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NATIONAL Union

On the night of the 24th inst. the San
Francisco Cabinet held a meeting at 2
which there was a good attendance of :
representatives from the seven local coun-9 g
ellis, also several invited members of the
order. President Arter presided. The !
principal business was the discussion of 7
proposition to give entertainment in ?
celebration Of the eighteenth anniversary 9
Of the order in May. The opinion of ev- ;
cry member was taken, and 1t was de- 4
cided that there should be an entertain
ment something on the lines of the one :
given last year, and to excel it If possi- q
Bile. 1t was decided that there should 7
not be q ball to follow the programme to ?
be offered. 1t will be given under the 8
auspices of the cabinet.
Last Friday night the members of the 7
cabinet paid official visit to FL Do 9
RADIO Council in the Alcazar building, and 4
there the team of the cabinet initiated l
full form Of the three degrees. The at-3
to the membership of the council and of
number Of members of the order Ad-
dresses were made by President Arter of
the cabinet, Senator Field, Secretary
Hastings Of the cabinet, and number of
others.
Last Tuesday evening there was good |
attendance of members at Golden Gate
Council and a very pleasant evening was
spent after the transaction of routine |
business. There were a number of ad-
dresses, and vocal music by the National
Union Quartet
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swered This is done in Justice to the
palmtst and to those who might forward
impressions and be obliged to wait long
time before a careful reading could be
made in this column.
r. r. M. L., Oakland-A hand of talent
but poor financial returns. Strong WILL
great perseverance and courage. You lack
logic, act too impulslvely. You have in
Yentive genius. and would make a greater
success of life If you were more steadfast
ALMA M.-You will marry three
times; will be divorced after a stormy life
with your third. You will have an event
ful life. Many joys and sorrows. Not
much money in early life.
MRS. MARY Gone who has expe-
rlenced many reverses of fortune, a good
economlcaI manager, fond of home and
family. A thoroughly Independent person.
inclined to be too intense. Great trials in
home affairs. Two long voyages. Money
late in life. Serious heart affection
brought on by trouble.
MISS ERNESTINE K.-This is a happy
combination of the artistic and the practf-
cal, blending of the two natures Fond
or home and family, great respect for age.
heart so full of affection that it lives
upon plans for the future. Good ability to
make money. Self-reliant and prudent.
Fond of display. VIII marry twice
MISS BESSIE MA very versatile,
adaptable nature, generous and frank,
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Byington, who recently visited Santa Lu-
cia Parlor at Salinas is that 1t is very
progressive and taking in number of
new members. The parlor is actively at
work arranging for the reception. of the
delegates to the Grand Parlor which will
meet there on the oath of next April and
be in session nearly a week.
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KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

hN1Gt11S Of f1OINOh'
Last Monday night Yerba Buena Lodge
admitted three members by initiation and
the applications Of nineteen strangers
were read and referred to committees.
]. Taylor Rogers delivered an interesting
address on the advisability Of the city
acquiring and owning public works, as Is
the rule in a number of European cities.
Norman Lodge in body visited Ameri-
can Eagle Lodge on Wednesday. There
were present many visitors from other
lodges. Addresses were made by Grand
Treasurer Zehfus, ex-Supreme Represent
ative Grove, Deputy B. E. George and
others There was also a vocal and In
strumental programme.
Yosemite and Confidence lodges Will pay
a fraternal visit to Liberty Lodge to-mor-
row night, when Past Grand Dictator
Barnes will deliver a lecture on "Frater-
nifty" There will also be programme or
special features.
The Grand Lodge will convene on the
21st inst. IN the Alcazar. 1t Will be an un-
usually interesting session.
The list of the supreme reporter, dated
March l, shows 211 deaths, with sixty
claims paid. One hundred and eight Of
these deaths were of members over 81
years of age and hfty-two between so and
60 years.
NATIVE SONS.
Mount Diablo Parlor of Martinez will
soon lose it's very competent secretary,
Gus Weiss, who has acted in that capa-
city since the organization Of the parlor
in 1887, except while going through the
chairs. Mr.. Weiss will leave for New
Mexico, where he will engage in business.
Woodland Parlor, at its last held meet
ing. had the horor of being the first to
initiate father and son at the same meet
ing.
visited the office Of Grand Secretary Lun-
stedt last week and reported the parlors
in his district prospeHng.
Grand First Vice President Mattison
paid an official visit last Monday night to
Preside Parlor, and last Wednesday he
called on Marshall Parlor in an official
way.
Last Friday night Grand Trustee Nor
gan paid an official visit to San Francisco
ParIor and was well received.
Grand Trustee A. w. North and num-
Der of the grand officers officially visited
South San Francisco Parlor last week
After the rendition Of the ritualistic work
in a very satisfactory manner the grand
trustee delivered an interesting and in
structive address.
A number of grand officers will accom-
pany Grand Trustee Joseph (. Hawkins
on his visit to Mount Diablo Parlor at
Martinez tomorrow night.
Grand Trustee r. H. McNoble Of Stock
ton will officially visit Mission Parlor next
Wednesday night. and on the 18th he will
visit Alcalde Parlor.
The report of Grand Trustee Lewis b.
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pN@<~%~~~@A@AA-A.

appeared as Madame La Belle Helene :
pallet dancer, and let them see what she
and the like. Next Saturday night The ?
members of this parlor will Celebrate the 8
tWelfth anniversary of it's foundation by !
a banquet. ~
Orc Fino Parlor has devised a scheme 8
10 u5i start TT library for the Native Daugh- ]
terS Home. 1t is in the nature of a So :
O,Farrell street. The tax for admission
Will be one book for each person. A fine :
programme has been arranged There is 8
now in the home, as a guest, Miss NJ A
Edgtngton, formerly of Sacramento
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An Indian Newspaper Off ce.

This Description is taken from "The Man
Who Would Be King
"One Saturday night it was my pleasant
duty to put the paper to bed A king or
courtier was dying at the other end of the
world and the paper was to be held until
the last possible moment
'It was a pitchy black, hot night, and
raining-nOw and again a spot of almost
boiling water would fall on the dust.
It was a shade cooler in the press
room, so | sat there while the type
clicked and the night jars hooted at the
windows. and the all but naked compost
tors wiped the sweat from their fore
heads
"The thing, whatever 1t was, was keep
ing us back 1t would not come off . .
telegraph was blessing and whether this
dying man was aware of the inconveni-
ence or delay he was causing. The
clock hands crept up to o'clock. and the
machines spun their fy-wheeIs two or
three times, to see if all was in order
before l said the word that would set
them off. 1 could have shrieked aloud.
Then the roar and rattle of the wheels
shivered the quiet into little bits"
Departmental Ditties.
Such a night as is above described was
the kind of a night Departmental Dit
ties and their younger brethren were
born says Rudyard Kipling in MY
First Book
"Rukn Din, the foreman, approved of
them immensely. for he was a cultured
Muslin. Your poetry very good, sir; just
coming proper length to-day
"Mahmoud, the COMP had an unpleas-
ant way of referring to the poems as
another of those things,
There was built a sort of a book,
lean, oblong docket, TO initiate a Govern
ment envelope, bound in brown paper,
and tied with red tape"
Later there arose a demand for a new
edition. and Kipling's First Book was
added to from time to time and subse-
uuent editions We're issued under a reg
ular publishers imprint, and when the
book finally blossomed out as a London
publication 1t was as a much fatter, cloth
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at Westward Ho, in North Devon, Eng
land.
After his school days he returned to
India, and took up his labors In SUBJ
editorial capacity on the Civil and Mill
tary Gazette at Lahore, continuing this
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Madame Neergaard, pupil OF st. Germain,
scientific palm reading. 1888 Twenty-hrst ST.,
near Valencia Telephone White 1871.
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UDYARD KIPLING was born In
! Bombay, India, December 80, 1865,
the son Of John Lockwood Klpling
and Alice Mcdonald. He was edu-
I Gated In the United Services College
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= o many thousand impressions of
palms have been forwarded to this
Ndepartment for reading that 1t has
<been decided not to receive any
mere until those on hand are an
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-"He Departed Into the Mountain to PRAY"


lures
-
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membership, and Is entitled to the title
of Banner Circle" The circle through
its honorary member presented the grand
chief companion an elegant pocketbook,
appreciation of their work for the circle
and the order generally. In addition the
grand sub chief was presented two bunch
the circle, who appreciate her worth and
want to see her elevated to the position
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THE CENTURY,

the beginning. Sometimes striking fea-
ture is secured when half the forms are
ready for the press, and room has to
be made for it near the latter end of the
ter's Capture Of Santiago in the Febru-
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In the current issue of
Harper's Magazine ap-
pears the last Install
80 GTN60 Gnon ~
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which he directed; and Arthur Hough-
ton gives a realistic glimpse of Scenes
in the Spanish Capital" on the eve of the
late war. The Century Company: New
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DEGREE OF HONOR, A. o. q. w.
Anew lodge=of the Degree Of Honor WAS
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March Magazines.

- The most interesting
2Y. or important article in
a magazine is not al
- Na VIC To hn fa...A
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Kipling on Stevenson.

From "a Kipling Note Book" pub
lished by M. F. Mansfield & Co., New
York. Price 15 cents.
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bound volume with a gilt top. But Kip
ling himself has said that he loved 1t
best when it was little brown baby with
pink string around his stomach"
The first edition printed at Lahore by
the Civil and Military Gazette Press Is
now as scarce as to command from $50 to
S15e; according to condition.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-03

with securities. The drummer would see
reflected the astuteness of the road" the
bishop would admire the learning of the
CLOTH For. although without advantages
of university, culture, Mr. Foster is thor
oughly informed. He reads much of
many things. In his wisdom is included
almost every verse of Holy Scripture.
This the Senate may properly msquote in
exclaimng, Verify, wise man is come
out of the West"
To his familiarity with the concerns of
every class and profession, Mr.. Foster
joins the ability to recall the first name of
almost every man with whom he has been
fairly familiar. When he returns 10 st.
Paul from time to time he not only re-
members the man last seen here ten years
ago, but asks Charley" is he's still in
the same old place on Seventh street The
address of the Washington friend is so
frank and sincere that excessive familiar
ity is never suggested. But all this is
more than unconscious philanthropy.
Through friendliness, informality sympa-
thy, and the always acceptable bond of
fun, Mr.. Foster usually secures favora Bile
action. on the part of the other man. in
any matter wherein the senator has an
object The person persuaded is persuad-
ed unwittingly Very often he regards the
senator as a frank jovial fellow that
thinks more of good story than a good
bargain And with artful simplicity, the
senator convinces the man that the sena-
tor has innocently accepted the worst of
the transaction. This unusual and diff
tcule method of diplomacy is at least good
politics
His policy of jollity is abeited by his
excellent health. Short solid weighing
zoe pounds, ne is always vigorous and hap
ply. His frank brown eyes glsten with
81 II natfe ohs n hof
add the pquancy of experience to his
droll anecdotes. He is foo cautious to
misuse liquor but is not appreheusive of
tobacco
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-03
FAIRGROUNDS PREVENT CRIME.
Lessons to BE Learned Among Big
City Tenenents.
James Adams in the Atlantic.

James Adams in the Atlantic.
The first impulse of our charity visitor
is to be somewhat severe with her shift
less family for spending money on pleas
ures and INDUCING their children out OF
all proportion 20 their means The poor
family which receives beans and GOAL from
the county, and pays for a bicycle on the
staLment plan, is not unknown 10 any Of
us. But as the growth of juvenile crime
becomes gradually understood, and as the
danger of giving no legitimate and organ
lied pleasure to the child becomes clearer,
We remember that primitive man had
games long before he cared for a house
or for regular meals. -
From the very beginning the most en-
ticing and exciting experiences which the
children have seen have been connected
with crime The policeman embodies at
the majesty of successful laws and ostab-
shed government in his brass buttons
and dazzling equipped patrol wagon. The
boy who has been arrested comes back
more or less a hero, with a tale TO tell
Of the interior recesses sof tile7rnyytei'i-
Gus police station. The earliest pubic
excitement the child remembers is divlG-
ed between the rafting fire-engines, ''the
time there was a fire in the next block, Z"
and the patrol wagon THE time the
drunken lady in our street was arrested
In the first year of their settlement of the
Hull House residents took fifty kindergar-
ten children to Lincoln park only to he
grieved by their apathetic interest IN trses
and flowers. AS they came back an ON
nibus full of tired and sleepy children, they
were surprised to find them galvanized in
to sudden life because a patrol wagon
ratified by Their eager little heads popped
out of the windows full of Questioning
''Was it a man or a woman?' How many
policemen inside?" and eager little tongues
began to tell experiences of arrests whica
baby eyes had witnessed.
The excitement of a chase. the chances
OF competition. and the love of fight
are all centered in the outward display OF
crime. The parent who receives chart
table aid, and yet provides pleasures for
his child, and is willing to indulge him in
his play, is bllndly doing one of the wisest
things possible; and no one is more eager
for Fairgrounds and vacation schools than
the charity visitor whose experience has
brought her to This po'nt of view
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New Orleans March 2.-Secretary Hes
ter's New Orleans Cotton Exchange state
ment, issued to-day shows that the month
of February Is behind last years Febru-
airy in round figures, $4,000 bales, and
ahead Of year before last "a. OOO
The total for February was $50 1876,
against s9S,S41 last year and 4756S6 year
before last.
The movement from the first Of septem-
Der to close of February shows receipts.
7236,08l, against 74l0,S7S last year; South
ern mill takings exclusive of quantity
consumed a Southern outports, 7i2, 506,
against 7277l3 last year, and interior
stocks in excess of those held at the COM
mencement of the season. 35OS4S, against
42S OBS last year. The total amount of the
cotton crop brought into sight during the
six months ending close of February. 81
4l0542, against 9,57S, 26s last year, and H.
6l2 097 year before last.
Foreign exports for the first six months
of the season have been 5,SH,21 bales,
showing an increa1e over last season OF
4l0. 2G2 and an Increase over the same pc
Rod year before last of 1,170,42O. The loss
In foreign exports during February, com
pared with February last year, has been
lC7, 1873, and the gain compared with the
same period year before last, 12s,063
Stocks al the seaboard and the twenty,
nine leading Southern interior markets al
the close of February were / .2S7, ga. against
LAB, 1870 for the same time last year
Including ports and interior towns left
over from the previous season and the
number of bales Of the current crop
brought into sight during the six months
the supply has been 9,67S 10s. against o.
1914 .s22 last year, and 1850, 646 the year
before.
Up to this date last year $3.50 per cent
Of the cotton crop had been marketed
and for the same six months in 1897, the
percentage of the crop brought into sight
was S6.92
Note-Included in February total Is 32,-
7l9 bales plus correction by Norfolk Cot
ton Exchange. This correction win be ad.
ded to the total for the season. but moi
TO the movement of the current week.
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A SENATOR WHO LAUGHS.
Minnesota "Reminiscences of Addison
G.. Foster.


From the st, Paul Cfinn) Pioneer Press.
When the new senator from New York
tells his first story before the conscript
fathers they will congratulate themselves
upon the new senator from Washington.
For Addison G. Foster OF Tacoma, former
" of st. Paul, will laugh al Depew's fun.
The exclamation will be Oympian laugh
ter. The House of Representa- tives, the en-
lire capitol, will know that "Chauncey'
has told a good thing, and that The good
thing is appreciated Pennsylvania ave
nue. wiz smile at the echoing ha-ha, and
mayhap an anxious cabinet away up a
the white house, may on a quiet day, be
solaced by the sound of the Senates sa-
gac.ous gayety. All Of his st. Paul friends,
thinking OF Mr. Foster, think of Mr.. Fos-
ter's laugh II is a defamation of delight, a
volley of joIlty, a broadside of tickfed-
ness ''Why, when the new senator comes
East" said one of Mr.. Fosters old asso-
ciates, wen hear him crossing the state
line He'll be smiling a some story by a
travelling man, minister, or brakeman, or
al a story he's telling them. If Foster was
in town to-day we'd have heard him. When
ANYBODY inquiries for Foster a the Grggs-
C'ooper wholesale house during his visits
simply wait minute and listen. If thai
laugh doesn't revarberate down the ele-
vator shaft pretty soon the clerk VIII say.
No. | heard him here few minutes ago.
but he's gone out
From his laugh one can judge Senator
Foster. Informal, jolly, socialbility is his
field of effort and of success. In approach
ing. conciiating. wheedling men he dis
plays his genius. lie is naturally practi-
cal politician Hence he Is a diplomat. In
the various commercial undertakings Of the
old firm Of Griggs & Foster. or OF their
successor the 81. Paul and Tacoma Lum-
Der Company. Mr.. Foster has been always
the regotiator. 80 far as there is politics
in business said friend, "he was the
politician Of The concern" His aim was al
ways to establish himself with friendly
and even social footing With the other
man.
Whoever that man was-banker, drum
met. horse Jockey. deacon, negro minstrel
or bishop--he found that Mr. Foster could
give hints on spices or the Suburban.
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WATCHING KIPLING.
How the Newspapers Have Kept an
Eye the Sick Man.

How the Newspapers Have Kept an
Eye the Sick Man.
From the New York Press
The newspapers have not permitted the
English-speaking peoples of the world to
remain in ignorance of Rudyard Kiplhg's
condition. His Illness has cost the press a
great deal of time and money, toll trials
and tribulations. A force of reporters and
night editors has been kept constantly at
work, anXiously preparing for the worst.
Compositors have been retained ali night
and in the morning to set UP a few neces-
sary types for an extra
In some Offices the condition is almost
pranicky lest there be slip that will en-
able rival paper to get on the street with
the first sad news of the poets death. Ed
itorjal articles We're written days ago, and
set up in type, some of them as heavily
loaded as if The President of the Emitted
States or the Queen of England were as
sass!nated. Rules are ready to turn in
been eollated and expanded by the. clever
est writer's and puI in type. Some are
ten columns long, some six and seven.
Portraits of Kipiing, of his wife and chill
dren, and pictures of his homes in Eng
land and the United States, and of his
bungalow in India, are tight-locked in the
chases, ready to be stereotyped and bolted
on the whirring cylinders of the press.
If E6iphng should die at in the morn
ing, OF A. the reporters at the Grenoble will
communicate the sad news 10 their respec-
tive offices by telephone, with such details
as can be learned of the deathbed scene.
The night editor, or managing editor If the
latter is on hand-and in some offices he
has been there all night-orders out the
extra. Everything is in type except the
hour and minute and second of death. Plea
headlines are ready-"Rudyard Kipling
Died at - This Morning" Then follows
a long spread head" The compositor fills
in the blank hour. the stereotyping IS done
in minute or two, and off go the presses
with their mission of news. If I<ipling fails
to die-and all good folk are devoutly pray
ing that he will insist on liVing-he will
have an excellent theme for story in the
way the newspapers watched him and pre-
pared for him. Perhaps his modesty viii in
a measure be sufficiently overcome TO en-
able him to appreciate his importance in
the world.
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GEORCIA AND o
" o FLORIDA.

IreISht time from Gainesville to New York
the car left over the Florida Central and
Peninsular. The lettuce was poor stock,
but sold for $3.50
The United States officials In jackson
vile are going for the merchants who sell
cider. Samples of all the stuff sold under
that name have been taken, and sent to
washington. Where one per cent of al
conol Is found in the stuff the merchant
selling it will be required to pay the gov
eminent license
Ocala Star: Rain has slightly interfered
with the work on, the new railroad being
built by the DunneTon Phosphate Com
pany to deep water. The workmen have
already four miles graded and will Law
56-pound steel rails, which are now on
the ground. One engine and several cars
arrived during last week. and others are
on the way.
Ocala Star: If helping fourth-class
postmasters and distributing garden sass
seed" can be counted as leverage. Con-
gresham Bob Davis is sure to be the
neM United States senator from florida
we got the seed, a9do they are sprouung,
ana II we had vote Congressman Bob"
would be called higher in the councils OF
1t begins to look as though Gainesville
would Secure the new GUNNER Railroad,
and that an, agreement with the GUNNER
Company looking 10 this end may very
easily be arranged. The company has
made no proposition as yet; at any rate.
il has not been submitted in any tangible
| shape, though hint has been conveyed
to the business men of, Gainesville, which
has the appearance of coming from the
| company, and which has been accepted in
that way. The business men understand
that if they guarantee to the company a
fair portion of their business, they can
| induce them to go to Gainesville.
Weekly Floridian: The thorough clean
ing and overhauling of the interior of the
| capitol which has been in progress for a
| couple of weeks, has been completed, and
the big house is vastly improved This
week the flower beds and walks in the cap
ltol grounds are receiving the attention
of the authorities in charge. The recent
freeze killed a number of the flowers and
some of the trees, and all which seemed
TO be injured beyond redemption are be-
ing cut down and removed, and new plants
and trees are taking their places. Every
thing is being placed IN readiness for the
accommodation and convenience of the leg
stature and other prominent people who
will be at the capital during the approach
| ing session, which opens five weeks hence
| The ladies of Tallahassee always take
| much interest in these improvements of
the state house and grounds, and they
have not been backward in lending their
assistance this wear