The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1895, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1895. 13 ‘AN ADVENTURE How IN Java. A BRITISH MIDSHIPMAN'S PERIL WAS AVERTED BY A MALAY PRINCESS. BY DAN O'CONNELL. The anchor of her H. M. 8. Pelorus had | outside a coffee country, our good-natured hardly found the bottom of Anjer Head | entertainer proposed to escort us over the one ples she w ant morning in June, 1865, before urrounded with a bumboat fleet. ce monk, gentlemen, nice monk! Only one shilling! Mongoose, mongoose, Jovely mongoose. Sweet potato, pomolo, banana, plantain, yams,” were the shouts of the Malay boatmen as they clustered around the ship prepared to reap a rich harve: for the waist of the ship in twenty minutes looked like a vegetable and food market with monkey, mongoose and a lot of birds with the most brilliant plumage thrown in. We were to cruise about the Straits of search of piratical junks, which were at that time Sunda and the China seas in very bold and troublesome in those waters. In the gunroom mess, which numbered eight all told, was a young Welshman . And they were not disappointed, | Malay town. At one of the best-looking huts the Batavian called out and a young girl appeared. She was one of the most beautiful creatures I ever beheld, and she | stood at the door of this hut impassive asa | bronze statue while the Batavian, in her own language, asked permission fo exam- ine the interior. v Jove!”’said Daniels,*‘isn’t that a stun- ning girl?” At his voice the Malay beauty { turned and regarded him closely. I can recall the picture now—the girl, looking with a surprised air at the young officer, who, with his cap perched on the back of bis head, a mass of curls clustering over his sun-burned forehead, s well-cut, handsome features and his merry laughing eves, was a grand specimen of the well- born, frank Englishman. She evidently understood that there wasa compliment in Daniels’ remark, for she smiled at him pleasantly. # named Daniels, who was my particular | Shake hands,” said Danlelsjexiendius v serv i o = . | his own, anc z ag A chum. = We had served in the Australian | . B0t G0 01y in his, and began 0 ex- squad together, we had shared the penal- | 410 the rings on his finger with childish ties of many an escapade, and it several | curiosity. - times happened that while I was astride of Nice, very nice,” she said, pointing to a zen-topmast crosstrees, Midship- | plain gold circlet. iels grinned at me from the main. *‘Oh, you speak English ?”’ said Daniels. He was an enthusiastic, ligh arted man, | “Yes, one little,” rejoined the chief's and though as full of mischief as a |daughter, for such our guide informed us is of tricks, was withal a good | she was. oo ient officer. “Then you shall have this ring,” said re all impatient to stretch our legs | Daniels, and as he detached it from his ashore and curious to explore the land of | finger and placed it on bers he laughingly the deadly Upa Ja a country so in- | added, *With this ring 1 thee wed.” tensely tropical thatevery form of lifeand | The girl had_evidently some compre- plant characteristic of the tropics has there | hension of the significance of the gesture, an exaggerated development. The next | for she looked down in an embarrassed morning Daniels and myself went ashore. | sort of way at_the ring, and then in The town, Anjer, since destroyed by an | Daniels’ face, as if to inquire what all this quake, was at that period a most in- | meant. She was about to return the ring ng place. It was approached by a | to him, but Daniels with a gentle gesture narrow estuary having on one side the |indicated that it was hers. Again she W BN 3 i ]‘\\“\\\\'\\ ¢ WITH THIS RING I THEE WED.” European settlement and on the other the | looked at him with a curious, inquiring Malay village. It was a Dutch possession, | expression on her face, but I said: and the Dutch soldiers we saw were alto- | +Oh, come along, Daniels, belay this flir- ether unlike that typical Mynheer Van | tation; if we stay here much longer you yunk of zood and portly presence. They | will be endowing this maiden with your were as lean as a downeast Yankee, and | watch and all your worldly goods.” their clothes hung about them much t00 | e had not proceeded very far down the large for their heat-worn bodies. The first | street when a messenger from the other thing when we stepped off the little jetty | sown told the Batavian that somebody of the Dutch town was to inquire where | wanted to see him on business. Promising we could have a good, comfortable shore | 5 rejoin us shortly he crossed the estuary breakfast. This we asked a stout red-| gng we continued our ramble along. faced looking fellow who had watched “There’s a krisse I should like to have,” our boat come alongside, : | said Daniels, asa lithe young native walked “L will answer that question VeIV | y.pidly down the street with one of the promptly, gentlemen, if you will pernilt | weapons at his side. We halted him, and me,” he said, ‘‘by inviting O rvman ot | Daniels endeavored to explain to him that fast v\;;g nmrs-mlmzft" residing in Batavia, | he wanted to buy the krisse, but the Malay yours " = o y i b Siihe e of the island,and I will con: either would not or could not understand. sider it a compliment if you will honor me by being my guests.’’ 3 “We readi vg assented, and our Batavian friend took us through the town. Each citizen had two houses, one of red brick for winter habitation, and the other of bamboo for summeruse. Among the trees above our heads troops of monkeys czamboled and chattered, for the simian is a valuable article of commerce, and is encouraged and made to feel quite at home among the abodes of civilization. The heat as we walked toward the bam- boo house, where our Batavian friend was to eat the morning meal, was indescrib- ably intense. We had comeashorein light duck jackets and trousers, but our host suggested that it would be more comfort- able to exchange these for pongee pajamas and grass slippers before we ventured upon the exercise of eating. This we grfl}elu}ly iid from his wardrobe, and while the Malay servants kept the punkah swinging n the middle of the room and others wet down the bamboo walls outside, we ate a delicious breakiast of fish, fowl and fruit, washed down with some light Rhine wine. The conversation turned upon Malays, and my friend Daniels was curious about their fiterature and traditions and odds and ends he might be able to pick up for his museum. “I should like above all things,”” he! # caid, “to get a krisse, a genuine Malay krisse, for 1 have seen lots of bogus ones, but never, I think, the real thing.” :. “I think you will find it difficult,” said the Batavian, ‘“for our Malays here esteem their weapons very highly and on most of them you will perceive the carven linea- ments of their household gods.” “Well, divinities or mno _divinities,” lnughed Daniels, ‘I shall not leave Anjer without a krisse.” *“You’d better be careful.” said the Ba- tavian. “Those little fellows are very fierce and murderous when anything per- tains to their religious affairs.” Alter such as one rarely | The midshipman took out several Mexi- can dollars, and, pointing to the horse, offered them to the native. The latter shook his head and smiled good-naturedly. Daniels, concluding that the sum was not sufficient, displayed some more coins, but again the native smiled and shook his head. Then the sailor got impatient and plucked the weapon rudely from the hands of its owner. ‘‘Here_you are,”’ he said, shoving five dollars in his hand. “This old piece of iron and wood can’t be worth any more.” The Malay made a grasp for his knife, but Daniels struck him a sharp®low across the chest, which staggered him. I remon- strated and was about endeavoring to con- ciliate the Malay, when, with a malignant glance at Daniels and muttering some- thin; in his own language, he walked smartly in the opposite direction. “I'm afraid we're going to have some treuble from this, Daniels,” I said. “You see the black fellow has got_his housenold god carved on this hilt, and, unless I mis- take, you shall hear more about your curio. And see, he has thrown the money in the street. Trust me that fellow certainly means mischief.” “Well, it can’t be helped now, I sup- pose,” said Daniels. “I don’t see where the beggar’s disappeared to, or I would call after him. We will see our Batavian friend and have him fix the matter up.” Strolling leisurely along and observing the quaint and interesting things about us, we awaited the return of our host of the morning. “By Jovel! What'’s going on up there?” pointing to a crowd that had assembled some sixty yards away, cried Daniels. “I’'m blest if they’re not holding some kind of a meeting, and my friend of the kris is in the middle of them, making some kind of a speecn, I believe.” “We're going to have trouble, Daniels, toa d:-d cgmfnty," said I. *“That fellow tastes | is getting up an indiguation meeting and they will attack us before we get to the boat landing.” Fortunately we had taken the advice of an old quartermaster in the morning, who had been among those islands before. He told us that the Malays were a treacherous lot and that we would be foolish to go ashore unarmed. Although we had no ap- prehension of any trouble the idea that we might possibly get into the woods and see something to shoot at had more weight than the sailor’s warning, so we had slipped our revolvers on to our sword belts. As the crowd came angrily toward us there could be no mistake about their in- tentions. They were undoubtedly hostile. We looked around the long street fora friendly sail, but not a soul hove in sight. “I fancy we'll have to engage the enemy’s fleet alone and unsupported,” laughed Daniels. 1 don’t think it's any laughing matter,” said I, *‘but_about one thing I charge you to be careful. Do not shoot until there is absolute necessity for it. We may keep those fellows off with our swords, but should we be compelled to kill them, and even get on board all right, think of the court-martial behind us.” On they came, shouting and gesticulat- ing, and when they were within about twenty feet of us we drew our swords. Every fellow was armed with a kris, which he flourished viciously, as if longing to have the carving of two plump British- ers. Our bold front checked them for a moment, but as it wasa case of about six to one they plucked up courage and made another advance. “Now for our pistols,” I said to Daniels, “but don’t fire until they are close upon us.” The sight of the revolver-barrels was too much for Malay valor, and the army beat arapid and undignified retreat. We lost no time ourselves in getting to thelanding, where we found our Batavian acquaintance. We related the adventure to him and he looked serious. He dined at our mess that evening and told us many things about the Malay character, showing that they were of a very treacherous and revengeful na- ture. *I should warn you,” he said, “when you're ashore after dark to keep a cautious ookout, because in carrying off that kris ou have offended, not alone the owner, but all his relations, and you have been judged guilty of sacrilege."’ A few days after this Daniels and the chaplain went on a botanizing expedition, which my duties on board prevented me from joining. Night, the swift, tropical night, came on, and I began to grow uneasy. The chap- lain had left word that if he was not at the lanaing at 8 o’clock the ship’s boat need not wait for him, as he and Daniels would come on in one of the natives' canoes. The incident of the kris made me un- comfdrtable, and when two bells went I called a first cutter, after explaining the situation and obtaining per- sion from the first lieutenant. Noiselessly as possible we made the landing, and Coxhedge, a brother midship- man, and also an intimate friend of Dan- iels, accompanied me up the long street of the native village. I had ordered the cox- swain if he heard me blow my whistle twice to come to the spot as quickly as possible with his men. All was sileni in the village, and when I got to the top of the long street and not a being was to be seen abroad I felt considerably puzzled as to what to do next. It would have been manifestly absurd just then to search every Hoike' i EeRvillTede andNresaer i T had no authority for such a proceeding. ‘While Coxhedge and myself were holding a council of war and feeling decidedly un- comfortable a figure glided from behind a cocoa palm and advanced toward us. Re- membering the Batavian's comments on the Malay character I drew my pistol and stepped back a few paces. "'] iold on,” whispered Coxhedge, “it isa girl. She came ra{uid]y toward us, and by the bright starlight I recognized the pretty face of the girl to whom Daniels had given the ring. She recognized me also, and, putting ber finger to her throat, she whispered, ‘‘Come; they kill.” Then shook her head, putting up two fingers. “I'll tell you what she means, Cox- hedge,” Isaid. ‘‘She means that we are not_strong enough. Hurry back to the landing-place as quick as’ you can and bring the boat’s crew up with you. It lookf as if we were going to have some bad work.” Coxhedge darted off likea greyhound, and by the most eloquent and expressive gestures the girl explained to me that Daniels and the parson were confined in a hut close by and that they were going to send the parson to prison or up the country. By this time Coxhedge had re- turned with the men, who were grinning all over at the prospect of a serim- mage. We surrounded the house indicated by the girl, who drew herself some distance aside. One whack of the burly coxswain’s fist burst the door in, and there on the floor lIay Daniels and the chaplain, tightly bound with manilla ropes and guarded by three Malays, but not gagged. Daniels had been cursing ever since their capture, the chaplain told me afterward, which occurred just as they were entering the village to o to the boat landing three hours before. Their guards made no show of resistance, and for my part I made no attempt to restrain our fellows from giving them a sound thrashing with our boat- stretchers. As we brought the rescued heroes from the cabin I told Daniels how I discovered what had befallen him, and he declared on the spot that he would marry the girl offband and wanted to re- main back and thank her, but I insisted upon getting out of the place as quickly as [\ossible. and when we reached the boat anding there stood our Malay heroine. Daniels clasped her in his arms without a moment’s hesitation, and swore that if she came aboard the ship with him he should marry her there and then. “Why not have the ceremony take place here?"said I, “‘his reverence is handy and you might as well have the thing over at once.” *“ I’ll be hanged if I don’t, if she’ll have me,” cried Daniels, and I must say the maiden looked very willing. On the foilowing day the ship was ran- sacked for beads and trinkets and things which might be acceptable to the chief’s daughter. She was taken on board and all the youngsters at once fell in love with her. And when three weeks afterward we sailed away for the Gulf of Saghalien, the last figure we descried on the landing was the poor, dusky Ariadne waving her hand to her Welsh sweetheart. LOOKING FOR HEIRS. The Lord Mayor of London Assists an * Enterprising American in a Busi- mess Venture. John Wilson, an Englishman keeping a second-hand store, died in 1894, leaving an estate worth several thousana dollars, but no will nor known heirs. ¥. H. Burke of 2524 Clay street eaw an opportunity for a stroke of business. He at once put him- self in communication with different peo- ple with the idea of finding an heir. Among others he wrote to the Lord Mayor of Lon- don, hoping to get some gratuitous adver- tising. ~As a result the following notice ap- peared in the London Westminster Gazette: AN OWNER FOR A FORTUNE WANTED.—The Lord Mayor has received a letter from J. H. Burke of 205 Franklin street, San Francisco, stating that John Henry Bernard Wilson, an Englishman, died intestate there in June last, leaving a con- siderable sum of money, which, in default of heirs, will escheat to the State of California. The deceased was born in London about 1833, and was in the royal navy for a short period. He settled in San Francisco in 1864, first as a boot and shoemaker, and lllwrldy as the keeper of a hardware store. tis believed he has a sister living. The Lord Mayor’s correspondent adds: “I know of no way of giving this money into the hands of Wilson’s relatives except through our kind assistance. Will youdo usall the indness to ask the newspapers of London to give publicity to the tacts above statea?”’ BSeveral letters of inquiry have been re- ceived by Mr. Burke. No heir has as yet been discovered. e —————— 12, The Sultan of Morocco likes to look on the faces of his foes—when they are dead. He lately received at Fez two cartloads of salted human heads, the remains of Ra- hmar:a rebels. They are to adorn the city wal kill Daniels for desccrating the kris and | the CARICATURISTS. NOTABLE WORK OF GILLRAY, CRUIKSHANK AND ROWLANDSON. PARIS, France, May 25.—From the ab- dication to tne return from Elba, and from Waterloo to 1830, anti-Napoleonic carica- ture in France fvas so coarse and so desti- tute of all art that itis really not worth noticing. During these two periods the | ern bear. Bourbon Government openly favored this production of anonymous caricatures, vilely colored and with grossly insulting | | commentaries, by the appearance of which | they hoped the Napoleon legend would be effectually stilled. In a short time repulsive pictures of Na- poleon were everywhere conspicuous, a hideous nightmare in the print-sellers’ windows. Farewell to the Bonaparte at the bridge of Arcola! No more of the First Consul crossing the Alps. No longer Napoleon appears in majesty beneath the arches of the Notre Dame or in the cathe dral of Milan, his brows encircled by the imperial diadem or the iron crown of the Lombards. To the famous engravings signed by the names of Gros, David, Isabey, Gerard and Appiani, to the popular pictures with dithyrambic legends, have succeeded in- numerable caricatures, nearly all anony- mous, of asto ing coarseness and abso- lutely devoid of art. A fact worthy of mention is that in France no artist of talent consented to degrade his brush in this base campaign of insults against the thunder-blasted Titan. | shock of battle under a It was necessary that all possible means | is all, and yet the picture is should be used to inspire in the people a horror even of the name of Bonaparte., { | i | stabs him with his horns. The sovereigns of Europe form the audience and contem- plate the scene with evident delight. In the “Valley of the Shadow of Death” Napoleon is represented as entering the gloomy valley, holding in leash the North- He encounters here the British lion, the terrier of Sicily, the wolf of Portugal, and last of all Death, mounted on an Andalusian steed, with arched neck, and urging them to combat. Some of Gillray’s compositions might be reproached for their obscure symbolism, in spite of the extensive explanatory notes that cover more than half the drawing or escape in scrolls from the mouths of the personages like streams of gall. A long way after him comes George Cruikshank, who is only his pale imitator, but whose “‘Satirical History of Nupoleon,” with its colored plates, constitutes a curious study in caricature. Tliomas Rowlandson completes the trin- ; but among his numerous works, al- hough entirely consecrated to the paint- ng of manners and customs, and especially the evil ones of his own country, Napo- leonic satire only appears by the way. We may mention as an example of this great artist’s work, the colored print, “The Two Kings of Terror,” a title the laconic elo- quence of which forms a contrast to the in- terminable commentaries of Gillray’s ob- scure designs. Rowlandson here represents a conference between Death and Napoleon, who sit face to face, one on a cannon, the other on a drum, in attitudes of meditation. In the background are battalions mingling in the rmy That ainful in its ime\ressivcness. t is of the highest art. There is also a series of prints, either an THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR.—GILLRAY. The task was certainly a difficult ~ne, the | onymous or signed by obscure names, pub- eople being alw: pstinctive generosi of their heart, to par don the offenses of those who have accom- | plished really great things, and to forget very quickly sufferings by the excesses of glory. g Il)is in England we must seek for really good caricatures of Napoleon. There ar was combined with satire, and certain caricatures by Gillray and Rowlandson might occupy a place of honor in the finest collections of engravings. Among the numerous caricaturists who attacked Napoleon Gillray is by far the most celebrated. ‘His influence on satiric painters of his time was considerable; not only in England, but also in France, Ger- many, Jtaly and especially in Russia he had innumerable imitators. J. Gillray is par excellence the caricatur- ist of Napoleon, und he incarnates in his work all the hatred of England against the Emperor. Moreover, the satiric vocation Was never more imperious than in the case of this artist. He seems to have been born into the world for the purpose of ridicul- ing his contemporaries. Nobody was safe from his attacks, and George III was among the first to experience the stings of his poisoned darts. Numerous are the caricatures in which he ridicules with merciless humor the eccentricities and the avarice of his sovereign. British spleen was delighted with those biting criticisms, but at last the court be- came displeased and a minister was com- manded to buy the terrible pencil of Gillray, ready, with the in- | lished at the time of the formation o the camp at Boulogne, in which is reflected under the appearance of defiance the very real terror spread throughout England by the prospect of an invasion. We may mention, also, the satiric prints executed at St. Helena from nature by uch men as Marryat, Bunbury, Dodgin and €rockatt, which in spite of intentional and often grotesque exaggeration of the characteristic features of the model, form a valuable iconographic series. Only the death of Napoleon caused the encil to drop from the hands of the Eng- ish caricaturists, and from this moment, freed from all cause to fear, they bowed respectfully before the coffin of their glorious adversary, while France on the other hand, governed by the Bourbons, proteges of the Holy Alliance, abounded in coarse prints that threw insult even on the long and cruel agony of the great cap- tive of St. Helena. Gillray, like Rowlandson, and later, George Cruikshank, in spite of the differ- ence in the historic epochs he represented, never varied the features of Napoleon in any of his designs. For the English sati- rist the Bonaparte of the Kremlin is the same as the Buna?arte of Toulon, and on the rock of St. Helena he is as lean and long-haired as on the bridge of Arcola; always the same puny, raging dwarf, with long, hooked nose, everlasting frownin; brows, thin flanks and the jaws of a Tl wolf; always dressed in an enormous over- coat loosely belted, and always incoherent Tz Plamb pudding wr 5 25 THE PLU. danger e S L res ooy ur s S L ‘ M PUDDING IN DANGER.—GILLRAY. who, drunkard and gambler, lent himself with a good grace to the bargain. One of the articles in the convention probably required him to turn the arrows of his satire against ““the Corsican ogre,” “‘the Corsi plague’’; for from the day the imbecilities of George III ceased to serve as a butt for his raillery, Napoleon became his daily target. And it must be admitted that his inexhaustible fancy did not suffer from the change of direction. From the coup d’etat of Brumaire until 1815, the year o? his death, he held on to his victim. It was the unceasing attack of the hornet on the lion. The list of pic- tures illustrating that Homeric fightisa longone. Among the most celebrated may be mentioned ‘“Napoleon Putting an End to the French Revolution,” “The Inter- view Between Britannia and the French Citizen,” and *The Feast of Belshazzar,’’ in which Bonaparte, Josephine and the courtiers are feasting on the riches of Eng- land. On one ‘plate, served. like calf’s head, is the head of King George; on another, a Eguntic pie, regreseming the Bank of ngland. Josephine, enormous and ex- pansive (it is thus that history is written), 1s emptying her glass at a gulp; one of the gnests is swallowing the Tower of London. ut at the moment when the First Consul attacks a cake representing St. James palace, three fateful words of the scriptural story shine out on the wall, and Bonaparte shrinks back in horror, while behind him stand his trembling sisters, attired in cos- tumes of the slightest. Then there are: ‘“The Valley of the Shadow of Death,” “The Plum Pudding in Danger,” “The Toreador,” “The Unex- pected Meeting,”. “The Castles in the Air,”’ ete. I shall describe only the The subject of *“The Toreador ,principal. was sug- flzsted to Giilray by the Spanish war. ere we see the Emperor, in matador cos- tume, in the arena. He has broken the head of his espada on_tpe shoulder of one of the bulls,who, maddened by the wound, movement, epileptic gestures, bullying at- titudes, a continual agitation. It is the invariable formula. In Germany caricatures of the general or consul are-rarely seen. The satirists of Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Vienna maintain a prudent reserve until the disaster of 1812. After that date German caricature appears in the form of Klein’s bitter and ghastly cartoons, and soon satirical sketches are multiplied to infinity. In nearly every case the image of Na- poleon of declininf days is nothing but a rough distortion of the life-like patriot by Dahling. 2 Less cruel than the English artists, the German_caricaturists show us, now in the island uf Elba, now at St. Helena, a Napo- leon grotesquely accoutered, bewailing his sins, while smoking a large clay pipe; or dressed like Robinson Crusoe, contemplat- ing with profound melnncholfr from under the shade of a great umbrelia legions of rats, who are gnawing at his boots. At times, however, German caricature assumes a savage harshness and Napoleon then becomes the great grave-digger, seated with shovel in hand on a throre made of heaped-up skulls. There is little to be said regarding Ital- ian caricature, which is a feeble imitation of the German. For reasons easy to under- stand it did not appear until the close of the empire and then only timidly. “L’Estampe Russe,” of which the most curious plates have been carefully collected by M. fiavinski. contains a considerable number of Napoleonic caricatures. Almost all of them have reference to the campaign of 1812, g Mauny are only clumsy adaptations of German, and, above all, of English draw- ings, due to the audacious imagination of the Muscovite, Lepedeheer, who, with one stroke, upsets the order, the original composition, and the spirit of the legend. Then there is the series of ‘popular sketches, which are of an infantile art and atrociously colored, but at times reflect with extraordinary violence and bitter eloquence the feelings of the Russian people from the passage of the Niemen to that of the Beresina. ihave constantly before my eyes that emaciated Napoleon holding a review of skeletons in the middle of a vast white plain. And that return to Paris, that de- parture in a sledge drawn by a pig whose wretched pace is accelerated by the lances of the Cossacks! He is well worth seeing —that melancholy Napoleon in sordi rags, from whose long, very long, nose hangs stalactites of ice. Sad and cruel images of old time, ver: different from those which the French an: Russian peoples exchange to-day with touching confidence in the mysterious fu- ture. ARMAND Davor, Inspector des Beaux Arts. Copyright, 1895, by 8. S. McClure, Limited. T0 MEET AT SANTA CRUZ Coming Eighth Grand Council of the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society. The List of Delegates Elected—Re- ports of the Varlous Branches. The board of directors of the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society will hold its eighth Grand Council at the Hotel del Mar, Santa Cruz, on Wednesday, the 26th inst. This will be the largest council in point of at- tendance of any yvet held, as a number of new branches were organized during the year. The proceedings will be opened on Wednesday morning with a solemn high mass in the Church of the Holy Cross, Santa Cruz. As this is a part of Bishop Montgomery’s diocese it is the expectation of the ladies that he will be present and address them. The reports of the various branches so far received by Miss Margaret Curtis, grand | secretary, indicate an increase in member- ship over last year, besides greater dis- bursements of all kinds of relief. The Hotel del Mar property, which is managed by a separate board, subordinate to the regular board of directors, will also show a balance on the right side of the ledger. The ladies are therefore well pleased with the year’s work. Many of the delegates are already on the ground. The railroad company has granted a one and a third rate ticket, good until June 30. This rate is open to all members of the order on receipt of the proper blanks from the grand secretary. The delegates and alternates who will attend the Grand Council are as follows: 1, Oakland—Delegates, Mrs. H. Coleman, Miss Mageie Smith. Alternates, Miss Mary Gennon, Miss Annie Porter. No. 2, San Francisco—Delegates, Mrs. H. Mol- loy, Miss K. Miles. Alternates, Mrs. M. Henry, Mres. S. Miller. No. 3, Alameda—Delegates, Mrs. M. McStay, Miss Anna Weir. Alternates, Miss Annie Kear- ney, Mrs. Quill. , San Francisco—Delegates, Miss Lizzie Keating, Mrs. James Looney. Alternates, Miss Mary McCarthy, Miss Annié Brennan. NG. 6, Gilroy--Delegates, Miss L. E. Ryan, Miss Katie Cullen. Alternates, Miss Kate Schaeffer, Miss Hanora O’Connor. No. 8, San Francisco—Delegates, Miss Annie O’'Conuor, Miss Louise Knorp. Alternates, Miss M. Fortune, Mrs. W. Kelly. No. 10, San Francisco—Delegates, Miss Mary Fleming, Mrs. C. Harrigan. Alternates, Mrs. Faust, Miss Josie Moran. No. 11, San Francisco—Delegates, Miss Emma Russell, Miss Annie Collins. Alternates, Miss Ella O’ No, 1 son, Mrs. Emma Mangels. Jumes Tait, Miss Minnie Wint. No.17, San Luis Obispo—Delegates, Mrs.Orte- gay, Miss Mary Kelly. Alternates, Mrs. Voll- mer, Mrs. Pinho. No. 18, South San Francisco—Delegates, Miss Florence I"lnn!n§ Miss Mary McDonough. Alternates, Miss Mary Ford, Miss Annie Mc- Donough. No. 19, San Francisco—Delegates, Eliza A. Macdonald, Miss Olive Libby. Alternates, Mrs. James Adams, Mrs. K. Langdon. No. 20, San Francisco—Delegates, Miss Hand, Miss Grennan. Alternates, Mrs. Hansen, Mrs. Donnelly. No. 20, Hollister — Delegates, Miss Mary Smyth, Miss Mary Patterson. Alternates, Mrs. J. Nibley, Miss Kate Sullivan. No. 22 nta Rosa—Delegates, Mrs. T. P. Keegan, Miss Annie Burnett. Alternates, Mrs. J. Keegan, Mrs. M. Mulvehill, No. 23, Petaluma—DMiss Kate Sullivan. Alter- nate, Miss Addie Brandon. DENTISTS TO MEET. A Convention Will Be Held at the Academy of Sciences on July 9. The California State Dental Association will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation on July 9 and for four days thereafter. A convention will be held at the Academy of Sciences. Cirenlars have been issued by President Luther A. Teague to all dentists in the State calling their attention to the matter and soliciting their co-operation. Committees were appointed as follow : Pathology and sur[gery—w. J. Younger, J. L. Asay, L. B. Holmes, Frank Burion, J. G. Par- sons, S. H. Roberts, Therapeutics—W. A. Knowles, W. F. Sharp, iv(.G.Pnrker,l-‘ ibbits, B. B. Brewer, H. k. nox. Dental Chemistry—H. R. Morton, Max Sichel sr., I W. Hays Jr., H. P, Carlton, J. H. Hatch. Operative dentistry— Dunbar, Miss C. M. McElroy, F. Tenguie, George Van Orden, A. F. Merriman Jr., C. R. Sabin. Mechanical déntistry—T. . Tglehart, George McCowen, Warren Decrow. A. H. Millberry, D. Cave, J. C. Cummings. Dental histology—S. E. Knowles, A. M. Barker, A. Cane, J. F. Twist, F. W. Bliss, H. G. Richards, Dental literature and_education—C. L. God- dard, F. H. Metcalf, A. C. Hart, W. G. Craig, O. Carpener, C. H. Parman. Microscopy—L. Ven Orden, M. A. Greenlaw, A. H. Mories, J. J. Giusti, W. 1. Prather. Orthodontia—J. W. Lundborg, F. J. Lane, E. A. Lundy, T. H. Hill, Thomas Morffew, James E. Combs. Clinics—Frank C. Pague, C. W. Hibbard, H. D. Boyes, J. M. Dunn, A. F. Merriman Sr. Committee of arrangements—R. H. Cool, M. J. Dunn, D. R. Taggart, A. Warner, W. K. Meek, W. A. Moore. Programme—W. F. Lewis. Alternates, Mrs. w The delegates to the convention will be entertain bsythe Stomatological Club in its rooms at Stockton and Post streets. A g{ogmmn_le,_ including an excursion and a inquet, is in course of preparation. Take Your Choice. 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