The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1902, Page 7

WANDERS AWAY BENT ON DEATH fuicidal Mania Attacks Young Woman From » San Jose. NEE= 4.7, She Regains Reason, Gives Up Purpose and Walks to Oakland — and Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. 9. d almost exhausted, and bedraggled, Leila Derrick { age, was found by the police Washington-street lodging- where she had sought refuge after e since 5 o'clock ancholy that caused temporary berration. & woman was at a loss to ra- tionally explain her unusual lapse other than to declare that she was subject to of insanity and when so afflicted gave full swa It was upon st denly lesire to end her life. mission that she sud- ning for the ntending to drown herself. the girl ng and wet in the at the City Prison. “Be- the water my mind cleared vield to the desperate de- vent to Mr. Seeley's work Nothing occurred to bother mec vesterday morning, when one of spells came over me and I started 1 was dressed. 1 fully suicide. I felt so de- oomy that I could not re- n starting right for the 1 got there my senses instead of ending my life on walking after finding the rail- k until 1 got into Oakland | you what prompted 1 hypnotized? No, one of those pecu come over me when me. 1 have had them mmit a track directly 1 got here this for a place to accosted me, d them not to arrest me, and i a room. I had no nothing for two y make food heard the ove to the provide her and which latter the weary dity. d been cared for a telegram to Jose notifying Her moth- resides at the on Santa Clara family went to August from Los geles Miss Derr they arrive. ey They have will come to-mor- of the ruraway. e the girl's condition over a_brother who 1 blindness a short ae an accident in a quarry near ed the police McDONALD’S CONDITION ALARMS PHYSICIANS Assistant Fire Chief’s Illness Is Re- ported to Have Reached Seri- ous Point. OAKLAND, Nos The condition to- night of George McDonald, assistant chief ¢ Department, who was thrown ot buggy vesterday, is such as to as grave fear among his friends. One s four fractured ribe punctured cft lobe of his lung and has caused morrhage, with serious Dr. O. D. Ham- physician, sald to- shows ecvidence of and there is danger that v resuit from injury to the ture to-night is ro: but I am fearrul lest the op pneumonia. In that with him.” & was fractured in two The patient is being cared for at Thirteenth street. P —— AGED “POP” ELLIS DIES OF INJURIES —From injuries sus- over yesterday after- d Washington streets, s, 52 years of age, known for = as “'Pop” Ellis, janitor at the ty of California, died 30 o'clock at the Re- he 1 did not heed the shouts ver of the buggy which il the horse had knocked Before bystaanders could get pless old man’s assistance the trampled on him, crushing his head. The Coroner has charge 3 Ellis lived at Center street Shattuck aven rse had se e, Berkeley. He was gh in Masonic circles and that frater- ty will handle the funeral arrange- ents. His only relative in California is brother residing in San Francisco. —_—— A recently published pamphlet recalls the old dispute of two friends as to ther the word “news” was singular I They telegraphed to Mr. Gree- estion: ““Are there any news?” romptly flashed back the answe: POSTUM CEREAL. CHILDREN’S HOME; A Well Run Place. At a children’'s home in Fort Wayne, Ind., they have entirely. abandoned coffec because of the bad effect of it. Mrs. M. B. Gorsline, who is the matron, is meeting with grand success. She was comp the use of coffee, and after making sev- eral experiments concluded that Postum filled the bill and has used it ever since. She has charge of a family of children numbering from twenty-two to thirty, and writes us: “I give Postum Coffee freely, using no coffee at all. The chil- dren are always well; we have had no sickness for two years except such as they contract at school, like whooping cough, measles, etc. No billous attacks, no fevers, no skin diseases. The children ere all plump and in good condition. Clear complexions, no sallow or muddy looking fuces, such as result from the use of cof- fee. We always make Postum strictly eccording to directions, and it gives pleasure and health to all.” sterday morn- | near San Jose. She had fled home of C. R. Seeiey, four| »m that city and near Milpitas, ering from a fit of despondency | in- | ck will be turned over to her | The aged pioneer was | : | Fourth Ward Political Equality Club at lled four years 2go to discontinue | NEW DEPUTIES - AT COURTHOUSE Some of Those Who Will Reap the Reward of Success. Oscar Rogsrs Mentioned for Warden of One of the { State Prisons, HEEN R Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. 9. There is a great deal of interest among those of a public turn of mind as to what | | the officers-clect of Alameda County and | the candidates defeated are going to do. Who will be deputies and the lines into which the defeated ones will direct their energies is the subject of speculation. It is the general impression that Gov- ernor-elect Pardee, will take care of some j of them, and to this end the friends of | Oscar L. Rogers, the defeated Republican candidate for Sheriff, are urging him for | the wardenship of either San Quentin or | Folsom prisons. There have been scan- | dals at each place. Warden Wilkinson | has about a year more to serve, and the | conditions at San Quentin will be easily | upset, should it be so desired, for one | commission has not yet been confirmed | | by the Senate and the term of another Tuns out at an early date. Sheriff-elect John N. Bishop has not | yet given any indication of who his depu- | | ties will be. It is said that Mr. Bishop | can have the Republican nomination for | | Sheriff four years from now if his admin- | | istration proves a success, and those who | know Bishop say that it will so prove. | There will be 2 new deputy appointed in | the office of the District Attorney on the | first of the year. This deputyship will | | probably go to Everett J. Brown, chair- | man of the Republican City Committee. District Attorney Allen will reappoint all of his present office force. County Treasurer Feidler will also have 2 new deputy to appoint on the first of the year, J. J. Hanifin Jr., at present chief deputy in the Auditor's office, can | have the position. Charles Husband will | | be retained by Mr. Feidler as his chief | | deputy. | County Clerk-elect Jack Cook will re- | tain the greater part, if not all, of the present office force. Auditor-elect G. W. Bacon has not de- | cided upon his deputies, but it is said he will retain Myron Whidden, who is th best posted man upon the affairs of that | office that can be found. | How the new Board of Supervisors will | be organized is a question. Had Super- | visor Mitchell been elected Assessor Dr. | H. N. Rowell of Berkeley would have | been appointed his successor, but this | was stopped by Mitchell's defeat and it is | uniikely that there will be any changes. } i | | | PYTHIAN RETURNS WITH LODGE FUNDS Explains His Absence From Oakland and Is Given a Vote of | Confidence. ’ OAKLAND, Nov. 8.—J. H. Sweeney, a| Southern Pacific switchman and master | | of the exchequer of West Oakland lodge | No. 141, Knights of Pythias, who dis-/ appeared two weeks ago under mysterious | circumstan th $120 of the lodge| funds, has returned to Oakland and has | made explanations which have been re- | ceived by the lodge as satisfactory. C.| . Lewis, chancellor commander of the | | 10dge, requested that the following state- ment be made public: Mr. Sweeney went away and has returned | with "the lodge funds. He has been given a vote of confidence by the lodge and we desire j th it be understood that the lodge has ab- te faith in his honesty and integrity. He the lodge that he had been suddenly called ¥ by news that his mother was dying in cisco and that he went to her. e — | SUFFERINGS OF CARBOLIC ACID DRINKER ENDED Miss Mary Mitchell Dies From Ef- | fects of Drug Taken With ! Suicidal Intent. ALAMEDA, Nov. 9.—Miss Mary Mitch- €li, who drank carbolic acid with suicidal intent yesterday afternoon at the home of | Mrs. Martha Smith, died early this morn- in All efforts to save her life proved futile, and death came to her relief after fourteen hours of intense suffering. Sev- eral of the unfortunate woman’s relatives were with her when she passed away. To-day a jury subpenaed by Deputy Coroner James Fowler visited the resi- dence where Miss Mitchell ended her life. Later the body was removed to a local undertaking establishment | e { Insects Kill a Destructive Weed. * HONOLULU, Nov. L—Insects imported | here from Mexico for the purpose of hav- | ing them attack the lantana, which is a | most destructive weed throughout the isl- ; ands, are reported to be doing what was | expected of them on the island of Maui. They have attacked some large tracts | that are overrun with lantana and are| killing the weed. The lantana covers thousands of acres in Hawall and is al | most ineradicable except at very heavy cost. Professor Koebele, the Hawailar government entomologist, is now in Mex- ico collecting insects that are supposed to be destroyers of lantana, and has sent many of them here. Lo e Ly | William D. English Improves. OAKLAND, Nov. 9—Willlam D. Eng- lish, secretary of the State Board of Har- | bor Commissioners and leader of the, | Democracy, has so improved from the | attack of appendicitis that brought him to his bed that he is almost out of dan- ger. The doctors are watching his case | closeiy and at the first sign of a relapse | will resort to the knife, though no such | contingency is looked for. | ——————— Congressman Kahn Will Lecture. OAKLAND, Nov. 9. — Congressman Julius Kahn of San Francisco will lec- | ture upon “The Philippines” before the the residence of Dr. 8. J. Fenton, 612 Fourteenth street, Friday next, at 8 p. m. Dr. M. J. Plumb will conduct a discussion of “The Garbage Question” and Miss Irene Rutherford will give an instrumen- tal solo. A WISE SUGGESTION FOR GROWING GIRLS Tending to Help Them Through the Period of Self-Conscious- ness. “There is a time,” writes a now grown- up.woman of her early days—we all have | known it, except a few favored human | beings—*of that bewildering experience of being ‘neither one thing nor the other’ a time when one’s frocks have no perma- nent length of skirt or sleeves, but are constantly up and down, being either providently too long that we may Erow into them, or outgrown to a painful and ungainly shortness, or—bitter ignominy— werse than all, having just been ‘let down’ and the creases carefully ironed almost out and the space below the creass left noticeably different. We seem to be made of arms and legs, and the utmost charity of our fondest friends finds but an apologetic expression, ‘Poor child! Ehe is just that age!l’ We were always in the way then, or felt so, even when people were very kind and forgot us altogether —and how to dispose of ourselves was a sad problem. “Happy @re you, growing girl,” contin-! THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1902. i e e e e _ ACTORS MINDFUL OF BROTHERS , TO WHOM ADVERSITY MAY COME Sale of Seats for Great Benefit of Theatrical Managers’ Association to Open This Morning. HE sale of seats for the fourth annual benefit under the auspices of the Associated Theatrical Man- agers in aid of the charity fund for the sick and needy of the pro- fession will begin at the Orpheum box office thfs morning at 9 o'élock. The ben- ° efit will take place at the Orpheum on Friday afternoon. The large advance sale of seats shows that the associated managers will realize handsomely in be- half of the worthy object. The bill prepared for the entertainment will eclipse any that has ever been ren- dered in the past. The managers of the different places of amusement will con- tribute their best talent znd will present their most clever acts. So long is the programme that it has been decided that the orchestra, composed of men from all the orchestras of the city, will play the overture at 1 o'clock sharp. The Columbia will send its six pretty maidens and their chappies in the double sextet from “Florodora,” The third act from Herne's “Hearts of Oak” will be presented by the company, which opened this week at the California. The vocal quartet with the combination will sing several of its choicest selections. The screen scene from the “School for Scan- - ! | | | & ARVILIE=" e - - — PHROPLE WHOSE TALENTS HAVE WON THEM HIGH POSITION IN | WORLD OF MUSIC AND PROMINENT ACTOR, WHO WILL APPEAR T THEATRICAL MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION BENEFii. i | | S = - e Central will play a comedietta, “‘Shades of the Night,” for the first time in this city. The second act of “A Stranger In a Strange Land” will be the Alcazar's contribution and delightful opera will be act. Manager Morrisey of the Orpheum{ will present his best vaudeville and the | managers of the Chutes and Olympla will | offer some of their talent. | One of the interesting features of the| dal” will be rendered by Marie Waln- rendered by the best artists of the Tivoll. performance will be the first American wright and support from the Grand and Camille d'Arville has volunteered and appearance of Herr Max Schluter, the| Georgie Cooper, *Florence, Chapman, Harry Corson Clarke, representing the great Danish violin viriuoso, who is Thomas Kierns and Henry Shumer of the new Theater Republic, will do a short known as the modern Paganini. | L 2 2 e e o e R R R SRS Y ) ues the writer out of her own experience, if you take a volume of Dickens and go up Into the garret and forget that you are you, reading yourself into another world. It is the great peaceful time of your life; perhaps in this busy world there will never come another like it, and | happy is the girl who knows that what- ever unhappy sense the phrase may have “Just that age’ is the golden age of Dick- ens. No stupid-wise critical inspection bothers you; you know and care nothing about literature; style and purpose are unheard of; words, paragraphs and pages have no real substance. you plunge through them, forgetting that you read, you hive and love and laugh and hate and Weep—and are never so happy. “One perhaps never grows too old for Dickens and is not too young for him very long, but however great a pleasure he may always be, from 10 to 16 in the years of our life he is one of the joys of living. It may not be peculiarly true of Dickens—it is possible that the pleasurc of doing anything that we loved first and best to do long ago is largely in the mem- ory of the first delight, but true it cer- tainly is in re-reading the joys and sor- rows of our old Dickens friends. We Jaughed in the garret and we laugh again cover Sam Wellerjs wise absurdities, over Mrs. Bardell's dnger and revenge and over all the adventures and nonsense of Pickwick and his friends. We followed poor Oliver Twist breathlessly through his maze of burglars and rascals, we went and smiled with Peggotty and David Cop- perfield; but of all the lives we were led and al: the sights we saw most of all did we vividly feel grief or horror where some dearly beloved friends or dreaded rascal died. We cannot often weep over them now—we know them too well per-’| haps, and then we have found out, with our prying, too much of how it is done. ‘We have learned the trick of analyzing and discovering ways and means. In the garret we felt the enchantment of first balcony distance; now we have come down and pearer and understand too well the stage machinery. “Encourage the girl to read Dickens in the time when she is neither one thing nor the other,” concludes this wise wom- an, “and so give her a world of refuge from herself.”—Brooklyn Eagle. —_———————— Prominent Lithographer Dead. 0. H. Schoning, aged 62 years, died Sat- urday at his home, 1214 Fulton street, from stomach trouble. Schoning was a native of Germany. He came to this country forty years ago and opened a lithographing business in this city. At the time of his death he was president of the Galloway Lithographing Company, at 410 Sansome street. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow. The funeral wili take place from the Masonic. Temple at 1 o'clock Tuesday. The deceased leaves a widow and three children. WINNERS DIN WITH DEFEATED Candidates of Alameda Make Merryat a Bg Clambake, ALAMEDA, Nov. 9.—Clams, clam chow- der, bullsheads and liquid- refreshments of various brands were devoured to-day by local politiclans who won and lost in the late election ‘and by 100 of their friends who voted for and against them. The good-fellow feast took place on the ranch of E. R. McDonnell, on Bay Farm Island. Because of the rain the guests made use of a large barn as a dining- room. Judge R. B. Tappan, City Justice- eiect, was the host, and overiooked no one in dividing the bivalves and other Bood things on the bill of fare. ’Buses ran to and from High street sta- tion to the McDonnell place for the ac- commodation of all who desired to par- take of the open hospitality that was a feature of the feast. Winners and losers alike mixed in a happy crowd, forgot all about the strenuous days of the cam- paign and talked of nothing but the suc- culent clams when they were not engaged in trying to do two men’'s work In eating them. Speeches were made by Judge R. B. Tappan, A. P. Smiley, E. R. McDonnell, Jack Floyd, Arthur Goldsworthy, Nat Jehu, Edward Lange and others. Provi- sion had been made to feed several hun- dred people, but the stormy weather that prevailed during the afterncon prevented many from attending who otherwise would have participated in the festivities. IN OAKLAND SOCIETY. OAKLAND, Nov. 9.—A delightful affair was glven Tuesday by Mrs. A, Lowndes Scott xt her handsome new home on Hillside a egpe. s a farewell to Mrs. Albert Augur, who sailed on the Korea for Honolulu, and a wel- come to her cousin’s bride, Mrs. Walter Scott of San Francisco, who was a Miss Rice of Honolulu, The luncheon was in the nature of a Hawalian feast. The billlard rooms, wherein the feast was held, had been trans- formed into a typical lania. Tall ferns and {J‘lm almost hid the walls and drooped toward he center of the room in the form of an arch. Stained grasses fell gracefully from the chan. delier, concealing and shading the rose-colored lights. The menu consisted of pol and other | typlcal dishes served in calabashes arranged on | a large straw mat on the floor. The guests were seated on small straw-woven piliows. The name cards were heart shaped and bore ' sketches of Hawalian girls in water colors. | Each card was tled with a string of tiny yellow shells. During the enjoyment of the unusual | feast four- Hawaiian boys sang their native | songs in a most delightful manner. | Mrs. Scott was assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Reginald Knight Smith and Miss Ella Scott of Baltimore. Other guests were: Mrs, Allen Babcock, Miss Dyer, Mrs, James G. Al- len, Miss Wilcox, Mrs. Fred Merritt, Mre. Os- car Gowing, Mrs, A. K, Munson, Miss Bertha Wilcox, Miss Florinne Brown, Mrs. Lillian Brown Everts, Mrs, Will Meek, Miss Oliver | and Miss Anita Oliver, . * je Mr, and Mrs, E. H. Lobmann bave leased their Oakland residence and taken apartments in San Fraucisco for the winter. %, Ay The class of June, '98, Central High® Sshool, | was entertained at an autumn leaf party by | Miss Mayme Jackson and Miss Ethel Hughes | at the home of the first named on Wednesday | evening last. The house was gayly decorated | in_ bright colors and quantities of autumn | The hostesses gave their old class- | 2 most delightful evening, at the close of which light refreshments were served. Those prezent were: i Misses Martha Brier, Lillian_ Lane, Muriel Brenman, Jeli Butler, Veronice Maricich, Car- rie B ds, Mabel Anguin, Adela Jackson, | Annie Peterson, Ethel Hughes, Frances Man- | ¥olo, Carrie Peierson, May Hahsen, Ethel Mo- | Bes, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, May Irwin, Mayms | Jackson, Gertrude Narvaez, Mrs. F. Narvaes, | and Messrs, Paul Butler, E. F. Menges, J. | Stanley Burpee, Sicome Pardee, Ray Ferrish, Harold Coffers, Otto Kurtz, Robert Kelley, Will Kurtz, Clarence Envich, Archie Boland, George Dimphel, Will Martin, ‘James Martin, Charles | Smith and Arthur Anderson. e e The wedding of Miss Mabel Clair Craft and Frank Prentiss Deering will take place at the Church of the Advent in East Oakland on November 22 at 1 o'clock. The wedding will be followed by & reception at the residence of | the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, R. C. Craft, | 1551 Ninth avenue. The bride will be unat- tended. A number of the groom's friends from the Bohemian Club will act as ushers, : P The young ladles of the Baptist King's Daughters are preparing a ‘‘sample sale” for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the present week, to be held at the southwest corner of ( Twelfth and Clay streets. Many erticles will be sold, including staple srocerles, and there will be a musical programme each evening: The ladies who have been devoting their ener- to making the affair a success are Mrs. 2 F. Cockroft, chairman; Mrs. J. J. Warner, Miss I1da Vosburgh, Miss Josie Mason, Mrs. Young, Mrs, Arthur Caldweil, Mrs Beck, Mrs, R, B, Gaylord, Miss Florence Ryder. ——————— Methodists Authorize Expenditures. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8—The general committee on church extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church held their final session to-day. The total amount au- thorized for church building purposes for the coming vear was $3i3,000. Apportion- ments were made to-day as follows: Southern California, $6800; Utah missions, $500; Washington, $600; West Germany, $4000; West Swedish, $859; contingent fund, $10,000; emergency fund, $25,000. | on piecework, they could easily earn 350 | cause for envy | ways a valuable asset, and he is not like- | mand for a skilled mechanic.—Philadel- | C HUNDREDS WILL HONGR THE DEAD Brother Erminold’s Fu- neral Takes Place To-Day. Many Former Pupils to Take Part in Last Sad Rites. e Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 118 Broadway, Nov. 9. | Hundreds of students, graduates and | brothers, who have served under or with | Brother Erminold, late president of St.| Mary’s College, will gather to pay their | last tribute to his memory to-morrow | morning at St. Mary’s Church, on Jeffer- | son street, between Seventh and Eighth. It was originally intended that the services should be held in the chapel at St. Mary's College, but it was soon dis- covered that there were so many of his old pupils, so many of his students from the college and so many of his brothers in the church who were desirous of at- tending the services that the chapel would be far too small, hence the services will be held at St. Mary's Church. The remains are lying in state at SL Mary’s College, and at 9:30 o'clock to- moirow morning they will be removed to the church. At 10 o'clock a solemn re- quiem high mass will be sung. The Rev. Father Foley of Alameda will be the cele- brant and the Rev. Father Connelly of | the class of '78 of St. Mary's College, now connected with St. Paul's Church in San Francisco, will act as deacon. The Rev Father Callopy of the class of '94 of St.| Mary's College will be sub-deacon and | Rev. Father Cranwell, chaplaln of St. | Mary’s College, will be master of cere- monies. Rev. Peter C. Yorke will preach | the funeral sermon: The interment will | be at St. Mary’s Cemetery. FINE CHANCES FOR EARNEST YOUNG MEN Fortunes Founded on Trades Well | Learned and Energetically Followed. Is it not a thousand pities that young | men in casting about for “openings’ in business are prone to overlook excellent opportunities, and end by trying to squeeze in where there is least room for them to grow? The unfortunate tendency among our youth is to absolutely disre gard places where shirt-cuffs and pressed trousers would be out of placé, yet many brilliant successes and large fortunes have been founded on an honest trade well mastered. During the course of a strike in this city, in which 1500 employ: were involved, it came out the other da that many of the skilled workmen earned as much as $1 08 an hour. As they were | | | 2. week without overexerting themselves. They were not seriously disturbed by the strike. They own their own houses, and, as a rule, have a comfortable balance at their bankers. How many thousands of men who Lave for years dragged along in more genteel occupations would find in such a condition of affairs? How many thousands of struggling pro- fessional men, who have difficulty in mak- ing ends meet, would be glad to exchange places with workmen who can make $50 a week? Ancther great advantage which the man with a useful trade at his finger’s ends has over the average business man who is not his own master is the feeling of comparative security. His trade is al- ly to lose his vposition for a trifle or through the whim of an employer. Even should he lose one position, he usually has no difficulty in finding something else just as gocd. Where. there is amother opening he does not kave to enter into competition with all the flotsam and jet- sam of the labor market. It is prob- able that an advertisement of a subordi- nate position, with few prospects of ad- | vancement, would call forth at least ten | times as many applications as the de- phia Telegraph. ————————— ONE MOTORMAN NOT TROUBLED ABOUT STORMS | “Thunder storms are not looked upon with great favor by street car motormen,” said one of the employes the other da “During a thunder storm at any time of the day the lights in the trolley cars are | always turned oh, by order of the com- pany. There are two reasons for it—one is for the protection of the car and the other for the protection of the passengers. ‘When the lights are on and the car is at a standstill the trolley pole becomes a light- ning rod. “When a car is in motion the electric 7 GIVE DISCOURSE 10 OAKLANDERS Baptists Conclude Con- vention With Union Meeting. Visiting Clergymen Occupy Pulpits in Many of the Oakland Churches. —_— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. % Delegates to the Baptist State conven- tion occupied many of the pulpits of that and other denominations to-day, and the convention- was concluded this evening with a union meeting at the Tenth-ave- nue Baptist Church. The sermon was preached by the Rev. O. A. Williams, D. D., of Minneapolis. The Rev. C. A. Moody preached this morning at Brooklyn Presbyterlan Church: At the Eighth-avenue Methodist Church the Rev. A. P. Brown occupied the pulpit this morning and the Rev. Joseph Ellison conducted services this evening. The Rev. A. W. Rider delivered the morning sermon at Phgrim Congrega- tional Church. At Twenty-third-avenue Baptist Church the Rev. W. C. Driver preached this morning. The Rev. A. B. Banks officiated at the morning ser- vices at the Tenth-avenue Bap- tist Church and the Rev. O. A. Willlams preached this evening. The morning ser- vices at Golden Gate Baptist Church were conducted by the Rev. C. R. Jackson. The Rev. E. H. Hayden preached this morning at the Alameda Baptist Church. The Rev. M. R. Wolfe officlated at the Berkeley Baptist Church. At the Firsc Baptist Church the Rev. O. A. Williams delivered the sermon. The Rev. R. N. Lynch preached at the Centennial Pres- byterian Church. Luther Day services in celebration of the four hundred and nineteenth anniver- sary of the birthday of Martin Luther were held this evening at the First Eng- ish Lutheran Church. The exercises were specially arranged by the pastor, Rev. William Kelly, assisted by Choirmaster John C. Walling. The choir was assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Neale and John Coombs. The First Methodist Church will pur- chase a new pipe organ to cost not less than $5000. The music committee which will conduct the negotiations is com- posed of J. C. Hill, chairman; O. S. Orrick, George J. W. Stark, N. L. Gross and L. A. Spencer. The committee with. members of the official board and other members of the church visited Palo Alto yesterday to inspect the great organ which has been installed in the Stanford Memorial Church. Mr. Scott-Brooke gave a recital. Revival services commencing Monday night will be conducted this week at Fruitvale Presbyterian Church as follows: Monday, the Rev. J. E. Anderson; Tues- day, the Rev. D. E. Potter; Wednesday, the Rev. J. A. Fraser; Thursday, the Rev. M. Slaughter; Friday, the Rev. R. C. Stone. “Two years in the Orient” was the sub- ject of an address which was delivered this evening by Miss Ada Mercutt at Chester-street Methodist Church. The Rev. J. O. Denning, a missionary from India, preached to-day at the First Methodist Church on_the Cleveland mis- sionarv convention. F. H. Seely has taken charge of the chorr of ‘Fruitvale Congregational Chapel. [ I current, which leaves the power house and is carried along on the trolley wire, passes down through a wire in the trolley pole into the motors of the car, setting them in motion, and then down through the wheels into the rails, by which the current returns to the power house. Thus the trolley wire, the car and the rails form a.complete circuit. When a car is at a standstill the connection between the trolley and the motor is cut off, breaking the citcuit. However, turning om the lights has the same effect as putting the car in motion—that is, it completes the circuit. That is the reason why the lights are on duritg a thunder storm. “Should lightning strike a trolley wire the flood of current would be carried with a rush to the nearest car. If this car should be in motion or the lights be turned on so that the circuit with the rails is complete there would be a chance that the extra current of the lightning's stroke would pass down the trolley pole and through the car into the rails without do- ing any harm. The principle is the same as that of a lightning rod, which carries the electricity into the ground. But when there is no connection the current of a bolt of lightning would burn out the mo- tors of the car, and if strong “emough would shatter the car and injure the peo- ple who might be riding in it.”—Lafayette Times. e e e e o Jugdernaut N explaining why the leading I novelist,” it has been pointed out Frank Norris’ great masterpiec.—a book might be written round any road juggernaut. perate wheat growers passing on gang of deputies—and its terrible untimely death has left his great popularity than ever before. Therefore, following out its tion, the Sunday C: curred therein, “THE OCTOPUS” The Trail of the Railroad almost unanimous in calling ‘“The Octopus,” the long looked for, ‘“the great American novel,” and its author “the great American fiction woven into one tense, fascinating, all-powerful romance—but a good half dozen great novels rolled into one. All his characters are of such strength and force that - whole situations—the book is crammed full of them-—are each of them strong enough to arnish the icadirg climax for a good round dozen of any other books that are being ground out to order nowadays. “The Octopus” is not only distinctively California, it is world wide | in its scope and humanness, and over it all is the shadow of the rail- Engineer Van Dyke’s haunting race for life and fight for lib- | erty against the hirelings of the railroad from the cabs of two huge pounding moguls on parallel tracks—the dance and gun fight in Annixter’s Monster barn—Vanamee’s weird, wild mystic through all the years for his wronged Angele Varian in the Mission Church garden — Annixter’s love scenes with Helma Tree in the dairy-house of his Quien Sabe Rancho —the vivid contrasts of the social crush and the defeated and des- ception of the San Francisco Bohemian Club—the stormy meeting of the conspirators and the denunciation of Lyman Derrick at Los Muertos Rancho—the last fatal fight of the Mussel Slough wheat kings against Behrman, the smooth, crafty railroad tool and his tragic end, which is the most grewsome and at the samé time the most inevitable fate ever conceived, are only a few of the stirring episodes—mere incidents in a human interest story whose theme and purpose—summed up in the “Trilogy of the Wheat”—will be forever identified with the history “The Octopus’” has risen to a more . 4 ! in “The Octopvs” critics of the world have been that ‘“The Octopus” is not only truly remarkable work of fact and one of them—while the dramatic search sweetheart, the ethereal the stairs at the fashionable re- consequences, and Behrma: ’s own of the Pacific. 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