The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1899, Page 26

SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1899. Femarkable S tory of the Oldest ofl'w'ny Californian =XeR=F=F=goRegoF=F:LF-F-F-F-F-F=F-F-F-F-3-F=-F=F=-R=-F-2=F-3-F-3 =3 OOO-;C'OG‘C OOQOOOOGOOOOO*“OO"’O000000000{&0000001535.C‘Qfifififififlfififlfififibbfifififibfif‘QQDDQQQD)}QQQDQQ&&QJ})}Q)&QQ)}Q)}&QC{Q&QQQQfiQQfiQOOQOOOODDOQQQQ?&QG F | o =3 = - GOSN ROORRRRNR IS Aidnaped When a Came to California in /cS’/Z.’ | fla‘y and -@7’02{?/}1‘ Zo 50030E000EE00505000HEN San Francisco When GClere Was Un(y One Fouse Here. ed a J/nyz//ar Life of 7//:.9 and DPowns and YPow FHe FHas Reached the Gna-- the HAlmahouse. feRo2oF=2cg-F-R-R-FoFoRaBuRuRuug=RaReBBeRaReFaBeaFaFuRaRaRaRaRagaF= ] ways very penings during the great gold excitement DOQQQ’J!JCEQQ&QC(QOQOQQQ’D'DQQ’Q.CUfiQ,CSCE B e Rt aeg-g=g=g=R o R R s R e R g = g o) DODOE DO BHHRBO0000 o o fed =3 k=3 fed f=3 o f= e f=3 ped o o o o o e f=d I =3 =3 bod o p=3 Fod pad o f=4 o b= o pag pat o =g=F=FegeBePoge:-ReReRaRFep=Fe=FuR-R:R-2:RuFoReRaFoFeP FaBeFeoReq ish, and the senor w; OHN SEBASTIAN, age 9 vyears, kind to me. He wrote down my name and ¢ birthplace Montre the date that we put into port and said “T kept store on North Fork. I put some Just a tiny whi tdenti- that If ever he got a chance he would let money in a mine, but they cheated me,” fication pasted at ot at the my parents know what had become of is the w dismisses that exciting City and County Hosp! me. I grew up just like the other Mexi- period can boys and I was never lonesome for has wiped Montreal. i gringo’ “Years afterward. when voung Valleio, But while the preser tory of the State. He r breath mory clear of the off h d the immedi- candy to eat who afterward became General Vallefo, ate past are dimly im d, the memo- ing the crust of charity 1oyl vl Thie swme went to Sonoma he took me with him. ries of those eariier I S A cup of bitterness that r trick to kidnap me and use Senor Vallejo, his father, sent him there gurging thick and fast to crowd out the the sick and destit cabin boy. to manage the large tracts of la jovless happen r years. of all he s ) eep, and when I awoke I felt the Vallejos owned around what Seba tten the days long ad been out to Santa R At the mission of San of bountiful the Mexi- sick- ather s with my the cap- time be- I would see them again. He said were going to a nge country alled California. The captain was an of gold. plowing or mea: grocer’s, John ad with the good r ir beads and s 1 Mission Dolores. If a dozen swung wide open for padre, He recounts the days of nd the bullfights; ni cisco Solano was a padre and I us cany’ door talk English with him. General V Beikasor told him my story and he wrote to the o iino American Consul at Monterey. Through ; ching the fascinating this Consul my parents heard of me softly strumming on the guitar. “But'1'did not want to go back to Mon- At {imcs he forgets that he is on a nar- treal. X loved_my friends, the VallejoS, row cot in a public hospital. With 5 gAY Pachecos and’ the rest of them too much panq of T s R nd a h then the many of the ilors to leave them. ' miles to atten g where rich S myRpetents wete “General ,Vallejo always treated the ang poor will feast merry for and 1 could speak the Americans. kindly, but they took every- a'v Do’ T thing away from him and from all the Sl Test of the, Mexicans, who had this coun- evee an9 twinkling fect aw try long befére the Americans came 0 (o journey's e it. When he died T lost my best friend. rycn thre ar R T will never forgive the Americans. They ,Then there are mio n Sl S. THEY pastian realizes his present plight. But ey :\‘Ilu“::\h 'r';‘vl'l"}fi““?,fi.:‘;‘ those moments are fortunately few. Ho xg. e = ¥ oL by € tells his is age—o8 ¢ treated the same W b theyfaverall)’ oo DI story, hisiase. 40 Sears, hejvecs "'fi',rl':“'.‘;’?gf'.'",“{,h,‘;:‘,, cperibng ot straightforward manner that does ‘ e ety o ey not admit of dispute. I’ never married, and my friends are all POt admit of dispute. Mexicans, and they are dead or, too poor I0F he does ot say "»”’0”’;1»“‘:“";{“‘- e :-‘mhmy?..;?“'“.i(‘y\, h,:“ 1\me lth(,‘m:“,“w“"”!‘! and oldest pioneer. He will have nr»lhn}z anything from their small savings. I nd t ocieties.” He E would pair of black ited him at very fond of me. y kind to me. I never > of the captain nor the was the Colomt was Umphrey eemed years to me before I woke up morning and fou it we were not moving. Soon ors took me on shore. There w in sight, nd to that we That was the firs pot that afterward becam While the ors were tallow I talked s French and the nderstand me. The one hou bartering with the p one who co : . : it simply, as if it were an ordinary, the people on shore were Mexi- never made friends among the gringos I,\]‘N“{“.‘,‘,;‘” told him my name and then he They did not treat the Mexican right, and 2 N L ! bout the sailors I hate them.” T.ast week Sebastian was removed from me from Montreal 1t is like showing the proverbial red rag the County Hospital to the Almshouse, to the bull to mention the gringo to John Where he expects to end his day: Sebastian. Attempt to defend the Ameri- e e AT A k4 cans and his weak gray eves light up with _ While a crowd of Harvard boys-ware an intense hatred. He immediately re- Cclebrating the Pennsylvania game in .he fuses o talk, and his anger uswally Cafe of a Boston hotel. one of the students bragoh 4 Gathniafe et tack. became infatuated with a gorg Aptiresacd’ Yit “Houniah. howeyer, he W worn by one of the colored tald ik atord | wiIHEIY. 08 (6 . very He called the man and sald to clear, connected manner, considering his _“I want to buy that waistcoat.” = years. Though he often wandered from _ " What you want of that west, boss? the main thread of his interesting id the man. 9 he would never say anything of the T just want to buy it. What will you “There was a 11 dark gentleman in a sombrero who stood near us and li tended to what we said. The father spok to him in Spanish and the gentieman pat- ted my head and smiled at me. “After supper the padre asked me if I would like to go with the gentleman. I sald ‘ves,’ and that very night I was put on a horse and rode aw tleman. We traveled for several 5 It was Senor Pacheco, father of Ro- mualdo Pacheco, and he took me to his ranch. 1 soon learned to talk Span- was bound 1 kinship—affecti And w After a good deal of guffawing and . to come to C some hesitation, the colored man allowed that he would take five dollars for it. “Done,” said the Harvard man, and he pulled out a five-dollar bill and gave it to the negro, who began to pull off the stcoat. Oh, you needn’t do that,” said the stu- don’'t want you to give it to me t wanted to feel that I owned that coat.” Lhe negro went to wait on his own ta- when the student called to him, “Come here!” e up here to the hos- ry be own. He a wagon, g by the ; to Hollister. There o bad that he turned the broken-down horse pdowe L A S 5 What yvou want, boss?"” wagon, and - 3 The student called the negro up-close, the city OHN 5EBAST|AN 5 X & dipped_his own fingers into a plate of sauce, and with them proceeded /7 cranber WHO SAYS HE Yat 7 to mark a big “H" on the middle of the LANDED N SAN N g 4 front of the white walstcoat—his walst- FRANCISCO IN 3 e e————— 1811 ... ; ! “T hear you have a little sister at your ion of the officials espite the fact that 11 asthmatic attacks and his s not lend itself as easily to to Spanish. house?”’ said the grocer to a small boy. ‘Yes, si replied Johnny. “Do you like her?” was the grocer’s Bit by bit, however, his story unfolded next question. itself as day by day he became stronger 1 ‘;LJ‘,'(“‘}}," - fh alk. On the co! > - = and more inclined to talk. O ‘;‘“ & an’ all those things when he got bigge: to )nnlll]ws ?r:)::‘nh\\) t‘zn:. Bt ““Well,” said the grocer, “why don’t you fornia in '48. oug! is but exchange your little sister for a boy?” Johnny reflected for a minute, then aid, rather sorrowfully: We can't now. used her four d: 000000000000000000000CL00C0C0C000000 Most Thrilfing Race on Record. MONG all the wanders of the last|of 1127 yards, or within 633 yards of the twenty years, theré have been few | goal; and the swiftest living walker, to things more remarkable than the | rival W. Perkins' speed in 1§ development of speed in cycling. | covered a mile in 6 minutes 2 It seems but yesterday that there [ would require a start of no le were only four men in the world | yards, leaving him little over a quarter who could ride a mile on a track under | of a mile to cover. 3 minutes, and that Cortis’ feat of com ndicap for the most exciting racs passing twenty miles within an hour w. of all time stands thus: bicycle scratc! a world's wonder. To-day Major Taylor, | Persimmon, 20 yards; trotter, 318 yard: the lightning black rider of the States, |skater, 653 yards: runner, 1054 can ride a mile in 1 minute, 41 2-5 seconds, | racing eight, 1127 yards; and walker, 1% or, with a flying start, in $2 seconds, a|yards. A race with these handicaps would rate of 39 miles an hour; and Elkes, an- | furnish the closest finish in sporting an- other American racer, has covered 34| nalg, for all the competitors would break miles 1220 yards within the hour. | the tape at exactly the same moment, un- stons; the blood is up, courage runs high,| After thirty vears of development the | ogs one or other broke the record and there is inspiration and hope. How much | ¢¥¢le has at last eclipsed In speed eVery | came in by a neck. more difficult it 1s to be great amid the | Means of traveling except the locomotive. | /15 jntroduce the locomotive into our grinding cares and tolls of one’s common | It can glve the swiftest thoroughbred | weng of the century” race, we will credit life from day to day! How hard to be | that ever flashed round Tattenham COT-[ it with a speed of §0 miles an hour, and great when there is no banner, no music, | Tier 4 start and a beating in a mile race. | ¢,0u1q have to place it 1214 yards behind Zo applauding multitudebut when, si-| while for shorter distances Persimmon | goroeop 2 R i lent and lonely, one sees the simple du- | even would be left panting in the rear.| oo : & s it £y o Sons wHbIRL b ot | o lusirats the sofative. pasdoosrtes | Thempeed DeRhORs devSlaned By Lig dife of praise or a ray of hope. How many | different methods of human progression, | fTent ¢ompetitors would be: Locomotive, brilliant women there are.in the face of | let us in fancy start them all in a mile | ©0 Miles: cyclist, 39 miles; thoroughbred, a other men and women, social stars and | handicap. No such tbrilling rage has | §nade under T Eae suns, fitted to. dazzle and charm and in- | ever been seen on any track. and it would | j5,°"} TITRHEN 0! TATIME eight, about terest by their. graces of manner or cul- | be worth traveling a thousand miles to | ‘i o ex. gyer; 418 iles an hone ture of mind, who are absolutély unin- | see it. e oven daniheeys years and ten, his hair is whit : 1s far less active than John 7or Sebastian, like the old peo- f his adopted race, does not show £000000000CCO000000000000000000000 Common Little Lives--ounday oermon By Rev. Geo. L. Perin, Boston, Mass. s t's too late. We've Well, thow good servant; becawse thow hast been faithful in a very little, have thow awthority over ten cities.—Luke xix-17. Special to The lay Call. mon, even commonplace, and we grow | | tired of them. Why is it? recognize these words SRS to the Master's answer | pumijarity without appreciation makes servant, in the parable of | things scem commonplace. Supposing the | He was given one talent, moon were to rise only once a year—then, \‘ or pound, which he straightway in- | whether seen in crescent or with its full | face of light, we should all turn out even | Sometimes I go to a carpenter’s ship and 4, ten pounds to | 4t Midnight to see it; but we have grown | see a man skillfully using tool after tool il R pe | f2miliar with the sight, and so, perhaps, | with a dexterity and intelligence that return d interest is to | careless. Yet to the heart with apprecia- | seem to me scarcely less than marvelous. found in the fdct that the servant did not | tjon it is t as silvery, just as | But theé poor carpenter toils away day beautiful, just as wonderful as it ever | after day for what he regards as poor served nearly as | was. Men will prepare for months ahead | wages, perhaps discontented, troubled, wer of the|for an eclipse of the sun, and all the| weary with his lot, disgusted with life ¢ thy | World stands gazing in wonder before the | and longing to fly away from it all. It Y | creeping ‘shadow which slowly shuts. out |is commonplace because it is too familiar. In a nap- | tpe light of day. But every day of the |Go into a great cotton miil and look for is action | sun's shining, with its warmth and light | the first time upon a marvelous machine and comfort and life-giving power, is a | in operation. But what will the poor thousandfold more wonderful than the | weaver tell you If you ask him what he | 3 thinks about it? The wonder is all gone, | remember with what wonder T took | curiosity all gone, interest all gone; per- n - GEn.VALLEIO TaxES MiM SouTH. has, inst My purpo; well, perhaps, third servant, the ar , behold here aid u | rst kur le through the streets | haps little save loathing left. And vet, teresting and nearly useless amid the| We.must place Major Taylor on his|CLSt's speed is his power of enduranc | 9f a Japanese oity. Eversthing-I saw, |really in all these spheres what the un- petty cares andstmple dutles of life. It [leycle at seratoh. Wo il toke Persine | TO cover a mile in 1 minute 4125 seconds, 'hat was he? A POOT, | from the curious little wagon in which T | initidted sees is there. It is curious, it is 50 much harder to be great in common ftmon in his marvelous form of Derby day, | And 3 miles 1220 yards in an hour Is by no W Poor and mean at the best! d he do with his common little much, surely; and so he under- | . . whole thing and threw away | vere his 0pPOT- | was riding, the queer little people swarm- | 18 wonderful, it is interesting to the last life than to be great on the special oc-| 188, when he covered the course-in the | Means '& around me, the strange little band. | degree; but the one who is living in it | tlefleld, but in his home at Galena, in |ca ’ | rat | box houses and shops, to the wondergul | has grown so famillar with it that his|communication with his officers around [ No; for the. real tests of life you shall | and, mounting Watts on his back, we will | utive hours, as M. Cordang did in his mar- pagoda and the old medieval|interest is all gone and he becomes weary | the camp fire, in the hours when off duty | not go to the battlefield, nor the Senate | give him 20 yards start of the bicycle. velous day’s ride at the Crystal Palace, in med nothing less than marvel- | and disheartened. and off his guard. What was the true |chambér, nor the ballroom, nor the stock | © he fastest mile ever trotted is oredited | 1597: to me. I felt if T were to stay in| So in every walk and every work in|measure of President Lincoln? There [exchapge, nor the iegal forum. You| ., Alix who brought down the mile time| The stupendous nature of this feat be- rs the wonder |life. The housekeeper feels it, the|are those who say it 18 to be found in |shall go to the home and study the spirit | (0 oopoe WOD o3 708 00 GOWE W€ Ol c SO0 | comes apparent when we consider that he way. But it was | teacher feels it, the lawyer feels it, the | the herolc patience with which he en- | of the girl In the kitchen who does the | o 0ties: T00 SSConte: - HF €Y AT could have run sixty-one of the swiftest ually lived there | mechanic feels it, and each one comes to | dured the four years’ struggle in the | drudgery of the family life, or see the f £ im S‘*‘] ‘-'rn sr. g\tms 3 L o 1 Bgleac b N e y four years, and long before I left I|say at last: “Oh, what a commonplace | White House. But far more truly was | patfent wife and mother, with infinite | Sta7t OF 318 YArds. The Tastust mile eVer | opom"one after the other for ten miles S 5o W coma bt IashED 14 ride from end to end .of the great |life this is I am leading!” Commonplace | the measure of the man taken in the |care and painstaking doing the simple | €¥ered on skates was J. Wiisows mile| | 1\ \ oiably the most wonderful evie e common day, with its | city of Toklo without a single thrill of | because it is familiar, and there is no|years of preliminary preparation as rail | things from day to day which need to |2t Moftreal, which he covered ' 2 min- | oo 0 0emn o o qurs s ORCert o anderestimate the com. | wonder. “Our own land, our streets, our | longer an appreciative heart to see_ the | splitter, surveyor, law student, success- [hé done to hold the home intact; or to| Utes 4% seconds, a speed which would | TEVSE B HUTR CTTEIATOS and periect e G tings, and | CIty, our people are just as wonderful to | wonder and glory of it all. ful lawyer and politiclan on the frontier | the husband returning after his dag of|@dmit of a start of 6 yards from Taylor. ! E e world's his- v ) - (u]{m;\nn“-". P L | the eyes of the stranger; there isn't a S of Tlinois toll in shop or fleld or office, and watch| W- G. George, in 1886, ran a mile in four | ln;_\]_ : e L ek T would like | commonplace spot in his own town to a | <eary as we grow of our common little| Many men acquit themselves splerglid- | his Intercourse With wife and child and | minutes 1% seconds, and would require a| Almost equally remarkable, when w 1 et hefore vou that, when |man of appreciation who has not lost the | jives, they have their value, and I want |ly on public occasions, rise to great |servant, or follow him back again on the | start of fo ‘less than 1034 vards, or 154 mv;s e]r the glmrul.tle: nll surface, grad At from & high point of view, there | 8rt Of seeing things to point out a few important facts. beights of eloquence and power when in | morrow and See how he acquits himself | yards more. than haif the mile. ent and weather are the ;‘r;gq;di{?;:?clg og o mon days. nor common | So it is with our lives; they are not| In the first place, we find here the real | view of other men, who are mean and |at his work. Is he brave, is he patient,| The winning Oxford crew of 153 cov- s ads. Las . R. common events . Goodwin covered a distance of 428 mi ) long as they | common and never commonplace, save to | tests of character. What was the real | petulant and critica. and overbearing and |is he earnest, is he temperate in this| ered the course, from Putney to Mortlake, | on the rond in twenty fcur hours, r‘fm;‘: are linked witiu some genu nose. And yet thi astounding to maintain a o astonishing time of 2 minutes 42 seconds, | Fate of 252-3 miles an hour for 24 conse | the country for fifty v 4l of that same spirit | of it would never pass think of our | the same old story. 1 s | onl; e world to-day We of mon, of our opportunities moral pur- | him who grows too famillar to see the | measure and test in the .ife of General | difficult to live with in private. It is not | common little life which he is living from | at the rate of 4 minutes 42 seconds a mile, | taining an average speed of nearlv eights s really do seem com- ' wonder and the glory contalned therein.|Grant? It was measured not on the bat- | so difficult to be great on great occa- |day to day? The test is there. - 4and would claim a start from the cyclist | een miles an hour.