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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-15
ORNAMENTATION.

Third the tables Of stone beneath YOU
contain not only the handwriting Of God
but his uInamentatiUn. The book we
are reading is an illustrated volume
ullcd with exquisite beauty. | picked
up piece Of slate i'm one Of the mines
the other day showing the perfect i'm
preston Of what seemed to be a flower,
which could not be exceeded in delicaCy
ana grace by the choicest exotic of your
Conservatives. The fern leaves which
occur in such profusion excite in every
visitor who first secs them. eXClama-
tiOns Of delight. More beautiful still are
the casts from the bark of the ancient
trees. These are of many species; some
resembling the imprints of a seal some
Ike scales overlapping each other; one
species in oval forms. another concal,
another loZenge-shaped; now arranged
in straight lines parallel To the trunk,
now running in sprals around it, now
forming n sort Of checker work and
covering the entire surface from the root
to the EXTREMIST branches. There were
doubtless the axils, or gcrm-spots OF
leaves or spiuCs which clothed the stems
with foathcry Vordure, waving ana rus
Ting i'm the passing breeze. You can
see now In some Of the galleries these
ancient trees lmbodded in the slaty roofs,
sometimes still in an erect position, as IL
they had been enVclCped by the sand
while standing as they grew. Imagine
what must have been the beauty Of the
forest whore grew these sculptured
shafts, like futed Cornthian columns
whore the tall tree ferns, crowned with
thin dropping fronds made dense shades
where rich mOsses Carpcted the earth
and innumerable plants of unknown spo-
cies luNuriated I'm Natures primcval sOli-
tudes. Now all this beauty of form
and arrangement is but the expression
Of the beauty which before existed in
the mind Of Him who made them. The
painter and sculptor must have the ideals
Of their work I'm their conception before
they can give them outward visibility,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-15

In the summer Of 1875 Major Everett
Warren's uncle, Rev. DR.. /. p Warren,
then congregational minister in Mas
sachusetts, preached i'm the Second
Presbyterian church in this city a most
interesting sermon in which he touch
ed upon and explained the anthracite
deposits in this valley, and also the
petroleum deposits in Western Penn
sylvania. a copy Of this having re-
Gently come into our possession, We
deem it of sufficient merit to Justify
reproduction. The speaker took as his
text Exodus, NXXii'l6 "Aud the tables
were the work Of God, and the writing
was the writing Of God, craven upon
the tables" and after a bricf reference
to the stone tablets given TO Moses at
Mt Sinai, he went on:
Those tablets sacred beyond all works
or human art, as fashioned and engraved
by the hand Of God Himself, have per-
ished. But, my friends. there are other
tablets made and inscribed by the same
divine hand long before those, which
have been preserved to the present day
and which We may read wOnderngly and
ddoringN and which should be to us
tables Of testimony to the Being the
. AQInOf.
! refer, of course, to those which are
deposited in the archives of the earth,
mountain and Vallcy-amung the most
remarkable Of which is the locality in
which you live. 70 me, who have been
permitted to come here few times it
is region Of the deepest interest and
instruction, and it has occurred TO me
that probably / might in no way more
prOntably occupy your thoughts this
evening than by taking my text out OF
these stone tables of testimony and read
ing from them some Of the lessons which
they impact.
RECORDS OF LIFE.
Let me observe, then, in the first place,
that upon these tables Of stone God has
written His name. Here is valley
many miles long and broad, set like a
gem in the green mountain ranges that
enclose IT. The luXuriaut vegetation
which now covers II Is but a faint sug-
gestion OF the richer and more abundant
vegetation that lies buried beneath. And
vegetation is the product of life that
which Is the gift OF the everything, self
existent Creator alone. Believe IL you
will that matter is eternal, that chemical
forces and operations are inherent I'm 1t,
but you cannot say that life, vegetabla
or animal, is or can be without Crea-
tor. Science can indeed do wonders! the
laboratory OF the artisan and the chom-
tst bring forth products new and strange
but no art, or invention, or skillful COM
bination of elements or forces, ever yet
without pro-eXistcnt germ, produced
a living thing
Yet the records of the buried past be-
meath you are the records of life, Sin as
tonishing pTofusion and variety. Here
once grew forests and thickets Of strange
ferns and luxuriant foliage, mosses
nf
families having not now n solitary rep
resentative on earth, Century after cen
tury they fiourshod, terminating, grow
ing, maturing, dccaying-one generation
giving place TO another until they hac
formed beds many feet thick. Here they
are now; preserved in the great herbar
ium Of nature, their roots, their stems
their brances, their fruits, and you whC
live here see them every day, and the3
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-15
HOW ANTHRACITE
COAL WAS FORMED
A VIVID READING FROM Ma
TURE'S BOOK.

Text of an Exceedingly Interesting
Sermon Preached in This City
Twenty-four Years Ago by Rev.
Dr.. I. P. Warren, Congregational
Minister of Massachusetts-Sci
ence and Religion Harmonized
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-15
STORIES.

"How many stories in that new block
of yours
"Two--a snake story and a bare story"
"Eh?"
saloon on the first floor and the sec
ond floor is still empty. Indianapolis
Journal.
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and even their most admired achieve
ments are but faint reproductions Of
these ideals. 1t is the complaint Of
genius always, that the hand ANA the
eye are SO inadequate to give forth the
creations of the imagination. What,
then, must be the beauties Of tho Divine
Mind which i'm these dark chambers uf
the earth shows to rs such wonders of
skill and taste, What nGnity Of re-
sources that could sow such beauties
broadcast over the ancient fields and
make them live i'm the mosscs ana bios
som over al the trcc-trurks and give
pack them up and lay them away so
carefully where thousands of ages
thence we may light our lamps and 60
down into these chambers and see them
for ourselves and wonder and adore.
BEAUTY EVERYWHERE
Observe. too, that God did not make
this beauty merely to be seen. Man is
wont 70 spend little care ON what Is not
to be noticed We build handsome fronts
to our houses, but the rear is often left
uusightlY. We dress To- appear in pub
lie; elsewhere We indulge i'm dcshabilC,
The artist paints the face of his picture
with care, the back he does not touch.
But it is not so with God. lie does
no mere show work; everything he makes
is as perfect as if he were never TO make
another. There was not a human eye IN
existence when these primoval forests
were growing, yet the types Of ornament
were all MS carefully regarded and deli
oately wruurht out, as If the whole race
had been summoned to be lockers on.
Not one fern leaf in q thousand millions
of those buried in the rocks will ever
be seen by man, Vet not one, for that
rcasCn, was neglected in its finish. Must
we not say, it is because God loved
beauty for its own sake? If no other
eye was 10 see it, yet His would see it
and delight in n. And does 1t not win
our hearts to Him in whom dwclls such
perfection and make us desire to be
pleasing to IIim--tO have His holy COM
plac,ncy fixed upon us, as the most
beautiful things which His hands have
mado in all this lower world?
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-15
FERMENTATION.

At last the series Of alterations ended
That age Of the earth's history was COM
pleted. The granarles of fuel and light
for the supply of it's future inhabitants
stages necessary I'm their turn. Deeper
than ever sank the buried strata of Vege-
tation. Higher ald higher were piled
upon them the Sand aud the sediment
till they became, as you see them in the
shafts and along up yonder mountain
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04
PROFESSOR RITTER RETURNS.
The Distinguished Scientist Satisfied
With the Results of the Har-
riman Expedition.

BERKELEY, Aug. 3.-Professor w. E.
Ritter of the University of California,
who was chosen as specialist in zoology
to accompany the Hartman Alaskan ex-
petition. arrived at his home in Berkeley
to-day. Professor Ritter expresses him
self as highly pleased with the results
of the trip and praises the skill and care
expended on the equipment of the expe-
dition and in the provisions made for its
comfort during its absence in the far
north.
1.-The tour" he said to-day, was full
of interest and delight as well as scientific
achievement The days were cloudless
and warm. and there was light enough for
outdoor work at any time during the
twenty-four hours The results of our
investiga lions were most gratifying, many
new species being discovered, and the
distribution of these and others were
observed.
THE botanists of the party were de-
lighted. as indeed we all were, at the
beauty size and coloring of the wild
flowers on the islands along the coast.
NV own work concerned the marine in
vertebrates and their variety and num-
Der were astonishing, many of them being
heretofore unknown to science. The re-
suits of the expedition will be chronicled
bv John Burroughs, the historian of the
party. and in bulletins to be issued by the
Washington Academy of Sciences. l shall
of course embody my own observations in
lectures before my classes and perhaps
before the San Francisco Academy of
Sciences and other scientific bodies"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04
RED MEN PROPOSE
ADDITIONAL CHIEFS
AN ORGANIZER FOR THE STATE
ASKED FOR.

At the session Of the Great Council of
the Improved order of Red Men yester-
day several propositions were presented
and discussed, but action thereon will not
be taken until to-day. Among these were
the creation of a new officer to be known
as the exemplifer of the ritualistic work
so that the work may be done uniformly
in every tribe; another was the appoint
ment of a State organizer, who shall de-
vote his whole time to the extension of
the order, and another the increasing of
the advisory board by the addition of
five great past sachems.
Charters were granted to Carquinez
Tribe No. 9S, Mohawk No. SO and to
Monadnock No. 100, also to Wanona
Council No. % of the Degree of Poca-
hontas. Minnehaha Council No. l was
reinstated and a charter issued to It.
The awarding of the. prize of 800 to
Aitahomas Tribe for the best rendition
of the warriors degree was officially
made. and on that occasion Great Junior
Sycamore Harrison of the Great Council
Of the United States took occasion to ex-
press his admiration of the team and to
pay a compliment to Frederick V. North
rop, the captain of the team, for the
time and labor he expended in bringing
his team up to the degree of perfection
that he did He also said some kind
words for the warriors and braves. who
though they had no speaking parts did
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04
CONTESTANT IN THE
WlCKES ESTATE WINS

OAKLAND. Aug. 3.-The contest be-
tween Annette p. Clarke of San Fran
cisco and DR.. ]. NJ. Shannon over the es-
tate of the late Olive J. Wickes was de-
cided in favor of the former by Judge
Hall to-day The matter came up to-
day for the hearing of DR.. Shannon's
petition for the probate Of an alleged
will in which he was named as executor
and under the terms OF which Mrs.
Wickes property in Fres19 County and and
$4,000 on deposit in the Hibernia Bank
was bequeathed to the doctor, who alleged
that at the time of her death Mrs. Wickes
was a resident of Alameda County. Petit
toner was represented by Attorneys u.
n Goldsky, b. n. Griffin and Messrs.
Dunno & McPike.
Contestant Annette P Clarke appeared
by her attorneys, George d. Squires and
Otto tum SUDDEN as exe eS Of the last Ia st
of olive Jane Wickes, and she contended
that the latter was resident of San
Francisco County, but that just prior to
her death had been in Oakland under der
decided in favor of contestant by refus-
ing to grant DR.. Shannons petition and
ruling that his court has no jurisdiction
to admit Mrs. Wickes will to probate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04
The Democrats.

A meeting of the Thirty-thfrd District
Democratic Club was held in the rooms of
the California Cycling Club, corner of
Twenty-second and Folsom streets, last
night. Delegates to the municipal con-
vention were elected. On motion of B.
McSwair the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Thrty-third District
Democratic Club hereby indorses the ad-
ministrations of Mayor Phelan and AS
SCISSOR Dodge, and commend them as worthy
of the unlimited confidence of the people,
Resolved. That we deprecate the inter-
ference in political affairs of bosses
and corporations, and we hereby pledge our
cause of good government and munlclpal re-
form.
A committee was appointed to canvass
the entire district in the interest of pure
politics and to place the issues of the day
squarely before the people. After timely
speeches by several members the meeting
Over a hundred DEMOCRATS attended the
meeting of the Young Mems Democratic
Club Of the Thirty-ninth Assembly Dis
trict las1 night in Turner Hall, 1923 Turk
street. ]. ]. Flanagan presided. Judge
Robert Ferral, Hon. ]. j. Barrett, NJ.
Schwartz, T. Carl Spelling and other
prominent Democrats addressed the meet
The Regular Democratic Club of the
Forty-first Assembly District met last
night at Pacific avenue and Iarkin street;
William Donlin presided and introduced
the speakers of the evening. The Com
mittee of One Hundred was decried and
the primaries exalted. Among those who
spoke were Patrick ]. Smith, +. Cavagna-
ro Samuel Polack, H. II. Lowenthal and
Judge Carroll.
A meeting of the James D. Phelan DEM
ocratic Club Of the Twenty-eighth Assem-
bly, District was held in Armory Hail,
corner of Second and Folsom streets, last
night NJ Rogers presided and d. T. Sui
Ivan acted as secretary. The delegates
nominated for the municipal convention
we're pledged to renominate Hon. i. D..
Phelan for Mayor and Washington Dodge
for Assessor. Speeches were made by
Hon. S. r. O'Keefe, John Murphy and
John Coakley.
A rousing meeting of the Thirty-sixth
District Democratic Municipal League
was held in Eureka Valley Hall, corner
of Eighteenth and Castro streets, last
night. Peter j. Mccormick presided. The
speakers of the evening were Eugene n.
Deuprey, Major Mckinney, William j.
Nixon. Edward J. Coffey, John Prosel1
and Judge A. w. Thompson.
In his speech Mr.. Deuprey said he
would rather go down fighting in the in
terest of good government than have a
victorious banner stained with political
corruption. Judge Thompson. a member
of the Committee of One Hundred, and
who assisted in the framing of the new
charter, Endorsed the delegates selected
by the club and said he would personally
guarantee the voters of the Thirty-sixth
District that its delegates would select
municipal officers who would carry out
the principles of the charter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04

be made upon the Mayor of the city
for indemnity-penalty for nOn-cOm-
pliance, bombardment and destruction
of the town.
What of our splendid Notifications,
our heavy guns dispersed about the en-
trance to the Golden Gate? What about
the submarine mine fields about which
we have heard so much? They are all
there and ready to protect the harbor
against any hostile vessel. San Fran
cisco Bay is practically impregnable.
But, unfortunately, though the harbor
is so we'll protected. the city is abso-
lutely defenseless. Between Point Lo-
hos and Lake MERGED there is q space
of ocean commanded by no heavy gun.
There is nothing to prevent an enemy
anchOring there and bombarding the
city q its leisure; the range of modern
weapons is equal to the task"
Attention was then directed in the
article to how easily such a danger as
mentioned could be avoided, in these
terms:
"a few heavy gun batteries, planted
among the sandhills between Point LO-
bos and Lake MERGED. would completely
protect the city Their cost would be
bardment to San Francisco would run
into millions It Is the one weak point
in our system Of defense, and 1t should
be seen to-
United States District Attorney Coombs
received by mail yesterday a communica-
ton from the Department of Justice at
Washington instTuCting him to bring suit
in the United States Circuit Court to con-
denim 1923 acres in the Laguna de la
MERGED tract near Inglesde for the pur-
poses of military Notifications ard a gar
rison. The property belongs to the Spring
Valley Water Company and was offered
TO the Government by that corporation
for $1,000 per acre. but the price was
deemed excessive and board of military
men was appointed to report upon the
site and its value. Major c. E. G.. B.
Davis made the report some months ago
and it was Endorsed by Brigadier General
John Wilson of the Division of Engineers.
Secretary Alger signed the report on July
a. Major Davis placed a value Of from
$500 to 800 per acre upon the property.
After the condemnation of the property
the Government will lose no time in for
tifying the place and building the neCes-
sary houses for the garrison. The north
boundary of the tract is little more than
half a mile south of the old Ocean Side
Pacific Ocean and 100 feet above the level
OF the water, commanding a fine view Of
the entrance to the harbor The fortifiCa-
lions will prevent any hostile war vessels
from approaching the land near enough
10 throw shells into any part of the city.
Mortar batteries and 15-inch rifles VIII
constitute the armament, and when the
fort shall have been finished San Fran
cisco will be as lmpregnable as Gibraltar.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04
ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF
AN OAKLAND BABY

OAKLAND, Aug. 3.-Little Louisa Silva,
the three-year-old child of Manuel Silva,
residing at Thirty-third street and Four
teenth avenue, met horrible death this
evening on Hopkins street, near the Cali
fornia College The child was in the care
of an older sister. Annie, at the time and
they, together with dozen other chill
horse hay wagon of Henry Nissen Mill
Ter, rancher from Diamond Canyon, who
had just unloaded a ton of hay at Manuel
Silva's barn. In some manner the two
Silva children lost their balance and fell
from the wagon. The rear wheel ran over
the baby's forehead. literally scalping her,
while Annie escaped with bruised left
arm. Miller, the driver, called at the
City Prison late tonight and surrendered
himself. On the prison register he was
booked for manslaughter and was subse-
queutly released on his own recognizance.
The authorities regard him as entirely
blameless. The dead infant was removed
to the home of her parents and Coroner
Mehrmann has ordered an inquest TO pc
held tomorrow night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04
MARY AND JOHN TO LIVE
APART, BUT NO DIVORCE
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
90S Broadway, Aug. 8.

yQS broadway, aug.
Mary and John Gooby will forever here.
after walk through life separately and
apart, but a decree of divorce based upon
any cruelty, desertion or failure to pro-
vide that has married their past thirty
years of matrimonial vicssitudes will not
be granted.
What was supposed to be the last and
final chapter in the history. OF Mary ana
Johns tribulations-that have each had
their. day in courts-has been occupying
the attention Of Judge Greene the past
three days. the case being Mary Gooby
vs. John Gooby wherein the first named
asked for a divorce and possession OF
property located at Seventh and Linden
streets. An important pleading in the
suit was the husbands cross-complalnt
wherein he likewise prayed urgently that
his promise made at the altar many years
ago be declared null and void. For multi
plicity of grounds alleged, for intricacies
of rank perjury and truth and for general
legal comedy the case rivals any that has
ever been tried in the history of the SUI
periur Court. e.
The wife, who boasts at least fifty
pounds avoirdupois over her husband, re
cited on the witness-stand the many acts
wasted his fortune in gambling on the
stock market. She was corroborated by
her eldest daughter, who testihed that on
one occasion she had to drag her fatner
by his ancient whiskerS to prevent MN
from beating the life out of her corpulent
mother. Another daughter Mrs. Maude
testified on the other Tre hand a that tba
On one occasion Mrs Gooby had threat
ened to shoot the father. She said that
she had usually collected the rents from I'M
her fathers houses, but that the mother
got every cent for the fathers board.
TO ali such testimony Judge Greene for
the past three days lent an attentive ear
and at o'clock this evening ms honor
summed up accounts and decided that
neither Mary nor John should take any
thing nv their causes of action.
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Government Acts on
Calls Suggestion.
A FORT FOR LAKE MERGED
CONDEMNATION SUIT TO BE BE-
GUN AT ONCE.
Heavy Guns Will Command the Only
Vulnerable Point of the City
and We Will Be Fully
Protected.

The Government has acted upon a
suggestion made in The Call on Sun
day, May l, 1S9S-the day that Admiral
Dewey annihilated the Spanish fleet in
Manila Bay. 1t has condemned prop
erty on the ocean beach which The Call
stated was the one weak point in the
city's defense, and viii shortly strongly
fortify and garrison 1t, thus protecting
San Francisco from any hostile ships
Of war that may gather and threaten it.
In the article printed in The Call on
the date mentioned occurred the follow
ing:
"A couple of fast cruisers heavily
armed would bring up one morning just
outside the Golden Gate, opposite the
ocean beach. A formal demand would
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-04
THE POCAHONTAS.
Members OF the Great Council
Increase the Per Capita Tax.

Members OF the Great Council
Increase the Per Capita Tax.
The greater part of the session of the
Great Council of the Degree of Poca-
hontas yesterday was taken up in the dis
cussion of new constitution and of by
laws which are to govern the order in
the future.
The per capita tax was increased from
71a cents to Is cents
ask for a charter so that 1t may legislate
for itself was lost. but motion to re-
consider was given.
1t was announced that the judges had
decided that the best exemplifcation of
the work by the teams from Alfarata,
Pocahontas and Yosemite Councils on last
Wednesday night had been done by the
team from Yosemite, and that it was
the team were: Nina Rev. Pocahontas;
Mrs j. TAFT, Wenonah; A. L. Holder,
Powhattan; Annie E. Bishop, prophecies;
Kitty La Fon and Jessie Bell, scouts;
Ella Ellis and Alice Cook, runners; Amy
Young and Emma La Due, councillors;
w ". Cogglng, Frank Bima. John Bell
and William Burge. warriors; Adeline
Gleincaster, guard of the tepee.