The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1899, Page 9

,u Tun to the Lower California ofl flelds w&njmuon with the steamer George | 8. | _The Mafl Company’s steamers San Blas and Costa Rica arrived from Central Mexican goru early yesterday morning. | The San Blas bad twenty-four cabin and iwenty-eight steerage passengers. The | Costa Rica cu-nud‘frd: t only. Preparations for the blowing up of Arch Rock will begin to-day. 4 contractor have purchased the tug Lottls, and early this morning the h{x.ni of the moorings for the berges will one. The barges 10 be used in the destruction of the rock are now in Eureka, and the tug Rescue hias been there for five days awaiting a chance to get out with tt er- rick is t will be WING AND WING CREW LIVED ON SEAGULL FLESH Tales of Woe From Overdue Ships. ——— ENTERPRISE NEARLY SINKS e gineer's and steward's departments on | the transport St. Paul before the vessel salled, and the impression went abroad | that Chief Ste: J. J. Fallon had been dismissed. This was not so, as Mr. Fallon 1 the ship of his own volition because not sail in company with the i OAD JETTISONED TO SAVE | Scond enpinect. Bvery mamber of the Steward's department aiso refused to sign THE VESSEL. articles for the same reason. A new crew E was procured, but every one of Mr. Fal. X s men remained at h t A mon gl ] & new en A Simonson Nearly Burned to | mears in their power to get the hang of Death ot B The whole matter will be {nvesti- East-Street Lodg- St Panl returns from | inz-House—Arch Rock Be Blown Up. —_— SECTION SIX MEN MAY | ery one of the o rdue fleet | 1 reaching ble battle KEEP THEIR PAPERS PROCEDURE ORDERED FROM WASHINGTON. Chinese Coming Hither for the First Time Are Placed on a Level With Returning Mer- chants. NEW oms Collector Jackson received yes- trom O. L. Spaulding, Assistant ary of the Treasury, a dispatch g as follows: 1 departure from this port perscns presenting same, | ay ret R e e e e ot 4 ! * ! : + ® . + P! PP DI DI G IOI0IUI 000000004040 00000000000000000000000000000000004 s . s 54 ’ ’ R4 rived 8 THE SHIP GEORGE CURIIS IN STAYS. 3 5 r HE was bound from Honolulu for Tacoma, but put into San Francisco $ = Thursday. Captain Calhoun tried to beat in, but when the tide began ¢ o ebb he had to accept the assistance of a tug. This {s the Curtis’ g first voyage under Welch & Co.'s flag. She was purchased by that firm from her Eastern owners a few months ago and was to have loaded lumber 1 : b on the Sound. WMQHMHWWW.‘ SALE AND TEA BY THE LADIES EXCURSIONS TO WASHINGTON. Instructive, Entertaining, Refined Comfortable and Not Expensive. ; } 8 t persona. conducted excur- sions take you Fast by South three times a week, leaving San Francisco N days, We and Fridays, Los Angeles Tuesdays, Thursdays and | Saturdays. W It you have not been through the | South in autumn you have a world yet | e colors, different | the East | ill Sell Real Value. Minute Workers of Tw day rooms of the treet. will be offered for scription whi of downtown stores. clety ing for the bazaar articles of import awkward feat Durt t of some fairs. ante will e music will be @iscoursed. also partake of the na the patronesses being: rme Garrett, T. Scott rip East remember excursion operatin tional capital. Ar- gton in the evening, harge !s made for remaining r night, and the next day or hay be profitably ased f the city, and | ed at convenlence ion bevond E formation write or call | . Pacific Coast Passen- nont Alr Line, 621 Mar- Francisco, or A. M. Bar. Wileox bullding, Los Angeles, or | pisrea any Agent Southern Pacific Company. | Bender. upon J. M. ger Agent Pied s Mauds Bourn the Misses Jonmes, Mrs. George W. F ST, LUKE'S Articles of A sale and tea under the auspices :' St be held this afternoon on Monday evening in ho new h at Van Ness avenue and Clay Suitable Christmas gifts of every de- le at prices will compare favorably with those The ladles of the Twenty Minute So- have shown rare judgment In se- real and merit, and they will aliminate ng which is at times an e afternoon and evening re- be served at the tables L Maynard, Mrs. D. A MISSING FRENNA CASE &= P, 000000000, arrived from » new oll barge Paula is CEREAL. INTELLECT y Coffee. schoolroom dren k rvous, sluggish nd abnor- | extreme rience with for 1 constant | ervousness | bandon coffee MESSENGER BOY WILLIE WALSH. ILLIE WALSH, the messenger boy who !s wanted as & witness In the Frenna murder case, arrived in this city from San Bernardino last night and 1s confined {n the Broadway jall. Waish is 17 years of age and claims to have seen the pistol in Frenna's hand before any shots were fired on the day of the murder. He left San Franclsco about September 2. An effort was made by the attorneys in the case to subpena him, but without success. He was located in the jail at San Bernardino a few days ago, where he was serving a term for vagrancy. Walsh was Interviewed last night by Detective Dillon. He says that he was coming downstalrs in the Mills bullding after having delivered a message on the ninth floor, when he met Frenna, with a pistol in his hand, on tl third floor. The messenger boy claims that he was so frightened at the sight of the weapon he rushed up the stairs agaln and did not stop until he reached T me;.!n:’-flo:e al4 not see Turner and saw no shot fired. The first report he heard sounded after he had started up the stalrs. Walsh lives at 544 Jersey street. He says he left home because he had been discharged by the telephone company for overcharging a patron. He was employed by & grocer in Woocland and later came to San Bernardino, steady with written by a school Barnard, of Oxford, atter to leave off the Cereal Food Cot- : § : : 3 2 ; : : s § WITNESS BROUGHT HERE d H place, particularly wh he was found by a constable under a barn and arrested as a va- t s given to its pror\e’r .—m:rz.‘ Walsh evidently heard some conversation between Frenna and Turner, hole secret of the | but seems very reticent about speaking before he is put upon the witness lowing the Food | stand. He clalms that he heard angry voices before he reached the third o ) nough to bring out landing. ste and food value. 2 All frst-class grocers sell Postum. @+ 0104040+ 0+0 70+ 0+0 104040 104040 +040 +010+ 01040 +0+@ | Kita dabut B 4 4 am Carson Shaw and the The doll booth-Mre. Sydney M. I boo Sydney M. Sm! - 0 by Miss Eveiyn Stocker, Mise Goreriots Carolin, Miss Heien Gibbs, Miss Mary Seott, Miss Bernice Drown, Miss Cora Smedberg, Miss ady booth—Mrs. Home: Miss Jos: g~ tes of King, Fillmors, Miss Christen: der, Miss Goey, Miss M- e od by E A Belcher, assisted by C s Jr., Mrs. Willlam schy e, 4 la Boyteaux, Mrs e My e, Grace Unger, Messick, Miss Church, Miss Lowell, Miss ‘Lyfr'.'.’, s Florence Stone, Miss Mary Miss Huntington B. Fleld. assisted Jobn Sniddieton, am R. Mrs, Irs. Edna Davis, Mt e e Iy Misses Kate and Hertin, Miss Norris, Draula Green, th—Mrs. Louts F. Monteagle, Henry T. Scott, Mra. Fred V.Ennln!hlm. Mrs. Stewart n, 3 i:aP'.vh?-' ¢ . Mrs. obs, fleld Baker, Mrs. Carroll Cambron, Susie Russell, MMiss lss De Santa Marina, Miss Horace HUI_aa- . re. Joh John B. Babcock, Mrs. Hore Mrs. Wilitam P. Thomas, M. rrow. Mrs. Van Wyck, Mrs. Edger Morgan, Miss Welr. Miss Waker Mivs, 0 Wyck ' Miss Soph rtha Smith, 1 Bender. Y Lemonade booth—Mrs. Ch: goed by Ma. W C Coborm; M H Gray, Mrs. Cluff, the Mi. G s Ju: iette Smith. Miss Eaton. - T Wise Ju- and literary committee—Mrs. WiII chairman: Wailace A. Sabin, b 5 sical director; assisting membags, M. borne Garrett, Mrs. Francis B. Edg- B Dousias Fov, Mra. James B i Ge booek, Mrs. Car- Kirby “3ies van ot Asnes Simpson. Miss Florence Davis, M, some. w5 YOUNG LADIES’ INSTITUTE. Reunion of the Branches of This City, Oakland and Alameda. Last evening there was a brilllant ae- semblage in Native Sons’ Hall, it being a reunion of the members of the several branches of the Young Ladles’ Institute of this city, Oakland and Alameda. There wera also present a large nuwmb of members of the Young Mep :g Ins‘l’xl:uxec‘.' The decorations were exceedingly pretty and were most favorably commented upon by all. At half-past 3 o'ciock there was formed a double grand march, led by Laurance Mahoney, one of the grand directors of the Y. M. L. and Miss Annie | M. Potthoff, chairman of the committee of arrangements, and John Comyns and Miss May Steln. The programme of { dances was well arranged and all in all the affair was a very pleasant one. The following were the committees: Arrangements—Annis M. Potthoft, Comyns, May Stein, Mary . Wynn, ,‘I:li..nf. | Coppage. Liliie Maniey, Mary Leahy, Josephine | oy, Nellle Winters, Nellle McGes, Mary | Gallagher. Mary Kyne, Mrs. Kaunitz. Recon. | tion—Alice J. Dwyer, Mrs shons. Balle | Boyle, Fanale Douglas, Mrs. Wiiliam Bowss Mrs. Devine, Mary McCarthy. Floor directsr—Thomas Moron oor cora- mittee—J. Hotter, Jere Looney, Robert Plun- kett, John Comyms, B4 Hayden, W vayvlll:": D. J. Moynihan. —_——— Unknown Man Drowned. SANTA CRUZ, Dec L—Yesterday afternoon an unknown man was drowned | up the coast, near Laguna Creek. He was heard r-nmni for help. but before aid | could come to him a wave struck the | boat, causing him to be thrown out. He | clung to the boat and flnally sank. Men | ed for the body. which @aid n. come ashore. The unknown man s sup- E some schooner or osed to have left oat. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Catarrh! Asthma can be permanently cured ' by the constant use of 'DUFFY'S PURE MALT WHISKEY as directed. Dallas, Tex., February snd. DurFy MarT WHisksY Co., Rochester, N. V. oot i Whiskes oo s e ekt B2 e s cang of say thems e ey e and the Formula. Yours N.;r}l-lly, Spring Valley, McPherson Co., Kan., u Dwrvls:'u Wiiskey Co, - Dear Sirs: | read Jost Asosal and L am asing Malt Whiskey for cararrs and asthma, Ehdp-m ‘Respectially yoars, AR E. Government stamp marks the gemsine. Drugpists i Rt DUFFY MALT WHISKEY C0., Rochester, N. Y. i | as- | 'ss Myra Palache, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1899, COURT-MARTIAL ~ CONVENED FOR SHIELDS' TRIAL Counsel Assigned the Accused Chaplain. LIEUT. ELTINGE WILL DEFEND FORTY-NINTH TO BREAK TUP THIS MORNING. —_—— Two Battalions of the Colored Men to Sail on the Warren and the Third Tuesday on the Sherman. —_— The trial of Chaplain Shields, charged with iIntemperance, opened before the | court-martial ordered for yesterday morn- ing, but 1t got lttle further than | the mere opening. Colonel Freeman, president of the court, had not returned from Los Angeles, so Major Harvey pre- _ | sided. It was found the accused had not | secured counsei, and the judge advocate, | adjourn until Monday morning, when the trial could proceed. In speaking for the indJoumment, Major Groesbeck suggested | that counsel be assigned to the accused, | and after some consultation the court 4i- | rected First Lieutenant Eltinge of the| Sixth Cavalry to take charge of the de- | | teusa. On Monday all the officers of the court | will be present and both sides of the case will be ready to go on. The charges and | specifications will be read to the accused { and he will plead to them. It {s not ex- pected that the trial will be a long one. The Forty-ninth Infantry will break u; this morning. Two battalions will marc! down to the transport dock and will em- | bark on the Warren, which will sall in| the afternocon. The third battallon will sall on the Sherman next Tuesday. The headquarters and band will also g0 on the Warren and the Sherman will partial- ly fill up her berth space with 14 recruits in addition to the four companies of the Forty-ninth. The regiment spent its last da in matters of discipline. One Private Hall, was on trfal for murder, he being accused of killing a comrade In a drunken row in a saloon in Jefferson Barracks just before the regiment started out for this coast. There were several minor cases also before the court. Captain Patrick of the Forty-fifth and Captain Wiggin of thé Forty-fourth will on the Sherman with the recruits. hey are officers wno were detained after nts salled to allow of thelr before a_board of inquiry. v were found capable of the duties of ir rank and so were ordered on to the There were others not so lucky, Lieutenant Castle and Lieuten- es of the Forty-fifth, Lieutenant Brown of the Forty-fourth and Captain Paul B. Lino of the Thtr!é‘-‘.—ighlh alled to secure the recommendation of the board, and so their military career will be cut short. They will not be allowed to rejoin their regiments. but will be mus- | tered out. The stockship Centennial will sail Tues- day in company with the Sherman. She will carry a full load of mules and thelr y ? its men, equipme Troop F of the Sixth Cavalry returned to the Presidio yesterday the winter's ap ut and they marched from the e. There were fifty-one troop in the guard, under command of Cap- n Wilcox. arted from the park November 18 and met all the hard weather there has been since then. Frequent stops had to be made to dig out wagons that had become mired in the soft roads. The men return .well and rugged, however, for though the work Is hard it is all out in the air, and it Is not the kind that does men harm. Lieutenant Harbeson of the Twelfth In- tnnx?' and Lieutenant Leopold Thun of the Forty-sixth Infantry will sall on the Sherman to join their regiments in the . Lieutenant Thun Is the Austrian Count who was commissioned an officer of the United States army out of courtesy to his Government, who wished him to represent it The band of the Forty-ninth Infant gave a farewell concert y ¥ terday after- serenade to Mrs. Ducat, wife of the lieu- tenant colonel of the Forty-ninth. Licutenant Frank C. Hurnett of the Thirty-ninth Infantry reported for duty at the Presidlo yesterday. He was as- signed to the recruits, ORDER PUZZLING TO OIL LAND LOCATORS WILL PROBABLY HASTEN THE BORING OF WELLS. | ! | Many ofl men in this city are much in- | terested. Some days ago mention was { made in a telegraphic dispatch that the Secretary of the Interior had made a rul- ing to the following effect: “In order to prove that the land is valuable as petro- leum producing land a well must be bored and surface Indications are not to count | as evidences of ofl in paying quantities.” | There are several hundred oil companies in this vicinity that have been incorpor- ated during the past year. Some of them have taken up Government land. Many others have secured land by patent; oth- ers by lease for a term of years, paying a royalty to the owner; others still are un- der the placer mining law. which was | ago. Several classes of these oil men have little if any interest in the decision | alluded to. But there are others who are | much concerned. Inquiries have been | made at the United States Land Oftice | in this city for a copy of the decision, but | none has arrived yet. On the face of the decision it seems to | say that the surface geological evidence of oll are not suffiiclent. When, then, it | is asked by the locators. must the well | alluded to be bored to get a title from the Government? No one here knows. In the ast few months there have been several | fnstances of claim-jumping in the new oil | district. Some speculators think that th present condition of uncertainty may in crease the "Jumpln{." Perhaps the first | man or company wh eration in the lands which have been taken up solely upon the surface indica- tions may be found eventually in posses- sion of the land, although others may | have been the first to file. This consid- eration, in the opinion of some parties in- terested in the oil situation, will hasten the development of the whole oil district. An outfit to bore 1000 feet. with the tubing necessary. costs about $7000 down in California. Under the mining law twenty acres can be fil by any citizen. Eight persons can file n 180 acres. and the advantage of this | plan has been that it was necessary to do only $10 worth of work per annum to uhlma(el*’ prove up on the land_and get | the title from the Government. The time | for completing the transaction extends | over a period of years. Coples of the decision of the Secref e men. There is an opinion generally enter- tained that Judge hase of the oil matter into consideration n rendering his decision next week on the Home Ofl Company case at Los An- geles. 4 —_——————— Will Elect Officers. The Iroquois Club met last night at its rooms in Pythian Castle and made nom- inations for the annual election which is to occur on Friday evening next. The wing were slated for office: Presi- William McMann; first vice presi- liam_Cannon; second vice presi- tees—Willlam X "“m A. Krim . L. Metzger, Charles Edelman. Joseph H. Gorman, J. E. Lem- mon. lfi'llsz"l"d A Bllgn'ln. Jere- miak Deasy, P. 3 pper, Ma- Powell, Dr. Thomas B'Pne B. P. W. g"l‘roryl i A Toomp- Hofone Bienont Major Groesbeck, asked that the court| together | noon which partook of the nature of a| amended to inciude otl lands some years | o gets a well in op- | laid | upon | of the Interior have been sent for by oil | Ross may take this | THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE HOME. Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. TAINING. anthropy and hotels are not doing away with individual hospitality. The old- fashioned Quaker quarterly meetings were abundant evidence of the past ge erous way of crowding, but now it often difficult for families with small even thirty years ago, when single b rooms were not deemed hyglenic necess! ties. We do not take to hospitality natur joyously, inevitably; we have to weigh iis pros and cons. We do not dare to invite our superiors lest we seem arrogant. so we get consclentious and ask those w. we do not want as a matter of duty when hospitality s thus branded when one is invited as to a philanthropt caravansary scant pleasure s felt by either visitor or visited. *Be sure you never put a guest room to rights till your guest has been gone many hours,” advised a well-worn bost- ess. ‘“Why 1 asked. ‘‘Because,” she replied, “T was so glad Mrs. — had gone that I was bustling about her room, changing the sheets, etc., when she re- appeared, saying she had missed her train. I suppose I must have shown my dismay, for she told mie she did not d sleeping in the same sheets one m night, as it would save washing, and t& she always took her own pillow wherever she went from a labor-saviug regard for her entertainer.” Not itors are as frank, far-seeing and con- sideiate—that is, If Mrs. — were really constderate. It is not merely the cost of a guest that has to be reckoned, but also the amount of time she consumes, since the modern woman does not sit down to talk and sew. Of course, there are many kinds of visitors. Those with a hobby know how to take care of themsel provided they do not lay every one éise under contribution to it. There Is tne shopping wisitor from the country, let her hunt for bargains by he There is the aged or lonely relative with ves and feelings and the general utlity vis- itor whose services one unconsclously ac- cepts, and the gay young girl with her trunk of bewildering vanities, who makas vo . happy just because she is, and the celebrity wisitor, whom the papers inter- view. Each one s to be entertained ac- cording to her kind, but on them all rests | the same sense of oblizgation, since it Is always an honor to be invited into any- body’s home life, no matter how stmpie the home A guest from tne moment of her arrival till that of her departure should know when to speak and when not to speak, when to 4o and when not to do, when to appear ard when to disappear. There arce, over, two oOr misdemeanors visitcrs of high breeding never commit—such as forming platonic friend- ships with one’s host or hostess when staving under their roof. receiving trom or making offers of marriage to memb-rs of the family. indulging In lengthy moon- light fiirtations on plazzas or parlor tete- a-tetes, zaping when one is bored or posing upoa or ignoring servarts and ¢ getting to compens: them for spec personal service, and lastly, the m! meanor of teing unpunctual. Little awk- wardnessas are to be avolded and ex- planations are always disastrous. Above all, the well-bred guest, after a visit s ended, never gossips about the amusing weaknesses of the family tn which sh has been either a welcomed or tolerated visitor. Of course, a hostess is responsible for the good times of her visitors and must not calculate on leaving them alone too severely, as each one likes to feel she is of some consequence. In olden days a visitor shared the family life, its joys economies and work. To-day her hos- tess may greet her on her arrival and not | see her agaln till § o'clock tea or late din- ner, and whether or not they may meet more than casually at the breakfast table depends upon the peripatetic ability of the hostess for clubs and committee work. It is much pleasanter to visit in and much easler to entertain in a large family where there are children, who transform the house into a variety show, than in a home where the hostess is by herself, for a family nursery or grown-up children make the delight of a visit. On a visitor in any kind of a home, medium or economical, always rests the invariable task of making her- selt agreeable, so perpetual a bondage that many persons prefer the independ- ence of a hotel to being on steady family dress parade. Just be natural, say the guldebooks anent visiting. All very well if that means being always charming and never aggressive, no matter how old and privileged nor how youthful and de- bonair one may be. Yet too often being natural means being rude and selfish. Said a polished hostess of a young girl: “She had so many resources within her- self and she was interested in so many things that she was a delightful visitor; she enlivened us when we were together, nd she was never a welght on our minds when she was alon And another lady remarked of her visitor: “He was so thoughtful of my comfort, so sunny in his greeting, that I knew I needed him all the time.” Personality and point of view enter In- to the mutual relationship of visitor and host. There is as little sense in setting households ajar by friction of unassimil- ating guests as there is In being so ex- clusive that no one invites anybody to stay over night. Some people take apart- ments just to condone their mental lack of hospitality. It Is often said that the West is more easily hospitable than the Fast. It is if emphasis be lald on the ad- verb in making such a statement. Still, throughout the country, if summer house parties and their like are expected, mod- ern conventional demands, public dutles and troubles with domestics have less- ened that ready, easy hospitality which did not mind letting its affairs be known. When summer comes, fortunately, we relax our housekeeping rigidity and con- sent to flll our cottages with guests and to drive three In a buggy. One very noticeable change In the meth- ods of hospitality Is the extent to which Sunday has become a gala day. Unex- pected guests are expected to constantly happen in to lunch or dinner; girls are at home in the afternoon to yJung .nen cail- ers; musicales are in order In the even- ings. gml. all this is different from th: dear bygone way of making visits, when one became part of the family and shared | its joys and sorrows. Such famillari:; | has gone out with hand-sewing and let- ter-writing, and we now entertain instead of having visitors. In entertaining, the first encounter with dificulty lles In making out “the list.” That conquered, the menu steps Into its prescribed place with the mode of enter- tainment. but “the list”? The people to whom one owes a return invitation; the people whom It pays socially to invit the people whom one must invite, int mate friends, relatives, ate.; those whom no one wants but who will feel slighted 1t not asked. Only a huge reception can | ym But d | e t e I sometimes wonder if organized phil- | comes to be as hospitable as people were | HOME SCIENCE AND HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. Contributors to this course: Mrs. Helen Campbell, Mrs. M KEate Gannett Wells, Mrs. Louise E. Hogan, Mise Anna Barrows, Mrs Smith, Miss Emily G. Balch, Miss Lucy Wheelock and others. | VIL. VISITING AND ENTER-|include them all. and aret E. Sangster. Mre. Mary Roberts ¢ all com d then | gregariousness of the a | The reception In the t afternoon t cheapest way edly popular, but it | personal compl invited to it, t there is legitimate ca grievance. Fiven If a hostess coul of carrying out & progressive s of offense Is often taken a t having been summoned at the same time when some one else was bidden, and so has recourse to naming several days same card, trusting to the law of S (0 distribute her friends imper- erage sonally. Oh, the folly of it all! When & matter of personal independe: can be sheathed in grace. Why to invite at different times those whom Oone wishes, and then mak ne teel she is especially desired? F y this Is done at dinner pa a , the dinner party be st rigorous in ry in form ® the most disturbing of so- forces to the average American sehold. But of all soctal absurdities the netior. that the essence of honor to a guest lies in the expense of a dinner s the most unflattering .o the dignity of human pature. It fs the people whom one meets, not the menu, nefther the flow- €rs nor the service th of a dinner. So back we are driven to “the list.” Just because most persons do not know how to be brilliant in general convi tion are most dinner parties stupid, while a dinner of tete-a-tetes is abominably bad manners. A ho d always plan to seat her guests so that there w tWO Or three starters of geners makes the charm macd attention. Quench him between two gossips. Do not avold earnestness, n serfousness, but know e it by anecdote, gracefu %es of conversational : ch guest must feel a personal responsibility for the good times of others, not so rauch by shining herself as by drawing out others. The secret of success in ent In this power over others. A certain Bos- ton husband and wife were much sought for at dinners because where they were aldb went delightfully: only a few knew the coup) Lerately planned at- k and resistance In talk, for of course married people are always pi alning lles T placed at posite ends of a table. The fashion dim parties for “buds” is amus 2 " 8. since “buds” and college lads do not know how to talk. Early middle age, say 2. g 800N enough to begin as & dinner de. butante. s raw oysters, d follow each oth fl Ity soup, fish, ete. er with gastron- s again amustn - te and in- formal or big and formal the one indls- pensable requisite Is tha - e pemionss t of well-selacted Leisure is another Ingredient in enter- tainment which not even rich people pos- sess If they are philanthrople. It takes up time to have a succession of small tos- tivities, whether balls, dinners, lunc 3 or teas. and yet to acquire fame as sn entertainer one must be constantly at it on a limited scale, as far as number ot guests Is concerned. Disagreeable as ts the cant phrase “small and select” it ex- presses just what Is necessary for ele- gance and intellectual pleasure. The habit of mere lionizing s noxious to both * the hero and his clientele. Emerson avolded being a lion, whereas Dr. Holmnes took it kindly ard facettously. Lowell ra. garded such servility as a passing show, and Whittler regatived ft indefinitely. Why must one always be invited to me: t somebody? Why tannot we go into so- clety to meet ourselves, just as we do at clubs. church sociables and young peo- ple’s associations, where we are always sure of having a good time as equals? If, however, we are bent on lonizing then we must remember that shaking hands with an unknown crowd es not convey the same sense of adulation to the distinguished guest as when a greater person than one's self is humbly pre- sented, A third requisite In skillful entertaining | lies In this very matter of introductions. Not merely to pronounce the name, but to give some clew as to who is who: to h linger an appreciable second, that as hostess one may be sure that the two bave not at once run aground o silence; to know by Intuition just when to break Into the talk of two person let no one feel lonely: to make each realize he is conferring a upon somebody else—this diplom the sympathetic tact of entertaining it comes that it is a fallacy to suppose brilllanc rather than sympathy and frace more important to a hostess. ortunate is she if she possesses all three charms, but If only one, may it be that of the sympathy which puts other peoplc at their happy ease. Boston, Mass. ey COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Autumn-Winter Term, 1869-1900. MONDAYS and THURSDAYS: Popular Studies in Shakespeare. TUESDAYS: The World’'s Great Artists. WEDNESDAYS: Desk Studies for Girls and Shop and Trade Studies for Boys. FRIDAYS: Great American States- men. SATURDAYS: Home Science and Hcusehold Economy. s These courses will continue until February 15, 1900. Examinations will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of | certificates. |ALARMING SPREAD OF DIPHTHERIA IN SAN JOSE SAN JOSH, Dec. 1.—The southern end of the city Iz threatened with a diph- | theria epidemic. Half a dozen new cascs | have developed within the past week and in the past fifteen days about twenty cases have been reported, the majcrity of them Leing of a mild type. Two death: occurred since Monday. a lat§ A avenue and the child of E. . Davis on Second street, near Keyes. | Three cases were reported yesterday om ! Lick avenue and there are several in the | same neighborhood on the suspected list. | _The Board of Hnlt: hdlll taken :I 5." | cautions to ent the diseuse sprea. jand Cit; th;l'l:hn Hall has rantine | all the houses where there are any symo- toms. | The lack of drainage of the dis- trict Infected f.“’&'e' cause of diphtheria. The sanitary conditions are poor. Thcre being no sewer system the houses are ail connected with cesspoois.