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The morning call., 1891-12-20
JEWELS IN POMPEII.
Beautiful Maidens Whose Decoration
Girls of Our Day MIGHT Envy

Beautiful Maidens Whose Decorations
Girls of Our Day Might Envy.
The handiwork of the jewelers. of Pom
peii was celebrated for its artistic finish and
elaborate design, says the Jewellers Weekly.
This is shown by the many specimens re-
covered from the ruins of the ancient citv.
and the fact that at this day some of the
most effective combinations and arrange
ments of jewelry for feminine adornment
are modelled on essentially similar designs.
The frontispiece of this issue of the
weekly, engraved from painting by Hera
Coomans, represents a maiden of Pompeii
whose ornaments aptly illustrate the fash
ions of the time and the profusion with
which jewelry was worn. In the head
dress, necklace and its pendant, earrings.
bracelet and anklet of this tall and graceful
daughter of Pompeii it may be seen that the
Pompeiian jeweler Of centuries ago was
called upon to supply no inconsiderable
share of the personal ornaments of the peo-
pie.
No finger-rings are worn, as such Jewels
are limited by custom to matrons and
to maidens who were betrothed. 1t is also
noticeable that but single bracelet is
worn, and that Is worn on the right wrist
This and single anklet on the right ankle
further indicate that the subject of the
picture was an unplighted maiden.
The necklace and earrings, the same
style, are formed entirely of uncut gems,
thicky strung together with due regard to
symmetry and color. The head-piece is
formed of thin band of gold sparingly
ornamented. In the bracelet and anklet,
which were regarded as the more important
jewels, were to be found more elaborate
specimens of workmanship. These Jewels
were OF heavy gold. rarely set with precious
stones and generally, as in the picture,
chased or engraved Religious symbolism
had much to do with the designs thus
wrought and a system in which nature
worship was personified furnished a rich
variety of forms.
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DID NOT LIKE THAT TEST.
How an 0DtCial UnWittingly InSulted His
Customer.

An old man. dressed poorly but Clearly,
entered the store of an optican on Forty
second street the other day, according to the
New York Tribune, and stared about in
vacant way at the boxes OF spectacles, the
opera-glasses and the magnifying lenses.
He was particularly well fitted for taking in
a good deal at one glance, for one eye had
an outward cast to it that swept the horizon
due east, while the other was looking due
north.
what can do for you?" asked the op-
tican
my eyes are acting contrary" was the
reply, as the customer fixed the shop-keeper
with one optic and with the other followed
a nurse-mad who was wheeling a baby past
the window.
81 should think they WERE" said the OPP
tician. You want pair Of glasses. l
Eyes. do, if you can give me pair that
will make both my eyes see the same thing
at once"
81 could give you such pair" was the
answer, but | don't think they would help
you any, on tue whole. The lenses would
have to be OF such a nature rs to draw the
focus of your straight eye half way around
to that Of your crooked one, which in turn
would be forced over TO meet the former.
This would so strain your eyes that you
Noulu not see any DetIeT ludL you w uuN
with the straight one alone"
'Well, if you can't fit me-" said the Wis
itor. "Pll 90 10 some one who knows more"
This rritated the optcian little. and,
seeing that he had a cranky customer on
hand. he quickly set mp his card with letters
and figures of various sizes on it and asked
the man if he could read the top line.
Yes, | see it," said the customer.
Read it out loud, please" said the opti-
clan.
II tell you / see 1t all right"
Perhaps you only think you do. Read i t
aloud, please"
do you think 1 don't know what 1
know?"
II want you to read it aloud"
Il wont do it,
Then 1 can't fit your eyes"
Then I'll 60 somewhere else (rsing);
didn't come here to be insulted."
My dear sir, didn't insult YOU
You did, sir"
How ?"
lyon tried to make fool of NE"
Howe"
by askin' me again and again to read that
sign"
II don't understand"
II can't read, you IDIOT" and the victim
flung himself cut of the shop while the 3D.
tlcian collapsed.
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mentary medicine and nursery, and affords
an opportunity of learning methods of
work and to familiarize the student with
various forms of missionary work. The
school also gives practical training in mis-
sionary work by house to house visiting to
sionary work. Applicants for the train
ing school are received on one months
trial. Candidates must be twensv-One
years OF age and in good health, to
prove which medical certificate must be
furnished-they must have the rudimcnts
of common school education, must be
members of an evangelical church, and be
duly recommended. Each student has to
give at least one hour day to the general
bousework. No uniform is worn by those
in the training school. Those wishing to
become DeacOnesses at the end of the school
year are supported by the home the second
year If they so desire. The practical work
consists In house to house visiting two
afternoons of the week. The students work
under the supervision of pastors, but are
assigned their fields by the Committee on
Fields of Labor. The students are expected
to teach in Sunday-school on Sunday The
course OF study comprises history OF the
English Bible, epOchs in Bible history,
church history, Christian evidences, cate
chism, discipline, the life Of Christ, practi-
cal lectures Tor religious workers, mission
fields, Sunday school lessons, general
medicine, hygiene, surgical emergencies,
the eye, the teeth. diseases of children,
emergency obstetrics, nursing, the nervous
system. elocution, physical culture, kinder
Rarten. temperance and organization of
in the New York Training School are
ladies, There is some distinction made
between nurse Deaconesses and visiting
Deac0nesses None are admitted TO the
home over 40 years of age except by the
unanimous consent OF the Board of Direc-
ton. The Deaconess uniform, which is
sufficient for protection and recognition in
the work and which is in conformity with
that adopted by all Deaconess homes, Is
worn by the probationers the second year,
but is not worn during the first year except
by special permission. No salaries are paid,
The morning call., 1891-12-20

Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward,
X. e., Duke of Clarence and Avondale, is
the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, and
is therefore in the line of direct succession
to the throne. He was born on January s,
1864 He Is soldier, and holds commits
sion as Major in the Sixteenth Hussars. No
definite date has yet been fixed for the we'd
ding. but it is the general belief that it will
take place shortly.
The Duke of Clarence is the eldest son of
the Prince of Wales, and if his father were
dead would stand next to Queen Victoria in
line of succession to the throne of Great
Britain and Ireland and the Empire of
India. At present, however. he is merely
Duke Of Clarence and AvOndale, and Earl
of Athl0ne. and third Major of the famous
Tenth Hussar Regiment, of which his father
is Colonel.
He was born at Frogmore on January s,
1864, and therefore is nearly 2S years old.
In 1877 he entered the navy as midshp-
man and passed TWO years on board the
Britannia. Captain Henry Fairfax. In 1879,
with his brother, Prince George, he went to
the West Indies on the Bacchante; and in
1SS0-S2, still on the Bacchante. the two
Princes travelled around the world to South
America, Australia and the Cape OF Good
Hope.
In October, 1888, Prince Albert Victor
went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and
studied there until the summer, when lie
went to Heidelberg; in 1884 he went to
Aldershot to study =" military scienc CO." and
in 1885 was made Lieutenant in the Tenth
Hussars; III 1888 he became Captain, and in
1889 became Major; in 1890 he was raised to
the peerage by the titles of Duke of Clar-
ence and Avondale and Earl of Athlone; in
1888 he had been invested" with the Order
of the Garter.
He is supported, except for his regimental
pay, which amounts to Is shillngS day, by
his father, whose allowance of 100000 was
raised to e76,000 in 1889 to enable him to
provide for his children.
The Duke is great-great-grandson of
George Ill His fiancee is his second cousin,
once removed, and is great granddaughter
of George III, being. therefore, in the gen.
Grafton ahead of him. She is the daughter
of Princess Mary of Cambridge, Younger
sister of the Duke of Cambridge, and Frau
els, Prince and Duke of Teck, the only son
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OPPORTUNE HELP
FROM FAIR HANDS.
The New Order Of the Methodist EpiS-
C0pal Church.
New York Deaconess Home and Training
School-0rigin Of the Organization.
Rules for Admission.
Copyright, 1891, by James w. johnson.

In pleasant part of West Fourteenth
street. New York, stands handsome
brownstone four-story house. This build
ing is the New York Deaconess Home and
Training School of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The Deaconess Home has but
fifteen inmates and the nature of the work
does not permit the establishment to ac-
c0mmodate many more. | had very
pleasant interview with Miss Isabelle A.
Reeves, the Superintendent, who gave me
most interesting account of the origin and
development of this new order of Deaconess.
Miss Reeves is the possessor of the quallty
known as magnetism. She has kindly. be-
nevolent eyes, and gentle manner. She
was dressed in black. the uniform OF the
deacOnesses. Her voice is low and sympa-
thetic. A passage from Luke gives the
keynote to the work Of the deaconesses.
go out quickly into the streets and lanes
of the city and bring in hther the poor and
manned, and blind and lame. Go out into
highways and hedges and constrain them
to come in, that my house may be filed"
Miss Reeves said that the first OF the Dea-
coness homes was in Chicago and the move
ment for their establishment throughout
the country originated in that city in June.
1887. In the spring of 1888, at preachers
meeting at Chicago, memorial was sent to
The morning call., 1891-12-20
AT THE BUTTS.
Final Shoot of the California Ciub-The
Shape of Rifle Barrels.

Final Shoot of the California Club-The
Shape of Rifle Barrels.
The Knights of the Red Branch will have
a medal shoot at Shell Mound to-day.
The cadets of the California Club will
shoot for medals Today at Schuetzen Park.
The German Fusileers will have their
medal shoot for the month at Shell Mound
to-day.
The Grutli Rifle Club will hold Christ
mas turkey shoot at It's range at SchuetZen
Park to-day.
its monthly medal competition at ScEuetZen
Park to-day.
Company of the Third Infantry Regi-
ment will be at Shell Mound to-day for its
monthly medal shoot.
The Marin County Branch of the Califor-
MIA Schuetzen Club will hold its first ciassi-
fication shooting to-day at the Park Rluge.
The association now numbers over twenty
members.
The champion medal offered by Philo
JacOby to the Sacramento Rife Club has
been won by Jacob Gruhler, who made in
his seven selected strings of 20 shots during
the year 2S07 rings, an average Of 401 rings
per string, or 20 1-20 per shot.
The Massachusetts r lle Association has
lately barred the telescope sight on rifles at
all matches for prizes under the auspices of
that organization. The rife associations oil
this State have barred this sight for years,
and 1t is only on very rare occasions that a
telescope sight is seen on the ranges. The
sight is much used in the Eastern States on
small-bore rifles in killing small game, and
is said to give great satisfaction and ac-
curacy in firing.
The California Schuetzen Club will hold
its final medal shoot for the year at its park
to-day. Every member of the club who has
attended seven medal shoots during the year
and has not won medal will be entitled to
compete on this occasion. The member
making the highest score in his class will
receive a medal. A great effort will be
made to beat the high score of George
Helm, AL points, for the championship,
given for the highest medal score Of the
year.
1t has been asserted by some that an
octag0n barrel does not shoot as well as
round one, and the reason given is uneven
expansion. Another claims that one is not
as apt to do good work with round barrel
because he is liable to roll it" uncon-
scously where, with an octagon, the flat
top serves as a guide to keep the barrel
level. One rifeman may desire and be
willing to pay good price for an arm if it
is only round. octag0n or half octagon,
light, heavy. or of a certain taper, but should
the barrel be of different shape, he does
not want it at any price.
The morning call., 1891-12-20
YACHTING.
Herreshoff's New 46- Footer Will Be a |
Speedy Craft.

Herreshon's New 46- Footer Will Be a
Speedy Craft.
A letter from Boston, Mass, says that
the mystery surrounding the ownership of
the new 46- footer being built by the HERE
SHOTS has been solved at last. The New
York gentleman who placed the order with
the firm is Archibald Rogers. an enthusiastic
and wealthy yachtsman ana a Corinthian
skipper of no mean ability. She will be
sailed by Captain Charles Barr whose sue
cess with the Minerva and Oweene has
been so marked. The letter continues:
Mi. Rogers says that lie proposes to race the
boat Tor all she Is worth, and that If she doesn't
beat Gloriana both lie and the builders will be
very much disappointed AS was promised BY
the look Of the boat she was IN frame by
the writer, she is a larger GlOriana. with longer
and inner ends, aud probably greater proper
lion Of ballast 10 displacement than last years
champion. Her construction is lient, but very
strong and in smo0Ihuess OF outside flush she
VIII be lar ahead OF any boat pllDked IN the
ordinary way.
Her double planking is put on In such way as
to do away with the necessity OF calking the
seams, aud a perfectly smooth surface Is thus
assured. When the boat Is afiOat II will take a
wonderfully keen eye 10 detect The points where
10 she differs from the Gloriana. With both
boats hauled out the differences In kerls aud the
way The lead is hung would be al once apparent
She should be ready To sail early In the spring.
and Will have big advantage In getting into
shape over Doas buit later.
The Heireshors also have the thrty-hye- footer
for Commodore Morgan well under way. aud she
VIII be racing machine of the Dilemma type
with STEEL fin aud big lump Of lead at tue
bottom OF 1t. She VIII have long Overhangs, aud
Will be queer-looking craft. 1t locks now as II
Mine0la, Oweene and Ilderim would nos be- in
the racing next year. II would be almost use
less for them 10 compete against the new forty
slA-footer. This being so, Tie Interest from
present DEVELOPMENTS will be be ween TWO
Herreshof forty six.footers. Volunteer and
GaTdn-r, niuety-foOlers, viii race. and If the
nluety-footer can carry her big sail spread, she
ought 10 be as good as Volunteer.
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the first time they had been out since the
new baby came to stay with them. They
had left her with friend, who kindly con-
sented to stay with the nurse and see that
no mishap befell her royal highness. Be-
tween the acts the father would 90 TO the
telephone and ring up the house, aud each
time he came back with the pleasant news
that baby was all right and hadn't even
missed them. This little incident will servs
to show that it isn't always certain when a
man goes out between tho acts that he is
searching for something that is stronger
than cloves; he NAV be going out to tele-
phone the bsby.-Utica. Observer.
The morning call., 1891-12-20
COUK SING.
Windup of the Golden West Clubs Meet
Ing,


Ing.
The Golden West Coursing Club will fin
ish its old dog and puppy stakes to-day at
Ocean View, after which drawing will
take place for the Consolation stake, which
will be the final event of tile days racing.
The drawing for the open meeting on the
9th inst. will take place on the Gath inst.
The members of the Golden West Club re-
port that the iIares in the park are running
very good and That some of the races are as
long as those which have been witnessed at
MERGED.
The great Waterloo meeting was begun on
Thursday. The Cup stake was for sixty
four subscribers at Cos each, the winner to
receive $500, second COCO, third and fourth
ESQ each, four dogs 430 each, eight dogs G20
each and sixteen dogs 9l0 each. The Water
loo purse Tor thrty-twO dogs beaten in the
first round Of the Cup stake, 975 to first, ESQ
to second, Els each to third and fourth, eiO
each to four dogs and 60 each to eight dogs.
The Waterloo plate, for sixteen dogs besten
in the first lies of the cup, winner to re, Give
ahd four dogs 95 each Total for the three
stakes, elG00. If coursing in this country
could be made equal to this in the way Of
interest aud money prizes there would be
something OF value in raising fast dogs.
special meeting OF the National Grey
hound Club was held on November 30th.
Papers in protest from Mr.. Bartel in the
matter of the Pearl of Pekin-C hicopee Lass
case were ordered 10 be returned to Mr..
Bartel, rs the Executive Committee of the
American Coursing Club has not rendered a
decision in the case; also that the National
Greyhound Club has no jurisdiction in the
The morning call., 1891-12-20
A PLUCKY WOMAN.
She Makes a Home for Herself and Son
in Nnrtl,

She Makes Home for Herself and Son
in the Northwest Wilds.
Four years ago, says the Portland Tele-
gram, a widow named Mary E. Dye, with
one son Is years old, settled on the south
fork of the Nooksack. and twig had never
been cut by a white man within five miles
of her ranch. Her household goods were
brought to her from Nooksaek Crossing in
an Indian canoe. She got shanty up and
went to work. For six months she saw
only one woman, and that was squaw.
She has now several acres cleared, garden
which is the pride of South Fork, fruit trees
started, and this year, with only her son to
help her, she has made 157 rods of good
wagon road, chopping down trees,
hauling them away and grabbing. She
yields an Ak in o very certain and reliable
way. She has pigs, cows and chickens. and
her dinners are celebrated all along the
river Last fall she gave Thanksgiving
dinner to the Government surveyors, which
pleased them nightly, and all that she set
before them that WAS not produced on the
ranch were coffee, sugar, pepper and salt.
Boulder Creek emplies into the Nooksack
at her place, and at any time of the year,
save July and August, in ten minutes time
she will have a salmon or trout ready for
the pan. Salmon weighing twenty pounds
have been caught in the creek. Trout can
be caught from the big salmon variety to
the little brook species.
The morning call., 1891-12-20

the work of the Deaconesses being on the
basis of self-sacrifce. Candidates prepar-
Ing for work among foreign-s speaking people
at home or abroad have to make preparation
In the language of those among whom they
Conference Board of DeaconeSses when
satisfactory written examination has been
passed in the subjects of study.
Miss Reeves. the official Superintendent
OF the New York home, came from Chicago
to assume the direction of the work here.
She was one of the first women licensed
by the Methodist Episcopal Church to the
ofhce and work of a Deaconess. Need has
existed for such an order in the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and the result of
the Institution of Deaconesses has been
door to door to do good to members of any
denomination. The work is looked upon
as kind of divine service. AS the yearly
report says, 'To say that they have made
The morning call., 1891-12-20
LITTLE MARGUERITE.

Little Marguerite sweet and fair.
Why that sigh? Have you a care?
Your toys about you bright and gay,
Are you not glad tits Christmas day?
" Use glad" the little one replied,
" But tings linked of made me cried.
1 'ants sister to pay with me-
My toys tan't speak, dey cannot see"
Nurse gently stroked Marguerite's cur!s.
Don't you know, my dear, there are boys and girls
That can have no toys or bright things to-day,
And perhaps sobbing their hearts away ?''
Just then three little girls went by,
Nurse called them inland such cry
OF joy they gave at what they see.
That Marguerite laughed aloud with glee.
All day they played, and when at night
Marguerite, with her little hands clasped so tight
Said her prayer, She was thankful and gay
For her thres little sisters Christmas day.
PToUidence, r. Mrs. MAUD MoULroS
The morning call., 1891-12-20
prneess r1elorta Mary Of 7sek.

Of Duke Alexander of Wurtemburg by his
morganatic marriage with Countess Claud-
inc Rhedey. The Princess Victoria Mary
Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine
Agnes was born in Kensington Palace May
&c, 1867 With her parents she has always
lived in one of Queen Victoria's palaces, for
her family is poor, and. like the Batten-
bergs, not royal Princess Victoria's title
is Her Serene Highness" simply. She is
Lady of the Imperial Order of the Crown
of India, one OF Queen Victora's new or
ders for women.
Any issue of the marriage will be, on the
Dukes side. third cousins of the Princess,
and on her side second cousins, twice re-
moved. Royalties, however. are accus-
toned TO such complicated relationship.
The morning call., 1891-12-20

The palate is almost tickled
with SCOTS Emulsion of cod
liver oil. The stomachknows
nothing about tit does not
trouble you. there. You
feel it first in the strength
it brings it shows in the
color of cheek and smoothing
out of wrinkles.
1t was a beautiful thing to
do, to cover the odious taste
of cod-liver oil, evade the tax
on the stomach, and take
health by surprise.
Let US send you a book On
CAREFUL LIVING 4; free.
ScoTr& BOVINE, Chemists, Isa South 5th Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion of cod-iiver
oil-all druggists everywhere DO. 81.
sr..C
The morning call., 1891-12-20

matter. The questions sent to the members
for reply relating to the employment of
official judges for bench shows and coursng
meetings developed the following replies:
For official bench-show judges, yeas 20,
nays 6; official coursing-club judges, yeas
% nays, 6. An election for judges at bench
shows then took place and resulted as fol-
lows: c. II: Mason, Ii. w. Huntington. II.
FL. W. Lacy. 1t was resolved that the
members OF the National Greyhound Club
do not exhibit at any shows at which any
specially judges are appointed unless a
Judge recommended by the National Grey
hound Club or one who may be approved
by the Directors of the club
The morning call., 1891-12-20

A typical wanderer has stopped temper
arily in Dallas, Tex. He has Travelled for
fourteen years, crossed the country from
New York to San Francisco. worked his
way through South America. and has been
q fireman, policeman, a railroad man, a
sport, a drummer and a soldier He saws
the world has used him pretty well so far.
and that he intends to wander around until
he dies
The morning call., 1891-12-20
THE GENERAL
FIELD OF SPORT.
Fill Wrestling Tournament Of The OlYDl-
pic Club.
Amateur Boxers Still Hold Out for Ticking
Prizes = Grassing Duck and Quail.
CcUrsing-Rifie Cracks

With the exception of field sports, that is
shooting. coursing and football all other
lines of amusements are comparatively
dead for the present. The holidays will
occupy tile attention of the athletes, tennss
players, oarsmen, etc, who, rather than
give their leisure hours to quiet, invigorat-
ing exercises, will assist to make home
happy by their presence about the house
There are no better assistants to mothers
and sisters wants than local oarsmen, ath-
letes and tennis-players. All being active
young men, they make able messengers.
The morning call., 1891-12-20

5000 calls since last October, that they
have given out so many punches of flowers.
etc.. is a very cold way of stating what i'm
measurable good has been done by them in
these visits among the poor and sick. They
have brought zeal to churches in need of
workers; they have carried courage to dis
c0uraged mothers; found employment for
the unemployed; supplied the destitute sick
with medicine and care; they have minis
tered to little ones just born into the
world aud have prepared the dead for
burial" B. b. VALENTINE.