The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-13


their records" and TO do all sorts OF
things to them II they fell down.
There may be much honor in beng
q City Councilman, but there are also
many other things.
Rev. William Nat Friend, no longer
Billy" IS sincere. During the week he
was mentioned as a very probable candi-
date for Assistant Postmaster an d he
was assured Of the support OF much Re
publican strength But Rev william
Nat Friend says these things tempt me
not" From the San AnselmO Seminary
he sends me the following letter:
My dear Booth, With best wishes to
my Pardee. Pondinkey and league
friends. I am, very truly, William Nat
p. 5. Billy goes
All parts OF the letter are connected
by arrows with the seminary letterhead,
showing hat Billy has indeed gone
and that Rev. William Nat Friend is
coming. I intend 10 hear him preach
his first sermon, and II will be q good
one.
But the great law Of compensation can
preserve the balance. even in Alameda
County politics. The genial Mr.. Friend,
who has not an enemy-except. of course.
the arch-enemy-in the world, has quit
the treacherOus shoals of politics for the
pulpit, and Rev. Barton W Perry has quit
the pulpit for politics and will soon leave
San Leandro for the nations capital.
This is all the more astonishing in that
Mr.. Perry has helped TO build a cannery
and a parsonage at San Leandro and he
Will find neither at Washington. But Mr.
Perry is not man TO be deferred by such
trifies. Once when he wanted TO ride
through Great Britain on a wheel he eX-
ercIsed his ingenuity and made the tour
as the guest Of noted cycling firm. He
entertained a County Republican CouYen-
ton with as much ease and success as he
could fill his pulpit and his celebrated
speech to the delegates at San Leandro
a year ago was no less classic than the
Invocation with which he opened the last
Legislature; he conducted the editorial
department of the OcCident as vigorously
as ne represented the Pacific Coast at the
Pan-Presbyterian Convention at Glasgow
Scotland; he made as able a moderator as
a, canvasser for funds for the bonus for
that apple dryer at San Leandro and II
but why go further? After he shan have
been q Consul General or Minister Plenf-
pOtentiary 10 somewhere, his life will be
written and II will add a most interesting
chapter 10 the history of the marvellous
products of Alameda County. As secre-
tary TO Congressman Metcalf Mr.. Perry
Will undoubtedly achieve as marked a tri-
umph as on that more memorable OcCa-
sion when he provided and presided at the
press dinner under the grape vines Of the
historic Estudillo House.
\ Haywards paper says:
a chimney social viii be given in the
Congregational Church parlors Friday
evening, November 81 Fourteen Of Hay
wards best-knOwn young men and wo-
men will be represented In the aggrega-
ton Of bachelors and bachelor maids and
Will tell why they have remained in sin
gle blessedness: Admission VIII be 10
cents"
This is a calumny on the good sense
and better taste Of the young folks Of
Haywards. The marriage records show
that the "best-known young men and
women are not soured bachelors or de-
mure old maids who realize that their
chances OF matrtmony have so complete
" gone UP the flue that they deem il an
honor 70 tell their experience" to an
audience. each human unit Of which rep
resents 10 cents, except the writer OF the
item, who Will, of course, be a deadhead
our Facing Slip" the very breezy