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HERE REV DR. V. W. CASE RESTS HIS CASE.
Proofs Requested of Father
Yorke for Seventeen
Citations.
ANSWERS DEMANDED.
The Minister Declares Spain to
Be Low in the Scale of
Nations.
WESLEY LOYAL TO HIS FLAG.
Father Yorke Replies to Dr. Bovard
on Questions of Catholic
Doctrine.
The Rev. Dr. W. W. Case submits the
following reply to the letter of the Rev.
Peter C. Yorke as published in The Call
yesterday :
San Francisco, Dec. 27, 1895.
To the Editor of the San Francisco Call— Dear
Bib: My distinguished critic returns to his lost
cause with superheated blood and a surplus of
bile. It is to be regretted that he has quite lost
his temper, and that in his agitated condition he
forgot to return the compliments of the season
to u< and to other heretics. But his excited
condition maybe pardoned, since he is hard
pressed in the galley. He has the laboring our.
Hard pulling against the stream puts him, out
of breath at times, but with the recovery of his
wind he blows as hard as ever. I really pity
him irom the bottom of my heart. It is natural
\o me to always sympathize with the under
dot;. I am sorry "Christmas did not have a more
soothing effee't upon his spirits and bring to
him more peaceful rest. As for myself. lam as
happy as a California oriole in springtime. It
would give me real pleasure to see my critic in
the enjoyment of the same "'sweetness and
light."
He returns desperately to his ten proposi
tions. It is clearly mauifest he dotes on them.
Since one good turn deserves another 1 also
will stale a few propositions:
I. My critic has not proven that his slander
ous charges against Rev. J. H. Nelson have a
scintilla of truth in them, find he never can
prove it.
■J. Be has not proven that religious liberty in
Spain makes it comfortable for Protestant
teachers there, or that Spain is not low in the
stale of nations, nor can he ever prove it.
3. He has not proven that Archbishop
Hughes was friendly to our common school
system, nor can he ever furnish the proof of it.
"4 He has not proven that John Wesley was
divloyal to the flag of his country, the British
flat:, nor can he ever prove it.
5. He has not furnished any creditable tes
timony to disprove my quotation from "The
Shepherd of the Valley," nor can he ever bring
such testimony.
»;. He has brought no evidence to disprove
my quotation from Bronson's Quarterly Keview
for October, 1852, nor can he ever bring such
evidence.
7. He has brought no evidence to disprove
my quotation from the New York Tablet, nor
can he ever produce any creditable testimony
against it.
8. He has not proven his charge that 1
purMed or misrepresented Hecker in my cita
lions from his The Church and the Age, nor
can he ever prove it.
0. He has never proven that he told the
truth when he said my quotation from Hecker
■was from the preface'of the book, nor can he
ever prove it. »
10. He has not proven that the section of
'•(iury's Compendium" which I quoted teaches
decent morals, nor can he ever prove it.
11 . He has not proved to us, nor can he ever
prove, that the moral teaching of "Gury's Com
pendium is any the less vile because "these"
propositions "are explained farther down to be
Vxtraconstitutional,' as we would call it in
American law."
12. He has not proven that Peter, who is
claimed as his first Pope, was never married,
nor can he ever prove it.
13. He has not proven that Peter's wife's
mother did not lie sick of a fever, as the Bible
declares, nor can he. ever prove it.
14. He has not proven that the Apostle Peter
was ever in Rome, nor can he ever prove it.
L 5. He has not proven, nor can he ever
prove, that my quotations from Father Mc-
Glynn (which" he styles "apocryphal") are
either apocryphal or "extraconstitutional."
16. He has not proven that Protestants are
the enemies of the public school system of this
country, as he charges, nor can he ever
prove it.
17. Lastly, and most important of all, he has
not proventhat the priests, as Romanists, are
out oi politics, and he never can prove it.
1 have given, in my previous paper, a tes t of
the unreliability of "my critic. I furnished a
perfect transcript of the section of Hecker
from which I quoted. The Call printed it
word for word as I copied it. But for lack of
time and space I should certainly have used
the whole section, comprising four pages, in
my Temple address as bearing directly on the
point 1 was illustrating. As your readers have
seen in the full quotation in my last communi
cation I did not in any respect' garble the text
or pervert the meaning of the author quoted.
My critic was clearly convicted of gross mis
representation, either willful or ignorant. Ke
can take either horn of the dilemma as he may
choose. So complete was the exposure of his
undignified and unpTincipied methods of con
troversy that it •wrought him up to a tempestu
ous fury, in which condition probably he wrote
his last'paper. No doubt he is heartily asdamed
of his ebullition of temper ere this and we
must overlook it.
It would be folly to stack up reference-books
In your office to verify every quotation made
when an intelligent public, with access to
great public libraries, have the opportunity
of verifying for themselves. It would be some
thing of a burden to pack my library, which
consists of 5000 to 6000 volumes and weighs
several tons, over to the newspaper office in
order that my quotations should be verified.
Every quotation I have given thus far has
been a true transcript or translation of the
book quoted.
I feel like making an apology for having
consumed so much of your valuable space dur
ing the last few weeks. lam done for the
present. When discussion of great questions
degenerates into wrangling, I stop. Jangling
words, like jangling voices, are very discord
ant. Enough has been said in your columns
to awaker. public attention anew to the errors
of Remanism. and the people are tninking for
themselves and we are pleasnd. What the
world needs is more light to dispel the dark
ness. My critic in his last communication
says "the readers of this controversy are the
members of my own church," meaning, I
suppose, Protestant people. What does he
mean by this statement? Surely there are
many Catholics who can read! Have they
bf en commanded not to read trie last page of
The Call? What can this mean? Is The
• all on the "Index Expurgatorius"? Liberty
forbid it: Wf.stwood Wright Case.
G. A.. Hubbell, business manager of the
Patriot, adds the following communication
to the lengthening record of the "contro
versy.
Office American Patriot, )
81S» Market St., Dec. 27, 1895.1
Editor San Francisco Call — Dear Sir: It ap
pears that Peter C. Yorke, Chancellor Areh
diocf se, San Francisco, is uncontrollably angry
because your readers have been informed of the
fact tiiat Jesuits are so bad in every conceiva
ble manner under the sun, as soon "as they get
the power mid the opportunity, that even the
Pope of Rome had to destroy'them. He is ex
ceedingly angry because your readers have
been informed that most, if not all, the civil
ized countries of the world, for scli-preserva
tion, had to run these Jesuit priests out.
Peter C. Yorke says that tne long list of gov
ernments expelling the Jesuits mentioned in
my last communication is incorrect. We admit
that this iist was a iittle incorrect; we laid this
irap to catch Peter C. Yorke. The incorrect
ness of the long iist consisted in it not being
longer. We know, however, that one-quarter
Of tlie list is sufficient to convince any one who
has not sworn his first allegiance to the Pope
of Rome, that the Jesuit is a knave.
"Jesuit."' Why, even the schoolchildren
know that the Roman Jesuit is a crafty, de
ceitful, perjuring fraud. And why shouldn't
every true American place a Jesuit beneath his
contempt and put no reliance whatever upon a
Jesuit oath in the face of such damnable jug
glery as this.
I'iider the heading "Mental Reservations,"
Sanchez, a Jesuit writer and authority, says:
"A man may swear that he never did sucfi a
thing (though he actually did it), meaning
within himself that he did not do so on a cer
tain day, or before he was born, or understand
ing any other circumstance, while the words
which he employs have no such meaning.
And this is very convenient in many cases,
and quite innocent when necessary or con
venient to one's health, honor or advantage.''
Filutius, another Jesuit authority, says: "It is
the intention that determines the quality of
the action." (Transcript '25, chapter 3, ques
tions 328 and 331.) And he suggests a still
surer method of avoiding falsehood, which is
I this: "After saying aloud, 'I swear that I have
! not done that, 'to add in a low voice, 'to-day';
! or. after sayiug aloud, 'I swear,' to interpose in
| a whisper 'that I say,' and then continue aloud,
I 'that I have, not done that.' This, you perceive,
I is telling the truth."
Peter C. Yorke may not know of the above
authorities. His reading seems limited to a
few Catholic schoolbooks. He has read no'.h- I
ing of history, except little squibs about his ;
native Ireland. He seems to know little or i
nothing of the expulsion of the Jesuits from
every civilized nation except the United
States. He doesn't know tiiat Cardinal Man
ning wrote a work called "Vatican Decrees in i
Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance," which,
like Mr. Gladstone's work of exactly the same !
name, is quoted "Vatican Decrees." He i
doesn't seem to know anything but his uative j
billingsgate, "You are a liar," "you are a j
liar." this he brought with him from the i
bogs of Ireland. It is his birthmark; but |
then this is in keeping with the majority of j
Roman priests who proiess to follow the meek j
and lowly Jesus.
People "who lived in Mexico at the time of j
the expulsion of the priests from that country |
tell us that in 1848 and 18U7 scores of priests |
were hanged there because of- their treason,
and the sight of their carcasses looked like
that of beeves hanging up at slaughter-houses
and in front of meat markets. It must be re
membered that it was the Catholic people who
were thus compelled to take such summary
action ugainst those Jesuit priests. In Catholic
France the tyranny, oppression and devices of
the priesthood led, in 17i)2 and 1793, to such
extremes that the people rose in their frenzy
and guillotined the priests and threw them in
piles for the soap vats.
P. C. Yorke in his communication refers to
the "Bovard -Brewer -Case- Hubbell-.Morgan-
Quitzow, et al." controversy. This Saint Bill
ingsgate, editor of the religious paper (?) called
the Monitor, forgets that he is not in Ireland
and that the holiday season in California is
not fair time at Donnybrook. The motto of
the festive Mick in his native bog, "when you
see ahead, hit it," is, however, being consist
ently followed ty Saiut Billiugsgate, the
apologist for Rome.
Priest Yorke (Saint Billingsgate) suggests
that he cannot "meet this moral leper ' with
out instinctively raising the cry, "unclean,
unclean."
Very well, Father Mick, and may you keep
crying "unclean, unciean" so long as the
police permit you to live outside the pest
house. You evidently intend io apply th^.se
words to me, but out ot thine own mouth
shalt thou be judged, thou wicked servant.
In Holy Writ we read that when he who had
leprosy met another in the way the leper was
obliged to cover his mouth and issue the warn- |
ing cry, "Unclean, unclean." When he had;
suffered from his loathsome disease for many j
years, this cry became doubtless "instinctive." I
Even so, when P. C. Yorke meets the business ;
manager of the Patriot he complies "rtth the :
law of Moses, and. conscious of his own filthi
ness, he cries, "Unclean, unclean." When he
meets Rev. Mr. Bovard, a minister of <iod, he j
turns aside into a wilderness of his own |
imaginings crying, "Unclean. Unclean." When i
by Dr. Case, the man of God. he hears men- |
ti'oned the words "Light and truth," he |
shrinks back into his own loathsome self, cry- j
ing, instinctively, "I nclean, unclean."
And again, Mr. Editor, of what value Is a |
priest's oath when the following may be the
measure of his moral clinracter according to
canon law, found in "Elements of Ecclesi
astical Law," by Smith, a standard work in
this diocese: "Question— ls it allowable to
transfer priests of bad morals from one parish j
to another instead of deposing them?
"Answer— lf the character oi such priests is
unknown in the new parish, and if there is a
reasonable hope that by the change they will
reform, it is unquestionably lawful to transfer
them to another parish."
Imagine, if you please, the moral value of j
the word oi a priest who comes into a new i
parish because of his bad morals. Imagine j
such a man in the confessional putting ques
tions to and sitting as judge over your wiie
and daughters and the good sisters of charity,
who live devoted and unselfish lives.
Why was R. Becker, the parish priest of St. !
Helena, Cal., removed to Urten Bay (Mich.) j
diocese? For his health? If P. C. Yorke does |
not know, possibly he might ascertain upon
Inquiring of his Archbishop.
Postscript^ m— Now, Mr. Editor, we mignt as !
well allude in closing to P. C. Yorke's facility ,
for crying liar, liar, as a very natural result, i
It is shown in this communication that the
Jesuit code justifies dissembling and lying as a !
means to an end. And if Jesuits can lie, why I
not Romish priests? The answer is, they can !
and they do. And P. C. Yorke is but a sample i
copy.
Some of your readers, we are told, are making i
scrapbook collections. For their benefit the fol- j
lowing narration is quoted from a well-known
Roman Catholic book, showing that lying is
not only permissible, but enjoined by the !
Romish church when the members of that faith ■
are thereby benefited.
THE LIE TAUGHT.
"Father Razzi of the Order of Camaldoti re- :
lates that a certain youth having lost his :
father, was sent by his mother to the court of a
prinoe. The mother, who had a great devotion \
to Mary, when she parted with him made him !
promise to recite every day a 'Hail Mary' and
add these words: "Blessed Virgin, help me in '
the hour of my death.' The youth arrived at;
court, but sooii began to lead so dissolute a life j
that his master was obliged to send him away. ■
"In despair, without means of support, he '■
went into the country and became a highway I
robber; but even then he did not omit to j
recommend himself to Our Lady, as his mother !
had directed him. At length he. fell into the |
hands of justice and was condemned to death, j
Being in prison the evening before hisexeett
tion and thinking of his disgrace, the grief of I
his mother and the death which awaited him,
he fell to weeping bitterly. The devil, seeing !
him so oppressed by melancholy, appeared to <
him in the form oi a beautiful young man, |
and said to him that he would release him j
from death and prison if he would follow his j
directions. The convict engaged to do all that
he required. Then the pretended youth made
known to him that he was the devil and had
come to his assistance. In the first place he
ordered him to renounce Jesus Christ and the
holy sacraments. The youth consented.
"He then required him to renounce the Virgin i
Mary and her protection. 'This,' exclaimed I
the young man, 'I will never do," and turning i
to Mary, repeated the customary prayer his j
motherhad taught him: 'Blessed Virgin, help
me in the hour of death.' At these words the
devil disappeared. The youth remained in
great affliction for the wickedness he had com- i
mitted in denying Jesus Christ. He invoked
the Blessd Virgin and she obtained for him, by \
her own prayers, a great sorrow for all his sins
■0 that he "made his confession with much i
weeping and contrition.
"On his w ay to the gallows, happening to pass
before a statue of Mary, he saluted her with :
his usual prayer: 'Blessed Virgin, help me in ■
the hour of my death.' And the statue, in the ■
Eresence of all, inclined its head and saluted j
im. Deeply moved he begged to be allowed j
to kiss the feet of the image. The executioners !
refused, but afterward consented on account i
of the clamor of the people. The youth stooped !
to kiss her. feet, and Mary extended her arm .
from that statue, took him by the hand and |
held him so strongly that no power could move j
him. At this prodigy the multitude shouted I
'Pardon! pardon!' And pardon was granted. I
Having returned to his country he led an ex- j
emplary life, and was always most devoted to |
Mary, who had delivered him from temporal |
and eternal death." ["Glories of Mary," pp. j
212-214.]
Postcriptum No. 2— ln regard to Roman
priests' oath, we find one recorded in "Roman
ism ; The Danger Ahead ," by A. J. Grover, page I
115, that is as bad as that given to The CALL ■
readers recently, because it has in it this dam
nable aud consistent clause with Romanish
hatred to our system of government as follows : •
"That the zeal of the priest is to be against all
heretical kings, princes, slates or powers." In
confirmation of the above, Archbishop Man
ning says in "Essays on Religion and Litera- !
ture," published in 1807, on page 410: "More- !
over, the right of deposing kings is inherent in j
the supreme sovereignty, which the l'opcs, as ,
vicegerents of, Christ, exercise over all \
Christian nations." G. A. Hubbell.
"THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH,"
Father Yorke Replies to Dr. Bovard on Ques
tions of Catholic Doctrine.
The Rev. Father Yorke contributes the
following in answer to a recent cdmmuni
cation of the Rev. Dr. Bovard of Alameda :
San Francisco, Dec. 27, 1895.
To the Editor of the San Francisco (-'all—
Dear Sir: In a communication wnich ap
peared in your magnificent Christmas number
Rev. F. D. Bovard gives his views or. certain
phase* of the present controversy. The tone of
that communication was excellent, and 1 hope
to be able to answer it in the same good spirit.
I agree with him that "there are some funda
mental differences between Catholicism and
Protestantism to which attention can be called
without unjust reflection on either." I might
add that if we could only contra** our contro
versy to these points on which one communion
really differs from the other we might more
easily reach if not an agreement at least toie
rance and mutual respect.
(1.) lam inclined to believe that Dr. Bovard
has been mislead by his authorities concern
ing the attitude of the Catholic church toward
the Bible. He states: "The Catholics hold
that by virtue of the supernatural power be
stowed on the church in the beginning it has
the right, through properly constituted coun
cils, to add to the doctrines of the Bible. They
hold further that the decrees and dogmas of
the church are of equal authority with the
Bible in ali matters pertaining to conscience,"
If I understand Dr. Bovard aright 1 am
afraid that he has not caught the meaning of
Catholic teaching; on this matter. Catholics
and Protestants agree that Christianity is are
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1595.
vealed religion. By that we mean that God
has spoken to man and lias told him certain
truths. Let us call these truths the "deposit of
faith," or more popularly •'revelation." Now,
Catholics teach that this revelation was com
plete in Christ anrt the apostles. With them
the telling of new truths ceased. Since their
time no new dogma has been communicated to
man. Neither Pope nor council can add a
single jot or tittle to the original deposit of
faith. .
This is the teaching of Catholic theologians,
and Dr. Bovard will see that on this point we
are a unit with Protestants. The difference
between us lies in another direction. It is a
difference in theory rather than a difference in
j practice. It consists in the diverging answers
j given to the question: Wherein is revelation
I contained? God has spoken toman. He has
i told him several truths. Where are we to find
these truths?
Protestants answer these truths are to be
found in the Bible. God's revelation is con
j tamed in (Jon's book. Webster in his die-
I tionary makes "revelation" synonymous with
ihe Bible. This is only another way of ex
pressing the famous declaration of Chilling
\ worth, "The Bible and the Bible alone is the
j religion of Protestants."
Catholics answer that the truths which God
has revealed are 10 be found in the Bible
i and in the unwritten traditions'. They do not
j look upon the Bible as a complete record of
i revelation. They remark that churches were
I established and preaching carried on before
the Bible was written. The truths which (!od
bad revealed were carried to the ends of the
earth before men knew what books made up
the Bible. They appeal to the structure of the
book itself n.s a demonstration that it was not
intended to be a complete record of revelation,
and therefore they hold that there may be and
are truths which were revealed by God to man
and which have not been set down in Holy
Writ.
The difference in the two answers may be ex- I
cmplified in this manner. In the United States I
we have the statute law and the common law. I
The statute law is made up of specific enact
ments set forth in more or less plain terms in
writing. The common law is made up of en- i
actments which originally -were not set forth
In writing, but the tenor of which is discovered
from the practices of courts and their formal
decrees.
Now, the Protestant theory declares that
there is nothing in revelation but statute law.
Whatever hns not been set down In writing in
God's code, the Bible, has no force. The Cath
olic theory contends that there is in revelation
both statute law and common law, and that
there are some things which Christ revealed to
his disciples which have not been set down in
the Bible.
The reason for the Protestant answer is to be
found in the theory of private judgment.
When In the sixteenth century the reformers j
sought for a theological explanation to justify i
their separation from Rome, they promulgated j
the doctrine that the rule or standard of faith >
was the reason of each man working out (or j
i himself* religion from the Bible. They stated i
tlint slod has written a letter to his children. I
' This letter is the Bible. We are each of us to
[ study it and from that study we shall find
i what God wishes us to believe.
In such a theory, of course, there is no room. I
for tradition. Every man is his own Pope. >
He lias before him all that God has said. He |
is to interpret it for himself. Revelation lies
in the Bible like a child's building blocks in j
| their case. One man takes them and builds i
j one structure, anotlur man takes them and j
builds anotner. He has no materials except j
j what he finds in the Bible. He has no draw
\ ings, plans or specifications to guide him in
his work.iind the result is the natural one,
that in the space of thiee centuries the struc
tures which have been erected from the same
blocks have beeu almost infinite in their di
versity.
The'reason of the Catholic answer is to be
found in the conception of a teaching church.
When men to-day wish to promulgate a re
ligious or a political doctrine they find that
the most efficacious way is to found an organi
zation to spread their tenets. Catholics believe
j that Christ acted In this manner. He wrote
| nothing himself, but he organized his disci-
I ciples into a society with a definite govern
-1 inent and definite oflicers, and to this society
, he gave the commission to teach his doctrines,
i The members of this society went'forth and by
word of mouth conveyed "to other? what the
Master had told them. Their orders were not
I to write but to make disciples. He promised
I to remain with his society and to oversee it
I and to take care that it should never change
or mutilate or corrupt or add to the revelation
which he left in its charge.
In the course of time certain members of
this society wrote books. These books were j
written not ns a constitution and by-laws for i
! the society, but for quite other purpose?. Four L
■ of the boots were selected portions of the "Life .
i of Christ," strung together to prove certain !
j doctrines. One of them was a narrative of the :
i domes of two of the apostles. Most of them |
; were letters sent on various and oftentimes ;
j apparently trivial occasions either to particn- j
! lar persons or to communities. A collection of
! these writing* was made and is known as the
: New Testament.
Now, from the fact that there is nothing in
i these documents themselves, which would !
'■ show that they were intended to be a complete i
record of revelation, and from the fact that
some' of them speak of matters which were not
written down, but were afterward to be told
by words of mouth, and from the fact that for j
i 400 years no man knew how many books were i
! in this New Testament, Catholics b.'lieve that j
| there are points in Christ's revelation which |
! have not been sot down in the New Testament,
; and they believe, moreover, that the coramis
i Bion which Christ gave to his society still i
; hold?, and that it is trom that society and not |
(from the written word alone that we are to !
'■ learn what things God has spoken unto man.
i This theory makes room for tradition. It
I recognizes the existence of the common as well |
as of the statute law. *
I stated in the beginning that the difference !
I between Catholics and Protestants in this mat- I
I ter is a difference in theory rather than a dif- j
j ference in practice. As a matter of fact, with ,
! the exception of a few insignificant sects, no
, Protestant denomination acts up to its theory |
i of the Bible and nothing but the Bible.
Let us take, for instance, the question of in-
I spiration. By inspiration we mean that such
I and such a book is the word of God. Now
! whether any book has been inspired or not is j
a fact which can be known only by revelation. ;
Unless God tells man that he is the author of j
this volume or that there is no way for man to |
find it out. In the case therefore, say of the
Gospel of St. Matthew, how are we to know j
whether it is inspired or not? The fact that it
j is inspired is a fact of revelation. If all re vela- i
I tion is contained in the Bible then we must |
| find in the Bible the statement that St. Mat- :
thew is inspired. But nowhere do we find such '
a statement. Nowhere do we find it said that
this book or that is scripture. The fact that it
is scripture is known some other way then j
i from the Bible, and thus in the very beginning
a big hole is made in the theory of the Bible
and nothing but the Bible. In accepting thetr I
New Testament Protestants accept the Catholic j
theory which places In the custody of the i
! church certain revealed truths not set down in j
Holy Writ.
A more remarkable instance of contradiction '
Is to be found in the observance of the first j
day in the week as the Sabbath. It is beyond i
all reasonable doubt that the commandments i
hallow the seventh day. Yet with the excep- |
tion ot a few sectaries all Protestants observe j
Sunday. It is true we can prove from Script
ure that the obligation to keep the seventh
day has been abolished; but it is just as true
that we cannot show from Scriptures that we
are bound to keep the first day. The Christian
Sunday is not a Bible institution, but it is a
church institution, and when Protestants ob
serve it they are acting in contradiction to
their theory that the Bible and the Bible alone j
is the religion of Protestants.
The moot remarkable instance, however, is
their abandonment of their theological theo
ries and their practical agreement with Cath
olics is to be found in their rejection of pri
vate judgment. The exercise of private judg
ment implies that each man takes the Bible
for himself, reads it, studies it and gathers
therefrom the will of God in his regard.
Hence each one is free to adopt his own inter
pretation of Holy Writ as his religion and his
rule of life.
Now, as a matter of fact, all over the Prot
estant world this theory has been contradicted
by the practice of having churches with
definite creeds and articles of religion. The
creeds and articles of religion are interpreta
tions of the Bible. They proclaim that such
and such truths are contained in revelation.
Instead of leaving their members free to dis
cover each his own creed they demand as a
condition of entrance subscription to certain
straight interpretations of the Bible. If after
entrance any member interprets the Scripture
by private judgment and reaches a conclusion j
contrary to the creeds, such member is incon- i
tineutly tried for heresy and expelled. Chil
dren are not allowed to grow up with free and
inprejudiced minds, but are from infancy
indoctrinated with one or the other style of
interpretation, and, as a matter of fact, the
vast majority of ihe members of the Protestant
churches are members by inheritance.
Thus you will see, Mr. Editor, that while in
theory there is a wide difference between
Protestants and Catholics, in practice they
have come over to our side. They acknowl
edge the existence of revealed truths outside
of the Bible, and they interpret the Bible just
as we do through the churcn. The real differ
ence between us is the historical difference, i
the difference of fact. Which church is the I
society established by Jesus Christ with the j
power to guard revelation and the power to
communicate it? Is it the Methodist church
or the Presbyterian church or any of the other
churches which sprang up in the revolution
of the sixteenth century, or is it that old
church which goes back beyond the sixteenth
century and beyond the sixth to the days of
the martyrs, to '.he days of the Apostles, >to the
gates of Damascus and to tne upper chamber
of Jerusalem?
2. This agreement in practice between Catho
lics and Protestants renders it easier to deal
with Dr. Bovard's second point, the Bible in
the public schools. Dr. Bovard's Contention is
that there should be a standard of morals in
the public schools. If the public school is to
teach morality thin contention is correct. Now
he 'ays, we may do one of three things, (a)
We may excogitate a natural system of moral-
I ity, (b) We may adopt a revealed system of
morality, or (c) We may restore the Bible.
Dr. Bovard says with truth that a natural
system of morality is inadequate. I would
not follow him as far as he goes in his descrip
tion of its inadequacy. There is in his denun
ciation of it a tinge "of the doctrine of total
depravity. We Catholics believe in the na
tural goodness of numan nature. God's
mercy and God's grace are boundless. He is
not a respecter of persons and in every nation
he that ftareth him and "worketh. justice is
acceptable unto him.
Uowever, admitting that the natural system
is inadequate, the choice lies between a re
vealed system of morality and a Bible system.
By a revealed system of morality is meant a
system which is based on certain truths which
a society declares to be revealed by God. By a
Bible system is meant the mere enunciation of
the Bible words, leaving to the hearers the
task of drawing from them moral lessons.
Now, I think what I have already said about
the inconsistency of the Protestant theory
with the Protestant practice shows that there
is no real difference between these two sys
tems, iam fully convinced that non-sectarian
Bible-reading is" either useless or a frand. My
reasons are that the Bible was never intended
to be a textbook of morals. The moral truths
in it have to be selected, and all selection is
interpretation, and all interpretation is sec
tarian. It does not matter whether a society
declares in its own words that such a doctrine
is revealed by God or a teacher declares in the
words of the Bible that such end such a law is
established by God; both are equally sectarian.
Just as in practice Protestants use the Catho
lic rule of iaith so in practice non-sectarian
Bible-reading must necessarily become sec
tarian.
Another point. There is no such thing as
Bible morality. Morality, like religion,
evolves. The morality of the Pentateuch is
not the morality of the Gospel. Dr. Bovard
complains that Plato sanctioned lying. lam
afraid that to the ordinary schoolboy he would
have much difficulty in exculpating Abraham
and Jacob from the same charge. There are
mtny things in Holy Writ which the un
stable wrest to their own destruction, and lam
greatly afraid that if non-sectarian Bible
reading were possible the lessons inculcated
would at times be more startling than useful.
But as a matter of fact non-sectarian Bible
reading is a humbug. Iri the first place we
must procure a non-sectarian Bible. King
James' version is corrupt. In no less than 300
places the translators tampered with it to
make a point against Catholics.
The revised version, which is the admission
by fair-minded Protestants of the Catholic
charge against the authorized version, is an
improvement, but it has errors of its own. We
cannot ask Protestants to read any of sixteen
Catholic translations. Then there is the ques
tion of the Jews. They pay their taxes just as
well as Christians. Shall we compel them to
read the New Testament? Then there are the
children of atheists and nothingarians, how are
we to treat them? What kind of non-sectarian
reading will reconcile all these contending in
terests? Perhaps the genealogies in Genesis
might be accepted as a compromise.
In teaching morality as in teaching religion
there are but two ways. Either teach a full
definite code or leave it altogether to each in
dividual. In our miblic schools we cannot
tench a satisfactory code of morality without
teaching religion, and as long as our schools
are open to all children, Jew and Gentile, we
cannot teach religion. Denominational schools
are possible, purely secular schools are possi
ble, out that moral monstrosity known as the
non-sectarian religious school is a humbug be
fore God and man.
3. Dr. Bovard says that "it is unfortunate for
the claini of the Catholic church that it can
not show by its nlstory that it is friendly to
the system of free education." Again Dr. Bo
vard is misled by his authorities. From the
very beginning of her history the Catholic
cnurch favored free education. Let me<iuote
from a Protestant who has often manifested
his anti-popish tendencies, Canon Farrar:
"Consider what the church did for educa
tion. Her 10,000 monasteries kept alive and
transmitted that torch of learning which oth
erwise would have been extinguished long be
fore. A religious euueation, incomparably su
perior to the mere atnleticism of tne noble's
hall, was extended to the meanest serf who
wished for it. This fact alone, by proclaiming
the dignity of the individual, elevated the en
tire hopes and destinies ol the race. The hu
manizing machinery of schools and universi
ties, the civilized propaganda of missionary
zeal, were they not duo to her? And, more
than this, her very existence was a living edu
cation; it showed that the successive ages
were not sporadic and accidental scenes, but
were continuous and inherent acts in the one
great drama.
"In Christendom the yearnings of thr> past
were fulfilled ; the direction of the future de
termined. In dim but magnificent proeesyion
'the giant forms of empires on their way to
ruin' had each ceded to her their scepters,
bequeathed to her their gifts. * * * Life be
comes one broad, rejoicing river, whose tribu
taries, once severed, were not now united, and
whose majestic stream, without one break in
its continuity, flowert on, under the common
sunlight, from its source beneath the throne
of God." (1 b., p. 186, Lect. V, "Christianity
and the Race.")
To this I might add that the City of Rome
had a free school system as early as 1597. In
1179 the third Council of Lateran commanded
that every cathedral should have a free school.
In Rome not only the schools but the uni
versities and all other higher institutions of
learning are free.
The first free school syetem among English
speaking peoples was founded in Cork by a
Catholic lady. Nano Nagle. Her successors
are the Presentation Sisters, who have two
houses in this City. All the Catholic teaching
orders, and their name is legion, are attempts
made by the church to promote out of her own
resources free education. The Catholicchurch
can challenge comparison with any church in
her zeal for learning. I ought to be permitted
to ask Dr. Bovard what his church ha* done for
education? It is a common trick to claim our
State school system as a Protestant institution.
It is just as much Catholic as it is Protestant,
as much Jewish as Christian. Our State sys
tem was not established by any church. The
credit for it belongs to all the citizens. But
what, I repeat, has Methodism done for free
education? The poor whites of the Carolinas
belong to some denomination of your church.
Dr. Bovard, and you know they are the most
ignorant, the most degraded people in Christen
dom. You have not sent them missionaries,
you have not given them schools. In the whole
United States you have not a single parish
school giving free education to a single child,
while the Catholics give free education to
nearly 1,000,000 children. It is not fair to
compare the work of the State with its limitless
wealth to the work of a single church ; but it is
fair to compare church with church, and in
that comparison we have nothing to fear.
Over half a century ago a Scotch Presbyterian,
Laing, put his sentiments on record, arid these
sentiments I quote lor the edification of those
who accuse the Catholic church of being op
posed to free education.
"In Catholic Germany, in France, Italy, and
even Spain, the education of the common people
in reading, writing, arithmetic, music, manners
and morals (wliicu last two elements of true
education should be printed in capitals) is at
least as generally diffused and as faithfully
promoted by the clerical body as in Scotland.
It is by their own advance and not by keeping
back of the people that the Popish priesthood
of the present day seek to keep ahead of the
intellectual progress of the community in
Catholic lands, and they might, perhaps, retort
on our Presbyterian clergy, and ask if they,
too, are in their countries at the head of the
intellectual movement of the age?
"Education is, in reality, not only not re
pressed, but is encouraged by the Popish
church, and is a mighty instrument in its
hands and ably used.
"In every street in Rome, for instance, there
are at short distances public primary schools
for the education of the children of the lower
and middle classes in the neighborhood.
Rome, with a population of 158,078 souls,
has 372 public primary schools, with 482
teachers and 14,099 children attending them
Has Edindurgh so many public schools for the
instruction ol those classes? I doubt it. Ber
lin, with a population about double that of
Rome, has only 204 schools. Rome, also, has
her university, with an average attendance
of G(iO students, and the Papal States, with a
population of 2,500 000 (in 184b") contain
seven universities. Prussia, with a population
of 14,000,000 (nearly six times as large j, has
but seven universities."
These are amusing statistical facts— and in
structive as well as amusing— when we re
member the boasting and glorif>*sng carried en
a few years back, and even to this day, about
the Prussian educational system for the people
and the establishment of Governmental
schools, and enforcing by police regulation
the school attendance of the children of the
lower classes.
The statistical fact that Rome has above 100
schools more than Berlin, for a population
little more than half of that of Berlin, puts to
night a world of humbug about systems of
national education carried on by Governments
and their moral effects on society.
4 - Dr. Bovard makes a comparison between
Catholic and Protestant countries. 1 regret
that his comparison is not fair. He takes Ger
many, England and the United States and
compares them with Italy, Spain and Mexico.
\\ hen a small boy is bullied by a big one the
bully is usually invited to tackle one of his
own size. When Ir. Bovard was making com
parisons he should have set side by side nations
of equal resources. Let him compare Protest
ant Germany with Catholic Germany, France
with England, Belgium with Holland. Ulster
with Leinster. In every point— in wealth, in
intelligence, in morality, in art, in science, in
literature, in popular happiness, in civil free
dom, in tolerance, in any other quality what
soever—the Catholic countries cannot only
compare favorably but can outstrip Protestant
countries. Evidently Dr. Bovard has not made
a study of this matter, else he would not have
appealed so recklessly to the text, "By their
fruits ye shall know them."
5. Lastly in regard to our attitude toward
the public schools, it has undergone no change.
The change has been Jn Dr. Bovard and not in
the church. Calumny cannot last forever and
the cry that was raised against us was a false
cry and had at last to die down. Catholics have
never been opposed to any system of education
which will not do violence to their religious
convictions. When v-tarian preachers intro
duced their sectarian doctrines into the public
schools Catholics protested. When they pro
tested they were shouted down. With "lungs
of leather and throats of brass the preachers,
like the coyote, howled and howled and
howled. But Catholics were not to be intimi
dated with wind. They persevered and if to
day the parents of this country can send their
children to the public schools with the confi
dence that their religious sensibilities will not
be outraged, they owe it to the gallant fight
made by the Catholic citizens of the United
States.
As to parochial schools, we build them where
the parents want them. Dr. Bovard seems to
think that they do not give as good a literary
education as the public schools. 1 know of my
own knowledge that in this City of San Fran
cisco they give better. I am willing to take the
work of the children of our parish schools and
put it side by side with the work of children
from the common schools, and leave it to un
prejudiced judges to decide which is superior.
I am not running down the nublic schools.
Their work is good, but I know by my own ex
perience, and every teacher who visited our
exhibit in the Mechanics* 1 Pavilion knows too,
that the parish school work is better.
There are a few more points in Dr. Bovard's
letter which I should like to discuss, but I am
afraid your patience and the patience of your
long-suffering readers is exhausted. Yours
truly, p. c. Yoeke.
CREAMERIE IN TROUBLE.
Creditors Are Asking a Settle
ment of Their Various
Claims.
The Debts Amount to $32,000 and a
Settlement at One-Fifth That
Sum Is Offered.
The Original Creamerie, the yellow
fronted Market-street restaurant, on which
so much was spent in fittings and decora
tions, is in straits and creditors are clam
oring for some settlement of $32,000 in
debts which the proprietors have managed
to accumulate in the past two years.
Within the past few days J. J. Raver
has placed several attachments on the
place, and now several attorneys and the
owners are wrestling with the problem of
how the produce-dealers, poultrymen and
coffee merchants can be satisfied and the
establishment still keep its doors open.
It was mainly through trying to raise
their own produce, poultry, meat and
milk that Young & Weisman became in
volved in pecuniary entanglements. They
conceived the idea that by starting a ranch
on a large scale they could supply all their
own needs without having recourse to the
commission merchants, and also increase
the prolits of the restaurant.
So a large ranch near Petaluma was
leased for a term of years and expensive
improvements introduced. They rather
expected that the place would be" a drain
on their resources at first, but when the
time came that the ranch should have
begun to pay they were amazed that the
outgo continued greater than the income.
Chickens that could be purchased in the
market for 50 cents figured b*2>£ cents in
their books, and vegetables, milk and
other commodities came at correspond
ingly high figures.
Then the California violet craze struck
the town and the firm went into the rais
ing of the modest flowers on a splendid
scale. This venture also proved unprofit
able and a lack of funds began to stare
them in the face.
Then money-borrowing was resorted to
and a number of friends and relatives soon
held the firm's paper representing consid
erable sums;.
(^Finally some of the larger creditors be
gan to scent danger and had the attach
ments placed on the place to save them
selves. Weisman's mother is said to be
possessed of large means, and she came
to her son's rescue with funds sufficient to
relieve the pressure until the creditors
could have a chance to think the matter
over and decide how the affairs of the
firm couid best be settled.
Several meetings were held and a com
mitte, of which N. Whitney and E. B.
Pond were members, was appointod.
Several conferences were had with
Young and Weisman, and the result was
an offer of compromise. The firm was
willing to settle for 20 cents on the dollar,
10 per cent in cash and 10 per cent in six
months, the latter payment to be secured
by notes signed by Mrs. Weisman.
Tiie committee held a meeting yester
day and decided to recommend the accept
ance of this offer. The matter was to have
been settled last night, but a hitch oc
curred, and the meeting was adjourned
until 10 o'clock this morning, when an
other effort will be made to agree on a
settlement.
Attorney E. J. Humphrey represents the
creditors in the case.
"As a matter of fact," he said yesterday,
"the Creamerie has always been a paying
concern, and Young and Weisman lost
their money in outside ventures. A ranch
on which they expected to raise nearly
everything used in the place was started
near Petaluma.
"Everything was on a grand seale —
which took money. They built forty
chicken-houses at about .SSO each, and went
into other things on a corresponding; scale.
Before long they were in $12,000 or $14,000,
and the ranch was still going behind at
the rate of $700 to $300 per month. They
tried to get the owner of the place to take
back his property, but he saw that he had
a good thing and pushed it along. As a
matter of fact their produce, eggs and other
things cost them more than they wou|d
have had to pay had they bought theic in
the open market.
"Then they dropped $3000 trying to raise
California violets which soon became a
drug on the market and could not be made
to pay. If a settlement can be reached so
that the Creamerie can be kept open they
will be all right after a while."
It looks now as though the 20 cents on
the dollar will be accepted. The principal
creditors of the concern are Whitney &
Co., $5000; Harry Corbett, $3600; H. S'olo
man, $2200; C. J. List, $1200; T. D. Burn,
$1200; Natnan & Doi.rman, $560; E. Guit
tard. $500; G. Fedora, $350; employes
$2000. In addition to these there are butch
ers and bakers whose claims make up the
grand total of $32,000.
Get your special office account books made
now at the binding department of the Mysell-
Rollins Company, 22 Clay street. *
A Laborer Suicides.
Gustav Cailly, a laborer who resided at 432
Js.ckson street, committed suicide by hanging
himself in a barn on Sorap's tract early yester
day morning. The body was discovered by E.
F. Soinps at 9 a. M.,and he notified the Cor
oner, who removed the body to the Morgue. It
is not known what prompted Cailly to commit
his rash act, but it is presumed that he was de
spondent as he had been out of a position for
some time and was without funds.
A suit of Jaros Hygienic Underwear worth a
barrel of cures. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg. St.*
Charged With Robbery.
Lee You was booked at the Central station
yesterday on a charge of robbery preferred by
Taom Quok. living at 821'< C Sacramento street.
On Christmas nieht You t-ntered the place of
the complaining witness, and at the point of a
gun secured $20 and a silk umbrella.
Office draughts don't bothei wearer of Jaros
rlygienic Underwear. He is protected from
;limatic changes. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg. St.*
Crook Davis Convicted.
Charles H. Davis, the Eastern crook captured
by Detective Gibson, a few nights ago, was con
victed before Judge Joachimsen yesterday on
a charge of having burglar tools in his posses
sion. He will be sentenced to-day.
Jaros Hygienic Underwear the one under
wear that is comfortable; absorbs moisture;
keeps folks well. Morgan Bros., '229 Montg. st.*
Three Milkmen Convicted.
Three dairymen, J. Heineman. Frank and
John Bowman, were convicted in Judge Low's
court yesterday of selling adulterated milk.
They were fined $10 each. The cases have been
pending since October.
SIR CHARLES ROSS HERE
The Nobleman Has Developed a
Gold Mine in British
Columbia.
THINKS IT IS A BONANZA.
He Opposes Stock Speculation— Does
Not Believe There Will Be
War Over Venezuela.
Sir Charles Ross, who is descended from
one of the oldest and most famous families
of Scotland, is at the Palace.
Everybody remembers his ancestor. Sir
John Ross, the rear-admiral who was cele
brated 100 years ago in Arctic navigation,
He passed through Baffin's Bay to Lan
caster Sound, repeated the trip and was
frozen in for a time in the frigid Gulf of
Boothia. Later he discovered a point in
northern exploration which he believed
was the magnetic Dole. Since then, as for
a long period before, the clans of the
Rosses have distinguished themselves by
many daring deeds.
Sir Charles, the noble descendant of this
renowned house, has been in this country
since October. He has become interested
in gold mining at Roslyn, British Colum
bia, north of Spokane.
He is at present one of the leading
owners in the Center Star mine of that
camp, and he says experts now estimate
there are $700,000 worth of ore in sight in
it. Thus, it appears, he may soon become
owner of millions in the newer part of this
continent.
Sir Charles, who is above medium
height, about 40 years of age, and with
dark hair, eyes and mustache, is a very en
tertaining conversationalist. He says he
is here partly for business and partly for
pleasure. He is interested in extensive
:oal mines in Japan, and for a time
thought of going there to look after them,
but says his interests here will now com
mand all of his attention.
The nobleman has never been in Califor
nia before and he rinds the balmy atmos
phere a pleasant contrast to the frost and
mud of Vancouver, where he has been for
some time.
Many cablegrams awaited him on his ar
rival, and he received more during the
evening. Sir Charles believes this country
is a far better held for mining than South
"I considered it unwise to invest in
these properties," he said; '*but for one
thing I was not early enough. Sir Cecil
Rhodes and his associates managed to g^,
the big properties, so that others wno fol
lowed could only get what was left.
''It is a singular thing that in the new
districts of British Columbia, like Trail
Creek and Slycan, all the big mines
are owned by Americans. My associates
in the Center Star are all Americans also.
The Americans seem to be superior uidees
of mines and they act quickly and usually
manage to get for $20,000 or $30,000 what it
would cost English investors a good many
thousands of pounds.
"I am told that Cripple Creek is attract
ing many people now, and I am wonder
ing whether ihe mines are so good as to
hold it up and keep the place growing or
whether it will collapse and the population
vanish. At Roelyn, where the Center Star
is located, there was for a time great ex
citement. It looked as though an enor
mous camp would be built up, but after
awhile it settled down on a steady basis.
"These stock flurries, I am convinced,
are very bad. I read the other day that in
a single day in London forty firms failed,
owing to the collapse in South African
"In reference to the Venezuela difficulty
it would hardly be fair for me to express
an opinion, owing to the fact of my close
connection with certain phases of the situa
tion. I received some letters and tele
grams the other day in regard to it.
''1 believe from what I have seen, how
ever, that the majority of the people of the
United States do not want war any more
than England does. There is this about
it: England won't fight unless she has to.
It all depends on what action Venezuela
may take. If it takes no hasty position it
will quiet down. That, at least, is my
view of the matter from all I have been
able to learn regarding it.
"One thing has singularly impressed me
in America, and that is the ease with
Which Scotchmen and Americans get on
together. The Americans seem to like us
better than the English. I don't know
why it is, but it was a very pleasant reve
lation to me.
"I have never been so far West in this
country before, and what I have seen thus
far of California pleases me greatly. It is
certainly the most attractive part of the
coast."
Sir Charles is uncertain how long he
may remain here, but he will probably
stay for some time. He is said to be very
wealthy, his estates near Inverness and
elsewhere in the north of Scotland being
very extensive. On these are some an
cient baronial castles.
WHEN GREEK MET GREEK
Willis Polk and Harry Wilson,
Two Society Men, Spar
and Part.
It May Have Been the Rehearsal of
a Duello, but the Assailant
Adopts Parthian Tactics.
Ever since that cotillon when Willis
Polk, either by accident or design, pushed
aside a chair in which Harry Wilson was
about to seat himself, the two social lu
minaries have not been taking tea to
gether. Indeed, the blackest of black
looks have been exchanged between the
pair, while the atmosphere of upperten
dom has been rife with rumors of a duel,
with seconds, surgeons, a grassy field of
honor and all other stage properties called
for by tne ancient ceremonial.
The trouble began after Mr. Wilson had
taken a sudden and most undignified seat
on the floor amid a crowd of fair ladies
and gilded youth at the Christmas cotillon.
He accused Mr. Polk of having maliciously
intended to humiliate him before that
brilliant company, and, despite apologies
and explanations, gave that gentleman a
sounding slap on the face in the presence
of the assembled guests.
And now Dame Rumor lias it a real, old
fashioned duel is contemplated, whereby
Mr. Polk's wounded honor and maltreated
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countenance; may find a healing balm.
Both gentlemen decline to discuss the
! affair, but on Thursday J. F. J. Archibald
received the following note from Mr. Polk:
Dear Jack- I feel that I have been grossly
miHgned and insulted by Harry AVi son ana I
want you to lose no time in going to .him, de
™andu?g an unqualified apology ioi -his ac
tions. Awaiting your reply, I
To J. F. J. Archibald Esq.
In accordance with the mission thus
entrusted to him, Mr. Archibald called
upon Mr. Wilson for the desired apology.
It was not forthcoming. Indeed the gen
tleman reiused to discuss the affair at all,
referring his interlocutor to his seconds, ,
Messrs. St. Clair Boyd and James Carey.
These gentlemen were also seen but wita
no satisfactory result so far as the demanded
apology was concerned. . >
Yesterday a brush between 1 the two
belligerents took place, but the circum
stances surrounding it are enveloped in
mystery. One eyewitness of the affair t
was said to have been Attorney Charles S. ■
Wheeler. ; ■
Mr. Wheeler, when spoken to in refer
ence to the supposed duel, laughed the
story to scorn as being utterly without
foundation. While not wishing to be quoted -
in connection with yesterday's encoun
ter, he is, understood to have, stared that a
moment before the^ abortive street-battle
he left his oth'ce in company with. Mr. Wil- ,
son. ■ As they reached the street Mr. Polk
ran toward them and commenced flourish
ing his arms and threatening Wilson with
hia fists. • •;: V
Mr. Wilson appeared to resist this little
familiarity ana straightway gave chase to
its perpetrator. When Polk observed that
his intended victim, far from taking to •
flight, was making for him under .a. full
head of steam, he recalled the.ancient aphor
ism that "He who lives to rnn away will •
live to fight unother day," and ■ stool not •
on the order of i7is going, but flew' like ■
chaff before the wind. •
Mr. Wheeler, it i? said, not wishing to
see Mr. Wilson dragged into court in con-,
nection with a street quarrel, also gave ■
chase and catching up with Wilson held
him by the arm. Mr. Polk was gyrating
about the scene, takinsr good, care to keep
the railings of a sidewalk elevator between
himself and his adversary; but seeing that
the latter was likely to escape' from the I
clutches of his friendly captor the would- I'
be slugger took to his heels once more and -
continued to run until out of sight. ;
This is understood to be all the light Mr.' .
Wheeler could throw upon the affair if.he- '
were willing to speak for pubhcaliou. .
ELECTRICAL ELEMENTS,
Hanover, in Germany, after trying the
trolley system for its electric cars, has gone
back to the accumulator system.
In Durham, North Carolina, the fight
between the warring telephone companies
has reached that stage where the Bell in
struments are offered free of charge.
The war at Steubenville, Ohio, over tele
phone rates, nas reduced the Bell's chargea
f rom $9 and $7 per quarter to H 50 and
$3 75 per quarter, respectively. Sub
scribers on rive party lines, who U3ed to.
pay $I per year will now pay $6 per year.
A telephone circuit is to be constructed
along all the lines of the trolley car sys
tem in Hartford, Conn., and its suburbs,
so that the conductor may communicate
with the power-house and car dispatcher
in case of accident or delay. . A telephone
wire will be strung on the trolley poles,
and at every eighth pole there will be a
switch for making connections. Each car
will carry a transmitter. It is expected
that the device will prove of great utility
and convenience and will do much to pre
vent accidents and delays on the single
track lines that run long distances into
the suburbs. The device is the invention
of W.C. Fielding of Hartford. It ought,
at least, to prove of great service in re
lieving the minds of the passengers and
the strain on the conductor when the
power is suddenly shut off and thft c-.ir
halted, and every one wants to know just
what the trouble is. There is no more ex
asperating situation of utter helplessness
than to be haited in a trolley rar a mile or
two outside the city line, "and not to bo
able to gain the slightest idea of why the
power lias been shut off or when it is likely
to be turned on again. Not a few sub
urbanites have been brought near to insan
ity of a violent type by just such a situa
tion of trying uncertainty.
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Matting, per yard........... O Cent*
So!id Oak Bed Suit, 7 pieces 525 OO
Solid Oak Folding Bed, with Mirror $25 «O
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