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14 DR. FITCH- -THE NEW WOMAN --SHAKESPEARE The Medical Man Defies Miss Anthony and Her Lieutenant. SAYS THEY ARE OLD MAIDS. In Advocating Women's Rights, He Declares, They Menace the Republic. Dr.

George L. Pitch refuses to sit supinely to be trodden upon by the new woman or the advance guard of the new woman. He is not troubled at the comments made upon his course of action by Miss Susan B. Anthony and Miss Amu 11. Shaw, and he doubts the ability of the former lady to "can" him, her desire to perform which operation was published in yesterday's Call.

Furthermore, the doctor does not propose to play a waiting came. Already he has taken np the cudgels in his own behalf, and is preparing a paper for publication, which he will entitle "Woman's Humanity's Wrong." He has it partially completed and is merely awaiting the arrival of some statistics which he needs before launching the publication to the world. "I'm in this fight to stay," said the doctor yesterday, when seen at his offices in the new Spreckels building, "and I propose to have something to say on this new woman proposition. It's all bosh it's more than that, it is an absolute menace to the life of the Nation and the endurance of the Republic. It is a matter of principle with me, and not a controversy between Miss Anthony, Miss Shaw and myself.

Ido not care to answer their strictures upon myself, but I will say that it looks a little strange that a couple of old maids should be trotting around the country teaching married people how to bring up their families, and wives how, to manage their households. Why do they do it? It pays them to do it, that's why. They are feted and dined and lodged by it, and put money in the bank for themselves by it. That's why. Can they contradict that? "But that's neither here nor there.

The whole controversy on the new woman narrows down to the relationship of husband and wife. I'll just give you a few figures to show you how far we go in answer to the first question. By the census of 1890 it is shown that 80.69 per cent of our men at 25 years of age are unmarried; that 45.98 per cent at 30 years of age are unmarried; and that 26.5 per cent of those at 85 years ot age are unmarried. What happens under such a condition The observers will have no trouble in answering the question; and we all know that marriage is the only way to preserve social purity. "Now, why do I make these quotations from the census? Simply to show that this entire woman's rights business this advocacy of the independence of the new woman is an argument in favor of licentiousness and in opposition to personal purity.

With the new woman in the field, men can no longer afford to marry from the fact that they cannot longer earn a living for their families. The women are downtown taking the places of men right along not because they are as capable of filling those places, but because their services can be had cheaper; and when these women do marry well, twenty-five per cent of the marriages in this State, at least, terminate in the divorce courts. Marriage, to-day, in a very large proportion of cases, is just a legalized partnership, because parenthood is neglected. "And the truth of the matter is that these parties who are going around the country preaching that women's main and only object in life should be to act as man's rival in the race of life are just simply doing all they can to destroy this Nation. Any person who by act, word or deed attempts to destroy the institution of marriage and true, honest parenthood is a rebel against God and a traitor to the old flag.

"The real facts of this new woman business," continued the doctor, becoming thoroughly imbued wiih his subject, "and the facts in the case, as matters are going now in the United States among native Americans, are that we are very little behind France, where the birth rate is very much less than the death rate and the nation is rapidly dying out. This is due in France to the fact that the men are not allowed to marry and bring up children as they should do because there are so many of them in the army. Here it is due to the fact that competition is so keen between men and the new and cheaper woman that it is difficult for men to get positions out of which they can support a family, and, still further, to the disgust that every true man must feel for the new for this unsexed creature, the new woman. It is also due to other causes of which 1 shall treat in the article which I am preparing. "To conclude with the arguments advanced by Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw, 1 would state that they are wrong on their statistics.

I would not say knowledge, but they are undoubtedly wrong. For instance in an article in to-day's Call, I see that they state that there are more women than men in Massachusetts. I would just refer them to the last census of Massachusetts, which shows that there are 4012 more single males in Massachusetts than there are females. I imagine that the census is correct and the Misses Shaw and Anthony mistaken." SUES THE PULLMAN CO. A Traveler Who Was Robbed on a Sleeper Seeks Damages in the Justices' Court.

J. A. Lansberger brought suit in the Justices' Court yesterday Pullman Palace Car Company to recover $71 25, the value of goods stolen from him while riding in the defendant's cars from Chicago to Fort Madison, lowa. The theft occured on the night of June 30, 1893, and the goods taken was a satchel containing, among other things, his lunch, a pocket knife, a neglige shirt, pair of suspenders, and because of the loss of his keys he was compelled to break into his trunk, which was in the baggage car. A.

Heyneman is the plaintiff's attorney. AN OCEAN RACE Several Yachts Will Make a Run Between This Port and Santa Cruz July 1. An ocean yacht race will take place between this port and Santa Cruz Monday July 1. The vessels will start from a point off Powell-street wharf at 6a. m.

ana will tack out through the Golden Gate, thence away to their destination. The racers have not yet entered, but it is known that seven or eight of the larger yachts ''will' compete, and exciting sport will be had when the trim craft are walking the ocean blue. William Greer Harrison on the Great Bard's Female Delineations. ALL WERE EQUAL TO MEN. Foolish Man Fears His Dominance Will Cease With the Higher Development.

hat is the need for a new women? What is the matter with the woman of the present?" asked William Greer Harrison, when he reached the second and, perhaps, more interesting part of his lecture before the Geographical Society, at Golden Gate Hall, last evening. The lecturer was introduced by the president the society, Fred William D'Evelyn, and without any attempts at oratorical effects, but rather in a conversational tone, at once set about to prove that Shakespeare was a geographer of no mean abilities. He got his geography not from books, but from the lips of travelers and discoverers, who gathered at the Mermaid to exchange their news of a constantly broadening world for the gossip of Queen Elizabeth's court. Mr. Harrison handled the subject very entertainingly and made numerous quotations from Shakespeare to sustain his.

theory. Turning then to "The New Woman in Shakespeare" the lecturer said the phrase was a misnomer. "It is not a new but a developed woman that woman herself demands. The tyrant man' does not make demand for any special or general development. Why? He fears, foolishly fears, that his rule, his dominance, would be destroyed if woman reached a plane of development equal or superior to his own.

"Ihe generally accepted theory as to woman's place in creation gives her the office of an unpaid housekeeper. Any duty exterior to his sphere of influence is ignored. Any desire to' examine into the general conditions of life, especially the social and marital relations, is treason to him. The individual man admits that the condition of women might be improved, but the collective man says: 'No, let her remain as she is. We are "Any position in the relation of the sexes which suggests inferiority is a libel upon the spirit of the age and is an insult to man himself.

Man and woman can never occupy the same political platform without friction; but they have each their own platform, and the woman is entitled to as. many planks in the platform as she may choose. Man has no rights which are not common to woman, and no man has any business to interfere with her free action. If there is not to be a developed woman, if she is not to stand on the same plane with man, then you must refuse to permit her to educate herself, you must continue to treat her as a child and dole out to her such modified forms of education as will hold her where you desire to keep her. "Poor, frightened man! What is he afraid of? Was his supremacy only sure while woman was comparatively ignorant? Do not be alarmed.

Man will never lose his legitimate supremacy if he has sense enough to retain it. "Woman was always what man made her. Just at present man has made a rebel of her; his sovereignty is threatened. If he is wise he will make terms with her, grant her all she asks and patiently wait the issue. It occurs to me that I never met a man who would not, if he could, have had his mother gifted with every intellectual grace, crowned with the glory that is the heritage of the woman who is at once womanly and women have been grouped so as to represent the intellectual, the passionate and imaginative and the affectionate.

A fourth group includes his historical characters, which are not so supremely. Shakespeare's own. "In the intellectual group we find Portia, Isabelle, Beatrice and Rosamond. "In the passionate and imaginative we glace Juliet. Helena, Perdita, Viola, pheliaand Miranda.

"Characters strongly representing the affections are Hermione, Desdemona, Imogen and Cordelia. "The historical group gives us Cleopatra, Octavia, Volmina, Constance of Bretagne, Elinor of Cuvenne, Blanche of Castile, Margaret of Anjou, Kathrine of Arragon and Lady Macbeth. "Miranda is presented as the sweetest type of simple innocency, an elementary woman, exquisite in her loveliness, modest, tender, unsophisticated, an impossible being in a workaday world, yet with all the elements of the perfect woman not perfected. She had never seen one of her own sex, and of the coarser sex her father alone was known to her, yet no sooner did Ferdinand appear on the scene than she realizes that there is a passion not set down in her father's teachings. She had no knowledge of the art of love-making, none of the coquetish way 3 attributed to her sex.

The moment that she realizes that she loves she says, with simple directness: 'I am your wife if you will marry Miranda is not the new woman, though in the world of to-day she would be a novelty. "Compare Miranda and Juliet, the snowdrop with the red red rose, the soft murmuring flow of a limpid stream with the rush of a torrent. Alas, poor Juliet, sweet Juliet! Having all the innocency of Miranda with nature so intense that death alone could subdue it. Juliet, the type of love's sacrifice, the very embodiment of beauty, daughter of the south, to whom moonlight and melodies and sunny skies were a necessary atmosphere. Juliet and love were one.

From the moment Romeo entered her world he was her god. ln Juliet's heart was stored so vast a store of love that the chaste passion of Portia, the innocent love of Miranda, the confiding passion of Perdita, the Tond and playful love of Rosalind, the constant passion of Imogen, the devotion of Desdemona, the fervor of Helen, the dainty tenderness of these were needed to give expression to it. "Beatrice, Viola and Rosalind are types of character belongiug to an advanced, refined and cultured society. They were not common types when Shakespeare wrote. Indeed, they are by no means common in any land, even to-day.

"Portia is a distinctly intellectual type, with a touch of romance in her nature. She has a strong great consistency of purpose, knew what she wanted and secured it. Yet is she thoroughly womanly. Her wit is musical and has the perfume of the rose. In her were blended energy, reflection and feeling, and these had an atmosphere of gentle dignity that could, when her affections were touched, unbend into a mirthful humor.

Portia reasoned, therefore Portia was logical. A beautiful logician was out of harmony with th.i times, is still out of harmony within our conception of woman. Portia belongs to the new order and would to-day be the victim of public opinion; She would be sacrificed on the altar of propriety. Men might admire her, but women THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1895. would avoid her.

Yet Portia belongs to the new order. "Shakespeare's woman she is the new woman not a charm lost but a thousand added. The woman of the future will be the intellectual mother of intellectual man, the tender, loving, devoted companion and wife to husband whose daily song will be one of thankfulness that his wife can sympathize with him in all things; that she can appreciate and gratify bis mental longings, answer his mental queries, strengthen his moral nature, make life beautiful for him by the grace of her own physical and mental beauty, and make his home a paradise, a palace, where reason, love, truth and beauty contend for supremacy." JUDGE CONLAN'S MEN. Police Court Opened With Watson as Clerk and Slogan as Prosecuting Attorney. Ambrose Watson was in his usual place when Judge Conlan opened court yesterday morning, looking smiling and confident, from the fact that Judge Wallace decided on Monday that he was clerk of the court.

7 Alfred Morgenstern, the rival claimant, occupied a seat in the courtroom. E. L. Wake-man, the deposed Prosecuting Attorney, when the court opened asked the Judge to place the fact on record that he was present. "I wilt do nothing of the kind," said the Judge, testily.

"Mr. Mogan is my Prosecuting Attorney and Mr. Watson my clerk, and I decline to have anything more to do with this sort of business. "The business of the court has been delayed too long and must go on." Clerk -Watson was the recipient of hearty congratulations from hosts of friends upon his plucky fight. He is not yet secure in his 'position, however, as a proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto has been filed in Judge Wallace's court on behalf of Morgenstern, backed up by the State, to compel him to deliver up the office.

Watson has ten days in which to answer, and his attorney, Henry E. Highton, is prepared to show good and sufficient cause why he should be retained in office. MGR. SATOLLI'S LETTER He Announces the Ultimatum in Reference to Secret Societies. Archbishop Riordan Was One of the Original Committee to Report to Rome.

The decree against Catholics becoming members or retaining membership in certain secret societies, forbidden by a papal decree issued last December, which was promulgated in a number of dioceses in the United States, will now have to be enforced in this diocese. Instructions to that effect have been received here through Mgr. Satolli, in the form of a letter which has been addressed to all archbishops and Catholic papers of the country. Ever since the decree was issued there has been much discussion as to the force and effect of the decree. Sixty days' time was given when it was first made public for its promulgation.

A number of prelates, among whom were Cardinal Gibbons. Archbishops Feehan of Chicago, Ireland of St. Paul, Riordan of this City and Chappelle of Santa Fe, did not give it publicity. Mgr. Satolli's letter, which was issued in Washington last week, addressed to each archbishop, is as follows: Your Excellency: His Cardinal Monaco, in a letter of May 27, announces to me that he has learned that several American papers have asserted, on the authority of prelates, that the promulgation of the decree of the Holy Office concerning the three societies, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Sons of Temperance, is not obligatory, but left to the judgment of the Bishops as a disciplinary and variable matter; moreover, the same journals affirm that this promulgation has, by superior authority, been discouraged and suspended at least in some dioceses.

His eminence greatly deplores this state of affairs, and again recommends that the oecree be published and enforced in every diocese in such a way as the respective Bishops shall deem most expedient. I had assured the Holy See so long ago as last February that the decree had been published in all the provinces of this country, but if by chance your excellency should know that in any diocese of your province this obligatory promulgation has not been made, in the name of the Holy Office and by the authority of the Holy See I beg your excellency to see that it be immediately and faithfully done. By this letter of his eminence the obligation of the decree and its publication is put beyond all doubt, and it is no longer lawful for any Catholic journal to question it. With sentiments of highest esteem and fraternal charity. I remain most faithfully yours in Xt.

Francis, archbishop Satolli, Delegate Apostolic. Archbishop Riordan was one of the committee 01 prelates upon whose recommendation and suggestion the decree was authorized. The Archbishop's confreres on the committee were Archbishops Ireland, Feehan, Katzer and Corrigan. This recommendation was "that all ordinaries of that country must by all means endeavor to keep the faithful from the aforesaid three societies and from each one of them; and that the faithful themselves must be admonished to this effect, and if upon such admonition they will still remain in these societies, they are to be debarred from the reception of the sacraments." What action will be taken in this decree) in view of the late developments, is as yet undecided. During the absence of Archbishop Riordan in Rome, Very Rev.

Father Prendergast; V.G., is acting as administrator of the diocese. When seen upon the subject, Father Prendergast was inclined to believe that the promulgation of this decree was beyond the powers entrusted to him. "I think," said Father Pendergast during the course of an interview, "that it is beyond my power to make the decree public. I will simply lay the matter aside until the Archbishop returns and let him determine what course he will persue. I think that the other dioceses in this province will await the action of San Francisco." In reply to a question as to the effect of the decree on those Catholics already members of the interdicted societies, "Father Prendergast was not prepared to answer.

"That is a matter that will be settled by the action of the Bishop," said Father Prendergast. "If there is a difference in the interpretation of the decree in various dioceses, that will be all straightened out. and the rule adopted in the majority will govern." It is reported that Archbishop Riordan will not return until September, and perhaps later. It is not likely, in view of Father Prendergast's statement, that the decree will be published in this province before that time. In three of the four dioceses of the province there is only an acting head.

Bishop i Montgomery, the coadjutor of the Monterey diocese, is acting during the absence of Bishop Mora Very Rev. Father Grace is administrator of the Sacramento diocese pending the appointment of a Bishop; and Father Prendergast is the administrator in this diocese; LA PARFAITE LODGE. French Masons Celebrate St. John's Day at the Malson Riche. La Parfaite Union, No.

17, Free and Accepted Masons, held its annual banquet in honor of; St. John's day in the Maison Riche Monday evening. The affair was a success, due mainly to the committee of arrangements composed of the following gentlemen: M. Dupas, C. F.

Andrieu, A. Leon Auradon and de St. Jullien. 7 The officers of the lodge are J. Ladajnous, W.

J. M. 8. J. Auradon, S.D.

N. Loupy, J. D. P. de St.

Jullien, and Decourtrieux treasurer. The past masters of La -Parfaite Union are 7L. Bresse," F. Masson; J. G.

Lucien, E. Roas, D. Levy, A. Goustiaux, E. Meyer, Y.

Gardet and J. Ladajnous. A YOUNG GIRL INVENTOR Amelia Sternscher Who Wants Her Car-Fender to Have a Trial. SHE IS SWEET SEVENTEEN. But Has Had a Passion for Machinery From Her Early Childhood.

The latest antagonist of the juggernaut car which overruns and crushes the life out of careless pedestrians is a 17-year-old girl. Amelia Sternscher is her name, and she lives at 117 Eleventh street. A short time ago Amelia staggered George T. Gaden and some of the other officials in the Mayor's office by appearing with drawings of her fender and gravely demanding advice for the best way to bring it to the notice of the Board of Supervisors. She was so very fragile and childish looking, even for 17, and was so terribly in earnest, that no one liked to smile at the idea of a child pretending to have solved a problem that had puzzled skilled engineers.

One flippant clerk, however, asked her jocularly whether she had wheels in her head, and the girl save him a look of pain and surprise that haunted him afterward. It was the first shock of the world's indifference and scorn, which all inventors, good or otherwise, have to submit to in the first struggle for recognition, and it had the effect of making Amelia go home and Amelia Sternecker, aged 17, Inventor of a Car-Fender. break the model, on which she had labored patiently and enthusiastically, till she made it work. "I was not angry," she said when questioned afterward about the wanton destruction, "but I said to myself, 'Because I am a girl and am only 17, every one will laugh at me and say I have wheels in my head if I ask them to examine my so I broke it." Then her eager intelligent face lighted up with the joy and faith of the inventor as she added: "I know, in myself, that the fender is a good one. If it were in use the worst that could happen to anyone who fell in the way of the car would be a few bruises." Then Amelia explained her fender, which is made principally of rubber, on a framework of iron and copper, and has revolving wheels that sweep whatever lies in the track of the car aside.

The machinery is set in motion by the wheels of the car, Out it is attached to an iron rod, which falls, lowering the fender with it, whenever the motorman touches a hook. When the rod is raised the fender has no connection with the wheels of the car, and is motionless, but a touch lowers it and sets the rubber-covered wheels revolving. "If it were always at work there would be such a waste of rubber," Amelia ex- Elained. "The street-sweeping machines ere give you a faint idea of the principle of my fender, but I have seen a steam snow-sweeper in Lapland constructed on something the same lines that rushes through the streets almost as fast as the electric-cars here, and though the sidewalks are hard and frozen I have seen it sweep a basket of shellfish onto them without injuring a strand of the basket or breaking a shell. There was a model in Vienna, too, that suggested some things to me in making my fender." Miss Sternscher, it seems, was born of Viennese parents in Cairo, and has traveled continuously for the greater part of her life, visiting even such remote countries as Cashmere and Afghanistan.

Her family states that from her earliest childhood she has had a passion for machinery, and in every city she has been has always taken the greatest delight in examining mechanical contrivances and trying to make models of them. In her frequent voyages she has sat for hours watching the machinery, and the engineers have often whiled away an idle hour in explaining its workings to the child. In this way she has acquired a practical mechanical knowledge that a young girl would not be expected to possess. Amelia Sternscher is a remarkable young girl in many respects, however. She has bad a desultory education at French convents in China and Japan, by private teachers in Calcutta and Cairo, and at public schools in Europe and America, but through the constant changes she has watched and studied character and temperament till she has become a sort of female La Rochefoucauit.

Who, for instance, would expect sweet 17 to write such proverbs as these: Truth can travel, but it is seldom recognizable when it comes home. Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. The man who takes his own time does not hesitate to take the time of others. In addition to proverbs she writes clever verses, but her inventions are nearest to her heart. She has recovered now from her momentary dejection and is setting to work again on her model, and is having drawings of.

her fender made by a draughtsman. More than one engineer has encouraged her to proceed, and after applying for a patent she hopes to have a sample fender made, when she will make application for it to be given a trial. But Amelia says there is still this terrible drawback she is a girl and is only 17. MANY BILLS IN ONE. A Bright Cluster -of Attractions to Be Offered at the Press Club Benefit To-Morrow.

All arrangements are now completed for the big Press Club benefit to be given at the Columbia Theater to-morrow afternoon. Tickets bought may be exchanged for by applying at the theater or the Press Club, or seats may be secured directly at the theater. The bill offered is virtually many bills in one, as may be seen from a glance at the subjoined programme: 7 Overture, "Nabucco" (Verdi), E. E. Schmitz director.

"The dramatic episode in one act, by Brander Matthews (arranged for presentation by George E. Lask), with the following cast: Mrs. Alice Willoughby (a young widow), Miss Blanche Bates; Major John Strong, U. 8. T.

Daniel Frawley; Dr. Soulton (now of New York, formerly an army surgeon), Charles W. King; Brick (porter of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York city), Frederick Tjader. Early in the spring of 1864. Song, "Infelice" (Verdi), Henry Norman of David Henderson's "Aladdin" Company.

Happy Pair," a comedietta in one act (time, afternoon) by the 'following cast: Constance Honey ton. Mina Potter, Gleason; Ferdinand Honeyton. W. L. Gleason.

(By kind permission of Walter Morosco.) I The double quartet from "The Old Homestead." (By kind permission of Ed A. McFarland and Al Hay man i Co. of the California Theater.) Ferris Hartman and Oracle Flats ted of the Tivoli Opera Company in their unique specialty, "I Believe It? I Do." (By kind permission of Mrs. Ernestine Selection, "Oh, Sir" (by request), Miss Freda Gallick. Les Freres Martinetti.

the laurel-crowned kings of the acrobatic world. Tenor solo (selected), R. J. Jose. (By kind permission of Ed A.

McFarland of "The Old Homestead" Company and Al Hay man Co. of the California Theater.) I 1 The American Two Macs, America's representative Irish comedians. (By kind permission of Mr. Gustav Walters of the Orpheum.) FELL FROM HIS WINDOW. Fatal Accident to Michael Farrell, a Hotel-Keeper at the Potrero.

A peculiar accident, which resulted fatally for Michael Farrell, the keeper of a hotel at the corner of Maryland and Sierra streets, happened yesterday morning. Farrell has been subject to very painful attacks of rheumatism for some time past, and Monday evening he had a particularly bad spell. Toward morning it seemed to affect his mind, and it was not long before daylight when he was heard walking around his room. It is supposed that he wanted to get out through the door, but, dazed by the pain of his disease, attempted the window instead. At all events his room was empty, and he was discovered lying on the sidewalk about twenty feet below.

His skull was fractured, and he died yesterday evening. He left a widow and four grown children. FAST MAIL TRAINS. A Change in the Railroad Time- Table Saves Twenty- Four Hours. The railway mail service has been improved to such an extent that letters and general mail matter will reach their destination at least twenty-four hours earlier than heretofore.

This has been mainly brought about by the exertions of Superintendent of the Railway. Mail Service Flint. Formerly the mail from all points in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia for points in California had to remain for twenty-four hours in Portland because the Southern Pacific's train left for San Francisco an hour before the mail reached that distributing point. Through the exertions of Superintendent Flint the hour of departure from Portland has been changed to 8:50 p. and the gain in time is thus made.

A LECTURE ON TOLSTOI. Dr. Krauskopf Talks of the Great Russian Re- former. Unjust Discrimination Against Jews of All Classes In the Domains of the Czar, The Rev. Dr.

Joseph Krauskopf of New York, traveler and lecturer, talked to a large and appreciative audience last evening at the Temple Emanu-El on "An Evening With Tolstoi." Dr. Krauskopf traveled a good many miles and saw a good many interesting things before he reached the estates of the great Russian reformer near Moscow, and of these travels and observations he spoke at length, leading up to the main subject of his lecture. "On my way over," said he, "a lurch of the steamer threw me into the arms of a man whom I afterward learned was the Russian Minister to Mexico. This simple accident led to a pleasant acquaintance, and I finally in the course of our conversation broached the subject of my visit to Russia and the status of the Russo-Jewish question in general. The gentleman doubted whether I would be admitted to Russian territory at all; but advised me to write a letter to the Minister of the Interior from my first landing-place, explaining my mission and seeking admittance to the country.

"He deplored the sad condition of the Jews in Russia, but declared that it was not the fault of the Government. 'In every other said the Minister, 'the Jew identifies himself socially and politically with the better elements of society. In Russia there are five millions of these people and their clannish pro Densities keep them together an I always a lower "When I heard this great diplomat speak thus I was rather discouraged for a time, and then it occurred to me that he had perhaps obtained his views through an inverted official lens. My object was to plead with the Russian Government on behalf of the oppressed Jews. Being a Jew myself and knowing the Russian laws relating to the admission of foreigners of my faith, I went to Washington to lay my.

"mission before the President and Secretary of State. I was kindly received and assured by Mr. Gresham that everything possible would be done for me. He introduced me to the Russian Embassador, who positively refused to ask his Government for a passport. Mr.

Gresham then cabled the Russian Government asking permission for me to visit the country, and this answer came promptly Russian Government deeply regrets the impossibility of acceding to the request of the Secretary of State of the United States of "When I read this dispatch I was more determined than ever to visit Russia. My next move was to get two bills introduced in Congress, one in the Senate and one in the House, which called for an abrogation of the existing treaty, in the event of an American citizen being denied permission to travel in Russia. Then the press of the country took up mv fight, and such a storm was raised that I sailed away with the conviction that my reception in the land of the Czar would be respectful if not cordial. 1 was right. Every door in Russia was open to me from palace to hovel, and everywhere I was treated with the most distinguished consideration.

I stayed three days in St. Petersburg and then moved on to Moscow, from which point I addressed a letter to Count Tolstoi, asking for a brief interview. In due time I received an answer, written by his daugter, in which she stated that her father would see me and give me a little of his time, regreting that he was very busy in the haying field. "Four hours by rail from Moscow brought us (I was accompanied by a friend) to the town of Tulu, which is only about two hours' ride from the estates of Tolstoi. It was about 6 o'clock when we -arrived, and inquiring from a peasant for the object of our visit we were directed to a group of laborers, in the midst of which was Tolstoi himself, the man who is feared in all the palaces of Russia, anathemized in all the cathedrals and worshiped in all the cottages.

"My stay was one of the pleasantest events of my life and made an impression upon me that I shall never forget. This with intellectual and spiritual force, his wonderful learning of men and events, his deep veneration for, labor and his love for the common people, with his coarse crash clothing was the only man that has made me ever feel ashamed of wearing decent clothes. As I sat at his table and partook of his coarse fare he was the only man that has ever made me feel ashamed of having delicacies on my own table. 7 His home life is beautiful. I have always wondered how a prophet of old looked.

have seen Tolstoi and I know. I have wondered all my life long how a Jesus or a Paul I have seen Tolstoi and I know." 7 First Shipment of Apricots. What the firm claims as the first carload of new apricots was shipped from Haniord yesterday by Porter Bros. Co. 777.

7 Theee is an article on the market seldom equaled and never Jesse Moore Whig. iky. Moore. Hunt Co; guarantee its purity. 7, LIGHTS FOR THE PARK.

The Commissioners Consider the Petition of Property- Holders. Arrangement of Details Left to the Superintendent and Mr. Rosenfeld. A meeting of the Golden Gate Park Commissioners was held yesterday afternoon to consider the proposition of allowing citizens to establisn electric lights in the park. A petition signed by a large number of citizens was read, and all of the Park Commissioners favored the idea, having seen in it a much-needed improvement to the park.

But they feared that in some way the park funds might be involved. They therefore left the matter in the hands of Commissioner John Rosenfeld and Superintendent McLaren, who will meet with those desirous of establishing the lights and make some definite contract with them. "I think the idea is a splendid one," said Rosenfeld yesterday afternoon. "We ought to have the lights in the park. Now very few people take advantage of the driveways except at the full of the moon.

If there were lights people could use the park every night in the year. "We do not want to take the chances of having the payment for these lights put upon the Park Commissioners," he added. "Neither do we want unsightly masts erected. The light-masts must be ornamental as well as useful. there is another thing, the proposition has been made to set up the lights from the Midwinter Fair grounds.

I think we should have lights from the Bakerstreet entrance of the Panhandle. The increased number of the lights would not be of much expense, and they would be very desirable." Mr. Rosenfeld said that he would go to the park to-day or to-morrow and look over the ground be illuminated. He was sure that a satisfactory agreement can be reached. Mr.

McLaren, he knew, wanted to see the parte lighted, and as the proposition was so favorable for all he was quite certain that it would become an accomplished fact. Henry Doscher of the Seal Rock House, the father of the scheme, took the representative of an electric-light company through the park with him yesterday afternoon. They decided that only twelve or thirteen lights would be needed to illuminate the driveway from the -street entrance, near the fair grounds, to the ocean. No agreement was made, however, as the Park Commissioners had not been heard from, and it was thought that opposition and a consequent lowering of prices might be developed in the furnishing of the lights. "There can be no doubt that the lights will be put up," he said.

"I speak from a selfish standpoint entirely. The bicyclists and driving men will be benefited, but so will we. When the lights are up 500 men will ride out to the Cliff at night with their friends, where there is but one now. 7 "We have met with so much encouragement that the success i the idea is assured. men whose only interest is the bettering of the park have promised us assistance, while -nearly all the bicycle clubs have promised to subscribe." Mayor Sutro has announced himself as favorable to the proposition.

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