony of public humilia- tion, There isn’t anything tunny in hearing one’s brother confess publicly that he reads letters addressed 10 his sister and, forgetting 10 return them, uses them later in the preparation of his case. Tuere isn’t anything funny in listening to one’s brother admit that he pawned bis sister’s | ring that he might have more money to use in living as no brother would have his | sister know that he lives. There isn't anytbing funny in being present in a crowded courtroom . when one’s brother defiantiy asserts that five, or even six days out of seven he was in habit of There . at least, though the judicial sense of humor is more highly deveioped — in learning that one’s brother, while yet a schoolboy, ran away from school ‘a soubrette, disappearing from his relatives’ ken for weeks or months. But if joor littie Miss Marie Bell can find a gleam of funin all the wretched, painful story 1 for one would not deprive Ler of it. It must be hard encugh to have for a brother such a man as Fred Bell says he h the corner groce 2101010100101 0I0IOIOIC IO | 2101010101 0.0106:0/0101U101Q10 The Central Baptist Association of. Cali- fornia held very interesting sessions in Emmanuel Baptist Church Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Reports of a most encouraging nature | were made by the committees which bave bzen working throughout the past year = and many good sddresses were made by the vi ng pastors. The officers elected for the ensuing year were L. W. Elliot:, moderator; B. C. Wright, clerk, and G. W. Frazer, treasur'r. The next convention vil ke held in the Kieventh-avenue Church, Oakland. Evening services have beer resumed at Trinity Episcopal Church. Next Sunday will see an innovation at St. Peter’s Epi-copal Church. There will be a vested choir of ladies in place of a male choir only. No: 6 corps of the Salvation Army has secured the chapel of old Howard Pre-by- ssrian Cburch, It was Tuesday, | | he has been. If tLis girl does not feel the | | ache of the tragdy as others might it is better for her—and no worse, probably, for uim. * ®o W It I were ¥Fred Bell, or, rather, if T had been the old Fred Bell (the new Fred Bell, a reformed, well-intentioned fellow, ac- cording to himself, dates from an over- the-vanister fall about a year ago), 1 should not conduct myself on the witness- stand as Mr. Bell did last Wednesday. It one has sinned and—which is some- times to poor human nature as vital as | * i te | the sin itself—if the knowledee of one's | | sins is the property of one’s opponent, it | )isa graceful act, as well as sound business | seuse, to admit one’s errors rather than to ave admissions wrung from cne in a manner prejudicial to one’s case. Young Mr. Bell is not a good actor. His role, I should say, should be the frankly penitent one. His voice shou d show the *f the remembrance o duces 1» oze wheis crying for to favorably impress his audience must affect sincerity if he have it not, and his r er, to be effective, must be that open, candid willingness to admit esch and all of s sins—that fullness of self- condemnation which by its very com- | pleteness disarms anda makes superfluous furiber criticism. And above all he must remember that it is altogether out of chare acter 1o smile when his past misdeeds are opened last Friday evening by Lieutenant- | Colone! Kenpel. | The Rev. David Hughes of Los Angeles will preach Hall, 1133 Mission street. | rian Churen will exchange pulpits with | Rev. R. 8, Coyle of the First Piesbyterian Cburch ot Oakland. In the evening Dr. Hemphill will- take for the sul j-ct of his | discussion, “Why Do So Few People | Make a Success of Li‘e?” Tue Very Rev. Georze Dechon, the | newly elected superior-general of the | Paulist Fathers, has sopointed Rev, | Father Hughes as assistant superior. | Rev. Dr. Adams will speak this evening | on “Profit.” This is thetecond of a series { 1hat heis giving tending to show that the Bible is an up-to-date book. A special meeting of the committee on tields of work for students and deacon- esses are to meet on Monday, October 10, at the Y. M. C. A. (third fiocr) at 10 o'clock sharp. Rev. Charles L. Bavard, who for several years has been the efficient superintendent successfully ' of Methodist English-speaking work in this evening at Cambriaa | Rev. Dr. Hemph:ll of Calvary Presbyte- | | the New Mexico Mission, has been trans- ‘ ferred from that work and siationed at La Porte, Ind. Rev. Dr. A. A. Gee. one of | the veterans of Indiana Methodism, takes | the ;uperimendeucy of the New Mexico work. The recently elected officers of the Ep- worth League of Simpson Memorial Church will be instalied this evening. An | | excellent musical programme Las been | prepared for the occasion. | JArsangeme:ts have been made by the | Youne’s Men’s Christian A-sociation with | l’:e\'. Geo C. Adams, D.D., pastor of the | First Congregational Churceh, to conduct a | union Bible class at the association lec- | ture bail, Mason and Eilis streets, «very | Saturday at 12 o’clock, noon. It will be | primarily a Teachers’ Normal Institute | class for the study of the Sunday-schoo! lesson of the following Sunday. The ses- sions will be free to all, both men and | women. Tue regular monthly meeting of the Metnedist Orienta! Bureau will te held at the Chinese mission, 916 Washington lsl:‘(‘t!, Tuesday, October 12, at 10:30 A. x The monthly meeting of the Deaconess’ | ““Echo | land, ordained Mr. and Mr-. Titus | during the recalled. The true penitent must lose his sense of humor. Young Fred Bell wronged by Mrs, may bave been Bell and her hous:- | keeper, his mother may be all he says sie is, ana his own mistakes may be the fruit | of a childhood that was not filly guardeii, not warm'!y cherished. He may in all honesty intend to attempt that greatest and noblest and most difficult of battles— subjugation of-seli; of a self that has been induigea since ch:ldhood, and has daily grown stronger and bolder and more ible with Induigence, tili it takes a moral Napoleon to conquer the monster. All this may ba, yet Mr. Bell does out' - . MAMMY PLEASANT, Who Holds the Key to the Mysteries of the Mansion of the Bells. $0 impress the casual listener at the Be trial. His manner is t-uculent needn’t be. He was not always beingi sulted. He is resentful of the attcraey's questions when his own regret should be, | or should appear to be, stronger than re- | sentment. His answers do not produce | 1 whe i 1 pression of di He contradicted his own testimonv flatly within five minutes the afternoon I lis- | tened to bim, acd then find himseli quoted as ng quite the other thing ttan he says he intended. | He seems inclined to qnibble like a child | in a scrape. And indeed he is only a boy, | a fair-baired, rebellious boy, with a muddy | complexion, a weak profile aud gray eyes, which look chailengzingly at the questioner from beneath scowling asnh-blonde brows. was amazed to| will be held at the same place at 1:30 ». @ A full attendance is reques ed. On Friday night, October 15, Rev. John Stephens, pastor of Simpsou Memorial Church, delivers his celebrated lecture on of the Toronto Convention'’ at 1t M. E. Chureh. Jobn A. B. Wilson, the new pastor of Howard M. E. Chureb, will preach his first sermon tnere this mornine. He will | take for his subject “The Cure of Care.”’ In the evening he wili sperk on *“The Glory of the Cross.” Oa Friday evening he will be tendered u reception by the members of the church. ‘I'he Chnistian Ch thé assistance cf Reyv. this city and Re ley, with | ardner of | T. D. Builer of Oak- last 1a2s missionaries, They | . A week 10 go 10 € church and now refuses to receive any stated salarv, preferring 10 take t .e free- will offerings from the members of his charen, given in such sums and at such times a< 1hey may choose. Rev. W. B. Berry nas been filling the pulpit of the Christian church at Alzameda pust two weeks while the newly elected pastor isin the Eust visiting his oid home. Tue fourteenth monthly festival service wiil be held this evening in the Howard Presbyierian Church on O; and Baker sireets. The selections wili be from Handel's *“Mee<siabh.”” Mrs. Hert Mark| wiil sing “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth,” and the choir will be assisted by Miss Susie M. Blair, violin soloist. The organist and director, William F. Hooke, vill rencer the *“Pastoral Symphony,” And the Glory of the Lord” and the Halleinjah Chorus,” Tne churity benetit to be given at Simp- son Memorial Church on Friday evening, Octaber 22, promises to be an unusually s arted for Cuina a week ago to-day. Rev. L. A. Pier of Watsonville, pastor | ot one of the sircngest Christuan chnrehes | in the 8 , has secured pledges suffi-ient | 0 pay all the indebiledness of me; | | | mento street, Dr. Day 15 to {on **Christ in the Old Testam attractive ent rtain ment. | was absorbed in mental caiculation. “Mr. Bell,” asked Fisher Ames, “did | vou ualock Mr . B:il’s wardrobe—did you take a key and unlock Mrs. Bell’s ward- | robe?” ~I aid not,” severely. witness-stand uses no elisions. ner is slightly theatrical. “Did you not unlock Mrs. Ball's ward- robe?* “I did not unlock Mrs. Bell’s wardrobe with a key,” repeated Fred Bell's boyish, uncultivated vo.ce, sturdily. 2 “What with, then?”’ “Idid not unlock Mrs. Bell's wardrobe with a key. I unlocked Mrs, Bell's ward- robe with a buttonhook.” Mr. Bell on tre ! His man- | What an Oilendorfian anti-climaxd P Attorney Ames did a cruel thing last Wednesday. He asked Frea Bell which was greater five-sevenths or seven-tenths. Tais was apropos of the time voung Mr. jell spent at the grocery before men- toned. Mr. Bell hesitated. With reason. Who wouldn’t hesitate? Then he an- swered the question, and was promptly | marked failure on his response. T.en he changed his answer, only to be confrontad with a greater difficulty. ‘““How much greater, then, is five-sev- enths than seven-tenths?” Mr. Bell flushed boyishly and cast his eyes up to the ceiling. “Five-sevenths,” explained Judge Coffey in a patient, pedagogical voice, “is five | a Sutter-street car the gripman halted at | writ all over with the | did nothing, wrote nothing, promised | | trol such a woman as Sarah Althea Hill | “MAMMY PLEASANT, IN WHOSE HEART LIE BURIED THE SECRETS OF THE BELL FAMILY | out of seven, and seven-tenths is seven out | of ten.'” court was stili, too. Every braln there | ree-fifths,” at last said Mr. Bell. Ard then his attorney interfered. “Ob, you can’t get this young man out of the trouble I'll make for him if 1 can,” said Attorney Ames gleefully. Mr. Be!l folded his arms defianily and scowled. “Yes, if you ean,’’ e snecred. 4 vou'd put him in jaill” said At- torney Scnooler, losing his temper and burlesquing the dignified demeanor of Fisher Ames. “There isn’( a pe son in this courtroom that can solve that jroblem,” Schooler declared indignantly. *I don’t betieve Le can mmself.” “The common denominator,” beg; Ames dispassionately, “is seventy. sevenths equals fifty-seventieths. Seven- | tenths equals forty-nine seventieths. The | d.fference is one-seventieth.” | ““He said one-fiftieth a moment ago,” declared Schooler. “Idid not,” said Ames. “He did.” | “Idid not.” | “You did.” “I did not.” “You—"" | ““Gentlemen,” purred Judge Coffey’s | soft voice to his lead pencil, *please keep | further apart.” | Ria e * | One day a few years ago when I was on Octavia street. Thoe length of time we | waited attracted my attention finally, and I locked up to see who the important per- sonage was for whom that lordly being, a streetcar conductor, waits. | 1 expected to see a beautifully dressed, charming young girl—for even a car con- ductor is kuman—or a puffing miilionsire, assertion that | wealth is privileged, or a cripple, dumbly pleading that misfortune is exempt from | the strict letter of streetcar iaw. But it was none of these. A spare old negress waiked up briskly, but not with undignitied haste, entered the car and | again the wleels of business turned. She wore the plainest of black gowns, scant rather in the sk rt, a long, large, full immaculate white apron, a green plaid shawl, & large black straw bonnet, tied down over her ears with a broad black | | si k ribbon, and a white collar at her thin | wrinkled throat. “it's Mammy Pleasant,” explained the gripman. *“We always wait for her and | she pays us well for ir.”” * » « » When Mammy Pieasant walked into court Wednesday afternoon and was called to the witness-stand a courtroom | fiend bebind me whispered: “There she comes. She's smartern the whole shootin’ match.” I'm inclined to believe thatno char-| acter, however great it may be, 1s as great as les reputation. This zaunt, tall black woman, the most interesting figure in San Francisco to-day, compels such re- spect for her mental qualification—leav- ing out of ine question her moral worth or unworth—that reporters have probably been tempted to add to the reputation she has for managing, for controlling, for us- | ing the powerof tbe mentally sirong over the weak. On the otber hand a great lawyer, in closing his argument in the Sharon case, said of Mammy Pleasant: *This old woman, without whose ad- ! vice Sarah Althea Hill says she | nothing, has missed her vocation. If she has strength of character sufficient, not | only to influence, but to guide and con- | Van Amburgh would have been glad to | hire her as a lion-tamer.” The dark-skinned lion-tamer walked to | the siand. Her face 1s very, very thin, One can scarcely see her hollow, dark | eyes under the shadow of her scoop bonnet. Mammy Pleasant is aging— but not weakening. She walks with | a firm, quck step and her voice | is full, decided and has less of the negro accent than tne voices of many white girls of Alabama or Mississippi or Kentucky. This old colored woman is as self-pos- | sessed as—as Bernhardr. She hasa't a | particle of self-consciousness, She is pos- sessea of a simple, natural dignity that | makes the stares, the presence of a crowd | of strangers utterly indifferent to her. She sat up straight in the witness chair and answered questions with a prepossess ing readiness. When a long dispute in- terrupted the course of her testimony she | drew up another chair, rested her feet | upon its rungs and covered her face with | her long, black hends. But it was not to | escape the inquisitive gaze of the peop'e ! in court. It was simply that she was | weary. Her habit of command betgayed itself | twice — once when Attorney Schoolari BRI ER I - THE HOUSE -O0F<BYSTERY as ed her what sort of book was missing. Bring ’em to me—:hose books over there,”’ she said, brusquely, “'an’ I'll show you what i1t’s like,” Later, when she had left the stand and | had asked permission to go home, she | Still Mr. Bell hesitated. Everybody in | StoPped beside Miss Bell’s chair to talk for a moment. ‘‘Give me that chair—you take an. otner,” she said to the man who was seated beside Miss Bell. And evidently itdidn't occur to him to demur. o e Mammny Pleasant, for all I know, may be the vile, mercenary intrigusr her ene- mies say she is, or' she may be possessed of that “'great white heart beneath a black skin” of which her friends assure me. But her faults and her virtues must be * those o a strong iemperament. There is nothing weak, nothing temporizinz about her. She is exquisitely loyal. Not even the awful, cumulating misfortunes of Sarab Althea Terry’s terribly tragic life could weary the devotion of this tena- cious, faitbful old biack woman. She bas been a good friend. I don’t doubt that she can be a relentless enemy. Rl My interview with Mammy Pleasant should rightly. be written up under the head, “People [ Haven't Met.” If a foreign Prince comes to San Fran- cisco your managing editor, through an influential friend, may arrange a short meeting for you, when only stereotyped questions may be asked, It afamous mur- derer is to be banged soon you may talk to him, provided your questions are not too personal or indelicate. I a great Jady’s * | daughter is to be murried she will grant rou an interview, 1f yvou will be sufficient- ly grateful. But tell me, ye gods of the vuoll, what is the magic string that will open Mammy Pleasant’s door and Mammy Pleasant’s lips! Iwent up the steps at 1661 Octavia street and rang the bell and waited and—no one came. Again I waited, and again, ana present- Iy a pretty-facea lad of about 14 appeared at thedoor. He was gentle, even smiling, but he was delightfully firm. All bail to Mammy Pleasant! Any one who ean secure servicesuch as this must be a power. Mrs, Pleasant was very busy. She was engaged. No, he couldn’t really take my card up. He wouldn’t think of disturb- ing her, Did he know when one could see Mrs. Plecsant? He couldn’t say, really. And Mrs. Bell? Mrs. Bell was not up. Evident Bell. It was 10 o’clock in the morning. And Miss Marie Beli? Miss Bell was out of town, lisped the He was sorry. ly not a workingwoman—Mrs. | gentle, courteous little liar. Too bad! and he didn’t Mrs. Pleasant could see one? He relented at this—just a shade. ‘‘She might—might happen to see you from the upper window as you are going ofit and call yon back—if vou walk very slowly.” I’m ashamed to admit that I walked very, very slowly. And 'm still more humiliated to con- fess that she didn't call me back! R e know when I tricd again a few days later. This time an elderly woman admitted me. I wss so surprised at really being on the inside of that charmed doorthat I could only look about me in silent amaze. A very, very wide, generous, deep hall, with broad staircase starting half-way back, and—suddenly, irom above, a deep, imparious voice: “Who's the lady? Who's the lady ?” it demanded. 1 wasn’t engaged in any dark, diabolical scheme. But that authoritative voice made mo fecl as if I were. I haven’t felt just that guilty tremor since the first school-teacher 1 had bade me read irom a page that was Greek and Sanscrit and shorthand to me. “I'm bringing up her card and the letters,” said the gentle, timid voice of the woman who had admitted me. “l can’'t see anybody. What's your pame?’ Up toward the undistingnished dark- ness I confessed my name and quality, or lack of it. “Ycu were here the other day.” *Yes,” 1 admitted, like a culprit. “Well, I can’t see you. I'm too busy. Idon’t want to see anybody. I1f I want you, I'!l send for you.”’ Ilaughed alond at this. It was so un- expected; said so simply, though. The harsh voice softened almost im- perceptibly. It bade me good-by. and repeated not so crossly, “If I want you, I'll send for you!"’ iR Up to the present tim about to go sent for. Is it possible that doesn’t want me? —and THE CALv's to press—l haven’t been Mammy Pieasant MiriaM MICHELSON. Bithop Newman has appointed Rev. T. H. Wocdward sagent of the University of the Pacific and Rev. Thomss A. Atkinson astor at the Petaluma Metuolist Epis- Chureh. he opening services of the Deaconess’ Traini School were held in Trinity | Methodist Episcoval Church Wednesday @t10:30 A. . Dr. J. N. Beard presided. Addresses wer: given by Dr. Locke of | Central Churen, Dr. Beard, Mre. Sims, president of Deaconess Bureau, and Mrs. H. L. Benson, superintendent ot the home. Mi-s Emory made a few remarks in the inte-est of Kilchen-garden work. Thirteen students were present. The closing service was conducted by R. 8. Marshail, evangelist. To-day a1 3 o'clock, in the Association Aud torium, Mason and Ellis streets, | there will be a grand union mass-meeting | of all the churches, 10 be addressed by Rev. W. D. P, Bliss of Boston. Both men and women invited. D- Biiss’ subject | will be *Christian Socialism; What Is 112" The public cordially invited. Captain Dart, the forerunner of Lieuten- ani-Colonel William Evans, arrived in San Franci:co on the night of October 2. | The captain came in udvance 1o get ac- qguaintec with tue divisional finances. * Miss Carrie Potter, tield secreiary of the Woman's Home Missionary Union, ex- pects to start next week for M:inneapolis to attend the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. The new 8. Paul's church, New York City, will be dedicated to-day vy Bishop Andrews, assisied by Bishop Foster. In the evening Chancellor J. R. Day will preach. The Rev. Dr. Golse, the new pastor of Central M. E. Guureh, will take for the subjec: of his morning’s discussion “The Greatest Man in the World.” Next Monday, October 11, at the Pres- byterian Ministerial Union, 920 Sacra- give a paper The receipts of the Christ'an Foreign Misston Board for this year are $106,222 10. | Congregational Leauquarters, Y. M. C. A. This is a gain of $12,35¢4 39 over last year. ! The gain in number of churches con- | tributing is 127; Suuday schools, 205, En-: deavor societies, 263; individnals, 206 | Rev. F. C. Lockwood, Pn.D., pastor of | I1ff Cburch, Sait Lake, has accepted a | position as lecrurerin Chiago University. | Rev. F. B, Meyer, the Engiish evange: ist, expects (o spend part of next January and February in this counuy in religious work. The Southern California Methoaist Epis- copal conference last week responded rovally to the appeal of Dr. Smith for pledges to the fund for payment of the debt of the Missionary Society. Kifty- five $20 pledges were made in open con- ference in a few moments, and at the evening service six more were added, several of the piedges coming from gener- ous laymen. This made sixty-one piedges for this conference. Thers will be an adjourned annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pub-| lishing Company of the Pacific on Mon- duy, October 11, 1897, at 1 p_M, in the building, San Francisco. Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Keppel will hold their farewell meeting in this city on Wednesday evening nex. It will take place at the Meiropoiitan Temple, and will be one of the largest demonstra- tions of its kind ever held here. Both Mr, and Mrs. Keppel are great favorites in this city, where they have labored together for ov tive vears. As a token of remem- brance to their many friends they are sending out tiny cards with a farwell let- ter printed on them, and in the corners p' otographs of themseives. There is to be a special meeting of the Bay conference at the Pacific Theological Seminary on Tuesday. There will be two sessions—at 2 and 7 . M. The evening session will be filied with a discussion on “Ministerial Education.” The feastof the patron saints will be celebrated to-day at St. Francis Church on Vallejo street. The sermon in the morning will commence at 11 o’clock, and after the first gospel the panegyric of St. Francis of Assis be preached by Rev. Father Ausgustin, O. 8. F,, of St, Boniface’s Church ot 1his city. As this city bears the me of St. Krancis and was founded by nis scns a great many Catholies will take part in the ceiebration. The cermcn at vespers will be preached by the pastor, Rev. T. Caraber, Lieutenant-Celonel #nd Mrs, Evans, who are to succeed L eutenant-Colonel and Mrs, Keppel of this city, are expectea in California about the first week in No- vember. At the West Side Christian Church this evening Rev. 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