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Monday afternoon and night at the
Clunie Opera-house Hoyt's "A Parlor
Match" It has been twice given here
in the last ten years, and has always
drawn we'll 1t has just closed very
successful two weeks season in San
Francisco. The company is exception
ally strong.
Miss Janet Waldorf, who played here
to such small audiences, in the legiti-
mate, throughout the south section Is
having a genuine triumph. At Visalia,
for instance, the people demanded
second night, and SO arranged ii that II
could be given and the troupe leave the
same night to catch the through train,
In order to reach Los Angeles in time
for the opening there. San Francisco
Music and Drama" in its Christmas
issue prints a fine portrait of Miss Wal
dorf, and pronounces her an artist of
fine ability and promise. Manager
Ficks has engaged Miss Waldorf to re-
appear in Sacramento in February for a
season of four nights in Shakespearean
roles.
January 9th, for one week, the Grau
Comic Opera Company will appear at
the Clunie Opera-house in repertoire,
and at popular prices.
January I'd Morosco's Grand Opera
house (San Francisco stock company
will appear, to remain one week, in a
repertoire of sensational melodrama, at
popular prices. The company brings
with it a carload of scenery and effects.
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At the CIunie Opera-house this even
ing Blossoms comedy, 1.-Two Married
Men" will be repeated, in which appear
the specialists, among others the sis
ters Grierson, whose bright faces appear
in cut in this department.
New York Post: Frau Anna Claud
SaarS of Nice believes that she has dis
covered a way of doing away with
sharps and flats in musical notation
Instead of five lines she uses seven, one
for each note in the diatonic scale the
spaces between being used for the semi
tones. The plan is, however, not a new
one. Systems of lines up to fifteen
were used centuries ago, but it was
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and so Paul Meurice withdrew his
name He is still a vigorous, active,
wizened little man, who was able to
go through the fatigues of all the re-
hearsals, and who hopes to launch sew
eral more plays before he quits this
earthly stage.
The English composer Frederic Hy-
men Cewen is noted for his rapid pen.
In five weeks he has composed three
sets of six songs. Being questioned
regarding his vocal compositions, he
said: Il think that my best songs are
some of those contained in the nine or
ten albums I have written, such, for
instance, as Because 'tOutcry,' To the
Night 'Adieu, etc. Of course, these
are not so popular with the general
public as are many of my ballads, but
1 have every hope that they may live
ten.''
William Sprague, who since his So
journ in the East, has appeared in
first-class companies such as Louis
James and Augustus Pitou's, is play
ing a special engagement in Yaude-
vile with The Holly, Tree Inn" at
Proctor's in New York.
*%
Clement Scott used to think the first
hanson cab driven on the stage was
in Andrew Halliday's Great City," at
Drury Lane, in April, 1867. But an old
play-goer writes to him.. The first
hanson cab that was ever driven on
the stage, in my recollection, was at
the olympic, under the management of
George Wild, in the early part of 1871.
1t was in q drama by Laman Blanch-
ard, called THE Road of Life; or, A
Cabman's- Career"
Alone in Greater New York. is at
present touring in the Northwest This
is its initial production in the West,
but SO far the signs are favorable for
its continued success.
Sousa, the composer. and bandmaster
is recovering from a severe attack Of
pneumonia. Arthur Pryor has been
conducting the big band during the
leaders illness.
The two young managers, Wagenhals
end Kemper, who are directing the
successful tour of the James -Kidder-
Warde combination, have demon
strated the 5 fact that interest in
Shakespearean and standard dramas
has not died out.
Melbourne MaeDowen is meeting
with immense success with his pre-
ductions of la Toscas . Fedora" and
Cleopatra
The Louis James Katherine Kidder-
Frederick Warde triumvirate is break
ing all records in their Southern tour.
Springfield Mass. publican: Emil
Sauer. who is TO come to this country
in January, is among. the very foremost
Of living pianists. ranking with Rosen-
thai, D'Albert, Pachmann, and the
other giants Of the keyboard. Virtuosity
Of the highest order is taken for grant
ed in a pianist Of high reputation In
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believed that it was better. It rlust
not be thought that this is an attempt
at sarcasm, for Marston, one of the
most celebrated practitioners of Chris
tian Science, says: The property of
alcohol is to intoxicate; but if the COM
mon thought had endowed it simply
with nourishing quality like milk, it
would produce a similar effect If that
were true, then if the common thought
had endowed milk with that with which
it now endoWs alcohol it would ,>ecome
as intoxicating as gin or rum. No in
sane asylum can produce a more trans
parent delusion, and yet many thou
sands believe it, merely because many
get well without medicine, and many
die that take it. They are in exactly
the same state of mind as that Of per-
sons who believe all the absurdities
about the influence of stones"
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[For the Record -Union.]
The Christmas Message.
In Judah's famed, but far off holy land
By sacred feet long trod,
The ancient legends, mid their treasures
rare,
Told how an angel, to a woman fair,
Came with announcement that she soon
would bear
A child called 'Son of Cod
Then in fulfilment OF the angels word
At the first Christmas tide,
That woman, with an infant closely
pressed,
And resting tenderly upon her breast,
Read this great truth, to mother love ex-
pressed,
Gods son does here abide'
And now to-day to motherhood there
comes,
With sound of Christmas bells,
An angel message speaking full and clear,
Telling this truth the loving heart can
hear,
That in each little infant life 50 dear
Gods sacred presence dwells.
&C. P MASSEY.
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finally agreed that the five-line staff
was the most convenient. It cannot be
denied. however, that the present silly
and cumbersome system of sharps and
flats and double sharps and flats must
be superseded some day by something
more rational. Here is a good field for
Yankee ingenuity. 1t took over LOGO
years to develop our present musical
notation, and there is still very much
room for improvement.
c. F. Junkermann, superintendent of
Music i'm the public schools of Cincin-
natl, has a grievance which he seems TO
take very much to heart. He hates the
word soloist, and begs the editor of
Musical America" on his knees and
with tears in his voice, to change it TO
solist. or else he win not be responsible
for consequences. OF course he writes:
you find 'soloist' in the dictionaries,
but you will also find 'solist' in the
Standard and Century. 'Solist' comes
from the Latin word solus, sol being the
root and us being suffix or termination.
The oneness is expressed in the root,
and in the word esolist the termination
ist is from the Latin, and means the
There is. therefore, no need for the 0
and the ist Also, if we have 'soioist,
we ought to have 'pianoist, aitoist,'
'cornoist,' etc but you know we use
spianist' sahist.' 'cellist,' 'bassist,' 'ac-
companist,' 'cornist,' etc.
some one has discovered that Sardou
was starving when his first play was
accepted by Mile. Berenger, all on ae-
count of the authors clear handwrlt-
inc. The actress would never read
manuscript, but Sardou's was executed
in so beautiful hand that when he
offered it to her she read 1t through
and then accepted it.
Musical America: Another enter
tainer heretofore devoted to humorous
lyceum lectures and Sunday-sehool en-
tertainments has suceumbed to the
prevalent vaudeville fever. Marshall T.
Wilder made his debut at Proctor ;
Twenty third street theater, New YORK;
on Monday. December 9th. II the con-
tinuous performance people work
steadily on as they have begun, they
may yet capture Chauncey NJ. Depew-
The latest Partisan sensation seems
to be the drama judith Renaud, by
the author Of Les Pecheurs d'Island-
The heroine of the play. Judith Renaud,
was great aunt of Pierre Lott himself
The subject is based upon authentic
facts which the author discovered IN
some family papers and represents the
struggle between leye and duty One
of the most touching scenes Of the play
represents an old priest-Antoine, the
director of the theater-protecting the
children from the pursuing soldiers.
A feat in rapid writing is reported by
the London correspondent Of the Liver
pool Post OF which the hero fs J. NJ.
Barrie. The one-act play, Pfatonic
Friendship which he has just pre-
sented TO Miss Winifred Emery and Cy-
ru Maude, The hero and heroine OF the
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these days, but Sauer. adds to uncoIn-
mon v.rtuosity a remarkable. personal
magnetism and great force and the
mysterious something called tempera-
ment. Those who have heard him in
Europe say that he recalls Rubinstein
in the massiveness of his effects. Sauer
is still young man. He was born in
Germany in 1862.
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Not Apprehensive.

First Boarder-The landlady has gone
to a food exposition, but I don't think
it can possibly affect us.
Second Boarder-Why should it af-
fest us?
First Boarder-Well, of course, If she
finds any cheaper kinds of food than
we are getting now, We'll have to eat
them; but don't think it's possible
Puck.
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VNlsIlapt CULLEN BHYAkr.

Seventh, between J and K; II and 7:45.
Latter-Day Saints. Reorganized-
TWenty-fourth and K.
Adventists-1S16 G., services o'clock
Marguerite Sunday-schoo1 (Congrega-
tional-Twenty-thi and K streets.
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WHO has not learned" says the New
York Christian Advocate" that If the
intellect receive from any cause NOR
bid bias or prediction, the more the
education the further it will go from
the path of truth and common sense?
There is a tradition or myth that the
Athenians prayed TO the gods that they
might have a distinctive name, and the
answer was, You shall be called fools
This they did not like, and prayed tnat
there might be some modification of
the name, and the answer was that it
might be changed to learned fools. !.
Such are they who think, that there IS
no power in drugs. either for good or
harm, but the effects are produced en-
tirely by the human mind--a doc,rire
which. il true, would justify the sub
stitution of gin for milk in the nursing
Of infants wherever it was generals
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1t is from contraries that all the har
mony in this world results.
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STATE HOUSE HOTEL
Corner Tenth and K Sts., Sacramento
CAPITAL HOTEL

BOARD AND ROOM, 81 25 TO 81 PER-
day. Meals, 25c.
Accommodations first-class Free bus
to and from hotel w. ]. ELDER, Mgr
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TURCLU HOTEL.

CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN
baths free to guests; electric cars pass
the door. FRANK MEYER Prop
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THE SADDLE ROCK
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HOUSE

FIRST-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
spect. Ladies' diningroom separate.
Open day and night. BUCKMAN G CAR
RAGHER, Proprietors. No. 1919 Second
street, between and K, Sacramento.
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MAISON FAIIRE

RESTAURANT DE FRANCE AND
Oyster House, 427 K street (formerIy near
Golden Eagle HoteD. Meals a la carte
at all hours. Family Orders, BanQueta
and Wedding Parties.
l.. FAJJRE Pronrfetor
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rs it not significant fact" asks the
Christian Register (Unit.) of Boston.
that some Of the sociologists and eth
ical teachers who are most disturbed
about what seem to them to be the
signs of moral and social degeneracy
in the community about them are men
who have stood on one side of the cur
rents of energy flowing through the
churches? Does it not occur to them
that, possibly, they have neglected to
use one of the most powerful agencies
for promoting social order? We have
no occasion to love some of the
churches or to admire the forms and
creeds through which the religious SEN
timent in them seeks expression. But
We have never seen a church of any
denomination which. was not better for
some portion of the community than
no church at all. IN community where
the church may be regarded as moral
failure, it will be found that all other
institutions are on the same low level.
The community is not bad because the
church is an agent of degradation, but
the church is degraded because the
community is bad. Happily, the moral
force Of a church is never measui ell by
its creeds and ceremonies. The re-
operative power of the most lawless
settlements on the frontier of civiliza-
ton is wonderful Begin with drinking
saloons. gambling houses and shooting
matches and twenty-five years will not
pass before these will be followed by
churches, schools and the beginnings
of art, literature and social well being.
Let the critics of society take a hand
and strengthen the things that remain.
and which remain because they are
permanent forces Of civilization and
prCgreSS"
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THE METROPOLITAN.


AN ELEGANT MODERN ROOMIN0
house. centrally located. Rooms in suites
AID single at popular prices. TraYelera
solicited. MRS. (. J. c. KETCHUM
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the London correspondent Of the Liver
pool Post" Of which the hero Is J. NJ.
Barrie The one-act play, Pfatonic
Friendship which he has Just pre-
sented TO Miss Winifred Emery and Cy
I'll Maude. The hero and heroine OF the
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Alone in Greater New York is at
present touring in the Northwest This
is its initial production in the West,
but SO far the signs are favorable for
its continued success.
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MARCHIONESS OF DONEGAL.
She Will Eat Her Christmas Dinner
in London Workhouse.

LONDON, Dec. 21.-The Marchioness
of Donegal will eat her Christmas din
ned in q London workhouse. III. miser-
ably clad and apparently in destitution.
she applied yesterday for admittance
to the Great Northern Hospital, from
which place she was removed to the
1sllngton Workhouse Infirmary She
explained that she was homeless and
not willing to communicate with her
wealthy friends, or with her husband.
who is suffering from pneumonia.
The story Of the life of the Mar
chioness is painful. She left her hus-
band in 1873, and in 1889 instituted
separation proceedings, with which
counter charges of misconduct were
made. Unsavory details Of their con-
jugal life We're also banded about. The
Marchloness failed to obtain alimony.
and has since received assistance from
her friends. She was last heard of
IN May of the present year, when she
broke her leg in a hotel elevator. and
was taken to a hospital.
The Marquis has had troubled
financial career. He was declared a
bankrupt in 1869, with liabilities esti-
mated at f51900O. He then said he
considered he was justified in raising
half million of money, in view of the
fact that he had prospects Of succeed
ing to an estate and 100000 a year.
But owing to the entail, he only sue
ceeded to f1S0 a year He was mixed
UP in financial fiotation this year. when
he lent his name to a company pros
pectus which caused the Star to criti-
cize hlm as peer with a record of
disgracing the order to which he be-
longed.''
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Final Disposition Of the invention
Drawn Up at Paris
Now as Certain as 1t VIII Be After the
Vote Has Been Taken.
Conclusions Reached by q Member
of the National Democratic
Committee, After Consulting
With the Leaders of Both Poll

NEW YORK, Dec 21.-Clark Howell.
member of the Democratic National
Committee from Georgia, and editor Of
the Atlanta Constitution" after con-
sulting with the leaders of both politi-
cal parties at Washington, telegraphed
the following to his paper tonight:
With the adjournment of Congress
for the holidays, the final disposition Of
the peace treaty is as clear as it Will
be after vote has been taken in The
Senate. Two weeks ago the matter was
in doubt, to-day it is as certain that
the treaty will be ratified as it will be
that it has after the vote has been
taken
Mr.. Bryan has been in Washington
for several days, and has conferred fire.
quently and freely with the Democratic
leaders in both the Senate and the
House. He has advised ratification OF
the treaty, and he is outspoken in the
opinion that aside from the question of
national obligation, it is a matter of
party policy for the Democratic party
to throw no obstacle in the way.
1T must not be understood that the
ratification of the treaty will carry with
it the assumption that all those who
vote affimatively are in favor of ma
tional expansion across the Pacific. OF
the Senators who will vote in favor of
the treaty there will be Republicans as
we'll as Democrats who are opposed in
principle as well as in theory to the
transoceanic expansion of our national
domain. They take, however, and very
properly, the view that the question Of
expansion is not involved in the con-
sideration of the peace treaty, and that
after the treaty has been ratified with
Spain and has been eliminated as a
factor in the Philippines problem it Will
be time enough to consider the policy
to be pursued with the Philippines, and
just here will come the real contest Of
the question of expansion
Mr. Howell then says that after the
treaty has been finally disposed of a
resolution will be introduced making a
declaration of the proposed policy of
this Government in dealing with the
Philippines, and this resolution will be-
framed very much on the basis of the
Cuban resolution adopted coincident
with the declaration of war, in which
it was declared that the policy of this
Government would be to give the peo-
pie of Cuba a free and independent gov
ernment of their own.
Mr.. Howell further says: '"The vote
on this proposed resolution will not be
confined by any means to party lines.
and the outcome is in doubt A large I
majority of the Democrats will vote in
favor of it, and a large majority Of
the Republicans will vote against it.
but the size of each minority is satisfac-
torily involved in doubt is such as to
render exceedingly questionable the
final action that will be taken on the
resolution"
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Are Similar in Import to Those Sent to Our
Officers at Santiago.
Filipinos to Be Assured That the
United States Assumes Military
Control Of the Philippines in a
Spirit Of Peace and Friendship,
and That All Civil Rights and
Privileges Heretofore Enjoyed
Will Be Continued.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-At to-
days Cabinet meeting Secretary Hay
was the only absentee. Immediately on
assembling, the President stated to
those present who did not accompany
him on his trip, that he had decided
to appoint our present Embassador to
Russia, Mr.. Hitchcock, as Secretary of
the Interior to succeed Mr.. Bliss, who
retires from that Office upon the quail
fication of Mr.. Hitchcock, which is ex-
pected to take place some time in
February next.
The members who We're personally
acquainted with Mr. Hitchcock spoke
of him in the highest terms, and all
agreed that the selection was admir-
able.
The Cabinet discussed the instruc-
tions to be sent to General Otis at Ma
Mia, which will be promulgated there
as a proclamation of the President. The
Instructions are similar in import to
those sent to our officers at Santiago
upon the occupation of that city by the
United States troops. They assure the
FilipinoS that the United States as
sumes military control of the Philip
pines in a spirit of peace and friendship,
and that all civil rights and privileges
that they have hitherto enjoyed will be
continued, and that it is the purpose Of
this Government to relieve in all ways
the unjust burdens they have borne,
and ask for the cooperation of all good
citizens in maintaining order to the
end that peace and prosperity may be
restored. So far as is practicable. all
efficient civil officers will be retained
in the official positions they now oc-
cupy and fair justice will be admins
tered to all.
1t has been decided not to give out
the text of the instructions to General
Otis until about the time of their ar
rival at Manila, which will be month
hence.
The instructions also make temporary
arrangements for coasting trade, much
as in the case of Cuba.
The Cabinet also decided that exist
ing conditions justified a further re-
duction Of the military forces of the
United States, and the Secretary of
War was instructed to arrange for the
immediate muster out of $4,000 volun-
teers. The details for the execution
Of this have not yet been arranged
Several of the volunteer forces in the
Philippines undoubtedly will be in
cluded in the number. Nothing definite
has been decided by the War Depart
ment as to the regiments which will be
included in the &c., volunteers to be
mustered out. 1t is said, however. that
they Will be distributed as euuitably
as possible among the several States.
and in a general way the first regi-
ments mustered in will be the first to
go out.
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BATTLESR!P MASSACHUSETTS.
THE INQUIRY INTO THE ACCI-
DENT BEGUN.
Officers Of the Warship Say She
Did Not Strike Reef, but on
Some Movable Object.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-There is still
twenty feet of water in the big drydock
in the Navy Yard supporting the in
jured battleship Massachusetts. Two
sets Of divers worked all day building
a cradle which supports the entire bot
tom of the ship. 1t is made particular
ly strong under the frames. The sup
ports had been placed as far back as
amidshipS last evening. Between that
point and frame No. 16 forward the
keel was so buckled in various spots
that it did not touch the keel blocks at
all. These facts were reported by the
divers to Naval Constructor Bowles,
but he will not make his final report
until the water has been pumped out
of the dock. This will not be done for
several days.
The court of inquiry held it's first
regular session in the court martial
room last night. 1t consists of Com
modore H. F. Picking, President: Cap
tain James Sands and Captain c. p.
Hooper. Lieutenant R. L. Russell is
judge eadvocate.
Captain Nicol Ludlow, commander
of the Massachusetts. who was the
first witness examined was asked why
he left the Navy Yard at low water.
In reply he said he simply obeyed or
ders in leaving at that time, and that
he had been advised that there was
no danger in going out at low tide.
In addition to Navy Yard Pilot Bell,
he stated that he had Sandy Hook
Pilot Weaver on board, as he had
heard that the outer buoy beyond the
Hook had been carried away and he
wished to avoid all risks. He testified
that the battleship was not forced to
change her course at any time in the
entire trip from the Navy Yard to
Tompkinsville, and she followed the
proper channels all the way.
Captain Ludlow also told the board
that the Massachusetts, was going at
half speed and with a slow ebb tide
when she struck the obstruction which
he believed was movable Between
the Battery and Governors Island, he
said, the battleship crossed the bows
of the Staten Island ferryboat Castle
ton. but the ferryboat, he declared, did
not cause the Massachusetts to change
her course. Captain Ludlow said that
he felt no shock when the battleship
struck. He concluded his testimony
by stating that he had no complaint
to make against either of the pilots
or against any of the ships officers.
Lieutenant Potts, navigating officer
of the Massachusetts, corroborated
the statements of Captain Ludlow re-
garding speed and location at the time
of the accident. He declared positive
ly that the Massachusetts was in the
channel at the time. Lieutenant Potts
also gave it as his opinion that the
battleship ran over movable OBJ
struction and that she dislodged it.
Pilot Pelps testimony was corrobo-
rative. He said, in addition, that the
tide at the time of the accident was
not too low for safety.
Pilot Weaver and Lieutenant Com
mander Schroeder also corroborated
the testimony Of the other witnesses
The board will meet again and con-
tinue it's inquiry. The belief prevails
among the officials at the yard that
neither the pilots nor the officers Of
the ship will be held responsible for
the accident.