The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1898, Page 26

tr on_ Monda b edgy P " . [ M [3) B. Edger w w ng D. ¢ . e Mrs. Stephen J Mr. and Mrs. John F. Merrill and Mi Gladys Merrill w Washington, b. Mre. Frank s returned trip on Mrs. F. rson have taken . nts at 9 - street for the win Martin, Mrs. Crit fiss Phornton are irs. D. D. Colton Connectic at her home Washington on D. ( Willlam 8. Tevis party at their A party Starr Jord » C. B, Reid of Belmont, Miss Lieb of San 3 3 rge Bowman and Miss Bowman and Mr. and Mrs, Butler left in the week for a trip through Mex. hey will return the latter part of January. La Viente Whist Club was entertained by Miss A Isom at her residence, 1509 Jackson t, on Tuesday evening, De- cember 2). The first prize was won by P. H. Douglas and the consolatlon by I, Shoeneman The wedding of Miss Pauline Schoen- rs and Dr. C. Westphal will take January 12 at the residence of the S mother, . e The members of the Entre Nous Co- tillon held another of their popular’ and successful gatherings on. Friday evening, December 16, at the Palace Hotel. The hall and reception rooms were prettily decorated In evergreens and holly. Se eral new and intricate figures of the co- tillon were danced under the direction ot Banford G. Lewald and Miss Beatrice Hughes. The following were in the leading sets: Charles O'Kane and Miss Plagemann, W. W. Funge Jr. and Miss Ludlow, Dr. J. W. Likens and Miss Scott, Charles Rose t avenue in en s Iton Murdock. M 0o eoe i q Co0O0O0CO0O0QO] ndulged in until GoCoo0O ing and games ur, whe the h Santa Clara ave Tuesday evening. Prizes wer to Miss Florence Mason and Ogden F Maccoll and Fred Uone, Mis % and J. Walter Key. Amon present were: Miss Isabel Birk- | Miss Ethel Brown, Ogden Earl, | Russell, Miss t. Miss Lucilla Murdock, Miss eynolds, Fred Frank, Miss Edith Minfon McCartney, Calvin W Miss Roberta Clay, Miss Myr- Walte Miss Lil- Schacht, Dr. B erirude Living- e Mason. Ernest Liv- Elizabeth Pennoyer, Miss . Percy Murdock, Miss Miss Anna Kruger, Ham- ss Maud Maccoll, M hristie_Alen, Carl W Miss Juanita_Shepard, ‘Will Whiley, t Bruntsch, Mlss Ida Petegson, Fred ne, Miss Dora Peterson, Harfy J. Chis- more and Albert Redstone. The marriage. of Miss Mamie Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis, wili take place next Sunday at noon. A re- ception will be held 4n ‘the afternoon. Miss Edna Armer and Halsey Levy, whose engagement has: been: announced will recefye on Sunday, January 1, from 2 to 5 at 727 McAllister street. | The engagement is annoimced of Miss Ada Cohn and Meyer Friedman. They will be ‘pleased 1o ‘recetve their friends Sunday -afterncon, January 8, ‘between the hours of 2'and 5 o'clock, af the resi- dence of Mr.-and Mrs. Joseph Pinto, 1011 Jackson street: Miss Emily Clayburgh of 1810 Busn street gave a luncheon Saturday, Decem- ber 17, to thirty of her friends. Miss Lillian-T. Grodjlnsky left for her home in Seattle on Thursday. Dr. Luella Cool, who has been very {1 from the grip, is improving slowly, 3 Robert Bristol Is visiting his parents at 798 Van Ness avenue. - ° Miss Maude Frank has returned home after an extended visit to ‘the BEastern and Southern States, and will resume her day at home the first Wednesday 1n tne month. Mr. and Mrs. 8. Michael announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Rae, to Leslie E. Garren. Reception Sunday, te Wige ceQ SOG THE SAN ¥itasg” CO00C000C0CO0Q0C0QC0QD i §TY 8UD. SIUNDAY, ne MHe i Walter Forward. Sketched From Life by Jorgensen. DECEMRBER Sants Py system - »l wad the frop th HO00C000QOCOQOOOQO000OY INGULAR LIFE Of FORWARD THE HERWIT 5 swwt masch ot s Inspecting 1 antil Mr. ~ nergr of the el ta i the lne . ot dafly at 10w ol time, wn the Western Cplon Telegraph er . ® T ouls, whe compare Ume with ‘hr Wadhdngron, D, ', i ®ato. Naval Observatory, to wraph station: on this road. o SUEORIN aTe autseatte chivk-beat . prated over the wires by the wier choek Standwrd clocks arv stationed at all the Hnes of the wipid cities o) arh watch smust be in owner st obtaln o fasperfor showing that mth W e up to the requirements, - e = Foanish langwsge U upparently & t o words § o8, With a ®onton Herald { Yooo0QO0O0O0QOO0O0O0 Resclutel, Set Esery Opportunity self With a Herdur's Life » Hef his birth she had be & boy) that he f the gospel: but rib fite decreed it other- siithoricy prevailed at sent at an early age theologieal seminary. i igent study fostered @« «f falth, and his logie it oy ma to tatters. With. meonths of graduation he left us cotiege a full-fledged in- ad of «n dained minister. we he t me the protege of K, who secured an appoint- teent Bim at West Point. He en- tered upon his new studies at the mill- tary #deny with his usual ardor of new underiakings. His rare endow- »f judgment rendered 4 marked character among his wimates and attracted great atten- n the teichers. Istingruished *imself by close ap- 1o his studles. He stood at his class, and was pro- the instructors a man of ntellect and versatile wai a4 Beau Brummel in matters of dress and manner, and a g suclery ‘avorite. Within two of gradudtion, however, with his isual perversity, he discovered how to- tally unsuited to him was a military Ife and left the academy for an erratic ir throug' the South, left this fleld f grea sportunities, much to the dis- gust of hie relutives, and was absent . without apprising them of his s ned from this hotbed of De- ©y a hoviling Republican, began study of lzw and was admitted to but, like his illustrious cousin, #ton Irving, he never practiced. Black offered him a partner- udge {ship in his law office, an opportunity which no lawger in the Union would !have spurned, unless he had given up Inspecting Railroad Watches. ENERAL Watch Inspector H. S. Montgomery of the Santa Fe has gone to Los Angeles “and’ will .appoint local inspectors along the line of the Santa Fe from Albuquerque to the coast. .« Mr. Montgomery is now general in- spector of the Santa Fe from Chicago to Los' Angeles and from ‘Superior to Galveston, covering more territory than any other watch and clock inspector in the United States. No other road can boast of the thoroughness of the watch inspecting department as can the Santa Fe. ‘ " Not a watch 'is_carried by any em- ploye having anything to do with. the running of trains that . ’has not first passed an inspection so thorough that a variation in time.by a watch going | through such an inspection eannot be over five seconds in twenty-four hours, thus reducing the lability of accidents from wrong time to a minimum. The cause that led up to such a thor- ! favors-of the great in political life for the pastoral. pleasures of sheep ranch- |ing in a Western wilderness. He left ithe'academy and one of the most prom- ising careers that is given to. the. ordi- whom he formed sincere and earnest | friendships carved their names in. the heroic annals of their coantry. They were Generals Sheridan, Crook, Kautz, McPherson and Alex McCook. His friendship with General Sheridan was deep and lasting, and seemeéd to be the only tie that he did not sever at the military school. The last letter that | General Sheridan dictated from his dy- ing .bed was written to his ‘eccentric friend, Forward. T o He preferred the solitude of the hills ‘to the conventional customs of military ‘ife, and his devious gropings form one of the quaintest chapters in the history .of the. California pioneer. His nature 'did. not crave earthly greatness, and when learning and diffidence are com- bined the world neglects the one and cares not a fig for the other. The first and perhaps most imprudent step in Mr. Forward’s career hé owes L to the good but unwise wishes of his s nary mortal, while his classmates, with | ambition; .but. this-erratic man did- it and.pursued his' way across the conti- nent to the wilds of Oregon as far from civilization'as he could very well go. No ‘amount 'of persuasion would induce him to return and take up the life that he was fitted both by birth and educa- tion to flll. So after a time his rela- tives saw the futility of their efforts and let him alone. During his sofourn in Salem, Or., a very amusing story is related of his na- tive modesty. He always courted ob- scurity, and the.society of the unedu- cated engrossed his attention.. One day, being rather hungry and without means, he sat down on the doorsteps of a surveyor's 'omcg.' _looking the very picture of “Dusty Roads.” He over- heard the surveyor.and his clerk dis- cussing some mathematical problem ‘which they; could ‘not solve, and in a | modest way he:offered to make it clear to them.. The surveyor sized him up, laughed at his youth and apparent in- experience, but listened to his explana- tlon with amazement, and finally asked hl_rrnhhoma to dnl‘a’:ih e surveyor 2 young and beau- tiful daughter. The West %olnt cadet s wateh | Wanter | possesaed that digtingniehed of the Ho ¥ The father wish, | with “old trade” and nership in bis office. One day whows discussion in ¢ ®ote representative oftisens | gentieman got the woret noa relf " of old v the argis { ment with him and becagie so enruge? h | that he dissolved parthersghip then and {thers: moreover, refused him his | duughter's hand Young PForward 4id not ses his aweetheart for over a week, and had | about concluded that she wished tn | ablde by her father's declsion, whon he acctdentally learned that she was being This roused the “bold Lochinvar, their house, 1 of this mng nnd bl while the moon was new, and the night win old, he made his way to his lady's chamber armed with a stepladder. The clatter of died away befor the angry father discovered the eloy fment and. wild with rage, gave chase. But youth and love were in the ra and of course they won. They were married the next ¢ and parental for- | Blveness and blessings followed a week { later, At this time he wrote to W for the appointment of v Gen- eralship of the Territory. The appuint- ment had already been made before his and away the; hington Territory {him the Marshalship of the instead Here agaln Mr. Forward showed his singular propensity by de- clining tc qualify for the office. He sent the appointment back in defiance, much to the displeasure .-f his family, who iad no relish for carrying whims to such a height. He packed up at once and started with his family for California to seek seclusion on a sheep ranch, himself at rest in obscurity, while his family were allowed, when he neglected it, to keep | the goats from toppling off the rugged slopes surrounding his domain. He ar- S there a citrus belt, or, as some contend, only citrus spot Is there a happy altitude in California just above the frosts of the valley and just below the frosts of the moun- tains? But, be that as.it may, there is one spot at least near the divide between the waters flowing west into Bear Creek and those flowing east toward the great plains of Colusa County from which some good weather St. Patrick has banished both frosts of the lower and the higher altitudes. Here, hang- ing, as it were;“beside the higher moun- tain, just below the summit of the di- vide, is a garden spot, a plateau of wondrous beauty and fertility, resting as a shelf high in air, covered with everlasting verdure—an ideal spot in an ideal land; a.spot where the tenderest flowers and fruits grow blooming and bearing from season to'season continu- ously. Hidden from view by forests and mountain curves, the fame of the place has nevertheless reached the val- ley below. 3 All was dry upon the burning plains as a buggy in which were seated two women, chatting, as women will, began the ascent along the borders of Cortina Creek. The rocks gave out the heat as a furnace and the wheels grated harsh- ly over them, but the air grew fresher as they gained altitude and soon the cyclomen, wild onions and poppies be- gan to appear. A tiny silver ‘stream, hitherto puried in the sand, now thread- ed the creek bottom. Curving around for miles through valleys dotted with small farms, the height was almost in view when suddenly a small woodland schoolhouse lay almost across the path- way, and the horse seeming to think this the end of the journey, stopped at the door. A lady teacher came forth followed by a little band of children. It was an ideal scene—a strange, wild place, a little schoolhouseyin a’ grove, the teacher and her pupils around her, all wondering why two ladies in a buggy should be passing that way. She came Kkindly forward and gave direc- tions as to the best way to reach the famed orchard on the mountain shelf, A canyon had to be crossed and the travelers were advised to hitch their horses and try to make the remaining distance on foot. The descent into the canyon.was made by holding on to the brush and swinging through gaps in the chaparral. At the bottom was a bright mountain brooklet, spanned by a log, over which the travelers walked with much difficulty and fear. commenced the ascent, and again the friendly brush lent them aid. The visitors emerged from the chaparral beside a barbed wire fence which sur- rounded a peach orchard through whicn trickled many little streams of water leading off in all directions. The rich garden of flowers also in view was most pleasing to the eye, and crawling be- neath the lower wire, the visitors found | kept - prisoner in a second story room | “Twa he old, old story., “With a lad| and laflder she managed to creep.” She mounted the horse behind her betrothed letter reached the Capitol, so they sent | Then |, rived hers at the thme when tke very fairest land in the State cobld be had L iniming it; but he pawsed right ieys and climbed the barren heights of Tehama Coun here he took up a claim, built a rude rabin and raised potatoes and sheep on his perpendicular farm. In u Mitle while the sheep learned to puisce thelr own inelination, lested by the shephord tition of th d ston A the plow.” glectful of his own inter- este, he was either schemeing for the welfare of the State or reading some selentific book, while his flock strayed into perilous rns and his cows into the cornfleld. Like “Colonel Sellers,” he was wholly unaffected by the caprice of fortune. eep might die, stock stray away or untilled ground become barren, the world in which he llved was niways productive. Sometimes when these disasters fol- iowed fast he preferred to court solitude without the pre his family. Up- on one of these sions he visited Arizona while General Crook, who was his room-ma West Point, was in nd of the troops at that place, Forward was making his home at a logging camp twenty miles distant, and ag soon as the general heard of his being the vicinity he sent a special courfer with a message begging him to come to the camp and have a good old | talk. over Wes. Point days, His reply, though courteous, must | bave been a rprise to his oid N for he said, “Owr lives have difte so widely since last we met. Our vbea tions and our interests are centered upon different lnes. I am training burros ‘and you are training men. fear that our visit, though in many re enjoyskie, wonld be freignict with painfui memories to both,” This unconfinable spirit ‘of him would not be bound by the safegu of discretion gives to nature a m honest in its convictions to the sac fice of prosperity and to the world a exemplar “that true genius was nev meant -for this world—to exist, it must | create another.” O00POOOOOOOOOODOVO00T0O0000O00O0C000000 v TBE @oLusa @ITRUS BELT. themselves in a pathway that led te a most unique and ideal residence. It | had two front rooms and an ell; had an | old-fashioned chimney of stone at one end and a porch at the other. The porch was literally covered with smilax and extended into a garden of tender- est flowers, such as rare geraniums and lilies, which had lived through season after season for years. A vegetable | garden watered by a ditch from a pipe which connected . with a mountain reservoir, contained tomato vines and pepper bushes that were several years old. The sun shone brightly, the birds sang sweetly, the water trickled and gurgled through orchard and garden, ripe oranges and lemons hung on trees that were laden with white fragrant flowers, green and ripening fruit, and there was no wonder that a man and a woman should be content to cut themselves off from the active, bustling world and dwell in such a place. A dog came bounding out to meet the visitors with a bark and a friendly growl, and then came forth the mistress of the lodge with a cordial greeting and led to her hospitable home the strang- ers destined to be strangers no more. Henry Jones, husband, was then intro- duced and another cordial welcome fol- lowed. Fruits of every variety and it seemed of almost every clime and flow- ers of delicate variety and hue were the offerings of friendship. These two in this modern Paradise were a veritable Adam and Eve—alone in their happiness in a place seldom reached by strangers. An angel might be pardoned did he envy them. They seemed so suited to their surroundings —hermits in a hermit home. They sat by. their own fireside—beneath their own vine and fig tree, two quaint little people—the man and the woman, ali the world to each other, loved by the dog, the cat, the cows, the horses they tended so well, and by the wild birds that chirped in the trees around them. They had come from Georgia eleven years before in search of health and that happiness which health alone can give and had found this:favored spot and had made it their dwelling place. A good library and the current litera- ture of the day furnished them with reading. They were conversant with the doings of the outer world though not mingling with it. Well-informed in literature, wise In the knowledge of peoples and countries, they are most interesting companions. Living in per- petual spring—knowing nothing .of drought and failure, they keep the even tenor of their way amid a Shenstone shrubbery and an orchard that is never without fruit. As the buggy wound down the moun- tain the travelers felt that the day had beer a pleasant and a profitable one, and that they had a much greater knowledge of the wondrous worth of Colusa’s mountain border. BEDINGER MORGAN. —_——— There is a rosary in the British Museum made of the vertebrae of a snake’s back- bone. Another is composed of rats’ teeth. S —— House of the Hermit in the Sierra Foothills, Sketched by Jorgensen