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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1895. GLORY OF THE LILIES, All Denominations Preparing to Observe the Easter Festival. SPECIAL MUSICAL SERVICES. Many Choirs Will Be Assisted by Stringed and Wind Instru- ments. To-day the churches celebrate the great- est holiday of the Christian year. The somber crape which in the Catholic and many of the Episcopal churches was used as a symbol of mourning on Good Frid has been thrown aside for Easter lilies, = and the penitential psalms of Lent are re- placed by the triumphant anthem, “He Is Risen.” Of all seasons in the year Easter is the most opportunities for | ¢, and nearly every church in the city has prepared a special amme to celebrate the festival. The fons this year are also elab- one th: beat orate and be WITH BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. How Easter Will Be C Churche ,on Van Ness ave- aborate building that | detailed decc 1d be superfinous. The .sanctuary, however, is adorned with lilies and p: d among the numerous lights on the 1 altar are tall vases of callas and The side altars are decorated W a lilies, all the flowers being na ones. The m t the high mass will consist i ird mass (“The Imperial”), the following choir, as brated in Oatholic | 8t. M nue, is ferns AN O0S— F. E. Willson, , M. E. Byrne, M. H. Hi T Char nor €. J.Sandy rli” (P. Giorza.) The- Robert A. Ublig, leader omeroy, organist and | director. In the evening Rosewig” “Vespers” will d altar of St. Ign X v decorated with | flat. ’ (Espanol), and ing at 7:30 o'clc magnificat by F “Regina Ceeli (Th 1s {ills and G. V. Wood. Church, on Brannan street, utiful mass in_ B flat will be | rendered by a large choir under the direc- tion of Mrs. T. J. Moynihan, wh> will pre- side at the organ for the occasion. At the rtory Hummell’s At St. Rost Millard’s b S o'clock Millard ificat” and_Rosewig’s 1. The following ladies and ntlemen compose the choir: Misses Nugent, <ilgariff, Moran, Campbell, Grant and We Mesdames Coret, Treacey and Wilhelmy, Me Lane, Seiberlich and Donovan. | At St. Joseph’s Church, Tenth and Howard streets, a select choir will ren- der the musi at the 10:30 o’clock | mass to-day, at which there will be a sermon, appropriate to the occasion, with solemn benediction immediately after. Mercadantes cele d mass in B flat and at | y” an anthem for female | 11 "be sung, and “Regina Celi” by | Giorze after the high mass. The choir will be Crawford, Miss Jennie Barnett, sopranos; Mis: T. B. Gibson, Miss Minn as follows: Miss Lottie astman and Mrs. Alice la V. McClosky, Mrs. Chase and Miss Ida John Lerhman, W. A. t Collier and Philip Murphy, tenors . C. Makin, F. P. Scollins, } . Hilkie, and W. Doherty, bassos; or. ganist and musical director, P. J. 0'Sullivan. Solemn high mass will be celebrated at the Italian church of St. Peter and St. Paul, on Dupont street, at 10:30 o. ». P. Giorza’s third mass will rendered under the direction of A. Spadina, organist of the chuarch. The following are the vocalists: Sopranos—Miss L. Goodkind, Miss E. Kreling, Miss B. Gleason and Miss N. Spadina; altos— Mrs. A suinasso and Miss K. bassos—G. Harris n rendered by Miss L. Goo & A. At the offertory fiss Beatrice Glea- sing Mascagni’s “Ave Marie.”” At the elevation ‘““Ave Verum,” composed by Che: Yier de Kontski, will be rendered by Mrs. Dr. G. grllz_\'. The “Regina Ceeli” will be sung by iss Emma Kreling. At the Sacred Heart Church, Cimarosa’s Grand Military Mass will be presented by the following singers: Sopranos—F. Garriss Devine ; altos—M. Mab Fuscher, M. Walsh and F. Fairchild; tenors—Cnarles Moul, H Dinan and T. O’'Brien; bassos—L. A. L Crane and A. Mennie; organist, M. S Eleven o’clock is the hour of the solemn high mass at_the French church on Bush street, Notre Dame des Victoires. Celebrant, Rev. Father Audiffred; preacher, Rev. Emile Gente, 8. M.; master of ceremonies, Rev. F. Rousse Mercandante's Mass in A, re, J. Short, L. and A. elon. with organ and orchestra, will be rendered under the direction of F. Martinez. At the offertory the violinist, G. Minetti, will play the Largo by Handel. At St. Peter’s Church, Twenty-fourth and Alabama streets, a choir of thirty voices will sing Millard’s mass_in B flat, under the direction of Miss Mamie E. Coonan, organist of St. Peter’s. The principal sopranos tor the oceasion will be Miss Nelye Guisti, Miss Gerda Wismer, Miss 2lla Donlon, Miss Jane Macaulay and Miss faisy O'Brien; altos, Miss Ella Krieg, Miss Julia Whitney and Miss Tessie Rielly; tenors, Messrs. R. V. Curtis and J. P. Flood: bassos, Messrs. J. Seely, F. Macauley and James O'Don- nell. In addition to these voices the voung Jadies’ vesper choir of St. Peter’s will aid in the chorus work. Immediately after the solemn high mass, benediction of the blessed sacra- ment will be given. At Holy Cross Church, Eddy street, near Scott, the musical programme is as follows: Giorza's second mass: offertory, “Regina Celi”; after mass, “Sit Nomen Homini,” by Cagliero, will be given. The following are the members of the choir: S(:{prlnos——lllsl Gertie Frost, Miss Clara Silva, Miss Mamie Schmaling and Miss Clara Schmal- iss Pheany Silva McComb, Miss ius ne, J. A. Fogarty: or- ; ehoirmaster, Joseph as508—W . ansen; k = T. M. Bail ganist, Mrs. A. Fogarty. Paulist Church, California street; sol- - emn high mass at 11 A. m.; Father Clark celebrant, Father Wyman deacon, Fr. Otis sub-deacon. Music under direction of Miss Marie Geor- giani. The soloists will be Miss Canning, so- prano; Miss Sutton, contralto; M. McCullough, tenor. and Mr. Gordon, tenor. Chorus—Sopranos, Miss Duffy, Miss Coleman, Miss Lyons, Miss Dwyer and Miss Hausman; altos, Madame Stephanie, Miss Stuart, Miss Burnsted, Miss Ford, Miss Drady, Miss Treip; tenors, Messrs. Scott. Davis, Gilfether; bassos, ‘William O'Brien, William Gordon and Antonio Alberti. At the high mass Father Wyman will preach. * In the evening Father Clark will begin a series of sermons on ‘‘Confession,” which will be in- teresting to non-Catholies as well as Catholics. The Easter music at St. Paul’s Church on Twenty-ninth street consist of: Marzo's “Kyrie,” *‘Gloria” and “Credo”; “Sanctus” and “Agnus Dei” from Giorza’s first mass; offertory, Lambillotti’s “Alleluia ; even- ing tervice, Kosewig's “Vespers”; 0 Salu- taris,” contralto solo: “Tantum Ergo,” duet and chorus: “Regina Cali,” solo and chorus, sung by the following members of choir: sopranos—Misses M. F. Code, M. Reilly, Mrs. McKee-Wilz; altos—Misses J. Murphy, R. Lafaille; tenors—Messrs. Barkalew and Seglier; | fount | orated with roses and lilies. | tire | ascription, -‘Gloria Patri” offertory anthem (Stainer); tenor solo, “3y Hope Is in the Everlasting”’; chorus. “Awake Thou That essrs. Perron and M. Perron; organist, A.F. Quinn. At St. James Church, on Twenty-third street, high mass will be celebrated at 10:30. Celebrant, Rev. P. 0'Connor;_ deacon, Rey. P.R. Lynch: sub-deacon, Rev. J. Andrews, S. J. The pastor, Father Lynch, will preach the sermon. The music will be rendered by St. James’ choirof thirty voices, under the diree- tion of Mrs. T. H. Griffin, assisted by the fol- lowing soloists: Soprano, Mis. C. P. Giude- bass celli; contralto, Mrs. T. H. Griffin; tenor, Al- Tt Tissot; basso, D. M. Warde. Organist, ss M. Purcell. The mass to be sung will be Millard’s, in B flat, offertory and finale. “Re- gina_Coeli,”” by Berge, and Rossi’s “Tantum Ergo” will be ‘sungat benediction following the high mass. At St. Bridget’s Church on Van Ness avenue, corner of Broadway, a soiemn high mass will be celebrated at 11 o’clock: The sermon will be preached by the Rev. Father Johu E. Cottle, rector of the church. An augmented choir, with organ and orches- tral accompaniment, under the direction of Mme. Ellen Coursen-Roeckel, will render Weber's iamous mass in G. Soloists: “‘Kyrie”— Miss Grace Sherry soprano, Miss Nell Couch alto, Ed Lotz tenor, M. Luxemburg second tenor, B. Brotman basso; “Gloria”—Miss Lottie Calsing soprano, Miss Couch, Ed Lotz and C. Pechin; “Credo”—Mrs. H. Lewis; nctus”’— Miss Madeline Leahy; “Agnus De it Andrea Mojica contralto; ‘‘Dona Nobis”—Miss Catherine Coursen mezzo-soprano. Giorza's % 11 be given before the sermon by Pechin. During the offertory Webb's “Regina Cceli” will be sung in chorus. Aiter the “elevation” a celebrated “O Salu- taris,” by Proch, for soprano voice and French horn, will be rendered by Mme. Coursen- Roeckel and Herr Joseph Reiter, solo virtuoso of Scheel’s orchestra. Organist, Joseph Roeckel. EPISCOPALIAN SERVICES. Choral Commnnions Will Be Rendered in All the Churches, Trinity Episcopal Church, at the corner of Bush and Gough streets, is celebrating ster with decorations and special ser- The carved woodwork in the chan- cel is almost hidden with tall branches of bamboo and trailing Lady Banksia roses. Potted palms stand round the chancel and the altar decorations are high vases of Bermuda lilies. A large floral crown is suspended above the jeweled cross. The music of the morning service will consist f onsl hymn (Morgan); Easter an- t Our Passover” (Shepperd); tanford); “Jubilate,” (Stanford); hymn, “The Strife Is O'er” (Palestrina); com- munion service; Stainer’s offertory; selections from Gounod’s oratorio, ‘‘The Redemption.” The music of this service will be ren- dered by the regular choir of thechurch, accompanied by orchestra and organ: Soloists—Soprano, Mrs. A. Brune; contralto, Mrs. Olive Reed Batchelder; tenor, H. M. For- ; bass, Osgood Putnam; organist, Sermon, Rev. fternoon the choral Easter service of ornia_Commandery No. 1, Knights r, will take place in Trinity Church. o knights will enter to the processional mn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The Th, h Easter festival of the Sunday-school will be held at night. Sermon by Rev. H. C.St. Clair, su- perintendent. Itis a custom at St. Luke’s Church, on Van Ness avenue, for members of the con- gregation to send floral memorial offerings to the church at Easter. This year there are numerous memorial stars crowns, etc., in the chancel. The decorations of the and six of the windows are also memorial decorations. The altar is dec- The two morning celebrations are not choral, but at the 11 o’clock service a choral communion will be sung by the en- choir, under the direction of W. A. Sabin. The following special service will be rendered e Eleison, Gloria Tibi, Credo (King Hall); Sleepest’’; “Presentation of Alms” (Anon.); Sursum Corda, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Gloria in celsis (King Hall); Nune Dimittis (Farrant); ssional Hymp (Barnby); organ postlude, G (Salome). In the evening there will be confirma- tion and an address by the Bishop, Right Rev. W. F. Nichol Decorations are roses and Bermuda lilies. The two early celebrations of com- munion are not choral, but the one at 11 o’clock will be rendered by the united choir under the direction of W. A. Sabin, on Union street, near Steiner, the rector, Rev. W. W. Bolton, is preparing to cele- brate Easter according to the lines laid | down in his recent sermon at the united Episcopal services on ceremonial. At the high celebration there will be twenty | altar-boys, and at the solemn procession which opens the midday worship these lads, ~lad in their different colored garments, will carry lig! and banne: preceded through the difice by the thurifer swinging the cen- ser full of incense. The banners themselves are the result of the labors of the ladies of the parish, as also are all the handsome vestments worn by the clergy. The music is as follows: At the procession, “Hail, Festal Day,” (Brown); introit, “Sing Ye to the Lord,” (Pratt); the office, Stainer in F: offertorium, Barnby); communion, (Dudley Buck); Té e Deum (Dykes). At St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on Fulton street, Rev. Edgar Lion will cele- brate choral communion at 11 o’clock, when the following music will be rendered by a chorus of mixed voices under the d rection of William B. Mandeville, organist and choirmaster: Organ voluntary, “Gloria, Twelfth Mass” (Mozart); anthem, “Praise ye the Father’” (Gou- nod); processional, “Allelnia”; Easter anthem, “Chirist, our Passover”: “Gloria Patri” (Bfnks): “Te Deim,” in B fiat (Danks); “Jubilate,” in £ flat (Danks); introit, “Christ thé Lord is Risen To-day (Mozart); Kyrie, “Lord have mercy up- on us”; “Gloria Tibi” (Pleyel); sermon hymn, “Come ye Faithiul’; offertory, “Wh he living among the dead?” (¢ corda (Cemidge); Sanctus (Camidge); hymn, | Just as I am, without one plea”; “Gloria in Nunc Dimittis (Barnby); organ serv Prelude, “Worth opening anthe Is the Lamb,” Handel; hey have taken away my Lord,” Stainer; “‘Christ Our Passover,” Mars- ton (in E flat); “Te Deum,” Wiegand (in A); “Jubilate,” Loretz (m G); Introit, “Jesus Christ Is Risen To-day Monk; “Kyrie,” Tallis; “Gloria,” Merbeche: offertory anthem, “Our Lord Is Risen,” Schuecker; postiude, “Fugue in G,” Ruick. The choir, directed by William H..Holt, consists of: Soprano, Mrs. Noble; tenor, Mr. A. Messmer; contralto, M vilcox ; bass, Mr. W. Campbell. cial music for Easter day at St. iscopal Church consists of : Processional hymn, ‘‘The Son of God,” Whit- ney; Easter anthem, “Christ Our Passover,” (Lord Mornington); Introit, “Jesus Christ Is Risen_To-d (Worgan); offertorium, “They Have Taken Away My Lord,” (Stainer); proces- sional hymn, “The Strife Is Over.” The choir is composed of twenty-two boys and eight men—Masters Herbert Clarke and Frank Hat- field, solo-sopranos; Mr. Devis. tenor soloist. J. E. Bigelow at the organ. Henry Kirke White Jr.choirmaster. Rev.John A.Emory will be the,celebrant. A choir of over fifty men’s and boys’ voices will sing the Easter music at St. John’s Episcopal Church, on Fifteenth street, under the direction of Leon J. Stanton, organist, and H. K. White, choirmaster. The offertory will consist of the Halleiujah chorus from Handel's ““Messiah,” and the other numbers will be by Gounod, Stainer, Garrett, etc. At St. Peter's Bpiscopal Church, on California street, the vested young ladies’ choir will sing a_grand chorus with the organ [ relude. e morning service will be a choral one with a choral communion. The music will be by Stainer, Tours, Barn- by, etc. Organist and choirmaster, Miss E. M. Phillips. The choral holy communion services at the Church of the Advent, Eleventh street, will be as follows: “Kyrie” (Whitney), from mass in Tib”" (Gounod); "“Credo” (M Deum” (Jacoby); ““Ascription Glori stone); anthem, “Awake! Awake!' “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth’ “Sursum Corda,” *Sanctus,” ‘Benedictus,” ‘“‘Agnus Dei,” Schubert’s mass in E flat; “Gloria in Ex- celsis,” “Nune Dimittis,” Grego- “Alleluia, Hearts to Heaven C. Dadswell is the musicak G; “Gloria beck); *Te (Dr. Glad- offertory, director. At the Mission of the Good Samaritan, corner of Second and Folsom streets, the evening service will be choral throughout, and,will be rendered memorable by the first appearance of the choir of men and boys in vestments. The choir is composed of members of the mission, and it has reached considerable efficiency through the careful drilling of Miss E. Brown, or- ganist and choirmaster. The programme will be as follows: Processional hymn, ““Onward, Christian Sol- diers” (Fuller); “Gloria Patrie,” chant, (Anon); Magnificat,”” chant, (Kettle); “Nunc Dimittis,” chant, (Barnby); hymn, “Angels Roll the Rock Away” (Roper); offertory anthem, ““Christ Is Risen, Hallelujah” (Schnecker); presentation doxology, "“01d Hundred”; recessional hymn, ‘{’Cll{isl the Lord Is Risen To-Day” (Rim- ault). OTHER PBOTEfi‘AET DENOMINATIONS. Special Easter Bervices, Both Morning and Evening. At the First Presbyterian Church, on Van Ness avenue, Easter music will be rendered both morning and evening, under the dire ction of Otto Fleissner. It is in the evening, however, that the Easter praise service takes place. At the Howard Presbyterian Church, on Mission street, Rey. Fountain R. Farrand pastor, the following programme will be carried out: Morning—Organ prelude, “Et Resurrexit,” from the first mass (Mozart); doxology, “0ld Hundred’’; invoeation; oi)eningnnthem, “The Day of Resurrection” (Max Vogrich); hymn 871, “Rise, Glorious Conqueror” (Giardini); male quartet, “O, Glorious Morning” (P. P. Bliss); prayer; duet, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee” (Lachner); hymn, “The Golden Gates are Lifted Up’; offertory, solo, “The Resurrection” (L. R. Shelley); sermon, subject, “The Empty Tomb”; closing anthem, “Fill ‘the Font with Roses,” (G. W. Warren); benediction; organ postlude, *“Coronation March” (J. endsen). Special musical services will also be ren- dered in the evening. The regular semi- chorus choir will sing, the soloists being: Miss Mary Alverta Morse, Mrs. J. T. McDon- ald, Mrs. Milton E. Blanchard and George St. J. Bremner; Wiliiam F. Hooke, organist and musical director. Organ prelude (Batiste); All Hail the Powerof Jesus' Name"; anthem, out Ye High Heavens” (Dow): hymn, “Hark! Ten Thousand Harps and Voices solo, “Easter Song” (Coenen), Mrs. McKee Easter madrigal, “Every Flower That Blos- soms” (Otto Fleissner): hymn, “Come all ye Saints of God”; effertory, “Hosanna” (Grainer), J.C.Hughes; anthem, Singing of the Birds” (Warren): organ postlude, “Easter Marcn” (Merkel). The choir_consists of: Miss Edna oprano; J. H. Desmond, tenor; Mrs. Groves J.D. McKee, contralto; J. C. Hughes, bass. The Easter music at Trinity Presby- terian Church will be rendered on Sunday evening. It consists of: “Hark, Ten Thousand Harps and Voices” (Havens); “Every Flower That Blossoms” (Shelley); solo, “Easter Eve” (Gounod), M Alice Partridge; “Christ Our Passover” (Buck) “Angels, Roll the Rock Away” (Havens); solo, idmmoriality” '(Shepperd), W. G. Wood “How Calm and Beautiful the Morn" 5) +Hallelujah! Christ Is Risen!” y urrection” (Havens); solo, “Easter Hymn’ (Roeder), Miss Beatrice Priest; “Christ the Lord Is Risen To-day” (Schnecker). Easter services at the Central Methodis} piscopal Church, Mission street, between th and Seventh, will be given under the direction of J. Morris, musical director; and H. M. Bosworth, organist. At the morning service the music will con- of: ‘Watchman, Is the Night Abating? leluia, Christ is Risen” (Dennee); pastor: “Christ the Lord Is Risen’’ (Ford); “Consider the Lilies” (Hermann). In the afternoon there will be special Easter music and sermon by Professor George D. Herron. At the Howard-street M. E. Church the Sunday-school will hold an Easter anni- versary in the morning, where carols will be sung and the following anthems will be rendered by the choi ““Christ the Lord Is Risen To-da (Warren), and “Christ Our_Passover.” At the special evening service, under the direction of Martin Schulz, the following music will be ren- dered: Organ yoluntary, “Cujus Animam,” from the “Stabat Mater” (Rossini-Pentield); Festival, “Te Deum,” in E flat (Dudley Buck); anthem, “Christ Our Passover” (Thomas S. Lloyd); violin solo, “Largo in G” (Handel); contralto solo with violin obligato, “The Resurrection” . R. Shelley); anthem, “Why Seek Ye the Living Among 'the Dead?” (S. P. Warren); L. M. doxology; organ postlude, short prelude and fugue in G (J. S. Bach); the choir will have the assistance of Noah Brandt, violinist. The Emmanuel Baptist Church, on Bart- lett street, will have musical services both morning and evening, when Easter an- thems will be sung and selections from standard operas will be performed on vari- ous instruments. The musical programme includes: nd prelude, “Silyer Clarion” organ and anthem, ‘“Now is Christ n" choir; 'offertory, “Cavalleria fascaghiy; solo, Easter Morn” ( 1lie Partridge; response, The cmple” (Herbert), choir; violin & solo, ohm), E. Cowen; anthem, “Death Hath No More Dominion” (Herberi); choir; sermon, “O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" I Cor. xv:b5, pastor “Hosanna Grainer), Mrs.'W. Z. King; postlude, “Tann- heuser” (Wagner), violin and piano; prelude, “Un Ballo Maschero” (Leybeck), organ and piano; anthem, ‘I will Praise Thee” (Farmer), chot The choir consists of: Mrs. W. Z. King, Miss Nellie Partridge, W. C. Hearn, W. Z. Kin organist, George R. King; pianist, Mrs, K. Worth. Easter music will be rendered mornin and evening at the First Congregational Church by the following choi Mrs. B. W. Paxton, Mrs. A. E. Story, J. F. Flemi: Samuel D. Mayer. The singers will be assisted for the occasion by Miss Alice Ames and Miss Madeline Beckhusen, violinists, and T. R. Ogilvie, tenor. The special musi at the morning service consists of: Introlt, (Warren); rist, the Lord, Is Risen To-day” Deum Landamus (Buck) in D major (festival); Easter anthem, “Christ Is Risen” (arranged from Wagner); hymn, “Our Lord Is Risen From the Dead (Wesley); offer- tory, “The Resurrection” (Shelley), for soprano, withl violin obligato. Plymouth Congregational Church has Easter festival services morning and even- ing. Some of the special numbers are: Anthem, “Christ Our Passover,” (Bassford); quartet, “Christ Is Risen, Hallelujah”; so- rano_solo, “I Know That My Redeemer Pives” (Wand); snthem, “Christ Has Won the Victory” (Wiegand); tenor solo, “Christ the Lord Has Risen To-Day” (Bogert); anthem, “Alleluia” (Millard); alto solo, “The Day of Resurrection” (Campbell); quartet, “Christ Our Passover” (Williams); postiude, ‘‘Eester Echoes’ /Martins). The choir consists of : Miss Millie Flynn, Miss Stella Leis, Miss Hachmeister, Miss Nellie Cole, Mrs. J. W. den, Mrs. Robert Lloyd, Miss Alice Brooks, Miss Minnie Hill, . M. Coffin, Clarence Wendell, B. G. Franklin, Charles L. Parent Jr., J. W. Mad- den, Charles Mahy; H. 8. Stedman, organist and director. At the Third Congregational Church the music is under the direction of W. C. Stadt- Lena Mad- felt. A choir of thirty voices will render the following programme at the morning service: “Oh, Joyous Easter Morning,” by George E. Oliver; Te Deum (Wagner); anthem, ‘‘Leave Us Not, Neither Forsake Us" (Stainer); offer- tory, “Resurrection” (Shelley). Evening service—Anthem, “See Now the ltar” (Faure); barytone solo, “‘Jerusalem’ &iuker); anthem, “They Have Taken Away y Lord” (Stainer); offertory, “The Easter Sun- shine Breaks Again” (Mietzke). There will be solos by Mrs. W. C. Stadt- felt, H. Hanley, Miss B. Hobron, Miss L. Clough and T. J. Gough. Professor George D. Herron, D.D., from Iowa College, will preach. At the City and County Hospital. At the City and County Hospital an altar has been erected in the church and beauti- fully decorated. Father Gallian of St. Ig- natius Church will celebrate mass to the inmates this morning. Sharks in the Mediteranean. The opening of the Suez canal has been commercially of immense benefit to the world, but in one respect it has been a dis- advantage. Prior to the existence of the Suez canal sharks were unknown in the Mediterranean; but since the opening of the great waterway it is reported that they huve appeared in large numbers in that sea, where their presence is much feared by fishermen. On more than one occasion they have wrought havoc among the fish- ermen’s nets in the neiihborhood of Pola, in the Adriatic, from which it may be in- ferred -that they are now pretty well dif- fused throughout the Mediterranean.— Chambers’ Journal, They strolled along the broad parade John Jones and pretty Miss Maria “Your teeth are awful, John,” she sald; “ Why don’t you buy the beautifer? Seemine! How white! Yes, 'tis my wont To polish them with SOZODONT.” BRBENLEY S | EXTRACT. OF NEW TO-DAY. g L S o e s s et TS ASA A IR E[I_ HY For the Entire Nervous System. The Greatest Sustenant Known. IR[]N To Purify and Enrich the Blood. DR. HENLEY' 'S ELERY, BEEF AND IRO FOR DEBILITY, SLEEPLESSNESS, INDIGESTION, STOMACH AND LIVER TROUBLES, THE GREAT NERVE TONIC, 160 NEW MONTGOMERY STREET, San Francisco, Cal. AWALK THROUGH HANKOM. Queer Experiences of an American in China’s Greatest City. No Lamps Along the Narrow Theroughfares, No Carts and No Carriages. The close of the present war may bring about an era of travel and exploration in China. As it is many great cities of the Empire have never been visited by for- eigners. There are certain provinces, con- taining more people than the whole United States, in which it has always been unsafe to travel, and there are hundreds of curi- ous tribes and clans which are practically unknown to the people of the Western World. Take, for instance, the Hakkas. How many Americans have heard of them? The ordinary Chinese cannot un- derstand them and still they live here and there all over China and have villages and customs of their own. They do not bind their feet. They wear broad-brimmed hats instead of caps and the children wear rings of silver around their necks. There are clans in China who do nothing but beg, and there are other clans who are thieves from generation to generation. Who has ever written up the porcelain districts of China, and how little information we have about the provinces bordering on Burmah and Thibet? Numerous descriptions of Chinese cities have been Yublished, but, these are usually from travelers who have been carried rapidly through Shanghaiand Canton. They Wilf tell you that all Chi- nese cities are the same, whereas, the fact is, the Chinese towns differ as much as our American citles, and every great center 1 have visited I have found full of strange things, which I saw nowhere else. Take a walk with me, for instance, through the streets of Hankow. It con- tains a million people. It is as big as Chi- cago. Itissurrounded by a wall as high as a three-story house, and =0 wide that three railroad trains could run side by side upon it without touching. Inside these walls there is a mass of narrow streets, lined with .one, two and three storied houses. Cutting through these there are lanes and cross-etreets, and most of the streets are six feet wide. The lanes are often not more than two feet wide, and both streets and alleys are covered with the vilest of slime, and you pick your way through a mass of indescribable filth as you go through them. The widest of the streets are the great business thorough- fares, walled with stores and shops, and which are packed with a mass of Chinese humanity from sunrise until dark. The mass surges this way and that. It is'worse than a jam at a country fair, and laborers, carrying all kinds of wares, push their way through it. The narrower streets are little more than alleys walled with houses, com- prising factories, dwellings and business establishments. The entrances to many of these are merely holes in the walls. Others have wide doorsleading into courts, and others introduce you into_the shops of mechanics, where you see half-naked cool- ies doing the thousand and one things of a busy Chinese city. _Walking througbl; these lanes the for- eigner seems to taking his life in his hands. The streets are so narrow that you can stand in the middle and press_the ‘op- posite walls wifh your hands. Two men can hardly pass, ‘and you instinctively squeeze yourself to tighten your skin and keep ont of the collisions which appear im- minent at every curve. Here comes a coolie, barebacked and barelegged. He is one of the thousand slop-carriers of the town. A bar six feet long rests upon his shoulder, and from the ends of this han, two great buckets, each holding four gal- lons of the vilest of slop. He comestoward youon a swinging trot, and the buckets screw up and down and the slop splashes to and fro as he passes you. You put your smelling-bottle to your nose, draw your knees close together and hug the wall to let him go by. Behind him come two scowling Chinamen carrying hides. have a half ton of raw skins swung in the center of a pole, which rests upon their shoulders, and they grunt and grunt in harmony of woe as they rush toward you. Other laborers behind follow with other loads, and you note that every couple has its own_ peculiar grunt or sound. Some +0-ah, o-ah, e-he, e-he, o-ho, o-ho, The men on the wharves have their own grunt, and even men working alone make spasmodic neises of the most horrible kinds to help them in their work. The Chinese have no such thing as baked bread. They boil their dough, and you can_get boiled biscuits almost any- where. They are great on frying dough in rease, and North China may be called the and of the doughnut. Itisthe general opinion that the Chinese live almost en- tirely upon rice. Thisis a great mistake. Rice is expensive everywhere, and the peo- ple of the north are too poortoeat it. They use millet seed and sorghum seed, which | are ground up like we grir C is the bread of South China, and pork is the chief meat all over the empire. The average Chinese hog is the dirtiest animal srind wheat. Rice |in the world. It gets its living off the foul refuse of the city’s streets, and the biggest of the Chinese cities permit the pigs to run wild within them. There are different grades of dpork in China, as there are in America, and the finest kind of pork comes from an island south of Hongkong. The pigs here are fed upon chestnuts. They are shipped tc all parts of China, and they bring E\ h prices. The better class of Chinese wifl not touch rats, and dogs are usually eaten by the well-to-do Chinese only as medicine. Sucking pigs form a part of each big feast, but they are brought on the table cut up into little cubes, so that they can be eaten with chopsticks. The Chinese are fond of some kinds of worms, and there is a greenish brown worm, which comes from the rice fields, which brings high prices in the markets. They eat silkworm grubs, and in some parts of the empire the poorer people eat snakes. In Amoy and Swatow snakes are sold for food and they are used to make mus. They are guite expensive, and a good-sized snake of the right variety will will bring 75 cents. I found the Chinese restaurants well patronized, and there are Feddlin cooks everywhere. The average aborer buys his lunch where he works if he belongs to the cities, and wherever there isa band of workmen you will find from one to a dozen lunch-peddlers. It is the same as to smoking. On nearly every cor- ner you find a table with alot of pipesupon it, and a man standing beside it ready to rent them out for a fraction of acent a smoke. The pipes are made of copper and they are a sort of a water pipe, wi& which ou draw the smoke fln‘ouggethe water be- ore it comes into your mouth. The bowls hold about a thimbleful of tobacco, and the pipe has to be lighted about every two minutes. Of late years the Chinese of the sea&mm haye taken to smoking cigarettes, and you find great quantities of Ameri- can cigarettes consumed in Shanghai and Canton. In my walks through the Chinese cities the things that impressed me the most were the things that I did not see. Ilooked in vain for street lamps. There wasno sign of sewerage, and the public buildings were more like stables than anything else. The only fire preventives were wells which had been dug here and there, and which were kept full in order to use in case of confla- grations, and great clay jars which were fl-eed on the roofs of some of the houses. was told that the houses were numbered, and at the corners I saw characters which ave a description or census of the families in the neighborhood. Most of the streets of the cities which I visited outside of Pe- king were paved with stone, which had been worn smooth by the bare and shod feet of a thousand generations of human beings. Outside of the hogs and the dogs, you see few animals in one of these big towns. There are no carts and no carriages. The men ride through the streets in chairs, and the merchandise is carried by men or vushed and dragged through the city in They | [ | | America is cleaner than the mud t] wheelbarrows. There are no statues or public squares, except here and there where a place may have been left fora market. There are no telegraph lines and no tall buildings. The roofs are of heavy black tiles, and most of the city houses are built of blue brick with a foundation of stone. I saw no signs of cellars, though under some of the streets there are drains and some have gutters. Both drainsand gut- ters are usually stopped up, and they form the breeding fip]aces for disease and bad smells. The filth of a Chinese city is in fact beyond description. Peking is worse than a barnyard, and the vilest cowgflrd in e rough which you wade in walking through Han- kow. You have to keep your eyes on your feet, and there is no bone factory in the United States which surpasses the smell arising from the streets on a wet day, Here and there along the business streets or in the side streets, just off the most thronged parts of the city, you will pass great vats splashed with the vilest of dirt. There are public waterclosets. They are owned by private parties, who grow rich by selling the sewerage to the farmers. You fib on_and on through scenes like those I ave described until you can stand it no longer, and give your guide directions to hurry you back to your hotel. Copyright, 1895. THE LETTER H. Why Ys It Taken So Often for an Initial? “Tt is a peculiar thing,” said the know- ing cierk in a hotel which is noted more for its hospitality than it is for its inquisi- tiveness into the character of its guests, “it’s a peculiar thing the fondness that the average man has for the letter H as an initial. Now, I don’t suppose that there are more middle names beginning with H than with any other letter, M or R or 8 or B, but nine men out of ten, if they are in doubt about a middle initial, decide on H. Now, | my middle initial is W, but for every letter I get, except from people I know well, thatI have my. initial right, I get three in which it is put down H. 1It's ver; seldom, too, that you'll find a man wit! sufficient strength of characterto leave out the middle initial of the man he’s writing to if he doesn’t know it, so he claps in an H and lets it go. There seems to be a pre- vailing superstition that a man isn’t just what he ought to be nnless he has a mid- dle name, and that the chances are very strong that that name begins with the eighth letter of the alphabet, says the Lewiston Sun. “Now, here’s another instance. Cast our eyes over this page of our register. hat is mostly lntedguests who drop in here late at night and sign names other than their own. Se2 the result: ‘Charles H. Jones, ‘John H. Smith,’ ‘George H. Robinson,’ ‘A. H. Brown,’ ‘F. H. Brown,’ and so on. There are ten names on that one page, the middle initial of which is H. Now, that letter isn’t any easier to write than any other letter; it certainly isn’t any more ornamental, and I can’t see that in any res%ecc it has an advantage over the rest of the alphabet. Yet the human race sticks to it with a fidelity worthy of a more important eause. I'd Iike to have some wise man tell me why.” The Uncertain Age of the Earth. Professor John Perry has been causing quite a commotion in scientific circles by insinuating that the earth is much more ancient than we have been accustomed to believe. Lord Kelvin's estimate of the age of the earth as a solid or crusted body, which is 400,000,000 years for its up% and anything down to 10,000,000 or 20,000,000 years for its lower limit, has been hitherto accegwd without suspicion. Pro- fessor Perry has called into question this theory of the comparative juvenility of our globe, and insists that Lord Kelvin has taken the conducting power of hot rocks as lower than it really is, and hence that the earth bad cooled and consolidated from a liquid state much earlier than 400,000,000 | years ago—at least 120 times earlier—that | 1s 48,000,000,000 years ago. These hoary | figures drove Lord Kelvin to his | laboratory, from which he has re- cently emerged with the most reassuring data. He has been experimenting on the conducting power of rocks at high tem- peratures, and he has also received some valuable results of experiments made by Dr. Robert Weber, from which it appears that Professor Perry was mistaken in as- suming the greater conductivity of in- tensely heated rock. With some kinds of rock—for instance, slate and sandstone— there is, on the contrary, a diminution of conductivity at high temperatures. Lord Kelvin sees'no ground for abandoning his former estimate, and he quotes the confir- mation of Dr. Clarence King, the well- known American geologist, who says that ‘‘we have no warrant for extending the earth’s age beyond 24,000,000 years.” This accords with the 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 years for the age of the sun, as calculated by Helmholtz, Newcomb and Kelvin. AL SR The Fallacy of Proverbs are responsible for a great deal of folly, but, in the opinion of an English medical journal, few have done more mis- chief than those which inculcate early rising as a virtue. When the foolish in- terpretation of a proverb about the health and wealth to be gotten from early risin, is combined with the still more foolis! adage which says of sleep, “Six hours for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool,” a vicious system is evolved capable of working great mischief to young people | of both sexes. There is a tendency greatly encouraged in towns by the spread of | eycling to curtail unduly the hours of > sleep. Parties of young men and lads are to be met careering -about the streets at midnight. They would be far better in bed, as their duties in most cases necessitate their rising at an hour which will give them but six or, at the outside, seven hours’ rest. These young men are no doubt encouraged by the silly adages quoted above. When the great majority lived in villages, and were engaged in the cultivation of the soil, earl: rising may have been conducive to henltg and wealth, if not to wisdom, but even our early forefathers probably did not more than make a virtue of necessity. It is said | to be natural—that_is ological—to | rise early and enjoy the beauties of the sun- | rise; if we ask why? we are treated to various transcendental theories about the vivitying influence of the sun, and we are | told to take example by the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, or so many of them as are not nocturnal in their habits. But, as a matter of fact, says the authority already quoted: ‘‘Physiology, so far as ithas anything to say on the subject at all, is all against the early rising theory. Physiological experi- ment appears to show that a man does not work best and fastest in the early mornin }xours. but on the contrary, about midday. The desire to rise early, except those trained from youth to outdoor pursuits, is commonly a sign not of strength of charac: ter and vigor of bedy, but of advancin, age. The very old often sleep much but they do not sleep long. A long deep i eep, the sleep of youth, requires for its produc- tion a thoroughly elastic vascular system. The stiffening vessels of age are not 50 completely nor so easily controlled by the vasomotor nerves. Hence shorter sleeps. —— e City Men March Well, e objection is raised to mhsm_ution of long mamh:l:e:;ggce;‘t;fl work in the long annual tour of militig duty that the companies made up of clerks in our city stores would be at a great dis- adyantage inasmuch as the men could not sustain the severe exertion. The experi. ences of the war of the rebellion didpnoz show this, however. The wan looking young men from the city stores marched all around the hardy countrymen and mileb than the Saten 010 o 0L brenty atter di —] s of two.—Boston ——— London prints three new novels a day,