Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-11
A TEMPERANCE lDYL.
Tho Story of Certain Tent and of Number
Of Business Cards-Persons who Have No
Appreciation Of the God-like in Facial
characteristics.

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Appreciation OF the God-like in Facial
characteristics.
The whole story of the Jubilee
has not been told. The Jubilee as
Jubilee-as an outpouring of the
temperance element of Los ADge-
les, and of those who, while not
total abstainers, sympathize with
the poetic and moral idea of re.
straint of all carnal appetites-has
been an emphatic success. Yet
there were drawbacks which, had
it not been for the enthusiasm of
our musical virtuosi and the SYM
pathy Of the sinful public, would
have made the whole thing a
failure. First comes the tent. 1t
cost 5000 to get the tent here. After
the 5000 had been disbursed came
the pious Reverend Brother Allen,
who eXacted 800 additional as a
sort Of pious Peters pence for the
use Of the same. Nor was that all.
The plous Reverend Brother Allen,
after the tent was erected, desired
to have his picture. as sort of
frontispiece, erected in a kind of
evergreen aureola, 80 that it would
dominate the singers and the au-
dience. Amongst the former was
an artist skilled in physiognomy.
This artistic gentleman had the
bad taste to assume that the face
of Reverend Brother Allen was
not such an one as, from the staud-
point of the esthetic, artists would
like to sing under. He announced
that If that face were appraised over
the dais on which the
singers stood, he would have
nothing to do with the
Jubilee. That is to say, he could
not find it. in his heart to sing Ju-
bilate. Strange to say there were
other singers and makers Of sweet
sounds on the violin, the flute, the
picolo, the piano and divers in
struments, who took the same
view. If this pious and reverend
face ornamented the stand they
would retire. AS consequence of
this rebellion Of choralists and in
strumentalists the portrait of the
pious Reverend Brother Allen,
done in oil, was retired. We
chronicle the event with the regre ct
that naturally religious man ex-
periences on such an occasion.
When 1t came to the last day of
the Jubilee-the third performance
the pious and Reverend Brother
Allen was observed in the canvass
amphiteatre, tacking up cards of
hotels and other business ventures
of San Francisco, for the doing of
which the profane assumed that
he received consideration similar
to the silver shekels which Abra-
ham paid out for the field of Mac
pelah, in the old, old days. Again
the artistic impulses of the choris-
ters and instrumentalists were
shocked, and they announced that
unless these cards were taken down
they would not sing. They were
taken down, and this again doubt.
less grieved the heart of the pious
and Reverend Brother Allen.
Alas and alack day!
The trump card of the pious and
Reverend Brother, however, came
on that eventful Friday night. He
arose in his place and announced
that there would be union "shin.
dig" in that tent on Sunday aud
that he, Brother Allen, with such
feminine assistance as he could
gather, would be the grand high
muck-a-muck and dispenser of
duly retrenched and temperate
"soft sawder." Then came all the |
Reverend clergy of Los Angeles,
who announced, with an unani-
nifty and resonance that was fairly |
deafening, that the pious and Rev
erend Brother ALIENS announce
ment was q "pious fraud" in no |
way authorized by them.
But the plous and Reverend
Brother has kept the tune up TO a
lively gait, especially just before
collection time. At this stage he
generally introduces his dying wife
with pathetic effects indescrib bable.
Pathos and the pocket of the
average sinner are generally very
closely connected. One tear
squeezed from the reluctant eyelid |
OF the full grown man or gushing
woman is generally equivalent to q
ducat or o dime, according to the |
wealth of the donor. When the pi-
GUS and Reverend Brother Allen |
gets his wife's hand wound up in
his hair, and announces that he
has pawned that dying w1fe's
jewels to buy that tent, the sympa.
thizing public are expected to dis
till coin Of the realm into the coll
lection box.
This last reminds us of story.
There was once upon time pious
Roman Catholic priest in st. Louis.
He was practical sort of sacerdotal
gentleman. Having made very
affecting sermon on charity, he
noted with appreciation the effect
of his oratOrical efforts upon his
flock until he came to see the sum
total in the hands of the collectors.
He then arose with great indigna-
tion and hurled this remark into
the bosom of his congregations: "If
your charity was equal to your
piety, there would be more money
In the box"
We are afraid the pious and Rev.
erend Brother Allen is encounters
ing that same identical experience
in Los Angeles. There are some
fearfully secular people who are
inclined to think that instead of
pawning his dead wife's jewels to
buy that tent, he ought to have
pawned those with which his own
person is SO literally, not to say
sanctimeniously, dedizzened.
We are indebted to Mr.. William
Lacy, of the Com mercial Bank, for