The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1900, Page 7

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THE SUNDAY CALL. ® Francisco that I got was a grec cosmopc full of energy with immense the only thing Jes 1 have neve el country or in tkes me as so perceptive as a San Francisco one. are dull and ght but un- ile some are ener- [ Iisten at the Orpheum Edwin Smedley, headed boys*can of the ‘w('flrv player folk ral and play char- stage embellishments - and motherless chil- CARE \WwALK BY ROMEOC AND JULIET un- lips SO say5 “GcspeY JaCk,” the PhenemenaY Boy PPeaCheF. getic but spasmodic; but the audi- ghost pr der the simply Jack t mpts him, or that somebody un- <HARACTERISTI ATTITVDES oF \Qgfi?EL JACK?™ all like the Jack who at'10 a. m. must 1ave a camera. Like any other 13-year-old boy, he dislikes having his picture taken. Asked to take one of his “platform™ po- p. m. full of .sitions, Jack dropped Lis hands in dis- ce is not at gust and sald that when he was preaching gndt xh.mn e platform rvor and eloquen SO LLIS ANDEDWIN SMEDLEY.. GEE W= wWEVE HAD TROUBLES OF OUROWN” Q‘&QQ@QQQQ%w@@%@-@@‘b@@ovgss.u ould put the jargon of the ordir WO CLE‘IER LITTLE PLAYERS- citce I am now appealing to is that responsive kind which calls out the best qualities of a revival service, being enthusiastic and sympathetic, while there a physical- aggres- siveness just Ssuffi to iiven things up a bit and place every one on his merits. The questions which are asked are of a much more impulsive char- acter than usual and show a greater depth of carch and interest in theologies than I have found in s he thought about what he was saylng and put. Now there is a something about him not the gestures; that he didn't have any that is almost uncanny, so idea how he used his hands or arms. from other ys his ag Gospel Jack’'s readiness and fluency of talks of horses and do speech never forsake nim. His English enthusiasm of Tom. Di is always pure and his thoughts neatly 'you could forget that it is Gospel speaking were it not that his E ary boy (to blush () The blue veins show deep against the \ white of his brow. and shadews too dark {/for his y clrele his gra es. It is () sweet, sensitive little face i zle, and it is 4 slight boyist = needs country air and would be hes with birds and butterflies than saving r four years t ached (night and day, when *he 0 ed the o London to America. Since b ! here, over a ()year ago, his on been wh the train from place to place » East that he spoke f an ope evival, wh n that F demand In Chicag ame in great r revivals. dren act such as their their tongues’ end and make ver est man in the gallery hear it. talent is evident, for they which shows appreciation of tl do HusH M\/ DEAR, CRY NO MorRE. RUN cuT AND PLAY 7 “Romeo and Juliet” tings—clothes hanger, empty cug offer drawbacks not generally co Only Thing This City Mequives s Tlesus” other cities. 1 must say San Francisco audience, as it and compare it with oth cities, stands in point of it Ar, as we say in doubtedly in the front ran is also another phase of th tion and that that few seem to be so openly sinful as There is such P as to make me and weary of said before, wi of all, but more of Christ. s an abu o s S had to speak four or fi times a day to satisfy the vast Jack says that the first time . rs he felt rather nervous. He that even indoors he has the r isual ner vousness at the beginning momentary. t is only Jack is very positive in the belief that his extraordinary powers ar “It is the Inspiration c “I'm not fon ¢ other boy of my ag had less education. We lived ir ter until my mother’s Mot a singer ar with old this divi ever since 2 divine gift Holy Ghost,” than have anches- death then I have the work which is my mi Jack has seen very little of the wicked- ness of the world, though sinners have poured into his childish ears their storles of crime. “I can sympathize with ners,” he says, “though I walked in the byways of sin, not even as an on-looker Gospel Jack declares tk tends to “dabble “I don’t care f he never in- literature. or book lore,”” h ays. “To bring souls to Christ is my work, and [ belfeve in concentrating all your energies in one direction if you want telling re- sul I want to teacd thelr master. éople that God is a man has a master he ought at to get on the right side of him t 507 It is by such naive statements that he brings his hearers close to the common- God that he preaches e saves your soul or not, sense, every And whether Gospel Jack steals your heart. Why Whisky Js Sent to Sea. Large shipmi be made f s of w >m Baltimo v fn bond will European ports within the next month or two, says the Baltimore S A shipment of 1300 barrels is now nearly ready for export, and about 4000 barrels more will soon be ready. While some of the whisky will be sent by Baltimore owners, the most of it will be from Cincinnati and other Western cities. After being kept in warehouses for six months or a greater part will then be broug! r sale to be sent out Is of the 1801 which must be taken arehouses because the »¢ the bonded vear limit has expired. Whisky may be stored in a bonded warehouse eight years without being subject to the internal revenue the x of $1 10 a gallon. A expiration of eight years it must be taken out. Rather than pay the tax and lose the use of the money until the sale of the goods owr v hip surplus stock other side and re it there until needed of freight 1 rope avill be se requirements at e is no demand for the required to be the market maining in supposed to have the Queen's English at v little work of letting the high- That the little fellows have real m a manner 1e lines, although the stage set- besotted father et al.— ongenial with Shakespeare. >board,

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