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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
FROM INTERIOR CHINA,
DR.. 6. w. Price Returns Here
After Seven Years Abb
Selce.
Phenomenal Use of Opium by Natives.
Conflict With Leopards, Wolves
and PantherS.

The Rev. DR.. c. w. Price and Mrs. Price
OF Iowa, for seven years past missionaries
OF the American Board of the Congrega-
tional Church in the strange province OF
Shansi, China, are at the Occidental. They
are going home because of the poor health
of their son, and are uncertain whether
they will return.
Their mission work has been at point
three days travel from Tai Yuen Flu, the
capital OF the province. 1t is town oil
some 10000 people. The province itself
has about 100000 people, so Mr.. Price
says.
"The capital lies in a plain, called the
Tai Yuen Flu" said he, land to get there
one is Obliged to cross over a range CT
mountains. Every spot ten feet square OF
these mountains that is fertile is cult
waited.
THE valley is rich and produces very
fine wheat, oats, buckwheat and a kind of
millet, which the natives use great deal
for food. These products are grown by
irrigation. The valley is very beautiful
except that it has very few trees, and what
are tn ere have been set out.
The China Inland Missionary Society
has good many missionaries there and
we are beginning to have neighbors now
One of these missions is fifteen miles
away and another but fifty.
THE natives seem to be taking to
the Christian religion. We are encour-
aged by our success. We have had house
full of interested people every preaching
day for a good while. One bad thing is
the general use of opium. There is more
used there than in any other province, and
the effects are extremely hurtful.
Among the wild animals, which luck
lily are not very plentiful, are leopards,
panthers and wolves. Wolves attacked a
man not long since and he was treated by
DR.. Atwood, missionary there. There
was man also, not far from US, who was
killed by a leopard"
DR.. and Mrs. Price had a rather rough
voyage over and were quite unwe!l on the
trip. They will start East on Monday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22

William B. Levitt, MD, associate professor
OF diseases of children.
William j. Hawkins, MD. adjunct to the
chair OF physiology.
materia medica and medical chemistry.
Richard NJ. II. Berndt, Md, adjunct to the
chair OF therapeutics.
Henry b. A. Kugeler, ND, adjunct to the
chair OF pathology and histology.
James F. McCone, BIS. Id, M.R.C.s Eng.
assistant to the chair OF obs tetrics.
Anatomical Department.. Henry Barbat,
Pho. NJ D., demonstration.
sam P Tuggle. Md, senior assistant de.
monStrator.
S. j. Fraser, ABB, MD, junior assistant
Edwin Bnnnell, ABB, MD, junior assistant
demonstrator.
Henry A. L. Ryfkogel, Md, junior assistant
william G. Hay, MD, junior assistant de-
monstrator.
College dispensary staf-Drs. G: H. Powers,
Washington Dodge. John Jon NJ. Williamson Hanson
Charles A Won Hoffman, Henry B. A. Kugeler
Thomas b. W. Leland, Martin B. Macinnis,
George W. Merritt, Leo Newmark, f. w.
A. X. Hapersberger, Hugh Lagan, Henry w
Stirewalt H. NJ. Sherman, o. W. Jones, J. p
Hull.
In the evening there was banquet at
the Palace Hotel rendered the graduates
by the Alumni Association of the Medical
Department of the University of Cali
fornia, with the cooperation of the fac
ulty Plates were set for about 100, in
Guiding about dozen ladies.
DR.. John NJ. Williamson, member of
the Board of Health, presided. ana
the toasts were in part as follows: Univer-
sity OF California, Professor w. E. Ritter
Regents, J. B. Reinstein; Medical Depart
ment, r. Beverly Cole; Old Guard, DIR. H.
n. Rucker: The New Recruit, DR.. L. H.
Coe; The Ladies, DR.. C. A. Clinton.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
FUNDS FOR THAT F|ES IA,
Colonel Andrews Scheme for
Raising $I25,ooo Without
Begging.
Seven Citizens Appointed to Choose
the Carnival Executive
Committee.

A happy and feasible scheme for raising
ample funds for the San Francisco Carni-
val was suggested last night by Colonel
Andrews at the meeting of the general
committee, held in the Baldwin Hotel.
The idea is this: Have 125. 900 souvenir
carnival medals struck off and sold in adj
vance at dollar each, the medal in itself
emitting the wearer 10 q seat during the
entire six days of the carnival.
Colonel Andrews says suitable medals
could be made at a rate of cents each,
and in such a way that they could not be
counterfeited.
The forty-five representative citizens
present received his suggestion with en-
husiastic approval and declared it to be
the best idea they had yet heard. 1t would
avoid subscription lists and systematic
begging for funds.
As tribunes are to be erected along
many of the principal streets where the
features of the carnival Will be presented
seats will certainly be in demand, and it is
thought that little difficulty will be found
in disposing of the souvenir medals.
Banks: mercantile houses and other busi-
ness concerns may, it is believed, be relied
upon to buy 100 medals each. AS the
committee has been counting on devoting
500, 900 70 the carnival this new scheme
seems to provide for funds enough to erect
plenty of seats and still have over the re-
quired amount.
The only other business before the meet
ing was the appointment of committee
Of seven whose duty it shall be TO submit
at the regular meeting next Tuesday the
names of twenty-five men best calculated
to represent all interests and be the ex-
ecutiye committee of the carnival, practi-
cally the directors of all the preparations
for the great event. The temporary chair
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
THE LAST WORD"
The DAILY Company Produces Another
Play From the German.

Inc Daiy Company Produces Another
Play From the German.
Inc DAILY Company evidently has q
lonuness Tor Franz Won Schonthau's plays,
ior another OF his comedies, 1.-THE Last
WORD, was produced at the Baldwin
Iheater last night. 1t was performed here
once or twice during the last engagement
OF the company and will probably linger
longer IN the Daily repertoire than
Countess Guckl' is likely to do, for
The Last Word" has a good deal to
recommend it, and the excellent perform
ance accorded it last night was listened to
with Keen appreciation by large au
dience.
Ihe chief merit in the drama is that it
chalns Ada Rehan to a sympathetic role.
her part does not oYerbalance the others,
however; there is some construction to
the play and the dialogue, if a little cheap
IN Its wit, is of the kind that catches the
popular ear.
Ada Rehan in THE Last Word plays
the part of a fascinating Russian Baron
ess. Every playgoer must have observed
that In modern drama female mem bers of
The RUSSIAN arlstocracy are always phe-
| nomenally allurng and as rule they turn
their power 10 nefarious ends. Baroness
Vera Baraneff is a good witch, however;
she blesses the lovers, melts the stony
hearted parents and scatters blessings, as
we'll as captures hearts, wherever she goes.
Ada Rehan was, as might have been ex-
pected, delightfully."- winning ana effective
in the role. There were tears in not lew
eyes during her scene with the Roman
father, when she softened his sternness
by telling him the story of her little
brothers death. IL would have been a
commonplace, perhaps even q tedious re-
cltal, IN the mouth OF an ery-day actress,
but Rehan treated it magnifcently.
Her broken English was another feature
OF her playing. Actors are SO terribly
prone TO make iargon spasmodic, over
doing 1t al one moment and forgetting it
at another, but the broken English OF
Baroness Baraneff was consistent and
musical throughout.
The all-round casts was an excellent
one. George Clarke played the part
OF the stern father to the life.
Charles Richman was natural and
convincing as his son; Hobart Bosworth
made finished character study of the
small part OF Moses Mossap. Edwin Varley
was sympathetic old music professor,
even though he did sing the bit of march
from an opera he was supposed to have
composed most cruelty out of tune. Miss
Helena Nelson, who played the mgenue
In Countess Gucki, again distinguished
herself as Winny Rutherell, the professors
daughter.
The Last Word" will be repeated to-
night
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22

ent named the following seven: General
S. W. Backus, Senator J. H. Mahoney,
David Rich. j. "A. Steinbach, Colonel J.
O'Byrne, d. s. Dorm and P. n. Lilenthal
At the request of the meeting Temporary
Chairman General Warfield and Tempo
rary Secretary II. l. Fisher were added TO
this committee.
DR.. Fred w. d'Evelyn, president of the
Geographical Society, in a message to the
meeting, humorously accounted for his
absence by explaining that he had inter
cepted horses hoof in midair the day
before
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
AGENT NORMAN MISSING,
A Local Bicycle Dealer Who
Failed to Pay for His
Goods.
Several Attachments Placed on His
Store-His Second Estab.
liShment.

The creditors of William Norman, who
for several years past has conducted BIZ
cycle agency at 326 and 328 McAllister
street, are anxiouslv inquiring his where
abouts, and 10 secure themselves against
possible loss have placed attachments ag-
gregating several hundred dollars on his
establishment.
Norman came here from England some
years ago and rented small place on Nc
Allister street, where he did a limited
renting and repairing business. Gradu-
ally he increased the scope of his enter
prise until he carried a heavy stock OF
wheels, which are said TO have been OBJ
tanned on credit from Eastern firms.
1t is also said that he maintained Sec
ond establishment on Brannan street,
where he sent the larger portion of the
bicycles obtained on credit, disposing OF
them for whatever price he could obtain,
and failed to make remittancos to the
trusting Eastern manufac turers.
On Monday last a creditor who desired
to collect a claim against Norman called
at the agency and was informed that he
had gone away on a visit to his family. He
made inquiries and found that Norman
had given out that his wife and children
had gone to Los Angeles.
Thinking perhaps that the missing
dealer had gone there and did not intend
to return, an attachment was sued out
and the Sheriff's lock placed on the door.
The stock that remained in the store
was insignificant, however, compared with
the liabilities of the agent and it is
thought that the creditors will get little.
The attachments that have already been
placed on Norman's place aggregate 1854
of which $724 is claimed by Hong hson &
Merton, manufacturers agents, and STAG
by collection agency representing other
creditors. 1t is thought that other claims
aggregating several thousand dollars will
be filed soon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
shaw,s Pharmacy Insolvent.

George T. Beaizley, the druggist has filed q
petition in insolvency. The failure means
that the old drugstore known as Shaw's Phar-
macy has failed. Beaizley is member of the
firm now running Shaw's Pharmacy, and his
name heads the list of those on the petition.
The liabilities are set down at $4713 OF, and
the Assets at S3l55 5t.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22

DR.. NJ. S. Levy of Beth Israel and Rabb,
Voorsanger. In the intervals came
hymns, anthems, solos, ETC. The closing
prayer was repeated by the Rev. DR.
Fryer of Ohabai Shalome and the exercises
were concluded with an organ postIude.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
Printers Picnic POSTPONED,

Owing TO the rainstorm the picnic of the
Union Printers Mutual Aid Society, which was
to have been held yesterday at Glenwood Park
in the Santa Cruz Mountains, was postponed
until next Thursday, May %. Round trip
tickets 81
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22

n smart Broadway, New
/ \ York, druggist has
this sign hanging outside
his store, it marks the
new era of drug selling.
is it any wonder that he
has to enlarge his quar-
tiers, that his clerks are
busy, and that his store is
one of the most popular
along the leading thor
oughfare2
You can afford to trade
with a druggist that has
such a motto as that.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
PER SONAL.

Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, has
made new translation and revision of the
Jewish prayer-book, prepared by DR.. Da-
vid Einhorn.
DIR. Earl Cranston, who was recently
appointed a Methodist bishop. is winning
golden opinions on the Pacific coast by his
courtesy and tact.
DR. Warrington Caffyn, whose books
were advertised as being by the husband
of the author of the Yellow Aster,' q"
died recently in England.
The Rev. Father Peter Adair of St
Louis called upon all the young men in
his congregation one morning who were
wearing motto buttons to hand them 10
him.
The Duchess de Dino who is an Amer
lean by birth, is a remarkably bright
business woman. She recently ordered a
thirteen-story building to be erected III
New York city, and before completion
she has rented eight floors, the contract
for the rental of the fourth floor for a
term of years having now been completed
for $4,000.
queen Victoria has presented to Mr.
Edmund Chandler of Fressingfield Suf-
folk, a portrait of herself, with an in
scription recording thar he had assisted
to ring the bells of the parish church on
every birthday of her majesty since her
accession. He was born on Feb. 20, 1872,
and so jokingy claims that he has just
come of age.
"A subscription has just been started
in London which has for it's object the
restora ton of the church in which Nelson
was baptized and where the great nava:
hero's parents lie buried. Nelson himself
often expressed the desire to be buried
there; but a command of the king de-
creed that the body of the victor of Ira
falgar should rest beneath the beautiful
sculptured tomb in st. Pauls cathedral.
David Starr Jordan, president of the
Leland Stanford Junior University, is
talked of at Washington as the man best
fitted to succeed the late Prof. Goode as
assistant secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution and director of the national mu
scum. President Jordan, however, is con-
tented where he is. The dictatorship Of
the national museum he says, sis the.
most important scientific position in the
country and five years ago 1 would have
thought it the most desirable place that
could be offered to me. But now 1 should
not accept it,"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
His .sPantsy Went Wrong.

He was very gay young man, and his
sportive inclinations got him into trouble,
says the Philadelphia Record. One day last
week he started away from home with his
travelling bag, bound for Chicago on bus
mess. He was to leave Broad street sta
ton late that afternoon, ne told his moth
er, and would be back in three days, at
least. AS a matter of fact he had no in
tention of going to Chicago at all, and he
had nothing in his grip but a shirt and a
collar. He went to a Broad street hotel,
checked his grip and went out for night
with the boys. He returned to his hotel
after midnight in a very befuddled condi-
ton. He got to bed somehow or other, and
when he awoke in the morning he found
there was bad rent in his trousers. He
called for a messenger boy and had him
take the garment around to his tailor,
whose business place was nearby. The
trousers We're to be mended at once and
sent back. The gay youth remained in bed
until the trousers should be returned. He
waited three hours. Then he grew worried.
He called another boy and sent him after
the garment. The boy came back with the
tailor. why" said the latter upon being
ushered into his customers room, II didn't
understand that you were here so l sent
your trousers to your own home hours
ago." The trousers were finally recovered,
but the damage had been done, and now
the gay youths mother keeps a close
watch over him
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26

R. w. Glider in New York Home Journal.
o how shall help to right the world that
is going wrong?
And what can do to hurry the promised
time of peace?
The day of work is short, and the night
of sleep is long;
And whether to pray or preach, or wheth-
er to sing a song,
To pillow in my neighbours field, or to seek
the golden fleece,
Or to sit with my hands in my lap, and
to wish that ills would cease.
I think sometimes it were best just to let
the Lord alone;
1 am sure some people forget He was
here before they came;
Though they say it is all for His glory,
tbs a good deal more for their own
That they peddle their petty schemes and
blate and babble and groan.
I sometimes think ii were best, and a man
were little to blame,
Should he pass on his silent way nor mix
with the noisy shame
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
A story of Actor TooIe

An English paper vouches for this as a
new story Of the actor, Toole: One day
he went into a barber-shop in London to
get shaved, and, finding tine barber out,
he determined to have a little fun before
his return. So he took off his coat put
on a thinner one and quietly waited for a
customer. An old gentleman came in soon.
Shave, sir?" said our pretended barber
The old gentleman took a chair and Toole
began to lather expecting every moment
the barber would appear. Five minutes
passed and no barber The joker began
to get desperate and conceived bright
idea. Putting up his brush, he quickly
changed his coat again. took his hat and
was about to quietly slip out behind the
gentlemans back, when that worthy turn
ed his head and exclaimed: Here, sir;
aren't you going to shave me?' mo. sirr'
promptly replied Toole. THE fact is, we
only lather here sir. They shave four
doors below"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
A Matter of whisky.

The attorney general of South Carolina,
in his argument before the United States
supreme court on the dispensary cases,
furnished a key which may unlock some
| of the mysteries of recent political events
in that state. In his concluding argu-
ment. as reported by the Southern Assoc
ciated Press, Attorney General Barber
said: THE (dispensary) law was prima-
rily intended to secure to the people of
the state pure liquors, and secondarily 10
reduce the evils flowing from their use"
The dispensary law has been in force
several years. At the time is was adopted,
Tllmans power was at the zenith. AT
that time, according to Attorney General
BARRIERS argument, people were drinking
such bad whisky that the state govern
ment felt called upon to pass a law the
first object Of which should be to pro-
vide for them an improved grade Of ''the
critter." 1t seems, however in the light
of history, that the Tillmanites reckoned
without their host, if they thought that
providing the people with a better grade OF
whisky would make them so grateful that
the political ring would be forever kept
in power, through sheer gratitude. For
it appears that no sooner had the South
Carolinians begin to taste the purer
whisky of the dispensary than they drank
less. Attorney General Barber says the
consumption of liquors has fallen off 50
per cent. Pure whisky was not suited to
the South Carolina palate, which demand
cd something with fish-hooks, and red
pepper. and four-penny nails, and vitriol,
in it. When the natives began to pour
stuff down their threats that neither
scorched nor shriveled the tissues, they
knew at once that they were buncoed in
accepting the chemically pure" with the
palmetto tree blown in the bottle, and
they just stopped drinking it.
But dat ant de peticklar pint, yet"
as Rev. Minzacter Singleton of the Column
bia State would put it. When the natives
began to drink less whisky, and of an i'm
proved grade, they forthwith began to
drop away from the Tillman standard.
This has been apparent to close observers
for two years, and was pointedly and en-
phatically illustrated in the recent pri-
mary election for United States senator
from Sou... Carolina.
Physicians and chemists testify that
pure whisky, in comparison with whisky
that is not pure, is harmless; that impure
whisky fuddles the brain, and leads men
into paths that they would not travel il
they drank no whisky at all, or only pure
whisky at the worst Now, when Till
man was an overshadowing power in South
Carolina his dispensary was not yet ped
ding the chemically pure" At the time
of the recent senatorial primary, the dis
pensary was in full blast. But the con-
sumption of whisky had decreased so per
cent, and the people were drinking the
pure stuff That may be why John Gary
Evans failed of election to the United
States Senate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
A Poor Rich Man.


1t is an easy matter to overestimate a
rich mans wealth. Once the million-dol-
lar mark is passed the glamour of wealth
hides the man who possesses it from the
masses, and it is just as easy to believe
that one has ten millions, or twenty
Millions as one million dollars. But when
the rich man dies and the searchfght
of the probate or surrogate court is turn
ed upon the estate, it frequently occurs
that the supposed Croesus was not so
much of a Croesus after all. 1t was so
in the case of Jay Gould. Nobody knows
to this day just how much he left, but
it is established in the minds of well in
formed people that he did not leave as
much as he was generally credited with
possessing. And it proves to be so in
the case Of the late Austin Corbin of
Long Island, New Hampshire and else
where. AT the time of his death, some
few months ago, it was popularity sup
posed that he was worth upwards of $780,
100000 Data published in the United
States Investor, however, shows that he
was worth probably less than 100000.
People had taken him at fifteen times
his actual worth, commercially speaking.
He had been looked upon as one of the
great millionaires of the country; one of
the most successful business men of his
day. He began life with virtually Moth
ing, and his enormous wealth was point
ed to by theorists as illustrating the
boundless possibilities afforded in our
country and under our system of govern
ment. But that he was able to accumu-
late even as much as 100000, is a vindi-
cation of our free system of government,
under which one man has equal privileges
with every other man. At the same time,
the incident illustrates the fact that the
examples offered by theorists are not al
ways to be taken at their face value
Mr.. Corbin was the owner of a won
derful 27O00-acre mountain farm in New
Hampshire, concerning which marvellous
stories have been written. Its value has
been put by space writers at the most
fancy figures. 1t transpires, upon official
investigation, that the tract is actually
worth less than dollar an acre. He also
owned several thousand acres of planta-
lions in Arkansas. These plantations are
said to have a value of probably 100000
But against that value there are out
standing mortgages to the amount of
100000. That is to say, Mr.. Corbin was
able to borrow 100000 upon property
worth one-sixth of that amount. Proba-
bly, that is one of the fruits of being
believed richer than one actually is.
The whole trend of the Investors ar
ticle is to the end of showing that while
Mr. Corbin was considered one of the rich
est of American rich men, he was, as
matter of fact a comparatively poor
rich man. Nevertheless, it answered his
purpose to be considered very rich. Credit
is the next best thing to capital.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
DrendfnI Susnenre.

A good yarn is to hand from the wilds
Of Australia. Two impecunious scotsmen,
travelling north in search of gold, came
upon a saloon. They only had "saxpence''
between them, so they ordered one nip
o. whusky.'
They were hestating who should have
the first drink, when an "auld" acduain.
lance Joined them. Pretending that they
had just drank. one of them handed the
newcomer the whisky, requesting him to
join them in a drink.
He drank, and, after a few minutes
of painful and silent suspense, said:
Now, boys, you'll have one with meY'
'Wasna that weel managed, mon?" said
one to his pal afterwards.
"Ay. it was" said the other solemnly;
but it was dreadful risk!s