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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
HOW CRUEL TURKS
KILL ARMEN|ANS
A Pen Picture of Scenes of
Murder and Desc
lati0n.
Another Pathetic Letter From
the Heart of the Moslem
Kingdom.
TRADE STOP, MURDER RE1eNs
Relatives in the Sultan's Benighted
Land Send teous Appeal to
Their C.usn Here.

A letter has reached San Francisco from
the heart of the Armenian massacres, an
appeal from the terror-stricken there to
their relative in this City, asking him to
send them money forthwith to enable
them to hasten to this asylum of the op-
pressed.
The gentleman who received the letter
dare not give his name, for it would get
him in trouble with the Turkish authori-
ties, through the Consul here.
The letter. however, gives vivid idea
of the horrors to which Christians are sub
iected and suggests the extent OF the
heartless murders there raging by royal
command.
IL is the fear of the addressee of the let
ter and of others who know great deal
of Turkish affairs that the scheme of the
Turks is to raise the green flag, called
"Sanjack She'eiff"-which means ''the
holy banner'-and when that is raised
no Christian is spared, no quarter is given,
and all in sight are killed without hesita-
tion.S
The letter received is as follows:
CoNsTANTINoPLE, August 20, 1896
My Dear Ccusm: On the 26th of this month,
while was working in our printing house,
heard some loud reports from the neighbor-
hood of Galata. We at once quit our work and
ran to the windows and we noticed tha all the
stores on our streets were closed. Just little
while after that saw carloads of wounded
and dead coming from the direction of Galata
They were OF al nations, but most of them
were Armenfans. AT this time there were re-
1.Orts of roaring guns and this lasted until 10
O'clock in the evening. The Kurds and Softas
of our street were all on foot with the tradi-
tional batons in their hands. With this terror
we heard that the Armenians had surrounded
the Ottoman Bank. We were so terrified that
could not come out until halfpast 10 in the
night.
Then joining with some comrades we took
the train from Sirkadji and went home. At
home found your mother and sisters pale and
sick through fear, because they had heard all
the reports. We passed that night in great
fear, because all the Turks were very excited.
but, thank God, we have not been molested
yet.
On Thursday morning we did not work, be-
cause all the stores and shops were closed.
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Congregation sheriff. Israel.

The Congregation Sheriff Israel the oldest
Jewish religious organization in this CITY
Wnose synagogue is on the northeast corner OF
Iayior ana fost streets, DR.. ]. Me to rabbi,
gay wnen the following off GERS were elected
r1resident Louis Brown: vice-president,
Mlcnael Goldwater; secretary, Alexander L.
tnree years, William Saalburg, Henry !. Kow-
als1y, barron Mish, Moses Samuel; collector
ana sexton, Abraham Leszynsky. This congre-
terry, which adjoins the Cypress Lawn Gene
tery at Emanuel station.
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HUTCHMSON'S CRUELTY
Terrible Manner in Which Two
Little Girls Were Nal.
treated.
A Father Who Beat His Children With
- Poker and Drove Them
From Home.

Jennie c. Burnett, guardian ad Gtem of
Helen E. and Catherine Hutchinson, the
15-year-old twin daughters of Joseph w.
Hutchinson, yesterday brought suit
against the father to'compel him to sup
port his offspring, and also asked for an
order of court giving the plaintiff COM
plete control of the two little girls.
Hutchinson Is the man who, in April
last, treated his motherless children so
cruelty that they ran away from home
and for nine days lived beneath the front
steps of a vacant house on Mission street.
They were discov cred by the police and
taken to the City Prison. During the
period OF their residence beneath the steps
the little outcasts lived on such things as
they could get on their fathers credit at
the grocery at which he traded. They OBJ
tanned sardines, bread, eggs and a few
other articles, cooking what they could in
tin can over the flame of candle.
When the children were arrested Hutch
inson visited them and bid them good-by,
saying he would leave them in charge of
the police authorities. They were subse-
quently sent to the "Hill Home" and
from there transferred to the residence OF
their present guardian, to hom Hutchin-
son agreed to. pay $25 a month for their
support.
Recently the parent has refused to pay
the $25 and applied for the custody of the
children, saying he intended to put them
in the Magdalen Asylum. Mrs. Burnett
says that they are mild-mannered, we'll
behaved and gentle children. and that il
would be an outrage to confine them in Q
home for fallen women. She also says she
is afraid that il Hutchinson secures con.
troll of the girls he will again resort to the
brutal treatment which first drove them
from home. He was accustomed to curse
them and beat them with whatever instru.
ment came first to his hand. Among
other articles the weight of which the
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
Duffy's Pure
Malt Whiskey.

The great vitalizing principle contained
in the pure malt has wonderful effect in
bu lding up the system, purifying the
blood and restoring the iaded faculties. 1t
tones up the stomach, helps digestion,
puts the blood in motion and adds zest
to life that nothing else can produce. 1t
is Just the thing for weak, worn-out men
ana women who want to become healthy
and strong.
All grocers and druggists keep it.
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PHRENOLOGY EXPLODED.
Meets It's Death at the Hands of Scien-
tffic Men.


tific Men.
The subject of phrenology has, for 8
number of years, been discussed in al
parts of the country. 1t has had num-
Der of advocates who believed that it was
a science, or who pretended to believe that
it was science. As consequence, some
of the people who were induced to make q
study of the subject in a greater or lesser
degree, believed some of the demonstra
tions, while others, too intelligent to be
deceived by charlatanism, unhesitatingly
pronounced the alleged science fraud.
The force of the chronological wave has
now been broken because the leading
scientific writer's, journalists and popular
authors, not alone of this country, but oi
the entire civilized world have now prac-
tically come to the conclusion that the
study is a delusion and snare. As con-
sequence in every advanced circle these
men are dealing death blows to the deceit
as will appear from the varied and lucid
extracts on the subject which are here
appended:
"a person exercises iustifiable and
even philosophical degree of caution in
withholding his assent from phrenology."
Penny Cyclopedia, London, 1910, vol.
XVIII, page 120.
Tnrenology IS almost pl9yed out.
Public Opinion, Dunedin, New Zealand,
June 4, 1881.
THAT phrenology has arrived OR is
likely to arrive at the dignity of science
is denied or doubted by the best physiolo-
gists. "-Casselps Concise Cyclopedia, Lon
don. 1888.
"Phrenology IS was wrong in its
theory, wrong in its facts, wrong in its in
terpretations of mental processes. and
never led to the slightest practical re-
sults.p Popular Science Monthly, New
York, October, 1889.
"The exploded science of phrenoIogy."-
DIR. Manouyier, anthropologist and French
scientist, in the Scientific American Sup
plement; New York, June Is, 1892
'Phrenology does not make much head
way. 1t seems to live largely upon fiat
terry" ."-Tit-Bits, London, July %, 1892.
TESTS had proved that phrenology
was, in the main. a mess of error.''--
DR.. A. A. d. Ancona in an extension lee
ture of the University of California, de-
livered in San Francisco, as reported in
the San Francisco Chronicle of Octo be r
%, 1895.
"Phrenology. full-fedged sys-
tenn of empirical cranioscopy.5' The
Morning Leader, London, Nov. s, 1895.
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iven promptly at P. NJ, the time sched-

given promptly at 2 P. NJ, the time sched-
uled.
The First Battalion was headed by Ser
geant J. w. Mofitt, in command of the
six patrol wagons. These were decorated
| as prettily as severe police ethics would
permit.
The hurry wagons" were manned as
| follows:
California street, Frank J. Murphy driver
tlon, Harry Carlsen driver and Officer Tom
Judson; Seyenteenth-streets station, James Cot
tie driver and Officer James Norton; City Hall,
drivers MH snd M Wright a4a GnaFes and W
liam Gaynor; North End station, w. Gavin
driver and Officer P. Coleman.
Corporal M. Shanaghan was in COM
mand OF dozen mounted officers and
preceded Chief Patrick Crowley astrioe his
magnificent black charger and in the
beautiful saddle presented to him In the
morning as token OF esteem by Captain
Whitman. With the Chief was Captain
Marshall, the drill master, to whom is due
tile credit of having taught the depart
ment the tactics which they went through
so cieverly.
Casassa's s band of twenty-five pieces fur
nished the music. leaning the way for
Color-bearer Sergeant John Duncan at the
head OF the battalion proper in command
OF Captain Whitman mounted.
Following came first company, rifles,
Lieutenant Birdsall and Sergeant Price;
second company, rifles, Sergeants Nash
and Harper; third company, Sergeant
Helms and Corporal Ayers; fourth COM
pany, Sergeants Shae and Anderson;
fifth company. Sergeants Wollwebber
and Cook; sixth com pany, Sergeants
Tobin and Green; seventh company Ser
geant Blank and Corporal Ellis; eighth
company, Sergeant Christensen and Cor
poral Gleson.
The second battalion. also preceded by
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
LAND SOLD NEAR LODI.

A Portion of the Hatch-Arm tron &
Ranch Sold to sidney NJ. Smith.
An important sale of country property
near Lodi, in san Joaquin County, was
effected this week by Bovee, Toy &
Sonntag through their representative, G.
E. Gregory.
The land in question is a part of the
Hatch Armstrong Nut and Fruit Com
pany tract, comprising 160 acres, all unde I
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
Which Will Win?

In the coming election, voting strength
will decide the result of the struggle. In
the battle of life, the men who succeed are
those endowed with the greatest amount
of health, strength and energy.
People who are meeting with failure be-
cause they are weak, sickly and despon-
dent can gam new life and ambition oy
the use of that invigoratipg stimulant
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
Unauthorized solicitors.

treasurer John H. Drumgold of the People
CHURCH, now holding Sunday evening services
az metropolitan Temple, states that certain
purpose of purchasing silk flag to be used in
decoration. 1t is announced that no such
authority has been given those solicitors and
contributions to the Peoples church should be
sent to the Bank of California or given to the
treasurer.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
Hit with a Ham Bone.

John A. Meeley and his brother Daniel were
at breakfast yesterday morning in their home,
1888 Tennessee street. when an argument en-
sued on the political situation Daniel got
angry and struck John on the forehead with a
ham bone, slightly fracturing his skull Dam
iel was repentant ana took John to the Receiy-
ing Hospital.
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They Marched Up Market Street
and Were Drilled on Van
Ness Avenue.
WAS AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE
Chief Crowley and His Department
Were CheeTed by the Enthu-
siastic Crowds.

San Francisco has seen her police force
on parade-she has been made acquainted
with her stalwart guardians of the peace
and if the plaudits of 10000 people yester-
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
COOK

This learned sage of medicine and sur
gerry, permanently established in San
Francisco, continues to treat with une-
qualed success all special diseases OF both
sexes. The worst cases solicited and per-
feet cures guaranteed.
WOMEN
Always receive from Doctor Cook polite
attention, as we'll as positive cures for
the Falling or Displacement OF the Womb,
Painful. Scanty or Profuse Menses, PERI
odical Headaches Leucorrh0a, Nervous
ness and other distressing ailments pecu-
liar to their sex. He builds up their
broken-down constitutions and insures
to them their natural health strength
and beauty.
MEN,
Young, Middle-aged and Old, who have
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Bashfulhess, Dependency, Stupidity,
Loss of Ambition or similar symptoms.
In brief, your Body, Brain and Sexual
Organs have become weak. Doctor Cook
can restore to you what you have lost
YOUR PRECIOUS MANHOOD. Doctor
Cook can restore you He can fiji you for
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PRIVATE
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as Gonorrhoea, elect, Structure, Syphi-
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the wasting away of the organs COM
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shortest possible time.
INTERNAL ORGANS.
All Functional Diseases of the Heart,
Lungs, Liver, Stomach, Kidneys, Bladder
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MAIL.
By this means you can at once describe
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Home treatment always satisfactory.
Office hours 8 to II A. NJ, 2 to and
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only. Address
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sos Market Street San Francisco, Cal.
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No Excursion to Canton.

The Southern California expedition to Can
ton, which was projected by ]. T. Ritchey of
Redlands, has been abandoned. A telegram
received yesterday at the Southern Pacific
Railroads general passenger agents Office
from Redlands contained this Information. SO
the cheap fare tickets have been Cancelled.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

cultivation. Sidney M. Smith of the Cut
ting Packing Company of this City is the
purchaser. and the price paid is reported
at $32 600. W.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

The Swan" 'Ideal," "Crown" and
Leader, are the best fountain pens in the
" orld: The stationery department of SAM
City.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
Cr0SSHlal' S Specific MiYtNPa

,than, a,n THIS remedy persons cure themselvs,
m..nout ht tne least exposure, change OF iiss -
cnsnge In application to busRess The n5;; aS;, Os
no.hing tnat Is OF the least injury 10 tSs
S0nsttusion Sop1aa Ask your druggist IoriS rriSs Al
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

TO CURE A COLD Il ONE DAY
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug
gists refund the money If it fails to cure. 25c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-25
The Ex-Minister Gives the Inside
History Of That Affair.
ARRANGEMENT OF TIE ADMINISTRATION
A Series Of Petty and Brutal In
dignities Complained OF.
BAD FAITH CHI A RG e D

Miss Kate Field, who Is in Hawaii. sends
the following to The Evening Star and the
Chicago Times-Hereld:
HONOLULU, December 80, 1895.
'Why did President Cleveland demand
your recall?'
This blunt question I propounded to Lor-
rim A. Thurston. ex-minister to the Ameri-
can republic. And Mr.. Thurston made re-
ply: "1t is long story he said. "but as
many friends insist that 1 shall break a
silence 1 have preserved on account of the
dead. I will write out my version Of the
controversy, provided it be published YER
batim ct literatim." Giving MIR. Thurston
this assurance l received the following
detailed account of strange episode in
diplomacy. AS friend Of the late Secre-
tary of State, I am more than ever per-
suaded that failing health had much to do
with his Hawaiian policy. Had Mr.. Gresh-
am been a well man Mr.. Thurston could
have made no such record.
Here Is Mr.. Thurston's story:
while in Washington I received no infor-
nation from the State Department that
any charges had been made against me or
that my recall had, or was going to be, re-
quested. although the newspapers were con-
tinually supplied from that source with q
variety of information upon the subject. 1t
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the children who are taught that a truthful
heart Is worth more than all the school
prizes Of a year sadly take the imperfect
marks as the paltry return for their virtue
But this is not the worst phase of the evil
The teacher after drilling the class on some
example or written exercise selects one or
two of the brightest pupils to examine the
work of the rest and mark each according
TO its merits. The INSCRIPTIONS examiner
marks perfect when paid for SO doing,
while the conscientious one Is beset with
brides, threats. ostracism and every indig-
nifty, both in and out of the class
The sympathizing parent suggests that
the teacher be informed of these things.
but Is sadly assured that tale bearing in
school is a crime above any in the deca-
logue.
Many OF our teachers are evidently out
of place In this pre-millennial dispensation.
The majority of these censurable, un-
scrupulous public school children will be
found active and honored Sunday school
attendants. regularly fed on golden texts"
while in training all the week, practically,
for leadership in an Ananias club. Is the
average parent blameless in this matter?
PATER FAMILIAS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-25
Public School Methods.

TO the Editor OF The Evening Star:
AS 1 see my children in their different
grades come home almost daily with some
token of progressive innovation I feel
proud Of our much-prased public school
system, but on the other hand 1 am quite
as often panied by reminders of two glaring
defects apparently in its practical working.
The children in question have an expert
enced teacher for a mother, and from care
full home training have stepped into the
fourth or fifth grades of our Washington
schools. As we casually call upon one and
another of them to read aloud some item
in the daily paper We are shocked to find
that after three or four years of excellent
standing In these wonderful "up-to-date''
halls OF learning they have well nigh lost
the art of reading aloud decently, which We
with much pains had taught them before
leaving the parental roof. When taken
sharply to task for this they one and all
invariably say: 1--WE are not to blame
Every one says that these public schools
spoil good readers. and only produce bad
ones"
. The second complaint is sadder than the
first. and comes from half a dozen different
grades and rooms:
q The children are encouraged to toll faith
! fully till late hour on some arithmetical
or other task and start for school the next
morning with mingled hope and fear, hav-
ing all but one or two of the many features
of the task correctly worked out. As they
: compare notes with their classmates they
/. feel encouraged, finding but one or two
perchance as successful as they. But they
return in the afternoon singing under a
sense of injustice and evidently bordering
whether honesty is really the best policy.
The teachers in various ways proceed with
the recitation and then with sublime con-
f1dence in the rising generation ask those
who had ali the problems correctly worked
out to raise their hands. Up go the hands
of dozen or more who had perhaps not
two honestly performed and the rest not
even correctly copied from some other
pupil or the answer book, as the case may
be, and perfect marks are given them, while
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rights or privileges of a diplomatic position.
Choosing Their Ground.
with regret, was forced by the neces-
sites Of the situation and the tactics Of the
administration to meet them on the field of
their own choosing, and published reply
over my signature to the charges contained
in the Blount report and the Gresham let
ter No notice was then taken of the mat
ter by Mr.. Clevelandr but, to use an Amer
lean expression, the administration had no
use for me from that time on. At the
same time 1 addressed an official protest to
Mr.. Gresham against the suggested reStor-
alton Of the queen.9rNo acknowledgment
of or answer thereto was ever made.
Meanwhile Mr.. Willis, in Honolulu, was
consistently pursuing the policy of the ad-
shadowing action on HIS part. while repeat
edly refusing to inform the government of
his instructions or intentions: secretly in
triguing with the queen for her restoration;
menacing the government by display Of
force on the American war vessels, and by
demands upon President Dole, in the name
Of President ClevelAHd. to deliver up the
government to Liliuokalani.
Mr. Cleveland's message to Congress
upon the restoration proposition reiterated
and intensified the abuse Of all connected
with the overthrow Of the monarchy, and
from that time on this has been the key
note Of the Hawaiian policy Of the admin
istration and its supporters. both in press
and in Congress: while, with occasional
lapses, the attitude Of Mr.. Gresham was
one of studied insolence and insult toward
| myself and the government which repre-
| sented. although at all times. even during
the dark days Of the attempted restoration
the Dole government was the only. one
officially recognized at Washington. and
| was Its representative. with full oficia
recognition.
"A few incidents will suffice to illustrate
| the courteous methods of those who have
since developed into sticklers for diplo
matte etiquette.
Indignity to Mr.. Hastings.
Having temporarily returned to Hawai-
| during December, 1893, Mr.. Hastings repre-
| scented the legation as charge d'affaires, ant
was officially recognized as such. Upon thu
occasion Of the dinner to the diplomatic
| corps. the list Of those to be invited was. a,
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said about publication. There was no in
tention on my part that the references in
the letters to the American administration
should be published, and they were not pub
lished; but the gentlemanly press repre-
sentative treasured up such references and
communicated them, either directly or in
directly, to Mr.. Gresham. i understand il
has been denied that this was the avenue of
his information. i know that il was, for
the letters to me were shown to no one else
but the newspaper man in question. In
speaking to me in relation to the matter
later, Mr. Gresham said, in explanation Of
bis possession of the reference: Some of
your newspaper friends have abused your
confidence When Mr.. Gresham spoke 10
me concerning the subject, gave, in SUBJ
stance, the foregoing explanation, saying in
connection Herewith that understood my
self t. be at liberty TO give out for publica-
ton facts concerning Hawaii, but that there
had been no such intention in this case.
A Dignified Refusal.
",n his letter requesting my recall Mr..
Gresham CARRIED and suppressed my eX-
PLANTATION, stating only that I claimed that
the references in question were news which
I had a right to give out.
81 had committed no intentional breach OF
diplomatic etiquette; but, knowing the spirit
which animated the administration toward
everything Hawaiian, and desiring to pre-
vent friction, If possible 1 rendered an
apology that the matter had come through
the legation, even Inadvertently, and even
though it had not been published. Mr..
Gresham immedia tely requested an apology
in writing, stating as reason that this was
a personal matter between myself and the
President, and that he ought tc know eX-
actly what said. The matter had been pre-
scented to me informally, and 1 saw no rea-
son for treating it otherwise on my part.
especially as did not know to what use il
might be put in my absence and without
explanation, and 1 accordingly declined to
make the written apology requested.
THAT is the whole story.
Il submit that If, in defending my coun-
try and my government against the continue
Gus attempts of Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
Gresham to ruin and overthrow them, I'M
Willingly brushed the bloom from the check
of the delicate creature known as 'diplo-
rnatic etiquette Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
Gresham dubbed her into insensibiiity and
drove over her with a Coach and four"
KATE FIELD