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o < 3 THE SAN FRA';NCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1898 THE GHOST AMONG THE SICK SOLDIERS AT HONOLULU Granville Wells' Death Excites Something More Than Talk. ONOLULU, Dec. 7.—Smoldering | instance of hospital discipline seemed fitfully there has been a feel. | Somewhat uncalled for. el . In one case Harold M. Sewall, ex ing in Honolulu’ against (thellysins ¢ov i omithe PIHItEA’ ELRtAREH military hc n in and th: pital and the sur- charge, Major Dav feeling has burst forth into activity since the death of Gran- L. Wells, a soldier of the First Regiment of Volunteers, on v, November 30. ville Wells was a popular young 1 his regiment and a member ghts of Pythi in which so- father stands very high. Col- ‘Wells wrote to one of the two ges here and requested that his son taken under the protection of the Dr. Peterson, the executive of- of Mystic Lodge, Knights of Py- thias, states that in that relation and with the addition of a letter from Col- onel Wells, besides the presentation of h profe onal card, he was denied the privilege of seeing young Wells. is well understood that it is against regulations to permit at the hospital, but Dr. Peter- should have been exempt from this s letter from the young man's ave him what should have been an open sesame to the dying boy nd maybe to receive a son’s last mes- sage. It Is not disputed that young Wells had the best of care at the hos- pital, but the father’s letter authoriz- ing his order to look after his sick boy, presented b, medical man, should have respected. Surely there should be no ordinance agair ing to anxious friends news dition patients. An in- quirer for Joe Granville Wells was rudely answered: “We do not tell the condition of our patients. You must ask the adjutant general.” A request was politely made for the office or telephone number of the ad- Jutant general. The curt message re- turned wa I don’t know.” 1 order. t g of the con As there is no such official in Hono- | Iulu and as this friend of young Wells learned a few hours later on the street that he had died the day before, this 00000000000000’00003}'06000000000009}051‘ fed | | =R 1 A CANDIDATE £ TROUBLES. Continued from Seventeenth Page. called upon to obtain information of a man in the hospi On another occa- sion a young fellow was sent to the military hospital. We waited four hours, with a temperature of 103. On a hard, straight backed bench, in the heat of a tropical day, he sat outside the door, with his head resting on his hand, suffering, dejected, sick at heart and sick in body. Finally he was call- ed in and examined. Then, with this high temperature he was dismissed and told to go back to his camp. ‘“Bet- ter take a car,” called a kind hearted dier stacgered awav, The sun beat down mercilessly upon him; he was dizzy and his mouth was parched; the car was coming: he thought of its slow progress down to | Waikiki, a full half hour's dri he re- membered the long, hot, dusty walk when the car stopped. And he had just enough thinking power left to know that he could not reach his camp. He | went to the Queen’'s Hospital, and the:e they took him in. After a hard tussle one mother’'s boy | was saved to gladden a home in New York; a home that might have had a rebellious Thanksgiving day and a stmas that was all gloom and dark- as he walked slowly ness. The next day his captain, who had sent him to the Military Hospital, tele- phoned for information as to the boy’s " s getting on well,” was the re- ply. . ves, he is pretty sick, but we will pull him through. The boy was lying in a raging fever on a bed at the Queen's. Hospital at that moment. The boys have a horror of the Mili- tary Hospital. They do not like Major | Davis, who has a rough, curt way with them, and the tales told in camp by couraged them. The hospital has been overcrowded; men sick unto death have lain next to men on the road to recov- ery. Men have passed away in crowded wards, with but a screen to hide their death struggles from the boys whose spirits, at best, have been enough to retard their slow recover Inefficient night nurses, poor food and the horrors of homesickness have been | | steward, who noted that the sick sol- | the convalescent patients have not en- | {here are generally half a dozen in as many halls every Sunday night In campalgn time. The societies that are addicted to the Sunday night dancing habit make nding invitations to all dates, i C merely as matter no doubt, but it is a coincidence that there is invar ably a bar operated in connection with the dance. T s not expected to chase the glowing hour with flying feet. He can dance if he wants, but he has so many halls to visit that he has no time for that exhila ting diversion. Be- :Idl:* :;h] condition is usually such that he would much prefer to e In bed. The usual programme is to introduce candidates on the platform between dances, and having availed themselves of the proud privilege of placing themselves on exhibition the candidates Invariably enter the bar followed by a large throng. The bar is the place where they tell the candidate in joyful song that he is a jolly good fellow, and the experience is always expensive. Sometimes the candidate is taxed as high as $15 for about forty beers, and then he wanders out into the night and wonders if that sort of campaigning is really profitable. He probably has the satis- faction of knowing that his opponent has had precisely the same ex- BeReReReRuRaReg=RogeReRoReRaReReEoRaReggoRaT: perience. He may not like it but he never fails to go up against it. b3 Custom requires him to be a good fellow regardless of cost. Con ~ sequently when he s a large factory or foundry to meet hi fellow citizens he smiles when the gentle hint is whispered into his ear that it might be advisable for him to send up a keg of steam beer or to have one opened at the nearest saloon. Those hints are part of the airy, earnest persifiage that enters into every cam- paign. When the candidate is not attending meetings or balls at night he is spending his money at church fairs, which, by the way, were unusually numerous during the months of last October and Novem- ber. He does not go to them for pleasure, but he is advised that it would be advantageous for him to do so and he goes, and falls a victim to the insidious smiles of the women who have tickets to sell and who treat him as if he were the only proper person on earth to be fleeced. If he has any spare time in the wee sma’ hours when the beds in the cheap lodging-houses are occupied he wends his way through them receiving introductions from the porter to the weary unwashed. When a candidate emerges from one of those underground hostelries where a bed costs 10 cents and the privilege of sitting on a chair is enjoyed for a nickel he feels as though he were in need of a dis. infectant. The experience of the first day is repeated every day throughout the campaign and it is only the excitement that protects the can- didate from total collapse. He feels that his patience is exhausted at least one hundred times a day, but he must smile and look pleas- ant even when the temptation to assert his feelings is tremendous. The hammam bath at night is the only refreshing luxury that enables him to endure the torture and it is thither he hijes himself for a brief respite when the electric lights go out. VOOV OVOOOCUUOAV OV VOV OO GROOOR OV OO OOAVEODATOY | athema upon him. | agonies filled th, | ligiou | hatred bequeathed to him by generations the story told by every convalescent. | Still 60 cents a day, extra—over their | pital by the Commissary Department, | where it is declared: “The boys could even have champagne, if necessary.” At the time when the hespital was overcrowded one poor sick fellow, after waiting for hours to be examined, asked where he was to sleep. “‘Sleep on your | hat!” was the sympathetic response. | There are other stories told by the | soldiers who have been discharged | cured, and the boys, as they have gone | off in the ambulance to the Military Hospital, have looked back with a | smile, sadder than tears and said: “'Good-by, fellers, this is the end of | me.” The boys have tried to nurse each other, and to hide their sick chums. | __To save each other from the Military | Hospital has been the prevalent idea. | A young soldier went one day to a private house and asked manfully and | in a straightforward manner for ice and for milk. The inhabitants of the | | house became interested and auestioned | | the soldier. He was nursing his chum, | he explained. When the hospital was | suggested a hunted look, pathetic to | | see, came into the boy’s eves. It tola | a tale to his sympathetic listeners. | _The favorite doctor of the New York | | Regiment was young Ashley, who was | | sent home before his regiment because | of ill health, When he became sick he went to the Queen’s Hospital, where Major Davis frequently visited hin. | When about at the crisis of a bad case | of typhold fever Major Davis came one | night to take away his nurse. Major | Davis explained that the nurse's serv- | | ices were needed by a friend of his. The | nurse expostulated at leaving a patient | at such a critical time, but Major Davis | | insisted and took her away to a case | | of whooping cough. There was a storm | of indignation among the boys, who loved Dr. Ashley, and Major Davis’ ac- regular army rations—has been paid | ¢ | for each sick man at the Military Hos- | FRUITING BRAKCH (£ NATURAL s1ZE Y tion was universally condemned. Young Ashley had a relapse. When | he recovered sufficiently he was taken | by Mrs. S. G. Wilder, who has a heart | nowned for its goodness, to her beau- | tiful home up Nuuanu avenue. There | with two professional nurses, he was | brought back from the jaws of death | |and was finally able to return to his | home. Justly or unjustly Major Davis is un- popular. There are two sides to ever: story and he won't tell his. He is a young man and he feels the importance of his position. His duties have been onerous and he has not been well. He declines to make any comment or to give any explanation on the refusal at | his hospital to the Knights of Pythias | to see Granville Wells, and Major ‘Davis is a member of the order. The Knights of Pythias have taken | this matter in hand. | JOHN KENSOME. | e It is strange, madame, how godly men pointed the finger of condemnation at the stricken poet, putting the Christlan an- Our_poor Hermes was having his Passion and the sight of his pietists with rapture. In medieval times, still regretted in some centers of Christian instruction as the true ages of faith, there was a sort of zealots called flagellants, who used to run | madly over Burope, beating themselves - nd murdering the Jews. How little es sential change has taken place in the re- spirit. eine hated this Ho spirit with. a | of his hunted and suffering race, that is to say like a Jew! and he also hated it like the true Hellene he was; so it took | what revenge it could upon him. The little German princelings who put up non- onductors on their funny little courts and the lightnings of his wit also furnished some diversion in kind. For this man had written: “The people have time enough, they are| immortal; Kings only are mortal.” THE MAN TOUCHED THE BRANCHES Rois' ' SECTION OF < RUIT... i OF FR! (ENLARGED) JERrAR MAT FLOWER. = (ENLARGED) (ENLARGED) SECT1 ?}N GED) 1T “The human spirit has its right and will | not be rocked to sleep by the lullaby of | church bells.”—The Philistine. COCOORUOIVOLUOEODOVVOV OV VOOV TVION VOV NT OV OD OGO A TREE THAT CAN GIVE AN ELECTRIC SHOCK HE most astonishing statement | concerning botany ever made comes from Professor Leipsic of the German Forestry Commis- sion. This is to the effect that deep in the unexplored jungles of India there are several specimens of trees possessing the quality of giving an electric shock to any living creature that touches one of them. These have been christened Philoccea electrica. Of course a great storm of criticism, and even doubt, has been hurled at Professor Leipsic, but he still stands by his story and says that he knows what ‘he has seen and that it is the most wonderful tree in the world. Herr Leipsic has been in India for | several years and has sent in many valuable reports, but this last one is the most startling. He has been most successful in bringing to light strange specimens of vegetation. His labers have been confined to the primeval forests between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. Nothing can be more secret, more silent and more savage than these inextricable entanglements of thorns and branches. In wild tropical beauty nothing can surpass the luxuriance of these un- touched Coory forests as viewed from | the peaks of one of the Ghats. A wav- ing descent of green, broken into ter- races of varying heights, slopes down- ward on every side. Wild animals of many kinds breed in the jungle and haunt the grassy glades. The elephant, the tiger and the leopard, the stately sambhar deer and the jungle sheep, with a variety of smaller game, afford adventure ' to the sportsman. Professor Leipsic, accompanied by a small-band of followers, has penetrated the mysterious forests, and at . each pressure of investigation unknown wonders have come before his gaze. OF THE ELECTRIC TREE AND WAS INSTANTLY KNCCKED DOWN In the deep alluvial soil of the forests the electrical tree was found. Professor Leipsic had scoffed at the | natives' stories of a tree that killed in- sects and was possessed of the devil, but when, under the guidance of the natives, he was at last confronted by this strange wonder of the vegetable world he was astonished. . He began an investigation that lasted for weeks. Under the trees he found hundreds of dead butterflies and small birds killed by the electrical current of the tree, and learned from the natives that birds never nested upon its branches. When the dark green leaves of the tree were touched with the fingers a tiny spark | was emitted and a distinct electrical | shock was felt. Professor Leipsic found that even at a distance of eighty feet, the tree had a strong influence upon the magnetic needle. These mag- netic variations varied according to the time of day. It was strongest at noon, but almost entirely disappeared at mid- night. Its electricity also disappeared in_wet weather. During the time Herr Leipsic was | conducting his investigations the rainy season set in, and with his own hands the scientist cut one of the trees down. The natives could not be persuaded to Baptist near| Morning—Special , music ‘and service in P4 o Woor honor of Christmas. Evening—Sermon and 4 prayer and speclal music. Emmanuel Baptist, Bartlett street, near|Morning appropriate sermon on the wenty-second—Hev, Gibson subject of Christmas by the rector. Square Baptist, Post street, near|Morn| ev. W. C. Jenkins. Dead e Young Child's Enemies— ening—'"The Soclal de of St. Agnes Church, Masonic avenue, b Chetween Morning—High mass and sermon. Even- and Oak streets—Rev. Willlam P.| ing—Vespers and benediction. meo, Eighteenth and Shot-| Morning—High mass and sermon by one p: ther P. J. Cummins, of the priests of the community. Evening Sermon and vespers, 3rendan’s . Fremont and Harrison mass and sermon. Even- ther Nugent the Ry Morning—High mass and sermon by Father | Cassint. ening—4 o'clock, vespers, ser- mon and benediction. rmon at v Rev. M high mass at 11 van. Christl, Alemany and lesian Fathers, Morning—High mass at 10:30 o'clock. Even- ing—Vespers and . sermon. -fourth and Shotwell m telner streets— Morning—Sermon at the § o'clock mass, by Father Newell, ominic’s, Bu: Pius Murphy. jo street and Montgom.| & her Carraher. | ening—Sermon by the Babe of Bethlehem.” rector on the All Hallows, Sixteenth avenue and N street| Morning—High ma and —Rev. D. O'Sullivan. o'clock. Evening—Vespers. sermon at 11 St. Ignatius, Van Ness avenue tev. D. J. Mahoney. street—Jestit Fathers. n by Rev. Vincent and Hayes Morning—Sermon by Evening — Sermon Chiappa. James, Twenty-third and. Guerrero Morning—High mass and sermon by one of streets—Father P. R. Lynch. | the priests of the parish. Evening—Ves- vers, benediction and a sermon. St. Joseph's, Tenth street, near Howard— Morning—High mass and sermon by one of Father P. Scanlan. the priests of the parish. Evening—Ves- : pers. $ 5t Mary's Cathedral, Van N i = - - » St. Mary’s Cathed an Ness avenue and|Morning—Solemn high mass at 5 and 10:30 $ Do Faren strest-Rev. I 0 Prendergast, 81 and 10, o'cloc] vith an appropriate address and V. G music by the full choir. Evening—Solemn high v > §t. Mary's Church, Californla and Dupont|Morning—Sermon by Father McCorn streets—Paulist Fathers. o Evening—Solemn vespers and sacred music by a specially augmented chol St. Patrick's, Mission street, near Third—| Morning—Sermon at last mass, by Faiher Father Gray. Lane. St. « Paul's, Twenty-ninth and Chul’flh‘ifinrnln —HIigh mass at 10:30 o'clock. Even- streets—Father Connolly. s e s bk ekl NPPPVVVOOOIPDIEPVIVPPPEO9OPIPDOPO @ Lobos avenue—Father Coyle. DAY ATTHEC Star of the Sea, Seventh avenue and Point|Morning- Sermon and high mass at 10:30 Svening—Sermon by the pastor. o’clock. T'Y CHURCHES b4 California Street M. E. Church, California and Broderick -streets—Frederic C. Lee, Post dams. First Congregational, and Mason streets—Rev. G. C. A Evening—'‘The Shepherds and the Magi"; Christmas praise service. Richmond Congregational, Seventh avenas Evening—*‘The Power and Responsibility of and Clement street—Rev. P. Coombe. the Moral Citizen.” Bethany Congregational, Bartlett street,| Morning—Services appropriate to Christmas near Twenty-fiftth—Rev. W. C. Pond. at 11 oclock. Bethlehem Congregational, Vermont street, near Twenty-fourth—Rev. W. H. Tubb. Olivet Congregational, Seventeenth and Noe streets—Rev. H. T. Shepard. Morning- Fear Not, for Behold, 1 Bring You Tidings of Great Joy.” Evening— “Glory to God in the Highest and On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men." Starr King A. M. E. Zion Church, Stock- ton street, near Clay—Rev. F. Brunn, |Morning—“The 014, Old Story.” Evening— ‘‘The World’s Greatest Need. Morning—*Christian Hospitality. _ Even- ing—""The Coming of Christ the Turning Point in the World's History."” . Fifteenth Avenue M. E. Church, Fifteenth avenue south and P street—Rev. W. D, rabb. Morning—Sermon by the rector. Bvening— Sermon and religious instruction. Grace Methodist Epi: and Capp streets—Rev. -opal, J. N Twenty-first eard. Morning—Sermon by the rector. Evening— Same. Potrero M. E. Church, Tennessee and Sola- no streets—S. M. Woodward. Morning—Divine services at 11 o'clock. Evening—Sermon by the rector, Morning—"'Christ Our Labor." Evening— “‘Christ and Capital.” Third Congregational, Fifteenth street, near Mission—Rev. Willlam Rader. Church of the Advent, Eleventh street, near Market—Archdeacon Emery. Grace Eplscopal, California and Stockton | streets—Rev. R. C. Foute, { St. Luke's, Van Ness avenue and Clay street. . St. Cornellus Chapel, Presidio Reservation —Rev. D. O. Kelley. Morning—Special exercises appropriate to Christmas. _Evening—*Christianity and the Higher Emotions." Morning—Holy communion at 7; morning prayer (full choir) at 10; choral celebra- tion and sermon at 11; children’s address at 7:45. Richmond Methodist, Clement street—Rev. George Baugh. Fourth avenue and | Morning—Services at 11 o'clock; Sunday school at 12:30. Evening—Divine service at 7:30 o'clo | | | Centenary M. E. Church, Bush' street, be- tween Gough and Octavia—Rev, C. R. Riddick. Morning—Sermon by the rector. 4 Evening— ame. Epworth M. E. Church, Church and Twen- ty-sixth streets—Rev. W. M. Woodward. Morning—Sermon by the rector at 11 o' clock. Evening—Sermon, followed by prayer ser- vice. Morning—Sermon by the rector on a sub- Ject appropriate to the day. Evening— Special music and sermon. Morning—Holy communion at 7 and 8§ o'clock; morning prayer and communion at 11. Evening—Evensopg and confirma- tion; spectal music appropriate to Christ- mas, Morning—Special service for the soldiers. Evening—Sermon and instruction. St John the Evangelist, Fifteenth street, | near Valencia—Rev. E. B. Spalding. St. Mary the Virgin, Union and Steiner streets—Rev, H. Parrish. St. Paul's Episcopal, California. street, near. Fillmore—Rev. W. Maxwell Reilly. Morning—Divine service and sermon at 11, Evening—Sermon. Morning—Mass and holy. communion at 7:30 o'clock; high mass and sermon at 1L Evening—Evensong and sermon at 8. Morning—Communion at 7:30 o’clock, follow- ed by litany service and sermon by the rector. Evening—Song service and ser- mon, Trinity Episco) pal, Bush and Gough streets' —Rev. H. C. Cooke. 1 St. Stéphen's Church, Fulton street, near| Webster—Rev. E. J. Lion. Morning—Holy communion at 11 o'clock. Evening—Sermon - and {nstruction. Morning—Holy communion 7 o'clock; chil- dren's service 10 o’clock; morning prayer and second celebration of the holy com- munion; sermon by the rector, 11.o'clock. Evening—Prayer at 7:45 o'clock. St. Stephen's Mission, 1712 Hayes street— Clergy of St. Stephen’s Church. Morning—Sunday school ~at 9:30 o'clock. Evening—Prayer at § o'clock, followed by sermon. Sts. Peter and Paul, Filbert and Dupont| Morning—High mass and sermon. Even- streets—Salesian Fathers. -l on. Even. ing—Sermon in Italian by one of the | priests of the community. St. fourth—Father P. Peter's, Alabama street, % P Cacy,, Dear Twenty-| Morning—Sermon on the Gospel. Evening— 7 Vespers, benediction and sermon. 6),\ St. Rose's, Brannan street, near Fourth— Morning—Beginning at 5 o'clock, mass ® Father Nugent. every hour until the solemn high mass at ° | 11; speclal music; sermon at this mass by “ | Rev. J Gleason. . © | ® St Teresa's, Tennessee and Butte nr:elb—;ldorning—ulgh mass and sermon. Evening > Rev. P. C. O'Connell. ~—Vespers, benediction and sermon. ° @ Our Lady of Victories, Bush street, near Morning—High mass and sermon by one of & Stockton--Marist Fathers. the priests of the community. Evening— ® ! Vespers and sermon Lag A aa g A A T DRI Ro STOR oS St. James' Episcopal Mission, Richmond District. Morning—Prayer and holy communion at 11 o'clock and a sermon by clergy of St. Stephen's Church. Evening—Prayer and sermon at § o’clock. Geérman Evangelical Emmanuel Church, Twelfth and Stevenson streets—Rev. F. ‘W. Fischer. Morning—*The Evening— oy First Christmas Morning." ‘Christmas Day Lessons.’ First English Lutheran, Geary street, near Gough—Rev. E. Nelander. Morning—‘‘Childhood of Jesus,”" by the rec- tor. l“E:venlng — “The First Christmas arol. Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, Hayes and Buchanan streets—Rev. J. Stephens. Morning—Sermon by the rector. Evening— Same. St. John's Presbyterian, California and Oc- tavia streets. First Presbyterfan Church, Van Ness ave- nue ‘lnd Sacramento street—Rev. R. Mac- enzie. First United Presbyterlan, Golden Gate avenue and Polk street. Lebanon Presbyterian Church, Sanchez and Tvlv;nly-thlrd streets—Rev. R. W. Rey» nolds. Trinity Presbyterian, Twenty-third and Capp streets—Rev. A. N. Cas rson, Howard Presbyterian, Oak and Bake: strects—Rev. F. R. Farrand. e Stewart Memorial U. P. Church, ' Guerrero st., near Twenty-third—Rev W. E. Dugan. Morning—Sermon by Rev. E. Brown. Even- ing—Meeting of the Christian Endeavorers at 6:30 o'clock. Morning—Sermon by the rector. Evening— Sermon by Rev. E. H. Jenks. ® Morning—Divine service at 11 o'clock, Even- ing—Sermon and the recital of prayer. Morning—Sermon by Professor Thomas F. Day, D.D., of San Anselmo Seminary. Evening—Same. Morning—"‘Lessons af Bethlehem,” by the rector; speclal music by quartet and chofr. Evening—"Balancing Accounts’" Morning—'‘Christmas Thoughts'; special musjc. Evening—Christmas praise service and an address by the rector on ‘‘The Face of Jesus."” | Morning—*'Star of Bethleher ‘“Nature of Christ's Birtl Evening— ‘Westminster Presbyterian, Page and Web- ster streets—Rev. 8. S. Cryor. Morning—Christmas music and sermon by the rector. Evening—Steropticon lecture illustrative of the Jewish Tabernacle, by George C. Needham, the Irish evangelist. First Unitarian, Geary and Franklin streets —Rev. Dr. Stebbins. Morning—Sunday school morning service at 11. no evening service. at 10 o'clock; Evening—There ls Second Unitarfan, Twentieth and Ca; streets—Rev. A. J. Wells, o Morning—*‘The Spirit of Jesus in Our Day." Evening—*The Answer of Life.”" First Church of Christ, Sclentist, 223 Sut. ter street—The Bible and Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures. Morning—‘Christian Science.’” First Divine Science Church, Native Sons building—M. E. Cramer. ] Morning—‘‘Jesus, the First Born of Every Creature."” St. Alban's Episcopal Mission, 62 8 street—Rev. E. J. H. Van Deerlin. el Morning—Service and serman at 11:15. Even- ing—Sunday school festival. Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Mis- slon street, between Fifth and Sixth— Rev. C. E. Locke. P909009 090000000900 999000900 PP0PVOPPVOPO P HVVVOPVIIDOOVOOVOVPPPHOVD G PPVOPPOOOVEDDGE Morning—'"Does the Testimony of the Ce: turles Verify the Promise of the Ang to Bethlehem's Shepherds?” “Our Christmas Jesus Musle " PVO0OP 9OOPOVPPOOOY POPVLOVOVOVIOPPOHPDOO © GPVPVVOHIPOVIPDOEPOOOPOEDEOD 909090 90000000000 9090P0990PPPPOOOD0DPOO $OPHOPDODVVDIPPOPDOIDPOOOVDDOOEDGE VOO BDHOVDODVDODOID BH HOHH B Pentecost Mission, Pacific and Leavenworth streets. Evening—Sermon by Chaplain Oliver C. Mil- ler of the Eighth California Volunteers. Y. M. C. A. Auditorium, Mason streets, e B $909000000090080000099090099OPGHOPODVHVVOGPOOVOHOO SPEOGGGEOOD DOOPPOOOOOOP9990OSDDO9H® 3 p. m.—Int address to both men and women on “A Wonderful Gift. BY A SHOC approach the tree for love nor money and single handed Herr Leipsic felled the tree and dug up the stump. His report upon the charaeter of the wood is as follows: “The sapwood is large, and in color greenish white; the heartwood is of a rich reddish brown color and is beautifully mottled. The weight of the - wood is eighty-eight pounds: per cubic foot and it has but few fiber markings.” ‘When thoroughly séasoned Herr Leip- sic found that the wood was almost unaffected by alternate dryness and moisture of the atmosphere, yet it sea- soned well, worked well and took a fine polish. The tree produces but a small amount of gum of no commercial value. The roots and stump of the tree did not vary from the ordinary tree of like class, and Herr Leipsic looked in vain for some deposit of minerals, which could explain the peculiar attributes of this tree. He followed the roots to their ends and could find no visible ex- planation of the source from which the tree drew its current. No tree in the neighborhood was possessed of the characteristics of the electrical tree, yet in each specimen like the original trees the same results were obtained, with the exception that the strength of the current varied with the size of the tree. The tree is small, never reaching mora than twenty-five to thirty-five feet in height, with a trunk measuring twelve to_eighteen inches in diameter. In some forms it is found in a low treelike shrub. The bark of the trunk is hardly more than a sixteenth of an Inch thick, with a dark gray surface thickly- covered and roughened with lenticels. The young branches wers covered with a slightly sticky gum in the morning. but this was soon dis- sipated by the sun. The leaves are from three to four inches in length, rounded at the ends, while the color is.a rich dark green. The tree bears a small crop of dark berries which, when young, contain a great deal of tannin. This, however, disappears when the fruit is matured. The seeds in the berries are four in number and are very hard, with a thickly. corru- gated surface. Professor Leipsic will endeavor to ex« port one of the trees, but in the opin« ion of numerous authorities upon for- estry the transplanted tree will mnot possess its strange characteristics when taken from its native surround- xng\s‘fur(her investigation of this wone derful tree is looked forward to with great enthusiasm among the associates of {ts discoverer. DON'T It .BE A will BEAST cure the worst case of drug addiction. It will cure the worst case of alcoholism. Take the Keeley There are more than 6000 examples of what the Keeley has done right in California. Many of them were worse off than you. ‘Write for perticulars. THE KEELEY INSTITUTES, 1170 Market Street, San Francisco, Donohoe Building. Lankershim_Bullding, Third and Spring St., Los Angeles. Fred A. Pollock, Manager. (4 4