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COLLECTIONS AT SUNDAY SERVICE TO BE GIVEN TO GOOD CHEER
CLUB
   The Christian church choir augmented will give a
   program of sacred music on Sunday,
November 27, at 3:30 o'clock.  The offertory at this
service will be given to the Good Cheer club.
   The program will consist of excerpts from the works
   of Gounod, Mendelssohn,
Stainer, Whitefeld, Bennett, Macfarren and Woodward. 
One of the features of the service will be the
congregational singing led by the choir under Mr.
Johnson's direction, before the singing of each number. 
Dr. Howard McConnell will, in his able manner, bring out
the spiritual significance of the text.
   Dr. McConnell will also at this service give a short
   address on the power of good
music in the church.
   Mr. Johnson, whose long experience in church and
   cathedral work both in this country
and abroad has enabled him to select a program which he
promises all lovers of sacred music to be one of the
best.
   Mrs. Richard Milne Bartle, one of San Jose's leading
   organists, will play three numbers
on the organ;  "The Largo," Dvorak;  "Meditation from
Thais,"  Massenet, and "Torch Light March,"  Guilmant.


THE BLIND CHILD'S PRAYER
"They tell me, father, that to-night
    You wed another bride;
That you will clasp her in your arms
   Where my dear mother died.

"That she will lay her stately head
   Upon your manly breast,
Where she who now lies low in death,
   In her last hours did rest.

"They say her name is Mary, too,
   The name my mother bore;
But father, is she kind and true
   Like the one you loved before?

"And is her step so soft and light,
   Her voice so meek and mild?
And, father, do you think she'll love
   Your blind and helpless child?

"Please, father, do not bid me come
   To greet your lovely bride,
I could not meet her in the room
   Where my dear mother died.

"Her picture's hanging on the wall,
   Her books are lying near;
And there's the harp her fingers touched,
   And there's her vacant chair,

:The chair where by her side I knelt
   To say my evening prayer;
Please, father, do not bid me come---
   I could not meet her there.

"But when I've cried myself to sleep,
   As now I often do,
Then softly to my chamber creep
   My new mamma and you.

"And bid her gently press a kiss
   Upon my throbbing brow,
Just as my own dear mother would---
   Father, you're weeping now.

"Now let me kneel down by your side
   And to the Saviour pray,
That God's right hand may guide you both
   Through life's long, weary way."

The prayer was softly murmured; then
   "I'm weary now," she said;
He gently raised her in his arms
   And laid her on the bed.

Then as he turned to leave the room
   One joyful cry was given;
He turned, to catch that last glad smile---
   His blind child was in heaven.

They laid her by her mother's side,
   And raised a marble fair;
And on it were these simple words;
   "There'll be no blind ones there."


BUYER OF STOLEN CAMERA IS KNOWN, CLAIM
   People passing along San Antonio street early last
   evening noticed a man take a camera
from a machine parked near the Hotel Montgomery.  Being
suspicious of the man they followed and saw him offer
the machine for sale to a couple sitting in a
seven-passenger auto neat San Fernando street on First
street.  They at once went for an officer and returned
with Officer Rafferty just in time to see the thief
going down the street minus the camera.  Officer
Rafferty took notice of the auto and driver with the
machine number plate and took after the thief, arresting
him at Post street.  On his return the couple and auto
were gone.  The prisoner gave the name of Joseph Manning
and according to Chief of Police J. N. Black has been
here but one day and in the state but three months and
that he admitted to being a drug addict and had served
time at Toledo, Ohio, on a petit larceny charge.  The
chief stated a reasonable time would be allowed the auto
driver to bring the camera to the police station, but
action would be taken if this was not done.


MERCURY HERALD:
GENEALOGIST GIVEN VERDICT IN COURT
Man Who Found Heirs to Estate of Lena Rickli Awarded Pay
for Work.
   A case which has attracted much interest was finally
   settled in Judge P.F. Gosbey's court
yesterday when stipulations by attorneys representing
foreign heirs to the estate of Lena Rickli were made
allowing Eugene A. Platt of San Francisco the sum of
$185 in each of the five cases.
   On November 10, 1920, Coroner Amos O. Williams was
   called to a local rooming
house where he found the bodies of Samuel and Lena
Rickli, both having died from escaping gas.
   The couple were supposed to be man and wife and for


   some years had resided in this
city and passed as such.  Bank books and cash amounting
to $3360.83 were found in the room occupied by the
couple and as there were no known relatives this money
was deposited by the coroner to go to the state of
California. HEIRS ARE FOUND.
   Eugene A. Platt, a genealogist, took up the patter
   and made a search and finally
produced birth certificates and other papers which
convince the court the dead man and woman were not
husband and wife but were brother and sister and came to
this country from Switzerland, where there were five
heirs.  These five secured attorneys and put in claims
for the estate but attempted to keep Mr. Platt from
receiving any payment for his labors.
   This opposition was withdrawn by the proceedings
   yesterday and the final settlement
effected.