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The T. N, AS hBahH.n

The Theatrical Mechanics Association Lodge
No. 81, San Francisco, filed long-felt want
Friday morning last. Every French regiment
in war provides a mascot in the shape of fear
less vivandiere, and prompted by the desire to
make the New Year especially propitious, the
members of Lodge 81, 7. NJ. A, put their heads
together and secured baby for the mascot.
This baby is one OF the cutest OF her kind and
can impersonate big, grown-up person with
the same fidelity as she can the toddling pratt
tier. She is a favorite from Manhattan Island
TO the isle of Pelicans" Within the Golden
Gate" and the echo of her warbling notes, like
the peal of Shandon bells, is always heard in
the ears OF her big circle of admirers.
The "baby" is no less a person than gifted
Lydia Yeamans-Titus, whom Dave Talbot of
the t. NJ. AS initiated Friday as the honorary
member. The boys gave her the grip with
more than ordinary fraternal fervor, but being
a precocious "baby" She refused the fraternaf
kiss as a handsome souvenir gold badge was
presented her. Mrs. Titus is also an honorary
member of Lodge No. %, B. p. o. E., Buffalo, to
which lodge F. j. Titus belongs. Mr. Titus is 8
member OF the Apollo Lodge of Odd Fellows,
San Francisco being initiated in 1871 and IS,
besides, a member of Dramatic Lodge 1909,
Free and Accepted Masons, Liverpool, England.
Dramatic Picture of New York Life.
Tlaa loT,rY
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PLAY.


or Gilligans Float'-an attractive title, but
judging from the business, there is more fun
than mischief in it. There is a large infusion
of the "mass melodrama" throughout, with
just a spice of the 400, and the action takes
place in and about ShantytoWn and round
about the New York water front. The cast
will be as follows
Germiah Gilligan of Gllligan's Float.
.,,o seiden
Ferdinand Biff, one of the 400 800. Leslie
Levinski strolinsk from Paradise alley. .......
Jamsey. the Harlem lightweight. Charles W. Swain
Roundsman Flynn, fly copper. Frank Wyman
Rosinna Gilligan, fair, and forgiyen.... -.
K,tty her oniv dact.r n ina
Cornelia McNooney. single and suspicious:..:.
Marguerite Clancy. Jamseys sweetheart.......
virgini, bright .l The Christie stceKmeyer
Gertie Percha. Tutti 800. Kittie Kerwin
Annie suites. Fruit Jennie Simmons
May b. soon. -. Girls ....-Sophie Stewart
become member OF this company, which
Manager Morosco takes occasion TO fortify at
every feasible opportunity
Selden is song-writer, as well as an actor
his time when stage demand is dull in writing
plays, and then, when the times are ready,
footlights them with all the incidental songs,
which he knocks together with the same facil-
ity that he does prose. In "a Scandal" he will
give his audience "Shall We Ever Be Able to
Fly?" little Bunch of Whiskers," Swimming
Off Gilligan's Float" "My Johanna Johanna
Johnson" "Sweet Fleur de Lis" "Pronise
That You'll Never Tell, !" Mrs. Clancy's Daugh-
ter" and the sidewalks of New York" Selden
writer, in the matter of turning out available
dittieS.
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n.Tha Passing of Arthur. y

A London dispatch OF January IL to the Chi
cago Herald says the dramatic event of the year
has come and passed with "The Passing of
Arthur" at the Lyeeum The material for the
drama was drawn from Sir Thomas Mallory's
famous romance, which issued from the Caxton
Press in the year 1485. Mr.. ]. CoInyns Carr
made the arrangement and Sir Arthur Sullivan
furnished the music. The poetic beauty of the
landscape by Sir Edward Burne-Jones seemed
OF the very fiber of the supernatural history
which hlled 1t. The casting away of the brand
"Excail bur, by the reluctant Sir Bediyere, the
arm clothed in white samite which, having
brandished it three times, drew down the jew
eled and sparkling weapon into the sea, the
departure OF the wounded king in the mystic
barge, Ozark as a funeral scarf from stem to
stern," touched the topmost height OF imagina-
tive stage picturing, and reused to applause
the magnificent audience drawn from notable
LONDON ana gathered to appreciate and honor
the work OF the foremost manager of his time
Henry Irving.
:, In the cast Henry Irving played King Arthur;
FORBES Robertson, Sir Launcelot; Miss Gene
we've ward, Morgan Lafay, and Miss Ellen
Terry, Queen Guinevere 1t was midnight
when the curtain fell in the midst of applause,
though here and there discordant note was
heard.
The play follows Mallory's romance through
out. The part of Galahad is entirely omitted.
Miss Ellen Terry has seldom been seen to a
better advantage than in her playing of Guine-
we're She was charming throughout, but
irving was not at his best as Arthur, while the
nonors OF the evening were carried off by
FORBES, Robertson. Sullivan's music was de-
I1ghtful, though less elaborate than that which
he wrote for the production of Macbeth" The
general verdict seemed to be that the play was
TOO long. 1t was agreed, however, that it will
rank among the most noteworthy of the prod
ucts of the Lyceum.
The audience included the Duke and Ouch
ess OF FORK and the Duke and Duchess of Teck
in the royal box. The arrival of the members
OF the royal family was greeted with hearty
cheers: In the adjoining box was Chief Justice
Russell and his family.
Henry Irving, in response to a request for
speech, expressed few simple words of graft
tude, while Comyns Carr bowed his thanks.
Alter the production of the play Irving enter
Sensitive Lameroux.
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Golden Idaho; Mrs Fanny Young and her
promising daughter, Miss Nellie Young will
also be seen again in the characters Tor the
personation OF which they have already been
this comedy drama and at the same time a
magnetic quality that takes possession of the
average theater-goer. There is so much that is
the characters and the deft SURPRISES inter-
woven in the construction that one seems
meyer to tire OF it. "Cad" has been before the
puDllc lor Twelve years, and its success to-day
his little bark on the drama Tic wa res
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chestra leader is relentless in his exaction OF
absolute silence during his concerts. They say
ii a woman in the audience but strokes her
muf he will stop his entire orchestra, and no
one would think of daring to sneeze. Silence
eroux. "What can you do without it? And it
must be absolute. How would you feel if a
line of people kept passing between you and
the piece OF sculpture you were regarding
with such feelings the probabilities are that
Lameroux would be sent TO Stockton after
single evening in August Hinrichs' place in
the music box of the Baldwin,
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will be had tomorrow night at the Stock
well. Indications point to the biggest bust
ness OF the season, for a superb produc-
ton is assured. A river OF real water,
bearing on its surface passenger steam
ers, will be seen, with steam launches
passing and repassing, and all the active life
incident to New York's water front. Leonard
Grover Jr., who has made his mark in low COM
edy, will again be seen as Tom Ward, the gas
man. Young Lens droll mimicries and laugh
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Reaching Ont.

With restless energy Walter Of the orpheum
continues to surprise his friends and enemies
by his acquisitiveness and the scope of his
theatrical ventures. 1t was only the other day
that he opened house in Los Angeles under
the most propitious circumstances, and now he
has purchased the Wigwam in this city, thus
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eHectually monopolizing the vaudeville bust

ftLN1N1N' 1H1S HN|N-
ness of the coast.
But this is not all that Walter aims at, if re-
ports be true. A circuit, embracing New York,
Chicago. Kansas City, st. Louis, Denver, Los
Angeles and san Francisco, is already well
under way, and when this daring theatrical
feat is accomplished San Francisco will be
brought into closer touch than ever with the
best that the vaudeville world can offer.
The Wigwam under Walters regime viii
offer strong attractions of different type from
those of the Orpheum, and will doubtless
prove another gold-winner for its present
owner. The first bill under Walters manage
ment win be given tomorrow night.
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provoking limitations have made him locally
famous: they constitute an entertainment in
themselves and are very much akin to the
change seances" once SO popular here when
managed by Emma Stanley and the late Mr.
Birch Miss Florence Thropp returns to the
Stockwell and viii take UP the character of
Cad, a free, rollicking hoyden OF a girl, in
which she has already made a pronounced
hit. Mr.. Edmund Hayes, Mr. Francis
Powers, and Clyde Hess, together with Miss
May Noble, who plays Ethel Wayne so well in
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The above, in addition to the money already
received, makes total in hand OF $3.50 MI
ceive subscriptions for the fund and the re is no
doubt that our music-lovers will do everything
to raise the guarantee fund of $4,000 and
concerts
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In window of bathhouse at Pompeii
were found four panes of glass fastened in
place by small nuts and screws, so con-
trived as to allow the removal of the glass
at pleasure.
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TPosTscRIPTUM.1

The subscription for the Scheel orchestra
guarantee fund is increasing daily. John Par
rott, under whose supervision the $4,000
guarantee fund is being raised, will undertake
the business management of the Auditorium
The following additional subscriptions have
l.1-L.., $500 4.
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win There Be Money for Music 2


1t is proposed to raise in this city, if possible
what may be called "the ScheeI guarantee
fund" for the purpose OF insuring series of
delightful concerts similar to those lately
given by Herr Scheel and his band of accom-
plished musicians ct the Auditorium. So far,
we understand, some $4,000 has been SUBJ
scribed to this object by our wealthy citizens,
and efforts win be made to swell this sum by
all possible means-its proper administration
being secured, when the limit of subscription
shall have been reached, by good trustees.
One means taken to further this laudable pur-
pose will be a grand Wagnerian concert to be
given at the Auditorium on Tuesday even
ing, January D, at which a large attendance is
expected. Efforts will be made also TO push the
subscription among people, lovers of music,
but whose means are limited. Popular SUBJ
scription is earnestly solicited. 1t ought to be
a matter OF pride with our citizens, whether
rich or comparatively poor, to place San Fran
cisco on plane with other large cities of the
world in the encouragement given to the
divine art. New York guarantees Walter Dam
rosch in 5000, and Chicago Theodore
Thomas for $4,000, while San Francisco goes
a-begging for q place with them. Neither
Damrosch nor Thomas is Scheels superior in
the knowledge and practice of music, and I'M
der his baton, if proper encouragement be ac-
corded, an organization would be developed
that would put both New York and Chicago to
the blush on the question of musical pro-
ficiency.
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Seldenis New nnmeau.

Edgar Selden offers for his third and last
weeNat Moroseo's Grand Opera-house a neat
farce-comedy called "a Scandal in High Life,
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ment has postponed her appearance in Los
Angeles for another week. This Will be well
come news to many, who will have another
week to be delighted by this Incompatible lit
tie woman.
New on the coming weeks programme are
Dorothy Deming and the Bordmans. Miss
Deming is reported to be an attractive and
clever lyric artist, with fine record in Eastern
peo q DO A singing and comedV Sketch St ect
James McAvoy, Bunth and Rudd, Bogert and
O'Brien and Loiset, who contributed largely
to the success of last weeks bill. are retained.
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Dramatic Picture of New York Life.
The long promised revival of Mr.. Leonard
Growers popular drama, "Cad, the Tomboy,''
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Sensitive Lameroux.
NJ. Lameroux. the well-known Partisan or
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| ''The Hollow, whar friend o. mine struck
silver. He'll take yur in"
| Her head sank against his shoulder LET
me stay here" she answered. land wait"
He supported her tenderly, feeling the
| gentle brushing of her hair against his cheek
| as in the old days. He was content to wait,
| holding her thus. They were very silent; her
! eyes half closed, as if in exhaustion, yet with
the strange suggestion, of listening in the
vacant pupils.
'Yc amt hearin, anythin', deary?" he said
| with troubled face.
mo; but everything $50 deathly still, !" she
| said in frightened whisper.
1t certainly was very still. A singular
| hush seemed to have slid over the landscape;
there was no longer any sound from the mill;
there was an ominous rest in the woodland.
so perfect that the tiny rustic of an uneasy
wing in the tree above them had
made them start, even the moonlight
seemed to hang suspended in the air,
ITS like the lull before the Storm" she
said, with her strange laugh.
Bat tile nou-imaginative Collinson was
more practical. Its mighty like that
earthquake weather before the big shake
that dried up the river and stopped the
mill. That was Just the time l got the
news o. your bcin" dead with yellow fever.
Lordi honey, allus- allowed to myself
thet suthn' was happenin' TO We them
She did not~reply, but he. holding her
figure closer to him, felt it trembling
with nervous expectation. Suddenly she
threw him off and rose to her feet with
cry. THERE she screamed frantically,
they've come! they've conner
A rabbit had run out into the moonlight
before them a gray fox had dashed from
the thicket into the wood, but nothing
else. 49, -sF@-s
Whose Gomez" said collnson, staring
at her.
The sheriff and his posse! They're
surrounding them now. Don't you hear?"
she gasped.
There was a strange rattling in the
direction of the mill, dull rumble, with
wild shouts and outcres, and the tramp
ling of feet on its wooden platform Col
linson staggered to his feet, but at the
same moment he was thrown violently
against his wife, aud they both cluDg help
lessly to the tree, with their eyes turned
toward the ledge. There was a dense cloud
of dust and haze hanging over it. Il
She uttered another cry, aud ran swiftly
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"But this would sufficiently identify
her." he said, controlling himself with an
effort
"A las, not sol There are many of us who
| goabroad on our missions in thesega rments,
| and they are made a II alike, SO as to divert
ratherthaD Dattractattentiont to any individu-
| ality. We have sent private messengers in
all directions, and sought her everywhere,
hut without success. You will understa nd
that we wish to avoid scandal which mare
public inquiry would create"
"ADd you come to me-" said Key, with
return of his first suspicion, in spite or his
/ eagerness to cut short the interview and be
free to act-''to me- a lmost stranger"
Not a stranger, Mr.. Key" returned the
religieuse gently, ''but toa wellknown man
"a man of affairs in the country where this
unhappy child's brother lives-a friend who
seems to be sent by Eeaven to find out this
brother for US aDdspeedthis ne stohim. We
come 10 the old pupil of Father Cipriano, Q
friend of the Holy Church: to the kindly gen.
tlemap whoknows whatitis tohave dearre-
lations of his own, and who only yesterday
was seeking the convent to"
'Enoughi'' interrupted Key, hurriedly,
with a slight color. ~ will go at once. do
lot know this man, but will do my best to
find him. this-this-younggirl? yousey
you have no trace of her. May she not still
be here? / should have some clue by which
to seek her--I mean that could give to her
brother"
"Alas!we wefearsheisalreadyf ia rawa yfrom
here. IL she went at once to San Luis, she
could have easily taken train to San Fran
cisco before we discovered her flight. We
believe that it was the poor child's intent
to- Join her brother SO as to intercedc for her
frieDd-or, perhaps, alas! to seek her."
And this friend left yesterday morning?"
he said quickly, yet conceaiing a feeling Of
relief
"Well, you may depend on mel And now,
as there is no time to be lost, / will make
my arrangements to take the next train"
He held out his hand, paused, and said in
almost boyish embarrassment: bid me
Hod speed, Sister Seraphinal"
May the Holy Virgin aid you," she said
gently. Yet, t,asshepassed ou ofthedoor, with
grateful smile, a characteristic reaction
came over Key. His romantic belief in the
intcrposition of Providence was not without
tendency to apply the ordinary rules of hu-
man evidence 10 such phenomena. Sister
Seraphina's application to him seemed
little short of miraculous interference, but
what If it were only trick to get rid OF
him; while the girl, whose escapade had
been discovered, was either under restraint
in the convent or hiding in Santa Luisa?
Yet this did not prevent him from me-
chanically continuing his arrangements
for his departure. When they were com
pleted and he had barely time to get to the
station at San Luis, he again fingered IN
vague expectation of some determining
event.
The appearance of a servant with a teie-
graphic message at this moment seemed 70
be an answer to this instructive feeling Re
tore it open hastily. But 1t was only single
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When Posty departed, Janet read the
last part of Lily sletter slowly TO her
self
THE minister's prayer took in a kin& o.
fouk, an ae peteetion. a thocht. ives for u.s.
grannie: Remember any one about whom
his friends are ANXIOUS ard he stopped for
half meenut Ye cud hae heard a preen
tpin) fail, an a said tae massel, Charlie
"Dinna be over cast doom abot him nor
gle up houp. He's young an 'thochtless an
he ill maybe tax turn sune.
Ave savit five pund afr ma wages an
am sendin't in a note for a didn want the
fouk at the postoffice tae ken oor affairs.
moo, gin We be writin' Charlie, wuIi we
slip in pund juist as hit reminder o. his
sister an the ither fower ill help tae pae
the Muirtown debt.
"Dinna think am scrimpin' masel or
dacin' onything mean. After ave spent
sax pound year on claithes and little
trokes. an three on ma Kirk, all hae aucht
over for the debt.
When the laist penny's paid o. Charities
debt all buy the best black silk in London
for We, an gin am spared tae come hame
tae the summer sacrament. we ill gang the
gither tae the table"
"Twa silly weemen," said Janet to her
self, ''for he's JUST ne er-dae-w eel
an yit, gin he came in moo, a. wud
gle him the claithes aft ma back, an sac
wud Lily. For the look in his 'een an the
SCUM o. his voice.
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A Peculiar Will

The Neue Wiener Tag blatt prints at length
The amazing last will and testament of a
wealthy old eccentric who died lately a;
Hadcrsdrof am Kemp: II bequeath the
whole of my property movable and immova-
ble," says he, Ito my six nephews and my
six nieces, but under the sole condition that
every one of my nephews marries a woman
named Antonio. and that every one of my
nieces marries man named Anton" The
twelve are further required to give the
Christian name Antonio or Anton to each
first-born child, accorIing as it turns out to
be girlor boy The marriageof eachnephew
and niece isalso to he ecelebrated on one of the
st. Anthony days ,eitber January II, May
10 or June 13. Each is further required to
be married before the, end of July, 1896.
nephew or niece remaining unmarried to an
Antonio or an Anton after that date forfeits
half of his or her share Of the property"
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CHAPTER VIII

Preble Key returned to his hotel from
the convent, it is To tie feared, with very
little of that righteous satisfaction which
is supposed To follow the performance of a
good deed. He was by TO means certain
that what lie had done was best for the
young girl He had only shown himself to
her as a worldly monitor of dangers of
which her innocence was providentially
unconscious. In his feverish haste to avert
a scandal he had no chance Ia explain his
real feelings; he had, perhaps, even exposed
her thwarted impulses TO equally naive but
more dangerous expression which he might
not have the opportunity 10 check He
tossed wakefu1ly that night upon his pillow,
tormentcd with alternate visions of her
adorable presence at the hotel. and her
bowed renuncia ting figure as she re-
entered the convent gate. He waited eX-
pectantly the next day for the message she
had promised and which he believed she
would find some way TO send. But no mes
sage was forthcoming. The day passed
and he became alarmed The fear that
her sescapade had been discovered again
seized him. If she were in close restraint
she could neither send to him. nor could he
convey To her the solicitude and sympathy
that filled his heart. In her childish frank
ness she might have confessed the whole
truth, and this would only shut the doors
of the convent against him, under his former
pretext, but compromise her still more if
he boldly called. He waylaid the after
noon procession; she was not among them
Utterly despairing, the widest plans for
seeing her passed through his braiT-plans
that recalled his hot-headed youth, and
a few moments later made him smile at his
extravaganza, even while it half frightened
him a the reality ofhis passion. He reached
the hotel beartsick ard desperate. The
porter met him on the steps 1t was with
a thrill that sent the blood leaping to his
cheeks that he heard the man say:
"sister seraphina is waiting for you in
the sitting ROOM
There was no thought of discovery or
scandal in Preble Keys mind now; no doubt
or hesitation as to what he would do, as
he sprang up the staircase. lie only knew
thathe bad found her again. and was happy.
He burst into the SOON, but this time he