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The morning call., 1892-09-18
TIE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Items Of Live Interest 10 Members Of Many
Denominations.

Favorable reports come from the Jewish
settlement in the Argentine Republic.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of this city is in very flouFishiug condi-
tion.
The Leader the organ of the Baptists on
the Pacific Coast, is now publishing
Southern California edition.
Pilgrim Congregational Church, East
Oakland. has recently received thirty-four
new members, nearly all adults.
The Congregational church OF Petalums
held its annual meeting Wednesday, Sep
tember Z. 1t was an all-day meeting
Rabbi Hirsch Of Chicago says it is not the
pulpit, bat 1t Is the cEanted prayer that
brings the multitude to the house Of wor-
ship
A fair in aid Of ST. Dominic's Church.
Benicia, will be held at the City Hall, COM
mencing on October 10 and continuing for
ten days,
Rev. DR.. Crary, editor of she California
Christian Advocate. has been very sick for
some weeks. but is now showing signs OF
improvement
The farewell sermon of Rev. Dr. Falk
tion of this city appears in full in the
American 1sraelite of Cincinnati.
The Rev. j. p. Hearst, Ph. d., has re-
turned from Japan on account of impaired
health. but has been much improved during
and since his voyage and is ready for work.
The Christian Advocate recently did lts
constituents a service by denouncing pad
ded" aud "profane" prayers. 1t might have
added that prayers never should be par
tisan."
Rev. e. S. Mason. who. the past eight years
has labored on this coast Gin connection with
the Young Mems Christian Association, as
Stale secretary, and represented all the
evangelical churchesl, is now giving his
whole time to evangelisttc work.
The American episcopacy is preparing
encyelical letter on Columbus which was
addressed to the Archbishops and Bishops
of Italy, Spain and America. This address
is to be sent to the Pope in October
Mr.. Moody is spending month in Ireland.
On the last Sabbath in August he began
services In Belfast. to continue week, in a
large building constructed TO hold 1900
He will spend week in Dublin. Mr. Burke,
the singer with him, is an Irisbman.
The Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff, who continues
to retain his physical powers, recently re-
ceived a letter from the theological
cal faculty of Marburg. Germany. congratu-
lating him on having nearly completed fifty
years OF service as professor of theology.
The eighth Grand Council of the Y. NJ. /.
will assemble at Fresno on Ostober
5th prox. This will be one of the most i'm
portant councils of the order and much wis.,
DON will be demanded to formulate legisla-
tion to meet the existing condition OF the
institute.
Pomona has fourteen churches and takes
good care of its pastors. The city Jail Is
empty and the people justly pride them
selves on the good order which prevails.
The ladies' Presbyterian missionary meet
ing was lately held at the house of Mrs.
Pierce. who is a sister Of the wife of Rev.
Mr.. Garvin. missionary of the Presbyterian
church in Valparaiso, Chile
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BUSINESS IN RUSSIA.
Queer Stores and Trades Of
the SlaVs.
INDUSTRY OF THE PEOPLE
Wonderful shawls and Carpets Advertise
ments and signs-Villagss Which Raise
Canaries and Cats.
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALL

Take a cup of tea with me la Russo
while I tell you something about the queer
business methods of this queer people. A
bare-footed boy brings in the large brass
samOvar and we drink our tea out Of glass
tumblers with nothing but bit of lemon
aud a generons amount Of sugar to affect us
flavor. The Russians do all their trading
over tea, and this commercial center. Mos
cow. is full of teahouses called traktlrs,
where these iong-haired merchants sit and
suck their tea through Jumps Of sugar which
they hold between their teeth and dlcker
and bargain from morning till evening
There is no such thing as fixed prices nor
quick trades in Russia 1t takes man all
day to come to decision, and he always
asks you three times as much as he expects
to get. Aud still the business done is enor-
nous.
Moscow has some business houses which
would be credit TO Chicago. and there are
stores here as fine as you will find any,
where in Paris. The Weather Russians
buy the most eXtrayagant articles OF
jewelry and wearing apparel and the ar
cades of the city of Moscow are unequaled
anywhere in the world. Just under the
shadow of the holy Kremlin there is now
being built vast bazaar Of six stories when
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thing you wish from lairpin to sealsk in
coat, and from toothpick to q set of furni-
ture. There are jewellery stores and CLOTH
iDg.stores. stores for the selling of house
hold utensils. stores which handle nnlhIn
but leather goods and other stores which
deal in books and pictures.
The merchants as rule are Russians in
long GOATS with their pantaloons stuffed in
their boots and their hair chopped off level
with the neck so that it forms a sort Of
brush as 1t hangs down from the crown.
They part this hair in the middle and they
are usually long bearded men of the Rus
sian type. They are shrewd dealers. but
are very suspicious OF one another and 60
on the principle that everything is fair in
trade. Some OF them grow very wealthy
and some OF the finest houses in Moscow
belong to the merchants. The mobiles
looked rather down on them until In recent
years and to-day the merchant class is not
as high as the official class In Russia. They
are very superstitious aud believe in signs
and omens. Their hours Of business are
from about 9 in the morning until about 8
in the afternoon, and though they are as
anxious to make good trade as our mer-
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nuts, with dropping, gold-gr tassels. A
single specimen OF taDbark oak we'll placed
on height dominates the whole landscape.
1t ls one of the kings of the California wood
land. hitherto neglected, perhaps, for red
woods, madronos and sugar pines. but not
less worthy than these of perpetual remem-
brance.
We drove the fourteen miles TO Fort Ross
In an open wagon behind six mountain
horses; we had dinner there and drove back
late In tie afternoon. A merry boy and
Rlri rode horseback and thought they had
the better OF the crowd in the wagon. A
few mountain ranches. mere specks of clear
ing IN the wilderness, showed far off as we
climbed the ridges; two such ranches we
passed, no more. in the fourteen miles dis
taDce. rod or so OF vineyard, bits of
garden and orchard. hayfelds among siumps,
belled cattle seen now aud then on the hill
side-these were all the evidences of settle
ment, except that slow wood teams now and
then blocked the narrow stage road until we
could reach the nearest turnout"
The view from the greatest ridgetop ex-
tended over parts of four countes-So-
noma. MeBdocino. Lake and Marin. 1t
was, in fact, glimpse into Que of the wild
est and most unsettled portions of the north
ern Coast Range, although the road We trav-
eed upon is a great highway The moment
one steps from il he plunges into an un-
fenced and unsettled wilderness, until
twenty miles away be stuihbles upon an
other stage road. The rest of il is the land
of the tanbark-hunter and tile herdsman.
This is within seventy miles Ia a air line
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village has its speciality OF some kind or
other. Near Moscow there is a town which
is noted for its beating of goldleaf, and the
people Of the village beat the gold out be-
tween calfskins, and the monthly wages OF
a good gold-beater are about ST. There are
other villages which make wire, others
which make nothing bnt spectacle frames,
and down In Tula there are about 1000
people who devote themselves to the
making of accordions. Some of the most
beautiful ware turned out at Moscow is
the lacquer paper- mache. q This is sold all
over Europe. 1t has the finish of the
japanese lacquer and ii Is beautifully
PAINTED. This is done by families who
have worked at it for generations. 1t was
from them that the old-fashioned snuff
boxes came, and they now make sleeve
buttons, tea caddies, hook covers aud lac
quer pictures.
Speaking Of pictures. the icon trade is one
OF the great industries Of this country. An
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must cover nearly ten acres Of ground, and
there are many business blocks here which
cover acres. There is more economy used
in building than in America, and some Of
these vast buildings are cut by wide pas
sages hich are rooted with glass and out
upon which open stores about twenty feet
front with good show windows. These
windows are filled with beautiful goods.
and the shoppers can spend hours in gong
from one store to another without getting
out into the street.
The goods sold are largely imported and
it is curious to see how the Government
watches the payment OF duty upon them.
Every imported article pays tax and
Russia has perhaps the highest protective
tariff OF any country in the world. Every
article has to have the stamp of the revenue
officer upon it, and this stamp is in the
shape of a little piece of lead as big around
as a silver fiye-cent piece, to which are
fastened two pieces of wire. which unite in
side of the garment sold. 1t is impossible
TO get this wire off without breaking the
stamp. which is indelibly pressed into the
lead, and whether you buy neektie, pair
of stockings or piece OF jewelry. II must
have tbls stamp upon 1t. Tobacco Of all
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A great deal has doubtless been written
about California. But nothing that have
seen takes account of those small camp-life
items here which make the work easier than
In many other places Perhaps brief his
tory of how three people have spent several
weeks in the redwoOds of S0noma County
may prove interesting to lovers of outdoor
life elsewhere.
There were, as ] have said, three of US
husband. wife and BABY Ruth, who was q
months old. The tent that we expected to
have had been lent, and not returned, so
we ;Ook a large "bean CLOTH" piece Of
burlap, on which the Portuguese laborers
on tile ranch thrashed beans with old
fashioned fails. We carried as little bed
ding and baggage as possible wore our old
Clothes did our own cooking, and lived be-
side mountain stream in the redwsods,
mile from anywhere We did not hunt nor
collect anything in particular, but we eX-
plOTed the wilderness, bathed, rowed.
picked berries and lived Outdocrs" all we
knew how. And we were all of us per-
feetly well and happy every minute of our
stGy
The first csmp we made was at the south
ern end Of a redwood grove Of perhaps thirty
aores. a little pathway went up through
the fernbrake, Wild eOoSeberry, huckleberrY,
hazel, maple and tanbaTk oak, and suddenly
entered the giant redWOod's forest temple.
On the right hand, between the path and
the creek. q circle Of redw0ods stood, and
two slender oaks grew up in their midst.
Here we chose TO pitch our bprlap tent. The
Ground was perfectly dry, though hardly
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his camp outfit. and spends hours in the
woods cutting off redwood burls and secur.
ing other material for turning-lathe and
cabinet-msker's stock. 30 cuts laurel,
maple, oak, manZanita, madrone, mountain
mahogany, and many other woo Is Of beauty
and utility, aud his house is adorned with
the results. 1t Is practicable for capable
wOodwOrkert to make whole sets OF furniture,
If he chooses to visit the forests that are
within easy reach Of San Francisco.
The "burp redwood is perhaps the most
famous OF the attainabe woods. 1t is cut
from large knots or eXcrescenees and has a
very rich dark color Wavy or curl red
wood, while harder and more durable, Is
less brilliant than the burl. Every now and
then lum mbermen find trees OF especial value.
and they are learning TO save it and
sell IL TO the dealers IN more decorative
woods
1t is practicable at present TO find many
camping-gr grounds within fifty miles of San
Francisco that combine the advantages of
reasonable solitude unspoled forests and
perfect summer climate. We were mile
from the railroad station and portions OF
the winding naTrOw-gauge road were within
sight, yet the seclusion of the place was so
great the passing of the two daily trains
seemed only 10 give a slight and pleasant
touch with the outer world. The little girls,
who nightly came from house near the
station to bring quart OF milk and an oc-
regular visitors. Sometimes an ardent
fisherman would wade slowly up ths creek
and try the promising pools, or party of
gay pleasure-seekers would drive over the
gravel and splash under the white blossom
ing azaleas. but there were no other campers
in all that region.
Fourteen miles west OF Cszadero. on the
Pacific, is "Oid Fort Ross" where the Rus
slams traded and established famous From
tier settlement. 1t is wild and beautiful
place, lonely, wind-swept, rocky. and almost
unknown, ever 10 CalfoTnians. The road
thither sscends by many steep canyon,
thick with pines and redwoods. for ten
miles or more; then it deSceuds sharply TO
the ocean beach some 20G0 feet. l believe.
in the last two miles. All the vast promon-
tories projecting toward the west are
crowned with groves of giant trees; the
golden pastures sweep upward from the
sea-level and separate grove from grove.
and run far into the deeper forests behind
cliff and promOntory. Some day, when
railroad greens up toe coast men win build
palaces In these wonderful Islands OF forest
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on the high cliffs above the ocean. have
not seen finer sites on either side of the con-
tinent, but the time TO utilize them is still
far Off
Fort Ross In its day, some three-quarters
OF century age, was a palisaded quad
GTapesh0t and inch cannon-bais dug up
about the place sufficiently illustrate the
magnitude Of its armament There was
church, hourmil, tanneries aud other
workshops In the stormy little cove he
meath the cliff one or two schOoners some
times rode at anchor; sometimes they were
south among the Spanish settlements, trad
ing with the padres and rancher0s. Away
up on the hillside are the graves OF the
Russian pioneers and there, too, Is an
orchard OF seeding apples and pears brought
some hOrticulturisps careful study. Every
thing has gone TO ruin except the old chapel,
the b!ockhouses and portion of the fac
tors house." or Russian trading-store, the
latter now part OF the hotel.
The modern settlement consists of hotel,
store. stage-station and four or FIVE dwell
ings. The region is fine dairy district and
Is held In very large tracts, largely by nom
resident owners. There is fishing and hunt
ing in plenty, for trout streams abound and
some of the widest mountains of California
lie north and east. A botanist, too, would
delight in the region, for il Is full of sur
prises. from the brilliant fora Of the sea-
cliffs to the superb tanbark oaks Of the
hills. These oaks are In many ways unique
among Californian trees. In the forests
they are small and slender; here. on the ex-
posed Eil-tops, they become trees Of pecu-
l!arly tall and stately appearance, cone
shaped, massive and In time of bloom CON-
pletely covered. after the manner Of chest
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A PRAYER IN NEED.

Still lifts the n.y. in the mild. still air.
Its cup of perfumed snow,
And. star-like. CLEAN the myrtle blossoms where
The autumn roses glow:
This fragrant beauty seems the mask OF Death;
The whispering sOuth-wind is his poisoned breath
We weary for these warm bright days 10 end;
The summer fingers at what fearful coStI
opitying God! In mercy to US SEND
The white gift OF thy frostl
From its cold touch the pestienee VIII fly,
And plagueshut houses will their doors untold.
And mOurners, who have seen their loved ones die
Yet. shuddering, feared their helpless hands TO
hold.
Will seek with tears the graves from which to-day
Love. terror-haunted trembling turns away;
Art pOwerless. Lord! al thy dear feet we bowl
If tnou delay, how many lives are lost
We ask blessing never priced TIL now,
The white gift Of thy frost
MARION DOUGLAS.
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from boots and slippers made of little pieces
OF different colored leather sewed together
TO leather coats and travelling bags. |
bought pair OF boots and pair OF slippers
for 81. and | was offered very good trav-
cling satchel of the finest Russian leather
for ST 90.
bought shawl in Moscow to-day which
is so large that it would cover the biggest
double bed In America, and so fine that Ii
would go through a lady's ring. 1t was
made by the peasants Of Orenburg and is of
the kind known as ring shawls. IL was
made entirely by hand and the fine lace
work of these Russian peasants is wonder
ful. The velvets made by them are noted
all over Europe, and some OF their yelyets
bring So yard. They make carpets which
are equal to those OF Persia and Turkey,
and | met here at Moscow American buyers
for Tiffany & Co. of New York and Bailey.
Banks & BiddIe of Philadelphia, who are
sent here to buy the wonderful Russian sill
yer and the famous bronzes, which are finer
than those of any other part of the world
There Is factory here in Moscow which
makes this gold and silver enamel ware
which Is so rare and so high-priced. and
the tea sets which were given by the Car
to the sea captains who brought over the
famine supplies were made here. One of
the curious sights of the Russian streets is
the lock peddler, who walks about with his
breast and back covered with locks, which
are hung 10y strings over his shoulders, and
this making of locks is one of the great
peasant industries. The locks are nearly
all made by hand and they are OF all sorts
and shapes aud of all prices from half
cent up to S5. Some of them are so small
that 1t takes hundred to make a pound
and others so large that they would drown
a cat IL one was tied around its neck and 1t
was thrown into pond.
Every city In Russia has its grand bazaar.
This Is known as the Gostini Dyor and con-
sists of vast building containing many
acres and made up of all sorts Of shops,
which usually open out on covered corridors
separated from the street by pillars. SO that
be affected by the weather. The interior Of
one of these vast buildings is made up of
courts aud the stores run from the arcades
through to the courts, and there are
hundreds upon hundreds of stores in every
bazaar. These stores are of all kinds, and
E.xA -. lxa1n
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A Present for His Sweetheart.

While summering at hotel In the Blue
Mountains, near Reading, a gallant youth
who resides on South Broad street, this
city, beihought him OF clever plan to prove
TO his iancee his undying devotion. In the
six weeks on the mountain he killed with
his own hand nineteen huge rattesnakes.
The rattles, numbering 2l3. were carefully
plucked from the tails OF the venoRous rep
tiles, and all the snakes were brayely
skinned. The skins were taken to furrier
in Reading, and a section of each was cut
out and peced into a brilliant girdle. The
edges OF the girdle, top and bottom. were
trimmed with the rattles after the fashion
OF Jet beads. This astonishing trophy was
then presented by the gallant youth to the
sweetheart downtown.
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MRS. BELLAMY STORER.
Founder of the Lockwood Pottery and a
Versatile Woman.
Naw Work wnrtd

fodnder OF the lockwood POTTERY ana q
Versatile Woman.
New York World.
Few women in America have more thor
oughly the courage of their convictions than
Mrs. Bellamy Storer. the wife of Bellamy
Storer, representative from the Second Con-
gressiOnal District OF Ohio.
Mrs. Sorer was the only daughter of
Joseph Longworth. founder of the Gin
cinnati Art School and chief patron of the
Art Museum. He was an only son of
Nicholas Longworth, the many times mill
lonaire of Cincinnati, who saw his farms
turn into city squares and his vineyards
into villa plats.
From her father Mrs. Storer inherited
great estate and also his artistic tastes and
fondnesS for collecting. The japanese
craze, which followed the Centennial of
1876, found in her an arden. deyotee and
her collection of oriental ceramics is sur
passed by but one or two In the country.
In Mrs. Storer's case this fancy for COL
lecting soon passed into the higher phase Of
creating and led to the establishment of one
of the m most successful artistic business en-
terprises ever established by woman-the
Rookwood pottery.
A decade ago, after dabbllug in under
glaze decoration for while, Mrs. Storer de-
cided that she must have pottery of her
own. So an old warehouse on the Ohio
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from San Francisco and less than hund red
by the regular lines OF travel. Neverthe-
less. most of the region is primeval forest
aud totally unfit for agriculture. Occasional
narrow valleys viii prove of value when
cleared but the rocky slopes belong forever TO
herdsman and forester. Years ago the Gov
ernment ought to have reserved million
acres extending northward from the old
Fort Ross road and put in practice the best
principles Of modern forest conservation.
CHARLES HOWARD SHINN.
Berkeley, Cal. Sept. u, 1892.
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kinds Is heavily taxed and cigars are always
sold in boxes, which are wrapped around
with revenue stamps and which have glass
tops. Ii you buy one cigar it Is IN a little
glass box, and there, are boxes OF two
cigars, three cigars and OF five, six, ten and
dozen. Each bears its appropriate stamp
and the bigger the box the bigger the
stamp The result is that all foreign arti-
cles are very high, and imported cigars cost
twice as much as they do with Us. Articles
manufactured in Russia. however, are
cheap. and it will be surprising to many
Americans to know what Russia makes
There are over 1900 factories in operation
about Moscow and you can see the smoke
stacks standing like sentinels here and
there over the landscape, rivaing in their
height the golden spires of the churches.
These factories employ quarter of mil
lion of laborers and they turn out about
hundred and fifty million dollars worth OF
products every year. The city of Tula,
which Is nights ride from Moscow, has
cutlery works which make all kinds OF iron
and steelware of the finest quality.
bought knife and razor during my visit
there few days ago and .hey are as fine as
anything that Sheffield and Birmingham
can produce. 1t is at Tula that the samo-
vars are made, nearly 49, 000, 900 worth being
turned out every year. and there are large
gun factories here which supply the Rus
sian army. The cotton industry Is mainly
confined TO Moscow. 1t has trebled during
the last ten years and there are cott0n-mills
here which would be a credit to Massachu-
setts. The woolen factories are also in
creasing and the day will come when Russia
will manufacture most of the goods con-
sumed by her vast population.
At the present time large amount OF the
manufactures are the result OF home ln-
dustIy. The peasants do great many
things in their homes, and nearly every
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River, not far from the splendid Long
worth mansions that crown the bluffs, was
selected and remodeled at a cost of $50, ,O0o
The pottery was called "ROokw0od," fer
the old buildings had been once favorite
rookery and rook was selected as trade
marx. Here, in her special studio, Mrs.
Storer spent hours of each day working.
modelling. experimenting. Her heads of de-
partments were the cleverest men to be
found in the trade, her decorators the most
promising artists to be had anywhere.
Mrs Storer's own creations in pottery, as
In painting have been of the highest order
aud her interest in Ro0kw0od has never
tagged, though OF late years her social
duties have been very pressing.
A year ago a fine, new building was
erected and the pottery removed 10 one OF
the great bluffs that overlook Cincinnati on
the east. 1t Is now thoroughly successful
business enterprise.
Since Mr.. Storer's election to the lower
house of Congress the family have lived In
Washington, where they keep up a degree
of state creditable to people of large estate.
Mrs. Storer was, until recently, amusingly
Indifferent to the pomps and vani;ies OF life
and thoroughly unconventional.