The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-06

they were the words OF revelation. Before
the time Of Victoria Woodruff no woman
had done more than preach the emancipa-
ton of women. With her sister, Tennessee
Claflin, now Lady Cook, she gave the exam
pie Of will and tenacity, and as her sex had
been accused OF gross ignorance concerning
business she founded clearinghouse at
New York and not long after realized
$500. 900 profit.
With her sister she again founded a jour-
nal, and in this she explained her ideas
that society is an edifice built uhon the peo-
pie. and, ii the people be feeble and corrupt,
the edifice must fall. The path marked out
by Victoria Woodruff, according to the
French, comes from the mysterious depths
of India, passes by Bethlehem, crosses New
YORK, and ends" no one can tell where.
We hear also that Victoria Woodruff will
soon return to America. where size will
carry on campaign, half-socialist, half
religious, and that for each one of her ect-
ures she will receive 5000. This money
she will give to charitable Institutions. In
America she has already given 1900 lectures
on 'Stirpiculture, or Scientific Development
OF the Human Race" and so captivating does
she make herself that not a person leaves
the hall before she has finished. But what
interests us most is that this week Victoria
Woodruff will lecture in Paris in aid
of the "Maison Maternelle," and her
subject will be "Oh, Marriage! What
Crimes are Committed in Thy NameW
Her lecture will not be a satire against
marriage, but project of reform. Victoria
oodhull believes that marriage is holy
sacrament, but she is as severe concerning
moral beauty as were the aucients in re-
spect TO physical beauty. Consequently,
the deformed in mind, criminals, drunkardS
and lunatics. should not be allowed to marry,
as they only perpetuate a race of criminals,
drunkards and lunatics. But, as it is i'm
possible to prevent these marriages, Vic
tora Woodruff believes in curing those ill
in mind, so that their offspring may he
healthy, morally speaking.
Lady Cook has been in Paris for some
days making arrangements for this lecture,
aud certainly enthusiasm among Parisians
is unbounded. Nine. Retoux nee Louise
kopp) has for long time planned Mason
Matcrnalle." refuge where wofkmen or
poor people without work, or i'll. can place
are able to provide for them. Every
evening, when they return from the
common school, the children will be
welcomed IN this home. Nine. Retoux last
year saw SO many. terrible cases of desti-
tuition that she determined that before the
arrival OF January cold some asylum should
be provided for the children. She found AN
empty building. 1SS Rue de Bellevilie, in the
poorest quarter of the city, begged that it
might be lent her for an experiment,
promised that the children should not cost
more than II cents each per day, aud that
servants could be found among the u noccu-
pied mothers. And to gain these II cents
needed for each child each day Victoria
Woodruff Is electrifying Paris.
Several OF the provincial towns in
France have been duped by a chevalier
d'industrie named Zucchi. Zacchi belongs
in reality to noble family of Penerola,
Italy. lie left the military school of Modena
In 1855 with the rank of Lieutenant, ana in
1887 he was with regiment of bersagieri
at Sinigaglia. In six months he had prom
ised TO elope with the wife OF a superior off,
Ger, with the daughter of q magistrate
and with pretty cigar merchant
Finding himself TOO entangled he re.
ceived permission to leave his regiment
for forty-eight hours, did not return, and
just as the Colonel was ready to place his
name among the deserters a dispatch was
received saying that Lieutenant Zucchi had
been sent on secret mission. Nothing
more was heard about Lieutenant Zucchi
until the end of the year. when supsrb
Italian, very much decorated, arrived at
Nice, took an apartment in the best
hotel, bought saddle-horses and rode con-
tinuaily with an old man whom he
called himself Count de sebastiano,
and he saw no one except the
priests. and was a constant visitor to The
churches. In his leisure hours Count de
Sebastiano prepared curious geography of
the Riviera, and from time to time small
Count disappeared, and was forgotten in
Nice as he had been in his regiment.
When the jubilee fetes of Leo XIII
were in their splendor the Marquis
d d. Andres hs, (zusGhiD took an apartmeni in
and guard nobiii had d' their r eudtSs
vous. The Marquis" gave little money
to the poor, made the acquaintance OF the
Bishops, and one day the reports made by
French Archbishop disappeared. The
an ruuisD 6iaa N rod mil ho
but the Archbishop was obliged to content
himself with the sincere regrets of the
Italian police. A young Swede had received
the Marquis" one evening, and after his
visits lie found that his watch chain and
purse, containing 600 louis, had disappeared.
One day Zucchi called on the Governor of
Trieste, and announced that Signor Crispi
had given him a mission. The astonished
Governor wrote to Rome asking for infor-
nation concerning the Marquis de Santa
Lucia, tor that was Zucchis new NAME
SiRnor Crispi himself answered, and ad-
vised the Governor TO treat his agent as a
friend. Dinners were given. and ono even
ing the Governors gardens were illuni-
mated, and the Marquis presented to the
society Of Trieste. One nobleman, who
had lived IN Rome and knew all tho nobility
OF the country, was not little astonished
to hear the name Santa Luccla, and asked
for an explanation. The next day the Mar
quis called. and said: Here are my papers.
could not tell you last evening that am
alton was accepted and everywhere
tho marquis was received. Three
ladies. who lost diamond aigrettes,
bracelet and ring suspected every body IN
the MARQUIS" All went well until the
false Marquis employed three Trieste de-
tectivcs, not 70 watch tho Irredenti, but TO
rob shop-keepers. He sent detective to
jewelers., ami told him to take diamond
necklace OH condition that If it pleased
friend he ould buy ii. The jeweer handed
the necklace 10 the detectives, who gave it
to their master, and the next morning the
Marquis de Santa LUCIA disappeared.
The trial of Zucchi takes place at Lyons,