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San Francisco, Cal., May 4. - The downfall of Oscar Wilde has been a serious blow to the Rev. Kadir Edward Davis, pastor of the Central Christian Church of Oakland. For a week or more he has been almost frantically busy calling in advertising lithographs scattered throughout California announcing that "the Rev. Kadir Edward Davis," popularly known as "the American Oscar Wilde," would appear at a certain date and deliver a lecture. It is a ticklish time for the esthetic clergyman. He no longer wears a sunflower and is struggling with the temptation to cut his long hair. He has had new plates prepared for his display lithographs, and hereafter he will be proclaimed merely as "the versatile gentleman." For years Mr. David traveled over the United States announcing himself as the "American Oscar Wilde," a designation given him by an Eastern paper. The Rev. Dr. Davis is the preacher who gave an impersonation of Richard III. in the pulpit, and before the criticism upon his introduction of the drama to emphasize his sermons had spent itself Parson Davis danced through a sermon to illustrate the harmlessness of the waltz.