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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

Charles Rehholtz, Mrs. c. Rotholtz. Mrs: Sullivan, Mrs Lesser. Miss Underwood and Miss P. RotholtZ.
 Miss J. Elgie Mathewson gave very enjoyable party at her home, the Hotel Clifton. corner Sutter and Powell streets, to her relatives and friends, Friday even- ing March IS. Music and dancing were the features of the evening. after which refreshments were served.
 An informal reception was held at the home of Mrs. Paul. San Leandro road. friends The hostess was assisted by Miss Mabel Paul and Miss Dean Paul. The dance hall was decorated with laurel. the dining hall and parlors were hand somely decorated with American beauty roses and ferns. At 9:3O o'clock an elab- dining rooms The evening was most pleasantly spent with dancing, music, games and singing. During the evening there was a Serenade.
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these guns, two forward and two aft; their long muzZles can be seen project ing far beyond the turrets. For every gun 100 rounds of shell has to be car ried, and this means a weight of over 200 tons.
 Then there are the eight-inch guns in the smaller turrets, the six-inch guns, the rapid-firing SiX-pounderS and all the numerous machine guns which go to complete the secondary battery and which are intended to play havoc with any tOrpedo-bo boat or unarmored vessel which may come within range. These weapons all require supplies. In action they would eat up cartridges with the greatest voracity, and the re- suit is that there are over 400 tons of ammunition of all kinds in the maga- zines.
 On the upper deck of the central cita- del, or armored battery, wherein all the fighting power of the ship is concen- trated, the sailors may be seen giving the finishing touches to the SfX-pounder rapid firing guns which frown over the breastwork. They are dainty, danger ouS little weapons for, though they are light enough to be handled with the ut most ease, their shell is heavy enough to pierce the skin of any vessel not protected by armor. One of these pro- jectiles, striking the boiler or engines, IS QulIe SuIIlclenL to II not SILK, a torpedo-boat.
 To make sure that everything is all right a crew of four sailors is going through drill with the gun, and our photograph shows clearly the manner in which it is worked. The captain of the gun directs it by means of pro- jecting arm, against which he presses his shoulder, and so accurately is the weapon balanced that the slightest force will swing it from side to side elevate or depreSs it, as desired. It can be aimed quite as readily as a small rifle and fired as quickly. Another man operates the breech mechanism, insert ing the cartridges as they are handed up to him by a third member of the crew. All the captain of the gun has to do is to aim and pull the trigger, and with a practiced crew, as many as twenty rounds minute can be fired from this death dealing little weapon
 Another reason for all the hustle on board is an important change which is being made in the armament of the crew. Sailors have rifles as well as big guns wherewith to deal damage to an enemy, but hitherto the only small arm on board the ship has been the old fashioned Lee rifle.
 In view of present emergencies, the naval authorities have substituted a fur more modern and effective weapon. The tug Unadilla is alongside. and a string of sailors are busy passing out the old rifles and their ammunition and taking on board the new guns. The rifle is d marvel of compact mechanism It is light and easy to handle, and has an extremely small bore, firing a bullet about the size of pea. But this little bullet will reach a range of 2000 yards, and will penetrate at half that distance three feet of timber. Attached to the breech of the rifle is a small magazine, in which five cartridges, held in a metal clip, can be placed at once. Just as in a Winchester, one pull on the brcech lever
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March B.
 A. Thirion of the Compton National (French) Bank has left for Paris on a six months vacation, to be spent abroad. He Is accompanied by his daughter Helene.
 Mrs. Q. L. Fest of 1s1s Turk street has changed her day at home from Thursday to Tuesday. Misses Lennie. and Mattie Fest will hereafter receive the first Sun day evening of each month. Union Pacific Railroad, is in New York.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Magee have re- turned from Southern California and will Marve .he efs of s non street nn their new house on Broadway IS com pleted
 Mrs. Phil s. Beel has moved to 212S
 MT: and Mrs. E; Horn (nee Brown of Marysville, Ca12 will be home to her friends this Sunday. March 27,
 MT. and Mrs. Joe Stabens have removed from 610 Octavia street to S151s Hilbert street.
 MT. and Mrs. John Talbot of Boston, Mass, are stopping on visit to Cali fornia with their cousins, James Phillips and family of Oakland.
 MT. Talbot has been for thirty wears a railroad man and at the present time is division master of the Boston and Maine Railroad of Massachusetts, and is very well known throughout the East. They are here for six weeks sojourn through the Golden State, and it being their first visit to the Pacific are thor. oughly well pleased with the land of sunshine and flowers.
 MT. Henry George and wife of New York will arrive here April 2 They will be the guests of w. c. McCloskey. S19A Hayes street; for a short time before pro- ceeding to Europe.
 Miss Julia Monteith of this city and her cousin, Miss Gertrude Monteith of Ian caster. England, at present visiting Cali fOrnia, will in the course of a fortpiub f go abroad in company with their grand mother, Mrs. Henry Guilford
 Dr. Brennan of this city returned last week from the south
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IFFT HER LOST LOVE A FORTUNE

eneaeenent with the professor.
 q have given MT. Morris my YoTd that I will be his wife. and II ne nolus me to my pledge I must keep It, she said.
 Allison. under the influence or ner faith and truth, finally acknowleoseo that she was right So they pargeu, tearfully-she to. contract a loveisss marriage. he to deaden the pain Tn fls heart in the quest for wealth
 Years swept on, and last sumnier these two met again at an Eastern summer resort. She was free. Ihrse years before a court had broken tp7 bonds that united her to Professor MOI ris. She was still beautiful. Ine eray was in the hair of Allison ana lines ot care scanned his brow, but ne was manly man, with his heart still true U Lucille.
 Under the trees he told her agaln tns old, old story, and it was arranged tna' they should be married in the lali' Man proposes, Providence d1sposes' oe fore the leaves fell he died- Ills lase thoughts were of his sweetheart anu ,. HI his will he bequeathed to her, uncohol- tionally, s150,000
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planned and carried out to while away the quietude of the penitent1al per1oo. Several charming teas and al nesco luncheons have been enjoyed by these ladies and their attendant Swains, and dinners and Spanish suppers are planned for the coming week. Business and pleas ure are keeping well together here now, for since the railroad men who came to attend the sessions of the Transconti- mental Freight Bureau arrived, an air Of much and great concern has pervaded the big hostelry Most of the prominent freight officials from all transcontinental lines are here, and the present convention will have big results for all lines of com- merce.
 Among the prominent San Franciscans now staying here are MT. and Mrs Charles A. Laton, MT. and Mrs. D. T. Murphy, Mrs. F. A. Frank, Mrs. A. J. Pope, Mir. and Mrs. H. M. A. Miller. Mrs M. c. Talbot. A. s. Frank Miss J. Frank, Mrs. A. L. Stone. Miss K. Stone, Miss Flint, Mrs. L. L. Baker and family, MT and Mrs. Wakefield Baker and family and Mrs. Irving M. Scott.
 Some of the New Workers are Mrs. J. Hood Wright, Mrs. John Markle, W. J. Smith Jr., MT. and Mrs. B. E. Kingsley, MT. and Mrs. J. S. Brown and family, Mrs. W. H. Porsythe, Miss Forsythe, Mr. and Mrs. John s. Lyle, H. Hayden Sands, Miss J. $. Sands, F. w. Drury, Miss F. A. Drury
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Club Parties.

The Young Musicians Club, a club of children, held it's meeting on Saturday last at the home of Miss May Schlutter, 765 Capp street. Interesting musical num- bers by Beethoven, Heller, Emery, Schu- mann, Reinecke and Greig were rendered by May Schlutter, Florence Nachtrieb, Ethel Peltret, Fanny and Elva Woodman, Helen Carter, Winnie Moody. Iva Knowl- ton and Edith Standart. Refreshments and games followed the musical pro- gramme. Besides the children the fol- lowing adults attended the meeting: Mrs. and Miss Schlutter, Mrs. Carter. Miss Peltret and Miss Diserens. The following Is the programme in full: Piano solo, Mel Cor Piu variations (Beethovenl, May Schlutter; piano solo-(a) "L'Avalanche" (Stephen Heller}. (bl "Gondollied" (Hein- rich StiehD, Co '.Fingertwist" (Stephen Emery). Florence Nachtrieb; piano solo, "Pizzicati' Delibes), Irene Muzzy; piano solo-(a) The Joyous Peasant" (schu- Nights (Reinecke). Elva Woodman: pi- ano solo Allegro Vare,'' Helen Carter; piano solo, "Sonatina VIII' (Beethoven), !, Winnie Moody; piano duet. La Grace"
 co. Bohm), Elva and Fanny Woodman:
 piano solo-(a) Norwegian Serenade"
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ings Is the great number and variety of the signs, and also the great similar lty of many of the signs.
 We are forced to confess after even nasty perusal of these signs that they have been made, not In a haphaZ- ard way, but according to already es- tablished principles, according to an actual code in which almost every line and every dot are of the greatest inn portance in giving value to the sculp- tured characters.
 As to the use of the word hieroglyph. l willingly confess that it Is not strictly a proper word to use for any of the writings of the American abor1gfneS. The word, which means sacred writ ing" should only be applied to the Egyptian glyphs and not to any others. But unfortunately it has been and is yet to-day used by scientists to indi- cate also the writings of the American aborigines, and in using this word l merely followed the custom of others. The proper way would perhaps be to use the word glyph only.
 If we again consider only the mean ing of the word hieroglyph we must concede that the word is equally appli- cable to the writings of the American aborigines as to those of the Egyptians. as neither writings were strictly sacred. nor were they writings or records of only sacred things. A few of them were. others were historical, mathe- matical, astronomical or simply social.
 As to the actual nature of the glyphs around the turquoise mines no opinion will be of any real value until the thousands of glyphs, which are scat tered over the rocks in their vicinity, will have been photographed, properly recorded and subjected to years of study. GUSTAV ESSEN.
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SCIENTISTS AND MINERS 0N THE WAY ID
 THE NEW TURQUOISE MINES.
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mentary to ever allow even of closer study. The record of the Inca Indians was made by the aid of ropes, called quipus, and were certainly not in any way phonetic, but merely indicated a more or less purely mathematical record of accounts and tales, etc. After the conquest several efforts of the na- tives were made in producing phonetic writing, but none of these succeeded in being established, or even survived it's inventor.
 But while we thus cannot claim for the Indian writings any phonetic value, the fact must yet remain that through this writing-picture writing, or rebus writing, or numerical writing, as of the Mayas-an immense amount of records has been preserved, which, if properly deciphered as 1t undoubtedly will be some time, must reveal to us facts in connection with the ancient inhabi- tants of this continent which cannot fail to be of the very highest interest to every student of this continent and it's native races.
 with astonishment why no effort has been made by any one to collect and properly study the Indian writings picture writings though they may be of this Coast Rock paintings are nu- merous in California. but writings like these around the turquoise mines are comparatively few.
 The principal interest connected with these picture writings or hieroglyphics around the turquoise mines is their enormous number and their fine state of preservation.
 Nowhere else on this continent can such a large number of glyphs be re- corded from such limited territory
 Another great value of these writ
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"OFF ID SEA" SIGNALS ON THE BATTLE
 SHIP OREGON,
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eiects the usual cartridge and inserts a new one so that five shots can be fired consecutively in the briefest space of time.
 Sixteen hundred tons of coal are all ready safely slowed below in the ca pacious bunkerS of the warship; but the task of coaling has left it's traces all over the upper decks. Sailors are busy everywhere touching up the paint work and polishing the brass rails of the SuperStructure; the decks are still moist from the hard scrubbing which they have recently undergone, and the ship will soon be as clean and white as on the first day when she left the backyard
 Everybody is not preparing for fight ing, though. The arts of peace as we'll as of war are being cultivated, and the sailor with the sewing machine is car rying on a distinctly pacific trade. A sewing machine seems strangely out of place on board an ironclad, yet many sailors possess the little hand-machines and are very dexterous in their use The man Is making up thick blue serge frocks, which will doubtless prove use full when the vessel gets through the tropics and encounters the biting blasts of the Antarctic off Cape Horn.
 Forward, under the shelter of the breastWork which rises above the deck, there is quite a little gathering of men, who, for some reason or other, have nothing to do. Many of them are on the sick list; one poor young fellow had his hand smashed through a shell dropping on 1t. Some have been on guard during the night, and are, there fore, relieved during the day.
 But all are happy and jolly, and ex- ulting over the prospect of a brush with Spain. They exchange rude sailor jokes one with the other, and even the man who is shaving is not allowed to perform this delicate operation in peace. When the photographer proceeds de- liberately to focus his camera upon him he is bfdden to put more father on, and he responds by sticking a great dab of the creamy white soap on the tip of his nose. Altogether, he is a most ridic- ulous-looking individual, and not bit sailorlike, though I suppose shaving is just as much part of a sailors discip- line as gun drill or general quarters.
 As the day wears .On and 1t becomes known that the battle-ship is to leave for the south at daylight on the mor- row the officers on the quarter-deck have a busy time stalling off intruders. Boat after boat, laden with friends, or it may be sweethearts of the gallant tars, comes alongside, the occupants, in defiance of all rules and regulations, striving to obtain one last word with the men who so soon are to sail away. Sometimes a pretty face and a fearful eye melt the heart of the officer of the day. and an interview is permitted, but more often the visitors have to row back disappointed. Who knows when they may see their dear ones again?
 Apart from the chances of battle, the Oregon, having once rounded the Horn, may never return to the Pacific station. The exigencies of naval service may keep her in the Atlantic, but wherever she is. we may rest satisfied that she will be serving the Union faithfully and we'll J. F. ROSE-SOLEY.
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SINGIJIAR HEBREW BURIAL

"Why did he not save money TOT HIS burial?"
 He had been i'll and unfortunate;
 Do you as his sponsor promise that he will repay with his prayers those who bury him in conSecrated ground!
 1T promise" ,,,
 Do you promise that his heirs will repay the money when they are m d position to do so to the nearest Hebrew synagogue?" This promise was also given ana then the rabbi said:
 'He shall be buried. I appeal to the charity of the children of Israel" The committee departed, and next day hearse, bearing the remains or Nathan Rubeuns, enveloped in a black shroud, was moved slowly through the streets of Brownsville, man in front leading the horse. and the sponsor in rear carrying padlocked tin box with a slot in it.
 Children of Israel" the sponsor would cry in front of every house, "here lies the body of Nathan Rubeuns, an orthodox Jew, who died in poverty. Who will subscribe to a fund for his burial? Olahl Olahl'' Pennies, nickels and dimes were thrown into the box, until it became so heavy that the sponsor, hoarse with his exhortations, was obliged to change it frequently from one hand to the other In this manner the pathetic procession moved from house to house and from street to street until thor ough canvass had been made. When the box was opened in presence of the committee it was found to contain $31 21, the largest coin in the collection being a quarter
 Nathan Rubeuns was buried in con- secrated ground next day. His re- mains were followed to Field Sinai by a modest but respectable cortege. It is said that this was the first ceremony of the kind ever witnessed in this coun- try.
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Few people have any idea of the enormous expense of keeping the ocean greyhounds in ship-shape. It costs one company on an average $10,000 a month for repairs to the various vessels. They are thoroughly overhauled every month and the amount of small repairing necessary would astonish even the old voyager. In the shops on the American side there is a duplicate of every bit of machinery used in the makeup of an ocean liner, from enormous pieces of shafting down to the smallest bolt. The International Company has to pay among it's other expenses for profes- sional rat-catcher, who clears the ships of the little pests.
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 ~ formed recently in Brownsville, A r. T.. the most exclusively He- 1 \ brew settlement in the world.
 It concerned the burial of a man
 who died in such poor circum- stances that his family was too poor to bury him in any one of the conse- crated Jewish cemeteries termed heios, such as the Field of Zion, the F1eio or Salem, the Field of Macpelah.
 The name of the deceased man was Nathan Rubeuns, and his remains were laid out in a room at Mo- 2S0 Belmont avenue, covered with white sheet. lie had belonged. as does every Jew In rownsville-orthodox or heterodox-to a burial society, but not having been able to pay his monthly dues he was not in good standing. His family was therefore not entitled to the usual burial fees and, as a Jew has an in tense horror of being inferred in any but consecrated ground, his WldoW rent the air with her lamentations.
 "Oh." she cried, as she threw ashes on her head, shall the descendants of Abraham. of Isaac and of Jacob lie in a grave defiled by the dog and the gen. tile? Woe is me and shame on the house or my IdtHSIS.
 Thus she continued until nightfal, when a committee of the Sinai Lodge, accompanied by a rabbi. entered the room, and ranging themselves round the body ordered the widow to depart. The rabbi then read from scroll the rules governing such case in the days of Israel's glory, after which he said:
 Brethren, this man must be in- tered
 He must be interred." echoed the committee.
 He shall be inferred in consecrated ground"
 Tn consecrated ground" repeated the committee.
 "Who here present will stand sponsor for the deceased?"
 ''I shall stand sponsor," answered Jacob Hyman.
 Was deceased of the faithful?" de- manded the rabbi
 "The deceased, Nathan Rubeuns, was an orthodox Jew of the tribe of Benja- min.'
 Did he obey the laws as delivered to Moses on the mount?'
 He obeyed them as we'll as an erring mortal could.''
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Personals.

Gaston E. Bacon, president of the Cali fornia College of Pharmacy (department of pharmacy, University of California;, accompanied by his wife, Is in Cairo, Egypt, at present. and will leave shortly for the Holy Land; they will return to Europe in about three months, visiting Italy, Switzerland, France. Germany England and Ireland. MT. Bacon, on his return. will make a very full report of pharmaceutical education in the Old World He expects to return to San Francisco next October. MT. Bacon has been interested in pharmaceutical mat ters for many years, he has been pres- dent of the California Druggists Trade Association for five terms, president of the California Pharmaceutical Society, and president of the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Payot, of Payot, Upham & Co.,, were at the Hotel Bristol,
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Luncheon

On Saturday last Mrs. Hamilton Smith
 gave an elaborate luncheon at the Palace Hotel in honor of her daughter, Miss Edith Congreve and her niece, Miss Car ter. After the luncheon the party was pleasantly entertained by "The Mysteri- ous MT. Bugle'' at the Baldwin. Those comprising the party were: Miss Avery. Miss Currier, Miss Thornton, Misses Miss Florence Coleman, Miss Lottie Woods. Miss Zeile, Miss Grace Boret, Miss Maud Woods, Miss Ethel Feeny, Miss
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A Run Over the Hills.

The first run" of the season was given last Sunday by the young ladies of the Ste. Netouche Club on the Piedmont hills. flowers of every description and color. When the young ladies arrived in the city they repaired to a restaurant where all did justice to the sumptuous repast which in the days outing were the Misses Juanita Castellar, Emma Niles, Hazel Dell Brown, Belle Rustymeyer, Margaret Gar rett, Daisy Armer and Jessica Kramer.
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Del Monte.

DEL MONTE, March 26.-As the Lenten season draws nearer it's close this de-
 lightful resort becomes gayer, and the pleasures found hereabouts in measure bridge over the dullnesS that always comes upon things social between Ash Wednesday and Easter A number of prominent society people of San Francisco and New York are here for the remainder of Lent, and every day little events are
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(ole olsen), (b) "Folkevise" (Griego, Iva

(Ole olsen), (b) "Folkevise" (Grieg), Iva Knowlton.
 A party of young people of this city have Organized themselves into La Viola Dramatic Social Club and chosen the fol- lowing officers: Miss Alice (Lowrie, presi- dent; Miss Daisy Falconer, yice-presldent; Miss Ethel Tabrett, secretary; Miss L1i- Han Friedberg. treasurer, and Miss Alice Gordon. pianist Under the direction of Miss Adair the young people will give dramatic entertainments and sociais at no distant day
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THEN Mrs. Lucille Morris Of
 N Omaha, Neb., was a very NN beautiful girl in her teens she met young and handsome

NN beautiful girl in her teens she
 Y Y met young and handsome
 Chester E. Allison of Sedalia, Mo It was a case of mutual love at first sight, but, although Chester wooed and won Lucilles heart, she would not give her hand. He died last fall and left to the sweetheart of loves young dream a fortune of $150,O0o.
 Relatives in Sedalia tried to break the will, but the court has just hanoeo down a decision sustaining it, and so' Mrs. Morris, who is charming, lntel- lectual woman. will pass her remaining days in comfort.
 Few.women have had such a strange experience. When young Allison came with the love song on his lips Tn the springtime of life Lucille had pledged her troth to another-Professor l.. MOT ris. In vain did Chester plead. The young girl frankly confessed that sne loved him, but her sense of honor was so high that she would not break her
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Homo Gatherings.

An enjoyable gathering at the home of Mrs. A. Megahan, 1852 Webster street, Oakland last Saturday evening was the occasion of a reception to Miss Selma Bilz of Pleasanton, who has been spend
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Thev re Engaged.

The engagement is to-day announced of Miss Bessie F. Heffron and Arthur Dietle. The bride is the daughter of MT and Mrs. Thomas Heffron, formerly of Virginia City, New. The groom is the son of the late Charles Dietle