Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08
ENGAGE TIE ATTENTION OF OUR SAN
FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENT.
Churches "reminiscences = Reflections =
The Fall Of Some Women
An Apron.
SAY FRANcIsco. January 5, 1881.

continuance OF WINE upon the reiresnme nt
table. 1t should be noted, however, that
women behind the pulpit were the real
movers in the matter In going about
just now from church to church one can
not but note the tone OF
HUMILITY AND sELF-ABAsEMENT,
Which sounds in every sermon. 1t is as
though an awakening had come among the
pulpits, and if so, the pews viii not be far
behind. The logic of religion is touched
upon Just now on week days, and comes up
as d frequent subject of conversation,
whether due to the presence OF the evangel-
lists among us or no, cannot be definitely
stated. A great many speak with some
thing bordering on anxiety OF the revised
Bible soon to make q stir among US. One
OF the ministers the 3ther evening read the
little story of the pool of Bethesda, and
then looking calmly down upon his congre-
CATION, he said, MY friends. this never
happened. 1t is an interpolatiOn-origin-
ally a marginal note by scribe upon the
manuscript, which by mistake was
adopted INTO the Scripture" Fancy how
every man, brought up in full faith IN the
pool OF Bethesda, looked with consterna-
ton at his neighbor, also brought up IN
the belief. Said one earnest church men,
Der, Well, it Just knocked the spots
out Of me p Next Sabbath IS communion
morning at the First Congregational
Church, and it admits something less than
dozen, among whom is Mrs. B. B. Red
ding, by letter from the sister church at
Sacramento. The Rev. DR.. Stone, some two
weeks since, sent in his resignation to
this church society, and it was formally
read to the congregation by Samuel Chapln,
one of the deacons In the written ac-
ceptance was eourteously engrafted what
might be called tender of the freedom
of the church's pulpit on all occasions, out
OF compliment to the pastor, who was
worn OFT in harness. - One by one the
sands are flowing :" 1t must come the
turn of each OF us to resign our duty IN
lie, aud what hard struggle IT will be TO
lay by the oars we, perhaps, not one OF us
can realize till the future becomes the
present jest now these seem very busy
times to every one. A hustle and ANNA
ton is borne upon the very air; schemes
begin to show their "lay, and plans to
point to direction. Mach pleasant converse
IS awakened here by the nomination IN
caucus OF
GENERAL MILLER,
And his fitness and deserving is generally
conceded. His daughter, Miss Dora, is
one of the most charming young ladies we
have in San Francisco, Boosting no great
attraction of feature, but possessing .
gentle and kindly beauty of speech and
manner which gained for her the center of
the circle wherever she is placed. A wave
of sorrow swept over the threshold OF Gen
eral Miller several years ago when his little
son died-a remarkable child, physically
and mentally, who was stricken down with
diphtheria. His death was an affection
from which there is no rebound. The little
fellow is never for zotten for day, and no
matter what em0iupient the future may
bestow, be sure there will still remain the
unassuagable grief of the father for his
child. Reference to those who will event
ually be Washington people brings with it
thought of that one woman, isolated
now in every thought, whose career in the
most distinguished society the national
capital has had to offer has been so brill
liant. In the early years, when | took an
interest in people | did not know, l was
impressed by the abrupt briskness of a
name around which lowered an atmos
phere of ambition to shine. l took the
woman who bore it for my heroine out OF
romance, for she seemed to me to live
among the grandeurs of thrones, with
knights and princes on either hand.
remember her marriage and l thought it
was indeed
BLOOD ROYAL
United unto blood royal. Step by step,
through all these years, have kept her
record in devout admiration, and now that
she is brought low my heart goes out to
her; for if she was but woman at food
tide of success, she is yet woman at its
ebb. Whatever may be the right of is, or
the wrong OF it, that do not know but
if Kate Chase-oh, name once fair and I'M
furnished has sinned, what must be her
humiliation to know that sin is sprcad to
the nation ike feast, down to which sit
the lovers OF scandal, the women who have
envied her. the men who world have
reached out a hand to her had they dared
all GDp ESODiC VIII iidNt tGGl ioC W titl
because OF her rare endowmeuts, her posi-
ton and her prominence. / have lady
friend, who at fifteen or sixteen years OF
age went to school at Columbus, Ohio, with
Kate Chase, who was, perhaps, OF the same
age. Kate, being a Gay scholar at the
seminary, had her birthday party as home,
and was gracious enough to inyre this and
another schoolmate to it. In q freak Of
generosity, when the two came to leave,
she cut the frosting off one OF the finely
decorated cakes on the table, and they car
RED it away to serve as an after feast.
Even then, at this immature and sweet
sixteenish age, Kate Chase was marked by
the partial development of those qualities
which later caused her to be SO cons p;cu-
Gus. She seemed to have charm which
drew all men TO her side, aud, girl as she
was, she was the recipient OF attentions
which Older women are gratihed to call
forth. My memories of the People | saw
! in Washington are exceedingly blurred.
| The faces of men / desired to remember
seem all run together, for | was continually
told, Here is this or that one, and the
result is, to my great lamentstion, | re-
member none of them thoroughly. | dc
| know, though, that | was in room one
day with a gay Brussels carpet on the floor,
and think it was in the Capitol building.
AN ELDERLY MAN
Entered by and by, who stopped at the
shoulders and shook and trembled as
elderly people sometimes do, and he wore
a silk hat and on his chin beard. Who
do you guess it was? Senator Christiancy,
I said, g How could that pretty young
girl have married such an old man ?" The
reply was, "How could he have been &c
fooled as to marry her." exclaimed III
answer, "Why, but she's pretty-all the
papers said so-and young, and-and al
that" "She is young, but she balances
her youth against his position, and the
newspapers prevaricated when they called
her pretty. She was dazzled with the
idea Of being Senator's wife, and the old
man, fond and foolish, fancies she loves
him." | think it was this conversation
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