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The San Francisco call., 1898-06-05
THE NATIVE SONS.

California Parlor at its meeting last Wednesday elected the following named officers for the ersung term: E c. Laws. president; John OGara, R. Jansen, Louis Lacaze, vice-presidents; James J. Jami- son, recording secretary; B. F. Hanlon financial secretary: Henry F. Pernau, treasurer William B. Hobro Jr., mar shal; John F. Morse, Dudley Tait, F. H. Stale, D. D. Lustig, B. F. Clarke, J. M. Heinimann and Howard Harrington, sur geons; E. H. Folsom, trustee; William H. StanieS, collector.
 Grand President Conley has announced the following as his deputies:
 F. M Marhoffer, Parior No. 156: c. F. Bryan. B. J. A. E Belle \ Nos s5 s c Worthington' IT, 200: C.. E. Mclaughlin, Nos. ss. 13l. 19S; A; G. simpson, Nos; s. 2l; J: C. Gose, Nos. 30, Renna s a Nos ss 5s s SS ss B. F % M bwyer IT, Nos @ l62 l2s s5, POI; W. A O Brien. Nos 6. 4o 55, 7s; H, O. Herrick. No. l5s; Ben Weed, Nos. Dinkel, Nos. 1Sl. 32. 14o TO; Paul Chaigneau. Nos. 62. ss. IT; John Haley, Nos B. 26. 106. 1sO; 1 s Lus ss a 2s ' Sa $ H. Shields No CT NGs 30. 1s5; c: \. Van Norden. Nos. 1si. 4: Saul J: L. Gallagher. Nos. se, l13: Andrew Mocker. Nos: 1ss. 127; W. P Humphreys Jr.. Nos. 8S. g. Hsrrs 5 seSEss Sss hadG Iss Fl Nos s sa G ds No. B2; c. B. Cavagnero, Nos 1SS III; J. W. Ahern. Nos 42. 1s. 25. 175; c. A. Thompson, Nos II lls lsl; @ g. A P Jones Nos: 4S, 74. los lss; No JOS: j. J. Allen. Nos. l. 10; Thomas Monihan; Nos. s., leoi J. T. o.Keefe, Nos. ls7. 1ls; c. E. Reynolds, Nos. 3s 145: W. R. Milton ioe, 2s: A c. Houston, Nos. l54, 6a: F. c. os,, trander. Nos. P, 76: H. c. Hall. Nos. 4s Is7; |. N. Cobbiedick Nos. 157, 1o4; F. Barnett, isS Nos sa,;;ss 1ss soa and J Dennser Nos is! c. Kellogg. 74; H: D. Lansing. 1s7; J. R. Sin nott, 1S2; " Barton, ls4: J. D. Pfster 3s: c. l. Jo. Jones' B; J. A Halp!n. P; ]. H. Mitchell J. Jansen. 14; J: D. Morris, 1ss; c. A. Boide- mann, T. J. M Morrisey. 6; c. H. Krum. Ro: Bates J.. 14s A. Israelsky. lo4; J. c. Joly. 52: H. B. Beden. 195; D. D. Burton 8: A V Fisher. q; 2. Milton Reid so c. Richardson. 140 Louis Nonnemann. 157; Leon villier POP The officers will not have to install more than once during the term. In October new deputiea will be announced
 The grand secretary has sent out cir culars for the payment of the per capita tax for semi,annual returns. Negligent turns, are not in on time they will lect.
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THE REBEKAHS.

Mission Rebekah Lodge held another of its enjoyable socials in Excelsior Hall on the evening of May 2S. when the following programme was presented: Violin solo, Miss Emma Salter; vocal solo. Miss Ger trude Frost; song, Miss Kent; fancy dance, Miss Oleta Leith; vocal duet Misses May Adams and Jennie Winner: ballad, Miss Hazel Fleming and vocal solo, Miss Brownwood. Dancing followed This lodge has been presented by C. E. Cook, one of the members. a set of hand somely painted banners, some of her own work
 During the past week the lady mem- bers of the various Rebekah lodges of this city have been very busy in a hall in the Odd Fellows building sewing for the soldiers. 4ne work Is done under the supervision of the following manned off cers of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Association for the relief and comfort of the volunteers: Miss Mar Jensen of Templar. vice-president; Mrs Mary A Hawley of California treasurer. and Mrs. Mary l.. Owens of Templar secretary. They have made up a great deal of material into caps, bandages and comfort bags, and these are being dis tributed as fast as made. There are half a dozen sewing machines In the hall that are run all day long. and there are a number of ladies engaged In cutting and basting the goods for the sewers There are from twenty-five to thirty ladies working in the good cause daily Mrs M. A. Simpson of Loyal and Mrs Mary s. Moulton direct what Is being done at the l. o. O. F. tent at Camp Merritt
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some. new lodges in prospect in Modoc County.
 Master Workman Stock of Franklin Lodge will, at the close of the current term, when he will become past master workman, be commissioned deputy for district No. ' of San Francisco, In which are included Franklin, St. John Olympic and Fidelity lodges.
 Past Grand Master Workman w H. Barnes left for the East last Wednesday to attend the session of the Supreme Lodge, which will meet at Asbury Park on the Fist inst. w. Winter, P. G. M. w., left on Saturday.
 There will be a meeting of the district deputies with the special deputies of this city and Oakland in the office of the grand recorder tomorrow night, at the instance of Deputy Grand Master Work man Danforth. with the purpose of ex- changing views in regard to matters ap- pertaining to San Francisco lodges.
 A. R. Orr. D. D.. of Visalia visited the office of the grand recorder last week and reported the membership of Visala Lodge as particularly active.
 Santa Cruz Lodge will publicly install It's officers next month. when George F., Yale. the retiring master workman. will be commissioned a district deputy in rec ognition of his active interest during his term he served as presiding officer of his lodge
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itself up there over a period of years. When he is ready to write It he calmly speaks 1t off to the young girl Ca typewriter), who, always In readiness. comes down each morning from the tower room. And this first draft, made by the head alone, he never touching pen to paper, is practically the final draft, the revise as well, Mir. : Stockton seldom caring to touch, in the way of correction, the typewriter sheets" .. Mir. Stockton's Girl at Cobhurst," which, by the way. might as appropri- ately have been called anything else, Is an example of what the opponents of the writing machine might justly call type writer story. One of these old-fashioned advocates of pen and ink has declared that the typewriter and those who com pose upon it. sound the knell of careful strong, artistic literary work. It's ab- surd. of course, to suppose that the brain may not become as accustomed to one means of artificial expression as to an- other.
 No doubt the bard of old discouraged his literary successor and rival by his scorn of the piosaic means adopted for perpetuating those lofty inspirations, which hitherto had lived only in verbal publications. But just as Pegasus learned to depend upon the ink-well. so will his modern representative become reconciled 10 the typewriter
 However. if the blame for "The Girl at CObhurst' may not be put upon the typewriter. the author of The Lady and the Tiger" must himself be responsible. The charm of that never-fadtng literary flower is still felt, and people in all parts of the world are still working over that 13-l4-15 puzzle plot, to which there Is no
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DEGREE OF HONOR.

Next Tuesday evening Silver Spray Lodge will give a reception to the su- perior chief of honor and the grand re- corder prior to their departure for the East to attend the session of the Su- perior Lodge.
 On the night of the 9th inst. Ivy Lodge will have a public display of the drill work by it's team in uniform. This will be held in the Masonic Hall. This lodge has elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Mrs. Lizzie Wilkinson, C. son, C. of C.; Miss Josie Butler. R. S.; Miss Annie Ingels. F. S.; Mrs. Reichman, U.; Ella Van Court. l. w.; and A. A.
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an injustice-until he comes to re- fleet that the basis and roots of its civilization are Asiatic and not European. Let him once say Russia Is Asiatic' then he stops criticiz- ing and begins admiring. He is not in the last and most primitive corner of Europe. He is in the first and most advancing country of Asia" The most effective bit of illustration in the magazine this month Is sketch by Frederic Reming ton of ''Ye Spirit Dog"
 The Century Is the banner magazine for June. It prints Emory Fenns Ten
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T dtI put Illcl . di C numerous humorous sketches, the design for a Hogmagundy being a testimony to Thackeray's carica- turing ability.
 There were Pen dennises and Warning tons, too, at Cam bridge in the year
 1929, the year Thack- cray was at Cam bridge" Mrs. Ritchie writes. "Dobbin was there also, in another colored coat. AL though they did not hecome intimate un-
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THE NAIVE DAUGHTERS.

The entertainment that was given in Native Sons main hall last Friday night by Minerva Parlor No. 2, the pioneer par Tor of the Native Daughters of the Gold en West, was a most successful one, and. while it was pleasing to those who at tended. it must have been gratifying to the members of the parlor to note how well their efforts were appreciated The hall was filled with large audience in which there were number of the boys in blue from the Seventh California Vol unteers and from other regiments now at Camp Merritt. The entertainment was of a dramatic character, and included Pet ticoat Perf1dy'' and "Ici on Parle Fran cais." presented by members 0I the Lud-.
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MRS.RcHMONu oICHIEtil after they had left college, my fathers relations to Edward Fitzgerald, ,oh had perhdPPs Pendsonis soms and Warrington: and yet, my father was not Pendennfs any more than the other was Warrington.
 of those who posed unconsciously for Laura and Pendennis.
 Tn those days there was little girl living at Brighton, charming little glri with dark eyes and curly brown hair; and I have often heard the story how. she came running into the room and said her name was Laura, and how my la.her then hia heroine. She was the youngest daughter of Horace Smith, of the Rejected Ad- dresses. Little Laura married MT. John Round, and died still young, still dark eyed, gay and charming.
 Nor must l forget to mention vfs- itor who used to come to Kensington in the very early days of Pendennis. He was a rather short, good-looking young man, with a fair, placid face. It was summer time and we dined at an early hour: and one day after dinner, by day light still, my father pulled out his sketch book and began to make drawing of his guest. This was young literary man just beginning his career; his name was that he was to be the hero of the new book. or rather, that the hero was to look like MT. Kenny" # < x k X < X < < < x < X x < 4 lodge of the Friends of the Forest, will hereafter hold it's meetings on the second and fourth Friday evenings at Mission Masonic Hall, Twenty-third and Mission streets
 This order is progressing nicely, and in the near future expects to institute a new lodge in Texas.
 THE DRUIDS.
 Noble Grand Arch Golfer has fully re- covered from his recent illness, and Past Grand Arch Devote, who has been Ill for some time, is recovering.
 The picnic at San Jose by Calico and Alpine groves on Sunday, May 29, was a great success. It required fifteen cars to carry all the excursionists. The members of the San Jose contingent joined in and helped swell the numbers. There was fine programme of amusement and ora ton in Italian by F. Cavagnaro, F. N. C. A. and one in English by l.. G. Schord, P. S. A.
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THE BANQUET OF 'es.

The banquet given last Thursday night in Westerfeld's by the convention of 1898 to the delegates to the Grand Circle of the Companions of the Forest of America and to the incoming and outgoing grand off, cers was one of the best appointed af- fairs of the kind that has ever been given in the order The menu was excellent, the service of the best, and the list of toasts offered by a member of Inter Nos Circle who acted as toastmaster were appropri- ate to the occasion and were well received, !, while the responses were listened to with marked attention. During the evening Mrs. Harrington, the retiring grand chief companion, was presented by Mrs. l.. Atwood, the grand recording secretary, on behalf of the grand circle, handsome silver tea set. This was In the nature of a surprise. and the recipient after listen- ing to the high praise paid her for the good work she did during her term. could only she worthily deserved the token of rec ognition offered her. Those who respond ed to. the toasts were. Mrs. Harrington, Grand Chief Compani9n I W; Cegurn, Trustees Mrs: Kemp Van Be, Mrs. pa- wis, Mrs. Holland Grand Treasurer Mrs. Haughy, Grand Financial Secretary Miss Atwood, Grand Marshal Miss Workura, Past Grand Treasurer Mrs: Miller, Past Grand Marshal Mrs. Cornell, J. J. Cordy Worms, Mrs. McLouth, P. G.'C. C.: Ja- cob Label, M. E. Licht and Otto Loft. The banquet closed with the singing of the "Star-spangled Banner" One of the most interesting speakers of the evening was Mrs. McLouth, who responded to Our Country. and What the Compan- ions of the Forest of America Can Do to Show Loyalty to the Flag That Floats Over the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave, and Will Soon FloaI Over the Land of the Oppressed" It was a patri- otic and eloouent effort which was s,In plemented with an original poem about the Maine. The banquet committee. which worked well and produced excel lent results was Dr. w A. Atwood Mrs. N E. Smith and G. Morrison Jr.
 THE WORKMEN.
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lustrated and brings home to one the vastness, the peculiarities and the pow CT of Russia. Apart from the war articles there isn't q subject of more import ance in the magazine world to-day. Ralph's conclusion Is as follows: Let the visitor to Russia pursue his comparisons until, as nearly every one fails, he concludes that he must he doing Russia
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Mr. Stockton works.
 Tn all probability this remarkable, mag netic man stands alone in his methods of work. Without mak- ing a note, without a scrap of guiding syn opsis or scenario (as they say in stage mat ters) he carries his new novels in his head, letting often +{y,,oc $ha SrnrI- httild
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and the Masterpiece" whose ending you'll regret or approve according to whether your point of view is the estheti- cal or the ethical one. In either case you'll call the story well written Gib- sons New York Day" begins with this number. in which he presents morning types to be found in Gotham.
 The Pail Mall for June is unusually well illustrated even for the Pail Mall,
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the armada ito the following causes: l. The failure to prescribe the eff fectual crippling of the English navy a condition precedent to any attempt at invasion. ?. The neglect to secure be- forehand suitable point for making the Junction with the army. Combinations thus ntrusted to chance have no right to expect success. 3. The several actions with the English failed because the ships, which could exert their power only close to the enemy, were neither so fast nor so handy as the latter. Only those who have the advantage of range can afford infe- riority of speed. f. The disasters in the Atlantic were due either to original un- seaworthiness, or to damage received in action or to bad judgment in taking un- Weatherly ships too close to the shores of Ireland, where strong westerly gales pre- vailed, and the coast was inhospitable."
 One of the most thoughtful articles in this months Arena is contributed by
 TDa I-id
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Insurgents" two interest ing articles on Daly's Theater, New York, "Ihe Three R's at Circle City" a most picturesque view of Klondike school boy and girl life, Bret Harte's Passing of Enriquez."
 and "The Spanish Ar mada," to which Captain Alfred Mahan, the great naval tactician, writes an introduction. He at frihufaS tha fnflllra of
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tion is a lesson and an example to magazine makers. But the flower of the flock, literary and artistic, that fills this magazine, is the next to the last installment of Anthony Hopes Rupert of Hentzau,' which has such a delightfully."- fas- cinating Prisoner of Zenda" flavor that the race of fearful antago- niSfG fn SanlIalC mi uht
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THE CHOSEN FRIENDS.

The ladies of Pacific Council arranged a very pleasant entertainment and social for Friday, May 27, which was attenoed by large number of people. The follow ing programme was carried out: Address by c. M. Arnold. P. s. C.; violin soIo, Master Geddes Lyle; recitation, Miss Burke; song, M. Leady; recitation, Miss McGowan; vocal solo, MT. Donnellson; specialties, Charles Alpers. After the pro- gramme the ladies served ice cream and homemade cake. The entertainment closed with dancing. and the success of the very pleasant affair was due to the efforts of Mrs. l.. E. Clark, the instructor, and her chosen assistants.
 The picnic of the order at Finger Grove, San Mateo County, on the 30th of May was attended by large number of the members of the order and their friends. One car crowded with excursionists left this city for the grounds. The committee that had charge of the affair provided games, prizes and plenty of amusements for the picnickers
 Evelyn Circle of Chico was visited in the latter part of May by District Deputy A. E. Morton, and a very pleasing time was had. There was also present q dele gation from Del Norte Council. During the evening there were applications for membership, and at the close of the meet ing there was a banquet in honor of the visitors.
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ItIIC war udpS dIIu I11dheS announcement that the tireless Richard Harding
 Davis, though serving as correspondent for three great newspapers. will be- gin his contributions on wartime topics in the July
 number, for which he has already written "The First Shot of the War" One of the best things In the June number Is Anne Douglass Sed "MiSS Jones
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KNIGHTS oF PYTHIAs,

Damon Lodge on last Tuesday night gave most interesting entertainment and dance to its friends in Pythian Cas- tle. There was a liberal response to the
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ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR.

ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR.
 Mrs. K. J. Willats, grand secretary, has received for the benefit of the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home from fifteen different summer resorts an order from each of two weeks board and room for one person. These will be disposed of at a raffie at 50 cents chance, and IL IS eX- pected that these will bring to the fund z handsome sum.
 Last week there was an excursion of prominent members of the order and their friends into Lake County. when a tour of the prominent resorts was made. On the trip a visit was paid to Clear Lake Chapter. There were about twenty in the party, and among the number were the grand patron and his wife, Mrs. Frank Pierce of Oakland. Mir. and Mrs. Bray, MT and Mrs. Rager, the grand secretary and the assistant grand secretary.
 THE ODD FELLOWS.
 Last Tuesday evening the members of Bay City Lodge rendered a reception to about 200 of the Odd Fellows who are in the service of the United States and located at Camp Merritt. Among the visitors who addressed the meeting after w. H. Barnes. P. G. M, G. II. Morrison, P. c. M. and George T. Shaw. G. S.. were Colonel Badley. ?. c. NJ, of Idaho, Rev. MT. Stevenson, chaplain of the Montana Regiment. and Private Burritt of one of the Montana companies. The latter said. when called upon to speak. that under military rule he would not be permitted to speak before a superior officer had done so. but in the lodge-room where all were brothers he felt so full of love of the order and of Camp Merritt feas that he felt at liberty to express himself and he did. After the addresses the guests were taken to an adjoining hall. where they were treated to sumptuous collation., and at the close there was so much left that each soldier was given a package to take to camp.
 Templar Lodge conferred the first de- gree last week on a number of volunteers 0t the United States army, and last Thursday the second and third degrees were conferred on them by Yerba Buena Lodge.
 The relief committee will tender a re- ception to-day to the Odd Fellow sol -dierS
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DaVid Starr Jordan upon "The Elements Of Organic Evolution"
 Under the heading, "A New League for the West" Charles F. Lummis, editor of the Land of Sunshine, announces an important step taken in the history of the magazine, and, very likely, of the literary his tory of the West. MT. Lummis gives the names of
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The trail of the war is over the maga- zines. Scribner's publishes some excel
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take heart and change their literary creed as to the unapproachableness Of ones first idol.
 Julian Ralph's account of the trans siberian railway is the leader Of Harper
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 The Pendennis volume has an account of Thackeray's school days. 'I can remem- ber," says Mrs. Ritchie, "hearing my grandfather say that Euclid was like childs play to my father, who went through the first books with absolute ease and facility. Algebra. on the contrary, he always disliked, and there were other sub jects he turned from; for instance, he de- clared to the end of his life that he never could understand the difference between latitude and longitude"
 In distinctly Pendennis reminiscence, the ho"'- is not so rich as was Vanity
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 4terary league, and heads it with that of David Starr Jordan, of whom he says
 Ihere has not been in the intellectual development of the West such another dan, president of Stanford University, nor is there to-day in any one personality anywhere saner stronger, more vital force making for better life and better thought" Charles Warren Stoddard Ina Coolbrith, William Keith, George Hamlin Fitch, literary editor of the San Fran cisco Chronicle; Charles Edwin Mark ham, Charles Howard Shinn and Charles Frederick Holder are among those who have pledged themselves to help make the Land of Sunshine the magazine of the West; an ambition which the active, wig orous, clever head of the league has long
 Cassell & Co.'S Magazine of Art has an interesting article illustrated with hith- erto unpublished sketches on "The h. vention of Aubrey Beardsley." It tells of Beardsley's boyhood and of his devo- tion, to art when at IS years of age he worked in the Guardian fire office and had only the hours after g in the evening at his disposal What he did in the six years from then till his death his friend Aymer Valance, tells.
 A new 5-cent magazine is Ainslies, pub lished in New York. It contains a short story by Sienkiewicz and pretty little tale by Anthony Hope.
 x x x x < < * * < < x * * lum School of Elocution and Dramatic Art That the several participants were appreciated was marked by the frequent applause Of the audience. After the dra- matic events of the evening there was dancing until midnight and beyond. The success of the evening Is due in a great measure to the untiring efforts of the committee of arrangements, composed of Annie L. Donaldson, chairman; Mary A. Dempsey, Jennie Bremen. Katie Curran, Mary Creigh, Annie Johnson, Minnie II.
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THE NATIONAL UNION.

Rev. J. B. Orr of the Park Congrega- tional Church will, at the meeting of Golden Gate Council on the 14th inst. be initiated. It Is expected that at that meeting there will be presented series of views of Cuba. with an explanatory lecture by gentleman we'll acquainted with that country.