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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13
AT THE BEACH AND PARK,
An Immense Crowd of People
Down by the Side of
the Ocean.
The Park Visited by Thousands-A
Very Artistic Piece of
Floral Work.

The people of San Francisco took the
advice of the late Horace Greedy, and went
west yesterday. The majority of them
kept going until they could go no further,
because the great Pacific Ocean prevented
them.
AT no time on Sunday during the past
ten years was there such crowd on the
ocean beach as yesterday, from the rocks
near the site of the old Cliff House to the
point where the turn is made into the
Ocean House road. The people who were
there inhaling the invigorating ocean
breeze looked like the crowds that fringe
the sidewalks on prominent thoroughfare
on the occasion of a grand parade. They
crowded down to the waters edge, as near
as they dared to go, and some stood while
many sat on the sands watching the antics
of the little ones wading into the surf, and
the passing to and fro of steamers and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

guage; to encourage members in business
or aid them in obtaining employment, and
to extend to membe relief or assistance
in time of sickness, need or misfortune.
The officers of the new organization are
P. B. Berges, president; j. Bayle, vice.
president; B. Sarthou, second vice-presi-
dent; P a. Bergerot, recording secretary ;
P. Berges, treasurer; August Berger, finan-
cial secretary. These officials are direc-
tors, and the other members of the direc-
tory are: F. Garrissere, B. D. Lacazette
A Miqueu, J. B. Pene and J. Tauzy. The
doctors of the society are DR.. L. Bazet and
DIR. ]. E. Antiques.
The board of directors consists of eleven
members and the constitution provides
that they shall be chosen exclusively from
the male members born or descended from
persons born of the four departments of
France, Basses-Pyrenees,H autes-Pyrenees
Landes and Gers. No one under the age
of 10 nor any one over 80 years of age can
become member. In case of accident or
misfortune the society may, by a two
thirds vote, give pecuniary assistance to a
needy or unfortunate member. This is
apart from the weekly benefits to be paid
in case of sickness. The society will bury
its deceased members and pay to the
widow or minor children one dollar for
each surviving member. In case there are
neither widow nor children the beneficiary
shall be the father or mother or either.
The society started with ITO names on the
roll of membership.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13
ANOTHER INVADING ARMY,
General Booth of the Salvation
lists Would Attack
China.
F0NG FOO SEC MAY 60 SOON
He Is Captain Here and Very Eager
to Carry There the Red and
Blue.

In the last number of the English War
in contemplation the sending of con-
tingent of the Salvation Army to China to
start the work of evangelization there.
China has heretofore proved rocky soil to
the otherwise phenomenal methods OF the
Salvationists, but it is now felt that the
war and its lessons will make an oppor-
tunity of which General Booth is eager to
have the army avail itself
There is in this City Chinese who has
been member of the Salvation Army for
six years. He is one of its brightest, most
pleasing, and at the same time most use
full members. He talks English with a
ready fuency and proves himself an
expert on the typewriter, at which he is
employed in the sanctum of Editor John
Miisaps. A few days ago he was made a
captain. His name is Fong Foo Sec, an
he will in all probability be the pioneer
Salvationist to invade his native land. He
is very anxious to 60 Said he. yesterday:
"Yes, L expect that the Army at the
proper time will send me to China. To go
to China was the object that really led me
into the Salvation Army. 1 wanted to do
something for my country along army
lines.
1.-The war, think. has made China open
her eyes. She has lived too long in the
past, but believe its lesson cannot fail to
awaken her to her position and condition
among the civilized powers. AS a result
the way will be opened for Christianity,
civilization and all the other good things"
Captain Fong writes English like
native, and like his fellow warriors who
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13
WINNING FAME ABROAD,
A Young California Artist Who
Has a Picture in the
Paris Salon.
HE Is CHIEFLY sELF.TAUGHT
The Strength of the Painters Work
Is Its Excellent
Drawing.

Among the pictures in the Paris salon
which opened on the LIST of this month is
a delicate and effective landscape in oils,
representing a pastoral scene at Concar-
neau, France.
Incredible as it may appear, the work is
by young California artist, Harry Stu
art Fonda, who has studied for only
eighteen months. Up till year and a
half ago the young painter was entirely
seIf-taught, and yet his salon picture, the
work of an unknown foreigner in Paris,
was one of 5000 sent in to the salon jury
only 100 of which were accepted.
The work represents road in level
country, with the luxuriant foliage of a
rural French scene in the height of early
summer. The time is the early afternoon
OF a brilliantly clear day, and the light
filtering down through the overhanging
trees throws brilliant patches of gold and
green here and there on the puTpish
brown of the road in the foreground. In
the middle distance is a gate, through
which can be seen a glimpse of white
road, winding away into the tender green
of the far distance.
The scene is very simple, almost I'M
promising in fact to reproduce on canvas
but the drawing is so good, and the color
ing, while offering strong contrasts of
light and shade, is so sincere and true TO
nature that it is little wonder the work
was accepted at the salon. Juries see so
much bad drawing, which the painters
seek to atone for by crude and sensational
coloring, that they are generally quick to
show appreciation of an absolutely good
piece of drawing.
Harry Fonda, the latest addition to the
ranks of California painters, is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Fonda of BOIL
Sacramento street. He was born in Marys-
vile, but he lived from infancy in San
Francisco. At an early age he showed
Interpreted by fond parents and relations,
means desire to own paintbox, and lay
on pictures of gorgeous hues.
From childhood, however, Harry Fonda's
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sailing vessels, but the principal object of
each was to revel in the delightful cool
breezes that came over the waters
Those who did not care to go down to
the waters edge contented themselves with
promenading on the grade that leads to
Sutro Heights, gazing upon the foundation
of what is to be the new Cliff House. the
timbers of which have been laid in cement
and give a good idea of what size and what
shape building it will be; looking at the
Firth wheel, which has been put up to the
north of the road; examining the terminal
work being done on the Sutro electric line
and walking through Mayor Sutro's
grounds, which at this time are rich in
green foliage and flowers of every shade.
From early in the day until as late as 4
o'clock in the afternoon both lines of
steam cars were crowded to the utmost
limit of their capacity.
Thousands who did not care to go to the
beach stopped at the park. The lawns and
the slopes were covered with men, women
and children, who stretched themselves on
the green sward and seemed to think that
that was the only way to recuperate from
the effect of the heat. There was not a
vacant seat in front of the band shell,
while the space reserved for carriages was
overcrowded with vehicles of every de-
scription.
Then the bicycle contingent was out in
full force, and among the number were
seen several Japanese, who made their
wheels spin. There were also several COL
ored men, who cut quite dash on iron
horses.
Among the latest additions to the mu-
scum" said Superintendent McLaren, sis
contribution of curios from the Hawaiian
Islands by Mrs. Weaver, and some Mexi-
can pottery and figures"
An attractive piece of work in the park
is that which has just been finished by
Gardener Thomas Monroe. 1t is on the
north bank of Conservatory Valley and is
composed of designs wrought in growing
plants
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13
LIGUE D'HENRI ".

A New Benevolent Society Organized
by French Residents.
The Ligue d'Henri " is the name of a
new society that has been organized in
this City by members of the French COL
ony. The prime movers are natives of the
middle of France, but natives of other
portions of that country are entitled to be-
come members. The objects of the society
are social intercourse, mental improvement
and mutual aid, benefit and protection; to
improve the conditions of its members by
establishing schools or courses of instruc-
ton when the funds Of the society will JUS
tify the same; to give an English educa-
ton to those of its members who are
unable to speak or write the English Ian
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13
THE POT CALLED THE KETTLE BLACK
BECAUSE THE HOUSEWIFE
DIDN'T USE
SAPOLIO
LIFE AMONG THE LEPERS,
Bishop RopertS Talks of the
Missions in the South
Seas.
Going to Rome to Visit the Pope
and Bring Back Young
Recruits.

The Right Reverend Bishop Gulstan Ro-
perts of Honolulu celebrated mass at st.
Agnes Church yesterday and later
preached to a large congregation at the
French church on the subject of devotion
to the Blessed Virgin which is generally
observed in the Catholic world during the
month of May.
| The Bishop is slight man, but very
active and delightfully."- entertaining. He
| is at his best when discussing the South
Sea Islands, where he has lived and la
bored as a missionary for over thirty years.
Three years ago his conservation as titulor
Bishop of Panopolis was celebrated in San
| Francisco.
| Bishop Roperts is on his way to Rome to
tell the aged Pontiff at the Vatican of the
work of the missionaries in the Hawaiian
Islands and recite the narrowing story of
life among the lepers. The Bishop will
| first visit France, where he was born. He
entered the Picpus Community ESQ called
because the mother house of the priests is
| located at Picpus, just outside of Paris at
an early age and was commissioned for
missionary work in the islands of the
| South Sea.
1--WE have nearly 1900 lepers under our
care" said the Bishop yesterday, land are
is my intention to bring back with me from
France some of our brothers to assist US in
carrying on the work which Father Da-
mien began. There are now only TWO
priests and seven sisters, the latter be-
longing to the Franciscan community of
Syracuse, N. Y, now on the island with
the lepers. / have made frequent visits
there. The sight is awful too sickening
to discuss, but these poor creatures must
be cared for and it is our duty as Christian
ministers to do the work.
besides Mr.. Dutton, who fought in
your civil war, and who retired as an off
Ger from the army to devote his life to car
ing for the lepers, has done excellent
work. He is there on the island among
the unfortunates and | am glad to be able
to testify to the nobility of his heart and
conduct"
Bishop Roperts was asked as to the
political situation at the islands, but he
begged to be excused from saying any,
thing further than that peace reigned
there at present. He said that the church,
though half of the native population be-
longed to her communion, took no part
one way or the other in the unpleasant
ness. The missionaries had been well
treated under the monarchy and had no
complaint to make of the consideration
which the Provisional Government had
extended.
Bishop Roperts came up from the islands
on the same steamer with Mrs. Robert
Louis Stevenson and spoke in most compli-
| mentary terms of that lady and her dead
husband, whom he esteemed both as a
scholar and a gentleman.
| The Bishop leaves for the East this
| morning. He will visit the Brothers of
Mary at Dayton, Ohio, eighteen members
OF which order are at Honolulu, where
they have college with 500 pupils and
will then proceed to Europe. He will re-
| turn to the islands in about six months.
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practice celibacy, combined with convic-
ton that Jesus Christ and Ann Lee are the
true children of God.
There are only about 5000 Shakers in
America, but the communities, as they call
themselves, are spreading rapidly through
out the country, and the work now being
done by Mr.. Dove is but the preliminary
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13
COMING TO CALIFORNIA,
The Shakers Will Start a Com
munity in San Fran
cisco.
STRANGE STORY OF ANN LEE.
Things About This Wonderful
Woman.

The Shakers are determined to establish
colony on the Pacific Coast, and their
representative, Arthur w. DOVE, is strain
ing every nerve to convert people to his
peculiar belief Each Sunday he lectures
at Golden Rule Hall on Mission street, and
he has already succeeded in bringing many
people to believe that the Shaker religion
is the only true one.
To be Shaker one must believe in and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

terday afternoon by Bob Gibson, the boat
man. He had been out playing with some
boys at the foot of Third street, and during
game of hide and seek he lost his footing
and fell into the bay. His parents, who
live at 1T Perry street, were notified, and
a search for the body was begun. The tide
carried the remains up the creek, and the
searching party was still at work when the
news reached the relatives that the body
was at the Morgue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

There is little chance of Mrs. Carson of
Chicago making her round trip to Liver
pool this year. She was preparing to start
so as to reach New York in time to take
passage on the Lucania, when she was
stopped on an order from Judge Donnelly
of the County Court that an inquiry might
be made as to her sanity. She is as rich as
she is eccentric, and her favorite way of
spending her time and money is in ocean
voyages.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

The Princess Mercedes of Spain, now in
her thirteenth year, enjoys the distinction
OF being the only ex-Queen of her age in
the world. She was Queen of Spain dur
ing the six months after the death of her
father, Alfonso XII, and before the birth
OF her brother, the present King.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

was ready Joseph Meacham and five others
came IN. Mother Ann said to Joseph, I saw
distant):
In America she was also cast into prison
often beaten and shamefully abused by mobs
melted to riot by bigots who claimed to be
Christians, Dragged downstairs and out OF
doors py the feet; stoned. spat upon, smltten
with RODS, and continually slandered IN a most
Several thousand acres of land have been
purchased lately in Osceola County, Fla,
and building constructed suitable for fif-
teen persons. They will try one OF the hot
summers there before making extensive
improvements. The probabilities are,
however, that this comm unity will come to
California on account of the excessive heat
of Florida
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

According to the transactions of the
Cremation Society the disposal of the dead
by burning is making a slow but steady
progress in England. In 1885 only three
bodies were cremated at Working. Last
year the number was 125.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

THERE is an article on this market seldom
equaled and never excelled-Jesse Moore Whis-
Ky. Moore, Hunt & Co. guarantee its purity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

follow the red and blue, he has some
sanguine, if peculiar, expressions, as the
following bears witness:
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
ST. JOHN A WIFE MURDERER.
Son Of Kansas Temperance Gov
ernor Commits the Crime
From Jealousy.

Oklahoma, City, o. T., April s.
Harry st. John, son of Ex-Governor
John =. st. John, Of Kansas, and a
member of the last Oklahoma Legis-
lature, shot and killed his wife this af-
ternoon at his home, two miles west of
of this city. By some means he had
become possessed of letter addressed
to her, and demanded to know the
writer. This afternoon about 3
o'clock he hired a buggy and drove
out to his place, and securing a gun
confronted his wife with the letter,
threatening to kill her if she did not
disclose the author. She refused, and
as he claims. the gun was discharged
accidently, shooting her through the
heart. She died without uttering a
word. Mrs. st. John was Miss May
Felbon. Her father Willard Felbon,
was County Judge Of Saguache coun-
ty, Col, and later Warden of the Col
orado State penitentiary. She was
about twenty eight years of age, and
her husband is about thirty-five, a
lawyer by profession, and who has
lived in Oklahoma since 1888. ST.
John is under arrest but refuses to
talk.
The dead woman was St. Johns
second wife. His first wife, who is
now living in Illinois, secured di-
vorce from him in 1887, alleging
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
Stamping Outfit Free.

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the publishers of The HOME, AL
Milk St., Boston, Mass, and get
set of their beautiful Stamping
Patterns. They can be used for
embroidery, outlinging or painting.
All desirable and good size; sonnet
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large for-get-me-not pattern.
With this outfit the publishers send
The HOME, large 16-page paper,
containing Stories, Fashions, Fan
cy Work, etc., for months, and
only ask 10 cents to cover the cost
OF postage on patterns and paper.
Our illustrated Premium List sent
free to any address.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
Old papers for sale at this Office.
Live Goals.

We are always looking into the flu.
ture, but we see only the past.
He who wishes to secure the good OF
others has already secured his own.
Self-respect has been called the
gate of heaven, and degree of re.
serve adds to the latent force of char.
acter.
A man cannot foretell what pattern
he will next behold in the keleido-
scope, but he may form many wise
conclusions as to what he will not see
there.
Every duty brings its peculiar de-
light; every denial its appropriate
compensation; every drought Its
recompc nse; every love its elysium
every cross it's crown; pay goes with
performance as effect with cause
generosity greatens; virtue exalts
charity transfigures: we do not live
on credit but are paid what we earn.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
OLD SOUTHERN MANSIONS.
They Had a Disnified Air and a
Distinct Architecture.

| The. oldest mansions in Richmond
| Charleston, Savannah, Montgomery
Mobile and New Orleans have an ali
of distinction about the which thu
newer architecture can never acquire
They were built by men who desired
to live in comfort and to entertain
their friends in an open-handed way
but who did not find 1t necessary tc
attract attention and to advertise their
wealth and social position. The ex-
teriors are still massive and stately,
with their unbroken, rectangular
sides, their doric columns aud colonial
porches, and the interiors are unri-
vailed tor comfort and convenience OF
home life and social entertainment
With these fine models of classic SIM
plicity in town and country, 1t is to
be regretted that the new houses on
fashionable driveways and streets are
not designed by architects content to
follow the old lines. The colonial ar
chitecture was not without its effect
upon the character and tastes of the
people who lived in the houses. 1t
taught them to be simple in their social
pleasures, to be natural and unaffected
in manner, and to avoid meritricious
display of wealth and dignity. There
has been reversion to colonial lines
in Northern houses. Perhaps there
will be similar movement in the di-
rection of purer taste and more refinc d
feeling in Southern towns.
There are many fine things TO be 8 lid
about these Southern houses, but the
choicest tribute must be reserved for
the lovely old ladies who are to be
found in the most of them. The
young ladies and the middle-aged
wives and mothers are charming, too,
with their sensitive, high bred faces
and their soft melodious voices, but
the old ladies are exceptionally well
preserved in figure and feature and
delightful in conversation. Mon
taigne said of Cicero's de Senacute,"
sit gives one good appetite for grow
ing old" and the same impression is
produced by the cheerful, genial, yet
calm and serious talk of the best rep
resentaves of the generation of South
ern women. They do not affect to be
young, yet have not lost their ANNA
ton of manner or their interest in life.
They are entertaining, wOmanly and
bright, and quick as their grand
daughters to perceive good point in
a story, and as fine as choice old lace
in the tread and texture of their
hOmely simplicity and cheerfulness.
There are good portraits of famous
ancestors in some of the old houses.
but there are no better studies of
lights and shades of advancing age
and of the compensations attending
increasing infrmity in the evening of
life than are to found In the Carolinas,
Georgia and Tennessee.-New York
Tribune.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09

The Ashland Sun reports a queer
incident at Catlettsburg as tbs result
of smallpox scare. Charles Rule, an
employe of a lumber company, did
not feel well enough to 60 to work
one day last week, and it was ru-
mored he had smallpox, The Board
of Health quarantined his house, but
on examination was made by physi-
clan to determine whether the case
was smallpox. The next day Rule
wanted to go to work, but was not
permitted to leave the house by the
authorities. A local physician stated
that he did not believe that Rule had
smallpox, but would not make an ex-
animation for less than $3.50. AS
Rule did not happen to have $3.50 just
at that time he was a prisoner for
several hours. Later he was allowed
to 60 to work.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
Notice to M. W. AndersOn's Gre
ditors.

j. H. Oldham, assignee in trust fol
M.W.Anderson, assigned, will on April
2, 1895, sit in the law Office of Il. j.
Bigstaff, in Mt. Sterling, KY, to re-
ceive claims against said estate. Any
creditor failing to present at the time
named, within three months thereaf-
ter, his claim, verified in the same
manner as claims against the estates
of decedents, except that 1t need not
be verified by person other than the
claimant, shall be deemed to have
waived his right to any part of the
assigned estate. 36-2t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-04-09
GROWERS BROTHER
Asked to Resign as Pastor o.
the Chaum0nt, N. Y, Pres
byterian Church.

Watertown, N. Y, April By a
vote of % to l, during an exciting
session, the congregation of the Pres
byteriau church at Chaumont, this
county, last evening decided to ask
the Rev; William Cleveland, brother
of President Cleveland, to tender his
resignation of the pastorate. 1t is re-
ported that politics have been a dis
turbing element, although Mr.. Cleve-
land took no part in politics. Mr..
Cleveland will appeal to the Presby-
terry.