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28 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1898. CAMILLA DRSO HE hall was packed with an au- dience in merry mood. Variety had had its swing, coon capers had been cut to ringing applause, the “Belle of Honolulu” was still vibrating in the air. Suddenly, on the bare stage, empty of all but the accompanist’s piano, there glided a lady with a fiddle. The lady was petite, u suming, aglow with the magnetism of genius; the instrument was likewise small, as is the way of fiddles, but alive h the responsive soul that Joseph Guarnerius had imprisoned therein one hundred and seventy-one years ago. Within two minutes the little lady and her filled lin had filled the stage, the auditorium, filled the hearts of her hearers. Plaudits rang out, were hushed, rang out again, as chords leapt, harmonics wailed, Paganini’'s wild fancies tripped along with fairy foot- fall, and the soul of the great audience hed by the witching fingers a's favorite violinist. says Camilla Urso, leaning “I think in her chair an hour later this has been the most satisfactory evening, the greatest triumph of my the ' she persists to a glance of nergeticaly incredulity, “I am stomed to tri- umphs; the public spoilt and petted me for twenty vears, but t} is an altogether novel experience and an extraordinary test. You see, when you filled with ar dierfce, when an” up in a concert room appreciative, cultured au- ou play for hearers with trair cal ears, you expect suc- Ccess, :ms natural. But here I come, for the first time of my life, into a vaudeville theate Downstairs, I admit, there were many of my friends, but in the gallery sat an audience which does not habitually find its way into the concert room; the boys up there had never heard me before, to many of them my name was not fa- miliar, to them 1 was only an item in the usual vaudeville performance. And vet I was able to hold them spellbound ¢ bow, they listened in breath- énce and when the pause came pplauded fractically, not with approval they bestow favorite variety artist, but with \e respectful applause given to one who has helped them to uplift them- selves. When I saw that, in- deed, proud of my gift. Yes, it is a great triumph! 1 »f the singular charms of this fascinating woman that public petting has left her wholly unspoilt. She is as unaffectedly simple, as earn- as humble in as any 1id young girl, before a first audience. s sweet unto her ear, not because it gratifies vanity but because it proves her to be a thor ough worker, who has attained success by patient effort. Her mobile face ks for approval as wistfully as that little child, who has striven to ac- ts task faithfully. a of a “Nowads the necessary wor. is rrific,” he adds presently: ‘“‘your chnique must be absolutely perfect or u. It is a great n so late in the century. at a good time those old fellows had, to be sure, before every- will listen to body knew how to ¢ Then it vou played with your soul, if you be- w ched the hearts of vour audience, they weré content without inquiring about your method. But now, if a De Beriot or a Vieuxtemps or cven a >pganini stood - they would be told played like the children of :nt day. And with the passion :chnique the violinist's repertoire has ch: ged. We must no longer utter s of r Viotti and a Spohr, of ho understands his own in- strument and loved it; we must give the publ.c Raff and Rubinstein. the works of composers, not violinists; of men who are parely scientific in their sitions, men who place tours de before melody, technique before inspiration, and unless * can master difficulties you are no is especially true in This America.” “More than in Europe?” “Well, ves. You see we are restless in Amer'ca; we love novelty and detest antiquities ‘out here. In Europe your ancestral home is regarded with rever- ence, your ancestral lics are hoarded. your family traditions cherished as 'S IDEA Of Her Art precious things. Here nobody cares for the cuse his grandfather built or the room swhere his grandmother died: they are old fashioned, out of date: he must put a fine modern roof on the old cottage or sell the old farmhouse to strangers and buy a new place up to And the s me spiri- is shown in composers, new & ant cry; that which is already known no longer satisfie So you deem the American public le?"’ “Not to me,” she answers va- ciously. ““never to me. I tLink they love me a little. You T am one of them- selv I have been in America ever since as ten years old, my home i$ with them anc perhavs they are proud of me. I speak of artists who come as st .ngers from Europe and I notice that the new artist and the new com- | | 0 1! ‘ Il‘l ! i I i Gamilla From a Ph position are usually preferred to those heard last vear. It is not fickleness. but it is restlessness, and it makes the ar_is.'s struggle harder.” Undoubtedly Camilla Urso loves the land of her® adoption, the land which has made her famous. Botrn at Nantes. with Italian, Portuguese and French blood in her veins, a Frenchwoman at heart, still speaking her fluent English with a dainty French accent. she nevertheless prefers the United States for a home. *“I go to Europe almost every year,” she explains, “I travel constantly. I was a wanderer when you heard me four years ago in Australi ah, what a country that is. what peo- ple, so hospitable, so warm hearted. so enthusiastic, I long to see them n: I kiss my hands to them!” and she suits the action to ‘he words. “From there T went to South Africa and then on to Europe. But I alw come home to America. I doubt if there is any place where I should be happier.” And how do you manage about an accompanist when you travel?” “There! You have been told something about that, so have L” Camilla Urso sits up suddenly, very straight and energetic. “I have been told that some of the public criticise my present ac- companist, say he plays too loud. Now, T LD and the Publie. want to talk to that public! Too loud, forsooth! Whp is the best judge of that —the public or the artist who is accom- panied? Do they not understand that my accompanist is not a mere machine, keeping up an undercurrent to throw up my performance? He has to work with me, blend with me, throb with me, laugh and cry with me, help me through. If I play fortissimo I ex- pect him to do the same, if I die away pianissimo he must die away, too. He has to be a part of me, not an adjunct. He drowns me, they say. Well, that is only when I choose to be drowned. I tell you I have trained that man to be my mu- sical support.” The nervous hands ges- ticulate eagerly. ‘“There is not a pas- sage we have not gone over many times, not an inflection we have not studied. Ciel! I am to stand there, il g ] i A i ¥ [y Urso. otograph. using up every nerve in an effort of in- terpretation. I am to draw on my life blood, rack my brain, tear my hair"— here the hands go up to the smoothly arranged coiffure— and that man at the piano is to chill me by keeping up a little tinkle-tinkle-tum-tum-tum? No! he has to strain every nerve, too, and help me out in my expression. ‘What happens, pray, when you play with an orchestra, one little woman and her fiddle, against thirty, forty, fifty men with their instruments? They play their very best and I play my very best and often they drown me— what then? The effect is there and it is the effect that is wanted, not the glorification of one violin. Does the public think that I do not know how to produce my effects after all these vears, I and my Guarnerius? Look at ity She jumps up and tenderly draws out of its case the instrument created at Cremona well nigh two centuries ago. For it is a creation, this delicately curved, smoothly varnished, wooden case on which a genius mysteriously bestowed immortal life and then died, bearing his secret with him. “Look at it,”” says Madame Urso, holding it with a touch that is a caress, “look, hut do not touch! Some people want to 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 FRATERNAL NEWS. YOUNG MEN’S INSTITUTE. The first lecture of the season was de- | livered last Wednesday night before the | council in Menlo by Professor David Starr | Jordan on the ‘‘Enchanted Mesa.” Rev. Father McCorry. C. S. P., will de-| liver a lecture before Ignatian ¢ounecll in | January | E ons for officers are to be held at| the second meeting this month. THE EASTERN STAE. Last Thursday evening the officers of Oak Leaf Chapter were installed in Oak- land. The officers of Mission Chapter were installed last Saturday night, and next Tuesday night those of Ivy Chap- ter will be installed, while the installation of the offic of Beulah Chapter will be on the 26th inst. Af the in llation of the officers of | Golden Gate Chapter the membership of | that body showed its appreciation of theq work of M. A. C. Christensen, the retir-| ing patron, during the year he was’in office by presenting him a beautiful pair of gold and diamond set cuff buttons. THE ODD FELLOWS. Golden West Lodge will hold an open meeting on the evening of the 22d fnst. The much discussed Handy case, which has been before so many boards of the f committee, has finally been disposed | having been rendered in | or of Handy. ! Last Wednesday night Absit Invidia | of Oakland had an entertainment | that was attended by a large number of There was a fifteen-minute talk 3 Grand Master Willam Henry Barnes, a select programme of entertain- | ment and then dancing and a collation. | Merced Lodge will celebrate its annbi versary next The late N master, was the funeral service being car- | Past Grand Master Gosbey and | Shaw. Mr. Cook was 80 had been an Odd Fellow Karl C. Brueck, Grand ¢ aw and Past Grand Master | Tox were at the district meeting of Fres- | N0 Lodge on the 5th inst., and were the | BUes | < of honor at a dinner given after a | peeting. | nd master paid an official visit Jast Wednesday to Spartan Lodge, on Thursday night he was with dentdl Lodge. There are now thirty-one Inmates In the Orphans’ Home, and a happy lot they | were on Thanksgiving day, @ first class | dinner having been provided by the sev- | eral Rebekah lodges. These same lodges are now arranging Christmas boxes for the little ones. Some of the lodges have asked for the name, age and sex of each as to send an individual pres- | and | Ocei- | ach. Mre. M. E. Donoho, secretary of the | Grand Assembly, will leave on the 17th | inst. for Los Angeles to officially visit Jodges there. She will be absent about ten days. ANCIENT ORDER OF WORKMEN. Oak Leaf Lodge of Oakland has made | | arrangements for a grand entertainment | to be given to-morrow night. A new lodge, to be named Superior Lodge, will be instituted in the Western Addition at Sacramento and Polk streets to-morrow night. | The (‘a(\)ltu! drill team initiated a class of candidates for the lodge at Folsom last Wednesday night. THE NATIVE SONS. Sequoia Parlor will have a Christmas tree festival in the banquet hall of th Native Sons’ building on the 22d in: The Native Sons’ band, Professor Sousa | Barton leader, will assist. | The grand secretary paid a visit to By- ron Parlor at Byron last week. Nearly all of the local parlors have | elected their officers tor the ensuing term. Installations will take place during the early part of January. During the week | Grand President Conley will send out a circular notifying the district deputies of the parlors assigned to them for instal- | lation. | A large number of the most prominent | Native Sons have signed a letter appro- riate to the occasion to be sent to Frank . Ryan as a *‘Christmas card.” Mr. | Ryan has for some time past been in Alaska and is at present at Sheep Creek. He was, while in this city, a prominent member of California Parlor. THE NATIVE DAUGHTERS. La Estrella Parlor is still progressing | and the membership at every meeting is | highly entertained by the good of the or- | der committee, which prepares a fine, in- | teresting programme of the Jenny Jinks | order, but in this the parlor is selfish, | as it will not admit any but members of | the parlor; in fact, they do not want any | but their own members to play in their | back parlor. On the night of the 17th | | | { inst. the parlor will give a Christmas | plnrl)', and all anticipate having a good | time, | Golden State Parlor No. 5 will hold a Christmas tree festival in the banquet hall of the Native Sons’ buflding on the | night of the 0th inst. In the past the | festivals at Christmastide by this parlor | have always been pleasing features of the | order and the committee having charge of this one will use every effort to maintain the reputation of the Golden State. INDEPENDENT FORESTERS. Organizer S. J. Duckworth reorganized | Court Sonoma uat Healdsburg last week with a good membership, and the pros- | pects are that it will gain rapidly. Deputy Supreme Chief Ranger Jacox is canvassing Visalia, and Deputy Supreme Chief Ranger Taylor is in Healdsburg. | High Chief Ranger McElfresh returned ! to Los Angeles last week. On Saturday | he was in Fresno; to-morrow he will be | at Hanford; Tuesday he will be at Le- mtlvlore and Wednesday he will be at Vi-| salia. : C. Muller has been appointed deputy for | Court Precita. The board of deputies | for San Francisco has been organized with J, B. Knudson of Diana as chairman, H. T. Moore of Friar Tuck secretary and W. L Avery of Yerba Buena as treasurer. ‘Each deputy was assigned to another | raceived from the head camp at | the membership is in excess of 6000 in 120 court in addition to his own, as follows: Avery to Apollo, Borne to Mission, Brun- hofer to Precita, Cameron to Sunset, Geiger to Madrone, Hurry to Yerba Buena, Kern to Sutro Heights, Knudson to Noe Valley, Moore to Golden Era, Mul- ler to Golden Gate, Steward to Endeavor and With to Alcyone. The officers-elect will be installed in January, on dates to be hereafter an- tounced’ in this department. The court at Cloverdale initiated seven- teen members during the past two weeks. Court Yerba Buena had a very pleasant social evening last Tuesday night in the Shiels building. Under the direction of W. 1. Avery and A. H. Lightbody there nted a programme that included solo by Dr. J. A. Browne, recit Miss Case. Miss McMertie and Mrs, Barton, an address by E. H. Beck- ord, vocal solo by M. Jones and a clever whistling solo by Fairclough Fair, the well-known imitator of bird whistles. A fine collation was served to the guests and members, and there was dancing until midnight. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. As a result of the recent Increase meet- ing held wunder the auspices of Golden Gate Camp in November applications were received. Phis will increase the membership of the camp to about 950. A large number of candi- dates will be initiated in the camp dur- ing the current month. There is a great deal of activity in the several local camps of the city at this time, and ali ceport an increase in mem- bership. According to the latest reports Denver camps. - ‘W. L. Temple has been appointed State organizer for California vice George K. Rogers, transferred to the State of Ore- gon. At its meeting last Monday night Gold- en Camp received three new candidates and it will in the near future initiate one of the highest city officials. Richmond Camp on last Friday had a pleasant evening on the occasion of lo- cating a new camp at Fourth avenue and Clement street. here was a good at- tendance of members and visiting neigh- bors from other camps. THE NATIONAL UNION. California Council at its meeting last Tuesday night initiated two candidates and will have a number to admit at its next meeting. After the election of offi- cers that night there was a fine evening of entertainment, music being furnishes by the National Quartet. The new offi- cers will be publicly installed at an open meeting to be Held on the 3d of January. Deputy Bunting was in Sacramento re- cently, and while there secured twenty members for Sacramento Council. ORDER OF CHOSEN FRIENDS. There was a summoned meeting of the members of the order in Sacramento city on last Wednesday in the hall of Sacra- mento Council, the call having been is- sued by the grand ‘councilor, M. Boehm. Grand Recorder Wallis was present, c-d | the grand officers offered a plan to the membership, which, being accepted, will result in great benefit to the order in that section of the State. During the evening there was a spirited contest over the election of officers. < i Pacific Council has recelved petitions for membership, Riversfde Council ini- tlated two candidates in November, ‘Washington Council initiated two and re- handle it, to lay their fingers on the varnish. They forget that persistent touch wears away the strongest fabric. See how carefully I keep it, how free from stain it is, how daintily attended to. With similar ¢ it may last an- other hundred and seventy years. Twenty years we have been compan- ions, twenty years of art triumph and hard work together. I was offered six thousand dollars for it only yesterday. I would not take fifteen thousand for it! Only death shall take it from me.” The Guarnerius is laid away rever- ently, . then Camilla Urso looks up quickly. ““You will tell the public that I am the best judge of my accompani- ments; that it may judge of effects, but must leave. the management of them to me. Why have I been playing suc- cessfully for twenty-five years?' And that success has been of dual na- ture. Camilla Urso, the artist, has been supported by Camilla Urso, the woman. The artist has been applauded, the woman has been loved. Seldom is even a Guarnerius brought into promi- -nence by such a combination. A. R. ROSE-SOLEY. THE NEW UNITED STATES, There's a bustle in Hawall, There’s a stir in the Ladrones; “’e may talk with Porto Rico Through long-distance telephones, And each morning at our doorwa. ‘With-the ink still fresh and we! Is laid down the last edition Of the Philippine Gazette. T've a girl in Honglulu, And another inySan Juan; And as latest Yankee lasses They are nice to 100k upon. While the maiden who in Skagway Was an acquisition rare Must resign, for in Manila I have one with longer hair. Mayaguez and Arecibo, Aguadilla—what are these But the germs of Yankee cities Waking after centuries? And we speak of Kahoolawe, Mindanao and Luzon In the same breath with Ohio, Massachusetts, Oregon. Comes a national election And the people wait, intent, For the verdict of the ballot As to who is President. ‘Then the thirt cond precinct Of the island bu S vy Garcia Aguinaldo So he barely squeezes through. —EDWIN L. SABIN in Juda 000000000000 000COY celved three applications, Fairmount Council had two initlations and Evans Council had one last Thursday night. Golden Gate Couneil had a spirited meeting on last Friday night, when the officers for the next term were chosen. Several candidates were up for Initiation. AMERICAN GUILD. San Francisco Chapter No. 328 of the American Guild will, at its meeting in Balboa Hall, in Native Sons’ building, on* next Wednesday night. have eight candi- dates for initiation. There will be nom- ination for officers, and the election will take place at the following meeting. R. W. McGarvie, deputy supreme gov- ernor, will on next Friday institute a new chapter at Petaluma. He has been In that city for some time, and has secured more than twenty members with which to institute the new chapter. THE JUNIOR ORDER. The batch of applications sent in to Abraham Lincoln Council at its last meet- SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY Of the Successful Authors™ Club, NEW YORK, Dec, 9~The Authors’ Club has lately entered upon its sixteenth ar. There has heen no particular note taken of the fact, so far as 1 have seen; but there well might been, for under the conditions that prevall here, it ls no ordinary achlevement to have maintained cuch an organization so long. At an earller day, say, just before the war, there seems to have been a kind of in- stinctive drifting together on the part of writers in and about New York. But since then the disposition has seemed to run just the other way; so much o8 that doubt has often been expressed whether provide itself with a commodious suite of rooms, furnighed rather richly and to perfection for the special purposes had in view, and here it dispenses a hospitality marked by anything but the scantiness of the proverbial author's fare. It has col- lected a considerable library by donations from members, but 'largely by purchases with money from the treasury. s it can, it is getting together especially hooks in literary blography. al- ready has about 400 volumes of thie kind, kome of them’ extremel re, and the design s finally to get collection that shall include everything at all worth ha ing in in this department, of whatever tongue or time. Then, in order to have the club fully equipped for the service of % ternoon teas, and then ladies are ad- mitted. ROMANCE OF VENETIAN GLASS ENETIAN glass” as it appears at times in the alluring adver tisements of the great depart- ment stores of New York, is i the true Venetian glass that is Certainly it is, and some of it s sold? “Padding” a Leopard on a Small Elephant. From “Hunting on Elephants.” McClure's Magarine foc Decemberr New York, in spite of the magnitude of its publishing interests and the large number of people here who are devoting themeselves, in_one way and another, to the literary calling, was in any true sense a literary center. Yet the Authors' Club has lived; and what is more, it b s pered. From the day of Its ‘orga October 21, 1882, it has had mon treasury; and it now has a surplus of about §9000, in addition to a handsome benevolent fund. Meanwhile the club has been able to 00000000000000000 ing has startled the other local councils 80 that they have awakened to a realiza- tion that if they-do not want to be left they must hustle. The membership of this council is manifesting a great deal of in- terest in the order at this time. There are several members on the sick list who are drawing from the treasury, which is in a prosperous condition. A movement to have funeral benefits controlled exclu- sively by the order will shortly be dis- cussed in this council by Mr. Hand of New Jersey, who will soon reach this city. A committee of ten has been appointed to arrange for appropriate entertainments at the close of the business meetings. It is proposed to include discussions of na- tional questions, lectures and matters of general interest. SENTINELS OF THE UNIVERSE. Franklin Council of the Sentinels of the Universe recently gave an entertainment in Chapman’s Hall, Oakland, at which there was a large gathering of people, who enjoyed a pleasing and instructive pro- gramme in which Daniel E. Hanlon, Charles Brown, Miss Florence Donnovan, Professor J. Miller, P: Flannigan, Lilas Phillips and F. T. Hess participated. The stage was occupied by George W. Austin, supreme vice sentinel, who presided; J. Lawrence Geary Jr., supreme sentinel; Charles E. Parept, supreme medical di- rector; F. T. Phelps, supreme trustee; W. W. Bracket, supreme secretary; Fred J. Clausen, supreme treasurer; and Howard J. Hill, supreme guard. During the even- ing sugreme Sentinel Geary explained the many features of the order to the mani- He Gave a Yell of Derision and Defiance. From ‘‘At Aboukir and Acre,” Published by Chares Scribner's Sons. 00000000000000000 fest interest of the listeners. The enter- tainment was followed by a dance till midnight. A council, to be the first in San Fran- cisco, is being organized and it is ex- pected that it will be instituted by the Isth Inst. with more than a hundred mem- ers. At a rheeting held in the office of the Supreme Council in the Mills building a number of competent officers were ap- pointed to organize councils. ORDER OF AMERICUS. A new council of the Order of Americus was instituted on the 6th inst. in the Alca- zar building by John Van Allen, manager of the Pacific Coast department. The of- ficers chosen promise a brilliant future for the council. They are: Numar Rose, P. P.; Dr. W. G. Hassler, P.; P. S. Seymour, V.'P.; C. J. King, R. S.; Thomas H. Lord, F. S.; Dr. W. A. Atwood, -T.; Robert Mills, C.; F. A. Seaman, S. W.; R. Leard, J. W.; R. E. F. Klipstein, G.; E A. Smith, S.; and Numar Rome, 5 al Stocker and Robert Mills, trustees.w order was founded in Greensburg, P about two years ago. Its principal features are: Limited labflity during the first three years of membership; unchangeable monthly rate; annuity at old age; spe- ’c‘l‘t;;l literary features at council meet- KNIGHTS OF HONOR. Eagle and America lodges held a joint meeting last week. There were a number of grand officers present, and there were many instructive addresses and a_pro- amme of music and literature. Eagle taken quarters in Foresters' |lation in January. members who desire to_do work there, an excellent collection of books of reference has been provided. From the first it has been the study of the Authors’ Club to avold an excess of government. It has no president. and if, by any inadverte vou asked who the resident was, you would give offense. ts affairs are managed by a board of nine trustees, and these at present are Rossiter Johnson (secretary), _George Cary Eggleston, George Haven Putnam, J. D. Champlin, Henry Marquand (treas- , F. R. Stockton (chairman), Albert , James H. Morse and Duffield Osborne. Three of the nine retire each January, when the annual eiection is held. Mr. Eggleston and Mr. Putnam, however, have been elected lately: Mr. leston to fill a vacancy caused by the hzlf 1 1 resignation of Oscar S. Straus. who is absent from the country as Uniled States Minister to Turkey, and Mr. Putnam to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Colonel George E. Waring. It has sometimes happened that authors’ organizations were distinguished by the absence of authors. That is not the case with the Authors’ Club. It is genu'ne, and in looking over its list of members You don’t often need to ask who the peo- le are. Among the founders were George William Curtis., Edmund Clarence Sted- man, Richard Grant White, Edward Eg- gleston, Henry M. Alden, Richard Watsc Gilder, Parke Godwin, E. L. Godkin, Noah Brooks, Laurence Hutton and Brander Matthews, and the present membership, which comprises about 160 persons, is of the same quality. Not all of the members, however, live in or even near New York. For instance, Henry James lives in London, James Whitcomb Riley in Indianapolis and Ham- lin Garland anywhere from Alaska to Boston. But while it confines its membership rather rigorously to authors, requiring that one shall have published at least one ook in order to be eligible, the Authors” Club does not fence itself off from the rest of the worlu. It opens its doors to visitors with rather more liberality than most clubs do. It is not a dining or lodg- ing club, and it is mainly resorted to on the evenings of the fortnightly meetings, when a generous spread is served and particular efforts are made to render the rooms attractive. At some of these méet- ings visitors are espacially invited. From none of them, I think. are they excluded, if properly introduced by members. In the winter the club gives a series of af- delicate, beautiful, and fantastic in form as when the manufacture of this {ragile ware w monopolized by the ola city of the lagoons. In Ve glass there is the whole romance of manufacture, and in “The House Beau- tiful” Donald Warren tells most that is worth knowing about it. We are fairly positive that In certain direc s, if not the Greeks, certainly the old Romans, might have taught a great deal about the fashioning of glass. Possibly the art was retained in early Venice. Anyhow we have dence that fine glass was made 2 around Venice before the eleventh ce tury. In time there were so many fur- naces devoted to glassmaking that the danger of fire threatened Venice and the indust was moved to the island of Murano, and for five centuries Mu- ranc became the sole center for Vene- tian giass. Venice, in 1495, enacted an order threatening with death any workman in glass who divulged the secrets of the business, and Venice carried out this cruel protectionist decree. Mirror: were also important objects. and Venice made them for all the then known world. But it was in beads that the largest industry wascarried on. Strange is it for the modern traveler to find in remote and Central Africa beads of a certain form ard color, certainly Vene- tian, which must have reached the na- tivs in the fifteenth or sixteenth cen- tury. In fact, to the archaeologist, the string of civilization is threaded with beads. The beauty of the Venetian glass has never been equaled. It juite possible that its exceeding fragility made the renewal of the pieces constant. There wasa habit the Venetians had of smash- ing their fine giass on convivial occa- sions, and banquets in the city of the canals in the Middle Ages were com- t or mon. Until the eighteenth century Venice stood first in glassmaking, then with Napoleon and a change of com- mercial transits the industry waned. 0000000000000 00N000000000000000000 land Stanford Lodge’ last week and ad- dressed the workers of the lodge who, th;:_ugh not numerous, are very enthusic astic . Election of officers were set for the first | meeting in the current month. Represen- | tatives to the Grand Lodge will be chasen at the first meeting in February. Theire- port presented on the 1st inst. showed that during the preceding month there were 192 deaths, that all claims were paid for November and forty-six claims on the December list were paid before the re- port was issued. 1t was also announced that all death claims reported in 1898 will be_provided for January 1, 1899. Yerba Buena Lodge has heen obliged to secure larger quarters in the Alcazar as its meeting room was too small. San J-se Lodge initiated five candidates last week. There will be a public instal- THE DRUIDS. Noble Grand Arch Lewis and Grand Secretary Graves returned last week from a visit to Portland, Oregon. They were absent. twenty-one days on their visita- tion, naving made their first visit at Sac- ramento. During that time they visited the grove at Fairfield, those In Sacra- | mento, instituted a new grove there with | thirty-six .charter members: they were | with the groves at Placerville, at élssnns; ?tx‘ad the o:'uel:;| at Potrltla;d. At every placc ey wen! ey noticed evid schlhvl(y in (Llhe order. Shto DL ereat, e grand officers visited Eureka and |Sigel groves in joint session on last ‘Wednesday. After the business there was 2 e rn tn n the e grand officers will visit Santa Rosa, Healdsburg on the Ygl;\‘a;d Petaluma on the 19th. COMPANIONS OF-THE F. OF A. Last Monday Grand Chief Companion Coburn and other grand officers paid an the routine business applications. After = S ne of there was an impromptu program instrumental and vocal recitals, which were very pleasing, as the circle has in its membership some very fine musica talent. This circle is making most re- markable progr 3 : Bonita Circle will give 2 socia gel's Hall on the night bf the f urday in Janu ; ; Inter Nos Circle will give a Cr festival on the 25th inst. JUNIOR FORESTERS Last Wednesd night Junior Court Pride of Califernia, No. 1, Foresters of America, .gave its twelfth ¢ .‘thll\l'eré tainment and dance in the social hall of the Alcazar building. The attenance was good and the programme decidedly &7 ers taining. The feature of U1 enter Bahy was the singing and dar ol & Ruth Rowlands. The dances was a fine one. i fair reflected credit on Geof = lack, R. Miller, I. Goldberg, ~= s Ik ax Willlam Boradori and J. Licht, the committee of angements. THE FOREST. 1, at its meeting last FRIENDS OF Pioneer Lodge No, T ight, received three applica- dions mj‘h?:‘ml;{e, after the election of its Moo, for the emsuing LGOS, spent an festive board discussing the e epared by the com- four around the Phe choice collation [ ente ainment. m"lslp:"l}lnr’ll‘u\\\” night Lincoin Lodge No. 3 o ate its anniversary by a ban- will celebrate (0, Ccted that there will ba e 5d to make the occasion one of DEGRE The Daughters of Montezuma, Degree official visit to Oakland Circle, and all were well received by a good representa- tion of the membership and visitor: There were present three past grand chief companions. There was the usual examination as to the ritualistic work, and there were speeches by the grand chief companion and others. tuted by the grand chief companion and other grand officers with nineteen mem- intention to join. officially visited by the grand chief com- panion and a number of the grand offi- cers. A result of the visit was that tne grand officers, in their comments, de- clared that while the ritualistic work was not as perfect as it might be, it was ev dent that while neglecting to pay atten- tion to the nicety of turning square cor- ners the circle had devoted itself to some- thing that is a credit to it, namely, plac- n able, without delay, to assist members who may need help. During the evening there were a number of addresses, and at the close of the meeting the membership served a coliation. Robin Hood Circle at its meeting last Wednesday decided that the first of series of entertainments to be presented B|y the married lady companions of the circle shall be given during the last meeting in January next. ‘The circle con- ferred honorary membership upon *‘the modest member of Inter Nos Circle. “:e has Hall on Eddy s z Grand Dictator Archibald visited Le- Palo Alto Circle last Wednesday night | had one initiation, and received several | | Last week Olympus Circle was reinsti- | a | Last Wednesday Live Oak Circle was | itself on a sound financial basis to be | of Pocahontas, at its last held business of ing. had work in the adoption de- e he work being done In an_admira~ Eree anner by a team from Yosemite e meil. At the meeting last Monday the I “go-as-you-please card who took ill_they od. then there was dancing. as Council had a grand cake building last Thursday and des and Pocahont. walk in Shiels Nieht. There was a good attendance bers, and a number have given notice of | ijose who walked for the cake made a fine exhibition of grace of movements. LADIES OF THE MACCABEES. San Francisco Hive No. 8, Mrs. Mary E. Salmond lady commander, will give a Maccabees’ entertainment in the Alcazar building on the night of the 15th inst. The ladies of this hive who are on the commit- tee on entertainment have prepared an excellent programme for the occasion. A feature of the evening will be a prize cakewalk by Sir Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees, who will black up for the | occasion. a | | COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST. Mrs, Freda Rogers of Eureka Circle, having recently become a bride, was last week presented by the members of her circle with a beautiful set of china. Last Thursday night a number of the members paid her a visit at her home. Loyal Circle, after the election of offi- -| cers last Monday, had a soclal hour and a choice programme was lY:esemed. and after that there was a collation.