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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1895. Tre Cireexk Maipen AND THE Cavrirornia (RL. BY PHEBE You speak to me of sunny skies, Of orange grove and flowers, Of winds that make soft melodies "Midst lea?, and vine, aud bowers. Passing through the veritably enchanted groves, fields and vineyards of California twice in the panorama of nature’s devel- opment, this year, the Italian refrain of my girlhood, which used to be a favorite song with me, came back in all of its melodious realization for America as I Jooked upon the marvelous transforma- tion from bud and blossom in my first trip through your Hesperides, but a short time since, into the rapidly ripening fruit as I journeyed back to S8an Francisco a few days ago. When your orchards and fields were all abloom with the pink and white blossoms and the tasseled grain which foretold the garnered store of full fruition that was to follow soon in the harvest home I jour- neyed through the bewildering maze of that rich horoscope of nature that I might sce with mine own eyes and realize with my own appreciation the Italian skies and balmy air of California and witness the | Xkaleidoscopic possibilities of its climate in | transforming bud and blossom and ripening grain into the harvest, Iike unto the Ar- cadian tales of old. | With as sudden a transformation, it | seemed to me, as the rub of the Aladdin | 9 | Republic. W. COUZINS. isang lustily and long “God Save the Queen” had not a word from either of its speakers for the maker of its flag, or the author of its banner of freedom, on the eve of our May tribute. On the 13th of April, 1862, just one year after the fall of Fort Sumter, ‘four women, Sarah Nicolls Evans and the wife and two daughters of Chaplain May of the Second Michigan Volunteers, appeared in the cemetery of Arlington Heights, on the western slope of the Potomac, with flower baskets on their arms, tearsin their eyes, and with tender hands strewed the humble mounds of the volunteer soldier, and in- stituted the hallowed service which now | we style “Memorial day.” Year after year they went, until the ser- vice grew to such stately proportions, aug- mented by the following of hundreds of other women, that Congress, in 1874, took legal notice of a ceremonial so significant of the Nation’s obligation to its honored dead, and formulated, at the suggestion of these women, the Memorial day of this And yet we listened in vain to hear from the lips of two leaders of women a single suggestion of the great debt we owed to the authors and suggestors of our hallowed service day. Has it come to pass that but one idea may be submitted ‘to the California girl, lest in her narrow mental grasp she may hold to the one and fail to comprehend the other? Is she to be an “all round” maiden or lamp, when I came back, presto! the | great wealth of coloring of miles upon | miles of trees and pregnant grain were | gone, and in their stead the branches bent | with the ripe red cherry, the boughs were | laden with the apricot, peach, plum, pear, | peeping out from the deep green leaves, | »stive hues of toothsome festival white the russet oat field and the | wheat were garnered into huge | hat meant a wealth of appetite and | prosaic bread, where but yesterday stood the poetic symbolism, in pink and white symphony, of nature’s stores for man, | Here. 100, 1 encountered the “Fiesta,” with youthful queens sitting on symbolic miniature thrones, lxmng as sovereigns for the nonce, that all might crown them for the day with the lovely tiara of na- ture’s joint product of the fruits, the wealth of indescribable flowers and roses, Coming out of this fairyland, with the | prosaic life of the every-day grind and | questioning, and listening for the keynote | at the Woman’s Congress, which was to set the harmony.of the spheres of man and woman, ‘like perfect music unto noble words,” I asked of the future: “What of the California girl, under such wonderful conditions of earth and air and sky? Will she, like the Greek maiden of old, whose life we are ust beginning to apprehend through B laton ok justice-loving men, bring to her dayand generation an ex- uberant health, a grace, beauty and har- mony of body and mind that will impress for all time and coming generations of free | men and women the &ossibigities of the human race, as did the Homeric women in | the sunny isle of Greece?”’ Professor Donaldson has recently trans- lated for us the life of the Greek maiden at home and abroad, which tells of the most beautiful leal-hearted gi ho developed into the wondrous matr: impressing with her gifts and graces the nation which to-day stands as a living illustration for the most perfect type of the human form divine, attaining that standard, as Pro- fessor Donaldson shows, by the exuberant health of its women and the complete free- dom in home and state of the relations of both man and woman. And_ herein lies the snecess or failure of your famed clime in the impress of its Women upon both physical and mental progress. It will be in" vain that Califor- nia sends her fruits and flowers abroad, | holds her fiestas and carnivals of roses and | puts a pretty maiden on a triumphant throne o; fading blossoms if, with all these advantages, the race of men and women do not show forth a steady development of brawn and brain and muscle, a type devel- oped under these most rare conditions that will impress the future with the possibili- ties of the race. We held but recently a quatro-centen- | nial celebration on the shores of Lake | Michigan to show forth the progress of the arts, sciences and invention under four hundred years of progress and devolop- | ment. Nothing filled me with greaterapprehen- sion as, day by day for the six months of that wondrous display, I wandered in and out of the buildings and about the grounds. and looked upon the mass of Americans that were there gathered. 1 have never seen such a conglomerate | crowd of weaklings as was there exhibited. Rarely a beautiful face or figure of woman, seldom an athletic, magnificent specimen of man! If I wanted to look upon the *human form divine, developed into massive pro- portions as to men, and graceful natural coloring and poise for women, I had to wend my way into the South Sea islanders’ weird huts. That commentary on this Re- public was further emphasized by these men and women of noble proportions sing- ing in melancholy dirge together “My Country, 'Tis of Thee.” And when, the other night, the Woman’s Congress indulged in the only music it had perpetrated during the session by joining in an Engiish woman’s challenge 0 warble “God Save the Queen,” I could but feel that if 400 years of Progms ina free nation exhibited but a lot of knock- kneed, spindle-shanked, square-toed and | feeble-muscled men, as the great majority were in evidence at our Chicago fair, and that barbarians from the South Sea were the solitary monuments of physical prow- ess to the human race, then our civiliza- tion was a failure, and the heathen’s mel-~ ancholy singing of our National hymn was a dvmng symbol of the dying Republic which can iliustrate development of art and science and irrigation, but not men. And more than this, if after woman’s congresses havé been inaugurated at this centennial and the wave of emulation has reached vour shores to-day in the recent session in your midst, a foreigner, whose bankipg-house now runs the treasury of the United States, can strike the keynote for the music of the California girl—then Natiopal patriotism is dead, republican- ism counts for naught, and we have only to await in abject servitude the hour when history shall write for us, ‘“Mene tekel upharsin.” X 8till further: The Oakland branch of the Woman'’s Congress gathered yesterda; in the First Unitarian Church for the fin: meeting of the session. It was. the eve of the great National peace-offering to the manes of departed patriots—Decoration day. The starry flag, that emblem of liberty for the human race, was to be car- ried aloft on the morrow by tens of thou- sands of men, women and children all over the land. This flag of our Union was the creation of the brain and hand of a woman —Betsy Ross of Philadelphia. At the instance ‘of Benjamin Frapklin, Robert Morris and George Ross, & coms mittee appointed by the Continent- al Congress, she had formulated this wondrous banner. She said the red stripes symbolized fervency and zeal; the white, purity and integrity, and the blue field of stars with the eagle in its midst, unity, power and glory. On the 4th of July, 1776, after the aration of Independence had been read and signed, with the Liberty Bell ringing out jubilant | the head ? one who can only grasp a single thought under a single snbject, leaving to man alone the complex duties ofnsivmg honor to whom honor is due and of placing immortelles on his colaborers’ brow, while the great service of the other half of humanity is forgotten or ignored even by those of her sex who assume to direct the thought of the less favored ? In the fall of 1861a troop of 30,000 trained English _soldiers were landed over in Canada playing the Drol'gde of “God Save the Queen,” mepacing this country with the threat that if within sixty days a Union victory was not assured ~Jobnny Bull would raise the siege and recognize the Bouthern Confederacy. ‘Who saved this country in that mo- mentous hour, prevented England and European powers from interference in the struggle, saved us from National bank- ruptey and told the Government when to strike and how to strike the rebellion on failing a second plan, coming, it is said, from the executors of the stolen will, was passed around among the attorneys. This lan suggested nothing less than the with- rawal the holographic will, allawing the stolen will, or a certified copy of it,to be admitted to probate. The original exe- cutors were to be allowed to hold office under it for a year, and then, one by one, they were to withdraw and allow the children to name their successors. But an unexpected obstacle cropped u) as soon as this latter plan was broached. In case it was adopted Dr, Marc Leving- ston, executor under the holographic will, would lose all the large emoluments which would be his should the holographic will be proved and he refused to hear of any such juggling with his rights. He would listen to no plan by which the holographic will would be shut out, so that, too, it was decided to send East to Mr. Oelrichs. Mr. Oelrichs, it seems, would not hear of the first affair, and as Dr. Levingston would have none of the second, negotia- tions for a compromise in the Fair case are at a low ebb just at present. Both sides claim to be sure of probating the wills they hold, and so say t!ll)ey can see no reason for talking compromise with any one. ¥ Mr. Goodfellow resents particularly the imfintation conveyed by the first plan —that he can be bought off. “I am notin that business,”” he told the attorneys who would he discuss the question with them: As a consequence both plans are off and came to see him about the matter, nor | GLEE SINGERS GO FORTH. The University and Stanford Clubs Start on a Joint Con~ cert Tour. THROUGH THE COAST STATES. An Engagement at Victorla After the Trip to Recuperate at Castle Crag. The University of California Glee Club and the Stanford Mandolin Club will leave to-morrow morning on a joint concert tour, to be made through Northern California, Oregon and Washington, besides meeting one engagement at Victoria, B. C. ever since their successful joint concert, given on March 29, but no definite action was taken until the early part of last month, The trip has been under contemplation 1 clubs, the solaists will be, Guy C. Kennedy, barytone; Frank D. Stringham and Bafi mond J. Russ in comic songs; Charles K. Field, who made such a hit at the joint concert given on March 29, will again ap- pearas Calliope Cardinale in female imper- sonstions, and Charles E. Parcells, violin. Burbank G. Somers, U. C., '92, is_director of the Glee Club, and Charles E. Parcells, U. C., ’95, manager. W. Bittle Wells, L. . J. U., '95, is direc- tor of the Mandolin Club and W. A. Gra- ham Stanford manager. The advance agent, who has been away for the past tWo geeks, rfecting arrangements, is H. J. ox of Stanford. ngllowmg is the personnel of the two ubs: Blue and Gold, U. C. Glee Club—R. G. Bomers (director), T. V. Bakewell, C. Morse, Charles A. Elston, ¥. P. Taylor, Douglas Waterman, R. J. Russ, F. D. Stringham, O. T. Wedemeyer, Geo{fe H. Whipple, Power Hutchins, Dwight Hutch- inson, E. Rickard, H. P. Veeder, C. E. Parcells and W. B. King (accompanist). Cardinal, Stanford lfiliversity Mandolin Club—W. Bittle Wells, Thomas K. Code, ‘ Edward C. Small, W. A. Graham, A. G. ' Kaufman, George B. Wilson, W. G. Long- well, Mark 8. Porter, B. T. Weigle, W. L. %{,c(;xluire, Charles K. Field and W. B. ells. PASTORS AND CHURCHES. News of the Various Denominations in This City. when Managers Graham of Stanford and It has been decided by the Board of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, the author a{;thc Tennessee campaign, fully entitled to the name of the ‘‘Savior of Her Couniry,” as the Congressional reports again and again testify. But, on the eve of our Memorial day, the women who sang “God Save the Queen’ had not a tribute of any kind or character to the memory of the woman who ran the Queen'’s guards out of Canada and hoisted the Betsy Ross flag over her rehabilitated country and its finances. From Maine to the Gulf, from the At- lantic to the Pacific, when war was desolat- ing the land from one end to the other and widows and orphans were the tribute America was paying to her past falsity of principles, who ‘sent the unending stores of supplies to the soldier on the battlefield and in camp, represented by carload and shipload of bandages, lint, under and outer clothing, jellies, canned fruits and all that goes to ameliorate the horrors of war and its miserable follies and evils? It was the unpaid and unhonored patriot, woman, sending her tribute of love from out the midst of broken hearts and deso- late homes, and giving ofttimes her ser- vices in no;pml and camp to bind up the wounds and heal the sorrows of men in war without money and without price. On the eve of this Memorial day, so fraught with fate and memories, with the State which gave so freely of her sons to preserve the starry flag and the principles of true freedom, not a word in praise of the patriot women of California was given by the congress through its speakers of yesterday — whose song thus far was in honmor of the Brit- ish rulers, whose dynasty our fathers o1 ’76 fought, bled and died to overthrow— and yet who sits triumphant in our midst to-day, astride of our treasury on the Ai- lantic Coast, and honored by the women on the Pacific in “God Save the Queen.”’ But I have not told you the story of the Greek maiden. by Prolessor Donaldson, or the possibilities of the California girl in this famed Hellenic air. My patriotism ran riot on this Me- morial day with the sound of the fife and drum in my ear. Betsy Ross’ flag in my eye and my beart full of keen sorrow over the great gathering in Oakland of the Cali- fornia'maiden, to whom not one inspirin word of tender memories of past tribute of patriotic women was spoken, ‘When the cu&shall not be full and run- ning over with the sweet and hallowed memories of yore I will tell you of the Homeric maid who must live again in the enchanted land of California. San Francisco, May 30, 1895. FAIR WILL COMPROMIES Two Friendly Plans Which Have Been Unsuccessfully Attempted. Mr. Qelrichs Objects to One and Dr. Levingston Will Not Consider the Qther. Considerable speculation is rife among the attorneys connected with the litigation over the probate of the will of James G. Fair as to what bas taken Reuben H. Lioyd East 8o suddenly and whom did he go to see. Mr, Lioyd went East about a week ago and it is reported that he went direct to New York to see Herman Oelrichs. The reason for his going is assigned to rumors of various plans for compromises which have been going round in legal circles for some time. It was to take the most feasi- yers who speculate say, that made Mr. Lloyd so suddenly throw his comfort to the wind and go flying across the continent after his client. Two schemes regarding compromises have so far been given to the light, of which neither has yet found favor and which are both scoffed at by interested at- torneys as being impossible of accomplish- ment. Still that they have been bandied from executor to counsel and from counset to executor is a certainty.: The question is one of buying off the executors of the stolen will and probating the holographic will or probating the stolen will' and supplant- mE the executors named under it. 'he first plan was that, each of the exe- cutors namedj under the stolen will wasj to be given $100,000 to withdraw all® opposi- tion to the probat of: the holographic will, All butoneof the executors, it is chimes for all humanity, euflv. Ross’ flag took its way to the top of the le—the dual companion of our charter of freedom— there to be forever the sign and symbol of liberty and union, and to be borne aloft on every jubilee of this Nation as the flag of the free and the sign manual of the braye. And yet, this gathering of women which told, were willing to accept the terms, but be s out for $200,000 and so blocked ne- gotiations for some time until it was de- cided to lay the whole business before Mr. Ool:ichs. who has been East for some weeks past. As the first negotiatious were apparently A ble of these plans to Mr. Qelrichs, the law- | bo: ELSTO) WHIPPLE. INGHAM. BAKEWELL. ¥ EING (Accompan; VATERMAN. RICKARD. HUTCHINSON. RUSS. TAYLOR. ist). SOMERS. PARQELLS (Violinist). MORSE. VEEDER. HUTCHINS. WEDEMEYER. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA GLEE CLUB. opposing sides have again settled back to strengthen their cases. JESSE JAMES' VIOLIN. It Is a Battered Instrument With Rattle- | the means of affording a stimulus to more | most sanguine. [ Parcells of the U. C. met and formulated | plans for the present undertaking. The great success with which the Glee Club has | met in its tours through California has been snake Buttons in It. | extended trips, and with past success as a Jesse James’ violin is on exhibitionina | Walnut-street music-store window. The | instrument belongs to Charles Alkins of Pleasant Hill, Mo. He brought it to Kansas City to sell. The fiddle is of ordi- | nary pattern’ and while it is still intact shows signs of rough usage. The bridge is out of position and the sonnd-posts have | been moved. | Jesse James held the belief, common in the country districts of Missouri, that no fiddle, however fine, was of value until it | had been furnished with at least two sets | of rattlesnake buttons, and around the | narrow strip of wood between the two F holes still remains, in a dirty and decayed | condition, the pieces of cord by which he tied two bunches of rattlesnake buttons in | the instrument’s body. One rattle of five | buttons still swings by a string in the left- hand F hole. The other rattle of seven buttons, tied originally at the F hole | on the right-hand side, is loose in the instrument, and*when the violin is shaken it gives forth an uncanny noise, says the | criterion they feel assured that the present | undertaking will prove satisfactory to the ; There has always been a glee club at.the | university in Berkeley, but only during | the last eight years has it begn in the habit of siving public concerts and mak- ing periodical journeys through the State. %‘he first time the club ventured far away from home wasin a ‘trip made to | Pacific Grove to provide music' for the Chautauqua Annual Convention, and so flattering was their success that they went to Lake Tahoe the following year to sing for the same organization. Since then there has been hardly a month that the club_has not given a con- cert in some town adjacent to San Fran- cisco or in the interior. Three years ago the boys went through Southern California and gave several per- formances, rege:ning the trip in the year following. Their last jaunt of mention was made in last December and Jannary, when they gave a series of concerts at ‘Woodland, Marysville, Chico, Sacra- mento, Stockton and San Jose. Kansas City Star. ; The violin strings are all of wire and the The Stanford Mandolin Club was organ- Methodist Bishops that Bishop Goodsell shall visit the missions of the denomina- tion in Europe next year. The Berkeley Presbyterian Church pro- pose to erect a $20,000 church in the Gothic style of architecture. 2ev. C. L. Miel has decided not to accept the call extended to him by the St. Peter's parish congregation of this city. Rev. Father Barchi is very ill at St. Mary’s Hospital, suffering with a cancer in bis face. Rev. Charles Vierot of Paris, president of the supreme council of the churches of Tahiti, is stopping in the city, Rey. A. K. Crawford has resi, the pastdrate of the Oakland Adelphia Mission, A reception will be given next month by the young people of the First Baptist Ehfirch to the students of Cooper Medical Jollege, Right Reverend Nichoelas, the Bishop of the Pacific: Coast diocese of the Greek church, has gone to St. Petersburg on an official leave of three months. During his absence the services of the Russian cathe- fira_l kv;vlill be conducted by Rev. N. 8. Green- eritch, The dedication seryice of the Japanese %.3}3. church will take piace next Sunday at3 e M. ——————— Special Administrator Appointed. Edward Everett has been appointed by Judge GRAHAM. McGUIRE, KAUFMAN, FIELD. % WELLS. WILSON. ZLONGWELL. STANFORD MANDOLIN CLUB. E string just beinnd the bridge has been lengthened and hitched to the tail piece by the use of a larger sized brass wire twisted about in the mostinartistic but thoroughly secure manner. The fiddle case is decidedly ramshackle. The hinges gave out on one side and were transferred to the other, one end of the box was rejuvenated by the in- sertion of a piece of unpainted poplar. The w is heavy, of old style and thinly haired. The whole outfit i3 befirimed'aqd rusty. Alkins says his family dgo the yiolin from the famous nnderground stable used by Jesse James during his raiding days. Two weeks ago Frank James was in Pleasant Hill and positively identified the instrument as having belonged to his| brother b; uliar markings on the body and fingeyxmrd made by! being swung from a saddle bow. A Robin That Sin; “Whip-Poor-Will.”” There is a robin in Pittsfield, N. H., which every morning and ni§ht delights a crowd of listeners with his song. He perches himself upon the topmost branches of the elms and wild cherry trees, and there he sits for an hour ata time. He commences his song as robins do; but varies it from all others by introducing the | B. notes of the whip-poor-will once, twice and even four times in_succession. So plainly does he do this that many persons were attracted, at first uuiposing that it was a whip-poor-will, which are seldom seen or heard in our immediate vicinity.—Forest and Stream. ————— The best parallel case of natural im- munity from disease is said to be that afforded by the rat. | ized two years ago and has been through the State with its own glee club once, which undertaking was considered quite successful, Althongh the glee club does not seem to have suryived this effort and to all purposes has become extinct, the mandolin club has maintained its organiza- tion and promises to become permanent. The tour about to be_made by the wears ers of the cardinal and the blueand gold is somewhat of a novelty on this coast, but it is by no means such in Eastern States, where the concerts given by the college organizations are Ioosked forward to with eagerness as the musical and social treats of the year, Their clubs sometimes go as far south as Florida and Louisiana and west to Denver. The music-makers from the rival uniyer~ sities, who will leave early in the morning, expect to carry out the most extensive undertaking of the kind ever made on this coast, Their first appearance will be to-morrow evening in Stockton, and on the following night they will perform at Marysville. On the 6th they wilY give a concert at Eugene City, Or.; 7th, at Alhmd Or.; 8th, at Salem; 10th, at Tecoma; th, at 'Victoria, . C.; 12th, at Fairhaven, Wash.; 18th, at Olympia; 14th and 15th, at Seattle; 17th, at Astoria; 18th, at The Dalles; and on the 19th and 20th at Portland. make a stay of a few days at Castle Crag to recuperate, as the trip will prove some- what fati g inasmuch as whenever a jolly crowd of colie; s strikea town they seidom leave without being tendered WEIGLE. CODE. Coffey special administrator of the estate of John H. Crocker, who died on the 20th ult., leaving an_estate composed partly of a stock- broi{ierlge business which needed prompt at- tention. FOR THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Trustees Have Purchased Dr. Slevin's Valuable Collection of Historical Works. The trustees of the Free Public Library recently purchased the valuable library acquired by the late Thomas E. Slevin, LL.D, It consists of 1200 volumes, of ich some are very rare. ‘Dr. 8levin was at one time president of the Geographical Society of the Pacific. His tastes ra; the line of rical re- search, and it is from an historical peint of view that his library is chiefly valuable. Its volumes treat of the first expeditions from Europe to Iceland and Greenland, of the voyages of the Norsemen to the then unknown land of the west, and of the dis- covery, conquest and settlement of this continent by Europeans. BIn the selection of his books Dr. Slevin id particular attention to the history of i be acific and thnld&panmse el;:l of his rary is very complete. Several worl relating to the subject are in the Spnnhkj: On their return the boys will probably | lan, vin library was recently examined by John T. Doyle of bibliophi¢ EI{ P::h:mr Gmg: It)‘:vidnon. u’{:l:?f ;gg gree e collec woflh the sum of $2500, but it i: un::x‘e a banguet, reception or ball. ' Besides the l‘ggnlu make-up of the two stood that the trustees bought it for a mauch lower figure. *| wearing a dress and cafi 7 e e NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. e (EBSTABLISERBD 1862. 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AR S RPN R o ceasssens 175 PAIRS LACE CURTAINS at... 250 PAIRS LACE CURTAINS at. 250 dozen ALL-LINEN TOWELS at., TURKISH BATH TOWELS at.... 25 pairs EXTRA LARGE TURKISH BATH SHEETH eeesee....§2a pair, colorings on and $1 50 each. .$1 a dozen, seseseeaseseas1bc, 20¢ and 250 each. ....................... eeesseeesan......Teduced from $3 to $2 a pair. C. CURTIN, 911-913 Market Street. First Dry=-Goods Store West of 5th Street. TOLD WHAT SHE THOUGHT OF HER ' But She Didn’t Have the Satisfaction of Knowing What She Was Doing. ‘When the car stopped at Monroe and Dearborn streets a stout, matronly looking woman, with her arms full of bundles, got on. She dropped one of the bundles as she did so ‘and another portly female picked it up for her; their eyes metand a confused look of recognition came into them, says the Chicago Times-Herald. « “It's u nice day,” tentatively remarked the woman who had picked up the bundle. “Yes, indeed. I declare, your face is so familiar, I must have met you some- where."” “That’s just what I was thinking. At church, maybe, or some kind of a meet- ing.” “Yes, or a funeral. Say, 1 believe it was at Mrs. Walker’s funeral on State street.” < “‘So it was. I haven’t seen you since. Been to see the Walkers lately ?” “No, I haven’t. My nursegirl up and left me, and I haven’t bad a minute’s time to myself.” “That’s too bad. I've got a good one now, I tell you, Why, I don’t even have to hide the novels when I go out and leave her with the children.” ““Well, keep her close. Mine was & good one and well contented, too, but one da; when she was out a woman—I won’t call ber a lady, not if she wore lace and dia- monds—persuaded her away. She was and apron. I'd got her so’s she'd look neat, and that woman liked her looks so well that she offered her a place at 50 cents a week more than I was giving her; yes, and told her there was a barber-shop right around the corner from her house.” “You—you don’t say so? Why, those flowers in that store” are lovely! Mrs. Walker got some elegant ones at her fun- eral, didn’t she?” «Indeed she did. The girl up and left me that night. 1If you see any of the ‘Walkers tell them I've been too busy to call and, say, just tell them how I lost that good nursegirl I told them I had.” “I—I don’t often see them muyself. Quite a cool ufiell we've had, wasn’t it?’? *“Yes, indeed. And would you believe it, that girl didn’t want to leave the dress I’d given her, said it wouldn’t fit the new girl, anyhow. I told her I'd make it fit.” Mhm. I hope the fruit isn’t hurt much.” | “I hope not. Did you ever hear of such aneauhtrick as i0‘.).nt dwomxan did? Mrs. iggers her name is, and if I ever lay eyes on ieer T'll tell her just what— fiy ’do flon get off here? You live a long “way om where I thoughc you did.”” As she settled back in her seat she said to the yvoung woman with her: “Nice lady, isn’t she? I'd have introduced you, but I couldn’t just remember her name, though it seemed right on_the tip of m tongue. Let me see; it begins with a B. Well, I declare, if it wasn’t that very Big- gers woman herself, sure as you livel” And, glancing back, they saw the portly female ianning herseli with a newspaper, while she waited for the next car. ———————— Didn’t Recognize Him, Yarns of adventure on the road are in order now that the traveling players are at home again. Onethat a i{ew York ac~ tress tells about herself is of her visit to a splendid natatorium in a city on the Pa- cific Coast. Itis a famous place, and one of the sights of the town. It is illumi- nated by electricity at night, and a visit to it was arranged by a party of friends in the company after a performance. A swim ;r;a m:nrc‘inlanon thing to dlo on arriving, a e were splas e party plashing about This particular little woman is not at all at home as a mermaid, and she was floun- ear e whowe S mbming e heeand ‘Whose fine swimming had attracted her attention, camg to her wiu{ some valuable suggestions. His face was I to her, and as they had come out in' ¢ with one or two stranger guests, she assumed this was one of her party whom she had barely met, She gratefully availed herself of his directions, and, as he was an expert swimmer and splendid athlete his aid_was both efficient and agreeable. When, however, the y reassembled after dressing it was rather a blow to discoyer that her water friend was, on land, thedriver of the carriage in which El‘he bad ridden tothe place.—New York imes. ————— IN AN IRISH MUD CABIN. Little Light Penetrates the Dingy Building—No Disagreeable Odors. It consists of two rooms and possibly a small semi-detached outhouse, which is used as a storeroom for perishable articles, There is not a chink in the walls or thatch save a narrow chimney, which seldom if ever answers its purpose; the doorway faces the east and emits the smoke. What little light penetrates inside through the tiny window discloses the deep chocolate | stain from the eternal turf reek which per- vades the atmosphere of the interior, and literally paints walls, roof and furniture a uniform color. The furniture is rough and also scanty, a few stools atoning for the oc- casional ccm&lete absence of chairs. The mud floor is always more or less wet from the patter of the children’s bare feet or from the animals which have free access to the house. At nignt there is a goodly company within the walls of this spacious mansion. In the inside room there are two or three boxbeds or berths, where the children sleep, according to their age and sex; from nine to twelve is not an unusual number in a family. In the state berth is the calliogh, or recess, at the side of the hearth, the father and mother repose unscreened from the live- stock of ‘the farm, and breathe the same atmosphere as some eight quadrupeds be- sides the poultr{. Pigs, cattle, dogs, cats, and probably a horse or donkey, bave their bed space, respectively, and jealously resent anX fnciro}x‘\ichment by a bedfellow. stonishing as it may appear there are hardly any d;ssagmeablu ybdgfs. The over- powering smell of the peat smoke evidently acts as a complete disinfectant, and fortu- nately it is innoxious to the inhabitants of the hoyel, Equally astonishing is the fact that the whole community is in .com- parative harmony, and even the babies rarely cry. There is plenty of ocoupation for all the families who are able and willing to work, the mother doing little else but nurse the youngest infant.—The Cornhill Magazine. HOW TO REMEMBER. Advice to Those Wishing to Commit Songs or Music to Memory, “I wish you would teach me how to com- mit to memory the songs I want to sing,” said an amateur musician to a friend. “I have never been able to commit my musie to memory—at least, have never done so— j and I think it would be of use to me if I could.” ‘‘The process is not a difficult one,” was thereply. “I have always found it easy to remember songs and poems by a certain rule or method that I adopted a long time ago. Take any Popuhr song. ‘The Last ose of Summer,” forexample. Itisa good plan to read it over and get the sentiment of the verse, which comprehends the idea of loneliness, the fading away of beautiful things and the lack of sympathy in sad- ness. The rose is blooming alone. Its com}ganlons are faded and gone. No flower or kindred is nigh to share its pleasures or answer to its sichs. This is the ground- work—the skeleton, 5o to speak—of the verse. Impress this firmly on the mind, and familiarize the thought with the senti- ment. Imagine the garden with the one rose and faded leaves all around. Once this is fixed in the memory it is compara- tively easy to fill in the remainder of the words. This is one of the simplest and surest ways of committing the words of & song to memory. “With most people memorizing the air of the song is much easier, and this is done by humming again and again, re- ferring to the music whenever there is any question. It is important to learn an air correctly at first, for when a mistake is made at the outset one is almost certain to blunder at the same place ever afterward.’ —New York Ledger.