The San Francisco call., 1898-06-30

OME. SdlO d llleil1 Dy lHS uOOIy i've heard enough. It's blas- [C phemy."
 He dragged a woman away with . him, pulling her roughly by the arm. She looked back over her shoulder. Her eyes were very bright and wide. She was smiling. She suffered herself to be dragged along on stumbling feet, neither re- sisting nor a ,eding.
 The crowd closed in where these two had stood. It blocked the door and covered the board run from the tent to the sidewalk. Within was space neither to sit nor to stand. It was necessary to thread a passage slowly from the street by dint of warm persistence and the aid of fellow man. It is not by the aid of fellow woman that one gets anywhere in a crowd. Even when concert action is necessary
 to reach a given point, woman op-
 poses woman with her elbow where
 soever the sex meets in mass. This
 few gathered together Tn a gospel
 tent of Oakland to praise the God
 of Gods and do honor to His
 prophet Francis. fought furiously
 among themselves for place as Wo-
 men fight everywhere for place, on
 the grand stand, on the street cor
 her, at the theater, in the criminal
 courts.
 If you please, there is a sick wo-
 man here. Would you let her get
 to the front?"
 No, they wouldn't. They had as
 much right to their i laces as any
 body. All the sick were told to
 come early and take seats near
 the platform. Why didn't she come
 early?
 "She had to come fro-l the city
 and she couldn't come any sooner"
 Well, they couldn't help that.
 She'd have to wait now. People
 couldn't be crowded to death.
 The man who had the sick woman
 in charge threw one arm around her
 and put the other straight out be-
 fore him. SL ulders divided against
 themselves, warning elbows and
 knees opposed came together to
 form a wall of defense against a
 common foe The woman was
 crushed against the mans breast.
 Don't, Charlie" she said, faintly.
 "Id rather wait! I'd rather go
 home!"
 Move, can't you?" said the man sharply. My wife is fainting."
 Those behind him fell back little and let him pass them again on his
 way to the air. Those in front settled grimly to their internecine strife.
 Around the wooden walls of the tent men and women stood stiffy, their faces turned in one direction, with an odd air of arrested life like the figures ol- a processional frieZe. The heads of persons standing out side the tent were seen through the , lowered trap windows with the ,, f1ickering light upon their faces, like strange, unreal, boCiless things , of the night. The floor of the tent i. was covered. The seated struggled ,, for space in which to fan them selves with papers and pocket handkerchiefs. The standing had { no space to struggle for. The traps, / blocked like the entrance from ( without, admitted little air. The greedy lights burning overhead con- { sumed it fast. The odor in the tent < was not alone of sanctity. The ; character of the audience was of a certain well-fed, well-dr 5sed, we'll conditioned sameness. The women , wore good hats and bright silk , waists and gowns of summery stuffs. The men were coated and trousered respectfully. These were { not Gods poor. Among them was z few of that class which holds long, oiled locks, the sparse, virginal beard and humble uncleanliness of person especially pleasing in the , sight of heaven-but only few. The rest mioht have been the con- gregation of any Methodist or Bap-