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not have to cook themselves over tina
ire. nor wash the pots afterward. their
wives won't know them" It NAV he that
these reprobates will return reformed or.
again, 1t may be that they will be lInrsa
generate, man being q benighted crea
ture, who deems it his inaIfeDabIe DriIli
lege to be forever grumbIing at mis- food
AT least the hUmOrists and the lady nov
EXISTS tel us so. And they probably knew
IN her narrative Mrs Henderson quotes
conversations with many people she met
lost F' - '-0
Mrs. Henderson is right when she
oplneS that the loVelesS millionaire ia
poorer than loves millionaire, who with
wife and child beside him, warm in body
and In heart. sits by his own fireside
color"
Though the author devotes perhaps a
d1sproportonate amount of space to the
backslidings of Gum-boot Annie and her
frafl sisterhood. she writes at ali times
entertainingly. In speaking of st. Paul as
"a rough rider for Christianity" she
shows a commendable familiarity with
mental at the sight of a dead Alaskan
baby on whose face a struggling sunbeam
Tell, and telling her readers that she felt
as If she must "shield the dead face from
the prying beam which sought out the
secret from the cloSe-shut eyes"-and i'm
med1ately getting out her camera and tax
proves that it is the privilege of her
charming sex TO be not always stupidity
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The Guide TO True Religion by Rev p
Woods, is small handbook intended for. ali
students of the Catholic faith 1t is carefully
studied and the author points out many. facts
about religion that are not generally known
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The new edition of McCarthys Life Of
Gladstone will be published Immediately by
the Macmillan Company. The additional chap
tiers describe the last months of Mr. Glad
stones life at Cannes. Bournenlouth and
Hawarden, and close with an account of the
imposing funeral scene at Westminster Abbey
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very high degree, the result being sc
perfect that the bodies of men who
have been dead for five or six thousand
years are still perfectly preserved
They first cleaned out the contents OF
the abdomen and chest, filed these
cavities with spices and raisins and
sometimes with bitumen. and then
soaked the body for seventy days in a
solution Of 'natrum." or subcarbonate
of soda; this picked it most effectually,
In fact 1t really tanned the tissues al
most as thoroughly as we tan leather.
Naturally If they were so careful TO
preserve the bodies of dead mortals
they would be no less anxious to save
from decay the bodies of the animals
they had, in life. worshiped as gods.
So they embalmed the bodies of the
dead animals, and held over them most
elaborate embellishments that were
sometimes so gorgeous and expensive
as to bankrupt the person whose duty
1t was to take care of these sacred ones
And indeed we read in Herodotus, who
visited Egypt about 450 years before
the Christian era, that when the armies
were on the march they would embalm
and bring home to Egypt to be buried
the bodies of the sacred animals, even
when the bodies of the men had to be
left behind.
The same author tells us that the
best kind of embalming cost a talent
of silver, or about $3.50 There were
cheaper sorts, but this was the most
expensive and the most desirable.
Bearing all this in mind and stil
doubling the identity of the animals
in the Park Museum I was anxious to
know what they were. l asked Mr..
Wilcomb If l might make an X-ray
picture of these mummieS and thus
settle the matter.
He was very kindly disposed to the
idea and indeed said that he, too, would
be glad to know what they really were.
So l obtained the loan of the sacred
mummies for day or two and made
the picture which accompanies this
article.
1t was with a pleasantly nervous SEN
sation of excitement that l developed
the Photographic plate and looked to
see what l had found The fact of
finding out what was inside these
wrappings, put on so many thousand
years ago, without disturbing them in
the least and in a way that would fill
the soul of an Egyptian could he come
to life and see iD with terror, was
enough to develop in me somewhat of
a thrill of excitement.
The hand was of course very plain,
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Revelation Of an X Ray Turned on Park
Museum Mummy.

and the fourth, the very small one,
Judged from its size and shape to be a
young crocodile.
They were given to the museum by
Mr.. E. Hartman some time last year,
and where he obtained them, or where
they came from, in Egypt, L have no
idea"
So much for all the information OBJ
tainable as to the mummies. But L
am q curious person, and L wanted 10
know what animals were really in
closed in the wrappings, put on SO
many years ago by the devout priests
of old Egypt. For many animals were
held sacred in those days of the build
ing of the pyramids. The cat was sup
posed to be the embodiment Of the sun
god or Ra as we'll as the representa-
tive of the goddess Diana, and they
held to the poetic fancy that the cats
eyes changed in color with the change
in place of the sun during it's passage
through the sky. But the alteration
of animals was not confined to the cat.
We find evidence that as many as
twenty eight species Of mammals, not
to speak of various varieties of birds,
fishes, reptiles, beetles. visionary ami
mails and plants, were held sacred. To
be sure, the same animal was not al
ways regarded as sacred throughout
the whole land, and that was largely
the cause of Egypt's undoing; for the
different cities waged war among them
selves on account Of the fact that the
sacred animal Of one city was served
on the table of the citizen of another
city. Three or four kinds of monkeys
were given divine honors and their
place of greatest worship was at
Thebes.
The Egyptians believed most thor
oughly in a future life and a future life
of the body as we'll as Of the soul, so
they endeavored to preserve the bodies
of their dead and in their efforts dis
covered the art Of embalming. This
art of embaIming they developed to a
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:: !: :::: s; s.: !: !: 5: :: $:
small animals; sheep, cat and small
crocodile. Presented by z. Hart
man" One is a hand from a human
body broken off at the wrist; the other
three are wrapped so that one cannot
say exactly what they are. Even the
curator of the museum, the courteous
Mr.. Wilcomb, says that he knows little
about them, for the reason that they
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THE RA|NBOWS END,
Interesting Book on Alaska and
Tales for travellers and
Stay-at-Honnes.

AS a list of clever, carefully studied de-
scriptive writing THE Rainbow's End" is
a good book. Mrs. Henderson knows how
to express herself and has keen insight
for the unusual. She feels that which
would appeal to most of US on our first
visit to strange land and puts 1t into
such language as can be readily grasped
by the average mind. Her book is read
able and interesting.
Mrs. Henderson discovered among
other things, that Klondlke cooking was
not all that it might have been, and also
that manners in Dawson City lack re-
pose Gum-boot Annie, Muk-luk Lizzie,
Cannibal Ike and Calamity Bill and other
aristocrats of Dawson were free and IA
miliar in their manifestations rather than
reserved; and their conduct in what Mrs.
Henderson calls the May dance was
scarcely up to that standard fixed by DO
lite writer's. In the Dawson dance halls.
Mrs. Henderson tells us, every waltz
many as possible may be crowded in be-
fore the dancers shall be too drunk to es-
say further participation"
AS for Klondike cOoking-it is thing
TO make the angels weep Even Boston
beans are beyond the klondiker's ken,
and it is really pathetic to see the clum-
sy, helpless miners trying to prepare
their food and yearning for the flesh pots
of Egypt, while the provision market is
liable to sudden and unavoidable cor
nerings," as in the case of "Swiftwater
Bill, VINO TOOK MS name IIOl1 MS CHEER
full habit of making money flow like wa
ter, and who bought up every. egg of the
first invoice last spring for 5000 to spite
for breakfast 'I tell you" says the au-
thor, there's going to be an army of
contented men back in these States in
two or three years who will eat any
thing put before them, even to crow,
with an appetite. an absence of grum-
bling. and a sense of deep gratitude
which will be touching to behold. No need
of killing the fatted calf for them. Any
old thing will do for me. and thank you
And when the men realize that they do
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have not been unwrapped. "Of course,
as you know" he said, eft would quite
spoiI them as specimens to take off the
MANY LAYERS of wrapping; and it is not
necessary. We know that they are
animal mummies, and we know that
the Egyptians embalmed more cats
than any other animal, for the reason
that cats were more plentiful than any
other animal, so I thought one was prob
ably a cat. and another perhaps a sheep,
though it is rather small for a sheep.
One is very easily seen to be hand
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KNIGH, OF HONOR.

AS a result of the smoker and increase
meeting given by Yerba Buena Lodge on
the 10Th of September twenty-one appli-
cations were received. eighteen of which
have been accepted by the medical ex-
amner. The others are yet to be ex-
amned.
Fortuna Lodge will hereafter meet on
the second and fourth Tuesdays, and 1t
extends welcome to all fraters.
The guests VINO attended the entertain
ment of Anchor Lodge were delighted
with the fine programme presented. Ten
of the guests presented applications to
join.
The supreme reporters list, dated Oc-
tober L. shows 131 deaths during the pre-
vious month of which six occurred In
California All the death claims for Sep
TENDER have been paid,
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DEGREE OF HONOR.

1.-The late war with Spain,' an Illus
trated lecture to be delivered on Tuesday
evening next before Silver Spray Lodge
by William H. Jordan, p S. M. W., prom
ises to be a very interesting one. 1t will
be given in Excelsior Hall.
The proceedings of the Superior Lodge
bound in purple and gold have been re
ceived at the office of the grand recorder.
The charter list for the new lodge to be
established in this city has received a
number of signatures.
The drill team of Ivy Lodge has been
reorganized and Grand Recorder Mrs. K.
S. Poland has been retained as captain.
Quite a number of applications have
lately been received for the beneficiary
feature of the order
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n ONTEREY, October 1, 1S9S.-Vandasm has sprung
II II up in this quaint this
MI the old Spanish jail that is 60 A gulch
1E1 California needs filling and the
adobe structure, of the picturesque
Of all Monterey's old-time buildings, supply
necessary dirt
Already work demolition has begun, busy
days ruthlessy tearing the heavy
roof and pulling the great
pine joists fastened together with rawhide
thongs, substantial enough to stand another hundred
years. firmly that nothing but
ertion separate their masonry
The historical building stands the back of the old
Abrego almost surrounded by buildings of various
only be from alleyWay which
it is this it has rarely been
tourists looking up the queer places of this
capital Until the committee in charge of
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acters being assumed by members of the
circle. That will be followed by a pro-
gramme of dances.
ID + Cl bai VIII give an 4b an
of October. The circle meets in the Po-
trero Opera-house, and the committee
that has charge of the affair promises a
programme that will be worth the time
spent in going the long distance to wit
ness it.
Inter Nos Circle had a very pleasant
social hour Wednesday night after the
close of the meeting, a number of home
games being inaugurated. After that cof-
fee and cakes were served
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sEvEN PINEs CIRCLE.

The open meeting of Seven Pines Cir
Gle, Ladies of the G. A. R., in Portola
Hall last Monday night was a great sue
cess. and was held under the direction
and Mrs. Gerish, the committee on en-
tertainment. There was a piano duet by
Miss Shuck and Miss Schaffer, vocal So
los by Mr.. Mahoney, Mrs. Ida Leroi.
Corporal Christy and Sergeant Morris,
recitations by Miss Bessie Harvey and
Sergeant Bailey, and vocal selections by
a quartet composed of Messrs. Mahoney,
Gage Mcclure and Ayers. Mrs. NJ. Co
don presided at the piano during the pro-
gramme of dances that followed.
The ladies of this circle will hold one
of their popular campfires in the latter
part of the month
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THE CHOSEN FRIENDS.

On the tour through the north Grand
Councillor Boehm and Grand Recorder
Wallis visited North Star Council, Noun
tain Vale Council and Lassen Council,
finding them all well attended and pros
porous
The officers named paid a visit to
Riverside Council and the grand councillor
visited Ormsby Council in Carson, New.
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ments centennial anniversary .Ameri-
California in July 1885, discovered the
old place signboard it telling its and
many Monterey residents did as a
the Spanish rule. The structure is a genuine
walls being made of the huge blocks
after the primitive style without the chalk rock
that experience taught T-onereyans for the
their adobe is a
nodous strongly and comparatively comfortable
prison.
1t built in 1906, when Monterey the govern
chief military
Alta California. 1t first military prison
afterward degenerated a common JAIL as such
being used until comparatively date.
Some of the noted CALIFORNIA; early
troublous times it's sub
stanta1 walls, with
remaining Montereys position as
the leading in Alta California
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At that place there was a large represen-
tation of the membership, and at the
close of the business the visitor was in
yited to an excellent banquet at the
OrmSby.
The grand officers visited Travertina
Council at Bridgeport: also Standard
Council at Bodie. At the latter place theT
were exceedingly well received and treat
ed, everything being done to make their
went TO Virginia City, where Comstoct
and Unity, Councils. held joint session.
evans Council of this city has now.
and it has recently received by card
Grand Warden Mrs. Pratt and Past
Grand Assistant Councillor Pratt into
membership.
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four weeks visit in Santa Clara County,
and Past President Miss L. Fahrenkrug
has returned after having spent vaca,
ton of five weeks in Sonoma County and
vicinity.
ORC Elmo Parlor has arranged to give
a grand ball in Native Sons Hall on next
Thursday night in aid of the new board
of relief The object is q most deserving
one. and it should receive the financial
encouragement not only of the members
of the order but of every one who would
like to see the home for Native
Daughters established at an early day.
The committee from Las Tomas Parlor
has completed its arrangements for the
military german to be given on the night
of the DIST of October in celebration of
the sixth anniversary of the institution of
arIo
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AMERICAN GIJILD's PARTY.

The entertainment and hop that was
given in Native Sons Hall by San Fran
cisco CHAPTER of the American Guild last
Friday night was attended by very
large number of people, the majority of
whom were not members of the order.
The hall was most tastefully decorated,
and, taken as a whole, the affair was one
of the finest that has been given in this
hall in many a month. The very choice
programme that was presented included
an overture by Mearn's orchestra; Chi
nese impersonation and musical bottles,
E. ]. Brown, each a fine performance;
vocal selections by the Arcadian quartet.
Miss May Cullen Miss Edith Hanks, Miss
Florence Connor and Miss Jeanette
Partridge; "Legende" on the violin,
solo Miss May Cullen. violin obligato
Henry Larsen; accompanist, Miss Alice
Whitby Lewis: This was a most charm,
ing rendition by a young lady. possessed
of a sweet voice, and was loudly APP
plauded Maurice L. Asher, governor of
the chapter, delivered a logical address
ter which DR.. E. w. Pratt recited The
New Woman; DR.. Ben Stitch gave a
barytone solo; Louis Huffsch1mid1ti; The
Dutch Comedian" entertained with comic .o1
selections, and the quartet rendered You
Spotted Snakes" Then followed dancing
DR.. A T. Derby, J. G; Cullen, W s.
Hickey, Charles Huffschmidt, ]. r.
Wear, R. w. McGarvie, Mrs. Isabel NJ.
Strong and Mrs. s. D.. Prizes is due the
ate and choice event ever given under
the auspices of this chapter.
The chapter is making arrangements
for a jinks to be given some time before
the election.
COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST OF
AMERICA.
On Thursday night, October 6, Palo Alto
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THE NATIVE SONS.

II. H. Briggs of San Jose has extended
an invitation to California Camp of the
Degree of the Argonauts to visit the Gar
den City during the current month for
the purpose of comforting the popular de-
gree on a number of the Native Sons of
that nlaca
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MASONIC GRAND LODGE.

MASONIC GRAND LODGE.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of California
will meet in annual convocation in the
temple in this city on the 18th of next
following Saturday The reports that
have been received up to this time snow
that during the year that is Closing lht
Masonic fraternity has progressed very
favorably.
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR.
Last Tuesday night Ivy Chapter, OF
which Charles L. Patton is worthy pat
ron and Mrs. c. c. Dow is worthy mat
ron. was visited by the worthy grand
matron, Mrs. Porter, it being the occa-
sion of the district meeting. There was
present a large number of members OF
the order and the meeting was very in
toresting one. There were four iniua-
tons. the work being done in most
commendable manner, and four PROPOSE
tions were received. After the business
of the evening there was an excellent col
lation. of which more than a hundred and
fifty partook. The chapter is arranging
for a grand entertainment to be given
in the main hall Of the Golden cate com
mandery Asylum on Suffer street on the
18th Of October. An unusually fine pro-
gramme will be presented, and one OF
the features will be cake walk by the
ladies and gentlemen who recently made
such a hit in that line before stanford
Parlor of the Native Sons. The several
couples who took part there Will De audeu
to by several members of the chapter.
1t is expected TO make this the greatest
cake walk that was ever given in this
Beulah Chapter at South San Francisco
was visited on Monday night by the
worthy matron, and during her stay there
there were two limitations and the election
of one candidate.
The worthy grand matron PAID an
official visit to Miramonte CHAPTER
at Mountain View last wednesday
night. on the 5th inst. she will
visit the chapter at Holhster, ana
She will visit Silver Star Chapter on the
18th, which will be the last official visit
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THE PROGRESSIVE COUNCILS

The Progressive Councils of the Order
of Chosen Friends will commence a series
of winter meetings in the hall Of Golden
Gate Council, in the Alcazar building on
the evening of Friday. the 18th of 'Octo-
Der. The committee on good of the order
has arranged for an entertainment and
social for that coca sion.
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LADIES OF THE MAcCABEEs

California Hive gave an Eat home" IN
the Foresters building last Wednesday
night, and there was a good attendance
of the membership and friends After a.
few words about the order, spoken nv
those who are not members, there was
dancing, interspersed with Interesting
numbers. Mrs. Arthur favored with q
vocal solo, Little Tryphina Pritchard. the
wonderful elocutionist gave an exhibio
ton of her talent and also an exhibition
of fancy dancing; Frank Arthur recfted
Asleep at the Railroad Crossing" ana
Miss Williams favored with recitation
The affair was well managed and tba.
evening passed off very pleasantly 40
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COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST

Last Monday the supreme chief comnan-
ion, supreme left guide and supreme Sc
rotary paid visit to Violet Circle and
there was very agreeable meeting
On Tuesday the su RENE chief comma nio,,
and delegation from California C1ircIa
visited Washington Circle.
Twin Peaks Circle had a iollv .soo;o1' T.,
Foresters' Hall last Thursday night ~
The party that was given last Wednes-
day night by Liberty Circle was wei a.
spent. 'AS
Washington Circle announces a party to
be given on the night of the 10th of Octo-
ber NO'
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INDEPENDENT FoREsTERs

At a meeting of Court Golden Era las+
Monday night Chief Deputy High Chief
Ranger Solomon was present and vo,,a .
detailed account of the doings of the SUI
prene court at it's recent session in To-
ronto, Canada.
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ANCIENT ORDER OF WORKMEN.

San Ieandro Lodge NO. IL was tlle re-
cipient of a fraternal visit from Oakland
brethren on the oath ultimo me 1eehne
of fraternity was well exemplihed- "A
worthy example was set by the brothers
of the various lodges of Oakland that
should be followed by all the lodges OF the
State.
a public meeting will be held October
q by Folsom Lodge, on which occasion
the master workman, H, l.; Luttreli, VIII
deliver a lecture setting forth the adVant,
ages of the order The screen work Will
also be given for the entertainment OF the
friends of the lodge; I'll,
Tomorrow new lodge of the order VII
be organized by Special Deputy G. 4. SUIT
ton at Whittier, near Los Angeles.
Special Deputy D. E. Saunders IS es-
Deputy Saunders met with painful &C,
cident being thrown from buggy ana
dslocating his collarbone;,
Special Deputy r. F. Wells has returned
to Los Angeles and proposes to canvass
that city thoroughly for membership
Plumas Lodge was instituted at C1es-
inst by Special Deputy r. ID. MapleSden,
making the seventh lodge instituted by
this Jealous deputy
A class of fifty applicants for the de-
grees of the order in the lodges of Sacra-
mento is almost completed by Special
Deputy William A. lines.
Arrangements are being made for the
organization of a new lodge at the coal
mining town of Tesla, Alameda County.
A large force of men are employed In the
coal mines a large portion of whom are
anxious to become members of the A. Q.
u. w.
The result of the picnic under the aus
pices of Hills Ferry Lodge and the De-
gree of Honor Lodge at that place was a
gain of twenty-one members for Hills
Ferry Lodge. They propose to give an
other entertainment in the near future
and have invited Past Grand Master
Workman William Winter and Grand Re-
ceiVer Sam Booth to be present.
Valley Lodge of this city conferred the
degrees on a class of five candidates on
Wednesday evening last, making an in
crease of nine for the present month.
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COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST OF
AMERICA

On Thursday night, October 6, Palo Alto
Circle will have an entertainment in
Union-square Hall. on which occasion