The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1898, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, UNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 189S. HAD a lease on life until I dedl- cated the temple,” said Wilford Woodruff, president and prophet of the Mormon church, a few days pre- vious to his death, which occurred at the home of I ¢ Trumbo in Ban Francisco on the 2d inst. “Then the lease expired and I have since had no assurance of life, but have lived solely by the faith of the nts. I had to come away,” he went on, speak- AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE MAN WHO WILL SUCCEED HIM. Ny > \\\\N\ B R ing of his visit to this city, “for had I remained at my home in Salt Lake the apostles would have been laying hands upon me, and meeting again in prayer, for the further preservation of my life.” Th spoken oddly prophetic words were to President Nye, who has charge of the Mormon mission in this city. President Woodruff's tone and manner seemed to imply his readin=ss to go to the reward that he believed awaited him. But he was cheerful about it and seemed in as good health as he had for two or three years, though wearied by recent overwork. Having passed the age of 91 and done his work, he died as he had lived, with characteristic simplicity. That he lived past 91 was not surprising, since many men live far beyond that age, but that he miraculously escaped death on numerous occasions before he came to old age President Woodruff himself be- lieved to be due to the fact that fifty MAPS SHOWING THE SIMILARITY scns along the way. Frem childhood Wilford Weodruff’s lf: was u series of chapters of acci- dents and events. In the last general conierence of the Mormon churck, held at the Sait Lake Tabernacle ou the Tth day of last April, he delivered his last public address to the whole peooie. 1t was accepted as prophetic af the end that he should then tell the story of his life He related many Inciderts, as it seemed to him, of miraculous from_death. He had almost ev n his body broken, except the neck and the back; was thrown int> a cal- IN TOPOGRAPHY BETWEEN CANAAN, THE PROMISED LAND, AND DESERET, THE LAND OF MORMON. This striking similarity between the two regions was used by the Mormor Mis- slonaries with tremendous influence years before the great Mormon Temple at Salt Lake was completed, and ten years before the site was selected, it was revealed to him that he should dedicate to the Lord a temple on the ghore of a new Dead Sea. He had not then the slightest intimation where that temple would be builded, nor in what part of the world the counterpart of the Dead Sea in Palestine might be found. The dedication occurred on the 6th of April, 1893, the ceremonies covering sev- eral days. He had been in feeble health for some time and the activity of mind and body occasioned by his duties in those events caused a slight relapse, from which, however, he soon recovered. g On March first of that year occurred the last public celebration of his and his wife's birthday, when he sent out to the people the following invitation: “On Monday, March 1, is my birthday, and the birthday of Mrs. Emma Woodruff. On that day I shall be 80 years of age and Mrs. Woodruff will be 59 years of age. I expect to meet my friends upon that occasion in the tabernacle at 10 o'clock, and I freely invite and welcome the presidency of the church, the twelve apostles, the patri- s, the seventies, the high , the Bishops, elders, priests, teachers and deacons, with the whole of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in fine Jew, Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. clergy and laity, editors, reporters and all who feel disposed to spend a couple of hours upon that occa- sion at that place. “WILFORD WOODRUFF."” Thousands of people thronged the tabernacle on that day, representing all creeds and beliefs, for President Wood- ruff was respected by Jew ond Gen- tile as he was loved by the Mormons. On hig 91st and last birthday, however, by Pis own request, there was no ce- monstralicn, except that as his car- riage passed through the street that mcrring carrying him to the church office, hezds were uncovered and hand- kerckiefs waved in salutation by per- in gaining converts to their faith. was barely saved from is ycuth, and v badly a Connecticut blizzard at the age of 15. Among other remarkable instances of escape from death he related this: “President Young said he wanted me to take my family and go to Bos- ton, and stay there till I could gather all the Saints of God in New England and Canada and brin~ them to Zion. That was the mission he gave me on my return from the pioneer iourney to winter quarters. I went in the spring, as he told me, and took my family. We came one evening to one of the brethren’s houses in Indiana. Several of us were there. Orson Hyde had a team as weil as myself. We drove into a long yard. I set my carriage within six inches of his. I had my wife and children with me. T tied my animals to an oak tree on the side of where we camped. I went to bed in my carriage. As I lay down the spirit of the Lord told me to get up and move mv carrface. I did not ask the Lord what he meant. was told. The me spirit told me to go'and move my animals away from that tree. T did that. My wife asked me why I did it. know. I had not been in bed twenty minutes when there came a whirlwind and took that oak tree, stood there perhaps fifty years, split it right through the trunk, and it swept both of those fences where my carriage had stood. It never touched Brqther Hy; carriage, but it would have crushed me and my family to the'‘earth if T had not listened to the voice of the spirit. “That preserving power,” he con- tinued, “ has followed me all the way through my life. It has been with me upon my missions abroad as well as at home. It has followed me until the present day, and I have been placed in a great many strange places. “I was ordained to dedicate this Salt Lake Temple fifty years before it was dedicated. T knew I should live to ded- icate that temple. I did live to do it.” While President Woodruff held that the miraculous preservation of his life formed the chief incidents and the ded- ication of the temple the greatest event SOOOOOOGOOO0O0OOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOf 000002000000 FINE CAT RAISING THE NEW FAD There is going to bz a cat show in San Francisco at an early date, so that society can Here are a few cats that have already gained great Iccal fame and have aroused the envy of less fortunate owners. O0C00000C0000000Q0J00000000000000000000000000000000 s 000000000 HERE is going to be a cat show here in San Francisco. Ever since the long past time when Harrison Weir exposed himself to ridicule by deciding to give a public exhibition of beautiful, rare, or otherwise interesting speci- mens of the feline race, and won for himself no little celebrity by carrying his novel plan to a most successful con- clusion, cat shows have been popular in the larger cities of most of the world's civilized countries. San Francisco is a little slow at times abou falling into lineand taking up the ORPHAN, White Angora Kittens being brought MEWMEW, Royal Cat of Siam, brought from Bangkok by Mrs, Rodriquez; 2 years old; very rare; $150 refus up on the nursing bottle. Mrs. Hoag's kennels. .& show its prize feline beauties. A [+ 000000000 Q | fads of older cities, but at last she has ! made up her mind to give her citizens CINDERELLA, Prestdio kenrels, Chartreuse-blue Angora, grand-dau ghter of Duke Hawthorne. Cost $I000. 1 told her I did not | which had | T WOODRUFF S Greatest WORK for the NORMON CHURCH of his career, I am disposed, writing as I do from a Gentile point of view, to count as the most remarkable page in the unique history of the Mormons and Utah that one written by him in September, 1890, which contained the startling proclamation that polygamous marriage would no longer be cele- brated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When this de- clsion was sustained on the 6th day of October of that year by nearly fifteen thousand members of the church, as- sembled at the tabernacle in annual conference, and issued as a manifesto, that proclamation opened the door to statehood for Utah and revolutionized her social fabric. It made possible the separation of church and state and the reconstruction of the civil policy of the Territory on national party lines. In 1833, at the age of 26, Wilford Woodruff journeyed with his father from his birthplace at Farmington, Conn.,, to Oswego, N. Y., and joined the Mormons. When they were driven into exile and came to Nauvoo, Ill, young Woodruff accompanied them, and waen Brigham Young crossed the plains and desert to the modern land of Canaan at the head of an ambitious band of pioneers Wilford Woodruff accom- panied him as one of the twelve apostles of the church and helped to lay out the site of the present city of Salt Lake. For many years Apostle Woodruff was the most successful of the mission- aries sent cut from Utah by Brigham Young. It was he that drew into the church some two thousand United Brethren and fifty ordained ministers of that faith. It was in the time of Joseph Smith that he made the journey to Fox Island in 1839 at the time of the great apostasy in Kirtland, N. Y., and prophet ordaining him an apostle. He baptized one hundred persons on the island. There are many other instances of his missionary work that would be of interest only to the Mormons them- ident Woodruff was e fourth succe ve ruler of the Mormon church. Brigham Young succeeded Joseph Smith, who died in jail at Nauvoo, Iil., on June 1844; John Taylor became president in 1877 at the death of Brig- ham Young, and in 1887, at the death of Taylor, Apostle Woodruff succeeded to the presidency. He retained as his counselors George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, who were selected by his immediate predecessor. Following s the complete list of the apostles as they stood before the death of President Woodruff, given in the presidency: Lorenzo Snow, Franklin D. Richards, Brigham Young, Francis M. Lyman, John Henry Smith, George Teasdel, John W. Taylor, Anthon H. Lund, Mar- iner W. Merrill, Mathias Cowley, Owen ‘Woodruff, Heler J. Grant. At the moment of the death of Presi- dent Woodruff Apostle Lorenzo Snow, who is now 84 y of age, became nt of th tles and will no elevated, as all his predeces- sors had been, to the presidency of the church, with power to select two coun- selors. Until that occurs, however, Counselors Cannon and Smith retire to their former positions as apostles and Owen Wooc and Heber J. Grant, the last ordained of the apostles, step out—to be reinstated should President Snow select his cou from the ors there recelved the letter from the order that they should succeed to the twelve. LEWIS H. EDDY. an opportunity to display their cat | old and three of Marvel's who ha\'e'ac least three timeés a year. Seven blindly stumbled through only forty-|kittens in a f mily is no uncommon There are three regular “catteries, or “cat kennels,” which are run by San | Franciscans at the present time, and | all of these are devoted, because cf | the popular demand for members of this | particular breed, to the ralsing of An- | goras. All the long-haired cats are | comprised in the four varieties pre- | viously mentioned and were formerly | known under the generic appellation of “French cats,” as they were originally | imported into England, and thence to the United States, from France, where | they were. for many years valued as pets before the English people awoke | to a sense of their real beauty and de- | sirable qualities. | A San Francisco gentleman, the pro- prietor of the Alameda County Kennels | in Fruitvale, was the first one in this | vicinity to recognize the fact that cat | raising can, if managed intelligently, be made a profitable business. The first | female cat that he owned was the cel- | ebrated Lady Tatters, one of the gems | of the Johnson collection, and Beauty Boy, a fine silver gray, was brought | across the continent for a mate. Mar- | vel, a silver blue beauty two years old, is a granddaughter of this couple, and is almost a perfect likeness of her grandsire, who was unfortunately ac- | cidentally killed before he had been long on the coast. | Leon, son of the famous Duke Haw- thorne of Walnut Ridge farm, in Mas- | sachuses#s, was sent for to take his | place, and his kittens are in great de- mand among Western cat fanciers. He | is a pure white cat with blue eyes and | & magnificent coat, ruff and tail, and | is one of the largest of his kind. Lady Tatters is a tortoise-shell An- gora, and outside of her multiplicity | of “points” is especially noted for her | love for kittens. The share of philo- | progenitiveness which has fallen to her lot altogether exceeds the demand made upon it by her own numerous offspring. She is never contented with the num- ber of kittens which fate bestows upon her, but makes a practice of adopting every litter from which she can man- age to drive the rightful owner. Very recently she added two different fami- lies of three Kittens each to her own four and cared for the whole success- fully. At the present time she Is mothering four of her own ten days 1 5 treasures. grey Angora; eight hours of existence. Lady Tatters has fine becomes her aristocratic lineage. She | is the owner of an elegantly carved | high chair, presented to her by some of her numerous admirers, in which she sits at mealtimes on a s cushion with a bib tied about her r and s her food daintily from a china e, sip- ping milk occasicnally the while from a china cup placed beside it. manners, as | establishment, of which the most not- able, besides those already mentioned, | are Valentine, Esau, Royal and Dandy “of the white variety, Trilby, with jet | black fur that almost sweeps the | ground, and Topaz, a handsome red- colored cat with Tabby markings and eyes that just maté¢h his coat. H. McCracken of the Presidio St. Bernard Kennels is not only fond of cats, but recognizes their commercial alue and is making arrangements to add to his breeding establishment in the very near future by importing a famous cat from Europe. Among his present stock is specially noticeable Cinderella, 2 Chartreuse blue Angora, whose grandfather, Duke Hawthorne, cost the small fortune of $1000 and took first prize at the Crystal Palace cat show on his first public ap- pearance. Cinderella is now attending to the wants of the six pure white male kittens, of which she is the proud mamma, and Apollo, a handsome blue eyed, white furred creature, is the cold- 1y indifferent father. Apollo and Daphne, who is also a | pure white pussy with all the charac- teristics which mark the Persian-An- gora, are the parents of six-months-old Dewey, a round ball of swan's down, for which $50 has already been offered and refused. In the opinion of those who are authorities on such subjects, Dewey is certain to be a “big winner” when he has the opportunity to exhibit his perfections in public. The only woman who has yet gone into the business of cat breeding on a wide scale is Mrs. A. H. Hoag, who has a large establishment on Ellis street entirely devoted to the raising of the much-prized long-hair varieties. Mrs, ‘Hoag’s two-year-old White Muggins is acknowledged to be the largest Angora on the coast and he is as beautiful asg he is sizable. Sweetheart, his mother is a very large female and is noted not only for her personal attractiveness but for the number of kittens which she presents to her beloved mistress MARVEL, daughter of Lady Tatters and Beauty Boy; silver- worth $200; Alameda Co. kennels. | There are about thirty cats in this | | thing for this enterprising feline, and when one realizes that none of her lit- 2 r sell for less than $15 each as a source of income be- | comes very apparent. | Among Mrs. Hoag's other white cats | are Adelina Patti, Trixy, Pet, Jack and | Bijou, the latter a lovely snowy little creature whose father is White Mug- gins and mother Friskerina. Pet's | father was Prince Ponlatowski's fa- s Blue Tom, a London prize kitten. n Muggins is a tiger cat strik- marked and with magnificent His father is Mr. ingly lambent yellow eyes. Paxton’s well-known and highly valued Black Tom, who is id to be one of the finest tiger Angoras in the country. ] kerina is the dean of the estab- lishment. She is also a “tiger” and is the daughter of Mrs. Johnson’s almost s Captain Jinks. 5 little orphan kittens are at the time engaging Mrs. Hoag's attention. Their mother, for reasons best known to herself, has con- cluded not to trouble her pretty head concerning them and in consgquence they are being brought up by hand. Every two hours their wants are sup- plied through the medium of a medicine dropper, and to see them suck the milk from this artificial source and at the same time claw the air to make the flow come quicker is something to be remembered. Besides “professional” cats there are, as has been said, many privately owned beauties who will undoubtedly compete for prizes. Among - the long-haired | species Dr. Fred W. D'Evelyn’s Sheik of El Tab, a pure Persian, which won the silver cup at the Newton (England) cat show, will attract much notice. It is hoped also that Mrs. A. G. Rodriguez will consent to exhibit her Mewmew, as he is said to be the handsomest and most valuable short-haired cat on the coast. Mewmew is one of the famous and “hard-to-obtain royal cats of Stam. He is absolutely pure blooded and was brought by Mrs. Rodriguez herself from Bangkok. He weighs over twenty pounds, is only two years old and looks, as to his fur, far more like an otter than a member of the cat family. He has all the distinguishing marks of the true royal breed—black muzzle, ears, legs and tail, seal brown back, fawn. colored collar and cream-colored breast and turquoise-blue eyes. Unlike most of his kind, however, which snap and bite like dogs instead of scratching like other cats when annoyed, Mewmew is the soul of amiability. He does.not ° care for milk and will not eat mea any kind, either raw or cool‘(ed.Em i sole diet is boiled fish, from bones, water. refuly f e carefuly freed and plenty of clear cold DEWEY, Presidio kennels: six months old; blue-eyed white Angora,