The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1898, Page 12

12 THE SAN TRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1898 — e e e e S O B e e e HOBSON LEF 0UR SHORES UNKISSED A Royal Welcome and a Fond Au Revoir. THRONGS GREETED THE HERO DELIVERED ADDRESSES THAT BREATHED FIRE. Receptions at the Park and Y. M. C. A. Attended by Thousands. He Departs for Manila. Hobson, hero orted | ses bestowed | lips of worshiping maid- s fully oc- arrived here | left 10res. he enjc S If,‘l downtown shops yesterddy b ek earthly good would they do From the time stepped | AN L aeE yakland boat until embarking |° “]" could make a small fortune out of nis was n worthy of a Presi- | them,” replied the blacksmith, “just as lent W hand clasps nd enthusia: 1 did once before \\'ill\ the bayonets : im everywhere, but | that were picked up at Antietam and Har- visitor modestly | PSS Ferty. 1E 0 fnis nlea5a G S vl t know as it did me any | ceping ruby lips at a dis- | good—leas s it doesn't nmow that I have lost it all. Perhaps that is the rea- o's programme as mapped | son that I think I would like to try it again. 1 was a young man when the f gentlemen who was carried out to the let- | conveyed by Mayor Phelan | ant Roberts to e park in | where thousands of curious congregated. Although it patiently | his arrival | While Keyes mon- yor Phelan. | g that greeted him had | the Merrimac said; | g my gratitude stand at the foot | ul monument erected to | the man who composed | to which we have just | ieve it is but a recogni- | work done at the front in the ie star :d banne { tinued 1n this strain for is remarks being punc- 1 At the conclusion began to bow his ac- moved toward his eners wanted more | was reminded of the t him fame by cries been ence to it. xcused | He then refe trip on the collier | followed. His | onment of him- | | e incldents that ed to with deep in- of his speech Hobson ff in his carriage | tance, vainly try- nd assure him of members of both s nating, A the city’s the audienc d him enthusf n_introduced steppe arose en masse iastically 1 the 1l chosen ntence: Al “1 honored being the highest inhood and of beiny a | a slow and s , but befol her | e | that character-, 1k of life. It 1s complish much, but . In the late wa u that our navy f Cap- | ‘Don't s are dylng.’ s represen- | of Christian | we were called upon to lift the opnressed people | { speaker then dwelt on the projec- | the Spanish navy and our | r our shore he Wi, aid the enem projectiles med utterly powerle: against Amer- an life, while American projectil, k home, remarking that this was a gely signiticant fact. He then went | m described some of the thrilling cencs enacted on and about the Merri- | d closed with a eulogy on the | 0 an spirit displayed by the Spanish | rs. 0 sooner had he ended his dramatic | an the audience showed its ap- for his address and for tue | gan by rising to Its feet and cheering vo- busly. Owing to the height of the tage no attempt was made to reach im, at former reception: nd the di: Inguished guest retired to the private stairw w denied treet by The crowd would not | and when he reached e stree urrounded by a_jos ling throng, eager to reach 1 . how . With he aid of the police he gained his car- lage, and as it moved off the cheers were wartily renewed. | Hobson was purposety late in reaching | be Pacific Mail dock. Shortly before the teamer sa e on to the wharf | n riage and as it stopped close to he gangplank he attempted to ascend to he deck unnoticed. Vain hope, however, | s he was soon recognized, and again he | arrounded by a good-natured crowd. adies were eager to shake his hand, nd outfought the men for its possession. dne bright damsel thrust a card in his | @lm and begged for his autograph. ..s | request was ‘granted it was a sig- | for three score more cards. For | early fifteen minutes the lieutenant was | tept busy affixing his famous name to | nrds of all descriptions. Even Louis fong, the Chinese interpreter, gained the | such-sought-for signature. | Immediately on reaching the Gaelic’ »bson mounted the bridge, where tain Finch and Pilot Meye s mer backed away from the wh ccorded a departing ovation. long the w aluted Hobson with deafening | s, and he returned their signals by | lowing the Gaelic's whistle. | Lieutenant Hobson 1& bound for Manila, rhicre it is understood he will make some fforts to float some of the Spanish war- | hips that were sent to the hottom by the | edoubtable Dewey. in ter front a number ~ | CAPTAIN SIGSBEE'S DOG. ! gt | Irs. S. Tells of the Pranks of Peggie, | a “Maine” Survivor. Mrs. Charles D. Sigsbee, wife of the eptain of the battleship Maine, has an mticle in St. Nicholas on “Pets in the favy.” Mrs. Sigsbee says: You have heard of Peggie, the pug log on the U. S. S. Maine when she was flown up. Peggy is now at Key West. Ihe is a pretty little dog. She was a Iny little pup when first given to the aptain of the Maine, a little more than i\ year ago, and was very full of fun md mischief. She always slept in the ebin, and amused herself by ‘worry- ng’ anything she could, as most pup- tes do. She always followed the cap. pin everywhere, no matter how manyl | burg, | s country had some |and laid by a little capital. knew I could ma then bent the rest around n a nice sharp blade an inch wide. | for the old man. eral others followed his | next month or so and bay | to be known and generally used in that | | region. He | cents apiece for bayonets. % by hundreds. up into hoes, which I finished off as nicely | as T knew how. | vertisement in the steps and ladders were to be climbed. This caused her to break her leg one day. The leg was put in splints, but Peggie could not keep still enough to have it knit properly, so when she was well this leg was a little shorter than the othe Peggie was very fond of rushing at the wastepaper basket and dragging out the contents. She would whine ana cry in a very funny way when she could not get them out. She regarded with great suspicion any one in civilian dress coming on board the Maine, and barked at all who were not in uniform. She would turn a somersault if you held her head down a second. One day she came into the cabin with a chicken-bone sticking out of one side of her mouth and a pretty nasturtium blossom in the other side. She looked so cute that I wish I had the picture to show you. One ear stuck up and the other lay down, giving her a very comi- cal expression. She knew just what she wanted to do. Laying the flower care- fully down'in one corner, she took the bone into another and proceeded to eat it. After the bone had been disposed of she took the flower into her mouth again and finally left it at the captain’s feet. Once she was taken driving at Key West, and while the carriage motion she jumped out of the vehicle on one side and into it at the other, un- til the person she was with feared she would break all her legs. Afterward she thought the horses’ tails were meant especially for her to play with, s0 over the dashboard to bite the tails and down under the horses’ feet she went. But she was not hurt, and soon sprang into the carriage again. MONEY IN BAYONETS. How a Blacksmitbr'l‘urned Them Into | Onion Hoes. h 1 could pick up the b that have been thrown away around ald a_blacksmith in one of W vonets an- sh- war was over, and living up at a little out-of-the-way place in the moun- tains of Maryland. 1 had learned my trade of my father, who fell at Gettys- and the world was before me. I settled down to shoeing farm horses and 5, repairing reapers and mowers, and odd jobs of all kinds. better then than they are now, and the h in it. 1 did well n old fellow living way up on mountain came into my shop with a vonet in his hand. On the other arm a little basket of nice white eggs. ““*Cap,’ he said, as he laid the bayonet on the anvil, ‘my unyin patch is all gormed up with weeds and filth, an’ ef yvou could on'y jest make me a leetle nar- rer hoe outen this bayonet fer this yere mess o' eggs, 1 reckon I'd hev a right good chanc ins.’ e of unyins. the bayonet and hit it a tay vil, and it rang like a bell the best of steel st class hoe of it. I had seen any number of bayo- nets, army muskets and swords kicking around in that country, but I had never thought of using them' for anything be- nd he then returned to | fore. 1 stuck the bayonet into the fire, % {and in a few minutes 1 made a very e he said he | pretty little onion hoe for the old man. I cut off about two-thirds of the steel, arly square it out into vith the ferrule and flattene rule I left untouched, so that the hoe handle could be put into it. There hap- pened to be an old handle standing in the corner of the shop, and put it in It hung just right, and was so light, so thin and so sharp and strong that it was play to hoe onions, something that 1 had always heard before this was the hardest kind of work. Ir “What he said set me to thinking. a bayonet made such a good onion hoe roceeded rapidly to the ssociation buildc | why was there not a_field for making Mason Streets, | them on a large scale? The bayonets naval otficer had another : were to be had in quantity, and there ss.The auditorium | were people enough raising onions. In a few days a neighbor of the old man | - | came into the shop with a bayonet and ald he wanted a hoe made out of it. Sev- example in onet hoes.came I put up a notice in several post. offices around there that I would pay They came in In spare time I made them Then I put a little ad- county paper, and the orders began to pour in on me. | T charged 35 cents apiece for the hoes, and over five minutes to | as it did not take make one, when I was making them in antity, I estimated that there was at cents profit on each hoe. I had ount to make to the trade. I sold hoe myself, and got all the profit u all know the spirit | every > American | myself. The trade increased until bayo- ind men of | nots bega carce, and I had to ruction off | offer 7 10 cents for bayonets, | and the v to come in at that | figure. But for a yvear or two I hoes by hundreds. and I got fixed financially. In my advertisement, course, I alluded to the biblical notion of beating swords into ploughshares, and shears into pruning hooks. This was very fetching with all sorts of %und people, and a good many, I suppose, bought my hoes not only because they were first-class articles, but as relics of the war. Some of those bayonets had no doubt pierced some poor fellow’s vitals, and let his life blood out upon the greensward on the battlefields of the South. It is good to think that the use I put them to was more peaceful and useful to mankind." ‘Washington Star. e COW GETS DRUNK ON APPLES. Temperance Pébi}lé Viho Own It Are Scandalized by Its Conduct. H. W. Collingwood, one of the edi- tors of the Rural New Yorker, is re- sponsible for the declaration that a cow can acquire a three days’ “jag” by the simple act of eating apples. Over in Bergen County, where Mr. Collingwood is widely known as a Prohibitionist, churchman and president of a Young Men's Christian Association, he con- ducts an experimental farm near the village of Westwood, and among his achievements as a fancy farmer dur- ing the past summer he shipped to the city market 1000 ears of prize corn, for which he received a return of 30 cents. This and similar ventures taught the scientific farmer that there is more money in feeding prize corn to market- able swine than in contributing to the support of railroads and commission merchants. Mr. Collingwood avers that he went home a few days since and found that one of his best cows had gained sur- reptitious access to a lot of apples and had eaten so many that before she could digest them the fruit began to | ferment, causing the animal to mani- fest all the symptoms of drunkenness. “And she had a most magnificent head on her for three days,” sald Mr. Collingwood in relating the story. “She ‘was blear-eyed, groggy on her l-gs and just moped around as men do who have | been out with the boys a little too long. ‘Why, we were afraid to use or sell the | milk while this lasted, lest somebody might be overcome by a natural milk punch.” Mr. Collingwood felt somewhat scan- dalized by this incident, especially as his wife and mother-in-law are con- spicuous in the W. C. T. U,, but he made the matter a subject of investi- gatlon, and insists there is no_ other means of accounting for the conduct of his cow.—New York Sun. —_—— Tax on German Cyclists. It is estimated that there are 3,120,000 cyclists in Germany, each one of whom had to pay a tax of 50 cents to have his name entered and to receive a number for his machine, together with a book, which he must carry about him, as it contains a description of his person. —_——— Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. was in | Prices were | in it, and 1| aut | the | and | | finally another in an agricultural paper, CHRISTMAS AND HOW IT WILL BE CELEBRATED Services to Be Held in the Churches. THOSE WHO WILL OFFICIATE THERE WILL BE MAGNIFICENT ! SELECTIONS. List of the Various Churches Where the Most Impressive Cere- monies Will Be Solemnized. Long before daybreak to-day and long after the sun sets upon the annual feast of Christmas day the churches will com- memorate its advent and its passing with | one of the most complete and memorable | combined religious services that the city | has ever known. At 5 o'clock in all the | Catholic churches without exception sol- | emn_high mass will be celebrated and will mark the commencement of the observ- ance of commemorating the birth of the Savior. In the Protestant churches as early as 6 o'clock the church doors will be thrown open to the public and the first prayers in honor of the day chanted. A feature that will mark the universal observance of Christmas day in the dif- ferent houses of worship will be the mu- sic chanted at the different services dur- ing the course of the morning and even- ing. The music at St. James Catholic Church for Chri s ; at 6:30 o'clock mass will be: “Farmers' Mass,” sung by a chorus of voices accompanied by stringed Instruments, the soloists being—sopranos, | Misses T. Mahoney and E. Welch; alto, Miss A. Leahy; tenor, H. Dinan; bass, J. P. Leonard. At the offertory the *“Adeste Fideles” will be sung by full choir. At 10:30 o’clock Lambillotte’s “Paschal Ma | will be sung by a full choir. At the of- | fertory “Noel” will be sung by H. Dinan. Benediction will follow the mass. Rossi's “Tantum Ergo” will be rendered by full choir. | At St. Rose’s Church, on Brannan street, | first mass will commence at 5 o’clock, dur- ing which the young ladies of the parish will sing. There will be mass every hour ntil 11 o’clock, when the solemn high | mass will be celebrated. Rev. J. M. Glea- | son will preach the sermon. An augment- ed choir will render Cimarosa's “Grand Military Mass.”. The offertory will be Lambillotte's ‘Christmas Oratorio.” ‘‘Adeste Fidelis,” b N 1lo, will be before the mass begins. Adams' *“Noel” will be rendered at the benediction. The following ladies and gentlemen comprise | the choir: The Misses Nugent, Mis: sit and Rose Killgariff, Misses Agnes E d Lillie O'Connell, Miss A. Welsh, Miss L. Du Fosse, Miss Derby, Miss Mec- | Creagh and Mr: rs. Lane, n and Donov . J. Moyni- | han will preside 5 At St. Paul Catholic Church, on Twenty-ninth and Church streets, the fol- Caisian H 7 lowing complete 5 ! ever sa e ol ellow was delighted. endere: F LR Rnesie i giimna Yo ooy pagiaclighicn iyg rendered by a specially augmented told me how the hoe worked. He said it will be celebrated every hour from | |5 o'clock to 10: At the 5 o’clock high mass Bordese's Mass in G minor will be sung by St..Paul's male choir, led by Pro- | fessor 8. J. Sandy; tenors—Messrs. uil- logley, Willey, Long, Kane, Collins, Hea- ley and Drake; bassos—Messrs. Rattigan, Gillogley, Low, Branson, Farrell, Buck- | |ley and Himmelstoss; offertory, *Noel,” sung by E. Long. During the low massés Christmas carois will be sung by the Im- | maculate Conception and Holy Angels so. dalities. At 10:30 o'clock solemn _hign mass will be celebrated. Marzo' Messe | Solenelle” will be rendered by the follow- | ing members of St. Paul's i So- 5. rs. McKee-Wilz, Kelly; | prano: M M. F. Code; tenors—F. Vaierga, bass, W. M. Lane. At the offer- | *Adeste Fideles” with violin obligato | be sung by the St. Paul's sur- liced choir; soloists—Masters Broderick, yons and Quinnane; violin, W. Healy; organist, Miss Amelia F. Quinn. Programme of Italian church of Saints Peter and Paul, corner of Dupont and Fil- bert street 1. m., J. Concone's “Kyrie” | and “G and T. Tedesc “Credo,” S “Benedictus,” “Agnus De and “Agnus £a0, from La S m. , under direction of A. Spa- e church organist. The mass will be rendered by the following vocalists: So- | pranos—Misses L. Spadina, J. Lenormand; altos—Mrs. M. Spadina, M tenors—Dr. Borino, Messrs, -A. Danielli, J. lon ©f the mass ‘‘Adeste be rendered 8 dina, th will At the Church of Corpus | Alemany and Croke streets, there will be masses at 5, 7 and 10 a. m. The first and | third will be solemn high in form. At i the 5 o'clock mass the choir will render | Mercandante’s mass, while at 10 o’clock | Giorza's First Mass will be chanted. The choir, augmented for the occasion, will sist of the following voices: Sopranos, e Reilly and L. Vlautin; tenors, W. Wright, G. Oliva, R. Gillogley Vs contraltos, Mrs, B. Brun A. O’Sullivan; ba: Tlledge; and musical director, Miss M. Rodgers. At 4 p. m. there will be vespers. ser- mon and solemn benediction of the blessed sacrament. The morning choir will assist at the service. At the offer- tory of the mass Miss Coleman and Mr. ‘Wright will render Donizetti's ‘‘Veni Creator.” | _Programme at St. Dominic’s Church on Steiner and Bush streets: High mass at !5 a. m., evening service at 7. Pro- gramme at the high mass: ‘“Adeste Fideles,” Novello; “St. Cecilia Messe So- lenelle,” oel,” Adam; “Exulta Sion,” Hammerell; ‘‘Halleiujah Chorus,” Handel. Following is the list of singers who will render the principal musical se- lections: Sopranos, Miss Lena Gore, Miss Clara Atkins, Mrs. McGlade: contraltos, Mrs. Clark, Robert Lloyd, Miss Grace de Fore: tenors, Rhys Thomas, Robert Stantini; bassos, Charles Schwert- feger. Robert Lloyd. At St. Paul's Episcopal Church the fol- lowing programme will be rendered: 7:30 a. m., holy communion; morning prayer, sermon and choral ceiebration, 11 a. m.; onal, Hymn No. 49, ‘Adeste 'Venite” (Brucke); “Te Deum™ | (Calkins); “Jubllate” (Sabin); introit, Hymn , ‘“Yorkshire”; “Kyrie” (Jef- freys); “Gloria Tibi”; Hymn 51 (Mendels- | sohn); offertory, carol (Nevin); “Sanctus™ Parker); communion hymn, No. 220 | (Lammas): “Gloria in Excelsis “Nunc Dimittis (Parker); anthem, (Concone); cents”; organ processional, 'Adeste Fidel “Magnificat” (Parker); “Nunc | Dimmi (Parker); anthem (Concone); | Hymn 47, “Innocents’; trio, ‘““Adoration” (Grieg); ‘O Thou That Bringest Glad Tid- ings” (Stainer); carol, No. 58 (St. Louis); “Unto Us a Child Is Born” (Handel); carol, No. 540 (Irby); offertory, “Thanks | Be to God’ (Mendelssohn); recessional, | Hymn No. 51 (Mendelssohn). | Third Congregational Church, Fifteenth | street, near Mission. Rev. William Rader, | pastor. At 11 a. m. the pastor will preach ion “The Meaning of Christmas.” The | cliorus chofr, under the direction of Wil- | liam Stadfeldt, will render appropriate music. Wilhelm Wertsch, celloist, and Albert Brown, violinist, will assist. The Sunday-school, under the supervision of Miss Kate Hutchinson, will render an appropriate Christmas 'exercise at 12:3) o'clock. In the evening, beginning at 7:30 o'clock, the cantata, “Light of Life,” will be given, lncludi% solos by Mrs. Stad- feldt, Dr. Bean, Miss Hossack, Mr. Cal- | ame and Miss Worrell. - | At the Simpson Memorial. Methodist | Episcopal Church on Hayes and Bu- chanan streets the following programme of music will be rendered: 10 a._m., class meeting, led by Brother J B. Robinson. 10:30 o’clock—Orgaa ve - uniary. Sewell Bogart; Christmes cmos, “rightest and Best,” choir; hym1, “Joy to the World, the Lord Has Come,” choir and congregation; prayer; 4 by the full | Christi on | | | | | | anthem, | § “‘Come Near, Ye Nations,” choir; Scrip- ture reading; solo, “Noel” (Adams), C. M. Elliot; announcements; hymn, “While the Shepherds Watch Their Flock at Night,” choir and congregation; offertory, violoneello "solo, Charles Kuss; soprano solo, “‘Ave Maria” (Mascagni), Mrs. Flor- ence Gardner, with violoncello accompani- ment; sermon, pastor; closing ' hymn, ‘When Mrashaled on the Nightly Plain,” choir and congregation; benediction; of- an postlude. 6:30 p. m.—Epworth eague devotional meeting, led by Miss Mabel Williams; topic for the evening, “The Christian Anthem.”. 7:30 o’clock—Organ voluntar; 13033!(: “Gloria Patrie,’ Creed, Hymnal; invocation; _pasto: opening chorus, ‘““The Prophet of Nazs- reth, choir and Sunday school; response reading, ‘‘Prophecy’ prayer (closing wlth"t e Lord's Prfler in concert); cho- rus, “Awake, Glad Morn,” choir and Sun- day school; " response reading, “Fulfill- ment of Prophecy”; recitation, “God's Lhrls.!‘mgs Message,” Gretta Venton; cho- rus, “While the Flocks Were Sleeping,” cholr and Sunday school; recitation, “The Coming of the Shepherd,” Metta Lages; solo, “Guiding Star,” Nettie Duncan; ad- r]rea_xs, bastor; chorus, “Chiming Bells,” (.h_m}' and school; offering; chorus, *Christ Was l}om In Bethlehem,” choir and school; closing chorus, “Glory to God in lh{a[ Highest";" doxology and benediction. i asses will be solemnizea at St. Francis Shurch to-day at the following hours: At 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 o'clock. At 5 o/clock ‘the music will be rendered by the Cecillans, at 8 o’clock by the choir of the Gentlemen’s Sodality, and at 11 o’clock by the church choir under Mrs. A. B. Collins. There will be solemn vespers in the even- ing, at which the pastor, Rev. T. Caraher, ‘V:(l)i]l] preach upon” “The Babe of Bethle At the Calvary Presbyterfan Church on I’nw_‘ell and Geary streets the morning service will be devoted to the rendition of Christmas hymns and music by the choir a-nd the congregation. Those who will as- sist in the choir are: Mrs. Susie Hert Mark, soprano; Miss Beresford Joy, con- tralto; D. N.’ Lawrence, tenor; W. C. Campbell, basso and director; R. D. Bur- Hesr, gren n the evening the following Chri: as Praise Service will be giv n:goré;:'g}:? lude hristmas Themes” with variations invocation, pasto: Vhile (Wely); hymn, “W §ré<;‘phord.~ Watched Their - Flocks,” tune mz bass solo, “Jesus of Naz- (Chas. Gounod), Walter C. Camp- bell; anthem, here Were Shepherds,’” (G. W. Chadwick), solos and _quartet; hi‘m 114, “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”; notices and offering; violin solo, Hen: Larsen; soprano solo, ‘‘Bethle: hem,” Mrs. Susie Hert Mark; short ad- dress, by the pastor; .alto solo, “The Christmas Herald” (C. Whitney Coombs) with violin obligato by H. Larsen: teno)x: solo, “Hark! What Mean Those Heaven- M. Lawrence; Christmas Hark! With Harps of Marston), solos and quartet, violin obligato; hymn 111, “Oh, Come Ye Faithful” '(Portuguese Hymn): benediction; organ postiude, ‘Festal March” (Baptiste Calkin), Robert D. Bur- ness, organist. At the First Presbyterian Church the following order of service will be held and the accompanying programme of selected music rendered: Morning service—Organ prelude, ““Allegretto Pastorale”; doxology; invocation; chant by the choir, ‘“When Marshaled on the Nightly Plain”; Scrip- ture reading, Old Testament; anthem, “Arise, Shine”; e New Cestament; hy 0. 292, ild Angels Sing”; solo, ices D. anthem, “Hark! Gold” (G. W. with Al ity.” Mrs. Riges; prayer; hymn No. 339, “All Hall the Power of Jesus: Name offertory, “The Birth of Chris Bride; sérmon, Rev. Robert D.D.;' anthem, “Behold! He benediction; organ postlude, Chorus.” ~Evening praise service—Organ prelude, “Christmas March”; chorus, It Came upon the Midnight Clear”; the Lord’s Prayer; hymn No. 274, “Joy to the ‘World, the s Comy Scripture 'y to Heaven's Eternal King,'” Mrs. Basford; prayer; choir, “Be- hold 1 Bring You Glud Tidings”; ‘hymn No. JarR! Ten Thousand Harps and Volc organ solo, “P: Offertor; ‘Christmas s, “Nazareth” (Buck-Gounod); ediction; organ postlude (Fleissner). Following is the musical programme to be rendered at the Plymouth Congrega- tional Church: Morning—""Te Deum,” (Tours); . “Behold, 1 Bring You ss); offertory e C (Coombs); an- “Sing Unto the Lord,” (Blumen- Evening—'Jubilate Deo,” from nthem, “In the Beginning Was the Word” (Thorne); offertory, ‘‘Hea: Jerusalem,” (Dellepiane); anthem, O Heaven” (Tours); E. Delleplane, organ- ist and musical director.s t St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Van avenue and Clay street the follow- ing interesting Christmas services will be held: Holy communion, 7 a. m. and § a. m.; morning prayer and holy communfon, 11. 'Morning prayer—Organ prelude, “Hal- lelujah Chorus,” Messiah (Handel): pro- onal hymn, 43, “O_Come, All Faithful” (Reading); “Versicles,” Talli Venite,” Woodward; Proper Psalms 45, $5; “Te Deum’ in E, (Parker); ‘Jubil in B flat (H. J. Stewart); introit, 51, rk, the Herald Angels Sing” (Men: communion—*'K: 7 solo, the; schein). Schuber! “Ha delssohin), “Gloria . Tibi,” ; hymn 60, “Angels From the Realms of Glory” (H. Smart); sermon; ascription “Gloria Patr! (Turle); offertory anthem, “Sing, O Heavens” (Sir A. Sullivan): treble recit, chorus—"Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains: For the Lord hath forted His people. And will have upon His ted. He will swal- low up death in victory. And the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces. And the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth”; tenor and bass recit, “Lo, This is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us. We will be glad and rejoice in His Salvation”; tenor solo, chorus; pre- sentation of alms; ‘“‘Sursum Corda,” “Sanctus,” ‘‘Agnus Dei celsis, n F (Tours); Farrant; reeessional hymn, organ postlude, confirmation, 7:45—Organ Glad Tidings”’ (Avison) Evensong and d “Hallelujah _Chorus,’ ional hymn, ; hful” (Reading); sicles” (Tallis); Proper Psalms 8, 110, 132 (Gregorian); “Magnificat, " Nunc Dimit- tis,” in D (Parry); hymn, 51, “‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” (Mendelssohn). Con- firmation—Hymn 60, “Angels From the Realms of Glory” (H. Smart); address by Right Rev. the Bishop of California; ascription, “Gloria” (Gregorian); offertory anthem, “‘Sing, O Heavens” (Sir A. Sulli. van); presentation of alms: rece: hymn, 53, “Shout the Glad Tidings son); ‘organ postlude. Following is the complete list of singers who will render the musical selections during both the morning and evening ser- a w0 Ver- sional (Avi- vices: Sopranos—W. Gunn, G. Tregan- owen, 1 Wynne, Ernest Wilson, H. Mallett, C. Brown. H. de Courcey, E. Blade, Dan Gorham, Howard _Sparrow, T. Humphreys, George Acton, W. Tupper, Willie Acton, Bridewell Evans, Harold Gregory, F. Black, Mervin Wehe, W. Taylor, Willie Kirk, H. W. Law, H. Law, William Craig, A. Field. Harvey Sparrow, Fred Wilson, uels, A. L. Black, Henry Mehrtens, How- ard Currie. Tenors—F. M. Coffin, R. Hunt, BE. 8. Claussen, W. H. Welch, G. St. J. Bremer, H. Q. McDonald, S. O. Stanyon, Bassos—William Nielsen, W. B Hague, L. Bien, F. W. Fenn, Fol- combe, E. Corris, R. Bien, H. B. comb, F. C. Driffleld. Miss Lucille Smith, choir matron; R. Hunt, librarian. . The following services will be held at the First Baptist Church on Eddy street, near Jones: Morning service—Sermon, ‘The World Has Gone After Him (John xii: anthem, “The Heavens Are Telling’ (8imper); anthem, “Chimés of Christmas Morn”__(Dresler); anthem, “Behold, I Bring You Good Tidings” (Simper); tenor solo, *“Noel” (Adam). Evening service— Sermon, “‘Christ's Birth and Birthplace,” with stereopticon views; anthem, “While Shepherds ‘Watched Their Flocks” (Klein); anthem, “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men” (Danks); anthem, ‘‘Daugh- ter of Zion” (Maker); anthem, “O That Gladdening Story” (Macy); quartet, Miss Fannie L. Denny (soprano), Miss Florence E. Raymond (alto), D. B. Crane (basso), Herbert Wiliams (tenor); Hallet K. Mit- chell, organist. On Christmas day high mass will be sung at St. John's at 6 a. m. The other masses at 7, 8, 8 o’clock and solemn high mass will be sung at 10:30, with Rev. Father Brady celebrant. A special musi- cal programme is being prepared under the direction of the organist, Miss Kate Supple. Mozart's “Twelfth Mass” will be rendered by the regular_choir, composed of the following: iss M. Schmitz, the Misses A. Supple, J. White, L. Dennison, sopranos; Misses J. McCann _and K. Ke- hoe, altos; T. Brady, tenor; Mr. Meagher and Mr. Coffey, bassos. A sermon appro- glate to the festival will be preached by ev. Father Nevins, C. S. P. Cathedral Missionof theGood Samaritan Christmas choral service, a. m.—Proces- sional hymn, “O, Come All Ye Faithtul,” “*Adeste Fideles™; ‘‘Venite” and “Gloria Patri” (chant) (Anon.); “Te Deum” in D (Woodward); ‘‘Eenedictus’” (chant), Jackson); hymn carol, ‘““Thou Didst eave Thy Throne” (A. N. C.); “Kyrie” (Mendelssohn); “Gloria Tibi"” *(Garrett); sermon hymn, “Shout the Glad Tidings” Avison); “Gloria Patri,” after sermon, Danks); offertory anthem, ““There Were hepherds” (Chappel); presentation, Ye | “All | Inquirer- Things Come of Thee, O Lord" (Anon.;; “Sursum - Corda’’; ‘‘Sanctus” (Garrett): communion hymn, "shegherd of Souls (Dykes); ‘‘Agnus Dei” (! in fixcelsia” (old chant); (Gower); retrocessional Herald Angels Sing” (Ménueissohn). Following is the programme at the First Congregational Church on Post and Ma- son streets: Morning, 11 o'clock—Organ prelude; in- troit, “‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, Mendelssohn; invocation; l‘es%onslve read- ing; doxology, “Praise God From Whom Afi Blessings Flow”; carol, *“O Little Town of Bethlehem,” Nevin; Scripture lesson; anthem, ‘There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field,” Buck; pfislorfll prayer; choir, “The Vigil of Mary,” Gou- nod; hymn 274, “Joy to the World, the Lord Is Come,” con re%atlon: announce- ments; offertory, %e ew-Born King, Victo Hammerel (for soprano); sermon by the pastor—theme, “The Shepherds of Bethlehem”; choir, *“Messiah is King,’ Hawley; prayer; hymn 339, “‘All Halil th Power of Jesus' Name,” congregation; benediction; organ postlude. Evening, 7::!? o’clock—Organ prelude; choir, “Glorfa in Excelsis,” Buck; in cation; congregation, tune, ‘‘Dunde choir, ‘“‘Arise, Shine, for Thy Light Is Come,” Maker; Scripture lesso! cholir, “A Dream of Bethlehem,” Coombs; pray- er; contralto solo, “In Cradle Lowly Douglas; congregation, tune, “Christ: mas’'; announcements. Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Mission street, between Sixth and Sev- enth, Dr. Charles Edward Locke pastor. The following will be the Christmas mu- sic: Morning service—Organ prelude, grand offertory in F op. 9 (Batiste); ‘“vu- bilate Deo” (Dr. H. J. glewflx‘t): alto solo, “The Little Child of Bethlehem” (Lloyd), by Mrs. J. W. Madden; organ offertory, oCantilene Nuptials’” “(Dubois); ‘‘Arise, Shine,” festival anthem (Arthur Foote); postiude, “Fugue in D" (Guilmont). Even- ing service—Organ, grand offertory, op. 8 (Batlste); cantata, “The Night in Beth- lehem,” for soprano and barytone, solo and chorus (Caryl Florio); organ offer- tory, 1, op. 31 (Frank G. Rolmer); so- JEoo solo, “Noel” (Gounod); ‘‘Holy ight,” by Miss Grace I. Davis (Dud- ley Buck); postlude, “‘Torchlight March” (Guilmont). " In the morning Dr, Locke's subject will be, “Does the Testimony of the Centuries Verify the Promise of the | Angels to Bethlehem's Shepherd?’ Sub- ject for evening, “Our_ Christma Jesus Enshrined in Music,” No. 3 of a series. ‘The musical programme and the serv- ices to be held at the Church of Our Lady of Victories (French Church), on Bush street, will be as follows: At the 9 o’clock mass a special choir, led by Miss Cellie, will sing “Minuit Chretien’” and ‘‘Adeste Fideles.” Achille L. Artigues will preside‘ at the organ and the orchestra of the | Boys’ Sodality will be a new feature in | the accompaniment. At 11 o’clock solemn | high mass; Rev. Father Loude, S. M., will Father Roman, ., and Father Guibert, S. M., wil be deacon and sub-deacon. Rev. Father Guibert will ad- dress the congregation. The regular choir of the church, ably presided over by Professor S. Martinez, will render one of Gans' ablest produc- tions. At the offertory Mrs. Montague- | Turner will sing the ‘“Noel d'Adam.” At 3 o’clock p. m. there will be a meeting of the Boys’ Sodality, at which a Christmas tree will be discussed. At 7:30 benediction of the blessed sacrament and sermon by Rev. A. A. Loude, S. M. The order of service at the First Uni- tarian Church on Franklin and Geary streets will be: Organ prelude, “Offer- toire Pour Noel,” in C (Grison); anthem, here Were Shepherds” (Myles B. Fos: }crl; lS<:r1pture reading, Old Testament— saiah xlif:1-4, New Testament—Luke il:40-62; andante, Quartet No. 21, string quartet (Mozart); responsive reading, minister and people, page 150; “Glory to God” (Reed); anthem, “O Sing to God,”’ Cantique de Noel (Gounod), tenor and alto solo, quartet and chorus; prayer; andante, Quartet No. 4 (Mendelssohn) string_quartet; hymn, 36, “Antioch” (ar- ranged by L. Mason); offertory, *“‘Refolcc Gl‘v:ltl;} “Messiah” (Handel) Mrs. Charles O. Richards, string quartet and organ ac- companiment; sermon; anthem, *“Sing. O Daughter of Zion” (Gadsby); hymn 360, “Christmas” (Handel); benediction; organ postlude, ‘‘Hallelujah” (Handel). Following is a list of the singers who will render the various musical selections: Mrs. Charles O. Richards, sop:ano; Miss A. Corcoran, soprano; Mrs. Emretta Sy- brandt, soprano; Miss Margaretha E. Bruntsch, alto; Mrs. Mary E. Bretherick, alto; Arthur Boyce, tenor; Benjamin G. Franklin, tenor; Henry A. Melvin, bass, ‘Wismer string quartet—Hother Wismer, first violin; Waldemar Lind, second vlolin; A. A. Solomon, viola; A. Lada, cello. Or- ganist and choir director, H. Bretherick. SURPLUS OF BRITISH WOMEN. One Thousand and Sixty Females to Every One Thousand Males. It must be disquieting to those who consider marriage to be every woman’s birthright to see how stealthily but surely her chances of realizing her des- tiny are diminishing. The census of 1871 disclosed the fact that the women in the United Kingdom outnumbered the males by no fewer than $93,195. In 1881 this deplorable dis- parity in numbers had grown to 958,- 638, and at the last census in 1801 the surplus females (not that under any conditions woman cculd be considered redundant) numbered 1,112,512. Think of this vast army of females, who for -matrimonial purposes must be deemed too many. Arranged two abreast at intervals of a yard this fair column would carry the tale of its grievances from London right to the border beyond Carlisle, and even there they would find no redress. The census figures prove that in Ire- land a woman’s chances of finding her mate are better than in any other part of the United Kingdom. For every 1000 males Ireland is blessed with 1029 fe- males, a disparity which need not make any Irish girl despair. England ranks next as a matrimonial market, as for every 1000 men there are only sixty-four females to spare. Scotland has 1072 fe- males for every 1000 males, and must be content to be shunned by marrying girls. 'The islands adjacent to our shores are the least promising as matrimonial hunting grounds, for no fewer than 1126 females have to be apportioned among 1000 males. Throughout the United Kingdom there are approxi- mately 1060 females to attract every 1000 males. The problem of the sexes assumes startling proportions when we consider that the females in the United King- dom alone, if placed in single file at intérvals of a little over six feet, could whisper a secret entirely round the earth at the equator. The females in England would form a column-twenty abreast, at intervals of a yard, long enough to reach from Lizard point to Berwick-on-Tweed. Sim- ilarly arranged, at intervals of a few inches, more or less, than a yard, the fair army of Scotland, flve abreast, could link the Grampians with John 0’ Groat's. Ireland’s equally fair army, four abreast, would stretch across the extreme length of their country, and the insular fair ones would form a col- umn, two abreast, extending in a straight line from Charing Cross to ‘Woking.—London Tit-Bits. ——e—— How Hobson Was Pleased. Now that Lieutenant Richmond Pearson cious to relate a' little incident that oc- curred during his stay here. It is a proof although the principal in this affair is truly American, having a son who was in the volunteer army throughout the war. Lieutenant Hobson was attending a re- ception given in his honor by a promi- nent physician of this city, and many of the fair women of the municipality were crowding around him, eager for a hand- shake or a passing word of conversation. with friends, and they were carrying on quite a conversation eith the nation’s hero. After satisfying herself that she had actually stood in the shadow of a famous man and had talked with him, one of them, with an attempt to be su- perfluously complimenta said to her friend, “My, Mrs. H., don’t had a son like that?’ *¢ about that,” %ulckly replied the one ap- pedled to. *“I have three sons, and I think every one of them is every bit as good as our honored and brave lieuten- ant here.” All those within hearing were astounded at the temerity of the Americanized Scotch mother, but Hobson, with characteristic gentlemanliness, bowed and remarked: “That's right, Mrs. H.: stand up for your own bairnms. 1 was glad to hear you say that.” ge- fore parting he presented a rose as a token of his appreciation of the mother who was loyal to her sons.—Philadelphia Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac, is no| longer our guest, it may not be ungra-| of the loyalty of the Scotch for their own, | The Scotch lady was standing by his side | | qualified physician, and ranks so high DR. PIERCE'’S REMEDIES THE TRUE STOR Of the Confiding Woman, the Cynical Man and the Bearded Lady. The scene is a comfortable sitting- room. Mr. Lovegood is buried in a book and his wife is scanning the ad- vertisements in the evening paper. Sud- denly Mrs. Lovegood says “‘Say, dear,” in a voice that makes Mr. Lovegood almost drop his book. “Well, what is 1t?” he says with a laugh; “another real genuine bargain offer?’ “I don’t know that you'd call it that,”” his wife replied. “But, yes, you might,” she continued, “for it is a bargain offer of free medical advice.” ‘Let's hear all about it, my dear,” said her husband. “But you know I'm a little dubious about your bargains. Your ‘swans so| often turn out to be geese.’” “‘Well, then, it's an offer by a woman (physi- cian) to give free medical advice by letter; and it says it's better to write to a woman because a man can’t un- derstand a woman, just because he's a man, and it says, too, that it's just re- volting to go to a man physician an: how.” And Mrs. Lovegood stopped be- | cause she was out of breath. “I bet you,” said her husband, “that the advertisement doesn’t say she's a | woman physician.” “Why, yes it does,” said his wife, as she looked at the ad- vertisement again. “Well, no, I guess | it doesn't say she’s a physician, but it means the same thing, for it says that | ‘it is a woman whose experience in treating woman's diseases is greater than that of any living physician, male | or female.’” Mr. Lovegood chuckled and said: “That's what I love about you, my dear. You are so ready to believe without question when there’s a bargain in view. If you were a lit- tle fish, I'd catch you every time with a rubber worm if I put a bargain sign above the hook.” i “Oh, do be serious for once,” cried Mrs. Lovegood. “Then, to be serious,” he replied, “this woman doesn’t claim to be a physician. She would claim to | be a physician if she could, because she is trying to convey the impression in every other way than by a direct claim that she is a physician. She is not, therefore, a physician and can never have practiced medicine. Yet not being a physician and therefore never having practiced medicine, she claims to have had ‘experience in treat- ing woman’s diseases, greater than any living physician.’ Now the question is, since she never practiced medicine, where did she get that experience?” “Well, that is so,” Mrs. Lovegood somewhat reluctantly admitted, “but then she is a woman.” “I'm not so sure about that even,” said her hus- band. “It looks to me as If some man was ‘working’ the women with the ‘bearded lady’ act.” “Bearded lady act! Do you mean to say that they have dime museum freaks for doctors? Why you must be foolish, or else amazingly prejudiced,” cried his wife. “You are too literal, my dear,” said Mr. Lovegood. “What I mean by the | ‘bearded lady’ act is that some man is posing as a woman, writing over a woman's signature or using a woman as a stalking horse, assuming a woman’s character to mislead. The ‘bearded lady’ of the show is always a freak and generally a fravd. The point in this advertisement that we are dis- cussing is that you are asked to ‘write to a woman,’ the implication being that the woman is competent to give and will give you qualified and valuable medical advice. But as it isn’t speci- fied that the ‘woman’ is a physician | there’s no infraction of the law. The | probabilities are that there isn’t a qual- ified doctor around the place, and the whole so-called ‘medical correspond- ence’ is done by a lot of girl clerks.” “Oh!” Mrs. Lovegood interjected, “that’'s what it means then when they say that ‘only women see the corre- spondence.” " “Exactly, my dear,” continted her husband, “and suppose the woman in the advertisement is a real woman and not the ‘bearded lady,” there’s your dressmaker, who is also a woman, not to speak of Mrs. Flannigan, the cook’s mother, who is a really excellent woman. If the woman’s not a doctor then one woman’s as good as another and it'’s foolish going to a stranger hundreds of miles distant for the sympathy which friends at home can better supply. And as for a man not understanding woman’s diseases be- cause he’s a man, that is the cheapest sort of claptrap. Who have done the doctoring in the past two thousand vears? The men. Where must the modern woman physician go for her knowledge? To schools taught by men and books written by men. If this woman, who claims men don’t under- stand woman’s diseases, should ever take to the study of medicine she’d have to be taught everything she knew by the men, who don’t know anything, according to her opinion. The prob- lem is, how a man who doesn’t know anything about woman’s diseases can teach a woman to know everything about them. I give it up.” “Then you wouldn't write?” Mrs. Lovegood, doubtfully. “Write? What for?” said her hus- band. ““Write to a woman? What's the use of writing to a woman? If you want to write, write to a doctor. The first question in sickness is not a ques- tlon of sex, but a question of medical ability and qualifications. There's no sex in medicine, anyhow. If you want to write, why not write to a man of medical standing, a specialist like Dr. R. V. Plerce of Buffalo, N. Y.? You know_he's a regularly graduated doc- tor. You know he's a good one and at the head of a great medical institution. You know he’s had thirty years’ ex- perience and has, with the did of his staff of nearly a score of skilled spe- cialists, treated more than half a mil- lion women, who freely confided in the integrity of the man and the skill of | the physician. President Garfield once said of Dr. Pierce, ‘He is one of the best men in the world, and he is-at the head of one of the best medical in- stitutions in the world.’ There's noth- ing new about this free consultation by letter, my dear. It has been a feature -of Dr. Plerce’s practice for years—in fact, for more than a quarter of a cen- tury. Write to him, because you'll get the best advice and no string tied to it, 80 to speak.” “But,” queried Mrs. Lovegood, “do you think even though Dr. Plerce is a said . m i DR. PIERCE’'S REMEDIES. as a specialist, he can treat disease by correspondence “I don’t see why not,” answered Mr, Lovegood. “Medical science is wheeling into line with everylhi_ngt (l-lssa 5 nd opping the hocus pocus of the middle ity that hedged in' ages. The ‘divinity t ¢ the priest and physician is a thing of the past. A man is taken for what he is and what he can do. Of course the members of the profession who are not specialists would naturally fight an i novation which took away their pa- tients and their profits. But when a new idea makes for public good it can’t be destroyed. They used to say no steamer could be built. to cross the At- lantic. $he couldn’t carry coal enough One prominent Englishman, then leader in the House of Commons, in the heat of a debate declared ‘that if ever any Steamer crossed the Atlantic he'd eat it, machinery and all.” I take it that the objections to treatment by correspondence have as little founda- tion in fact as the objections to the possibility of steamships crossing the Atlantic. “It reminds me of that story about the man who had been arrested for some offense. He sent for a lawyer, who, when he had heard the story, said: ‘Why, man alive, they can’t arrest you for that!’ “ ‘But,” done it.” “It does not seem any use to argue about the possibility of being treated successfully by correspondence with Dr. Pierce when there are thousands of people to stand up and say ‘We have been successfully treated, we have been entirely cured by Dr. Pierce and his staff of specialists.”” “Then,” said his wife, “it doesn’t fol- low that any and everybody could treat successfully by correspondence. It is a movement in advance of ordinary prac- tice, by those specially qualified who have given special study and special ef- fort to some branch of medicine. Is that your idea?” “‘Precisely, my dear,”” Mr. Lovegood answered, preparing to continue his reading. ‘“You have got the whole thing now. It isn’t because some one advertises to give medical advice by correspondence that you can necessar- ily assume the advice will be valuable or helpful. Anybody can make such an offer. It is wise to go behind the promises and the claims made and see if they bear investigation. In Dr. Pierce’s case the closer the examination of his claims and record the greater the confidence which he will inspire. Dr. R. V. Pierce is at the head of the In- vallds’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y., a medical and surgical institution, which in its scientific equip- ment, its laboratory, its staff of nearly a score of experienced physicians and surgeons and its variety of daily prac- tice, is on a footing with any medical and surgical institute in the country. And just here the infant heir of the house of Lovegood voiced a message to “a woman” who was in every way qualified to give him the desired atten- tion, which she promptly did. said the prisoner, ‘they’ve UNITED STATES BRANCH. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— Seotish Union and National INSURANEE COMPANY F_EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, ON THE y mber, A. 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