The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1895. 11 i FOURTH OF JULY PARADE, A Mammoth Display Is to Be| Made by the Butchers of This City. NATIVE SONS IN TUNIFORM. A Drum Corps of Eight Boys In Con- | tinental Army Regimentals. | No Chinese. ! The committees in charge of the mam-| moth celebration for the Fourth of July are still bard at work. Reports so far re- ceived seem to assure the success of the demgonstration, but these only stimulate the committees to further efforts. The butchers are making extensive preparations for the parade, and their con- tribution to the procession will occupy one entire d. ion, and perhaps two. The wholesalers will have inline 500 men in uniform and twenty-six 6-horse teams. The horses are being carefully matched, and they will be a feature of the parade. The retail butchers will have decorated | foreigners prepared to do yeoman service for their adopted Jand. The Cabots went out in the ship Matthew at their own charges, and on St. John’s day, June 24, first sighted the shore, to which they gave the name of Prima Tierra Vista—“first seen land.” Henry VII gave the bold ma- riners his “letters patent,” which author- ized them to set up the royal standard, and secured the stingy King share in their profits without involying him in any share of their expenditure. Selfishness and greed prevented the speedy permanent set- tlement of the island, and have always stood in the way of its development from a basis of sound prosperity.—Chambers ournal. THREE THOUSAN_D RELICS. Two Brothers in Massachusetts Make the Collection. The Lincoln brothers live in a neat little house on the west side of the Quaboag River about half a mile from the center of West Brookfield, Mass. The parlor has been transformed into an Indian museum. ‘Pomahawks, war clubs and scalping knives are everywhere. A little table fairly groans under the weight ot stone implements of all kinds, and the walls are hung with pretty nearly everything used by the red: man in his principal trade of killing, and his sub- sidiary occupation of cultivation. In fact, it is a very complete exhibit of the imple- ments of all kinds used by savages in both the paleolithic and neolithic ages of the hunting and fishing stage. The collection proper is arranged in a black walnut cabi- net fitted with shelves and having glass CURTIS TOBEX’3 DESIGN FOR A FOURTH OF JULY ARCH. wagons in the procession to the number of half a hundred at least. There will be steers aecorated with flowers and garlands, fifty vaqueros in costume, with some startling effects not vet made public, and floats without number. A meeting of the butchers’ committee was held at Masonic Hall in South San Francisco. John Livingston was chosen marshal of division, and reports of prog- ress were made. So far as known at the present time the floats furnisned are gs follows: By the beef butchers—Float bearing fifty-two young ladies, costumed to represent the G % Liberty and the several States and Ter- | ; men in uniform ! By Boyle, Lacoste & Co.—Two wagons deco- rated with flowersand flags; sixty men in uni- | form. By Legaller-Hellwig Tanning Company—One | typical float, decorated in fur, skins, etc.; one | team gdecorated with flowers and flags; 125 men i% uniform. ) By b-Levi Tanning Qompany—One teamewith fancy decorations; twenty.five men inuniform. | By A. B.Pauick & Co.—One float and fifty | men in uniform. © - By the California Tallow Works—One ‘team, handsome men. By the Franco-American -Fertilizer Com- any—One float, drawn by six coal-blnck stal- fions, cach weighing 2300 pounds: * This is to beat the float sent out by this firm two or three | Ye&rs ago. i By the sheep butchers—A mammoth float bearing “Little Bopeep’ xhef)hen}esses with crooks and fifteen or twenty live sheep, enow white and decorated with ribbons. The float will be inclosed with wire gauze to keep the s from escaping. N. Ohlandt & Co.—Two decorated six- horse teams; 25 men in uniform. By the Butchers' Board of Trade—Two floats, one bearing & live cow and a local adaptation {rom Coin’s Finaneial School ; officers and miem- bers in carriages.” By the Pacific Butchers Supply Company— One float bearing & model buiclier-shop com- lete. . By Hoffman & Woene—One float drawn by six matched grays, bearing a representation of » packing-house and sausege manufactory in full operation. On this float a 315-pound butcher will preside over a boiling caldron of frankfruters which a tiny urchin will distrib- ute to the erowd by means of a fork four feet long. The Burchers’ Board of Trade has offered six prizes—two of $25, two of $15 and two of $10—for the three best deco- rated wagons among the wholesalers and the three best among the retailers, Cer- tain firms in each branch have announced | their determination to win the first prize | if it costs them §250. The executive com- mittee has been made the judge without the possibility of an appeal. Grand Marshal Forster has been ques- tioned so often as to whether or not Chi- nese were to be permitted in the procession that he wishes it stated once and for all time ‘“‘that he deposes upon oath that no Chinese will be permitted to appear in the parade.” i The grand marshal has experienced considerable difficulty in securing a suit- able steed for the Fourth. He complained of the matter yesterday, but the sugges- tions he received were scarcely reassuring. Mr. Hammond of the Butchers’ Board of Trade suggested a tame steer of which he knew. One of the new women offered the loan of a bicycle and another agreed to furnish the necessary bloomers. ’Jghe diffi- culty-is however a serious one, and Mr. Forster would like to hear of a superb saddlehorse that can be secured. The members of Pacific Parlor No. 10 have decided to parade in- distinctive uni- forms and they will be accompanied by a drum corps of eight boys in the apparel of the Continental armfy. 5 ‘The final choice of a triumphal arch on Market street rests with the executive com- mittee, which meets to-morrow afternoon, and the CALL herewith pregents another of the designs submitted. - Lasv evening the finance committee met and discussed the advisability of having the names of subscribers and the amount of their subscriptions published" in. the daily press. No action was taken in the matter. Some partial reports were re- ceived from merchants who had been out collecting. They showed extremely good results for the time expended. A report of all money received will be made by the treasurer at the meeting of the executive committee to-morrow afternoon. § Lol s h BT A FINE CHORUS. Three or Four Hundred Singers Are Wanted for the Fourth. The literary committee of the Fourth of July wishes to make the chorus a marked feature of the celebration. Two hundred vocalists have already volunteered their services, but it has been decided to raise the number to 500 or more. > All vocalists desiring to take part in the exercises are requested to communicate with the musical director, J. W. McKenzie, at 524 Eddy street, as soon as possible, an receive the music for the first rehearsal. , England’s Oldest Colony. i Newfoundland was discovered in 1497 nd features to be | rated, and twenty uniformed | ¢ covs The relics are classified, and each oue 1s numbered and given a full descrip- | tion in a catalogue whichis carefully pre- | served by Mr. Lincoln. When he was asked how many relics he and his brother | had collected, David said he had long ago |Jost count. He guessed, however, that the | collection numbered somewhere in_the | neighborhood of 3000 articles, and with a | very few exceptions all of them were found | by his brother and himself in the imme- | diate vicinity of West Brookfield, says the Springfield Republican. A large and interesting book might be writter out this collection, and it will be | impossible in this article to give more than a general idea of some of the more con- spicuous articles. A corn hoe and an In- dian bammer were the first specimens shown. The hoe was reughly fashioned from coarse-grained stone, and grooves in its side showed where the handle had been attached. A spheroidal piece of smooth |and very hard stoné was proniounced ‘a bammer, and a umber.of indentations en one of the flatter sheds were pointed out as evidence that it had been good for that purpose. A number of elongated pieces of stono, varying in length from 2 inches o 1 foot, were pronounced needless, which were used by the Indians in the weaving of nets from grass and strong twigs. There were fourteen pestles of all sizes and from two inches to tworfeet'in length, which has been used in rinding corn, and in_the dooryard of the Eouse Mr, Lincoln showed a fine large mortar, whose hollowed top indicated the purpose it had been used. Three pipes, two made of soapstone and the other of some harder material, were interesting re- minders of the use of tobacco among the red men. And then Mr. Lincoln displayed a very villainous-looking war club, and re- marked that he would give it to his visitor if he could pronounce the name of the lake at Chester where the relic was found. This is the name: Chaugogagognonchangogogogogogunamung. The instrument is still in the possession of Mr. Lincoln. There are fifteen toma- bawks, all made of stone and all found near West Brookfield, and a very fine spearhead made of flint, which had been chipped into theflpmper from with wonder- ful accuracy. This head Mr. Lincoln Excked up one day in a gravel pit on the oston and Albany road. A piece of stone shaped in the segment of a circle and sharpened on the curved edge was calml; annqunced to be a scalpiug-knife, an the collector displayed elfih!ecn notches on the upper edge, which ne said there was the best reason to believe indicated the number of times it had dis- charged the function. A round piece of stone, oddly shaped, was declared to be an amulet or charm, but the five notches on this are supposed by ethnologists to stand for the number of pappooses which its wearer has brought into the world. A full set of Indian jewelry Mr. Lincoln considers very valuable, and he has one in his collection. It was found near West Brookfield and consists of a small amulet, upon which is roughly carved a bow an arrow and a chain, and two earrings, which are fashioned with considerable skill. The carving is psrticularly inter- esting, as the inscription probablfl means something, and consequently illustrates one of the embryotic stages of the art of writing. Several copper arrow points, which were found on what is known to haye been the site of the camp of Shattoo- quis, the chief from whom the settlers bought the Quaboag country, indicates that before the Indians left the valley they had begun to emerge from_the stone age. A piece of stone almost spherical in shape and about the size of a tennis ball Mr. Lineoln said was used by the Indians in playing a game which was formerly known by the homely name of “shinny,” but which is now somewhat changed-and re- joices under the more artistic appellation of “polo.”” A ‘‘rubstone” was roughly fashioned from hard rock, and evidently had been used to grind down and shape pestles and other implements. A battle-nx, shaped somewhat like an ordinary sledge and weighing seven pounds, Mr. Lincoln was especially proud of. He found it near West Brookfield. There were three medicine or drinking cups made of stone, amulets of various sizes and shapes and about half a bushel of frag- ments of pottery, to say nothing of several receptacles made of clay and sun-baked ; two skulls, which smiled cheerfully upon the spectators and which, from their forma- tion, had evidently belonged to persons of no very great intelleciual attainments; a string of wampum-peage (small pieces of shells strung tightly together lngnnki arather pretty chain); stone gouges u::s for hollowing out the logs mdg transform- ing them finally into canoes, and various other articles, some of which Mr. Lincoln {frankly said he knew nothing about except that he had found them and that appar- ently they were the workmanship of gndi- ans. As_a matter of course arrow heads are Mr. Lincoln’s best hold, and in the past thirty-five years he has collected enough to sink ‘a good-sized ship, and | many are very finely made and finished. —————— The women of Morocco never celebrate by John and Sebastian Cabot (or Cabotto), Tialians settled and trading in Bristol— their birthdays, and few of them know their ages. FOR PRACTICAL RELIGION, What the Institute of Applied Christianity Seeks to Ac- complish. ROUSING POPULAR INTEREST. Lectures That Are to Be Delivered on the Subject of Christian Sociology. A number of the people who lent a will- ing ear to the teachingsof Professor George Herron when he was in S8an Francisco are beginning to take a practical interest in the Institute of Applied Christianity,which was recently founded in this City. Although the organization is only a few weeks old, it already numbers over sixty members, and its first meeting, which took place last Tuesday in the Third Congrega- tional Church, attracted a large and inter- ested audience. It is expected soon that the meetings will be aeld at the Y. M. C. A. Hall on Meason street. Most of the promoters of the institute are believers in the Herronic theory of ap- plied Christianity, and though the presi- dent. Rev. M. J. Ferguson, founded an institute of -~ Christian sociology on something of the same lines about a year ago, at the Christian Church on Twelfth street, nothing was attempted on so large a scale till the visit of Professor Herron roused a number of his' followers to attempt to sow applied Christianity broadcast in all the walks of life. ‘‘We want to reassert the right of -Chris- tian law to rule in all departments of life,” said Rev. M. J. Ferguson yesterday, when questioned as to the aims which the insti- tute is seeking to accomplish. ‘“We believe that Christ’s teaching con- tains the solution of all social difficulties, and that it has not yet been applied to life. People have accepted things on the theory that whatever is is right, and they have not tested conditions by the ethics of Christ. *‘Fifteen hundred years ago the church made a_compromise with the world and accepted a smallgart of life as its domin- ion. To bring Christianity into politics and social and industrial life is what we 2im at accomplishing,” ‘When asked whether the society was optimistic enough to hope to see Christian- | ity practically applied to all the complex conditions “of ~ modern life, ev. M. J. TFergusson prom tly replied that Christianity was optimistic, and add- ¢d: “The founder of our religion was an optimist and he was also a revolutionist, as far as existing conditions~were con- cerned. Our object is to induce Christians to make a fresh, candid and fearless study of Christianity as the practical rule of every department of life.” The following are the articles of the in- stitute: The purpose shall be tostudyin common how to apply the principles of Christianity to the modern problems of society. All ‘persons who are in accord with the pur- pose of this institute and who are willing to putin practice the teachings of Christ wilfbe eligible to membership. All such appiications shall be referred to the executive committee through the secretary, and those who are deemed eligible shall be re- ported to the institute for action. Any member whose opinions and conduct are averse to the purpose of the institnte shall cease to be & member. It shall be the dul{ of the executive commit- tee to investigate all such cases and report to the institute for action. All candidates shall be declared members aiter receiving two-thirds of the yotes of those present and signing the eonstitution. -, . The expenses are met by voluntaty!ggn- tributions. " ‘At present the way in which the officers and members are attempting to dissem- inate their views is by means of the weekly meetings, where papers will be read on Christianity and sociology.” / The programme for several weeks will-be us follows: “Christianity Appiied to Em- ployers,”” “Christianity "Applied to Em- ployes,” “To_8ocial ~ Life,”. *‘To ,Busi- ness,” “To Citizenship.” {‘To Prnp?rt.fl," “The Principle of Completion,” *What Constitutes a Right in Property?” “The Rights and Duties of Property,” “What Can We Do for the Unemployed,” “Edu- cation,” “The Wages System.”” A num- ber of able speakers have been selected to discuss these subjects. The. officers of -the institute are: Presie dent, Rev. M. T. Ferguson; vice-presi- dents, Rev. J, C. Smith, Rev, F. Flawith, 2ev. J. E. Cross, D. Gilbert Dixon, the Rev. Mr. Oruzan, Mrs. T. A. Nolte, Mrs, Rose French; secretary, Rev. A. J. Dupuy; treasurer, W. W. Case. WHISKERS AND WIND. A Further Contribution tothe Literature of an Interesting Affinity. “That feller,”” said the man with. the ginger beard, as the smooth-shaven new settler drove by, “that feller, when I knowed him out in Kansas, had a set of goat trimmin’s that would discount Peffer. And he lost ’em in the funniest way."" “Got 'em shaved off 2"’ asked the grocer, trying to be sarcastic. Much to the surprise of the man from Potato Creek the man with the ginger beard replied : “That's }'est the way. Exactly.” When the man with the ginger beard had enjoyed the grocer’s surprise, he con- tinued: ‘’Course, he didn’t have to have 'em shaved off, but after the way they took to actin’ he allowed that was the best thing he could do. You see, they was a cyclone come along acrost his place. He seen ’er a-comin’, an’ by the time he got the cow and the dog and his wife an’ chillern in the cyclone pit they was so little room that he had to leave his head stickin’ out. Purty soon along comes o’ Si—-'" ““01d Si who?” asked the grocer. “It might have been old 81 Hubbard, but this time it happened to-be ole Si Clone. Well, that there wind took them flowin’ whiskers and wrapped ‘em round and {pqu his neck, and durn nigh choked im, ‘And he’lowed after that it would be safer to go smooth, I suppose ?” asked the man from Potato Creek. ‘‘Hardly. Ketch any Kansas man takin’ off his whiskers fer any sich frivolous rea- son. But the ellicktricity, er something, had sot ’em so that they wouldn’t grow no other way than jist round and round. I tried to persuade him to leave "em that way, seein’ as how he had the finest neck comforter ever a man had in them whis- kers, but he was too dadwormed high- minded, an’ keeps ’em cut clean off now.” The man from Potgto Creek slowly gathered up the two burlap sacks that served him' as a saddle, put them on his yellow mule and rode homeward, ponder- ing, pondering.—~Indianapolis Journal. GLASS PAPER THE THING. That Would Be a More Accurate Desig- nation Nowadays Than Sandpaper. Sandpaper as now made is false to 1ts name, for it has no sand about it, the place of that material being now taken usually by powdered glass, which does its wark with vastly greater effect. One of the most important operations in the fabrication of sandpaper is the pulver- ization of the glass into powder of the dif- ferent grades of fineness. Commonly an iron mortar is used for this purpose, a heavy iron pestle being the crushing in- strument. Stamping machinery is better, It consists of a stout box, whose iron side wails serve as a base for the stamping ma- chinery. In the box, which can be closed by a wooden door to prevent waste of ma- terial and also injury to the workman, are two iron cylinders in which play the stamps. These crush the glass, turning on their own axles as they work. For grading the powder several shimnfi cylinders are necessary, covered wit gauze of different mesh. Beginning with the coarsest the workman proceeds gradu- ally to the finest, resifting each time that which passes throngh the network. The paper to be used in the manufacture must be good. 8trong, and rather long- fibered. It must also be free from kuots and irregularities, and if there be any such they must be planed off. 1f they should be overlooked they would interfere with the proper use of the sandpaper; the knots would protrude through the glue, and lit- tle ridges and channels would result, mak- ing it impossible to smooth off a surface evenly with the paper. The paper is cut into large sheets, spread on_work-tables, fastened down and then painted by means of a large brush with a thin, even coat of hot glue. If the glne is too thin and_the paper of bad quality, the glue soaks into the paper, so that which remains is not of sufficient consistency to hold thé glass. Thus results a sandpaper from whic’i) the glass easily rubs off, or which, in glnces, has no glass at all, or not. enough. This is notably the case with the coarser varieties, in which the layer of glue must be put on with exceeding care that the relatively large fragments of glass, wwhich can in no manner be soaked with the binding material, may be held fast in it. On the other hand, if the layer of glue is too thick, or the consistence too viscous, the outer part hardens too quickly, so that the glass powder cannot embed itself in it. When tge glue has been spread on the paper the powdered glass must be sifted on through an appropriate sieve. This operation also requires considerable skill, though not so much as the spreading of the glue. For the glass- must not be sifted merely in such a manner as to use a given quantity to a sheet, but so that each sheet may be covered evenly. Even then all the powder will not stick, and some of the particles lie upon others without touching the glue; these can be shaken off by a slight movement of the paper. When the | superfluous glass powder has been removed a wooden roller is passed lightly over the paper to press the particlesof glassas firmly as possible into the glue and to form a perfectly even surface.—Philadelphia Inquirer. —————————— WAS A GOOD GUESSER. But a Sudden Light Had Broken in on the Old Man. He had several samples of the early spring variety of New Jersey mud on his boots, but it did not seem to interfere with the interest he took in the sights on Lower Broadway as he gawked along. Suddenly he bumped into a party and backed off. “Excuse me,” said the party, and his face brightened. “Why, Mr, Johnson,” he exclaimed, extending his hand, “how are you?"’ “My name ain’t Johnson,” replied the claybank. “It’s Plunkett—James F. Plun- kett of Piunkettsyille, N. J., and I guess you're mistaken.” © “Yes,” admitted the party, “I think I am, but you are the very image of a friend of mine named Johnson, Ihope you will excuse me.” “Of course; no harm dene,” and the two drifted apart as people usually do in the great city when there’s a crowd around. Half an_ hour later a nice looking man extended his hand to Mr. Plunkett and smiled all over. “Why, Mr. Plunkett!” he exclaimed, “how do you do? How are the people at home? I haven't seen you for so long that I came very near passing you without speaking,” and he shook Mr. Plunkett's hand so vigorously that his bat jostled down over his eyes, but -he shoved it back and looked at his new friend curiously. “You don’t know me, I'll bet a dollar,” laughed the party. ‘“‘But I don’t want to win your money,” he hurried on. “I'm Charley Tucker, and I haven’t been up vour way since I was a small boy, but I re- member you very well.”” Mr. Plunkett” braced up and was ex- cordial. = ~ = 1 tremel. - B ! gfln‘t exactly mind. you,” said he, “but boys grow up so fast that we can't keep the run of them. But what are you doing here?” i ?1, 1’m in business, and doing tip-top. I'm in Wail street, where a man makes his fortune between meals. And, by the way,” he added, as if on & sudden bright thought, *I've got a little snap thatis just what you are looking for.”” - - “If there's money in it I'm looking for it,"” laughed Mr. Plunkett. *‘Well, there’s a thousand in it to you for a hundred,” said Mr. Tucker with con- fidence. They had turned into a side street where the crowd was small,and all at once Mr. Plunkett thought of the stories of the bunko boomers he had read of and he looked Mr. Tucker over carefully. “Lemme see.”” he -said halting, “didn’t you say you had‘ knowed me since you was a little boy, say about 5 years old ?” “Jnst about that long.” g ‘7‘1 guess that's twenty-five years, ain’t it?” “You've guessed it toa dot. now.” “I'm a right good guesser, ain’t I?’ said Mr. Plunkett with pride. “I never saw a better,”’ frankly admitted Mr, Tucker. “‘Well, Charley,” said Mr. Plunkett with emphasis, ‘I iuess if you ain’t around that corner in just ten seconds I'll kick you clean across the street and ten foot up that wall on the other side!” and Mr. Tucker Eot there with three seconds to spare.—New {ork Sun. I'm just 30 P ———— Day and Night on Mercury. Professor G. V. Schiaparelli, the astron- omer, gives some curious points concern- ing day and night, as exhibited to the peo- le of Mercury, that is, of course, provid- ing the torrid climate of that planet per- mits of the existence of organized beings. The professor says that on three-eichths of the planet thick and eternal night forever reigns, except, perhaps, during an occa- sional exhibition of some phenomenon similar to the aurora borealis. Another portion of the planet of similar area is continually exposed to the burning rays of the sun, and the inhabitants, pro- viding that there are any, know nothing whatever of night, sunrise and sunsets. “Night,” says Schiaparelli, “on that three- eighths of the Mercurian world, is a physi- cal impossibility, and the only change that can take place is the varying obliquity of the sun’s rays, which shift according to the sun’s position during the eightv‘eigit days which go to make up the year.” In another region on this planet there is two-eighths of "the entire surface which has alternations of light and darkness, In these favorable sections®the period of eightreight days is divided into two in- tervals, one characterized by continual light and ‘the other by perpetual dark- ness, Taken altogether we should be well pleased with the conditionsexisting on our world, which are, perhaps, better suited to human beings than_those of any of the sun’s ‘grut train of planets.—St. Louis Republic. Forgot to Count, Absent-mindedness has been frequently a characteristic of men of fame. It 1s to be suvposed, no doubt, that their minds have been so wholly absorbed by great matters that the smaller, more trivial things of life have been considered unworthy of their attention. Among men of this stamp who have suffered in this way was Lessing, a famous German writer of plays and hooks of criticism. I@“ini discovered at one period of his life that he was being robbed of hisready money by some person in his home, and, unable to determine who the culprit was, he put the servants of his household toa test by leaving a handful of gold upon bis breakfast table one morn- ing, fleefing a friend he told him of what he had done. “That was risky,”” said his friend. “How much did you leave there?” “Dear me!” cried Lessing. “I quite for- got to count.”— Harper’s Magazine. The English sparrow-hawk sometimes fliei through space at a speed of 150 miles an hour. GRAND GROVE OF DRUIDS It Will Hold Its Thirty-First Annual Session at St. Helena. SOME OF THE NOTABLES. Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Order in Call- fornla. For the past two weeks the officers of the Grand Grove of California, U. A. 0.D., haye been busy making up their reports and preparing generally for the thirty- first annual session of the Grand Grove, which will begin at St. Helena on Tuesday morning next. The meeting will call together represen- tatives of the order from all parts of the Ph. Rohrbacker, Deputy Supreme Arch, U.A.0.D. State, including a large delegation from this City. Among the notable members who will attend the convention is P. Rohr- bacher of this City, who holds the exalted position of deputy supreme arch, the sec- ond highest officer of the order in the United States, and who is also the Califor- nia representative to the Supreme Grove. At the next meeting of the Supreme Grove Mr. Rohrbacher will be advanced to the honor of supreme arch. Another personage of note, who has been an active worker in the order, and who will be found at St. Helena as hard at work as ever in the interests of Druidism, is E. Cavagnaro, past grand noble arch. In the forthcoming June issue of the Druids’ Journal, published in this City, will appear a comprehensive article on “Druidism in California,” from which the following is taken: The sowing of the seeds of Druidism in Cali- fornia thirty-five years ago was attended with difficulty, and if it were not for the zeal and energy of Brother Frederick Sieg the people of the Pacific Coast might have been deprived of the benefits of Druidism for many years after May 7, 1860, the date upon which the first grove of Druids was instituted. The historic town of Placerville has the honor to be the birthplace of Druidism in Cali- fornia. Herman Grove No. 2 was organized in the town of Coloma, and San Francisco GroveNo. 3 wes established 1n this City on March 27, 1864, On May 16, 1865, the Grand Grove of Califor- nia, U. A. O. D., was instituted, and as a recog- nition of his great work Brother Sieg was F. Cavagnaro, Past Grand Noble Arch, U. A. 0. D. chosen the first N. G. A., the dutfes of which he filled with honor to lilmself and to the en- tire satisfaction of the members throughout the State. Since that time there have been 104 groves established in California, 5 in Oregon, 4 in Washington and 5 in British Columbis, all of which have been fnstituted by the Grand Grove of California. The order did not make very remarkable progress until 1884, when Louis F. Dunand assumed the position of noble grand arch. By his energetic work he gave an impetus to the order which it has retained ever since. Since the establishment of the order in this State the benefits paid have been as follows: For burial of deceased members, $73,575; for widows and orphans, $43,654; for sick bene- fits, $369,756. Brother Sieg, the founder of Druidism in Cal- ifornia, was born in Saxony, Germany, in_the year 1815. He died on August14, 1888, at the age of 73 years, universally respected and be- loved by all who knew him. In recognition of his great services to the lorder the Druids of this Jurlsdiction erected a handsome monment over his last resting place in Placerville. An Ex-Confederate Ordeal. One- of the distinguished Confederate veterans who went with the delegation to Chicago is full of interesting reminis- cences and instances, which he tells with a quizzical smile. Here are two unpublished incidents: During the ceremonies of the unveiling of the monument to the 6000 private Con- federate soldiers who died in prison, a wild-eyed old man, in a towering rage, rushed up to the party in a high state of excitement, shook his fist at them and yelled: - *You have got no business here. You ought all to be hanged or skinned_alive.” He fixed his eyes upon Senator Hunton, who smiled kindly at the infuriated ol erson, and said: ‘‘Oh, we're all right, my riend, and don't you forget it.”” Then two or three Chicago citizens grabbed the eldex—l{l person and fired him to the rear. At the grand banquet in Cincinnati the Part sat together. The hand played ‘Hail Columbia.”” The Confederates never moved a muscle nor cracked a smile. Every eye went upon them instantly. Then “Yankee Doodle” was applied. Stiil there was no response in the way of ap- plause. Then the band opened on them with “Dixie,” but%till they sat silent and dignified, like so many Indian chiefs at an ingerview with the Great Father in the White House. Then that band threw up the sponge, and the real business of din- ing an. Good fellowship broke the ice, and the fraternization was complete,— ‘Washington Post. — XKilled an Ofter in His Yard. On Saturday last, as Alfred S. Babylon of Frizzelburg, Carroll County, was sitting in the yard of his home, a large otter en- tered and immediately atm:f J NEW TO-DAY. WHERE ARE Y0U GOING FOR THE SUMMER? ‘“That is a question that has not been decided yet. The fact is times are so hard with us that I really don’t know where we can go. I feel as though I must have a change of air, and my wife and sister are both run down, too. it must be quiet, sunny, and a long way away frombusiness.” If you can’t af- Wherever we go ford to go at all we can help vou, and if you do go, you need something more than the three requisites mention- ed. You can get them for the asking—but have all care where you go. What ARETHE ALKALIPLAINS like middle of you think in the July do ? Youdo not propose to go there, of course not. But why go awayatall? out, and feel as If you are worn though if you don’t get a rest you will have to give up, why in the name of common sense don’t you get some of Dr. Henley's . Celery, Beef and Iron? After you have tried it for a few days you will feel like a ‘‘resurrect- ed” man, in a month you well will you be. going away. But you get Dr. won’t know yourself, so And you will be saved all worry of Henley’s, mind, and whatis G00D ENOUGH FOR YOU Will be found to satisfy all the cravings of both your wife and your good sister. Let them take it, too. Itisa grand thing for women. CELERY FORTHENERVES BEEF FOR THESTOMACH [RON FOR THE BLOOD _— which it whipped in a_few seconds. In fighting the animal stood on its hind legs, biting savagely with its sharp teeth. As soon as the dog was whipped the otter | turned its ntten?ion to_ Mr. Babylon and | attacked him, giving him a hard fight, in which he found great difficulty in avoiding | its teeth, but finally succeeded in killing it. It weighed twenty-six pounds, and the skin, which is a fine one, will be stuffed and kept as a trophy. No one had ever shows that these fish are remarkable, aside from their appearance, in that they are viviparous, bringing forth their young alive and ot depositing eggs, after the manner of most other fish. They have rudiments of eyes, but no optic nerve, and are, therefore, incapable of being affected by the most intense light. Those who tasted them say they are of excellent flavor, but rather too plentifully supplied with bones.—Goshen ‘lndependeun Repuhlican. seen an otter around Frizzelburg before. Baltimore Sun. ARTESIAN WELL FISHING. | Curious Specimens Caught on a Hook in the Bowels of Indiana. | Thomas Mould and Editor E. L. Roys are the herges of a fishing story beside which | the stories of ordinary fishermen sink into | insignificance. Both are known as ardent | devotees of Izaak Walton, and whenever their business permits they are usually | found in pursuit of the gamy black bass or the voracious pickerel. On Saturday they visited Glenmore together. The fish were not biting with any enthusiasm and | about 4 o’clock they started for home. At Howell’s condensery they stopped to | talk with some workmen who were repair- | ing the pump at the artesian well. It will | be remembered by readers of this paper | that at the time this well was sunk an ac- | count was given of the striking of a sub- | terranean stream at a depth of nearly 300 | feet, the volume of which could not be as- | certained except that soundings showed it | to be of considerable depth. The stream and its probable size were the subjects of discussion among the little group at the well and somebody wondered if it con- tained any fish. A bright idea occurred to Messrs. Mould | and Roys. Each bad in his basket a long | trolling-line and by uniting them a line | long enough to reach easily to the bottom of the well wasformed. Amid the good- natured “jollying’’ of the bystanders the lines were rigged and a hook attached. It was baited with a big “ni§hb~walker” fish- | worm and lowered 298 feet through the six- | inch hole. The distance had been care- | fully measured off on the line, to whichja heavy sinker had been attached, and the hook fastened a short_distance above to a | stout piece of line. Everybody lau%-ed: except Mr, Roys as Mr, Mould carefully | lowered the line and waited anxiously for the little tug at the bait which brings™ joy | to the heart of the fisherman. After a few minutes the expression on Tom’s face became one of rapt attention. | “I believe I've got a bite,’” he said. A moment later he began to pull in the line | mpidl}v hand over hand. ‘“I've got some- thing,” he said, and as everybody began to gather about the well he drew out a fish. It was about half a pound in weight and | of the eyeless species,” which are some- times found in the waters of caverns. The fish was nearly a foot long, shaped some- thing like a perch, and its struggles as it lay upon the ground showed that it was | game to the backbone. Unlike fish which dwell in waters on the earth’s surface and which haye dark back and light-colored or white bellies, this fish was of a uniform color of light gray. It had very small THOUGHET IT A BAD SIGH. The Boston Servant Judged by Baked Beans Test. The castom of having baked beans for supper on Saturday nights and again on Sunday mornings is so common in some parts of New England that the servant who has lived in New England families cannot easily adapt herseli to any change in this respect. This was amusingly illustrated in the case of a domestic named Hannah, who went to live with a family who had moved to New England from the West. On the morning of the first Saturday in the | her new home Hannah came to her mis- tress and asked: *‘Please, ma’am, where is the beanpot ?”” “T}’w beanpot, Hannah? We haven't any.’ “No beanpot, ma’am?” said Hannah, aghast. ‘No, Hannah; we never eat baked beans,” “‘Don’t eat baked beans? Why, ma’am, what do you eat on a Saturday night?” ‘“‘About the same that we eat on any other evening, but we never have beans.” Hannah departed for the kitchen, mut- tering something under her breath, and an hour or two later her mistress chanced to overhear the following conversation be- sween Hannah and a friena who had called to see her: “How do Eou like your new place?’’ “I don’t think I'm going to like it at all. I jlust believe that these folks are—are— well, I just don’t believe they are respect- able people.” “Why, Hannah?” “Well, they never have baked beans of a Saturday night, nor no other time, so how can they be respectable?”’—Burlington Hawkeye. —————— A Stupid Butler. Spanish people seem to suffer from the stupidity of some of their servants as much as we do in America, if the following story, which appeared ina Madrid journal, is true. It seems that a ladfy ordered her butler one morning to tell all visitors that she was not at home. At night, when enumerating the persons who had called during the day, he mentioned the lady's sister, when his mistress exclaimed: “I told you, man, thatI was always at home for my sister! You ought to have her in.”’ Next day the lady went out to make a few calls, ana during her absence her sister came to the house. ‘Is your mistress at home?” she asked the butler. ‘‘Yes, madam,” was the reply. The lady went upstairs and looked everv- where for her sister. On coming down- stairs she said to.the butler, ‘‘My sister must have gone out, for I could not find e scales, and where the eyes might be ex- | per pected to exist there were slight indenta- tions as of rudimentary eyes. ‘When the excitement attending the cap- ture had died away the hook was baited again and the line lowered. Editor Roys took charge this time, and after waiting for about ten minutes, he drew to the sur- face another of the fish, a trifle larger than the first one. Five fish were caught alto- gether, the largest'of which weighed a glum pound and a half. One fish was rought part of the way to the top, but loosened itself from the hook and escaped. Mr. Mould, who had hold of the line at the time, says it was the largest by far of any that fastened themselves on the hook, and he is positive that the reason he was unable to land the fish was that it was t0o big to pass through the well, which is | only six inches in diameter. The singular appearance of these fish ed hisdog, [ shown. Reference to the encyclopida | housesin Russia, to exclude the cold. and the remarkable mannerin which the were captured made them objects of curi- osity to the persons to whom they were “Yes, madam, she has gone out, but she told me last night that she was always at home for you.”’—Harper's Round Table. Was » Skep! Lushforth—What is this Christian sci- ence? 5 Wickwire—I think I can make it clear. For instance, if you had the rheumatism vou would say to yourself that there was no such thing as rheumatism; there never was any such thing as rheumatism; consequently, you couldn’t have any rheumatism, and first thing you know the pain would be all gone. 3 Lushforthb—It won't work. Many is the time L have said to myself that there were no such things as crimson snakes with pea-green whiskers, and that I knew the; could not exist, but the snakes sta_yes right in the room just the same.—Indian- apolis Journal. —_————— Double windows adorn the better class of