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ONE, TWO, THREE. 1 Lily bells! lily bells! tell me, I pray, Why are vou swinging through all the long day? 1y are your leaflets but just one, two, three? g them over to birdie and me. The birds do not count their one, two, three, Tp in the boughs of the old ouk tree; They sing and they twitter, ‘tweet, "tweet, 'tweet, Maybe thal's cOUnting their babies sweet. Maybe that's counting eggs in the nest, One, two, three, in the old oaken crest, Hidden away from curious eves, Where no one sees but the bright blue skies. | The little lambs play in the meadows free, | Do they learn their lesson of one, two, three? | Do they count over and over again, *Til their little heads ache so full of pain? One, two, three, ah me, what do I see? | Strawberries ripe! I can just count three, One for my dolly, one is for me, And one for the birdie up in the tree. Mgs. K. M. RUSSELL. Lorin, California. The Colonel Continues. It would be a very good thing indeed if all you children could know the Colonel —1I mean the gallant colonel. There is a lesson for us right there, and it just walked in of its own accord, so I suppose we shall have to learn it. When we speak of a military gentleman we mnst always remember to say ‘‘the gallant captain,”” “‘the gallant omcer,” etc. And when we are talking of a man who is connected with"the legal profession we must be very careful, especially in his presence, always to allude to “the learned gentleman,”’ and ‘“the learned judge.” Between you and me, those prefixes “gal- lant” and “learned’’ do not mean very much and there are those who make so bold as to say that those who deserve them least demand them most. But to return to *he story. The colonel— our colonel—is really gallant. He wasa colonel so long ago as when there was war in our country—a cruel war that many good people would like to forget all about. " The colonel wears white hair now and a big white mustache. Old Father Time forgot to touch the colonel’s eyelashes, though, and they are as black asa coal. Besides those eyebrows the colonel hasa fierce frown, and the biggest and tenderest heart in the world. He behaves very well nowadays, does the colonel, and mothers of the neighbor- hood are quite in the habit of holding him up as a pattern for their voung sons. The poor old colonel bears this very well Out of the Frying-Pan Into the Fire. [Reproduced from the painting of Rosenthal.} | publicly, but he eases his conscience once in a while by owning up blandly that he was a boy himself a long time *‘befo’ de | wah.” | “Ilived in Baltimore when I was a boy,” | he broke out one evening, when the fire | was burning brightly and_the dinner had been good. “I lived in Baltimore, and I will just tell you a trick that I did and felt | so much ashamed of it that I've never told a soul about it till now. | “There was an alley back of our house and a tight board ience between our yard and Fred Fisher’s. One day when I came home from school I found a loose pig in that aliey. and I drove him into our vard and tried to get a ride on his back. Fred Fisher looked over the fence to see what the rumpus was about, and pretty soon he | ;:a]led to me to come on and have some un. *“Well, to cut the story short, Fred caught his dog, Carlo, and I baited the Exg, and we stuck their tails through =2 knothole of that fence and lashed them together. “Such a commotion as_there was then you never heard. The pig squealed and vulled and then squealed again. Carlo began to howl nng pull, and still the string didn’t give way, “Pretty soon Mr. Pig braced himse!f and tried to drag Carlo through that knothole. Then Carlo braced and pulled, and the pig squealed and the dog howled. “Fred und I thought the show was funny at first, very funny indeed. We didn’t think it was so funny when our mothers came out to see what on earth was the matter, and the dog got so savage and the pig so crazy that we couldn’t get anywhere near. “‘We were in a sure enough dilemma, and if Fred’s mother hadn’t come to the rescue 1 guess those poor beasts would be howling yet. You can see that she was a clever woman—Fred’s mother. *‘She went into the house without saying anything, and pretty soon she came back with a cupful of melted lard. She got me to climb up on the fence and get where I could pour that lard down on those lashed- together tails. It worked like a charm. Pretty soon their tails slisped apart all right, and everybody lived happy forever afterward.’ Now aon’t you think it very brave of the gallantcolonel toown up tosuchanaunghty escapade as that? It’s true, there issome- thing a little improbable about the latter part of that story. But, on the other hand, it isn’t any harder to belteve than some of Baron Mun- chausen’s stories, and, of course, we all know that they are true, because we’ve all read them in printed books that used to belong to our uncles. Isn’t thatso? About Pigeons. If there is a boy or girl anywhere on earth who does not care about pigeons, it is pretty certain that he or she does not | up in the air to fall, and some varieties | day, Mrs. Nansen was glad, too. | live in San Francisco, nor anywhere nearit. | If many of the small folks have been out to the Pavilion to see the poultry show, | there is sure to be greater excitement than | ever about the pigeon question. { All the boys who thought they had no | room for pets will be pretty sure to plan | a way to house just two or four pigeons— you couldn’t have three, you know, be- cause pigeons always go in pairs. And the boys who were contented with just plain pigeons before will probably want to be ‘‘fanciers’” now, and toown me of the kinds they never saw before. ney are a curious sight, those pigeons at the fair. There are groups of snow-white fantails s(rulning absurdly with their heads thrown back. There are any amount of absurd crea- tures that the catalogue calls pouters, and that nobody could ever learn to care about. Then there are the tumblers, absurd as | their name. The high-flying tumblers fly | fly | only as high as a table and then roll over. Beautiful pigeons are those that wear hoods—dear, little, becoming bLoods of modest brown. Their faces peep forth | most demurely, and their behavior is far | more captivating than that of the surut- | ting varietie: The homing pigeon—do you mot love them for their very name? And then they are the most charmingly affectionate and | domestic of living creatures. They talk | and coo to each other endlescly, and you have surely ail read stories about how they will fly straight back to their homes, their mates and their young, even if they are | carried hundreds “of miles away to a strange country. A wonderful example of this bas just occurred, and, perhaps, some of you children who are too busy to read | the daily papers don’t know about it. | hardy sailor named Nansen, whose home is in Norway, has goneex northern seas, like the Viking: He is a learned and brave man, this Nan- | sen, and believes earnestly that he can find that wonderful northwest passage that so many brave men have died search- Nansen has been gone away from his home for a long time, but he 100k some carrier-pi, along in his good ship. i telegraphed in the morn- | ing there was a great commotion in the | dove cote at Nansen'’s home in Norway. | A pigeon had come home—come nobody s how far, over frozen seas and frozen lands, perhaps. And if the pigeons’ mate was glad that For the bird had a note tied around its neck bear- L ing the glad message that the explorer was alive and well and full of hope. ! Was not_that a dear bird to go sucha | long journey and faithfully bring that | good news home? Somebody said not long ago that the carrier-pigeons at the Sandwich Islands were probably the only ones in the world whose work was of any real value, Now that is a great mistake. The island pigeons do splendid work and deserve lots of credit. The sugar plantations down | | there are on the island of Hawaii and | there is no cable there. So when there is a ship going over from Honolulu to get a load of sugar they just send overa hom- ing-pigeon instead of a telegram to order the cargo prepared. Down at Los Angeles they do the same thing. The isiand of Catalina is fifty- three miles from the mainland, and there isn’t an electric-car or even a telegraph line rnnning across. There are people at Catalina though, and espemfiy in summer. | They like to keep in touch with the world, too, these people at Catalina. The steamer doesn’t come often enough so they | have a regular line of homing pigeons. 1f | anybody dies or gets married or anything | at Catalina they just send a carrier pigeon to take the news toa Los Angeles paper. ! They have it all arranged, too, so that if a | man were to be a cook in a hotel at Cata- | lina and his uncle in India should die and | leave him a fortune they could sent out a | carrier pigeon rightaway to tell him to | stop cooking. | Well, those pigeons fly those fifty-three | | miles in about fifty-thrée minutes.” They | i are very reliable, and people who know | that even the goats would not notice them, | just what they can do wonder very much where there are no telegraph wires. | Wouldn’t it be fun, though, to take some | carriers with you when you went to camp | out? You could just send one home every | time anything happened, so as to be sure | your mother wouldn’t worry about you. | And if the Stanford and Berkeley boys | had a supply of carriers they could send | and come up to Truckee about Christmas time. | all freezes together into a solid cake. When | ravines would have quickly THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1895. called the children’s playground. There are hobby-horses and funny goats to ride on. 1 like to ride the donkeys best, because I can ride them alone. Sometimes there are baby donkeys, and they are ever so cunuing. We get two rides on the donkeys or the hobby-horses or in the goat-wagons for 5 cents. Then there are plenty of swings, and, as they are free, you can havea jolly time there. Then there are the boat rides on top of the hiil, and there is Stpw Lake. There are lots of boats on the lake and little ships,and there are swans and geese and ducks and lots of fishes. There are so many things to be seen at this beautiful park that Icaunottellin one letter, so I am going to write another one. FREDDIE CLAUSEN, 11 Merritt street. TRUCKEE, Cal., December 12. Dear Call Children : It would be & good thing if you children who don’t know very much about snow and ice could just jump on the cars Age, 8 years. We are high up on the mountains, and it gets very cold. This year we are building an ice palace that everybody in the world ought to see. They bring big cakes of ice that are sawed all one size from the lake. Tnen they build the walls and throw water on the ice so that it the sun shines on the ice itisa great sight, and it stands right in the plaza where every- body in town can watch the building of it. Of c it doesn’t exactly stand there yet, but are building it, and I wish you were &H‘ coming up here for Christmas. ERNEST MOORE. SaNTA MoNICA, Cal., December 10. Dear Geography Editor: Almost all the people who come to spend the summer here are_gone now, but it is the best time of the year all the | same. We go in bathing almost as much as ever, ana the water is not very cold. My papa says it seems warmer than it didin summer, but I think it is just the same. Santa Monica is a little seaside place, just | climbing. ‘“What horrible weather! How cold it is—be-be.”” Then they put their hands to their eves so as to _make a spy- lass, and they each turned around and ooked toward one of the villages on the plain. Finally, just at the same moment they reached the summit, each one greatly astonished to find the other. ““Well, well !’ said one of them, “I did not think to meet you here, my old friend I’ “Certainly not, neither did I,” said the other; “I am just waiting for some one who doesn't resemble you in the slight- est!” “‘Justsoam I! Iam waiting for a little girl, Robina, who is going to see her brother.” *‘Well, really, my boy Rob is going to make a visit to his sister in the other village—there below.” ‘“Well, then, brother and sister both have the same idea of visiting one another!” exclaimed the two little men at once. “The brave little things, what surprise can we give them ?” And at the same time the two little men solemnly bent their chins on their travel- ing canes and their long beards lay upon the ground. - II. This Rob and Robina that the little ones were awaiting were brother and sister, who, their parents having died when they were still very young, were taken by pood neizhbors and” reared like their own chil- dren. The two youngsters loved one an- other tenderly, and were never apart. As s00n as you saw Rob you were sure to see Robina, and so soon as Robina appeared Rob was not long ir. following. But when they had grown older the worthy people with whom they lived avprenticed them, ana it became necessary for each to go “MY KITTY.” [From a painting by Piglheim.) twenty miles from Los Angeles. There is a | great new wharf here now, and it is called Long wharf. The steamers iand there, and ships come to be loaded. They unload lumber, 100, for that is one thing we have to get from away up in Oregon. There is a big fine hotel here, and plénty ot people, wko are called tourists, will come by and by. These people live in the East, and they stay in their homes till after Chrisimas; then they come out here because they 0 get away from bad weather. Oranges are be- ginning to get ripe in the couniry aronnd here and pretty soon the poppies will be out. I say that becanse when I think of oranges I always begin to think of the other things that are_the color that belongs just to our own State. Your friend, MADGE WAGNER. il THE UGLY MOUNTAIN. i3 Once upon a time there was a high, high mountain, which separated two pretty vil- | lages. It was the ugliest mountain in the | world, being entirely covered with rocks, between which grew brambles so thorny and thistles that the donkeys even found | { that they are not used more generally | almost too prickly. While as to the in- habitants of the little village they took | good care not to go there, where the sharp points of the rocks and the stones in tue | d ] torn their | shoes and their clothing. i Now, one day, two little men began | climbing the mountain, one on each side. How they had reached there I really do not know, for they were so littie, so very into one of the villages separated by the | could not the moun- great horrid mountain. hope 1o visit one another oite: tain too high and tooe rocky, and the other road was so very, very iong. Butone day Rob heard that Robina bad had a veiy bad cold, which bad ma ie he ill, and at the same time they told Kobi that Rob coughed a “Poor ter!” cried Ro he bas 10 good shoes; that is how she caught cold; L must buy ner a pair.” “Poor Lrother,” said Robina, [ “L must knit him a pair of lovely warm stockings, and surely then he will not cough any n » And then and there Rob began saving carefully the few cents that were given him from time to time fo! doing little errands; often eating hi bread dry, so as to be able to buy the shoe sooner. 3 Robina, on her part. thought of nothing but the Stocking:; fortunately the shop- keeper for whom she worked sometimes gave her a present of a large skein of wool. At once she began working quickly, pet- ting up verv early to burry up with ber kpitting. Finally’ on t e same day that Rob was able to buy the shoes, Robina finished the stockings, and early the next morning they both s'arted on their rozd without. any idea of meeting one ancther. 111 The little men on the mountain top had not wasted their time; they nad both raised their heads, certainly with the same > s S | idea, for both tovether had they struck | the snow with their long canes, at t i same moment that Rob and Robina com- daily messages to each otber about foot- | little—only just as large as a child's fin- | menced to clamber up the mountain, one ETCCI_, gm\ ball and other things that they are all in- | terested in. It would be very convenient. Some More Geography. H There is one letter from a very littls chap this week. If he basn’t seen the whole worl@ yet that young man has kept his eyes open to take note of the things he has seen, and he knows how to spell it out, too. His is the very first letter. SAN FRANCISCO, December 8. Drar Call : San Franecisco is a large city, and is surrounded by water on three sides and hills on the other sfde. It has many beautiful parks, and the most beautiful one ever seen, called Golden Gate Park. Flowers grow there the whole year round. There are many nice ! things to see there, but the place I like best i s | gers—that the tiniest pebble if it fell upon them could not have failed to crush them utterly. These little chaps weighed 80 little that their feet made no marks in the snow, and certainly there was plenty of that! Another disagreeable feature of the ugly mountain was that it was cov-: ered with snow and ice at least eight months of the year, so imagine what it must have been during the depth of win- ter! The two travelers appeared to be good little chaps, resembling each other s do two drops of water. Both had lon white beards, touching the und; brown cloaks, with the hoods over their heads, and then a little face like a nut- cracker, Each one was talking to himself while on each side. two little men when they saw them, “we must hurry.” And then at each steg the children took, the little fellows struck the mountain with the ends of their canes, which were constantly growing longer, while the top of the mountain ~be- came lower. The children, who were looking only at their feet to avoid " the stones, saw nothing else, but all the time the mountain, the snow, the rocks and stones kept going down ard down, forcing their way into the earth without the slightest noise. The- little men were laughing and rubbing their hands. ‘““Ah, the dear little things,” said they, “the dear little things, how happy and surprised they will be!” and the “Here they are!” cried the mountain kept lowering, lowering, little by little. During this time Rob and Robina, who were still climbing up, com- menced to be conscious of some change, but they could not believe their eyes. ‘When they first started this mountain had seemed so high and so ugly to them, and now how was it possible to appear so small? They would never again cal! this a mountain; why, it was scarcely a little hill! Only a few steps more and they would reach the top, and then it would be %uwk work to go down the other side. ut—really—why, there is no longer any mountain at all, and Rob and Robina, their s in their hands, meet each other | all at once in the center of a great plain. The little men disappeared, well con- tented with having prepared so easy a road for loving hearts, and those who would like to visit between the two villages; but they were not all proud, for they knew that the brother and sister who were so fond of each other would have met just the same. Since the grandmothers often say to the children that ‘“‘a good heart can accom- %J"l? wonders, for think of Rob and Robina who made the ugly mountain sink into the grouna.” Translated from the French of H. 8. B., by Mary W. Edwards. T GG DONALD SERIES FOR TINY BOYS. NUMBER VII. *‘Oh, dear me!” sajd Donald the other day, “Iwish I knew how to write, so I could write a letter to Santa Claus. I bave asked everybody in the house to help me, and they all say, ‘Ob, go away, I'm busy now. Why don’t you print a letter your- self?” Now, I'm sure that’s just as bad, because I can’t spell all the words. I'd like to know what a_fellow’s going to do? I wish folks would learn that little boys’ business is 'xactly of as much ’portance as theirs!” Then the discour aged little fellow threw himself in a heap on the lounge, looking | as if he would just have to cry. | Grandmsmma, who was sitting by the fire, felt sorry for him when she saw his woebegone face, so she laid aside her paper and called him to her. *‘I shall tell you, r, what to do. Suppose instead of hav- some one to write your letters for you, ryine to print them yourself, and hav- ing tronble to tind out how to spell the | hard words, you justdraw picturesof what | you would like *St. Nick’ to bring you.” “Could he understand that?”’ cried the xcited litile boy. Why, certainly,” said granamamma. ©Oh, thank you for telling me; you ve made me so hanpy, and you are the ¢ best grandma in the whole world!” and with a hug and a kiss he darted away ( to find his blankbook and pencil. ry day since then Donald has drawn | pictures of t e toys he wishes Santa to | bring bim, and at night when papa comes | bome from the office the little boy meets him at the door with a letter in his hand. Then papa and he go to the iireplace, | where the flames are crackling so merrily, | and throw the ietter far up the chimney, i then it floats through the air in the clouds f to Santa Claus land. ! nk this is a pretty good way | | for tiny boys to wnte their Christmas SHNT VINGENT DE PAUL ;Gaod Work of the Catholic Soci- | ety in the Cause of | Charity. | Many Poor Families Relieved From | | Distress—Reports for the Last | Quarter. | L | The quarterly reporis of the different | councils of the St. Vincent de Paul Society | have just been filed. They show that the | society, which is the largest Catholic | charitable organization in San Francisco, continues to dispense 1ts old-time charity | with generous hand. l any poor families are cared for by the which is very practical in its work. | It makes no display, butsimply goes along doing good, providing food, clothing and | medicine for the needy and helpless, ana | employment for those who are able to worl society has a large number of cases | of extreme poverty now on its hands, and | solicits the aid of the charitable public. The quarterly reports of the conferences | in the different pagishes were read ata | recent meeting of the society. John M. | Barnett presided and P.J. Thomas acted | | as secretary. Rev. Joseph Byrne of the | cathedral varish delivered an address in which he congratulated the members of | the society for the good work thev had accomplished and exhorted them to con- tinue their ministrations of mercy. The reports of the conferences are as follows: St. Rose’s—Active members and subscribers, 48; number of families relieved, 46; number | of perso number of visits made, | 54: expenditures, $12650; | alanc | st an’s—Active members and _sub- | seribers, 30; number of families relieved, 30; numberof persons in same, 120; number of | visits made,90; receipts, $94 40; expenditures, #36 60; balance, §7 80. St. Dominie’'s—Active members and sub- scribers, 54; number of families relieved, 11; number of ‘persons in seme. 43; number of visits_made, 32; receipts, $156; expenditures, $114 15; balance, $11 85 cred Heart Church—Active members and ribers, 46; nuuber of fnmilies relfeved, ; number of persons in same, 50; number of visits made, 35; receipts, $64 '30; expendi- balince, $18. resa. ve members and subscrib- ,24; avernge atiendance of active members at meeting, 75; number of families relieved, | 10; number of persons in same, 28: number of visits wade, 72; siiuations procured, 18; receipts, 121 80; expenditures, $64 50; bal- ance, £57 30. 2 St. Joseph's—Active members and subserib- ers, 112; average attendance of members at meeting, 71; number of families relieved, 68; number of persons in same, 272; Bumber o visits made, 250; situations procured, 12; re- ceipts, ¥307 10; expenditures, $205 75 bal- ance, $11 35. St. Patrick’s—Active members and subscrib- ers, 112; active members on roll, 10; subserib- ers'on toll, 102; average attendance of active members_at meeting, 78; number of families relieved, 111; number of persons in same, 449; number’ of visits made, 338; situations pro- cured. 31. Receipts, $439 30; expenditures, THE COUNTRY OF ARMENIA Causes That Operated in Pro- ducing the Terrible Scenes of Late Days. ARMENIAN AND ROMAN CHURCH A Pre-Apostolic Foundation Is Claimed by the Former Sect. The massacre of Armenians by Turkish troops has turned the attention of the whole civilized world to this ancient race, whose country is said to be the cradle of the human family—the country where Adam loved and sinned and fell, and where the founders of a post-diluvian race landed from Noanh’s ark on Mount Ararat. ‘Whether this tradition is true or not, it is remarkable that this mountain is about nearly equidistant from the Black, the Caspian and the Mediterranean seas and Magrditch Khrimian. Senior Patriarch or Catholicos of the Armenian Church. [From a recent photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company.j the Persian Gulf; and it may not be gen- erally known that its height (17,112 feet) | exceeds that of Mount Blanc by 1331 feet. | The country, prior to its division between | Russia, Turkey and Persia, extended from | the Caucasus in the north to the Kurdis- tan range of mouutains in the south, and from the Caspian in the east to Asia | Minor in the west. Armenia proper is an eievated tableland about 7000 feet above sea level, watered by the rivers Euphrates, Tigris and Kar. The beauty of her fertile plains and Iuxuriant pastures, her vineyards and her valuable manufactures of textile fabrics, | once were themes on which Moses of Khorene and Lazarus of Phaib loved to | dwell. | The Armenian church is not in com- | munion with that of Rome, or whatis | called the orthodox Greek "church, | Her history is fairly continuousfrom 34 | t0 302 A. D.; then there is a hiatus till 49i; thence to the present time it is clear. The Armenian church claims a pre- apostolic foundation, by special letter from the Lord addressed to Akbar, Prince of Ur or Orfa,s it being confirined subsequently by the Apostle Ttaddeus, who was accom- | -——-—-———__—__________——————'——'——’—-____-‘_‘—_— ied by Bartholomew and Judas, A. D. g:n i’rabyl_hly the real founder of the Ar- menian ¢hurch was St. Gregory, called the «Illuminator,” a Prince of the reigning family of the Arsacide, a - convert to Christianity, who endured many persecu- tions, but who, at last, sngcegded in wm‘i ning to his faith the reigning ngdm} many of his subjects. Gregory was du y consecrated Bishop of Armenia at Sis, or Ceesarea, 302 A. D. Inspite of the oppo- sition of heathen fellow-countrymen and Persian conquerors the Bible was trans- lated“in 402 A.D. Gregory’s successors afterward assumed the titlé of Patriarch or Catholico. 4 871 The rejection of the decisions of thle Council of Chalcedon and their annull- ment by the Catholico in full synod in 491 caused the separation from the Greek church. The breach was gradually widened, though Armenian Bishops attended the great councils, (2d Consmngnople.fm& and the 3d of 680, and Nicza 788). Quar- rels, banishments, national calamities and foreign disasters caused a schism in the fifteenth century, fomented by Jesuit mis- sionaries, who endeavored to bring the Armenian _chureh 1nto subjection to that of Rome. The Catholic Armenians became a separate community about the end of the sixteenth century, old feuds were re- vived, and the subsejuent existence of the old Armenian church isdue almost en- tirely to the intervention of Peter the Great of Russia in the early part of the eighteenth century. S o-day a reformed church has arisen, and is allied more especially tothe Calvin- ist churches of Europe and America. As to doctrine the Armenian church is almost identical with that of the Greek;thei deny thefilioque in the Nicene Creed an the distinctive doctrines of.the Roman churgh. The liturgy is said to date from the first century, and to have been founded on that of St.John of Jerusalem., Prayers are said for the dead, and entreaties are made for the pardon of their sins, but pur- n. gatory and indulgences are notbeliev: The sacraments are; Baptism, con! mation, the eucharist, penance, ordina- tion, marriage and extreme unction. The order of clergy is threefold, as in the Protestant Episcopal church, viz.: Bish- ops, grxests and deacons, only that there are three degrees of episcopal rank—the archbishops' (chief of whom is the catho- licos or patriarch), the hishoF, and the vartabed, or doctor of theology. The clergy are divided into black and white. The former are monks and _are alone elig- ible to the higher ecclesiastical offices; the white clergy are simply parish pastors. They may marry before ordination, but not after, and a priest’s widow is not allowed to remarry. The priesthood is hereditary. e ‘There are four patriarchs, who have their seats at Constantinople, Jerusalem, Sis (Cesarea) and Etchmiadzin. The clergy of all ranks are entirely supported by the voluntary giits of the people. The present Catholicosis 75 years old, a native of Van, the sceneof recent hor- rors. He was elected Patriarch of Constan- tinople 1n 1870, but exiled by the present Sultan of Turkey to Jerusalem in 1880, He was re-elected Catholicos by the entire Armenian nation in 1885. He went to St. Petersburg last year to offer his condolence and that of his church to the Czar on the death of his father, and, as it is a part of his priestly functions to be present at the coronation of every Czar. he will go to Moscow and assist at the Kremlin, where all the Czars are crowned and consecrated head of the Greek church. e Poison on Bank Notes. A bank cashier in Vienna recently died from the effects of touching his lips with his fingers when counting money. Atan examination of the vaults it fell to his lot to count a Jarge number of small bills, and although repeatedly warned he co tinued mechanically to touch his lps when his fingers became dry. That even- ing he felt a smarting pain in his lip, but did not attena to it until a swelling had set In the next day. He then consulted a surgeon, who insisted npon an immediate operation on the tumor that had in the meantime assumed alarming proportions; but in spite of the operation the patient died three days after of blood poisoning.— New York Journal. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. Great Display Useful and Fancy Holiday Goods. All departments ARE AT THEIR BEST. Goods world that is new and beautiful has found its way here. Everything In the Fancy We can only give a few suggestions of sensible Holiday Gifts in our newspaper announcements. Send for our Holiday Circular, “Christmas=Price Chimes’’ for a more complete list of special Xmas prices and visit the stores as soon as you can. The crowds grow greater and prettiest goods always go first. and greater every day, and the best Presents for Housekeepers. TAPESTRY TABLE COVERS, bandsome de’ signs, wide range colors. .75¢ 85c, $1 25, $2, $2 50 4 64 SILK-MIXED TAPESTRY COVERS, beautitul | patterns and color effects, every onea bargain. 8-4 size. ..$4 and $6 CHENILLE TABLE COVERS, best quality, new patterns, dozens of handsome colorings. 50c | 5-4 and 6-4. ... 76¢ -.$2, 82 75 and $3 50 LINEN TABLE CLOTHS AND NAPKINS to match, pure liuen, full bleached, handsome patterns. : $430 50; balance, $8 80. St. Peter's—Active members and subscribers, 60 ‘active members on roll, 14; subscribers on roll, 46; average attendance of active mem- bers at meeting, 89; number of families re- lieved, 47; persons in same, 97; number of visits made, 157. Receipts, $354 40; expendi- tuges, $15750; baiance, $196 90, St. Paul’s—Active members and subscribers, 80; active members on roil, 5; subscribers on roll, 75: average attendance of active mem- bers at meeting, 75; number of families re- 8- cloths, $2: 10-4, $2 50; 12-4, $3 Napkins..§2 50, $3, $3 50, $4 dozen MARKET-STREET STORE ONLY. FRINGED TABLE CLOTHS AND DOYLIES to mal c&;’u llnend. all white, and white with col- ore ers, a dozen doylies in set, - cording to size and qn;llx)y. Eagiow e $2 75,84, $5 and $6 50 set. lieved, 11; persons in same, 50; number of visits made, 40 Receig&i. $122; expenditures, $41 50; balance, $80 50. St. Francis—Active members and sub- seribers, 31; active members on roll, 9; sub- seribers on roll, 23; average attendance of active members at meeting, 60; number of families relieved, 18; persos in same, 46; number visits made, 32. Receipts, $75 56 expenditures, $47 51; balance, $28 05. he meeting adjourned, after prayer by Father Byrne, to meet on the second Sunday in Lent at 8t. Dominic’s Church. Fond of Company. “You don’t seem to have made much money by bringing your hogs down here,” remarked a stagedriver to & Connecticut miles to town and then sold them for pre- cisely what was offered to him befm'ephe lefiwoflne. ; “Well, no,” replied the agriculturist de- jectedly; “I ain’t ‘made IEO money, o then, you know, and his face brightened as he spoke, 1 bad the company of the hogs on the way down.”—Golden Days. 5 —————— OUR perfumery depariment, under the mmn- agement of Mr. E. W, Moise, grows in popular lknvor everry‘ day. In addition to the well- nown perfumeries, soaps and have the Valadon pérlump:ry, whlgg'l?g;;: anyline in the market. Combs, brushes, hand and triplicaté mirrors, toilet and manicure sets in endless variet; Banborn, Vail & c%'-nfl ‘at the lowest prices. farmer, who had driven his hogs seven | FRINGED DAMASK but | STLK TIDIES, gt embroidersd, pretty drspes * | HAND-CROCHETED SHAWLS of Shet- MARKET-STREET STORE ONLY. DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS AND NAPKINS to match, finest linen, full bleached, hem- stitched and open-work borders, extraordinary value at $8 and 29 set. MARKET-STREET STORE ONLY. BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, all pure linen, carefully selected patterns. 88 inches wide. ... 75 , §1 yard 70 inches wide. %% 5 Jand 72 inches wide 25, $1 50 yard Napkins to match.$2 50 to $5 dozen MARKET-STREET STORE ONLY. TOWELS, 26x44 all pure linen and good value at 40c eac! Special price.. ~26c each MARKET-STREET STORE ONLY. inches, n. for pictures, mantel or chairs.. land floss, pink, cream or black, only. Gloves. We Fit and Guarantee every pair. A Iolovc order for Christmas always suits. BERNHARDT GLOVES, 4 large pearl buttons, genuine Grenoble kid, guar- anteed, gusset fingers, wide stitching on back, colors mode, English red, yel- low, tan, brown, navy, gray, cham- pagne, white and black. . $1:2 A pair K. S. & F. KID GLOVES, 4 large pearl buttons, soft, pliable skins, fancy $1.oo stitched backs, colors as above, also —_ pink and pearl white, perfect fitting... A palr SUEDE MOUSQUETAIRE GLOVES, 16- button length, for evening wear, finest French make, white, pink, blue, nile $2oo and vellow, not less than $3 & pair e elsewhere. .. . Apalr 20-button length. Celluloid Goods. NDKERCHIEF, GLOVE, VEIL, COL- A D R T U T'F BOXES—Celinioldhas superseded ola-styie plush, bon;flmllégw e enameled, proper Xmas S.. orated, som erXnmglits. Umbrellas. GLORIA UMBRELLAS, natural-crook wood handles, paragon frames, fast color... NE GLORIA SILK, wood handles, 5 TN Tose roiting, worth 82 5 < $1~ 90° Each Each TWILLED SILK UMBRELLAS, navy blue or black, Dresden handles, close rolling, worth $2 50 to $3. 4 NOVELTIES IN DRESDEN, RHINE- STONE AND SILVER-MOUNTED HANDLES. -$2 50, $2 75, $3,$4 50 to $8 Xmas Hosiery. In fancy boxes. Makes a suitable, useful and accepjable gift. Special Xmas sale. sl.on Box LADIES' FAST BLACK HOSE, plain or Richelieu ribbed, high-spliced heels, t‘l'gnbla toes, Hermsdort dye, 3 pair in Better qualities. 81 25 box LADIES' SPUN-SILK HOSE, black, biue, cardinal, gold, pink, lilac, white, .00 bronze.and nile; an’ excellent quatits, 1o worth §1 75 at leust......... K ot $ Pair KOHLBERG, STRAUSS & FROHMAN, 107=109 POST STRERT, 1220-1222.1224 MARKET STREET.