The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1897, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1897. TS [NCREASING AMONG US A Late Arrival at the Pest- house Makes in All Nineteen Cases. HAWAILANY, CHINESE AND WHITE: Wretchedly Poor Provision for Housing the Unclean Incurables, ROMARCE MIDST MISERY. i A Haw Boy Here Many a Leper Cirl at Molo- kai Keep Up 014 Ti California contains one-sixth of 11l the lepers in the United States. And San ancisco Iacks just six cases at the present time out of the State’s quarter of ndred. These six may come to b» counted against us in time, for the country y of rid of lapers. Mendocino County there was a i and the daughter of its owner p in small ran was the victim ol that horrible disease which sears ke acid, which chars and deadens like flame, which makes sodden and bloated like water. Ifa human being might survive tbree deaths in one by whning and by vitriol-poisoning and by ning till sensation no longer remained he would look like the lepers lock. The people in Mendocino County didn’t rove of lepers. They didn't .wish r to be burdened with the care of They are rather old- ashioned up Mendocino, Perhaps consider in leprosy a visitation of God and think it the sacrilege 10 succor one whom arsed. he has Atany rate the simple count | | | foik di t waste much time on the logic of the situation. They cut the Gordian knot of their difliculties and rcspons biities. They drove the afilicted fam:: away from their home and provided | ist their return. For tbey burned e hcuse that bad harbored the “‘un- clean’ 1o the ground. The girl leper was brought to 8an Fran- cisco, of conrse. Just now she is out at the Pesthous When I arrived at the gate of the Pes - house I discovered that Mr. Keating, the steward, was not in. So I waited, and a man, who stood alL the gate, his 1n his pockets, waited with me. He was such a gracious young fellow, Not good looking. His face w - | rather pale, his body a trifle ungainiy and his clothes rough, that he might do por- ter's work. But there is a spirtt of the most exq te courtesy about the porter of the Pesthouse. He’s nature’s pentle man, pure and simple. He waits upon oue; he is helpful and obliging merely be- cause he would have to hesitate and to think complexly beore it woula occur to bim to do or be otherwise. £0 the porter and I stood at the gate 2nd talked—of the churches and a-ylums far off on the other side of the marsh, of 1 e chickens scratching in front of the Irishman’s place a littfe below, of the poy who passed us going in, two poor, smail cead meadow arks in his hand and a gan over his shoulder. And then of the leper-. “Tiey're mostly Chinese,”” the porter said, folding bis arms across his breas! znd leaning up against his post, while I remained zt mine. “But there is a white i a Chinese woman and six white “I bad heard,” said I, *‘that there were two Hawaiian boys here.’” *'No,” he said a little abruptly; “there’s not.” There was a pause and we both eyed the dismal landscape before us. “There's no Kanakas here,” he rep ated after a pause. H.s face looked grim. Per- haps it was because toe sun was going down and everyihing about the dreary place suddenly lost coior and life. “No? Isuppose I was mistaken,” “But,” the porter went ondeterminedly, thrusting his arms behind him now. ‘““there are two white boys from Hawaii I'm one,” it simply, but with a smile that was 1 ke a constriction of the muscles.of the face when one is 1n pain. 1 couldn’: say anythin: to him. What does “sorry” mean to one whose bcdy To!s away as though it were buried, wii.e one’s mind, one's .ndividuality is stirring S0t al And that boy who went in with the 2 is my brother,” he went on after a silence. “Two of you! Both of yocul” I ex- claimed. long is 1t since you left the 8?7 I usked, ven years,”” he answered. ud do you know anything about the settiement at Moloksi?"” ‘Most of the wiite people who have Jepro v go away from the islanuds rather than be sent to Molokai. But I uavea itiend there, a woman, leper, with whom I correspond. Imagine it! Think of what these two can have 10 say 10 each oth-r— he woman who must live and die on Molokai, the accursed, and this young man whose Lome for all the 1ime his wreicied body remains above ground is the Pesthouse, that b deous wh e scar on beauniliul dan Francieeo’- bosom! “Have you been at the islands?” the a Tepor er went on. “Yes? Wuen? Are:'t tney bean :fu.? I was born and ratsed on Kau i You know they call it the Gar- den Isiand.” Born and raiced on Kauail Kaual, the kobinoor of tiiat neck ace of zems that we call Hawail. Aud here was Frank Lindt standing at tne wh tewashed ga of tha Pesthouse looking cut ujon the marsh below, (rom which rose camp ex- Lalations 10 mix with the cdor from the tinneries and th- smoke that drifted over from the Potrers ! To Liave been a boy rioting in that giory of sunshine and summer sea, of emeraid Lills and siiver waterfalls, of cocoanut palms and pomegranate trees, of pale vellow ginger flowers and scariet nibiscus! And all that luxury of sensucus veanty a preparation for what? For the squalor oi a city’s pack vard, for the horrorof a leper’s asylum ! The steward arrived and I followed him up the steps and into the Pesthouse, Ob, how niggaraly San Fruncisco has provided for these wretched ones, whose very lack of capacity !or feeling suould make provision for what wants (bey have and are conscious of obligatory. . A tall Chinaman, straight and with an intelligent, sharp face, came to meet us in THE LATE JUDGE C. T. RYLAND OF SAN JOSE. one of the rooms, cou:hing huskily at | every “All right; “How did you take coid? “House pretty cold,” he ing his dark e dilated pupils See? In winter, wered, < with those unnaturally “No fire here. the rain comes, when have to meve beds ont of the way.’ San Francisco hius just placed a charming | figure above the dome of the City She has 1o nore ‘unas leit to sse th lepers and snug in winter. | 3 k. said the steward. | v years,” Joe said. . Twenty vears! And a year and a half | ago he came tot e Pesthouse. How long pefore nad that insidi slow-breeding ti-ease fastened upon him? And in whose house was he employed at the time? Whose children were exposed to conia- glon? In the next room there were half adozen Chine But these men were not like | voor Joe. He was siend:r and straight. | There was nothing bu: those staring- punied eves to betray the leprous taiut in bim. But these Cuinamen, congregated in their sitting-room, whe'e they play cards and dominos and cook a bitin the | Celestial style, are variously deformed and | I entacies of this | =, side of rhecorner three | | Ontne other men—white men—sat together. They teaching a dog to =it up on his hiad | while a hat rested on his shaggy head. One of the men came to show me 1he clever macaine he ha: con- structed in the corner, whose wheels and conneciing smailer wheels only needed ley and the power tospin busily ecively. But I could not see be- han They were horr.ble. ime,” he said. az! And yet yond n T just did it for ps Oo, how the day must dr I bziieve that in addition {0 the horrible | lack of phys:cal sensation, there is a mer- cital mental numbnes “They cling to life as much as you do,” said the steward, walkinz on down the narrow, draugbty hall that divides this | 1arn into two ly comfortiess sec- ions. *'And tb e hiealthy people, leav- ng apart the lep. We ve had but one death here in nine years—a leper who | died two months ago. We have a school. | Frank Bindt is teacher. Lena, the white | girl, couldn’t read or write when she came here, but she’s learning.’’ | We stepped into Frank Bindt's room. | A liitle to ase was iastened to the in- | side wall, ana its lower sheif was filled with uziform/y bound smail vo umes. “D.ckens,”’ said the porter in answer to my questi ning lovk. And as he put out his hand Isaw why | poor Frank Bindt bad kept his arms be- bind him or i hands torust deep into his pockets wh le he and I talked at the outer gate of this inferno. But the youne man had forgotien now to be sensiti He wasn’t wninking of | himseif. He was talking of In.ersoll, | the man_who's the “be-U writer in the | worl 1,”” Frank Bindt say: i It I had to choose, I tuink I'd rather be Lezua, the white girl laper out at the Pest- | touss, than 1o b: Frank Bindt. For Lena | s lacking mentally. She doesn’. know | what she 1s. She hardly real:zes tha. the dry rot has fasiened upon her. Bat this poor lad who admires lugersoll, who has an eye for the beaut ful and who has an | innate sense of courtesy that is as refresh- ing us the waters of a mountain stream, he knows—he realizes. When Lena came out into the rather dark corridor I gay- her my violets, and shie gave utterance t0 an aimost inartic- uiate “Thanks.” Then she turced and opened the door of her room that I might see the row of tin cans in which she had planted geraniums—stunted and leprous they loosed 1 her window-sill, The light from her window revealed her face to me. and Icould hava cried out at tne si:hi. No wounder tnat clearly enunci- ated words do not come from that muti- lated face! “Wait a minute,” called Annie, the Chinese womsn, when Mr. Kealing knocked at her door. Tnen she came out and stood for a mo- ment in the corrilor, 1alking in a friendly way and showin,: unusual nte lizence. She conldn’t zo out mucu, she said, for the sun hurt her eyes. And I was grate- ful to the dim haliway that [ needn’t see the face that is almost as frightiul as Lena’s, The sun had set wien, following the trail, I had crossed the hill and stood on the high road upposite. Tuoe fumes from the Potrero smokestucks, the odors from the wunieries and he siench from the small dirty ranc es minged with the dampnessrising irom the marsh. The Pest- house and the eucaiyptus trees surround- ing it were lost in this co.d, wet, evil- smellin s, smoky fog. But the blot is there. That old, old sickness .hat is like a coid, waite blight Tem the grave of rorgotten prople, stul claims its victims, in t nineteenth century 100 and in a nealtby young city | of tue West. | Ban Francisco is not proud of ner leper colony. For that reas.m, pernaps, she neglects it, hoping (hst otners too will forger 1ts existence. She erects lofty churches, business buildings whose beauty s @ stone puem. She provides jor parks, for funtains; she bestows the biessing of books upon her peonle. Her skirts grow mor: vo uminous yea <o that oon th ovardressed dame will flannt her weaith, her greatness overall the lovely hills that iringe the cay. But sue ignores that shameful rotten spot out on the hul, leav- ine the lepers to live out their .pathsome lives without the decent comiort of a weather-u, roof above tneir head.. San F-ancisco will beauti'y her cemeteries. She will—if she s compalled to—keen her eireeis clean; but for ihe leper, who lacks all the joy ofiiving an‘i the p-ace o' deaih, she will do notning. H- will conunus 1o live out his days a vicim of nineleenth cenlury was parsimony and cupilicy as he of med @ve! cruelly and ignorance, *Iam too poor,’ <avs San Francisco to the leper, “‘to house you dece:.tly, to pro- v.de for the occup:tion of such faculties as your terrible affliction have spared to you. Iam 100 paor to continue to pro- vide the medicine which, though it can- not cure you, alleviates your distress and relieves vou of tue terror of white-and- red-bloich.d bodies and faces that make | | tesque, raw-boned, living skulls. | otherwise you | eat and enough to wear. | your in you look les« like human beings than gro- I am too poor to make this place at ull bearable to you. But stay here you shall. For idanger my other chil- You shall have enough to In retur I ask of you is to zive up your home, your frien your dear ones, vour occupation, terest in this lifs, and, living, to tiract as little attention as possibie; dy- g, to quit the Pesthouse as quietly and stenatiously as possible.” ‘“‘But what’s the use of running away?" asks Frank Bindt. know you're a leper and wouldn't have anything to do with von anyway.” MiIrrAM MICHELSON. SUCCESS CROWNS HER LONG QUEST Mrs. Rhoades of San Fran- cisco Finzlly Recovers Her Children dren’s health. Pursues Her Divorced Husband to Alaska and Back Before She Triumphs. Special Dispatch to THE CALL LAS VEGAS, N. Mg Dec. 5.—Some weeks ago D-. Rhoades, veterinary sur- geon, came to Las Vegas with two inter- esting chiidren, a boy of 7 and a girl of 9, On Wednesday evening the train from Colorado brought a handsome, aged woman, who went toa hotel, where she registered as Mra. Aliver, Utah. The next morning she leit the hotel, and in the afternoon returned with | two children. e said that she was Mrs. Rhoades, divorced wife of the veterinary, and told a sad story of the taking oi th« chi dren from her by her husband in San Francisco two years ago,and how, spurred on by a mother’s love, she followed them to Alaska, thence to Utah, through Colo- rado and fically to Las Vegas, where she located her children, finding them inzin the street. She left for San cisco witn them. The doctor was not aware of the chi dren’s disappearance until after the train gone. Telerrams were Yent to the Albuquerque officers to intercept the three, but as no warrants were is.ued here the Albuquergnue officers refused to hold the woman, and she was allowed to pro- ceed to her destination. - THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST. Awful Work of the Typhoon Which Swept Over the Philippine Islands. SEATTLE, Dec. 5.—Additional particu- lars have been received of the terrible typhoon whic swept over the Philippine Islands on October 8th, devastating the province of Leyte, Manilla, and causing the death of ceveral hundred persons. Avbout 250 Europeans are repo:ted to have perishe and the number of viclims is put ai irom 400 to 500. The typhoon seems to have done its worst damage at Tacloban, the capital of Leyte, where the whole town was converted into a mess of ruins. The bodies of 120 Europeans were recov- ered. The Government houses were de- stroyed. The cosst is strewn with the wreckaze of vessels that were torn 10 pieces by the hurricane. Ii was reported that the town of Hemoni, having 6000 inbabitants, has dis- appeared. s MEDAL FO. HIS BEAVERY. Colon-l MecCarthy of Walla Walla ticd by Congrees. WALLA WALLA, Dec. 5.—Colonel M, McCarthy has received from the War De. pariment at Wa<hineton, D. C., official notice of the granting to him of « Con- gressional medal for his distinguished bravery at W ite Bird Canyon, Idaho, June 17, 1877, in ihe Nez Perce campaivn. The s atement of his particular service was as iollows: In the action with hostile Indians, June 17, 1877, at White B rd Can- yon, Idaho, by Troops F ana H, First Cavalry, this man, then first sergeant of Troop H, with six men wae detailed to hold a commanding point, but t e troops fei back and he w.s left unsupported, With creat gallantry he held his post and fought nis assa lants, but seeing that he hai been abandoned ne fou-ht his way turough the vicorious In:ians, jrined a frac ion of the routed comm nd and con- tinued the fight in reireat. He had two borses snot and was taken vrisoner, but effecied his escape and reported for auty after three days’ Liding and wandering in the mountaina. SR Alvsvado’s Sug r Mill Oloved. NILES, Dec, 5.—Aiter an eizhty-nine run the sugar mill at Alvarado ciosed this morning for the season. The year has been very prosperous and the amount of beets crushed large. As near ascan be estimated, 100.000 tons of beels were crushed. The faciory intends build. ing more sheds for storage next year, and possioly arrancements will be made to re- fine raw sugar from the aw.ch Islands, —_— The Oreqon ut Port iown:end. PORT TOWNSEND, Dec. 5. — The United States battle-sh p Oregon arrived nere to-day, She will proceed, up the Sound on Wednesday, and during the first week in January she will be pui on the Government drydock at Port Orchard for inspection and reva rs, Age To Cure a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Eromo Qui ine Tablets. All drug- gists refund the munvqy 119t fall l‘:cnm,l 200, The genuiue bas L B. Q. on each tablet. “Everybody would | Fran- i | Grover middle- | Ogden, | | | dow of F. Schilling_ & Son’s gunstore on DEATH CLAIHS JUDGE RYLAND Passing of the Pioneer at His San Jose Home. One of the Men Who Helped to Make California History. Served His State and Country In Numerous Positions of Trust. Epeclal Dispatch to THE CALL. SAN JOSE, Dec. 5 —Hon. Ca us Tzcitus Ryland died this aiternoon, in his sixty- third year. He leaves a widow and ch dren to mourn his los., In hisdeatha notable figure, a pioneer and a widely | known anl conspicuous citizen passes away. C. T. Ryland was born in Missouri and at an early age came to California and eventually settled in this county. He was alawyer and an energetic business man, engaging with success in various enter- prises. He accumulated a large fortune and was one of the rich men of the county. The Ryland blcck, vrobably the most handsome in this city, was built and owned by him. He leaves other valuable real estate holdings, as well as large | values in personal property. He has been for years a large hoider of local bank stock and, until ke retired from ac- tive business, par:icipated in the manage- ment. He married a Gaughter of one of California’s first Governor, Burnett. John W. Ryland, who is now Postmaster, hav- ing been appointed by President Cleve- land, is his son. Atone time C. T. Ryland was one of the most active lawyers of this bar, but his large business interests caused him to withdraw from the practice of his profes- sion. His death removes one of the few of those hiardy spirits which connecied the pioneer days with the present, and will be sincerely regretted by a large circle of rela- tives and friends. He bad been in failing health for some time, Although a zealous and earnest Demo- crat, Mr. Ryland was never a vioient par- tisan nor searcher after office, but his character and standing caused his party ‘o roreatedly urge him to accept oftice.” In | 1855 he was elected to the lower house of | the Legisiature, and arain in 1868 In the latier year he was chosen Speaker. In 1876 he was chairman ‘he Demo- cratic State Convention, and n ihe fo. lowine session of the Legislature became | a prominent candidate for United Siates Senator. He was twice a leading candi- date before the State convention for the gubernatoria: nomination. He was twice elected to Natioral Democratic conven- tions, and in 1888 was one of the vice-pres- idents of'the convention ibat nominated Cleveland for President. He was appoinied by Governor Low, though differing in politics, as one of the commissioners to locate the State University, and was -appciuted by Governor Haight one of the Tru-tees of the State Normal Scuool and served as such until the election of Governor Per- kiuns, when be resigned, thou h offered a renewal of histerm. He wasone of the organizers ot the Santa Clara Valley A?- ricultural Societ He was also a life| member ot the California Society of Pio- neers, and was three times elected presi- dent of the organization. FROM VI>aLia 10 LXETER, Southern Pacific lieudy to Extend Its Braneh Line, VISALIA, Dec. 5 —The Sowthern Pacific Company 1s now ready fo extend the Visalia Railroad, which it recently ac- quired, to its Porterville branch at Exeter, a small village eleven miies almost due east of this place. This is the news brought from San Francisco by a local business man who had an interview with H. E. Huntington o few days since. ‘I'ne Southern Pacific will ‘ask of the peo- ple of Visalia the rigit of way for the ex- tension. Two or three miles of this nec- essary right of wav was quietly obtained by the compauny several years ago. Huaut- | ington suys Lis company is reads to be- gin actual work as soon as the rights of way are in his hands. sdatite Boy Burglars Make a Haul. JOSE, Dec. 5.—Two boys, each SAN [ about 16 years of age, broke the record here this morning at 2:30 o’clock for a bold burglary. They torced the door of an empty store and tnen procured som: tools with which threv broke the iron win- | El Dorado street. Thi ty-one pisiols, two shotguns and three rifies made up their piunder. The boys were arrested shortly after the bur'fluy and the stolen property recovered. h-y gave their names as John Steil and Fred Craney. el i bl Hunter Accidentally Sh NILES, Dec. 5.—As Eiward Stivers, a young man about 158 years of age, was hunting near Irvin ton this morning, in landing a boat he dropped his gun on the shoreand it wa<acc.dentally discharged. The coarge struck Lis right arm at the wrist aud ranged upward to tue elbow, where it lodeed. Iv is thoughi that he will Io-e his arm, Death Sirikes Suddenly. CORNWALL, Can, Dec. 5 — While walking tbrouch the gateway vefore nher dwelling shortly vefore noon to-day Mrs 8. Booth of Bluck Diamond was str ck+n by anapopleptic_stroke aud die: fi teen minutes la! Mrs. Booth was 66 y. ars ot aze, and h: been a resid nt o B ack iamond for the past seventecu years. Four sons survive her. —— turned to Death in Jail. PASADENA, Dec 6 —Fred R. Haskins was burned to death in the city juil at Sierra Madre this morning. Huskins, who wus 28 vears of uge. wa~ arrested on o churge of drunkenness. During ihe night he sei fiie to his bedaing and was burned to death befure assisiance could be ren- dered. SUS?IGIOUB FiRE. The Old Mnk Station at Army and Alabama Streets Totally Destroyrd. Fire Marshal Towe 1s investigating & suspicious fire that took p ace early Sat- urday morning at Army and Alabama streets. The building used to be a station for the inspection of milk, but recently it has been occupied by the San Francisco Brew- eries, with the intention of starting a sa- lion, There was nothing but ine saloon fixtures in the place, and C. Cokley slept on the premises to look after tnings. Cokiey went downiown Friday night, and when he returned early yesterday morning the place was desiroyed by tire, Tquos- on conterts and building isabout There was nothing of a combustible na- ture on the premises, and it is though. the fire Was tho work of an incendiary, I RUSSIAY POWER IN THE ORIENT Czar Becomes Dictator in the Affairs of Korea. Compels the Dismissal of an English Superintendent of Finance. Peromptory Demand That He Succeed=d by a Russlan Enforced. Be Special Dispatch to TRE CALL. SEATTLE, Dec. 5-—The Kagoshima Maru, one of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamers, arrived in port from Yokonama, Japan, baving sailed from there on No- vember H. She brings Oriental advices that are extremely interesting, in view ot the complex nature of the political situa- tion in the far east. According to reports Russia is steadily gaining ground over Engiand in the af- fairs of the eastern nations. Her latest achievement is to procure the dismissal of M:. Brown, Korea's Superintendent-Gen- eral of Finauce and Customs. He is an Englishman and for -everal years bas had full control of Korea’s customs and finan- cial system. The Russian Embassador at Seoul in October last notitied the Korean Govern- mgnt of the arrival of M. Kuril Alexeieff. This information was supplemented by the peremptory demand that Alexeieff be installed in the position then held by Brown. The Korean Government pro- tesied that it was under contract with Brown an | that he had several years yet toserve. The Russian Embassador replied that Kore: contracts with citizens ot other countries was no concern of his, and insisted upon the instant dismissal of Brown. The Korean Government feared to re-ist and soon pielded to the de- mand. In consequence a contract was entered into with ihe Russian Embassa- dor which placed Alexeieff in entire charge of the financial and customs sys. tem of the kingdom for an indefinite period. RACES FOR CHRISTIANS, Rev. Edwards Davis Applies to President Williams to Set the Day. He Lost $17,000,000 and Wants to Play Even, Figuratively Speaking. OARLAND OFFICE BAN FrANCIsco Cavrr, 908 Broadway, Dec. 5. Hemilton Hall was crowded this even- ing at the sermon of the Rev. Edwards Davis on *‘A Straight Tip on the Races.” He bad aske! Thomas Williams Jr., presi- dent of the Qakiand Club, to set a day upon which drinking and gambling would be pronibited, in order, as he said, that Christian peopie might attend the track. “My texi,” he said, “‘is terse. “It is from Ecclesiastes ix:11: ‘The race is not to the swiit.” Many young men have found that only two ciasses of men can sfford to play the races—those who have more money than brains, and those who are coustant atterdants at the track, It takes as much experience on the track as on the stock exchange. x “The bear seldom conquers the buli and tenderfeet of the turf butt their brains against the stone wall of the beokies. And yet there is an immense desire in man to take aivantage of odds; 100 to 1 seems good even if you lose. It atfords opportunity to gloat over winnings that mieht have been. “Recenily 1 plaved the races—on paper. I followed Jockey Piggotr. His firat mount w s 10 to 1 and won; the second was 25 to 1 and won; his third was 8 to 1, al-o winning; his last, 20 to 1, again win- ning. I investsd $1 on the first race and for 1he day I won, hguratively, $40,000. * On the morrow Iinvested baif my win- nings, but my tips were not straight and I iost $17.000.000, figuraiively, of ecourse. Then 1 went taroug : in-olvency, sold my field glasses and returned to my profes- sion a wiser man. If any one thinks the thousand that go to see the rices go to see the horses run he must be a farmer. “I have addressed Thomas Williams, president of the Oakland track, k- ing him to e a Cbristians' day for the races, bui I em not yet author- ized to announce the date. “In horse race or human race, the race is not always to the swift. In liiethe jockey oi circumstance often holds the winuin: entry tack. Men should be tauglht to take the bit in their mouths and win. They should learn that tuere are many in the race, and though all run, but one secureth the prize. “So run that ye muy obtain. Earth is the track around which the course o1 life encircies; the wire 13 the scenter of God, and a crown of glory the re- ward of bim who wins. ‘Let us luy aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset ue,’snd let us run with patience the race that 1s set for us, looking unto Jesus, the asuthor and fin- isher of our fate. Amen,"” § THE COMING SERMON, Dr. M. M. Gibson Delivers a Diseourse on the Prencher That Shali Be in Demand in the Future, “What Kiud of Preaching D es the T me Demand ?”" was the sut ject Dr. M, M, Gibson of ihe First United Presuy an Church cno-e ior a -ermpn last night. He | said in part: ‘l"?ln’d" tbe common people heard him nily. Ve hear no little abo the coming woman, the coming :his thing of that thing., IU's the general .Lpn-..mu lthl in every air-ction there is go ng to be radical enanges. The futureisgoing to give us an improvement on the presen t—now perhaps 1t would not be outof place about the coming sermon. There is nothing the eri‘ieal spiric of this age stops a momext to lay its hands on and if jos+ible hake 1t 1o pleces 1f it s not too sceurely put tovether. I am not antici- PALIDE OF manuisciuriug ihis inguiry, for tiis very weck Ilaid aown on my desk’ a book with this very question—the coming sermon, It made bold (0 sny that the sermou of yes- terday carried the It had served i'sd This was made the a critical sisndpo ut the coming man, yand ought be buried. arget for rifie shots from int and I must say there CASTORIA The f2- . sinile o sigzature w every o 4 WIappR, ead wood of ail the ages. | | : lew center shots from the Winchester. What's the matter? The people do mnot crowd about the pupit The kingdom of heaven is uffiriog o violence. The violen: are not jamming to get into our church doors except (here is some scandul 10 expose, somebody dead in the belfry, some sensational topic (o be discussed. Is il pecause Dr. Drynsticys is in the pulpitor is it becaus public seutiment were not eritic’s has no interest in anything reli:lous except it is interlarded with flash a:d fake? Wuat's the matter? asks the writer who scribbles about the coming sermon. He puts the quest.ons and suggeststhe answers. Some say (e age is the worstof ail the ages. No, says he, it s toe Detter. Some say rel.gion is wearine out. No, says he, it is wearing in. Some -ay there are so many who despise the Chris(inn re- tigion. Ianswer. Says he, there never was an age when there were so many Christians or so many irfends of Christiarity as this age has—our age—as to others a hundred 1o oue. You he is uo pessimist. N, he is the bold st of optimists. What is the matter, then? Itissim;ly pecause our sermou of to- day isnot suited to the age. It isthe canal- boat in an age of locomotives going at the rate of sixty miles an hour; of the electric telegraph, the telephone, phoiograph, etc. e EVENING WITH THE GYPSIES. D. N. Walter to Give a Novel Entertainment. A novel enter ainment will be given on Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. D. N. Walter, 1200 Vau Ness avenué. The guests have been asked to attend “an evening with the gyrsies’” All pres:nt will wear the Mrs. VESSELS TOSSED | Series of Hurricanes En~ countered on the Pacific. Barkentine Skagit Lands Two Seamen With Broken Limbs. Fears for the Safety of the Steam=- ship Pelican, Now Long Overdue. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. PORT TOWNSEND, Dec. 5.—Anxiety for the safety of the steamship Pelican, now filty-ihree davs out from Puget Sound for Japan, was increased to-day when the Romany costume. | The anniversary of Miss Katherine Rosen- | beuer’s birthday was celebrated Friday even- ing. The sffair was rathera surprise to the young lady. Miss Lizette Roscabauer ar- ranged the details of the entertainment. The evening was enjoyably spent in music, sing- ing, conversation and dancing, after which a delightful supper was served. Eich guest found a souvenir cari on his or her plate containing a descriptive verse anpropriate to the individual. Those present were: The Misses Katherine and Lizetie nuer, Marie and Emily Suter, Ida_Anseil, Addle Beardsiey, Marie Leonhard:; Mossrs. Charles A. Heliwig, M. A. Flood, William Cilinan, H. Schumacher, S. l. Cheda and Robert B. Schlipf. The regular monthiy entertzinment and dance of the Native Sons ol Vermont will be held on Fridayevening in Odd Fellows’ Hall. The following programme has been arranged for the occasion: Overture, Dellepiane’s recitation (selected), Kuck ; soprano solo (selec rglund; romanza, *Se tu la vidi” (Lognder), Signor F. | Michelena, the celebrated tenor, late of ta Tivoli Opera-house. *T » a farcical comedy in oue act, th C. Bun- ner.lu{l of spectal splitting situations—Orlando Worms, ma ager of the Acorn Theater, Louis Butier; Rich ard Graves a celebrated lawyer, and Aramints | Snapper, a_strong-mindea spiuster. Reginald Travers; Hector Dramatage, a French dram- g n¢; May Chirrup, an up-to- datemaiden, Miss Virginia Vaughn (Goodsell); Rosebua Jewel, an artless schoolgirl, Miss Etta Butler; Violet Vap Hoffsmit! belle, Miss Hope Mosh®r; Tom, s bellbo other unsuccessiul candidates: scene, office of Acorn Theater; introduced French toe dance, Miss A. Stevelier. Tne wedding of Miss Alice Purtridge to the | Hon. Nathan Powell Tay.ior of Henderson, Ky., is ammounced for Tuesda: evening, December | 14. Owing to arecent death in the bride’s tamily it will be a home wedding. Miss Part- | ridge will pe at home to her iriends Friday afiernoon and evening, December 10, at her res.dence, 3125 Twent, -first street. [i evening, Novemb r party was given 10 E. H. Clawiter a in Mt E Among those present and Mrs. E. H. Clawiter, Miss Gra 2d. 1. Cluwiter, Miss Emma Sch Schaier, Miss Ann 0, Misses Tillie, C a :d Wrede, Mr. Mrs. H. Peterman and Dr. Reynolds of Haywards. Mrs. N. Van Bergen has_tendercd a compli- mentery benefit to the St. Paulus Frauen- verein, 1o be given at her residence, 834 Post | street,'o the afternoons and evenings of De- cember 9 and 10. The family ot Dr. Luke Robinson have re- Orchestra: home moved from ¢ Fillmore to 2626 Steiner stre Mrs. Henry Morris will be at bome the sec- | ona Wednesday of each month at 1717 Post street. Mrs. Siegfried Davis will be at home the sec- ond Wednesday of each month at1717 Post street. Dr. and Mrs. Post haye returned to the city from their ranch near Suratoga aud are at the | Hotei Oliver for the winter. They will receive | the first and second Tuesdays. Mrs. Horace Smytn, with her guest, Miss Cortez, has returned after a year's sojourn in Europe. Barney Goldberg, after an absence of four montbs, has returned from his Eastern trip, The engagement of Miss Fiora Rich of Turk street to Jake Golinsky of Kes isennounced. |xe DR. WEIL A BENEDICK. |i The Popular Head Surgeon at the Ke- | ceiving Hospital Quietly Married | Yesterday. | shifted, the steamer being | broken. the topic of his sermon ““Fools.” | very conspicuou Japanese steamship Kagoshima Maru arrived with her cargo of 1220 tons badly listed, as a result of terrible storms encountered in crossing the Pacific. She reported a suc- | cession of gales all the way over, and later in the day the schooner Maweems srrived from Honolula with stories to t3 same effect. This afternoon the barkentine Skagit came in and sent two men with broken legs to the hospital. One was the mate, whose leg was broken while the vessel was | discharging tumber at Hilo. He was well on toward recovery when the barkentine was struck by a hurricane on the night of November 15, and was thrown from his bunk, his leg being again Lindberg, seaman on the Skagit, had his leg broken during the same storm by being thrown against the vessel’s rail. “Captain Robinson describes the storm as one of the worst he ever experienced, and the hurricane of the day mentionéd came on so suddenly that most of the sails spread at the time were blown away before they could be taken in. The storm continued for two days, during which time the vessel ran before it with bare oles. p’l'he Pelican is now nearly forty days overdue, and to-day’s report of the storms on the Pacific has caused her to be given up in many quarters. SPOKE ON “FOOLS” Rev. Dr. Rader Delivers an Interesting Sermon. At the Third Congregational Church last night Rev. William Rader took f.r He said in part: There are three classes of people in every country—tne wise, the vicious aad the foolish, There are a great many fools in the world and eaucation is not destructive of foolishness. Ben Jonson and Dean Swift were fools in spite of their briliiant attainments. T, make men wise is to make them righteous. In the Biole the fool is defiued as evil, heedless, iess, thick headed aud rebellio ak 0f the theologigal, philosophical, economic and retigious fool. By the first it is me«nt the man who in his heart says there is no God. Pautheism is better than atheism; defsm 1s tetter than atheism; anything is pet- ter than nothing in faith. The fool in the field of social economy is s great deal of f oolishness Tm is now advocatea by aud impossible enthusiasts. Henry George was an ideal reformer, char- acierized with sincerity, earnestness, intelli- gence, saniy and the ability to make a con- tinous tmpression with a single idea. The fool in reform wilt defeat as a rule, both himseif and the sane man, who works wisely and for the truth. The crank lias done more harm than the anarchist who is himself a crank, The fool in the province of religion has d-re more harm to_the cause of Christfanity than the wfidel. Untrained and irresponsible ad- { certain pha f religious truth, : ts with more zeal than brains, up- s without purpose or influence defeat’ the principles of Ch i-tianity by their foclishness. Jesus did not construct greatd 8¢, save the drama of the cross, yet was he wiser than shakespeare. He did not discover new worlds, save the continent of wisdom and liberty, and love, and a man though a ool need not err therefn. Dr. Conrad Weil, the popular head | surgeon at the Receiving Hespital, is a | sy dog. He imagined that the attaches | at the hospital and his friends did not know of the fact that he had taken unto nimself a charming wife, but he was mis- | taken, and if they had oniy known where he and his bride had gone he would have been showered with telegrams of con- gratulation. About noon Saturday be quietly walked into Cupid Danforth’s office and procured the iecessary license. Then he drove to 1912 Clay street, the residence of the bride, where the rector of St. Luke’s Church tied the nuptial knot. It was a very quiet wedding, and aiter the ceremony was over i Dr. and Mrs. Weil left for Santa Cruz. They will return on Tuesday. The bride, who is a highly accomplished and beautiful young lady, was Miss May | Miichell Spring, he adopted daughter of John R. Spring, 1912 Clay street. A few weeks ago, when Dr. Rinne and | Bteward Bucher of the hospital stnff were married, Dr. Weil acted as best man for both, but he gave no indication of his ap- prozching happiness. Pretty i'ictures. Good values, artistic frames and choice sub- jects. The Hargreave’s line of victures from lite complete. Sanborn, Va.l & Co. = —————— . Ellis Teal Missing. Robert Forsyth, 1304 Leavenworth street, reported at police headquarters vesterdsy the mysterious disappearance of a young friend, El.is Tea! of Los Angeles. He 1s 18 vears of sge, about six feet tall and smootn face. He left Los Angeles last Friday morniug to come to this city, but has not turned up aud noth- in; has been heard from him. e Olympic Club Boxing Bouts. ‘The Oiympic Club directors met Thurs- day ana announced that special amae- | teur boxing matches would be held in the club’s pymnasium on December 10, Seven alieged amateur boxers have been signed to scrap, and doubtiess they will “put up’”’ some rattline and smashing bouts where science will be at a premium. ELLTN At St. Patrick’s Fair. OAKLAND, Dec. 5.—At the carnival fair of St. Patrick’s Parish, in West Qak- land, an exceptionally fine programme was rendered Tuesday evening. One of the principal features wasj:he Irish danc- ingand delsarte expressions by Miss Pearl Hickman. Among others who assisted were Miss Cora Fiske of Berkeley, Miss Emma Wells, Mrs. O’Connor, little Miss Myra Coffee and Messrs. Donnelly, Lae throp and Hickman. .. A Bakery Robbed. OAKLAND, Dec. 5.—Some time between 1and 6 o’clock this morning burglars en- tered (he Palace bnkery and relieved the casn register of $53 in coin. The doors were all locked us well as the register, which cause the police to believe that some discharged employe is responsible for the theft. —————— The drink bill at most of our London ho-pitals is much less than it used 10 be. At Guy’s, for instance, 'he sum yearly ex- pended on alcoholic liquors for the nae tients1s at the rate of 9s, a bed, In 1862 1t was no lessthan £3 9-. V LANTED—BOY AT HOOVER'S PHAR- alitornia and Devisadero sts.; age 16 IT SAVED. We all know what “MANNA” was. time to that nation to which we owe al’ that we ho'd as But what is manhood's manna? Gentiles most dear. “Hulyan.” It may be a cur one thing that wi'l save life the greates'—in fact th- one 1t corrects the cffets of abus ing else ean do. State, and they all tell the s “Hudyan” makes man i- ness. It makes no difer- ence as to hoiv lit'le right yow have to the privileges of aman. “Hudyan” saves yow. It hassav d so many men that yow would be . astonished to read the list. You had best write or call. thing tha! saved life thousands of years ago. ‘‘Hudyan” is Do yow doubt this? niuls that range from Alaska to Cape Horn—there are written statements that riun all the way front Maine to this It was life for a Itis riows comparison, but itis the to-day! Manna was the one thing that makes manliness. It does for men what noth- There are testimo- e, ame “story. The story is that liatiia E % % % % | % HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITU Stockton, Market and Ellis Sts., San Francisco WWWWOMWW FE, BY OCEAN GALES —