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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
TANNING FIERY STEEDS.
Professor GIeason's Encounter Witt
Dixie, the Biting Stallion.

Professor GIeason's Encounter With
Dixie, the Biting Stallion.
An immense crowd gathered in Central
Park yesterday afternoon on the occasion
of the farewell appearance OF Professor
Oscar r. Gleason.
The principal attraction was the profess
sor's encounter with the biting stallion
Dixie, belonging to the Arata Bros. of
Napa, in twenty-four foot ring. A fence
about six feet high was erected in the
center of the park, and Dixie was led into
it. A few minutes later the professor,
armed with whip, and revolver loaded
with blank cartridges, entered the ring
When Dixie got look at him he began
TO plunge around and the professor at
tackled him with the whip. Dixie at
tempted to strike the professor with his
hind legs. but Gleason was as wary and
agile as cat and kept out of his way.
Whenever the stallion ran at him open
mouthed the professor fired shot at him,
which staggered him temporarily. Finally
Dixie became convinced that he could not
scare the professor, and quietly allowed
him to pat him and place his hand in his
mouth, to the delight of the spectators.
Three other animals we're made to feel
that the professor was their master, but
one of them, little black horse, gave him
considerable trouble. 1t was either trick
horse or a phenomenal kicker and plunger.
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He ENDORSES THE CALL,
Rev. DIR. HirSt on the Method
of Reporting DurrantS
Trial.
He Deplores the Relish In Many
Homes for the Highly SplCed
In News.

Rev. A. G. Hirst, pastor of the Simpson
Memorial Church, voiced publicly last
evening his approval of the policy which
THE CALL has adopted in reporting the
Durrant case. The subject of his dis
course was the love that ''thinketh no
eviP' and that 'rejoiceth not in iniquity."
"These words" said the preacher, Sin
dictate the real genius of Christianity more
plainly than it is indicated anywhere else.
Divine love is the central force of all
things. 1t furnishes the only way to uni.
versal agreement with God and the only
solution of the vexed problems which have
so long perplexed the souls of men. And
the ideal Christian heart is a fountain
VIII ence flows kindness and love.
'God himself could not do anything
with this world of mis- except along the
lines of parental love. There is really no
such thing as an abstract moral govern
ment, and mere justice would result in the
humiliation of the human race. You
fathers try to build home on the line OF
absolute Justice, and see what the result
will be. And yet the home is the truest
type of the world.
II have no patience with the man or
woman who peeps or prizes into the moral
lapses and soul-diseases of his fellows. A
scavenger has no accepted place in society,
but for him | have more respect than for
the social scavengers, who hunt out evil in
their fellows simply from taste for evil.
"What would you think of a man who
paid to have the main sewer OF this City
run uncovered before his home. Yet,
worse than that is being done here every
day. The great dailies-what are they
How much of murder and rapine do they
contain? Yet the editors are not to blame
The reporters are not to blame one half as
much as you who indorse this thing-as
the respectable and Christian people who
have relish for that filth, and you do
relish it. Do you suppose the papers
would print it otherwise? No, these ed
itors know you better than you know your
selves. 1t is their business to know you,
and they realize that this sort of thing
would be impossible if there were not a
relish for it in otherwise respectable and
Christian homes.
'If you should go into the editorial
rooms of these papers and find posted over
the door "Thinketh no evil you would
think the millennium at hand. But all
honor to that paper which has already
started out on that line! All honor to the
editor of THE CALL for his editorial the
other day on the line have indicated, for
which l personally called to thank him.
Would that the other papers would adopt
that policy, for then indeed would the filth
of our courtrooms not be displayed before
the young of our land"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
IN THE NATIONAL GUARD,
Company A of the First Does
Not Take Kindly to Its
Change.
The Third to Elect a Colonel and
the First Lieutenant
Colonel.

The transfer of Company A of the First
Regiment to the Third, in the reorganiza-
ton of the National Guard, is not accepted
with very good grace by the majority OF
the members of that company.
On Friday night its regular monthly
meeting was held at the First regimental
armory on Market street, and the men
who object TO the change were loud in
their protests. The Third Regiment, they
said, did not have very good name, and,
worse still, the reputation of Company C,
which the transferred company succeeds
in name, was far from savory. To be
known as Company &c" of the Third
Regiment, was altogether too much agony
for the proud National Guardsman to
undertake to suffer, they thought
All sorts of motions were made, some to
refuse to obey the order of transference,
others to disband and some to apply for
transference to some other regiment but,
of course, none of these motions were put
to a vote. Captain Robert A. Marshall
expostulated with the men, and urged that
they accept the situation with the best
grace possible, and finally he asked all
who would stay with him to stand up.
About a score of the memb ers stood up.
First Sergeant Newbert acquiesces in the
change.
About seventy-five men answer the roll
call of this company. Many of them have
served over seven years and can take adj
vantage of their exemption certificates,
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blue eyes, short brown mustache, black
hair, thin on top of the head. The man
was dressed in a neat black suit OF clothes,
white shirt and white underwear. Strange
to say his shoes and stockings were no.
where to be found. On the mans head
were half dozen deep cuts, and there
were two others on the temples. These
were probably caused by the body being
washed against the rocks.
The palms of the mans hands are so
soft that it is evident he was not laborer.
The fact that his shoes were removed
gives rise to the belief that he was wading
killed before he could recover himself.
The only property in his possession was
two nickels
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which one man last night said they would
do. Others somewhat wildly threatened
to stand a court-martial rather than
obey the order, but these threats are not
taken seriously.
Company A was originally known as the
MacMahons, subsequently as the Mac
Mahon Grenadiers, and later as the Tigers
About 1858 it went into the National
Guard. Captain Marshall was the senior
captain of the First Regiment and is drill
master of the police force.
There is to be an election soon in the
First for Northumberland. Major George
r. Burdick succeeded Lieutenant-Colone
Hyman P. Bush when the latter was
elected colonel, but resigned. Captain
Irving B. Cook of Company B became
major to succeed Major Burdick.
Two candidates are in the field for the
Observation-Disclosures namely, Major Charles
Jansen and ex-Captain Tilden of Com
pany G..
An election will also be necessary in Com
pany b for captain to fill the place left
George Filmer is now acting captain.
1t is believed the Third Regiment will
move from the Golden Gate avenu armory
to the Market-street armory. companies B.
D and f of the First to make that possible
by moving into the armory of the Ma
tionals on Ellis street. where Companies G
and G-the Nationals-are now. If this
change of quarters is effected it will do
much to reconcile Company A to It's trans
fer, it is believed.
The Third Regiment is to elect colonel
on Wednesday night. Lieutenant Colonel
J. G. O'Connor is said to have a clear field,
though there has been some little talk of
Major James f. Smith running against
him. 1t was learned last night, however,
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of the world, and any man or organization
that would stand in the way of this adj
vancement would be worse than insane.
When this country had but 8, 1000 900 people
it moved against one of the strongest
nations of the world and it moved on to
victory and it will do SO again. AS Glad
stone said this Nation is going to be the
nation of nations; it is to be the beacon by
which other nations will be guided. I'm
less the people stand steadfast for the
country and the flag they may find them
selves trampled under foot. One thing L
regret is that do not hear the people sing
the National anthem.
''In my country (Canada), when 1 was
there, there never was a meeting at the
close of which the people did not sing
God Save the Queen Here at the close
of a meeting the people rush pellmell to
get away. They ought to remain and sing
America Yes, until the last word is
sung"
The reverend gentleman concluded by
saying that a great American movement
was going on from New York to Vicks6urg
and from Atlanta to the sea- and that any,
thing that stood in the way would be so
trampled that it would never feel the rear
guard.
The Rev. Mr.. bennett in an impressive
speech said that as the State had an insti-
tuition for the detention of juvenile delin-
quents, the money of the taxpayers should
not be paid for the support OF delinquents
at the Magdalen Asylum. He also urged
all Americans to commence now and take
hama in politics, so that the conventions
would not place before the voters the same
kind of tickets that bad been presented in
the past. He also spoke of his devotion to
the American flag and to the country, and
closed by saying: ''Be we faithful and
true unto death and victory is ours
Both speakers were frequently ap-
plauded, particularly when their remarks
were on the subject of patriotism. The ex-
ercises closed with the singing of
"AmeriCa"
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AMERICAN PATRIOTISM,
An Address by Rev. Donald M.
Ross at Metropolitan
Hall.
REGARD FOR THE OLD FLAG.
The Rev. Mr.. bennett Talks About
the Necessity of Action
In Politics.

The 1925 seats in Metropolitan Hall were
filled Yesterday afternoon and several hun
dred people who were unable to obtain
seats stood in the side aisles. The audi
ence, composed about equally of men and
women, had assembled to listen to the
exercises given under the auspices Of the
Good Citizenship Committee, and particu-
larly to the address by Rev. Donald NJ
Ross. pastor of the Lebanon Presbyterian
Church on "Rome's Hand in the Peoples
Pocket"
The speakers stand was decorated with
the National emblem, and on the platform
a large number of chairs were occupied by
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
A WOMAN IN THE PULPIT.
Miss III. NJ. Anderson breaches on the
Queen of Sheba.

Queen of Sheba.
The pulpit of the Howard M. E. Church
was occupied yesterday by Miss H. M.
Anderson, an evangelist. The subject Of
the discourse at the morning service was
"The Queen of Sheba."
Miss Anderson drew a vivid picture OF
the Queen of Sheba meeting King Solomon.
She stated that the Queen had heard a
great deal about the wonders of the great
King Solomon. The Queen of Sheba could
hardly believe all that she heard concern
ing the wonders of this great man. 1t was
hardly possible that man could be SO
wise and so good as he.
at was, l suppose said Miss Anderson,
''very hard for the Queen of Sheba to be-
lieve the wondrous stories that had reached
her about Solomon. She decided to go to
Solomon and search for truth. 1t is pity
that the world is not as generous as the
Queen of Sheba, and search as she did fol-
the great truths"
The subject of the evening service was
"The Scarlet Line"
Miss Anderson, assisted by Miss Baker
will conduct a series OF revival meetings al
Antioch this week.
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BODY FOUND ON THE SHORE.
A Question Whether Death Was Acct
dental or Suicide.

dental or a suicide.
An unknown man about IS years of age
was found dead on the beach, south of the
tunnel of the Cliff House and Ferries
steamcar line, at 80 o'clock yesterday.
Whether the mans death was accidental
or lease of suicide is matter of con-
lecture with the officers in the Coroner's
office.
A. L. Shell Of 501z Third street and l.. w.
Clark of 612 Buchanan street were walking
along the shore looking for good place to
fish when they discovered the body lying
face down on little strip of beach at the
foot of the high cliffs. The shore at that
place is rough and broken and sharp rocks
extend from the cliff far into the water.
The men FASTENED to town and informed
the Coroner. 1t was impossible to get
within half mile of the corpse with the
Morgue wagon.
Deputy O'Brien, with the assistance OF
five men, worked for several hours drag
ging the body up the face of the high cliff.
An examination of the body showed that
the man was about So years old. He had
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
AROUND THE WATER FRONT
William Martin, the Ferry
Coffee Man, and the South
ern Pacific.
SURFB0ATS FOR THE SOUTH.
The British Ship Lyderhorn Now
the Lone Vessel at Anchor
in the Bay.
sURFBoATs FOR THE SOUTH.

William Martin, who keeps the small
restaurant in the waiting-room of the
ferry landing at the foot of Market street,
has Been bearing a double burden ever
since he located with stove and frying pan
in that out-of-the-way corner. He has
been dealing out coffee and doughnuts to
the public and defending his cooking i'm
plements against the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company.
OF course William would have been
ground to powder long ago if the Board of
Harbor Commissioners had not reared
itself between him and destruction. When
he applied for the privilege of conducting
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
-Four Inquests for To-Morrow.

Coroner Hawkins has busy day before him
tomorrow He will hold inquests On the
bodies of four persons who have died by their
own hands The cases are Mrs. A. C. Seeley,
who hanged herself Thursday at Howard and
Sixth streets; jeremiah Griffis, who jumped
from third-story window Friday al 623 Cali
fornia street; Oscar Johnson, who shot him.
self Thursday at 438 Elizabeth street, and
Kate Morrissey, who poisoned herself with
morphine Friday at 515 Bush street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
AUCTION SALES.

BY EAsToN d ELDRIDGE-Tuesday, August 6,
Real Estate, at Salesrooms, 63S Market street, at
y o'clock noon
BY NoN RHETN Co.--Thursdav. August g.,
Real Estate, at Salesroom, 513 California street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-05
THE THEATERS.
Attractions offered at the PIayhouses
This Evening.

This Evening.
The attraction at the Baldwin this even
ing will be "Too Much Johnson" written
by William Gillette. 1t is comedy of
many funny situations, and the endeavors
of the parties to set themselves right with
those they come in contact with are very
amusing.
Tonight is the first of the farewell week
of the Frawley Company at the Columbia
Theater. The play selected is "All the
Comforts of Home" This will also be
souvenir night, and every lady attending
the performance will be presented with a
group photograph of the company.
"By Order of the Gear" will be presented
at the Morosco Grand Opera-house to-
night. 1t is highly sensational play that
is made very attractive by the fine stage
setting in addition to the striking dialogue
and action. This is its first production in
this City.
At the Tivoli Opera house martha" will
be presented, on which occasion George
Broderick, basso, will make his first APP
pearance. He will be supported by Alice
Garlic, who will appear in the character of
Nancy, and by Laura Willard and Alice
Nelson, who are to alternate as Harriet
There are many novelties in store for the
patrons of the Orpheum tonight. The
management has secured number OF new
artists, among them Mons. Cuibal, a
sleight-of-hand performer; the Metro
politan three, who will appear in q new
vocal comedy; also number of others.
That popular aggregation of mirth and
music, Hoyt's "a Black Sheep" which
proved such an attraction in this City, will
be presented at the Macdonough Theater
in Oakland tonight and on Tuesday and
Wednesday night by the company that
gave il here.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

BALDWIN THEATER.-"Too Much Johnson"
Rome"
MoRosco's oPERA-HoUsE -"By Order of the
Gar"
TTVoLI Observation-Disclosures"
ORPHEUM-H High Class Vaudeville
STATE BOARD OF TRADE ExHIRTT-575 Market
street below Second. Open daily. Admission free.
MAcDoNoUGH THEATER (OAKLAND)-"A Black
Sheep" comm encing this evening
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-01-02
BYRNgs HAS OUR.

Rsslgns His Position ne Suparintendona os
h New York Police Dsparsnasns.
NEW YORK, Jan. I.-At $50 Saturs
day night the LsxOw COMMITTEES ad.
journed, subject to the call Of the
chair, thus closing q session Of investi-
cation which was bFfQ full of startling
revelations. just as Jhe was through
answering MIR. COTS probing cues
lions Superintendent Byrnes handed a
letter to Chairman Lexow and said
that IL was a copy OF one that he had
sent to Mayor-elect Strong early this
month. 1t was his resignation from
the force, OF which he has been a mem.
Der for the last 50 years. The SUPER
intendent said that ON two occasions
since he was APPOINTED in Superin-
tendent Murray's place he was ON the
point of resigning, owing to the con-
timed conflict between the commas
sioners and himself. The superin-
tendent, he said, should have absolute
charge Of the department, bat that Gil
his efforts in that direction were frus-
trated ny the commissioners. The de-
partment was honeycombed with
abuses, which had been growing for
DO years and they could only be RENE
died by radical Legislation. Local poli.
ticians, he claimed. were the curse Of
the department, and as long as politics
was q factor in the force such q state
of things would exist.
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STRANGE I'LL THIS.
a Bicycle win No Rum Down 1t. but Goe.
Up Easily.

~ 4EEZ
a Bicycle win bot Rum Down III. but Goe.
Up Easily.
There is q hill In Ulster county that
bicycle riders find no difficulty in as.
sending ON their wheels, but which
their machines won't descend by their
own grayity = said q New York wheel.
q This mysterious hill-is the last
one Of the numerous hills ON the route
between Lake Mohonk and the Hudson
river.
The moment he takes his feet of the
pedals to let the machine toboggan down
by force of gravity it slows mp and be-
gins to wabble, and If its rider doesn't
brace up and take it in hand and foot
again IL viii topple oven and tumble
him In the ditch. He has to work the
whcsl for all he is worth TO get it down
the hill. On the contrary, the wheel
will mount the hill with less effort ON
the Part of the wheelman to propel it
than it requires ordinarily t o move it
along on the level.
The theory is that there must be a big
mass of magnetic ore under the surface
near the top of the hill which influences
the action of the bicycles. However that
may be, the fact exists that here is a
hill that q bicycle won & run down of it's
own gravity, and which the wheelman
can mount as easily, If not more easily,
than he can ride the level road.-New
York Sun.
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Simple Erplanation d Grin.

Medical writer's make Ii clear why
grip is 20 fatal. They tell of hemor-
,rhagic end pyRmic results, with puru-
lent and gangrenous inflammation of
the lung tissues and frequent metastasis
to other organs. One case Of heraor-
rhages and hematomas in the muscular
tissue, parenchymatous bleedings and
bleedings BY ~diapedesis, pachymeningi-
tbs hemorrhagica interna, is mentioned.
In many cases there is hyperRmia of the
pia; also meningeal infiitratiun and sup
curative meningitis and hemorrhage
into the lateral ventricle and very FREE
quently lobar pneumonia. -St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
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BUTLER LOCATED.


The Missing Towa Heterogeneous Found
at Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 1.-Ex-C Congress-
man Walt Butler of West Union, La.
has been located here. In fact. he To-
Gated himself. In the Chicago papers
ne noticed q reward had been offered
by his wife for the recovery Of his body
on the superstition that he was dead.
Butler at once called-at the local news.
paper offices to state he is alive. In
explanation of his sudden disappear
ance from his Iowa home two months
ago. he says that the morning OF Nov.
~ he awoke by hearing q trainman
call out Indianapolis. He saya. that
from the time he dismissed the school
ne was teaching in Iowa. ON Nov. 90,
until he arrived here, his mind was o
perfect blank. He says Re at once
wrote to his wife, but the letter Svi.
IDENTIFY miscarried. Butler '.,s been
working here as q book ; ~ .ryfng
to recoup his fortune. H to be-
perfectly sane.
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MYSTERIES or MEDICINE.
Doctors Know What Drugs viii Do, b,
NOT Why They DO ne.

Doctors Know What Drugs viii Do, but
Not Why They do 10.
When q person takes q dose Of raodi-
cine. said atdoctor, he never stops to
consider what q wonderful provider ma
ture Is. When you consider that we are
able 70 give drugs which will 20 though
the entire system without having d Eff
feet upon any part or organ until it
comes perhaps to some nerve upon
which it expends all its force, it is in
deed q miracle OF the most wonderful
kind. We don Z know why it does ID, but
know what it does. The progress i'm
materia medioa has been wonderful. By
provings the specific effects OF drugs
have been discovered, so that they can
be given with specific results. Medicine
is gradually emerging from the dark
valley OF guesswork into the bright sum
light Of science.
The modern physician does not make
. mixture OF even or eight drugs, hop
ing that some q Of them will produce
the effect desired. He does not take
chances upon striking . remedy one In
seven, He knows now just what drug
viii produce the results he wants, and
be prescribes that. / attended ( man
the other day WHO had not been sick for
90 or 30 years. / went Into his room.
and after observing his symptoms asked
for half a glass Of water, into which /
dropped . small pellet, . triturate. The
old man looked at me after i had given
him q dose of it and then smiled.
Well, doctor. : he said, you treat
ed me for this complaint when / was
sick many years ago, and I must say the
remembrance of the taste of the medi-
cine You gave me then 10 still vivid. I'll
think that a person could have
mixed a more horrible concoction than
hat was. Now you treat me for the
same disease, and the drug is almost
.sasteless. How do you account for that?'
Progress, ; I replied. And progress
. Is! Every day increases our knowl-
sdge OF drugs and n power to alleviate
suffering and save human life. Pitts
Dispatch.