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The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21
ONE DAY FREE FOR ART.
First Friday of Each Month
at Mark Hopkins Insti.
tute.
The Trustees Have Adopted Sugges.
.tion Made by E. F. SearleS and
Named the Day.

At the suggestion of E. F. Searles the
trustees of the Mark Hopkins Institute of
Art have designated one day in each month
for the admission of visitors to the insti-
tute without charge.
Accordingly on the first Friday of each
month, day and evening, the people of San
Francisco and all others within the gates
OF the City, without regard to race, age,
color, or previous condition, Will have the
privilege of admission to the institute
without cost.
The rights reserved to Mr.. Searles under
the deed of trust are here exercised with
the view of bringing the masses into closer
touch with the institute of art on the hill
Horace G. Platt, who recently returned
from the East, passed a pleasant day at
Mr.. Searles' home at Methuen, near Bos-
ton. The latter takes deep interest in
the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and de-
sires that it shall be rendered popular in
the community, and that all classes of art
loving people shall have the pleasure of
studying the pictures and other works of
art there on exhibition. In this manner
he expects that the influence of the insti-
tuition will be widened and greater me as
ure of popularity attained. His own good
been expressed in the gifts of many art
treasures from time to time, and men who
know him best and understand his meth
DDS predict that he will continue to mani
fest appreciation of the institute.
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preferred infinitely to the most intelligent

preferred infinitely to the most intelligent
doubt"
This is how he concludes: The papacy has
provided den for the most detestable of all
series OF rulers, shelter for the most debased
populace, stronghold for the most oppressive
administration and school Tor train;
forgers. 1t has fostered evil for
the purpose of profting from the
helplessness and the misery of the people. II
has cherished the maxim that mans adversely
is the priests opportunity, and it has done its
utmost 10 reduce humanity to deepest adver-
sity. But the days of its triumph have passed
to return no more forever; II Is marching IN
disgrace TO a dishonored grave, cursed as the
great infamy of modern times by an enlight-
ened public opinion"
A CHARACTER SKETCH.
With these opinions before him the fair
minded American can judge OF the sincerity OF
John S. Hittell when he expresses his opinion
that his forty years residence in this COM
munity should give him immunity from anlm-
adversions of a ''sacerdotal fraud" / ven-
ture to express my opinion that his forty years
residence in this community should have pre-
served him from the crime which caused these
animadversions. He came here when San
under his eyes it has grown TO be great city.
The men who were the prime factors in the
N aking of this metropolis were not unknown
TO him. Among them were many Catholics,
and Mr.. Hittell's memory cannot conjure up an
instance when these men were untrue to the
obligations of their citizenship. With
familiar intercourse. He knew that they
were loyal to their creed, and he knew
that often with much sacrifice they had
labored to build up the walls of Jerusalem in
this new land. OF the heads of the church in
California he knew what all men knew, thaT
their life was without stain, their conversation
blameless. If mistake not, he felt once upon
q time proud to enjoy the friendship OF Cath
olics, and it may be that he is not entirely free
from at least the obligations of gratitude to
men whose children he now derides. Yet
in the face of all this in his old
age he comes before the world with
book whose pages are packed with insult
against everything his former companions
reverenced. The anti-pspist volumes at his
disposal have been eviscerated to foul the
good name of his ancient benefactors. Where
argument fails vituperation is at hand, and
his 800 pages OF mendaclty are clothed in the
literary style affected by longsho-emen. His
production is child of senility. Weakness is
stamped upon its every line. Like malicious
hag who imagines the bystanders are deriding
her he squatS in the streets and blindly gropes
for 8 stone to hurl at his tormentors. The fee
Bile fingers. however, are unable TO close over
anything more substantial than mud Seree CHI
ing and scolding he casts it into the air, but it
only falls back on himself to defile him more
in the eyes OF those whose contemptuous pity
is their only crime. Yours truly,
P C. YOPKE
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IN DEADLY ITALIAN WAR,
La Voce and L'Italia Abusing
Each Other About a Lot of
Abyssinians.
One of the Editors HurlS a Fierce
Ultimatum in the Shape of
$1,000 Bet.

Interest is increasing in the controversy
between the two local Italian papers,
L'Italia and La Voce del Popolo.
There was $100 bet between them on
Saturday as to whether the Italian troops
had slain 10000 Abyssinians before
Makalle or whether the managing editor
of L'Italia had massacred them in his
editorial rooms on Washington street.
But the amount of the bet has gone up
by leaps and bounds since Saturday, and
La Voce was offering $3.50 in defense of its
assertion that the massacre was per-
petrated in San Francisco and with
printers ink, while L'Italla was offering
$1,000 in defense OF its telegram which said
that red Abyssinian gore had been shed
by 10000 Abyssinians in one repulse on
Makalle.
La Voce, in commenting on what it calls
''this bloodless massacre, saws: at is
true that special telegam from Rome
states that during the attack on Makalle,
consummated on the 8th inst. tho
Abyssinians suffered loss Of 10000 dead
and wounded.
I'VE now have the key to the enigma.
This telegram arriving in San Francisco
in one of the Chicago papers on the 15tb
or 10th inst. had been reduced ad usum
delphlni by changing the date of sending
and that of the fight.
I'VE accept the wager-in fact we raise
the sum to $250-that it be proven th at
said telegram was sent out from London
on the 14th and that it arrived in San
francisco through any of the agencies on
that same day, or on the day succeeding
and that no alterations or additions were
mace to SAID telegram. Also that in said
70 10 vVnr ~ L
January 8, but that of the 13th.''
lta!la, In response to this, says it is not
question OF date, but of pound of flesh,
SO to speak. The 10000 Abyssinians, were
Iney slain IN Washington street or before
Makalle?
:, Last nights issue of L'Italia contained
the following: I'VE are ready to bel SiOO0
that the telegram was genuine and that
before we had it the dispatch was printed
In reliable newspaper.
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Another Letter to DR.. Wendte
on the Doctrine Of Church
and State.
h. W. BOWMAN WRITES AGAIN.
He Declares the Popes Have Caused the
Ruin of Ireland, Italy
and Spain.

The Rev. Father Yorke, writing in an
swer to John S. Hittell, says:
January 20, 1896.
To the Editor Of the San Francisco Catl-DEAR
SIR: John S. Hittell has waXed VirtuouSly
Indignant that / should doubt his infallibility
or his references. 1t is wonderful that the
men who rage most violently against the in
fallibility of the Pope prove TO be the most
touchy when their own lnerrancy is called in
question. In answer TO my objections he has
merely reiterated his assertions and pleads
as bar to all future proceedings the benefit he
has conferred on this community by shedding
on IL the light of his countenance for more
than forty years
THAT QUOTATION.
In the course OF my argument with Dr..
Wendte l was compelled to challenge the
these were taken from Mr.. Hittells book, and
on Mr.. Hittell DR.. Wendte threw the response
bility. OF these eight quotations Mr.. HitteI
now magnificenuy meanders into print to
verify two. He says
The doctrine OF Aquinas is that "the power
OF all temporal princes derives its strength
and efficacy solely from the spiritual power of
the Popes," and refer to Doellinger's Fables
Respecting the Popes of the Middle Ages"
English translation), page 153. might have
cited also Gregorovius' History OF Medieval
Rome" in German, page III, volume VI. l
did not refer TO the Latin of Aquinas, because
the book is rare, and the general readers for
whom my treatise was intended could not
verify the accuracy OF my citation. Ny for
gerry consists in quoting word for word from
Doellinger in the English translation.
This answer as called out by two assertions
which made concerning Mr.. Hittell citation
On the 10Th / wrote:
al. AS matter of fact the reference [of MI
Hittelll is fraud. Doellinger does not refer to
Thomas Aquinas at ali, and he makes no quo
tation whatsoever"
On the 18th l wrote:
20. The trouble is that Doellinger does not
say what Hittell makes him say. In other
words, Hittell has been guilty OF forgery pure
and simple"
Now, there is only one way TO settle this mat
ter, and that way is 10 put Mr. Hittell's quota
tlon and the original side by side. This do in
parallel columns;
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21

David Jones, EIwood's sleepless man,
who three years ago went ninety-one
nights and days without sleep, and who
broke his own record last year by remain
tered upon another period of sleeplessness
which promises to eclipse all former ef-
forts. His health does not suffer and his
appetite is always good. He is unable to
reach any satisfactory conclusions relative
to his strange affliction. He has now gone
twenty.one days and nights without sleep,
and he says that ne feels as II he would
never sleep any more He is now serving
as a Circuit Court juror.-Rochester( (Ind.)
Sentinel.
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n. w. BOWMAN'S LETTER.
He Holds Rome Responsible for
the Condition of Spain
and italy.
H. w. Bowman contributes the follow
ing to the controversy:

II. w. Bowman contributes the follow
ing to the controversy:
OFFICE AMERICAN PATRIOT
S19 Market street I
Editor San Francisco Call = DEAR SIR: If
Rome's motto, Semper eadem, be true her past
history will give US clew to the future Let
US learn what has resulted from the Roman
ization of two mighty nations OF Europe, Spain
and Italy, and then judge of what the result
would be here Before doing so we VIII lay
down proposition and let the fact of history
prove it. To Romantic is to pauperize. Ro-
manism breeds pauperism like swamp does
mosquitoes. Popery and poverty keep step to-
gether. Papal buns manufactured in
Papal slums. With them beggary is fine art
and poverty is a virtue. They set premium
upon religious laziness and canonize eccesi-
asticsl tramps. Mental sloth leads to physician
lndolence. The church absorbs the wealth of
the people. Protestant industry is the result
OF manly independence. Mental stagnation
Will pauperize a nation, while freedom of
thought will produce an industrial revolution.
lreland's poverty is due to her popery. Eng
land is beehive of industry because her peo-
pie are free. Popery not only makes men
physical paupers but mental and religious
ones also. Rome and rags go together. Ro-
manism impoverishes by her vices and by her
mlsdirected virtues. Property values go down
when Romanists move into town. The Ro
named quarters of our cities are not as valu-
able as the other portions. Romanism four
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Wish to Sell Now

The owners of the lots which adjoin the City
property on which the old City Hall is to be re-
built sent in communication yesterday offer
ring to sell the ground for $50, 900, which is
the estimate of value made by Expert Ham
owners formerly asked $71 00O but the board
considered this figure too high and decided to
build around the structures now standing on
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21
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The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21
DoELLINGER.

The Dominican, Tolo-
meo OF Lucca, author OF
the two lasC books of
the work "De Regimine
Prlncipum," the first
two books of which are
by Thomas Aquinas,
goes beyond his prede-
cessors and explains
the Donation as a for
NAL abdication of Con-
stantine in favor of Syl-
vester; and connecting
with this other hiStori-
cal circum ance S
which are either inven-
tionS or misconceptions,
he thence draws the
conclusion that the
power OF all temporal
princes derives its
strength and efficacy
solely from the spiritual
mower of the P0DpS.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21
HITTELI-

Thomas Aquinas. the
greatest among the doc
tors of the church,
teaches that 1.-The power
of all temporal princes
derives its strength and
efficacy solely from the
spiritual power Of the
Popes."
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21

An engineer on the Midland Railway
was blown off his engine by the wind re-
Gently while going at full speed without
his firenlsn's missing him. He picked
himself up unhurt and walked to the next
station to report.
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Ionq Time Between Maps.

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The Rev. Father Yorke, writing in an
sunr To Inhn 6 Hiffall saws.
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social rottenness and religious gangrene mark
Its decayed state.
What has caused it's downfall? There is only
one answer: Popery and the priests! Up to
1870 popery enjoyed the whole territory to
herself; heresy was crushed out as soon as il
reared its head. Her creed was uninjured by
Qlssenslon, and no Protestant churches pol.
luted her sacred soil. There was nothing there
TO thwart the benign influence OF Romanism,
or to prevent the full and perfect development
OF ner doctrines in the personal, domestic and
social state of the Italian people. If Roman
ism can elevate nation, its birthplace and
headquarters is the place where we would ex-
pect to see the grandest example of its powers.
How much did it elevate Italy? Let writers
who visited 1t prior TO 1870 testify. Says one
The life of the Italian is little more than an
animal one, and he is not much better than an
ape endowed with speech. There is nowhere q
spark of originality and truthfulness. Slavery
ana misery have even ext1ngulshed acute
susceptibility To sensual enJoyments, and
there is, / am sure, no people upon earth more
thoroughly ennui and oppressed with the
burden OF their own existence than the
Romans. Their whole life is vegetation -
Niebuhr. DR.. Wylie in his book, "The
Awakening of Italy" says: "Italy al this hour
(July, 1864 is land of strange anomalies. 1t S
and yet it is not awakened; it is awakening.
Full vision is not yet restored to 1t, aud every
tnlng 1t sees appears inverted and distorted.
one naif the nation IS alive; the other hall is
oead-is yet in its tomb. Italy reminds US of
the picture which Milton has drawn of the lion
IN the act OF spring,ng into life:
Now half appeared
The tawny lion paving to get free
Hls hinder parts; then springs as broke from
bonds
And, rampant, shakes his brinded name.
$50 with Italy. The head and upper parts
OF the nation are risen, but the lower extremi-
Ties stick last in the mire, and hard, indeed,
viii be sae task of extricating them from the
Ignorance and barbarism of ages. To herself
Italy is and must be an enigma. Newly awak-
ened from long sleep, failing to compreh end
the new world into which she has been ush
cred, and the relations i'll which she stands to-
II, she hnds on every hand anomalies that
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10
AS A MASCOT,
He Unseated His Arch-Enemy
Wilson at the Recent
Convention.
OLD TROUBLES ARE REVIVED.
The Orator Says the Success of the
Primary Men Was Due to
His Color.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI
9OS Broadway Nav g.

90s Broadway, May 9.
Thomas Pearson, the colored orator,
says he is the mascot of the colored wing
of the Republican party in the county.
There is likely to be further trouble over
the unseating OF the appointed delegates at
Sacramento and the seating of those
elected at primaries in this county.
The interest is now centered in the col
ored voters OF the Republican party, and
has revived the old feud between the two
wings of the Afro American four hundred
in this city.
1t all comes from the fact that J. B.
Wilson was forced to vacate his seat in
favor of Thomas Pearson. J. B. Wilson is
the editor of an organ of the race pub
lshed in San Francisco, and a few months
ago he printed some remarks that led to a
case of libel in the Police Court. The
whole of the colony in Oakland was inter
ested in the event, and although the Judge
found the editor guilty at the first trial
jury acquitted him on the second.
The many bitter things said and done in
the court widened the breach. and when
politics became active the two leaders each
appeared at the head of their respective
parties and demanded recognition. Their
demands were granted. j. B. Wilson,
"hO 1--WE III VIC l. 1ltlCth AoSClHOIN us
trict, was one of the delegates appointed
to the Sacramento convention. He was
especially jubilant over the fact that the
State Central Committee recognized tn e
appointed delegates, and laughed long and
loudly at his confrere's plight.
Thomas Pearson was the colored dele
gate elected for the Forty-eighth Assem-
bly, District, and is stanch supporter of
primaries. He went TO Sacramento feel
ing rather blue, but he jumped six feet in
the air when he heard the report of the
committee on credentials. The appointed
delegates were in the seats set apart for
Alameda County, and they were 10th to
vacate them.
Mr.. Pearson sent a messenger to J. B.
Wilson to tell him that the primary men
wanted his seat. Mr.. Wilson was highly
displeased and Mr.. Pearson was radiant
with jubilation.
Since that time Mr.. Pearson has been
telling of the incident all over town, and
Mr.. Wilson is anxious to stop him, but so
far has not succeeded.
Very funny thing" said Mr.. Pearson
tonight. sit was a cola day in Sacra-
mento, and l was tlckled to see my old
friend in my seat, He had just warmed
it nicely for me. l sat down with great
pleasure. tell you I'm the wisest OF the
colored Republicans of Alameda County.
/ always come up smiling, and the best
thing the primary men ever did was to
put me on their ticket"
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opening of the avenue, and the other
parties to the agreement-Messrs. G. T.
Wright and. j. W. Goodwin, attorneys for
the commissioners-at their instigation
had expressed the wish for the postpone
nent of the sale till next Thursday. Mr..
Hirschfeld, however, insisted that the
sale should proceed, and he became the
purchaser. In order to redeem this prop
erty now the Cohen family will have 10
pay so per cent penalty.
The Relay Race.
ALAMEDA, CAL, May 9.-Anderson's
University Academy students won the
twenty-five-mile relay race this morning
from the Alameda High School students
The Alameda High School only GOT in
ahead of the the A. U. AS by two-fifths of
a second in the first relay. In the other
four they were behind. The time made
by each rider was as follows:
L. Rank, l6 min. 40 3-5 sec.: r. Ferguson Is
min. A Sec; l. Cutie, 10 min; w. Geissler,
Is min; Goodfellow, IA min.
Alameda High School-N. Stark, 16 min.
as Is sec.; L. tCheyalier. l6 min. so sec. /;
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Hedwig Tychnen, San Lorenzo; Ora Arm
strong, San Lorenzo.
Young ladies' race--Miss Matte Pelton, San
Leandro; Ethel Cook, Oakland.
FTee-foT-Gll mems race-First heat, AL La
cunha and Ed Wells, Haywards; second heat,
W. i. ana +. H. Owens, Berkeley; final heat,
Al Lacunha first, W. +. Owens, second.
Free-for-all women's race-Miss Christiana
Hamilton, Haywards; Miss May Greer, Oak
land.
Fat mems race-J. D. Armstrong, San Lo-
renzo, 245 pounds; DR.. w. II. Simmons, Oak
land.
Fat women's race-Mrs. ]. B. Greear, Oak
land; Mrs Devehran, West Oakland.
Egg race = Mrs. Pawling Alameda; Mrs.
Pennycook, Oakland.
Sack race-John Armstrong, Berkeley; F. c..
Pawing, Alameda; F. A. Pearsol, Haywards.
1O-yard run-Ed Wells, HayWards; E. b.
Owens, Berkeley.
Past consul commanders race j. V. Haley,
Haywards; J. w. Haas. San Leandro.
Camp clerks race-A. A. Wrede, West Oak
land; p. Wiibert Havwards
Com mitteemen's race-J. w. Haas, San Le-
andre; A. A. Wrede, West Oakland; ]. K
Jeffries, West Oakland.
Tugs-ofwar-Peralta Camp, Berkeley, VS..
Oakland Camp, Oakland, won by former in
three minutes; Old Orchard Camp, San
fifteen minutes; Cypress Camp, Haywards, VS..
Spruce Camp, Alameda, won by former at the
signal.
Each contestant named received prize
and more than dozen gate prizes were
distributed. The prize for the camp taking
the most prizes was loving-cup from the
South Sea Islands and was taken by
Cypress Camp of Haywards.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10
JORDAN'S TASK.
The County Clerks Office Making Prog
ress Struggling With the Great
Register.

GA AKLAND, CAL, May 9.-County Clerk
Jordan and his staff are hard at work on
the stupendous task of writing 44,000
names on the great and precinct registers,
with all the facts set forth in the atfidavits
as to personal descriptions, nativity, resi-
dence, educational qualification, etc., TO
be each carefully examined, located in
proper precincts, numbered and filed al
phabetically and names to be addressed on
envelopes for sample ballots, the neces-
nv comparisons, checking and arrange
ment for the printers, with the addressing
and mailing of q, 900 postal cards-all this
in addition to the rapidly increasing
WORK of the Office in connection with the
courts and Board of Supervisors.
MIR. Jordan was the first County Clerk
in the State to undertake this work, and
was, at first, subjected to some criticism
from clerks in other counties, but the lat
ter, who are now beginning the work they
hoped they would not be required to do,
are writing to him for points and general
information. The increased work thrown
upon his Office by the new mode OF regis
tration has PEELED the employment at
his own expense of q considerable number
of additional clerks.