The record-union., 1897-11-07

The astronomy party last week met
at the home of Miss Katie Simmons,
where games and music were indulged
in for some time before the party dis
banded.
Mrs Ed. Stone and family of Oak
land, who have been visiting Miss Annie
c. Weeks, sister of the former, returned
to their home last week.
The Wheeling Whist Club has decided
to change its name to the Cyclefs
Whist Club. the latter title being voted
more appropriate and euphonious than
the former.
II has lately been remarked that the
rising generation of young men are SO
rapidly taking their places in the world
of business that the boys" of but one
year ago are no more, and to-day stal-
wart. self-reliant young men stand in
their places The flight of time is
phenomenon that battles US all, partic-
ularly when we closely note the changes
that follow close on the respected old
gentleman's footsteps. One OF our pest
known society boys a short time since
lOSl ffiS 1dtiSl, VIII " az @ PDN >Nf~~ - -
lucrative business here in town. Al
ready the young man has taken up the
burden of business cares, just where his
father laid it down, and is proving hlm-
self not only efficient but in every way
worthy to fill the position so honorably
sustained by his father. Another has
succeeded to the practice OF his rather
who was one of our most popular ply
nj hit 40 ne
wears rested from the heat and bur-
den of the day. in that land where
happily illness and WEAKNESS are un-
known Some of our youngsters nave
successfully entered the lists as law
yers, boys who but yesterday seemingly
were in knickerbockers, and playing
marbles for keeps" on their way home
from school And so it goes-one gen
Grafton succeeds another. The aged lay
down their arms and seek well-earned
rest from the warfare constantly WaSed
against the wolf" and the young ones
with untried sinews and fresh, cour-
ageous hearts, take them up unhesitat-
ingly. eager TO try their metal, each enc
assured that he must of necessity be
successful where another mas 1alled
Youth and faith are synonymous terms
mus the nope VI "a County AiSS 'ANAA -
Young men. who fear nothing and brave
even death itself with unflinching hearts
and undaunted courage. So. like the
waters of a river, humanity moves
along. The aged pass into the great
ocean of enternity, but there Is no gap
for their places are instantly filled 10y
those who are pressing on behind them
Yet as the river in it's flow prepare:
the channel for that which is still tt
come, SO the ancestor paves the way FOL
his posterity. Like father, like son,
is the old adage, and in the young mer
who to-day are taking their places un-
der the firm names of parents passed
away, those self-same parents live
again. and it behooves them to sac
well their parts that the world may
be the better, or at least no worse fol
the change.
This is the week Of the big music fes
tiyal TO be given by the California
Music Festival Association at Sar
Francisco. The concerts will take plac,
on the 9th and 10th, with matinee OF
the afternoon of the 10th, at Metropol
itan Temple, and viii be participated II
by the Oratorio societies of San Fran
CISCO Sacramento, Marysville, Oakland
Alameda, San Jose, Los Gatos, tbs
Stanford Choral Society of Stanfort
University, and other choral societies o
San Francisco. All will be under tn
direction OF James Hamilton Howe, ant
II is expected that there VIII be abou
200 voices in the grand chorus. Their
will also be a semi-chorus of twenty
four picked voices. Madame Genevr;
Johnstone- Bishop. soprano of ORATORS
fame; Miss Anna Miller Wood. contralto
Boston; Rhys Thomas, tenor: Home
Henley, basso. Alloys Werner, tenor
VIII be among those who take the prin
cipal parts Madame Bishop viii brins
with her from the East Miss Gertrud
Colby, pianiste, and Henry Eel
loves. vocalist. There has not been
festival of this order of high class mu
sic and with so large a chorus since tn
big Thomas concert some ten or lively
years ago. The subscriptions have beer
large, and the concerts are already a.
assured success