The herald., 1898-10-31

than there IS In campaign asaiust thc
Spaniards. Mr.. Knight addressed the Star
and Crescent society last Friday on his ex-
periences in the Philippines, and right
good lecture he made Of it, but when he
faced the bright eyes Of all those girls and
the keen looks of the boys, being news
paper man, his modesty nearly overcame
him. Mr.. Knight is not the first man who
found the eyes of an audience harder bat
terry to face than the steel muzzles OF ar
tillery.
c. Wilson Porter is rapidly achieving a
certain kind Of greatness. He has discov,
Porter's having given presents
prasen+. to a person who sues
one on a claim justi-
fes a man in making the cost OF them
set-off for any debt claimed. 1t is to be
expected that in the testimony Mr.. Porter
will be able to show that his gifts cost the
full amount Of S2l0 which it is claimed he
owes Mrs. Banning for board and lodging
for himself and his unlimited friend. The
favorite cry among certain classes OF So
ciety men nowadays seems TO be, Il want
dem presents back
I met one of the picturesque Britishers
over at Catalina last August who seem to
have discovered the
Tuna In secret of making life
the Pacific perpetual holiday
and avoiding the ap.
parently inevitable cost. He had punished
the grizzly in the Rocky mountains, he had
stalked the tiger in the Punjab and dal-
lied with the crocodile on the Nile, but
what the deuce was there to detain his
fancy in the peace of Avalon. Now
l know. l have just picked up the
November number of the Pail Mall Maya.
zine, and therein l find an article entitled
"Tuna Fishing in the Pacific" by ii.
Annesley Vachell. A more brilliantly fas.
cinating description of an item OF sport
have never read. Mr.. Vachell, who, l be-
eve, cultivates hogs or horned toads some
really remarkable power for depicting the
delights of days sport. This article, | am
certain, will attract widespread attention
the Bannings should seize this tir-and the
Florida fishermen who have hitherto i'm
agined that the tarpon led to the ultima
thule of angling will be tempted to travel to
pay tribute to the tuna.
That same number Of the Pail Mall Mag
azine reminds me Of Gleeson White, who
died last week in
An Anglo London, and whose
American article, "a Great
Engllsh Illustrator,
adorns the same pages. Gleeson White
had tempered his British prejudices with
the juice of New York wit. Few men in.
huenced modern art OF the decorative school
in both countries as sgnally as Gleeson
White. For two years, 1891 and 1892. he
edited the American Art Amateur. Whites
habitaton, whether in New York or Lon
don, was a magnet for artistic souls, and
th'ther fiocked regularly the restless spir
its of modern Bohemianism, the fin-de-
sieclists and the impressionists of litera'
ture and art. Gleeson was charming fel-
low, bubbling with good nature and wit
He had a peculiar drawl and was devoted
to the fair sex, which features led an I'M
pertinent maiden to christen him "Bla-a
Bla-a," but his removal will be irreparable
to very many on both sides of the Atlantic
The Rev. John Gray has been interviewed
in San Francisco about his now celebrated
accommodation af-
Was Tired O. 9th the ohmndh Gu,ld OF It. #,
denies that the trouble-which he demon.
mates "a little unpleasantness'-h any.
thing to do with his resignation, which, he
claims, occurred long before the disturb
ance. He asserts that he withdrew from
st. Paul's of his own volition, and was not
asked to withdraw, which does not exactly
tally with the other statements made about
the matter. He said he had two reasons
church, being a downtown church, should
be given to the bishop for his especial
charge. His second reason was that he was
tired out and requires a rest" which
does not seem so much out of the way, con-
sidering all that he seems to have gone
through with, one way and another. Mr..
Gray seems to have wearied of laboring to
save the well-to-do and the society"
classes, for he adds in his interview that
hereafter, he wishes to work among the la,
boring classes. 1t is easy to understand
why Mr.. Gray needs rest, for, with a
church heavily in debt and war among the
ladies, he was justified in becoming tired.
A case of stumping the reporters has grown
out OF this controversy for it does not seem
to be settled vet whether he did or did not
eycommunicate the ladies with whom he
had the differences.
Mrs. Kingdom, mother of the beautiful
Edith Kingdom, whom George Gould mar
ried, is in San Fran
Millionaires' cisco and will come
Brides here in short time.
Miss Kingdom was an
actress or moderate renOWn when young
Gould married her, a very charming wo-
man, and one of blameless career. George
Gould is now the only one of the family
who sticks out against forgiving his brother
Howard for having married Miss Katherine
Clemmons, an actress of an equally blame
less life as his own wife, and also of equal,
if not superior, physical attractions. Mrs
Kingdom will probably be the guest, while
she is in this city, of Mr.. and Mrs Hough,
Mrs. Hough being an aunt of Mr.. Gould
and one of the legatees under the will of
Jay Gould. The Houghs entertained Miss
Helen Gould when she was here some three
years ago.
Returning to the guild Gray controversy,
[ met an old gentleman at st. Paul's church
u,,o4c. one day last week,
what Caused who seemed to be a
It All verger or a beadle
and l asked him what
was the cause of the difficulty. "Why," he
said, too much tongue waggng. Mr. Gray
talked too much Mrs Gray talked toe
much, and the blessed" (only he didn't say
blessed) 'women-they did nothing else but
talk" This is, of course, an ex-parte state
ment and may not be conclusive, but il
certainly has the appearance of possessing
a basis of fact.
President Ripley OF the Santa Fe, in
parting from San Francisco people on Sat
urday, told the re
Ripley and porters that under nc