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6 CHRISTMAS IN GREAT BRITAIN Celebration of the Day Among the Rich and Poor. The "Christmas Mold" and "Boa: Deal" in Ireland and the "Yule Log" in Iceland — Hunting the Wren—No Reliarlous Significance to the Day In Scotland-Daft Days in Che Land o' Cakes. [Special Correspondence of Record-Union* Copyright, 1891.J London, December 10,1891. Ireland in the Christmas holiday time Is sccnically, perhaps, in its least pleasing aspect, r.ut Nature's hand is alovingoue even in the Irish winter, and the blessed bold that Christmas time has taken upon the universal Christian world heart,blend ed with that marvelous compensative power of utilizing the most trilling possi bilities for human joy which the Irish na ture possesses, permits and provides a quality of Christmastime cheer which is often surprising to those whose lives are measurably filled with bounteousness and content. Of the Irish Christinas-tide itself there is little in the life and customs of the great and powerful, better than an echo of English Christmas cheer. At the country manor houses and castles there are the same feasting and alms-giving as in England. In the cities throngs surge and crowd with elation and despair in their facts ;is with us. 15ut nowhere else on this earth does Christmas time bring such shuddering, pallid, piteous poverty to stand, stare and hunger for the glories of home windows open, or the wonders of Shop windows ablaze with what these uesperately-forsaken huinaus have never owned or known. While then- is undoubtedly an almost universal reverence for the more sacred Bide of the Christmas-tide —and 1 truly know that at (east the Irish peasantry have an innate reverence for all that is sacred and good— Christmas is not gen erally observed in its high and holy sense in Ireland. It is a time for much that is tender and worthy, but also one for de plorable excess. In decoration the ivy and holly are everywhere seen and pro cured, and a tiny sprig of mistletoe con spicuously appears in all the homes of the more favored classes. Rich or poor, Catholic or Protestant, every family will possess a "Christmas block" of ash, which is the favorite, or of "bog deal," found in the Irish peat banks or bogs. This is to Ireland as the yule log to England, and it burns brightly fur the homo coining of every heart the home may own. Passing Christmas at home is a senti ment and determination more impressive and unvarying, save with the Irish no bility, than in any other land I know. And on Christmas Eve itself there cannot be found among the lowly classes a hu man soul not a lost one, that is not there, or sometimes there, within the glow and warmth. With the humbler villagers everywhere, and always with the peas antry of the south and "west, the "Christ mas mold," or huge, long candle, weigh ing from one to two pounds, if its price needs ue br^ged or stolen, is an invalu able requisite for Christmas Eve. It will simply "irrevocably be had. The bog deal block is lired; the doors are tiling wide open for friend, mendicant or enemy to enter with vend milte faille (a thousand times welcome); the mammoth candle is lighted to burn out, but never be extin guished; and while there is constant tfoing and coming, it is softly done, as if tie Nativity were still a universal Pres ence. There is always a circle of eager faces about the fireplace, where strange, weird, ever old and ever new tales, abounding in religious sentiment, are told, while the bail lights dance fairylike among the blackened, century old thatch rafters above. To midnight mass nearly all repair; then the "tea breakiast" is had; i; 096 who have saved enough brew great bowls of punch; those who have not got along quite as well upon the stirring po teen, and as the day conies in Irish roys iering with all its liberality begins. 15ut Christmas time in Ireland is one of unspeakable loss to the bird families of tiny wrens. This tragedy of the wren should have a luminous place in litera ture. Half a million of Irish children, with happens and clubs, are beating about the hedges for victims. Sacredly pro tected during every other day of the year, the wren is now sought with ferocious feeling of Come hnntin' the ■wren, says Rohln to Bobbin; Come huiitin'the wren, says Richard to Kobin; huntln' the wren, says Jack Tilaone; Come liunUn' the wren, says every one! The wren is hunted, for, according to the superstition, it must be found; its mangled little body is l>eribboned and dangled in a rush-cage, or hung from a holly branch, and, with this strange hint to alms-giving swaying aloft, hordes of youngsters shrieking - We hunted the wren through frost and snow; We hunted the wren seven miles or rnorv; We knocked him down and he could not see, And we brought him home in a holly tree! crowd the stieetsin Irish Christmas days, knock at homes and are given coin, and when the night comes hold such wakes over the dead wrens as only a master could paint or describe. The origin of this strange custom cannot be found. It is lost even in the rare and fecund birth spot for so much that gives Ireland sur passing interest—that wild, weird, whim sical, loveable phantasy called "Irish tra dition." The genuine Christmas-tide which the people of England and America know, and which has ever been such a season of joy in all Catholic countries, has scarcely been known in Scotland since the domi nation of the Presbyterian Church in the land o' cakes. The clergy have ever been indefatigable in their etlorts to stamp out any manner of celebration of the Nativ ity, and there was a time, happily long past, when ministers visited every house iv their parishes to detect, if possible, any "superstitious"' Christmas observances ou tiie part of the people. Kven to this day any sacred and rever ential observance of Christmas in Scot land is made by Episcopalian families and among the Highlanders and Island ers, who still retain strong affinities with that ancient religion for whose re-cstab llshmentao many of their ancestors lost their lives. In cities like Edinburgh, Glasgow. Perth and Aberdeen, the day is observed by the whole people as a mere holiday, an occasion for license and en joyment of the more boisterous kind, al though of late years there is a marked tondeucy to eventually adopt some of the immemorial customs of the Englii.sk Christmas. The Scotch, as a people, therefore gen erally observe the last day of the old and the first day of the new year with much festivity. Having no religious signifi cance this festivity, until late years, reached pretty closely to frantic merri ment and license, and while the poetical literature of Scotland is as bare of Christ mas reference as that of England is rich and sweet, it is full of quaint old rhymes upon New Year's time, customs a::d cheer. in many portions of Scotland, in defer ence to the march of modern ideas, and particularly significant "of the gradual en croachment of English thought and feel- Ing, these New Year's time festivities have been transferred to Christmas time, but they are the old New Year Scotch customs still, and all the real sentiment of the time appears to be that growing out of ancient Yule, or 101, which was the great annual gorging feast of the Scandinav ians. Our own Christinas had the same origin, but the early Christian missiona ries engrafted upon the festival the sacred character it should ever possess to all Christian people. The boys in the Scottish lowlands have • rhyme- Ou Christmas nght I turned the spit, 1 burnt my flngei-C, I find it yet; t>ut there is no Christmas, as we know it, SACEAMEMO DAILY KECOED-UETOK", SAITBDAY, DECEMEEE 2G 5 IS9I. —EiGllT PAGES. among them. In Fifeshire there is also the quatrain— Yule's come and Yule's gane, And we ha'e feasted weel; Sac .hick must to his nail again, And Jenny to her wheel; I but there is as little Christmas in Fife as !in any part of Scotland. The entire holi day time in Scotland is generally known as the Dnft Days, and the only day of them all that was ever held in anything like respect was Handsel Monday. This was and is the first Monday of the new year. It is the Scotch day for present making, and in most of the rural districts ! the day for friendly and family gathor . ings of a tender and genial rather than an j uproaroiiK nature. Bat Hogmanay is the I great children's and youths' day oi" the j holiday period. In olden times it was the I last day of the year. In many localities it is now the day before Christmas. No body has ever discovered what the word really means, but Hogmanay Day, wheth er the day before Christinas "or New Year's, is in Scotland that one day of the year in which all children, in fantastic dress, are permitted to sing, dance and beg from door to door in the most boist i erous manner imaginable, and no ono jis so daring as to refuse them cakes, "sweets" or coin. Perhaps this custom is observed with j greatest vigor in the Hebrides, the Iligh | lands and in the Shetland Islands. In jthe latter, at Lerwick, the children and j youths prepare for tins day for weeks in i advance. The most fantastic and out j rageous costumes vse invented. The elder ones taking part in the bacchanal are called "Guizers," and the lads and lassos '"PeerieGuizers" or little disguised ones. They learn some tine carols, but most of their songs are of the veriest local doggerel. Attired in their weird costumes they proceed from house to house shout ing as they enter, Hogmanay, Troilolay, Give v:> your white bread, And none or your giayi In Lerwick they are accompanied by musical instruments and agreeable mv- j sic is often furnished. They are invaria bly offered refreshments; dam-ing and other amusements are indulged in, for there are always crowds awaiting them at each house, and they are olten given i money at their departure. This is kept ! up through the entire night*, varied by the explosion of firecrackers and rockets, | and the dragging through the narrow old , streets of the quaint Dutch-built town of i numberless blazing tar barrels. Probably nowhere in all the world is Christinas time more thoroughly observed | and enjoyed than in England. In what ever else the English peoplo are chang ing, of jthe peerlessness or this time and hour there can be no doubt. True, Eng land can no longer bo-st ol her royal Christmas masques, costing often a quar- | ter of a million of our money, and the | Court Lord of Misrule is a personage of the past. But royal and noble gluttony, guzzling and licentiousness have given place to Christian tenderness and almost regal opulence in help to humankind. Whatever may be the shortcomings in general of the English nobility they should be credited with splendid muniti cenee at this time of the year. The whole area of their dependence is blessed and brightened during the Christmas hol iday season. It began away back in Eliz abeth's reign. In 1288 there was such a crush at the royal masque that an order was issued to the gentlemen of Suffolk and Norfolk directing them to leave Lon don bofore Christmas and give their at tention to keeping Christmas in their re spective residences. It is an inviolable social rule of the nobility to this day. Wherever English gentlemen's or no blemen's families may be during all the rest or the year, they are at their country seats and castles at Christmas. This manor house sends its folks and servants to that one, or the gentlemen, from a dozen, congregate at another. With the gentlemen, shooting, coursing or athletic e-amc-s, and with the ladies gracious calls upon tenants or each other, with most brilliant intercourse, and al ways a devout attendance at the little parish churches, rule the sweet and ge nial day. Great state marks this going and coming over the crisp country roads. At the castles it is the same, save that the retinues are greater, the feasts more tre mendous, and more respect is paid to proprieties and form. But it slay truly be said that there is not a dependent, a tenant or tradesman, and not a human being suffering from sickness or poverty discoverable in the neighborhood of these people of quality, who is not generously remembered, practically aided and tend erly succored by this class at Christmas time. Politically we may abuse its mem bers at will, but this custom makes a bet ter Christmas for theni and the world than any olden Yuletide of wassail and debauchery that ever was known. Many of the olden English Christmas customs are truly disappearing, and good riddance to them. But there is not one sweet and good old thing or custom which has not been retained. Roast beef, plum pudding, Christmas pies and buns, snap dragons with the mistletoe and holly, are all cherished with olden zest and zeal. Even the boar's head, decorated with rosemary or prickly holly is still brought in at thousands of English Christmas boards. The mummers are nearly gone, and only linger.a feeble reminder of their former paganisms in remote districts of Devonshire and Cornwall. The Yule-log may be to-day found in more English homes than iv the Tudor Christmas times, and no home is s"o poor in England that the glowing Christinas tree we have all borrowed from Germany may not be found within it. The Christ mas bells of England chime truer and sweeter than ever. I have sometimes wondered if one could find ■ spot on Eng lish soil where their tuneful voices could not be heard. Much has been written of English carols in the vein of their having disappeared. So they have, those of in expressible grossness and ribaldry that were common from the fourteenth cent ury to the eighteenth. But, in their place, from Peurith in old Cumberland to Pen zance in Cornwall, there may now be heard throughout all England, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Morn, such sweet and tender words as these of. "In the East a Gray Light," "Hark the Her ald," "Hark, What News," "Hail, Smil ing Morn," attuned to noble song. The Christmas of England, and for that matter of all Britain, and our own Christ mas are blending into one. Protestant and Catholic, puritan and prude, are get ting upon common ground in adapting and preserving all that is best in Christ mas in all lands. Church and home sanc tuaries glow with radiance less and less dimmed by rankling wars of creeds, while Christian humanity gathers closer with its strong and tender clasp the poor and the desolate at every recurring and blessed festival of the birth of our Lord. Edgar L. Wakemax. At the Newsboys' Mission School. Teacher !to Mickey)— Now, Mickey, you read the lesson to me first and then tell me, with tho book closed, what you read. Mickey (reading^—"See the cow. Can the cow run? I'es, the cow can run. Can the cow run as swiftly as the horse ? No, the horse runs swifter than tho cow." Closing up his book to tell what he has read. "Get onto de cow. Kin her jigsteps run? Be'cher life she kin run. Kin de cow do up de horse a-runnin' ? Naw, de cow ain't in it wid do horse."—Life. You've No Idea How nicely Hood's Sarsaparilla hits the needs of people who feel "all tired out" or "run down" from any cause. It seems to oil up the whole mechanism of the body s»o that all moves smoothly and work be comes delight. Something Got Away. Landlord—You say the chicken soup isn't good? Why, 1 told the cook how to make it. Perhaps she didn't catch the idea. Boarder—No; I think it was the chicken she didn't catch.—Brandon Bneksa w. «. A Little Drawback. "Dick Skinner says marriage is a fail ure?" "A failure? I thought he married a fortuna?" "Yes—but the girl that went with it has suspended payment." Ease your cough by using Dr. T). Jayne's Expectorant, a sure and helpful medicine for all throat and lung ailments, and a curative for asthma. IN RELIGIONS REALM. Expressions from the Various Religious Newspapers. The Religious Thought of the Day as Expressed in the Sectarian Press- Some Matters of Interest to Both Ministers and Laymen. In considering the case of Father Hall of Boston, and of Episcopal authority and responsibility, the New York Churchman P, EL) remarks: ''But in order to justify the judgment there must be in the bishop a power of control over those working with and under him. The ordinal dis tinctly recognizes this power. He is ad ■litted *to government in the Church of Christ.' The presbyters vow that they will obey him. This canonical obedi ence is none the less real because its ob ligation is largely a matter of conscience. The bishops of our church do not call lo task their presbyters for the language of every interview" they have with a news paper reporter, nor deprive them of their cures for some mere error of judgment. But the Iprce of a bishop's admonition, the decision of a bishop's judgment, are distinctly binding upon the conscience of a presbyter. Certainly it would be im moral to admit any obligation of obedi ence to other authority to interfere with a bishop's judgment or admonition in things for which the bishop is responsible. A vow made to the responsible head of a diocese, in matters poruiining to the per formance of clerical Auctions in that dio cese, supersedes any vow whatever made with regard to the same matter to any ex ternal, foreign, and utterly irresonsible authority. No one outside the diocese of Massachusetts can have any right even in foro conscientiue forcibly to dissolve a ministerial tie made by authority or sanction from the Bishop of Massachu setts. On such questions as these the diocesan must be the supreme and only authority, and all previous obligations are annulled by the obligations assumed to ward him by a presbyter who accepts his commission and is canonically en rolled among his clergy." In speaking of the revision movement in the Presbyterian Church, the Iv'ew York Ckrixtian Advocate (Meth.) says: "Representing as we do a denomination which h;is always regarded the distinct ive doctrines of the Westminster Confes sion us being out Of harmony with the the spirit of the Gospel as well as with the teachings of Scripture, and as being in some instances repulsive to Christian thought, we view this movement, begun in Scotland, continued in England, and now going rapidly forward in this coun try, with great satisfaction. For the most part the Presbyterian pulpit does not preach the Gospel that the West minster Confession presents. It pi'eaches doctrines which less than half a century ago were regarded as heretical as pro claimed from the Methodist pulpits. There has been little change of doctrine which Methodism represents. If Metho dism and Presbyttrianism have been brought closer together in this respect, it is because great cnangeshave taken place in the doctrinal position of the latter. The age of controversy between the two de nominations is past. There is no longer occasion for it. When Presbyterian min isters preach in their pulpits they do not bring to us a strange doctrine. When Methodist ministers preach in Presby terian pulpits we do not preach to them strange doctrines. The Westminster Con fession and its system of doctrine belong to the great past, and are not in harmony with the thought of the present; it is, therefore, fitting that they should be laid away, and that a brief evangelical creed should take their place." "The action of the Chicago Presbytery, one of the strongest in the denomination, in recommending to the General Assem bly that the question of revising the Westminster Confession be dropped, and that a simple and Scriptural declaration of the doctrines of the Christian faith be prepared, indicates what will probably result from the discussion concerning the standards which has long been occupying the attention of the Prosbyterian denomi nation," says the Boston Congregational ist, "The change of position in the Chi cago Presbytery was especially remark able and surprising. After four meetings, and after prolonged discussion on vari ous changes to be recommended, the pro posal to overture tiie General Assembly for a new creed was carried by a vote of ">3 to 18. Of the 120 presbyteries which have takeu action on the revision, twenty-six have declared their preference for a new creed. This shows decided changes of opinion within a year. If this movement should finally prevail, the Westminster Confession will be allowed to stand as it is, showing what the church has believed. That is its proper place and value. It has become plainly evident that the acceptance of all its statements can no longer be made a test of orthodoxy or of good standing in the ministry oftho Presbyterian Church." "We hoar much nowadays," says the Chicago Living Church (¥. E.), "of 'intol erance' and 'bigotry,' and it is always assumed that Christianity and especially Christianity as embodied in the church, is the very seat and source of these evil principles. So far is this the case that Christian apologists often fall into the same strain and seem to concede that the doubter, the agnostic, and the atheist are, at any rate, liberal, fair, and impartial to all classes and parties. Facts, however, hardly bear out this idea. The apostate Julian became an eager persecutor of the church. And his modern successors have been quick to show the same spirit so soon as they have had the power. So long as Antichrist presents himself in the garb of the honest and amiable intel lectual doubter, so long as his business is to weaken little by little the bulwarks of the faith, to disintegrate and pull down the structure of belief, his plea is for tol eration: il is bigotry to interfere with him. Even if the alarmed instinct of self-preservation prompts the church to dismiss him from any ollice in which he may have intrenched himself within her foid, she is met with an indignant outcry, as if she were violating some of the in alienable rights of man, and the subject of discipline poses as the representative of all that is liberal and human, lint with Antichrist at the head of a positive system of his own, and in the teat of power, it is far different. Negation be comes dogmatic, and those who will not accept the dogma, 'There is no God,' be come the subjects of a persecution which dirt'ers nothing in spirit from that of the old pagan tiaies, or the chiefs of the In quisition." "The most urgent need of Roman Catholicism iv the United States is to per suade the people who give some thought to public affairs that it is not of necessity antagonistio to the principles of republi can government," remarks the Central <'. ristian Advocate (Meth.) of St. Louis. "The task is not an easy one, for the Papacy has been in all the past the friend of monarchical institutions. It has never, anywhere else than in this country, made the least protenee of favoring the repub licanism which has as one of its cardinal principles the free church in the free State. Only here have the representatives of the Papal chair used any language that could be tortured into an indorsement of free speech, a free press, and freedom of worship. The Church of Rome has al ways claimed freedom for herself, but de nied it to all others. r: • * It was characteristic of the speeches made during the Keudriuk jubilee celebra tion that the eminent men who spoke for their church were anx ious to assure the public outside of Romanism that there was nothing to loar from the priesthood and the head of the Roman Catholic Church. No Protestant church would have had to make such a defense; its record would not need explanation. There was the frankest acknowledgment that nowhere else had the Roman Catholic Church been granted greater freedom than here. The hint was given several times, however, that the Roman Catholics might be called upon to assert their rights under the Constitution. No specific case was made out, but it does not require great penetra tion to take this as an announcement that the assault upon the public-school sys tem which has been carried on with in creasing vigilance will be made in the higher courts, if the demands of the priests are not granted. We are not sur prised at this, for the one thing which the Roman Church never lacked has been the assertion of its claims against all others. Romanism is undergoing important modifications in this country, but it has not yet adopted the principles on which free government is built." On the subject of the observance of the Sabbath, the New York Jewish Mes senger says: "The Sabbath is niter all only one of the commandments, however vital and salutary. There are other com mandments no less essential. Perhaps in an era like our own, when tli«» practi cal difficulties in the way of Sabbath ob servance are admittedly so many, would it not be wiser to lay stress on something else for a time? Is not business integ rity as much a duty? Are not modest living and gentle manners to be incul cated as well? Suppose our brother or our sister believes sincerely that one can revere the Sabbath without being a Sab batarian, shall we call them traitors and infidels if their daily life be pure, their ideals be high, their character be un stained, and they sympathize with sor row in every form? \\ hen David asks, Who shall ascend God's holy hill? the answer is not he who is a, Sabbatarian, buthe who is of clear hands and pure heart. That is the gist of the mutter any way. It is pathetic to noie that when the whole trend of Judaism is towards light, breadth, spirituality—darkuoss, narrow ness and materialism shall be taught as the highest orthodoxy. Who is to blame for it? Not J udaism, but the Jew." "If it is to be regretted that civic pride has not yet succeeded in formulating a worthy method 6f celebrating Independ ence Day, and using its potent possibili ties for inculcating the lessons involved in its creation, it is equally to be de plored," thinks the New \ork Hebrew Journal, "that the religious spirit of the people has not been sufficiently aroused to a sense of the serious National im portance of Thanksgiving Day, which is, as is tho other festival, an essentially American institution, invoked by and dedicated to the genius of its people. Festive feasting in its season is a good thing, and family reunions are even bet ter. But neither of these excellent and proper incidents of the day of thanks giving is necessarily antagonistic to the lulrillment of the primary object of the celebration, viz.: the public assemblage oi' the people in their "various houses of worship to give thanks unto tho Lord for the mercy and kindness He hath shown unto the Nation; to participate as a united people in the public profession of allegiance to the Governor of all na tions." The Christian Leader of Boston (Univ.), in commenting upoii the secession of the Key. D. F. Spalding from the Protestant Episcopal to the Roman Catholic Church, has this to say: "We have been careful to read Dr. Spalding's full statement, to make sure that by rationalism he means something more and other than the ap plication of reason to the terms of belief. On the contrary, he approves of this, and in very oxplicit terms. And he defines the word rationalism: 'It is uttei free dom; it is thinking and believing without restraint; it is individualism that will not be guided, and we all have seen it in this church, spreading and growing and branching out into the worst forms of latitudinarianism, even to the denial of the very foundation truths of Christian ity.' Twenty-two years of observation within the pale of the church ought to enable Dr. Spalding to know whereof he atlirms. Our own observation outside of the pale—and of course less reliable—long years ago led us to a sitnilar conclusion. In fact, Episcopacy insists on the accept ance of at least the words in which the Trinity and the notion of a physical re surrection are affirmed, and on tidelity to the formularies. Apart from so much, it easily accommodates itself to almost any and every form of belief. Canon Farrar enumerates no less than live diverse theories of inspiration, dwelling side by side under the protection or the indiffer ence of the Anglican Church." The Christian Advocate of Nashville (Meth.) in deploring the decay of disci pline in the church, says: "This is not a disciplinary age, and the church, not withstai. ling the Apostle's injunction to 'be transformed to the age,' will catch the color of the passing times. Looseness, irreverence, criticism of authority, are in the times—in its scholarship, in its levity, in its materiality. Other ages were rigid ages ; discipline was their native air. The home was disciplined; the school was disciplined ; the church was strict. Rules were established; rules were enforced. The novice was held in; depravity was recognized; authority and law were in voked. But the times have changed: other views prevail; the essential good ness of human nature is declared ; the rod is banished; rules are ignored or de clared barbaric; the reign of a psuedo love is established. Spiritual maturity its symmetry and perfection—are not .sought with self-denying zeal. The de velopment <>f spiritual nerve and muscle is deemed unnecessary. The knife and the severe husbandry which increase spiritual fruitfulness are rejected. The church patterns alter the times, and re verses her methods, and substitutes in substantial and barren force for a soldier hood religion. We must have a church that rises above or changes the times and the age." IN A BAD FIX. Predicament of a Pretty Toting Girl in New York. New York girls are nothing if they are not inconsistent. While they exclaim in horror ut the way their Western sisters are allowed to drive to the theater, or even to a ball, with young men, they think nothing of taking a cab from a hotel or livery stable and driving alone in the evening from one place to another; and yet annoying contretemps occur not infrequently. "Fancy my predicament one evening last winter," said a pretty girl to a friend. "I had an engagement to dine with Mrs. T , and sent the maid over to the Bre voort House for a cab, as I always do, and drove up to her house. As I ran up the steps cabby drove on", and I was left quite alone. 'Stupid of me,' I said to myself, for it was quite dark, 'not to tell him to wait till I got in;' but here the door opened and I walked into the hall. 'What is it you want?' said a tall grenadier of a woman, who had opened the door, as I threw off my cloak. 'I am dining with Mrs. T ,' I said with great dignity. 'Don't live here,' said the Amazon, lacon ically, and somehow or other she man aged to get me out into the vestibule. 'Where does she live?' I exclaimed in des peration. 'Don't know,'was her rejoin der, and shf» shut the door in my face. Here was a situation; behold me, house less and homeless, alone in the street, in full evening dress. Looking about me in great tribulation, I was overjoyed to see the friendly blue and red lights of a drug store at the corner, aud gathering up my skirts I fairly 'bolted,' as the boys say, into the shop. 'Have you,' I gasped, as" I hurried in, quite terrified, my eyes blink ing in the light. 'Oh, have you a diction ary?" "As the clerk tried hard not to laugh I realized my mistake. 'A directory, you mean, miss?' he said politely. 'Yes, of course, a directory,' aud ready to cry, I explained my situation. An older man came forward and nothing could have been nicer than their manners. The ad dress was found and the house proved to be in the next street about a block off. A messenger boy was sent for, who escorted me thither in safety and I arrived only a little late after all." Moral—Always tell your cabman to wait until you are in the right house. Substitutions of well-known adver tised articles seem to bo the order of the day. We deem it only justice to our patrons to warn our readers against this form of piracy. W Then you want an ar ticle ask your merchant or druggist for it and don't accept a substitute. An automatic chicken feeder is one of the latest developments of Connecticut genius. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Undressed Opera Audiences in New York City. Dresses Cut to the Line of Degrada tion — Joseph Haworth'S Southern Trip—Charles 11. Hoyfs Success as a Play Writer—St. l\-ter Gets Even —Stase Notes. A. P. Dunlop, writing from XeT York, under date of December ii»th, says: "The opera season al ike Metropolitan began on Monday with '.Romeo and Ju liet, 1 which, in spite of its charm ot plot, is monotonous, uninteresting and som ber. Tho principals sing in French, but the old-time chorus was Italian. The sensation of the season was, of course, M. Jean de Reszke, who made an instantane ous hit. He is a manly fellow, full Of fire, and his voice a wonderful combina tion of all the sweetness of a tcaort di grazia. In tho tender portions of the opera his tones are exquisitely soft, and for passionate phrases and climaxes, there i seems no end to the volume and strength he is able to produce, yet never losing that sympathetic quality so particularly characteristic to him. His brother, Ektou ard, the basso, has also a voice of phe- i nomenal size and beauty. Mme. Emma Ernes has improved during the last two! years, but as .luiiet Bhe was cold, «1 vhough very pretty. Victor. Capoul, who came to America first with Nilsson in a minor part, showed himself a finished artist. The boxes were lilied with the j ■UK) in bare back, unmasked bosoms and , perfumed shoulders. Waists were cut low—to the lino of degradation — and Urals, belles, young married women, wrinkled up spinsters and fat old grannies with L dgrag pocketbooks, gossiped and snick ered without a flicker of shame or a blush of modesty. "Frank Mayo's new play, 'The Ath lete,' at Niblo's, is another attempt to condense all the tragic mystery and weird romance of Wilkie Collins' 'Men and Women.' Mr. Mayo himself Cwii voys his usual originality, force and picturesqueness, but the part of Goffrey belmaync is repulsive. 'The Athlete' is sure to disappoint Mr. Mayo's friends. '"Euchred, 1 produced at the .standard for the purpose of starring Amy Lee. i.s a distressing fiasco, and, with the excep tion of the star herself, the company ottered by Manager Lazarus was a. dis grace to Broadway. The play iiself is devoid of either comic or sentimental merit, and is said to be the work of Henry Yoight." hawokth's southern TRTjp. Joseph Haworth received quite an ova tion In Now Orleans last week, where he produced "The L,eaveu worth Case" and "St. Marc" to crowded houses. The in tense, studious and careful young actor of the Northern Lake region was at tirst carefully watched by his Southern coun trymen, so totally different from them in earnest energy and quick movement, but it took him but a few minutes to awaken their interest, and before the cur tain fell he had aroused an enthusiasm seldom shown in the Crescent City. Mr. Haworth'8 sojourn in the South has been exceeding pleasant anil his business has been excellent throughout. The people in the South have given him a warm and generous welcome, and he now turns his face with regret toward the North, with promises to return with the odors of orange, llowers and spice that breathe like airs from Paradise. Mr. Haworth has, by the way, developed a great curi osity about alligators, and, during the day, has olten watched the gray old fel lows slide into the still bayou. • HOYT's SUCCESS. It is all right for some writers to jab Charles H. Hoyt, but all the same he is the marvel of the century. He has writ ten ten plays, each one of them a success and he is yet looking for his 31 st birth day. These ten plays, or rather nine of them, for "A Temperance Town" has not yet been produced, have made over a million of dollars. Of course Hoyt hasn't that money, but five other people have, or are making a fortune out of them, and Mr. Hoyt himself has, no doubt, a quarter of a million put away snugly for a rainy day, which isn't likely to strike him. "A Bunch of Keys" and "A Parlor Match" havo each made a quarter of a million dollars for their owner, and so far "A Texas Steer'; has cleared over $SO,OOO, while the profits of "A Trip to Chinatown" has passed the 950,000-mark for this season alone. If there is a shining mark of success to be pointed to, one would have to look pretty hard to discover a better mark than Mr. Hoyt, who jumped into success the very first lick, and has been forging ahead over since.—Dunlop's Stage News. THK "DKVIL'S AUCTION." Tho costuming of an elaborate spec tacular production in these days of stage gorgeousness is a most stupendous un dertaking. Take the famous "Devil's Auction" for instance, one of the greatest successes in this line on the American stage. A gontleman well versed in play house afx'airs states that owner and con troller William J. Gilmore has for this piece alone provided over 4<K) separate and complete costumes, all of them having been manufactured from special designs. Many of the principals in the new "Devil's Auction" wear at least a dozen dresses during a performance, while thoro is a constant change for the chorus, ballet and auxiliaries. There is an Oetelle dance which is decidedly the eccentricity of motion focalized. It is given by the cele brated family Tiepstie, who are amaz ingly swift and bewildering in their in tricate and grotesque evolutions. This family is a direct importation from Europe, and to bring those wonderful saltatorial artists here, owner and con troller William J. Gilmore was obliged to pay a heavy sum to secure the can cellation of their European contract. "v and i," With John T. Kelly as O'Donovau Innes aud '■Dutch" Daly as Professor John Undcrblotz. are now at the Bush-street Theater in San Francisco. it is inter spersed with extraordinarily good spc-kil ties by the different membors ot" the com pany, in th'j whole of which there is jjot a bad performer. Mr. Kelly, the star of the company, is of course the eeniur of attraction, and is certainly inimitably funny, while Dutch Daly, with an excel lent German dialect, is a close secoud. ST. P£T£B GETS KVi;.\. "The Prompter" of the Manchester U)n])ire, one of the cleverest of dramatic writers in all England, takes the cuke with the following, lor poems on St. Peter. The doorkeeper of the Pearly Gates is waiting for him. He will be for warded by the pneumatic tube : St. Peter, w:\Hving around the House, Espied a Deadhead there, And, a* a manager urbane, He spoke that I leadhead fair. The Deadhead didn't praise the show- He said it seemed to him They turned on far too many of The littie ( hrrubim. "Now I ran point lo many things— Improvements without doubt " "And I cau point,'' sit. Peter cried, "To that, sir; •this WAV OCT. | v STAGE NOTES. Grace Filkins has resigned from the Rosina Yokes Company. Maude Granger is doing a \ery large business in the .Southwest. Mrs. Raymond Holmes, nee. Cowell, is slowly recovering from her recent illness. Isabelle Coe's conception of the title role in "Niobe" has been accepted as the best yet seen. John A. Stevens, who has of late given up acting for playwriting, contemplates a journey to Australia. Soubrette— Why are the evergreen trees of Alaska forests more fortunate than I? Knight of the Stage Door—Why? Sou brette —They are given a set of firs. Frederic Bryton and Ralph Del more appear in Reading, Pa., during Christ- YTfc, / — <C Give pT-F^- Ear \> (sJ^ f To the plain facts about Pearl- *^£*/ zne > an<^ then give Pearline a •^N^-^/v^ chance to prove them, by giv s~^\ ViaV /^vX in £ il a fair trial* Noth" \ \ VbVV in^ eISG Will giVe the {F*^* same result. It washes V safely, as well as surely; it cleans carefully, as well as easily. It is as cheap as soap and better. Anything that can be washed, can be washed best with Pearline. It lightens labor and does lightning work. As nearly as we can figure, about eight millions of women use it. Do you ? You will sooner or later. J^^^'l- To peddlers or unscrupulous grocers who offer imitations of »1'^1* *• Pearline, and say, "it is just as good as," or "the same as" T ic*-^^ Pearline. IT'S FALSE—Pearline has no equal and is never l_/lS».eil peddled. :37 JAMES PYLB, New York.. «W5 s^,* &i Xgf 'Si ten Bro»rantoe to core nl! nervous disease?, such as Weak Memory W a r V <€* Lo.'sof Brain i Jowcr. Hcr.dßcho. W.'.kefulness, lx>*f. Mar.hood. Nishtlr £mi V j$L j4£hJ. eions, Nervcusness. Lassitude, aildrain? and loss of power of tac Generative j ~-s&]9 \ '.*«?* O:i'ars in cUhor sei caused by over exertion, youthful error?, or excessive / >>C >S[ /Jv -ft.' use of tobacco, opinia or sttmulanta ■» hich soon load to Infirmity. Conaump -. **w < <f<," . and li'.sanitr- Put uji corr.-iinicnt. to carry in vest pocket. SSlporpack ajKi«iaßJsa'i»iia«- ftcc rj.-iii; 6 for 85. Witt ovo-y &". o'.ior wo 'give a vrrittm qwinmttr. to curt ncpomi AsaJLTßsxvsixG. or t yvn&Vifuutneß. Circular rrcc. &MnmXmm Seta Co., Chicago, 111. For Sale at JOSEPH UAUN & CO.'S, Druggists, Fifth and J Sts., Sacrament^ mas week in "Forgiven," and then go down into tfcrte fragrant South, where they remain until the magnolias blossom and the pecan tree-: resemble huge balls of pink silk. The Southern people are sure to like both ''Forgiven*' and the stars. He had played with Booth and Barrett, Knew Shakespeare all by heart; lia ! Bung in eoznic <<p sras, And could pantomime a part. An adept on the banjo; Could do a song and danct : Took tickets on the gallery dixjr, And un;;> wt'iit in advance. Was leading man for twenty years, Audit seemed a shame to turn To have to throws part up, just Because he couldn't Bwinx. Laugtry is not ill at all, and drives about .London happy that she has can celled her American date-!, which would have made her very ill. Iler disbanded company have presented her with a sll v< r shield whh the following inscription: "Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety." 2\'o, indeed! The present is the final week of "Sin bad" at the Chicago Opera-house, and the houses have been overwhelmingly large. "Sin'.uid" is booked at Boston and Phila delphia for long runs, which are to begin immediately. It is tho most gorgeous burlesque ever organized in America, and has been a great money success. Arrangements have been completed for the marriage of Ada Lewis, the Tough Girl of "Keilly and the 400," to .lames Wright of San Francisco. It -will take plate May Ist. Emma Pollock (Maggie Murphy) will be bridesmaid, and Mana ger Mart Hauley best man. After being spliced tho couple will lly to »Suu Fran cisco. Joseph Jefferson and Stuart Robson will run against eacii other in Pittsburg Christmas week. Mr. Robson will play his line production of "She Sloops to Conquer," and Mr. Jefferson will play "The Rivals." Next season Mr. Robson will have the so-called comedy field to himself, as Mr. Jefferson devotes his time to "Rip Van Winkle." Kissing, it is said, goes by favor, but that is not tho reason of "Yon Yonson's" success and "Ole Olson's" failure. "Yon Yonson" is a good play and Gus Heesre lias the true Scandinavian dialect. ••Ole Olson" is not a good piny and Ole him self speaks tho Plattdeutsche dialect as it is used in Nchleswig-llolstein. "Yon Yonson" is one of the most amusing en tertainments on the road, "Ole Olson" Isn't. Grand Canyon of tho Colorado. JJThe walls of the Grand Canyon are in most places not perpendicular, but seen from in front they all appear to bo. They are mostly of sandstone, but in places of marble, and again of volcanic rock, generally "terraced" in a manner entirely peculiar to the southwest, and cleft into innumerable "buttes," which seem towers and castles, but are infinitely vaster and more noble than the hand of man could ever rear. And when tho in effable sunshine of that arid but en chanted land iails upon their wondrous do'nes and battlements with a glow which seems not of this world, Die sight is such a revelation that I have seen strong men affected by it to tears of speechless awe. There are no great falls in tho Grand Canyon; but many beautiful and lofty ones in the unnumbered hundreds of side canyons which enter the greater canyon. I had almost said "little canyons, for so they seom in the presence of their giant mother; but in realit3% almost any one of them would shame any canyon elsewhere. —Charles F. Lummis in St. Nicholas. Commercial Future of tho Pacific. William 11. Seward once declared that the Pacific Ocean would be the scene of tho greatest commercial activity of tho world. Taking up this great prediction, Captain William S. Merry, who was for many years Secretary of the San Fran cisct) Chamber of Commerce, writes a glowing forecast in the November Forum of the commercial future of the Pacific States, lie shows tho volume of their present commerce With all other coun tries, pointing out how the commerce of Japan is at present worth much more to us than the commerce of China. There sources of these Statce are dearly ex plained; but Captain Merry finds reason to believe that they will never reach their supreme commercial development until the cheaper transportation, which will be brought by a tranaisthmian canal, is available; but, after the cutting of tho canal through the isthmus, he shows how the Pacific Slope will rapidly be come the home of as great a commerce as the Atlantic Slope, and perhaps even greater. DIVIDEND SOTIGE. QAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION. NO O 53:2 California Street, corner Webb; branch, Xo. 1?CO Market stre?t, corner Polk, San FraaclßCO. For the halfytar onainx with S1 Bt of December, 1391, a dividend baa been declared at the rate of live aud four-tentbfl [o 4-1 O> per cent, per annum on term depos 11a, ana roar and one-half i-V/ 2 ) percent, pcx annum on ordinary deposits, free of Uixes, payable on and after Saturday, 2d of January 1592. LOVELJL WHITE, Cashier." d2B-d<tw2w J. W. GUTHRIE, "pe—^^ PlumbS npr. . Gas Fittlas, j'^T Steam nnd *^__[jij t'C\7l Hot Wator fc^L'^ B"*iS neatltlK' We lieat bui!d- r —■ ■ ■.'JsJv-{? ings by a new and t^^i&S&MisFvßi improved system. *7^l? S* Call and esamine '**«£X.;I "'«jf^»*ifctov our v.-ork, which we /w.;;:> L'i?*3Jtf*«SSagl Kuarantee to give Fatisiaction and bave fuel. •~l.':'":*^|tr /"r>«i] POkUkartcKi K>c(l*k Ditas«nrt Srud. ENNYRQYAL PILLS HjJ~V Orlxiaal oad Only 6»iUc a J~4jf f*v\ al«rc, «lwa7< -?ilab:». ladies «ck &J\jpij)l). Draf:gl»» for C»irfc«««r» Xnfuk Z>itt£P±\ ■P^^kaiS u<ll<n«' J"»nd iv Ke4 ao< CcW cietellic v%2j? JV -»O|^»»x». «i«l«i wllli Mar ribbon. Take My "Jyi 3^i ujgno oth«r. fUftue dangerous $uittu%t- \r I / — f ftieiu and imiiaHonM. At Oragfiiu, arirad4«, I *•• -^ r in «l*inp« for part!col»rt. ttiUmoßiali and \ \3" fJr *'K«iJel' for I-adlr«,"tnr««»r, bj return _ —"rChtrhotcrChMßl«kliJ«^JlßdUonM ca /^; SCHAW, INGRAM, BATCHES & CO., 217 and 219 J Street. Builders' Hardware, Iron, Steel and Pipe. Agents for Oliver's Patent Chilled and Casaday Sulky and Gang Plows. Canton Steel, Hazard Pow der, Gillingham Portland C« mente Baker & Hamilton, —IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF— HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, COAL, POWDER, Agricultural Implements and Machines, BARBED WIRE, CORDAGE, BELTIXG. Sacramento -..CaliforaU PICTURES AND FRAMES. WE HAVE A LARGE AND WELL* assorted lot of Steel Engravings, Which we oH'er for the holiday trade at very pricrs. Also, a new and beautiful line of MOLDINGS In every variety of finish. as-Frame Making and Gildinsr » Specialty. WmTTIER, FUIXER & CO. 1016 and 1018 Second Street. agoodlthTng For the coining Holidays is our CELEBR AT E D Old Bourbon. There is none in the market to equal our $3 a. gallon Buffalo Whisky. George E. Dierssenl Go,, Proprietors, Ninth and L, Streets. Waterhouse & J_ester, — I>EAL,KUS IN— Iron, Stcci. Cumberland Coal, Wagon Lumber and Carriage Hardware. "'if)-- 7-l 1 .T_7l3» 7ir> J St.. Sacramento. rvnrsiGE: meats, MOUNTAIN APPLES And the most select stock of GROCERIES. R. A. OLMSTEAD & CO., S. 3:. Cor, i'oni-tii and L Sts SHERWOOD HALL NURSERIES, Timothy Hopkins, MCXLO PARK, SAM MATBO COUNTY, CAL. Carnations. Roses, Chrysanthemums and Cut Flower*. W-SWKK3 1 PCA-SKgD >. SPBCgAU IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE OF California, County erf (Sacramento.—ln tn« matter of the estate of < lATHAKINK I>ONO V AN, deceased. Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY, the St!i day o; .January, 1592, at lo o'clock a. m. of sa'iti day, •■•na the tn art roomofeald coort^at the Oourthoese. In tho city of Sacramento, County of s^acramento, and State of California, baa tx j< n app<>i:. the time and place for proving me will of said < tetharine Donovan, deceased, and tot hearing tin.- application of Charles Uoheity for the Issuance to him of letters tt-^taiisentary thereon. Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 21st day ot December. IPOI. v. . \v. RHOADS, Clerk. By J. F. Doody, Deputy Clerk. JOHNSOX, JOHKBON iV JOHSSOX, Attornovs for Petitioner. d22-11l NOTICE TO CREDITOH»*-ESTATE OF JOHN BOLZE, deceased. Notice Is lien by given by the andenigm d. executor of ,t- of .loiiu Bolxe, deceased, to Hie creditors at, and all persona haTing claims against the said cteeeaaed, to exhibit them, with the necessary Tooehers, within four months after the first publication of this no tice, to the said executor, at the offlcfl <>! ■Tntinson, Johnson A- Johnsoa. 504 J street, Sacramento City, the same being tho place for the transaction of the business of the *uni estate, in the County of Sacramento. Slate uf | California. Kl>\\\\ki> h. BOLZfi, Executor of the estate of. John Eolze, de ei-t»l. Dated ai Sacramento, November s>B, l»!Jl. I Johnson, Johnson ft JOJXNSOH, Attorneys. d5-5tS