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The herald., 1896-03-09
DR.. Alexander Patterson

The musical part of the services at the
Young Mems Christian Association was
rendered especially interesting yesterday
afternoon by two selections by the nsso-
citation orchestra, one Sanctus, by Gounod,
the other, Love Not the World, by Suli-
van: and also by a very pleasing cornet
solo by Miss Eisenmayer. DR.. Alexander
Patterson of Chicago spoke on the subject
of Christianity, the following being the
substance of his address:
There are two questions it is fair to ask
about Christianity: first. is it true? second,
is it good? God does not object to oues-
tons if the questioneT is sincere. Is Chris
tanity true? Judge by Christ; his life, its
purity and spotlessness. Many of the
prominent atheists have acknowledged
his perfection. If the root is perfect it
should bring forth good tree. Judge by
the life of Christian-not hypocrite, but
a true. earnest follower of Christ, your
mother or teacher.
''Is religion best? OF course a man can
ask this question, but it must be best if it
is true. Do not say if you are a Christian
you will have no trouble. or that you will
make money hand over fist. but you will
be happier. healthier. better in every way.
than if you were sinner. Godliless cares
for the life that now is as well as that
which is to come; it takes care of the in
side as well as the outside. To be good
Christian we will have TO get rid of self
conceit. When a man is willing to let God
guide and take care of him then God will
prosper and make him happy. Here is the
condition this man they brought for Jesus
to heal was in. His life was broken and
wrecked by physical and spiritual disease.
He lay lowly and hopeless at the feet of
Christ: Now let US see the way
in his last resources. As this
helpless invalid and sinner came down
through that aperture in the roof and lay
on the floor he looked up into face of pity
and compassion, the face of him who said
'he that hath seen me hath seen the Fa-
ther.'' And ne heard the gentle and low
ing voice say, "Son, be of good cheer"
This religion is one of cheer to the down.
cast and Respondent. "Thy sins be for
given ,hee." 1t is not likely he thought
about his sins when he was taken to get
his body healed.
There are lots of people who
wish help and employment but the
first thing that is needed before the sup
plying OF these material necessities will do
any good Is to oe all right within, to have
ones sins forgiven. You can never be
happy till you have your sinful record
blotted out. Unless it is, you are going to
meet a fearful record.
Arise. take up thy bed. l cannot tell
how the miracle was done. 1t was as nat
ural with God as for us to arouse one from
sleep. When the healed man came he
was let down through the roof on account
of the crowd, but the crowd made way for
him when he went out carrying his bed.
There is nothing that is so attractive and
commands so much respect as man just
converted. | can imagine how, when the
man reached home, his happy mother met
him. and how they both knelt down in
prayer and thanksgiving for such bless
ings. can think of the mother who has
returned from church and is sitting in her
chair, thinking of her boy in the west.
The herald., 1896-03-09
MOnroyia Day ExcuraiOr-

Wednesday. March IL. via Southern
Pacific. Leave Arcade depot sos a. n
Free drive to Duarte and about Monrovia.
After lunch drive to Ba!dwins ranch, TAX
ing train there for Los Angeles. Or lea, @
Arcade depot II go am. lunch at A.
cadla, free drive through Baldwin's ranch.
thence through Santa Anita, Sierra Madr. :
etc., 10 Moltrovia, where take train TO Les
Angeles. Round trip, so cents.
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thinking of the letters he writes, which say
so little of religion, and wondering how
his spiritual life is. till she feels overbur-
dened and falls on her knees, and with
tears streaming down her cheeks, prays to
God to save her boy. Perhaps | am
speaking to that boy now.
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the gospel the miahtiest heroes of the
world. 1t pulled aside the curtain OF mys-
terry for little while, and showed the high
way of souls into the eternal home in
heaven. But Peter declares that it was
God, and not Christ, who raised Christ
from the dead. "Whom God hath raised
up. having loosed the pains of death.N
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marshals all the power of hell to over.
whelm the suffering son of God with the
shame of that cruel Friday morning. But
in the hour OF his death, the stronger one
triumphed more gloriousy than in his
BIRTH
Could any war be more righteous or more
wholesome than that between 'the great
enemy of souls" and 'the captain Of our
salvation?" With the Apostle Paul let us
eXclaim in transports of joy, Thanks be
to God who giveth US the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ"
The herald., 1896-03-09
JOTTINGS
Our Home Brew

Maier & Zobeie in's lager fresh from thei
brewery on draught in all the principal ga
looms; delivered promptly in bottles or kegs
Office and brew cry, Ala Aliso street; telephone
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Have you seen our Columbus Buggy Co.'S
bicycle jor 1896? Inspect samples, 210 N
Main St. Hawley, King & Co,
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We nre making grea6 run on our new 1896
model bicycle for the low price of S6o. Haw
ey King l. Co.. 2lO North Main street.
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Fresh fish and lobs.e shipped direct to oil
points in Arizona, Texas and Mexico. from
cannery in san Pedro, at lowest wholesale
rripas
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Il Beerl pabst Beer!

On draft. olympic Hail. 12l W. First st..
". Garms prop. Tel. 274. Finest CONNER
cial lunch. Leave orders for bottled beer.
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Big Tree Carriage Works, I2S San Pedro 81.
Concord business wagons speciality
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Eagle Brand OYSTERS

Call for the Eagle Brand of fresh frozen
oysters. Your grocer has them. They are =
great delicacy.
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Bishop Montgomery

There was not a vacant seat in the
cathedral on Main street at the services
last evening, quite a number being COM
PEELED to stand. 1t was the third Sunday
in Lent and a fine musical program was
given. Bishop Montgomery preached an
eloquent sermon, taking as his text
Matthew vi, ., MAN liveth not in bread
alone but i'll every word that proceedeth
from the mouth of Cod
The key to the Holy Scripture, said the
speaker, was the two-fold nature of the
blessed savior, the divine and human
nature of the man Christ The bishop
emphasized the importance of irnpressing
upon people the position of the Catholic
church on scriptural matters, especially
with reference to the New Testament. The
New Testament, he said, was believed in by
many people who we're not believers in the
Catholic church, and the fact could not be
too forcibly emphasized that in the New
Testament was found the authority for
those doctrines by which the church sets so
much store, the confession and absolution
of sins and the sacrament
The herald., 1896-03-09

Advance Davis sewing machines removed to
407 s Broadway, opposite Chamber Com
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Free Dispensary

For the poor daily. Drs. Lindley and Smith
Broadway and Fourth. Pirtle Block.
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Dressmakers--An fashion books ct Lang
stRdter's, 2l4 South Broadway.
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Or. D, s. Diifenbacher dentist, rooms and
S, l19 8. Spring st., Los Angeles.
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Everything on wheels, Hawley, King < Co,
2lO-212 N. Main street.
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Sewing Machines rented - per month. 4O7
South Broadway.
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Pabst Besr Fabst Beer!
On draft AT Joe Arnold s. 35S s. Spring ST.
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Notices OF deaths, without comment, inserted
under this mead tree. Funeral notices 10 cents per
line.
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FOLSOM-In Tins city, Mnrch I, InN6, John 3,
Folsom of Santa Monica, aged 81 years
months and ~ days.
Funeral Tuesday, March 10th, at | p. m, from
the parorS of Sharp Il Samson $50 Spring street.
Friends invited TO attend. lnterment at Rose
dale cemetery.
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DEATHS

Or. Harriet Hilton. 4e4 s. Hill street.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20
OF JILL L4TTER-DHY CRUSHDES
The Chinese Movement Convert Hnecans to the Beliefs Of
Confucus~Prophets Who Foretel Religious Revolution

all that L can to make all Americans good
Confucianists and Cinnamon. Many of
my countrymen will aid me in this way.
l am very much in earnest and mean just
what say when l declare that there will
be built temple to Confucius. This will
show how intelligent people can live with
out superstition and religion, how they
can love one another and do away with
hlgotry, conceit and red:tape methods Of
doing good.
st will also show the Christian families
how to bring up their young to respect old
age and their parents, and will encourage
general social order in comm unities. All
these things were done in China for
centuries, and it is these that kept its i'm
mense millions in order and prosperity.
Why cannot the belief of Confuclanists
be introduced into the United States
just as we'll as the good qualities of the
Americans have been introduced into
China I believe in reciprocity in all
things.
THE Chinese are not in this country to
be bad citizens, although none of them
truly believe in Christianity. The Chi
nese News is for the Americanizing of the
Chinese in the United States. 1t is 10 try
to teach them patriotism, thing almost
entirely unknown to the Chinese cody.
I am great admirer of everything
American as / am a naturaliZed citizen
of this glorious and beautiful Republic.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20

The strangest crusade which the United
States ever knew is about to begin. 1t is
nothing less than an attempt to convert
the citizens of this county to Confucian-
ism. The leader of this odd movement is
Wong Chinn Fooof 800 South Clark street,
Chicago. Not only will he seek to make
us all good Cinnamon, but he proposes to
secure the erection by the chilly shores
of Lake Michigan of a magnificent tenn
pie, in which all those who believe in the
doctrines of Confucius may worship.
This will be no joss house, but bona
fide temple fitted up in the most approved
fashion. All the various details which
go to make up the gorgeous interior of
the temple to which the disciples of Con-
fucius turn their footsteps will be there
in great degree. In fact, if the plan of
Wong Chinn Foo is carried out, there will
be a sample of oriental gorgeousness such
as the prosaic United States has never
before possessed within Its borders. Nei-
ther will there be any ceremony omitted.
Every point that the strictest Chinese
etiquette requires to be observed will be
always taken into consideration. To slight
even one of them would be an unpardon.
able error. While in China the offender
would be beheade d, in this land of the
free and the home of the brave he would
merely be escorted out of doors.
The light of intelligence shines brightly
about Wong Chinn Foo, for he is genuine
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20
GIRLS THRILLING SOMNHMBULISTIC FREHKS
One Hundred and Fifty Tines She Stood Deaths Brink While
Eseep and as Often Was Mracuousy Rescued

tic. Under ordinary circumstances she
seems to be possessed of unusual intelIi.
gence, and her education is excellent. In
appearance she is remarkably pretty, a
perfect specimen of blonde. She is both
striking in physique and comely in feature.
1t is almost marvellous to consider the
methods that have been unsuccessfully
adopted to restrain her from her nocturnal
excursions. The windows of her room
have been locked and the key to the door
hidden, but to no purpose. So far as the
hiding-place of the key is concerned she
has always seemed possessed OF almost
supernatural powers, for if the key was
hidden in her own room she invariably
found it. When the door was rocked from
the outside she managed to cleverIy pick
the lock and make her way to the street.
At other times she has been tied in her
bed so securely that it seemed as if in no
way would she be able to release herself.
In this regard she has exhibited the skill
of the coniurer, for no knot could be tied
that she was unable to loosen and no mat
ter how the ropes were arranged, she
always found way to release herself.
Handouts have been attached to her
wrists and then chained to the bed, but
her hands slipped through the rings in her
sleep in fashion that she could not ex
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plain when she awoke. In waking condi-
tion she could never perform the feat At
another time the key 10 her room was
placed in the bottom of barrel of water
that rested in one corner of her apart
ment, but she secured the key and the
contact with the chilled fluid did not
awaken her. There has been no particu-
lar method which she has followed in her
walks about the city, and contrary to the
general idea regarding somnam bulists,
she has rarely seemed TO have a definite
idea of doing any particular thing on any
occasion.
About the only instance when she dis
tinctly remembered having a purpose in
view was the time when she was found
seated on letter box with her arm around
the lamp-post, when she declared she had
believed herself TO be seated on rail at
the theater with her arm about one of the
supporting pillars. This fact of general
lack of intention is all the more singular
because of the accepted belief that the
actions of sIeep-walkers are merely the
fulillment of dreams that have seized
upon them.
One of the most narrow escapes she has
had, if not the narrowest of all, was on
the occasion of a trip she is supposed to
have started on to North Denver. She
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20

A pretty girl is now being treated at the
Arapahoe County Hospital in Denver,
who has broken the record for somnam-
bulism. Her name is Annie Rossman,
and during her excursions while asleep
she has been rescued from injury or death
by the police more than $50 times. Bolts,
bars, handouts and chains all failed. to
keep her within her room, and clad in
nightrobe she has roamed the streets of
Denver night after night.
Everything possible was done to cure
The young woman of her strange mania,
but to no purpose until she was placed in
the hospital, where she has been care
fully watched by an attendant, and cold
water thrown in her face every time she
sought to leave her bed or escape. This
plan seems to be proving efficacious, and
for the present, at least, her sleep-walk1ng g
career has been brought to a close. The
story of her experiences ls marvellous, and
there is no record of any man or woman
somnambulist who has undergone the
perils that have fallen to her lot and es-
capped fatality.
For eight years Miss Rossman has been
a sleep walker-ever since she was IS years
old. She is stenographer at present,
but her afdictioD has forced her to aban-
don her chosen plan and WORK as domes-
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20

heartily unite in the movement there Is
no question but that an evangelistic CAM
paign, such as the world has never seen,
will be inaugurated. 1t is not likely to be
a project of mushroom growth, for the
Celestial mind moves slowly although
with great certainty. The predominating
element among the Chinese of this coun-
try is, of course, what is considered in
China itself the lowest caste. Therefore,
the crusade, to be on a firm foundation,
must have the backing OF the intelligent
Cinnamon of good birth.
1t will be remembered that at the
Worlds Congress of Religion held in Chi
cago during the Columbian Exposition
there were gathered representatives of
nearly every religious belief that could
boast of any considerable mum Der of fol-
lowers throughout the world. Notable
among the delegates to the congress was
Buddhist priest from India, an ascetic-
appearing, dignified individual, who COM
manded the sincere respect and admiration
of those who listened to his words or be-
came personally acquainted with him.
During his stay in this country he sue
ceeded in inducing several persons to
accept the Buddhis doctrine on the ground
that it was really the most ancient and the
surest exemplifcation of the principles
upon which the foundation OF that belief
which the world recognizes as Christian.
ity is based.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20

man knew the geological formation OF the
street pavement, because of the accumu-
lated filth of the century--commercial
ports 80 malodorous that sea captains
trading with them paid but small atten-
ton to the lighthouses along the coast,
the sense of smell rising superior to that
of sight no matter what the direction OF
the wind. Things have very greatly
changed. The prestige of the ancient
maritime entrepots has departed, and
in the places of the old inconveniences are
magnificent commercial exchanges, where
modern common-sense combines health
with business and consequent pleasure in
the pursuit of the avocations Of the count
less thousands engaged In barter and
trade. The ''city" of to-day and to-mor-
row demands the abiding presence OF good
and clean streets, of an abundant supply
of pure water, of adequate and rapid tran
sit between the crowded com merclal and
manufacturing quarters and the residence
suburbs; of ample parks and other breath
ing spots; of we'll built, well-eouipped and
well-kept schools; OF unstinted artificial
illumination Zone good electric light is OF
more value as a preventive of crime than
is the service of two policemen)- The
stately church, the splendid library, the
snowy opera house and the palatial resi-
dence will each and all appear when con-
dltions are favora BILE to their presence
in city.
Given all these essential factors of its eI-
istence, the city" will begin to demon
strate the wisdom of its founding.
Provided that its men of business are
blessed with a sagaeity that recognizes
the value of broad policy in their trans
actions with their fellow men, the "city"
will grow, and as time sweeps on the rep
utation of the ''city" will assert itself at
the distant ends of the earth, with the re-
suit that trade from distant places, over
continents and oceans, will, in obedience
to the most powerful law of human life,
the law of confidence, flow in increasing
volume and value to the recognized
city"
The immense area of the United States
is too large to allow of its business be-
ing centered in one city. 1t has more
over two distinct ocean boundaries, each
the exchange line Of enormous traffic,
the commerce of the Atlantic and that of
the Pacific being markedly different one
from the other. 1t has also the gigantic
artery Of trade running north and south
through its very center-the Mississippi
and tributaries. Its commerce is therefore
affected in its distribution very largely by
geographical features.
Plainly, then, there must always be re-
quired for the proper transaction of trade
four great commercial centers in the
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20

and abnormal conditions may cause an in
crease ora diminution in the death rate
for brief period, which is eliminated
when the rate is taken for fairly lengthy
time. The accompanying table, compar-
ing the death rates of five of the principal
and best sanitarily managed cities in the
United States covering period of from
ten to twenty years, establishes conclu-
sively that San Francisco is the most
healthful of all. Ii so satisfactorily a re-
suit has attained under the old sanitary (o
system OF the Golden Gate City, what may
not be reasonably looked for under the
administration of thoroughly modern
sanitary system of municipal controlP
AS matter of fact, the healthful con-
dltions of San Francisco are not only un.
excelled, they are unequaled by those
possessed by any interior portion of the
continent. They could not be otherwise
so long as the revolution of the earth
upon her axis causes the winds to blow
from the bosom of the broad Pacific
ninety days out of every hundred. 1t Is
because OF the established reputation Of
California for its healthful, :nvigorating
and restoring climate that the death rate,
on account of consumption, is as high as
it is. Fully % per cent of the deaths from
all causes are due to the presence in our
midst of broken-down invalids from the
Eastern States and foreign lands, who
have come here in the pursuit of health,
but-came too late to mend.
With truer knowledge of the condi-
tions the situation is becoming better un-
derstood, and San Francisco, to which all
roads to California first lead the feeble
footsteps of the invalid, is to-day recog-
nized as one OF the most healthful cities
upon the continent.
The foundations of her greatness are
thus laid down. Healthful living. The
central point for the mining, the agri-
cultural and the horticultural products of
the vast Pacific Slope. The colossal en-
trepot of the occidental trade. The shin
ing rails of steel may come and kiss the
dancing waves of the golden ocean, but
there the poetry ends and the very plain
prose begins. Between the rails and the
waves there must be big, strong bridge
over which the commerce of the rails and
waves will have to pass, and that bridge is
what is called commercial seaport. That
San Francisco will become the greatest
seaport of the world is problem that can
only be delayed of affirmative solution by
the exercise of the blindest disregard of
business principles, a condition which is
not now nor ever likely to be found in the
City which graces the finest harbor in the
world, having opposite to its mouth three-
fifths OF all the worlds commerce.
F. NJ. CLOSE, Disc.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-20
WONG CHM EXPECTS AMERICANS no WORSHIP Like THIS.

American citizen and has papers to prove
it. The loss of his cue, however, has not
interfered with his native religious meth
ods, for he is just as good believer in the
doctrines of Confucius as he ever was, and
that is saying good deal. he is the edi-
tor of a Chinese newspaper in Chicago,
and spreads his ideas among his country
men as rapidly as possible. The plan for
a temple is not an inspiration, so far as he
is concerned, but it seems that it has been
talked of and dreamed about for many
years, both by himself and others of his
race.
Wong Chinn Foo has no desire to hide
his intentions under bushel, any more
than he has his light, as the following
written by him shows:
ITO the Editor: 1t is my purpose to do