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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-11
MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI.
Rev. William RAIDER Says the Deca-
logue Was Not MiraculousIy In
sy,fr


spired.
Last night the Rev. William RAIDER, pas
tor OF the Third Congregational Church,
preached the fourth OF his series of special
sermons on the Bible. He stated that
these addresses would be studies of the
Bible in the light of the new knowledges.
The speaker paid a glowing tribute to
Moses. 1.-The name of Moses marks the
close of an age CT mystery and the begin
ming of an age OF law" he said. "His is
the reatest name of the ancient world. !"
The chief events in the life of the great
lawgiver were gone over, ard then COM
in 10 his main subject the pastor ex-
planned his position as TO the Decalogue to
be that while it possibly was OF miracu-
lous delivery he did not believe it was.
1.-THE origin of the Commandment is
shrouded in mystery" he continued.
The picture of Moses on the mountain is
probably the graDdest portrait in history.
Here is a man who has rocked the throne
of the Pharoahs standing on the summit
of mountain framed in sullen thunder,
clothed in a garment OF fire, having in
his hands the tablets of the law, the first
picture of an ideal man that has been
ca ught with the camera of human
thought"
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SHE DIED IN LONDON.
Mrs. McRoberts, a Former Resident G
This City, Passes Away.

Mrs. McRoberts, a Former Resident of
This City, Passes Away.
News of the death Of Mrs. Mary Nc
Roberts in London, Eng, has just been
received in this City. She passed away on
December 1.
Deceased was for many years resident
OF the Pacific Coast and OF this City, where
she was universally known and admired
as one of the ablest cham pions of female
emancipation and the central figure at
every women's gathering of any import
ance. Her husband was at one time con-
nected with the press of this City, but left
for London about two years ago, accom-
panied by his wife. and is at present act
lively engaged there in the journalistic
profession.
Mrs. McRoberts was Miss Mary McDon-
aid before she married and as such enjoyed
well-earned reputation in educational
circles. Leland Stanford Jr. was among
her pupils.
Her death will be deeply regretted by
her friends in this part of the world, to
whom her many admirable qualities of
mind and heart had closely endeared her.
No intimation of the TACT that she was
i'll had been received prior to the I'M
expected announcement OF her demise.
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A SERMON ON SOCIALISM
Rev. A. ]. Wells Begins a Series
of Unconventional ADJ
dresses.
" Civilization May Have to Contend for
It's Life With the Forces It
Has Evolved"

The Rev. A. ]. Wells, pastor of the
Second Unitarian Church, Twentieth and
Capp streets, preached an interesting and
altogether unconventional sermon last
night on Socialism, the first one of
series on the industrial situation. In the
course of his remarks he said:
1--WE have entered upon new era in the
history of the world. For $500 years the
chief interest to the student of history has
been the struggle of the democratic idea.
Privileged classes, imperialism, the divine
right OF kings has gone down. The dem
ocratic idea has emerged, but now that
the people have political freedom, what
will they do with it? Have the principles
of popular government been carried 10
their logical conclusion? Socialists say
no. We have political democracy and
religious democracy. The next step is
industrial democracy, and that is Social
ism. The social question is, and is to be,
the question OF our time.
"What produces the dissatisfaction with
the existing social orderP 1t is first re-
action against individualism. The daily
press often classes socialists and anarch-
lists together. They are not alike. They
represent the extremes of social thought.
Anarchism is the abolition of all govern
ment, socialism is the doctrine that gov
eminent should control everything for
the common good; second, socialism is an
outgrowth produced by the contrasts OF
society. Wealth has never been so. diff
fused, the comforts of wealth never so
general, wages never SO good, yet the con-
trasts were never so great. Our greatest
peril is the concentration OF wealth, our
greatest need an equitable distribution of
wealth. Political economists say that the
benefits of the present civilization are not
impartially distributed, and it Is not
strange that workingmen should agree
and be restless. Then, again, the situa-
ton is complicated by invention. Ma
chinery tends to heighten differences of
condition, to establish social classes and
to erect barriers between them.
at does this by separating the employer
and employed. 1t does this by max
Ing the workingman himself a ma
chine. Statistics show that the man.
ufacturing departments of our pop
ulation are inferior to the agri-
cultural departments, the monotony of
much factory work tending to injure the
M hood OF the wageworke-. The drift
of things makes operatives into an hered-
itary class. Wife and children are often
compelled TO assist in the struggle for
bread. The hard struggle perpetuates ig-
norance, develops incorporate habits and
debases manhood. Children born of such
parents are feeble and repeat the history
OF the generation from which they sprang.
Hero are the roots of socialism.
THE same law which tends to make a
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AROUND THE DIAMOND.

The San Francisco Athletic Club De-
feated by the ). f. Violets.
The San Francisco Athletic Club was
defeated by the San Francisco Violets yes
terday at Central Park by score of 6 to 8.
The game started with the Violets at
bat. T. Kelly, the first man up. gained
first on a pretty hit to the left field fence
Kennedy hit swift grounder TO Spellman,
but his hands were cold and he let it pass
him and Kelly gained third. Kennedy
then went to second on a passed ball.
O'Dea then hit a swift grounder to Ray
mond, who fumbled, allowing him to gain
first Kennedy went to third and Kelly
scored.
Sweigert hit to Sheehan. who fun bIed,
allowing the batter to gain first and Ken
nedy came home. Egan followed with a
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-11
COURSING FOR PRIZES.

Contest by Thirty-TwO Dogs at ugle-
side Furnishes Good Sport.
The devotees OF coursing had a good
days sport at the Ingleside park yester-
dav, when 32-dog stake for prizes Of $45.
$25, SIP and $l2 was nobiy contested for by
the crack hounds
T he run down was as follows:
Skyball beat Amespor.. Sarcastic beat Little
Weasel, Old Glory beat Jimmy Swinnerton,
Sam beat Let Fly, Magnet beat Nelly DAILY, De-
eeiver beat st. Cloud. Eclipse beat Captain
Morse, Emma Abbott beat Little Dottie. Lady
Clifton heat Young Clifton, Bona beat Hazel,
Electric beat Susie. Vida Shaw beat Borders,
Black Prince beat Gold King, Rediight beat
Sunol, Queen beat Move On, White Chief beat
Little Cripple
First ties Sarcastic beat Skybali, Sam beat
Old Glory, Deceiver beat Magnet. Eclipse beat
Emma Abbott Lady Clifton beat Bona, Flee
trio beat Vida Shaw, Redlight beat Black
Prince. White Chief beat Queen B.
Second ties-Sam beat Sarcastic, Eclipse beat
Deceiver Lady Clifton beat Electric, White
Chief beat Redlight.
Third ties-sam beat Eclipse, White Chief
beat Ladv Clifton.
Final-Sam beat White Chief
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HE HAD A GAY TIME.
The Missing Clerk of William Price &
Co., Front Street, Arrested for
Grand Larceny.

Peter Borstor, the clerk for William
Price & Co., 327 Front street, who disap-
peared with money and checks BELONGING
to the firm on January A. was arrested Sat-
urday night by Detective Ross Whitaker
and Policeman Fitzgerald and booked at
the City Prison yesterday on a charge OF
grand larceny.
Borston is 10 years of age and had been
intrusted with the duty of depositing
money in the bank. January he got $3.50
in coin and three checks to deposit. One
of the checks was on the Anglo California
Bank for $57, one on the Tallant Banking
Company for $l45 and the third on the
First National Bank for sol. He failed to
make the deposit and the case was reported
to the police.
Whitaker and Fitzgerald were detailed
to find him, and Saturday night they ar
rested him in room at 2G1 Powell street.
The three checks were found upon him,
but he had reckiessly squandered the $500.
He bought gold watch for $50 and after
ward pawned 1T. When arrested he was
dressed as a soldier. He met two soldiers
while he was spending the money, and got
one of them TO exchange clothes with him
SO that he could disguise himself.
Borston is the same boy who tried to
commit suicide on the steamer Walla
Walla about two months ago.
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THE IDAHo sENAroRsH1P.
Dubois Hen Enpect to Win 1ffer tn
First FetC Ballots.

Dubois Men Espect to Win offer the
First FetU Ballots.
BOISE, IDAHO, Jan. 10.-The first ballot
for United States Senator will be taken in
the Idaho Legislature on Tuesday, and
unless all indications fail, it will result in
no choice.
A careful canvass of the mem bers indi-
Gates that eighteen Democrats will vote
for various Populists, sixteen of the TWEEN
ty-three PopuIists will vote for Claggett
and four for Angel. The twenty-eight
silver Republicans will go solidly for Du-
bois and the one Mckinley Republican
will vote for some gold man, but in case
his vote is necessary 10 defeat Populist
he will throw it to Dubois.
After the first few ballots the Dubois
men expect enough Democrats to come
over to their side to give their candidate
the necessary thirty-six votes. On the
second ballot Johnson CD expects to re-
ceiye the full Democratic vote of eighteen
and some Populists.
The Populists have decided not to go
into caucus until after the first ballot is
taken. and then their efforts will be
directed 20 finding a candidate who will
unite the Democratic and PopuIist vote.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-11
HIGHER WHEAT
HELPS PRODUCERS
Flour Goes Up and Bakers
Raise the Price
of Bread.
Restaurants Get Smaller Loaves
and They Make Com
plant.

The recent great demand for California
wheat has caused noticeable stimula-
ton in the price of the product and all
things made there from.
Within the past month it has become
generally known that there are not to ex-
coed AGO 600 tons of wheat in this State.
AS result the price has taken great
jump in milling ana shipping grades.
Flour, feeling the stimulus, has gone
from So 80 to 81 so. These figures are
for the ordinary grades, used by local
bakers. The quality that was bought for
low figures few months ago is now
81 Is higher per barrel, but the total raise
since the wheat first advanced has been
81 So.
The immediate effect of the increased
price OF -four on local bakers has been to
cause a diminution of the loaves, likewise
in the size oflroils, doughnuts and other
articles rated under the designation of
breadstuffs
Local restaurant proprietors complain
that they are getting decidedly the worst
OF the new rates.
"We pay the same price for much
smaller loaves> now" said prominent
restaurateur; $50 you see that the baker
gets the same prices for smaller measures.
the German rolls we buy now are only
about half the size they were. We get
funny assortment of doughnuts nova
days. They give Us range OF sizes in each
dozen, scaling them down. On each loaf
of bread they cut off from two to four
ounces, and that m ans two or three good
slices. This forces US to buy more bread,
because We cannot cut our customers short
or charge them more for their orders
No, IS hn hob
Third street. was seen relative to the in
creased prices last night. He said:
1T is true that flour has. gone up about
81 55 barrel and we have been compelled
to make loaves two ounces smaller. If
the thing continues we will have to cut ii
down two ounces more. The advance IN
the price of -four has of course given the
producer more. Farmers get more for
their wheat, millers charge more for their
-four and we have to go to higher prices
for our bread"
Bakers met in mass-meetlng at the
Turk-street Temple yesterday afternoon
to consider problems connected with their
business. Those assem- bled were chiefly
mem bers OF Unions Nos. "a and A. They
had expected promised report from In
spector Cameron on the condition of
bakeries.
As he was not there they made loud
complaint. He was particularly criticized
by William POSTER, who said that he be-
lieved it to be the duty of a public official
TO serve those who got him appointed to a
position, especially as that official had
promised to come and make report.
Resolutions were passed favoring the
bill now pending in the legislature to
compel bakers to keep their establish
ments Clean. and for che protection OF
employees from employers who desire
them to work more than ten hours day.
Speeches on these subjects were made
by Messrs. Rough, Seller. POSTER, Ross
berg, Lynch and Warnecke, and it was re-
solved to do all possible TO have the sani-
tary measure become law.
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workings of nature so we'll that many OF
US have eliminated God altogether, and
forget that it is his almighty power that
is over it all. Children understand the
voices of nature far better than they do
after their hearts become corrupted, and
often when one puts away childish things
he puts away that which is necessary to
enter the kingdom OF heaven.
&c Christ took many of his teachings
from nature. David refers to it all
through his beautiful psalms. In nature
everything has its place and its work to
do. Let each of Us remember this in our
daily duties, and do each of them to the
glory of God
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SANTA CLARA COUNTY BULBS.
arrangements Progressing for Grand
Show the Last of Februory-FioraI
SOCIETY," Election.

SAN JOSE. CAL, Jan 10.-The arrange
ments for the bulb show to be held by the
Santa Clara County Floral Society are
progressing iavorably, and from the con-
dition Of the plants it is believed the ex-
hibit could not be given later than the last
of February. About $500 bulbs were pur-
chased by the society and specially planted
for the show. These. together with the
bulbs already under cultivation, will make
the finest display ever seen on the coast.
A. Cam, Mrs. ]. II. Sykes and Mrs.
S. r. Wilkes have been appointed COM
mittee to examine and oversee the grow
ing of the plants, with the view of having
them bloom as near together as possible
At the annual meeting of the Santa
Clara County Floral Society yesterday
afternoon the following officers were
elected:
Flora. Mrs. S. R. Wilkes; president,
Mrs. J. F. Thompson; vice. president,
Cyrus Jones; secretary. Miss Lizzie Abb
bot; librarian, Mrs. Helen Lorimer; di-
rectors-E. M. Ehrhorn and William
Beauchamp.
The society has a membership of sew
enty and is in fourishing condition.
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liam osterman, L. Hart and P. S. Hirsoh.
EoUAL sUFFRAGIsrs.
Santa Clara County Club Meets an
Elects Officers.

Santa Clara County Club Meets and
Elects Officers.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Jan. 10.-A number of
representatives OF the various political
equality clubs of the county met in this
city recently and formed the Santa Clara
Equal Suffrage Club. The organization is
an auxiliary OF the State Suffrage Associa-
ton.
The following officers were elected !:
President, Mrs. McQuoid, Santa Clara;
vice president-at-large Mrs. Southland,
Palo Alto; vice presidents. acting chair
men of different county clubs: CORE
spending secretary, DR.. Avery, San Jose;
recording secretary, Mrs. HAYNES, Santa
Clara; treasurer, Mrs. Flora Smith, Will
low Glen; auditors, Miss Lola Balls, East
San Jose, and Mrs. Moulton, Campbell.
The next meeting will be held at the
Unitarian Church on January IA.
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''WHY | AM A SOCIALIST"
Two Testimonies Last Night by
Rev. Mr.. Bliss and Mr..
Wilkins.
The Specialization of Capital Must
Accompany the Specialization
of Land.

The principal speakers at last nights
meeting of the Socialist Labor party in
Pythian Castle Hall were the Rev. w. d.
P Bliss and M. w. Wilkins, the editor of
1.-The New Charter" party organ.
Mr.. Wilkins described the process of
his conversion from populism to social
ism. He spoke of the former as in reality
a movement of the small capitalists and
proprietors, whose fervent PRAYER was
"God make me millionaire" The cry of
free silver was designed to distract atten-
tion from the true issues and to promote
dissension in the ranks of the proletariat.
The same cry, he assured his hearers.
would be raised in,1900. The duty OF all
true socialists, therefore, was to ignore it
and persistently proceed toward the estab-
lishment of the cooperative common
wealth.
Mr.. Bliss, following in some sort the ex.
ample of Mr.. Wilkins, also informed his
auditory Of the causes which led to his ac-
ceptance Of socialjstic theories.
As young clergyman of small parish
of Massachusetts, he was at one time
firmly convinced that poverty was due to
intemperance until he had casion to OBJ
serve that many temperate people were as
poor as. or poorer than many who were
drunkards. The naturalization of the
liquor traffic, Mr.. Bliss believed, would
tend to abolish intemperance by elimin-
ating the element of profit which now en-
courages the extension of that traffic. An
other factor in his conversion was Henry
Georges progress and Poverty" But
Mr.. Bliss discovered that God did not on ly
teach the Specialization of the land, but
the socialzation of capital. without
which the first could not effect any
permanent amelioraticn.
Socialism" said Mr.. Bliss, sis the OPP
posite of anarchism. 1t means the extern
sion of fraternal law and order and would
attain the cooperative commonwealth by
the legal and political capture of present
institutions and their gradual evolution
into that cooperative commonwealth.
The motto of anarchism, on the contrary,
is: I'll you see head, hit it PHYSICAL
force may destroy the king, but it will not
destroy the kingship. We must kill the
conditions which produce the plutocrat.
| sometimes think that if we must have a
sovereign would rather have one like the
gracious Queen of Great Britain than some
of the hog kings of Chicago"
Mr. Bliss urged, furthermore, that So
ciaiists should sound the note OF frater-
nalism rather than that OF denunciation
and hatred. Question and general discus
sion closed the meeting.
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Hope for Santa crus'S Idle.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, Jan. 10.-Three
hundred meals have been served and
seYenty-6ve lodgings supplied by the SAL
walton Army since the opening of the
shelter week ago. Honest unemployed
men are thus spared the necessity of ask
ing charity and can preserve their indie
pendence and self-respect by saying moth
ing and saving wood. Thirty dollars
worth of sawed wood has been sold and
the expenses OF the shelter thus provided
for. There is no longer excuse for idlers
in Santa Cruz and those VINO will not work
are sent to Jail.
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a PRINCIPAIS CLUE.
Heads of Public schools Meet and Per-
feet an ORGANIZATION.

Heads of Public schools Meet and Per-
feet an Organization.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Jan. 10.-A majority
OF the principals of the public schools of
the county met at the High School yesrer-
day and perfected the organization of a
principals club. The object of the organ
ization is the study of pedagogical sub
jects in relation to school matters.
A. E. Shumate was elected president for
the ensuing year; III. NJ. Bland, vice. presi-
dent; Miss Carrie NJ. Wooster, secretary !;
Miss Lois Peckham, corresponding sec
rotary, and John Manner, treasurer. The
president appointed board OF directors
for the year, consisting of II. M. Bland
(chairman), d. T. Bateman. A. M. Kelley,
Mrs. S. B. Ohnder and Miss Bose.
EeAconstitution and bylaws were adopted.
The next meeting will be held the first
Saturday in February. Some prominent
educator will be secured to address the
meeting, after which the general state of
educational affairs from teachers stand
point will be taken up in formidable dis
cussion,
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EPIPHANY SERMON.
Rev. DIR. Spalding breaches on the
Psalmist,s Words.

DR.. Spalding of st. Johns Episcopal
Church took for his text yesterday MORN
ing the words of the psalmist, 1.-The
heavens declare the glory of God and the
armament showeth His handiwork. Day
unto day uttereth speech and night unto
night sheweth knowledge. There is no
speech nor language where their voice is
not heard"
This being Epiphany season, he preached
on the manifestation of Christ.
We of to-day (like the heathens)
want God whom we can see, and not
phantom God. If we only look for him
we will see that he is revealed to us not
only in his Holy Word. but IN all the
world OF nature about us, in every leaf, in
every flower, stream, hill and mountain.
We have come to understand the laws and
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Dro,onea in salmon Ran.

SEATTLE, WASH, Jan. 10.-Peter Eng
Iish of Seattle, aged %. and II. J. Hoff-
mann of San Francisco, 26 years old, were
drowned last night in Salmon Bay, near
Ballard. They had stolen some anchor
chains from tie steamship Michigan and
in rowboat were making for this
city when the craft from the ex-
cessive weight of the iron sunk, carrying
both men down to death. Robert Dupet,
Ballard and Alfred Proctor, of this city,
who are supposed to have been implicated
in the theft, are under arrest.
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Death OF a Vic.orta Journoti,t.

VICTORIA. B. c., Jan. 10.-Henry Law
son, for eight years past editor of the
"Colonist." died yesterday after fort
nights illness. He was pioneer journal
ist of Canada, having for forty years past
been engaged in active editorial work
here, in Montreal, Toronto and Prince
Edward Island, the latter province being
his birthplace and the scene of the active
efforts of his earlier life.
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Tacoma. En-1r.asurer Must Do Time

Tdcomd's ED- Treasurer Mast Do Time.
OLYMPIA, WASH, Jan. 10.-Governor
McGraw has refused 10 pardon G. w.
Boggs, ex-City Treasurer of Tacoma, sem
fenced to six years imprisonment for col
lecting interest on city deposits. The
petition for pardon had hundreds of sig
natures from all parts of the State. The
attorneys for Boggs filed motion in the
Supreme Court for rehearing, alleging
insutfciency of evidence. They claim he
has been made scapegoat and that the
petition for pardon is denied for politi-
cal reasons.
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Despair No More !!

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Moth Loses a Watch.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Jan. TO-
In failing to throw Oscar Marbet at catch
as-catch-can in fifteen minutes tonight,
Charles Moth of Seattle, champion Greco
Roman wrestler, lost purse OF $500
The men were in poor condition and did
not make a good showing.