The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1898, Page 21

21 THE SA CO CALi, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1898, GARS KNOW ALL ABOUT YOUR REPUTATION FOR GIVING A Directory Is Kept, in Which Al the) === T Rgspecion" Names of the Charitablu Inclined Are Indexed, and Information Is Furnished Begoars for a Per- centdge of the Charity Bestowed, Capitalists, bankers, ne—-paper men, doctors, ]a\\'yc;s~nll classes of chari- | s : SR table people—they are in this directory, | co that is patronized and made | |, o; oy classified and described. An | use of by beggars alone? The | eptry reads something like this: shrewd owner of it has indexed GREEN, A. B.—Jolly—Presi- all the philanthropically inclined dent of a bank. Large man with | people in the city, with their faults, & bald head and clean-shaved | weaknesses and what they are inclined face Meae (o lasess Sest 71 o’cloc] to give, When a tramp or beggar in the evening. Tell him Mrs. wants “to work” any particular class White sent vou. Will be very | of citizens he goes to the owner of this short and sharp with you at directory and obtains from him for first. Will tell you you should payment all his private information about the people he thinks will give the | 208 10 0F 0% 106 106 08 106 106 X0 106 X6 106 X6 10 06 0F (CHiCH 108 106 06 08 £0¥ 6 0 10 08 308 08 X0 08 X0 08 X most. FRA PROFESSIONAL BEG ID you know that there was a| vate directory in San Fran- | Of late I have heard more of the| directory, with some detailed lntormn-i | tion as to its possessor and form. The directory itself is a comparatively small OME kind-hearted people will be pained to learn that in San Francisco there is a man engaged in the business of supplying beggars with information about the best persons to go o s i i / | /r KNG THE BOY To Come /AND COEE™ HIM TAGAIN NEXT.* o , / CONDITION OF THE NICAKAGUA CANAL book, bound in leather, fashion of the ried by collectors, and is arra :d but smokes a time: nd occasionally goes spree with abundant fun drunk as long as he d so. But he never enough to part with h nce. Al rned how ea s not long b 5 s in beg; ver there . The on m was the f , all visited much the carch of mone ch the same upon their v to be about 1 sa mp arrivi gravitat other with which San F 1. the I the informant from 20 to 50 per the proceeds according to his ence or inexperience in such w a iption of the person he after indexed notebooks car- st tead of alphabetically. Its I i aforsaciiebynaniEs oI pleas. Under each man’s or woman’s name follows a list of their toils not, neither does he personal characteristics; whether they are sour, surly, good-natured good cigar at to keep him to remain nes directory or to talk about it to the nitiated. ceeds in getting. The amount of the percentage depends on whether for some time I have been connected i @ » with an tion which deals’ with thelonstomer te Bl oxjcanyisiomonke B s and stray bc of all The book containing the information is indexed according to to teach them manliness d task nce of the boys once ob- re they tell me ing that had, with singular unan- y or clc of the numerous “h greeing to give taken out to certain houses, posted | vhat sort of a story to tell, given to for charity. This man keeps what is called a tip-book, a regular directory in which he indexes all the philanthropic and benevolent people and all those who bestow charity on special the | nged by | or gruff; whether they give food, clothes, money, work or promises and any particuiar information that may be of benefit to the beggar in approaching them for charity. ‘In return for the information furnished by this man the beg- gar is required to pay from 25 to 50 per cent of whatever he suc- upon a drunk streets so that the beggar can start at one end and work right straight along. All our prominent bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, so- ciety women and every one charitably inclined are carefully indexed in *‘Spider Kelly’s” directory, and a good deal more information is appended than is furnished by the Blue Book or City Directory. when te beg [sR=ReRaReRuFaRaFeRaFugegeRegeReRRuReRaFaFegaFoFegegeeFe] in the was no Iy act but a arts of COOD00OCOVUCOORVOOVROVOVOVVTVVOVVTIGES be at work instead of begging. Tell him you have been trying but can’t because the city but has cases presented to him of needy people, well known to him, and deserving, who cannot be assisted because there are no funds available, list of reterences. Tell him | or whom he assists from an already hing, vou will be glad to work if he | overtaxed salary, while people of his will send ybu to some place own congregation are contributing to experi- s, vou can obtain work. He >bably give you a couple of meal tickets and two-bits to lodging and tell the support of this worthless parasite who is Preying upon society in a more cowardly manner than ever the much | get a | you to :desmsed Fagin preyed upon London come to his office in the morn- through his corps of juvenile pickpock- ing, giving you | ets. ‘There is not a: suit of clothes in to him. Go in the morning, | given to these juvenile beggars and and he will think you mean | by them sold to the dealers in second- busin Won't try to get you | hang clothes but could be placed on a place, but will give you one or | tne back of some boy who really needs two dollars to keep you going | it and perhaps suffers for the want of ou can find work. Prides |t by any one of half a dozen well- rocee If on always investigating conducted charities of this city, and the applyisg to him/ Has Deen pity of it is that these boy tramps who - | - cent of known to give as high as $5. | receive the gifts are rendered more dif- experi- | S0 Mr. Green has been supplied With | 5.1t of reformation by the well-in- work, he | & continuous stream off deserving bovs, | yanitoned but badly directed kindness all looking for work, all genuine cases and all carefully investigated—by Mr. Green’s method—and all relieved to the extent of the loose change in My. Green’s pocket when the I y makes his of these people who have not time nor patience to investigate cases presented to them for relief, yet insist upon dis- pensing their own charity. is to see SOODOL OO 00000000000 | the hobo fraternity, and in a quiet, in- | what kind of a con talk fetches 'em. | second appearance. Sometimes he bl have h@ar(tl) this directory described B orering home « e % : varies the performance by telling the | PY too many boys who have seen it to HE ordering home s returned to attep 1 to pri- boy to come and see him again next | doubt it for a moment, and I have seen States warship and lh“]rluu“ : the (\u) week if he fails to find work. This the | its re{)u;ed posseesar o0, 18 well- eeriaaMhe Coraal T e now devolved upon Ad- Il this resulting to the great | oy does—invariably. dressed, dissipated looking m: i Gl Hbt e mi : principally. These are » of the owner of the direct. | Other entries are concerning people | ently about 34 or nd known to the A S bn ot not a few, a the admiral has been all the time enlarging Who give clothing, but never money, | hobo fraternity as g °n thequestionsof very busy in the offices of the commis- mplifying his directory s and people who can always be depend-{ How long the directory will remain icaragua nal sion. at the United States army baild. . it thoroughly up to date and | €1 upon for meal tickets or an order | as valuable as it seems to be now, I The commission ¢ of Admiral | priiiis o Lo e o for a bed. The meal tickets are bought | canrtot say, but I wish that I might Walker, Colonel Hains and Prof T3 el SRl ool i e ticular directory man seems | Up by the directory man at half-price | g0 over the book and tell each of those Haupt, and had done as much I -1t a8 4 OUn- | to be quite a student of human nature, | and sold at a slight advance. The spoken of in its pages of real cases of = try the advisability of having a too, for he never seems to send the | clothes, if used by the boys, are ap- | boys who could be helped to become = before the order to They had gone > route ey ol e . e nitts rtomd o f ralievine g di ze paid him out of the boy's Sistance now given to juvenile tramps. rv thoroughly and are only 1 ihe Horr chnld e b 1 boys who are looking for dis sh gift, so that pretty nearly A. H. HUTCHINSON. waiting for the accurate ot e b e et e e relatives in San Francisco he is| everything Is fish that comes to his SR parties in the field surveying the route | s ‘1o United States o D o with half orphans who are | net. P, said v i partiegiin el rins of the United States could have been | {1iiny'to earn money to get back home | All this would be merely funny, and R e e = e 2 in much quicker communication with| ¢y their fathers or mothers. He gets| we could laugh over how these people Sieepiechpcer L know abonciain Colonel Hains has returned to his | each other. A Sihew adot caris he S 4 s - 3 =8.Deon directory biz, I do, from de A’s to | each other. At pr nt the new appro- | just the kind of cases he is fond of, | are being gulled were it not for the = Z ¢ | division of United States engineers in | priation the southeast, with his headquarters, t at present, at Baltimore. Professor .nd more appare ppears su . work to completion. will come in each month until the work | ind of boy to a piace, The sometimes whether there were forms of distr in the city. so that | praised by the directory man and a | manly and useful by a little of the as- | It was customary to write with sym- ! the philanthropic people who can be | steeplechaser” used “to work” the East, an’ any kinder velvet ye wanter sport fer a spiel an’ a per cent. See?” “The steeplechaser” is well known to offensive way to the police. Vagrancy is the charge usually booked against him, and then only when he is unable to successfully shift for himself among JTo WHAT OORT OF A STORY, blarneyed into keeping his kind. “The but for the last two years he has elect- ed California to be his home and Cali- fornians to be his benefactors, because the Eastern climate was developing his eumatiz or something.” “De Spider’s directory-book’s a lead pipe cinch for any hobo wid a gilt front fer fine work an’ feelin’,” he con- tinued. “Gimme de Spider's tip an’ lemme know de kinder gent I'm spielin’ de affectin’ to an’ I'll give bonds ter rake down de rhino to keep me heart beatin’ ‘When de swallers homeward fly’ all tru de clammiest Klondike win- ter as ever was. “What's a quarter or a half take off on what yer get for the Spider when he turns over his book an’ truns ye de handle, phiz an’ heart talk of de philan- thropic gent what'll jess han' ver so many plunks down on de nail for jess callin’ on him, eh? “It's jess like telephonin’ yer banker. Now, ain’t it, say? When I was chewin’ frozen hambones an’ shakin’ meself| wedder I'd be a corpse or an engel de next minute four blizzardy winters ago in Kansas City you bet I'd soaked me scrapin’s fer steen sweet summers fer two fingers of de Spider’s tips. “What's de good of city directories and directories what ain’t city directo- ries to hobos an’ such like? Dey don’t tell ye what de blokies 'll give up an’ Dat’s what we want to make a livin’ an’ dat's what Spider Kelly's givin’ us. “He's all right, he is. Lettem alone. His directory ain’t hurtin’ any body but de hobo who don’t know how ter use it. See?” - SECRET SERVICE IN THE ARMY. URING the Revclutionary War | ment of the United States Congress Washington had secret service | made an annual appropriation of $30,- itish camps. | 000 for secret service, and this custom agem_s o thre ?rhtd s m‘; has prevailed unto the present. This Lafayette furnished sympa-|"payvaple by direction of the Presi- thetic ink obtained from | dent and Secretary of State, and no voucher is necessary. During the rebellion the secret serv- ice branch of the Government was very active. General Butler o..ce paid $50 for a hand organ and monkey. It was used by an officer who, disguised France, which was visible only where | the sheet of paper on which the mes- sage was washed with another fluid. pathetic ink on blank paper, and though one would expect him to wonder | fact that a direct injury is being per- | petrated upon those who can least af- | | ford it. Not a pastor of a church in no other de X's, an’ it's all right. | blokies to strike for a handout, de rhino { Washington suggested In the early history monplace letter be written, after which See? It’s | the message could be written in sym- Spider Kelly's straight tip on de | pathetic ink on the margins. as a beggar, was enabled to pass the enemy’s lines. The Confederate Government had an army of secret agents at Washington, and the Federal Government was daily betrayed by these agents. that a com- of the Govern- 000000000000 OCO0ICCO0CCCO000R00000CC00CO000C0000000000000000000000000C0NOC0000CC00ON0CON0C000000000000C000000I0000000000000000C0Q0C0000 Why the Seventtr Day Hdventists See the Gnd of the World in the Present War Discussed by: Y every one this message of war is interpreted in a different purely p 1al way. There is among us a band of people who look upon it all calm-eyed and seriously expectant. To them it is merely the fulfilling of the prophetic ut- terances of Joel, Je ah, Isaiah, Daniel, Habakkuk. John and ot ved to us rtentous words have 1d new testaments = people are known as Second Adventis as thes eve in the literal and personal second coming of Christ. A portion of them have differentiated be- tween themselves and the rest of the Christian world by observing turday instead of Sunday as the Sab- bath of the Lord, claiming that God himself set apart this day for his speclal service, while men alone de- cided upon Sunday for the purpose and these call themselves Seventh Day Adventists. Both branches of this church, however, put im- plicit faith in the Bible, and find therein reasons for everything that has happened, and a clear and ex- plicit exposition of all that is to come. It is their belief—justified to them by past and pres- ent events—that we are now living in the last days of this earth; that the end of the world as we know it is close at hand, and that many of us will ourselves see in the body the hour when the Lord shall appear in the clouds of heaven surrounded by his angels, and carry his elect away with him to the heavenly man- sions prepared for them; whence they shall come, 1000 years after, to dwell forever in this earth, which has meanwhile been perfectly purified by fire. Feeling assured of 'this the members of this church stand firm and constant, for it has been foretold that a universal war shall precede the first judgment day, and the present war, with the possibilities involved, but confirms them in their belief in the nearness of the glorious time to come, when, the great battle of the last day being ended, the Lord shall come in his power to reward them for their steadfastness in the faithe Three men, prominent in this church, here present their views on this subject as follows: R That the glorious yet awful “Last Day” is close at hand can be doubted by no one who is conversant with the divine - .. plan as get forthiin.the Bibls and who has eyes t6 see and ears to hear and a mind to understand the occurrences which are taking piace in the world around us. No less than thirteen different lines of Bible prophe- cies are now either fulfilled or are being fulfilled, and even the most careless and indifferent cannot but se« and be impressed with this fact if he will but turn aside from his usual avocations long enough to give gerious attention to certain circumstances which can be readily and quickly pointed out to him by any of ELOER MILTON C. WILCOX | Editor Signe of the Times. Rev. 6. C. our brethren s,” the “increase of knowl- “increase of disease,” the ‘‘waxing old of evidenced by the frequency of earth- ones, the failures of crops, the chang imatic conditions and 2 18, and all such mani -and the ‘rise of di kinds of religions,” but a few of the many features which 1rly indicate that we are surely and swiftly nearing end of the period of probation. jother thing which particularly impresses this fact upon the candid observer is the frequency and enor- v of the crimes which are being committed on our th at the present time. Trusted officials in every land are proving too weak to resist temptation; rob- beries small and great are being perpetrated every hour; murders and suicides and ail manner of evil deeds are so common everywhere as to win little more than pa: g notice from all those who are not directly and personally interested either in the crime. the criminal or his punishment. Unmistakabiy we have reached the “last day,” in which the Savior tells us the earth shall be “filled with violence.” That the present war with Spain is the beginning of the ‘“‘great general war,” which is to include all nations and to occur just preceding the second coming of our Savior, is undoubtedly true. While peace may and probably will be made between the United States and her present foe and there may be a delusive period of quiet and inaction for a time all over the world the war spirit which has now found an opportunity to assert its existence for perhaps a brief space will not be exorcised. It will grow stronger and stronger no matter how carefully it may be concealed; it will work and ferment like yeast, and break out here and there on slight pretexts until at last, in the words of our Savior, “nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.” But there are prophecies yet to be fulfilled this side the close of the period of probation, such as the closing words of the message—Revelation xviil, 1-4, and of the powers of earth, Revelation xiif, 11-18, and chapters 16 and 17, and until these are completed the end shall not come. Of this we are assured. The parliament of religions, the evangelical alli- ance and the peace and arbitration societies all talk of the blessedness of peace and most truthfully, but the countries in which all these talkers live are spend- ing millions for new implements of war, for arms and ammunition and torpedo-boats and men-of-war and mines and forts and all manner of offensive and de- fensive materials. And new inventions of things cal- culated to wound and kill more swiftly and surely than the weapons which were satisfactory in the past are continually being brought to the notice of the dif- ferent governments and belng experimented with and adopted by their war departments. 5 ‘We are told in Holy Writ that one of the signs.to be given us when the judgment day was near ap- proaching would be that “the nations were angry.” The nations of earth present a warlike attitude to- day which is without a parallel in history, and in their marshaling together of armies and navies we see an unmistakable sign that the judgment is at hand. Of a surety the world is preparing for the great Hndros, battle of Armageddon, but the angels of God are hold- ing the winds of this universal war until the work of the Lord on the earth is finished. That time is surely near at hand, nearer perhaps than any of us realize, for with Him all things are possible, and if it be His will event will follow event with a swirtness incon- ceivable. That we are living in the last days of this earth, as it now is, cannot be gainsayed. The word of God is true from the least to the greatest, and the words of His inspired prophets are lights to our feet. Looked at in the all-illuminating light of prophecy a grander and more awe-inspiring time was never viewed by mortal man. We are rapidly nearing the dawning of that eternal day whose sun shall know no setting. We are almost at the gateway, the portals of which shall soon swing open at the coming of the King of Kings. ot e e 7 | The intense war spirit that E. E. ANDROSS. l n;:vv[vhexls!s I:mwng the na;lnyx‘)s a o e earth is but one of the for Seventh Duy Adwntish | many signs that point to the e near coming of our Lord. One of the most striking features of the year 1897 and thus far in the year 1898 has been the continual “‘alarm of war” that has come from all the nations of the world, and Bishop Newman well said not long since: “This is the most unsettled condition of the world since the crucifixion of Christ. The stability of government is no longer a fact. Change is in the atmosphere.” The fact cannot be longer concealed that the nations of the world are fairly frenzied in the Intensity of their effort to prepare for war. General Nelson A. Miles said not long since: “I have seen all the great armies of Europe except the Spanish army. What I have seen does not indicate that the millennium is at hand, when swords will be beaten into plowshares. There never was a time when so much energy, in- genuity and wealth were being devoted to war pur- poses.” From simply a human standpoint it is not a thing to be considered unlikely that soon the nations of the earth will be engaged in a-life and death grapple, in which the terribly destructive weapons with which the armies and navies of the world are now equipped will cause such carnage as to deluge the earth with blood. This is all in direct fulfillment of the prophetic word: “Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles: Pre- pare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up; beat your plow- shares Into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say I am strong. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter His volce from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake.”—Joel ifi, 9, 10, 16. . : Again: “I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is spoiled; suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.”"—Jere- miah iv, 19-20. & Stder Wilton C. Wilcox. Once more I quote from the inspired writer: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief.”— Revelation xvi, 13-15. That this present war is the beginning of the end, which will-be universal destruction (Jeremiah xxv, 30- 33), I believe most fully. But that there will not be a brief period of peace following this struggle I cannot say. The angels of God are commissioned to hold the winds of war until the servants of God are sealed— Revelation vii, 1-3. This work is not yet fully accomplished, I believe. “But the lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy."— Amos, 3-8. . e . ‘) : Because I beuev?ithedm;fle s the word of God an e- | OR. GEORGE L FITCH. | cause the Bible says there will be a time of universal ~———————————— trouble just before the second coming of Christ the Messiah, and because such a time of trouble is on the world now, I believe the war we are now engaged in will involve nearly if not quite all the nations of the earth before it ceases. Listen: “Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and fam- ines and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” * * * “And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon, and in the stars; ‘and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming ‘n a cloud with power and great glory.” There has never been a t.me before when all Eu- rope and Asia and Africa and both Americas and Oceanica were stirred up all at once as they are now. And good cause or causes there are for this s‘ate of affairs from man's doings alore, to say nothing of ter- restrial conditlars. The rich men have accumulated so much wealth that they couldn’t get a satisfactory rate of interest on their money so the succeeded in making a world- wide corner in money and as a result of their greed the debt r class of every nation on earth, every poor man on this planet, is suffering to-day from the action of these relentless, cruel money lords. The first nine verses of the fifth chapter of the book of James In the Bible tells what the fate of these same money lords will be. Next as to terrestrial conditions: “And great earth- quakes shall be in divers places and famines and pes- tilences.” Surely no reader of our daily papers will question the enormous number of earthquakes which are happening all over the world at present, as they have been for the last ten years, But it is to the Dr. Seorge L. Fiich. famine and pestilences I want to more particularly call attention. An editorial from The Call of May 13 tells us a part of what is happening. It reads as follows: “Europe is just now going through such a crisis. Bread riots have occurred in Spain and in Italy, and in both countries the professional agitators and revolu- tionists have taken advantage of them to incite the people to revolt. The situation is bad in Spain, but even worse in Italy. Although there is reason to be- lieve that the censorship of the press at Rome has suppressed as much as possible the truth of the ex- tent and degree of the riots in that country, enough has been published to make it certain that insurrec- tions amounting almost to the dignity of civil war have broken out and the very integrity of the king- dom is threatened. The situation is the more serious because there is every prospect that economic conditions throughout Europe will grow worse before they become better. The wheat crop is scarce in all parts of the Continent. To prevent a further rise in the price of bread the French Government has suspended the duty on the import of wheat. Germany is not better off than France, and according to recent reports the crop in Russia is so small that the Government of that coun- try proposes to prohibit the export of wheat in order that it may retain enough for its own people.” But this is not all. It is a wel-known fact that Austria has not enough food this year to feed its own people, yet where can she buy, admitting she has the money ? Australia has been buying food from us for a con- siderable period, and now California is purchasing food from Oregon and the East, owing to the drouth in this State, while the famine in 1nd:a 1s too recent to be forgotten. In China the conditions are fuiiy as bad, so here are the famines spoken of over at least half the earth. Now as to pestilences: Those who read the papers know somewhat of the way the plague has done its work in India. India and China are being decimated by the plague. In China there are whole districts in which the people have ceased to bury the dead. They carry the bodies out to the fields and the carrion crows, the jackals, dogs and wolves feed on the car- casses, and the disease is constantly spreading. And now as to the “wars and rumors of wars."” ‘Was there ever a time when the manufacturers of deadly weapons were so busy as at present? In faect there is not a nation on earth over which the war clouds are not lowering, and worst of all every sign points to the certainty that the struggle so clearly hovering over the earth is to be a religious war, al- ways the most malignant form of strife. To my mind the prophetic winds of Messiah, Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, are coming true. ‘War, famine and pestilence are all on us and “men’s hearts are failing them for fear,” and soon I believe we shall see Him coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory as He said He would, and then we shall have the era “when the lion and the lamb shall- lie down together and a little child shall lead them. CEEg sy