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The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
THE EPWORTH LEAGUE CONVENTION.
y NE of the most notable gatherings to assemble
in the year 1901 will be the great international
- convention OF the Epworth League. The

0NE of the most notable gatherings to assemble
in the year 1901 will be the great international
~ convention OF the Epworth League The
place at which the convention is to be called has not
yet been determined, and some of the more active
members in California have already arranged to
make strong effort TO induce the league to select
San Francisco the site for the assembly.
The enterprise is to which all citizens of in
fuence ought to give cordial assistance and help,
The Epwortl League is among the foremost OF the
many organizations which have been recently formed
among young and TO aid lin church
work. Its members to be found in every land
under the sun, and in country constitute
powerful as well as numerous and rapidly increasing
body. The international gathering of the league will
bring together thousands of delegates and visitors,
and to the city where the convention is held the
tertainment of so notable and SO large assembage
OF earnest young and women from all parts of
the world will be most profitable in every respect
To those who take thought OF tomorrow 1901
seems far distant Intelligent people, however, we'll
understand the value OF assuring future well
present good, The selection of the place for the
league convention is to be made within time
paravey short The committee that will present the
claims of San Francisco will leave for Indianapolis
the 18th that it will be there is time to
lose in providing the members with whatever aid is
possible in the work that lies before them.
While San francisco IS remote from the great cen
OF population and to that is handicapped
in its efforts to become convention city, it has many
advantages to counterbalance the disadvantage OF
situation. Conventions are held in the summer time,
and this city has the pleasantest summer climate in
America, if not in the world Crowded convention
halls with never sweltering with heat; there is
debitation danger OF prostration from
haustion caused by work in overheated rooms That
fact alone much in favor, and would be in
itself almost sufficient to make this the frequent
convention city in the Union il it were better under
stood by the people OF the East.
The attendance at the convention is sure to be
large but have ample accommodation for all who
may come. No city in the world knows better how
entertain visitors than San Francisco and none is
more hospitable in doing it. The attractiveness of
the surroundings make the city, moreover, one of the
best pleasure the continent and the dele
gates who come here attend to convention business
will find a place for delightful holiday after the
work is Strong arguments, therefore, can be
presented to the league in favor of this city as the site
for its international gathering, and it is be hoped
the committee that goes to present claims will
have ample backing in their undertaking.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
AUCTION SALES.
UNIVERSITY FEES.

THERE are two sides to the fee question While
it is true that Zee is ielt as burden by many
parents who are seeking higher education for
their children It also that there other bur
dens imposed by life university which are less to-
e1able
These are the more difficult to deal with because
they rank with social exactions and the expense OF
imitation. The student whose finances make the fee
a consideration is in more important ways subjected
the competition OF the student to whom the ice IS
of no Importance at all
The rich mans son daughter, followed by pa
rental affection to the university is supported there
in style that marks class distinction, and very often
fills the college days OF others with discomfort be-
cause they have the to live in equal style
Though they cannot hope to reach the state OF their
rich companions. the effort TO do adds numerous
expenses to the list OF their needs and in the
OF term these amount to far than the fees.
This matter has long been gravey considered at
Yale and Harvard In those old colleges there have
been students who had thousands spend and spent
them every term. The poorer students were the re
cpents OF their hospitality and shared the pleasures
procured by lavish expenditure only to pay for pass
ing enjoyment in the humiliation OF feeling that they
could not return in kind the attention they had
Cepted and in the acquisition OF expensive habits
which their parents had not the means to support
The evil has been long apparent. The remedy is
not easy to apply. It is every boy that has the
selfdenia and courage to resist temptation and good
fellowship ard stay in the plain way OF his fathers
So there to ambitious parents great and heart
trying disappointments Hopes invested in the edu-
cation OF sons are brought to naught by the habits
picked up college, and the loss OF the hard-earned
money is the least OF the misfortunes which fall
the result OF with the lavish expenditure OF
the rich As reform it has been proposed to bring
all living at university down to scale laid along
the line OF the average financial ability of the people
from whose ranks the student material is drawn.
This perhaps is all that the governors OF any unver-
sity can do in the matter. An efficient reform lies
with the people themselves rich girl to gradu-
ate from Vassar in class that had many students
who poor and could afford no display. Moved
by the highest refinement of good taste and good
sense, the rich girl dressed for graduation in the
simplest and least expensive OF costumes that none
OF her companions need be tempted to do what they
could not afford, and none might have to finch at
contrast to their disadvantage Alter ALL the spirit
of that rich girl must be looked to for the relief OF
university life from of the greatest burdens it
puts upon the poor.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

advanced ideas of the human race after its inherent
supremacy has been established by hundred and
twenty-three years OF history, is not within the COM
pass OF American intention The late celebration OF
our national anniversary, however marred by occa-
siona appeals to the imperial instinct conclusively
answered the assumptions of retrogression and
the intolerable pretensions OF expatriated specu-
lators.
In recent number OF the Preussische Jahrbuoher
Professor Delbruck based calculation on inan-
cial propensties: The present imperialistc craze
need not deceive The Americans have to pay
three, six, ten, dollars for what we get for
Wait until they have to foot the bill"
In this proposition there is element OF truth. But
it is very slight and grossly underestimate the Amer-
can people. The higher ground upon which all i'm
periastic alliances will be rejected and the nation
swung back to its constitutional moorings is the
foundation upon which Our Government rests and
our saturated belief and confidence in the principles Of
the Declaration of Independence, which coinci-
dent with the sovereignty of and intolerably
pugnant to monarchy and to every form OF despotsm
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
INDUSTRIAL ALARM IN ENGLAND.

= RITISH manufacturers have sent to this coun-
~ try representative to study our industrial con-
- ditions and to find out how it is that American
firms have been able to obtain contracts to supply
locomotives for British railways and steel bridges for
roads in Egypt and in India Evidently something OF
alarm is felt by the manufacturers OF the old country
The industries fostered by protection in the United
States have become formidable competitors for the in
dustres of free trade in the home of free trade
The alarm is not confined to the manufacturing
class only British merchants have long since per
ceived that their commerce is losing ground under
the stress OF German activity in commercial ventures
and British ship builders are noting with something
OF uneasiness that German ships are now being con
structed in German shipyards instead of in those OF
Great Britain Thus with American industrial com
petition the one hand and German commercial
competition the other, the outlook does not prom
ise any long continuance OF the present supremacy OF
Great Britain in the commerce OF the world.
There is another phase of the subject that causes
dependency in the United Kingdom. The amount OF
coal and iron available for industrial is rapidly
diminishing, and experts predicting that within
time comparatively short Great Britain will be de-
pendent upon the United States for her supply of
those articles. That will imply complete industrial
and commercial dependence upon this country. Nor
does there appear any by which the coming
dependence can be averted. Indeed, if a prolonged
war against powerful foes should upon her
Great Britain might be compelled to become some
thing like political dependency, as without our aid
she could not obtain the coal and the iron necessary
for her fleets.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
sALooN-KEEPERS RESPONSIBLE.
To Investigate the Manning Lamp
Throwing Case.

Secretary E. L. Wadham of the Eureka
Society fer the Protection Of Children and
John McCallan, a prominent member Of
the same society, are investigating the
Cornelius Manning lamp-throwing affair
which occurred on July 3, and in which
Mrs. Kennedy and her little niece were
burned. If sufficient evidence is found
the child's case may be made a test of by
prosecuting the saloon man who sold
Manning the liquor. 1t has been reported
that Manning received liquor while in
toXicated.
In an interview with Mr.. Wadham he
states that if the State Legislature would
pass law similar TO the one in operation
in the State of New York the public
would have some redress for the wrongs
resulting from the indiscriminate sale OF
liquor. In that State the saloon-keeper
who sells liquor to a drunken man be-
comes liable for damages arising there
from
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
ADJUSTMENTS.

Columbia-'I,ord Lady Agy," night
CaIifornia-'A Midnight Bell"
Orpheum--Vaudeville.
Tivot-"Shamus O'Brien.''
Alcazar-"Don Caesar Bazan" and only the Master
Shall Blame
Opera House-"The Beggar Student"
Chute. Theater-vaudevie every afternoon
and evening
Olympa-Corner Mason and Ellis streets-specaltes.
Interstate Panorama Co.. street. Eighth-Bat-
OF
Sutro Baths-Swimming Races.
Glen ParH-Grand performance to-day.
Union Coursng Park-Cou ing to-day.
Recreation Park-CasebaiI To-day.
Mechanics Pavion-Cake Walkers. Saturday, July Is
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
A Murdered Babv.

The autopsy held yesterday by DR..
Guido Caglieri upon the body of newly
front garden of an unoccupied house at
1905 Oak street revealed the fact that the
infant had lived for at least twelve hours
after birth and had died from exposure.
Deputy Coroner Laconbe reported the re-
suit of the autopsy to the police and De-
tectives Egan and Silvey were detailed
I1non tbp paSa
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
Park MuSic

The Park Band Will render the following
programme to-day:
Overture ''Robespferre' '....... T5toIs
Marceau, On Parade ..,............. .Massenett
letto' ..................... Ver5i
Intermezzo from "Pagliaccf .Leoncovallo
Operatic melange .......................,..I
Overture Jeanne d Arc ............... Verdi
Prelude to "Lohengrin'' ..........;.. Wagner
Selection ''The Serenade'' ........... Herberf
'Danse Of the Hours '................ PonchieITf
March, Hands Across the Sea-. Souse
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

darer who tells the story is Indifferent
to truth. The names of the city and
of the county could be given as an evil
dence of good faith, but that would be
advertising. The story is big enough
to stand alone, and it will have to do so.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
The Kehlenbeck Murder.

The case of DR.. C. c. ]. Wachendorf
charged with the murder of David Kehl-
enbeck was called in Judge TreadweIPs 8
court yesterday and by consent the pre-
liminary examination was set for JULY l5
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
Calglace fruit soc per lb at Townsend's.

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). so Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1912.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

On July 1S and Il the Santa Fe route will sell
tickets TO indianapolis and return at the very
low rate OF sl6 occasion-annual meeting Of
the Epworth League Get full particulars AZ
the Santa Fe office. 62S Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

1t is reported that the floods in Texas have de-
stroyed the big cotton crop OF that State. A-woo
clothing will be higher next season
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

Believers in the doctrine of heredy will find much
to comfort them in study of the genealogical tree
a Brooklyn namesake of the new pugilstic champion
has prepared for Jim Jefries. 1t proves if it proves
anything, that the boermaker comes rightly by his
hstic honors One of his ancestors with William the
Conqueror undoubtedly whipped one of Fits fore
fathers at the battle OF Hastings.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

Boss Buckley is desrous of having an organization
in this city similar to Tammany AS there is only one
tiger Buckley will be forced to such OF his lieu
tenants as are accustomed wearing stripes as the
emblems OF the machine.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

Fighting" Joe Wheeler will be in San Francisco
before the end OF week 1t is needless to say he will
get a real California welcome
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

1t is safe to say that the advocates of antikissng
are in an overwhelming majority when the kissing
bug is around.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
wow! HERE'S A MASCOT.
Read
Warden Aguirre'S Record

Martin Aguirre is having some conCro- e!-
versv as to his duties as Warden Oh oan
Quentin, but he will come out an rlg4t.
He is a yeritable political mascot. tlIs
Iuck even extends to those who WORK LOT
him Almost all the men who were IN the
Sheriff's office under him ten years Az
are now well provided for politlca.llly: ne
following list will be found OF interest,"
Martin q Se,,irre. Henry T. Gage, Gov
Sheriff ernor.
HSnrv r Gage at M G.. Aguirre, War
tor1ev for Sheriff. den San Quentin,
Iobr - Gjine den ]. A. Aguirre, deputy
'Titly nv sheriff warden San Quen-
John c. Wray, dep TIN. ,C,ra
wifi A Hammel, .gatekeeper > a n
deputy sheriff. Quentin' coI-
J. A. Aguirre, book John Z. CH4e,
keeper for Sheriff. lector Port Los ALI
Henry NJ C G re, geles; C.I
bookkeeper for john I. Wray, Ill III
Sheriff. lector II 1Lte5 5i i!e1
Captain Thornton, Revenue; ttn oI'''
under sheriff. 1st distrlcII
J. Murietta, cashier VIII a t1d1nLnSii i
for Sheriff. Sherln Los Ause-
Captain Chappelear, les county;
deputy sheriff. captain 10 - IIloti'
County.
]. Murietta. cashier
Sheriff L. A. co.
Captain Chappelear1
clerk, San Quen-
Los Angeles Herald
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

There seems to be disposition in the Fourth of
July Committee to "whitewash' T, P. Robinson the
discredited and expelled CRATER OF the committee
Whtewash will accomplish little more than to make
more prominent the black spots on Robinson's hide
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

The United Christian Party of America intends to
enter the national political campaign with Presiden-
tial candidate and platform reading, what Would
Jesus Do?" There are some questions that involve
the paradox of sefevident but unexpected answer.
Perhaps the United Christian Party OF America
wouldn't like to hear the OF most Americans
to the query OF the new platform
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

The Spanish have just acquitted Admiral Cervera
Americans quicker to appreciate worth, even in an
enemy, did that long ago.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

The leading characters in the local domestic com
edy, which seems to have been inspired by the Botkin
tragedy, demonstrate that the OF fools is by
any means becoming extinct.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

WASHINGTON %. c. OFFIcE...-..... wellington Hotel
c. c. CARLTON. Correspondent.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE,
PERRY LUKENS JR...............20 Tribune Building
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

NEW YORK NEWS STANDS.
waIdorf-Astor Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square
Murray
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

-IS a good thing to be given bad
II dinner once IN a while. 1t rather
H makes us appreciate our ordinary
H living. If all plays were well
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

From the revelers who in these happy
summer days, straying from the busy
haunts of care and strife where men
earn money, have gone to the romantic
regions where one can do nothing but
spend it and time, there come strange
stories. One of these wanderers claims
to have discovered sort of earthly
Nirvana, town where the weary cease
from troubling and even the wicked
take a rest-a place where the balm of
Gilead is infused in the very atmos.
phere. The wanderer from the metro-
polls, and perhaps from the truth, de-
scribes the place as
"a dim city lying alone
Far down in the dim west,
Where the good and the bad and the
worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest
The discoverer ayers with much as
severation the place is not graveyard
nor crematory, but a city where peo.
pie are alive enough to breathe and
have thirsts enough to cause a demand
for drinks. Saloons exist in the COM
munity, but they are not hilarious. The
explorer says: L was in q saloon Ia or
night in which big phonograph rem
dered Nearer, My God, to Thee and
Where Is My Wandering Boy To-
Night?''
There may be people who doubt the
existence in California of town where
reyelers in saloons find their Joy in lis>
tening to hymns and temperance songs
of tender sentiment, but am indiffer-
ent to the incredulous, as the wan
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09

When Sarah Bernhardt undertook to
play Hamlet" it was foregone con-
clusion we were to have a new Hamlet
but no one expected it to be fresh !"
Hence there has been more of sensa-
ton in London over the Bernhardt
Hamlet than ever there was over the
theory of Baconian Shakespeare.
If there be anything on which all
British and all American critics agree,
it is that we understand everything
about Hamlet, except the one point
whether or no he We're mad. There is
a dispute concerning the madness, but
on all else there is such harmony as
reigns in heaven. By critics, commen-
tators and actors all, it has been
treated as a self-evident fact that
Hamlet was of a reflective disposition,
a doubtful, hesitating youth; one who
did not know whether he loved Ophe-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-12-21
A Mexican Gambler.

Don Felipe Martel, the famous GAM
bling house proprietor Of the City of
Mexico, bad made fortune In the
business before the government decid-
ed to abolish gambling houses by levy
ing on them license tax of $1,000 a
day. One by one the gambling houses
closed. and when the field was clear
Don Felipe Martel approached the au-
thorities with $1,000 in cash and de-
manded a days license. In a few
hours his place was thronged. At a
single stroke he had won the patronage
Of Mexico, and his doors have never
been closed since. The daily outlay of
$1,000 Is not missed from the daily
revenue Of thousands. His strong re-
ligious tendencies are so well known
that nobody was surprised when ne
built In the village OF San Angel a
church that cost more than $4,000.
The poor people of the vicinity, and
many Of the rich as we'll, have come to
regard him as a sort of fairy prince.
His own style Of living encourages this
belief. The Martel mansion in the
City of Mexico is q magnificent affair,
constantly filled with guests. A curl
Gus feature Is that iticontains 40 win
dows-the number offcards In the Mex
lean deck.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-12-21
Enornou. penduium..

The only structures in Japan which
seem to be earthquake proof are the
pagodas, which are erected before the
temples. There are manyjwhich are
700 or 800 years old andfas solid as
when first built.
There is a reason for this and 1t lies
In their construction. A pagoda is prac-
tically framework OF heavy timbers,,
which starts from a wide base, and Is
In itself acknowledgements, but is
rendered still more stable by peculiar
device. Inside the framework and sus-
pended from the apex ISL long, heavy
beam OF timberitwo feettthick or more
This hangs from one end Of the four
sides; four more heavy timbers. and IL
the pagoda be very lofty still more tim
bers, are added to these. The whole
forms an enormous pendulum which
reaches within six inches fof the
ground.
When the shock Of an Earthquake
rocks the pagoda, the pendulum swings
in unison and keeps the center of gray
ity always at the tbase tof the frame
work. Consequently the3equilibrium Of
the pagoda is neverjdjsturbed, and this
is the explanation of the great, age of
many of them, whenffrom their height
one would supposed Them tolbe, pecullar-
.ly susceptible to the jefectsN of the
earthquake a
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-12-21

Ebony was known and highly es-
teemed by the ancients as an article Of
luxury and was used by them for a
variety OF purposes.
In India 1t Is said that 1t was. en-
ployed by kings for scepters and also
for images. On account of Its sup
posed antagonism to poisons, 1t was
used largely for drinking cups.
The name ebony is given to theswood
of several varieties Of trees. All kinds
Of ebony are distinguished for their
great density and dark color. The
wood In all varieties is heavier than
water. The heaviest varieties are the
darkest. The other grades require q
considerable amount of staining : to
make them black.
Ebony Is of uniform color through
out and WILL not show any deteriora-
ton even from long continued use
There are three varieties of ebony
well known IN commerce. The ebony
from the Gaboon coast Of Africa is the
darkest. The Madagascar ebony is the
densest. The Macassar ebony. furnish
es the largest pieces. It is sold by
weight.
limitations Of ebony can always be
distinguished by their lighter weight
and the cheaper limitations can be de
tected by merely scratching the sur
face.-Jewelers' Weekly.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-12-21


But few people know that In the six
teenth century an Englishman was not
allowed to read.the Bible, yet 1t Is per-
fsetly true. Henry VIII issued a de-
cree prohibiting the common people
from reading the Bible. officers OF
state were exempt from this law.
Probably the king thought these off,
cials would be none the worse for
perusing the sacred work, and noble
ladies or gentlewomen might read the
prescribed volume If they did SO In
their gardens or orchard, but no one
was allowed even to read 1t to the low
er classes.
During the reign ofsCathohc Queen
Mary even more rigorous restrictions
were enforced. DR.. Franklin; in his
own Life" preserves an anecdote
which admirably illustrates this. His
family had early adhered to the ref
ormation, and they possessed an Eng
lish Bible, which they concealed by
fastening 1t beneath the lid of close
stool. When the Doctors great-grand-
father desired to read to the family, he
reversed the lid of the stool upon his
knees and passed the leaves from one
side to the other, each portion being
fastened down with pack threads. One
of the children was stationed at the
door on the watch to see If an officer
Of the spiritual court came In sight.
When such an individual hove In sight,
the lid, with the Bible beneath 1t, was
quickly replaced. This was in merry
England" Nights.