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SUNDAY EDITION. SOME QUEER GODS, VERY QUEER IDOLS. Grotesque 7 - Images . Carved With -■ : **'. Wild Barbaric Ingenu- * - '■'fAfff ity and Skill. ;'; IH WOOD,. IN WAX AND STRAW. William L. Gunning's, Collection of ;.. Images Brought From Heathen Lands, to "tho City of Chicago. What Ho Acquired During a Search of Seventeen Years. What : the Children of Ham Worshiped. .' '/^^l BINNING masks almost, de- J f "\ '\ '■ v< ?''*- **' semblance to tliehu f" t y^fl i ll - 111 face; strange ' figures of \ l S ■ /* wax,, wood and straw;, gro •* * V I-J '•(• tcsquo.. images carved with '..-. N*__<-v . wild .liafbaric ingenuity and skill; .gorgeous -deities robed gold—lac quered garments with . dazzling aureoles of ;. aoid encircling* their. heads— *f such ii the weird collection of. strange- gods brought from .'heathen lauds by William L. Gun ning Of tiiis'-. city, says the Chicago Herald. From tl*e flowery, lands of China, and from lotus-rearing Japan- the efforts cf their bland and s'...i.t 7 eyed sons to materialize ".their, conceptions- of a creator of all things have been.' brought- .by. 7 . Hr. Gunning •* •■-. ■ •' -A Central' American Bod. : &m^i-i-'fl^a*:J^nr: ..a*. ?*-; • : more from motives of *. curiosity than from* .-any desire to elucidate the mys teries that surround the religious worship of the heathens. ■ Many of tho symbols of mod ern belief have .been .so ostensibly derived from' wild and barbaric ideas of the wor ship of a god that the study of a compara tive mythology has become an interesting and fascinating pursuit. Thousands of years before the Christian era the rude notions of a divine being found .'expression in tbe .' worship of the elements. As language pro gressed the • desire, to have some outward form of the prevailing notions of a creator found an. outlet in the making of images rep resenting the controlling deity of the sun, fire, storm, (lie sky, nighi arid day. In'Afrlca the children of Ham crawled on their stomachs in the dust before a wooden idol to pray that the scorching rays of the sun might .not -injure their crops or drink . the water from the streams. In India the worship of deities wa« more advanced than in the Dark. Continent. Huge Idols, pro tectors of the various industries of the Hin doos, clustered around a central image of Buddha, the dictator of all. In the Ameri can continent, in the South Sea Islands, there was a continual struggle toward light. The beginning, its when and Its how, had disturbed the savage intellect as soon as ..'-•.■ •'-■' ".'..' j AFRICAN " I- ■ — " 1 . V j'^wJ- _ A Select Quartet. physical wants were satisfied and the mini began to assert its power. The mystery of . life and. the controlling influences that .'brought- good or ill upon them were evi dences of ■ some hidden power. It was to express their ideas of this esoteric being, who could destroy crops at bis will and who held death In his hands, that these savages •' carved rude images. The next step was to '. appease the wrath or implore favors of this '.'-'god by bringing offerings and falling down in adoration, and worship. . ; -These idols, gathered together during sev enteen of * labor by Mr. Gunning, are mostly expressions of heathen worship since '. the Christian era. . Not many years ago the - attempt to procure their sacred gods from • their temples would nave been visited with horrible tortures, ending in death upon the sacrilegious stranger who invaded the pre cincts of a house of worship in savagedom. Now, Christian habits and manners have ' 'obtained su'-h a foothold in savage countries that gifts Of money or "fire water" will de . vastate the altars of a joss-houso or Buddhist ' temple as surely as tbe wrath of the ends would sweep a whole village into eternity by • the exerefse of the powers over tempests. • Where once a stranger dare not place his .. foot. the doors are now thrown wide open. Among the 400 linages and objects of wor ship, brought by Mr. Gunning from all ...quarters ol the globe, the most striking is An Alaskan Specimen. the great altar from the Buddhist temple at ' Mlgoto," Japan. .' This altar is about four feet long and three feet high, and is sur mounted by images of Japanese gods, subsi diary to the great idol iv the center repre senting Buddha,- the lord of all. The altar table is lacquered In deep black. On the raised edges elaborate carvings in. brass are fastened in thin strips, and on the inside thick gold lacquer of the most artistic finish appears, its polished red and yellow surface is reflected in the deep shade of the lacquer on the. slab. The Japanese have always in * dulged a taste for executing in brass beau tiful allegorical designs, representing their poetical ideas concerning life, death and itu inortality. The panels are coveted with : carvings of the chrysanthemum ; and the lotus in bud, leaf and flower. Strange . fig ures that require the aid of a; Japanese dervish to elucidate, signs of the seasons, . the sacred crab, the beetle— the emblem of Immortality— lv studied contusion on these panels. Above the altar appears a figure of Fo, the Japanese Buddha. Tbe figure is about three feet high and discloses the god in an altitude diffusing the divine light lie is standing on a flowery lotus —the emblem of life— and is clothed in a voluminous robe of dazzling gold lacquer. His countenance is tranquil and exhibits but little expression, the fault, perhaps, of the artist. But ihe Japanese fancy for symbol ism is exhibited in bis attitude, the position of bis hands and the various artistic sur roundings tending to produce greater re ligious fervor. Tho right arm is bent at the elbow and tho thumb and forefinger meet, while three fingers point upward. This is symbolic of a belief among the Japanese concerning the creators of the world. Above the head of the god is the sacred halo from which irradiates golden rays of light. In the paintings of the early masters the nimbus or crown of glory frequently adorned the heads of the Savior, the blessed virgins and the canonized martyrs of the Christian church. A survival of a pagan idea, the nim bus signified to the early Christians and B* • - - A Burmah Blvinttji. even at a mnch later date the divine light of the Holy Ghost encircling the heads of those who had given their lives as a token of the love for him who died on Calvary. On each side of the altar are images repre senting the divine attributes of thn great Buddha. They also stand on blooming lotus flowers and are clothed .in gorgeous golden robps. Round and about the altar nre grouped many smaller idols from Hiogo, Japan. Itoiuosubi, the gcd of wind aud rain, Dharma and the sacred Trinity stand on one edge of the altar slab; the gods of agriculture, necromancy and medicine are apart from the rest, but their elaborately carved draperies vie in elegance with the more imposing figures or. the altar. Along the sides of the loom are the leaser cods of the Chinese and Japanese, all bearing marks of the artistic skill and poetical thought of the religious sculptors who carved them in wood and wax and molded and beat them from strong fibrous paper. India, the home of Buddhism and the laud of relig ious enthusiasts, is represented by three beautiful images of Vishnu, Surya Arha Pati, the sun god, raid Lakshiui, the wife of Vishnu. Chisel irom white marble, the color of the stone is bidden by a thick layer of gilt and paint. Vishnu is the embodi ment of solar energy and is represented as a young man draped with a simple covering about the loin.-. By his side is his wife, the mistress of worlds, about whose birth is told the peetical legend that she sprang from the foam of the sen that tumbled around the then uninhabited world, bearing a lotus in her baud. Bury 8, the sun god, Is seated up on a chariot drawn by the famous seven chargers, In one of his bands, for he pess sesst-s four arms, as do all Hindoo gods, he bears the lotus, in another the rosary, while the third holds the Buddhist vase. Two hundred years ago, when buccaneers swept tno Spanish main, the cupidity ot it^i* South Sea Islands. these pirates was aroused by the finding of curious idols jotted with jewels that were discovered during the sacking and looting of the Spanish seaport towns. Strange sto ries were told them of the treasures of the Aztecs in the wilds of Mexico and Central America, and many attempts were made to peuetrato to the homes of these little gods that had been carried away by pillaging Spaniards. Henry Morgan, the prime of the buccaneer?, beaded a great expedition to capture the re ligious treasures of the Aztecs, but the hard ships and trials endured during the journey frustrated his plans, and the project had to be abandoned. Mauy gods end goddesses of Aztec worship have since been rescued from the ruthless band of time, but the treasures still remain hidden from mortal eyes. A group of musty idols is to he seen among the bricl.tcr images from Japan, China and India in Mr. Gunning's collection. A faint od' r if the tomb hovers around them still and they carry marks of their burial. The principal figure among them is Tezcatlipoea, the soul of the world. Like most of the im ages from Mexico and Central America, ibis idol is of brown stone, and has suffered se verely in its contact with the " whips and scorns of fortune." Tezcatlipoea was also the "Shining Mirror," and he bears on his / *J ft f \ IB) ) g( f --S^ Tl,e Japanese Buddha. stony breast a glittering green stone. Gua temala furnishes an idol in Zimucane, the moon goddess, whose indistinct features can be traced indifferently on the stone slab where she reposes for the adoration of moon struck worshipers. The most remarkable figure is the god of Hades, who glories in the name of Mictlantecutli. Half human, half beast, the Medusean head of the god Is bent forward, the eyes peering through the por tals of Hades. From Arizona Mr. Gunning has brought the sacred turtle rattle of the Zuni Indians. California furnishes a little brown goddess nf the sky, a medicine bag and fetishes of the Sioux. Curious objects of worship from the South Sea Islands am' South America end the collection. Mr. Gunning, has laid before the World's Fair Commissioners the project of exhlbing these idols in 1893, and he is willing to expend 820,000 more iv the purchase ol objects of heathen worship. Pretty. Way to Ann,-. Picture*. A pretty way to arrange photographic and oilier views, which are reminders of one's rammer vacation, is described by a visitor to Lady" Brassey's home, and is very easily imitated. . Procure long strips oi cray or any neutral or delicate tint of cartridge paper of a pretty width to form a frieze or border and carefully cut out openings of various sizes at irregular intervals. Tack the strips to the wall in tim hallway or library of your own room, and underneath each opening place a photograph sketch or collection of cards or wild flowers; collected during the season. They should not be placed higher than the eyes of an ordinary-sized person, and they will form a very agrteable reminder of va cation days. Lady Brassey so arranged hun dreds of sketches* of her extensive travels, and they are greatly enjoyed by guests at her old home.— N. V. Ledger. - Frederick : Tennyson, the elder brother of the poet laureate, has published * a second book of poems. &^HhMBRHHBbBBR an nil I liycm m ip Hiti—i— lJMlJ' l ' i;i>i l MHiioihMMi[L»ii'PM" l| i ||l lUP" li ~TBy-' • - _.s»v ■■Mjaf— .j^u.'-Liarei^tgaiigEgjTO^aiCTm^asgseniißß THE MORNING CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. RUH AMAH'S LETTER. The City of Washington Is Fast Taking on Its Winter Air. There Will Rot Ec Any long Holidays for Con gress This Year — Tho Alaska Survey, \ Mr. Bnrdett-Coutti of London. Special to The Sunday Call, T^jyASHINGTON, Nov. 22. 18D0.-The nJI/'a city Is fast taking on its winter air, vMjM';* and people are drifting bi.ck from the North and West, where winter has really begun, to enjoy this perfect Indian summer. Besides the Senators, so many of whom have bouses here and are in a measure resi dents of Washington, by reason of their long fixed stays here, the Congressmen are coming to town. There is much work to bo done in the committee-rooms, in order to begin with the very opening of the short session. Speaker Reed's remarkable course in announcing his committees straightway after his election last year, was a suggestion of the way in which he wanted affairs managed, and his lieutenants are arranging for the same vigorous attack njron the winter's work for this session. It is even said that Congress will more nearly resemble a business meeting of full-grown men this year, and that there will, be no adjournment or long holiday, as in boys' boarding schools, to allow the statesmen to go clear to their homes to celebrate Christmas and New Year day. The Capitol building will not be deserted for a whole fortnight, and Speaker Reed will only favor adjournment for the two legal holidays. Thursday, December 251h, and Thursday, January Ist. .This insures much more activity to Washington during the first month of the session, and only the Senators with re-elections on their bauds will be expected to lag in their coming. SiT*! A special train took a distinguished com rany over to Brooklyn on Tuesday to wit ness the launching of the ciuiser Maine at the navy-yard there. During the last few years, while all the new ships have been building, launches and trial trips have be come very common pieces of news aud the navy has been altogether to the front THK AKIIY. The army is enjoying a spurt in popular in terest just now by reason of the Sioux scare in Dakota, and- the Indian news from Maudan an Bismarck quite overshadows the news of the bitter Senatorial fight now being waged in that same section. As Genera! Miles moves eastward his influence Is lucre felt here and his plea for fortifications and const defenses will be repeated with in creasing earnestness uutil Congress really takes hold of tho work. General Miles has always favored and urged Alaskan exulora tion nnd while he was at Fort Vancouver several expeditions went out from that post. The Abererombie expedition went to the mouth of Copper River, camped for a while, in 1883, and came back with poor results. The second expedition, under command of Lieutenant Alien, went to Copper River in 1885, ascended to its source, crossed the di vide to the Trnauab River, went down to its junction with the Yukon, and down that great river to its mouth. Lieutenant Schwatka followed the prospectors' wake over the Cliilkat Pass In 1883, nnd went down the Yukon to its mouth, In 1884 Dr. Ever ette, U. S. A., worked in the region between the Cbilkat Pass and Cooper River, the same country to which . the cxi edition sent out this summer by the Frank Leslie Illustrated Weekly has been devoting itself. For the past six years (since these expeditions sent out by General Miles) there has been no Government work or exploration going on in Alaska, save that of the Coast Snrvev and the reconnohs sance of the Yukon made lust year by Mr. 1. C. Russell of the Geological Survey, who was prospecting the fii-ld for future work. At this input there Is a decided Alaskan boom in progress, secret at Proctor favors sending a large and well-equipped military edition to tbo Yukon region as soon as Congress can appropriate the SIOO.OOO he asks for. The plan is to go up the Yukon from its month and establish cue or more permanent posts on its bunks as bases of supplies and places of winter refuge. A light-draught river steamer and small boat* would bo taken up th re nnd the corps would ascend the tributary streams to their sources and map the water-shed of the Yukon country. Several young army offi cers now stationed hi re are zealously work ing for this Alaska survey and will surely be detailed to accompany it if Congress, be tween its business and quarrels, will ike time to < onsider Secretary Proctor's request. MOUNT ST. I.i as. Major Powell of the Geological Survey will semi one or more field parlies to Alaska this coming year.and -Mount si Ettas will no doubt in- limbed and measured again, as the Coast Survey authorities are much dismayed at the slicing thai august summit received at the hands of the Russell expedition. The lattei edition was sent out this season by the National Geographic Society of Wash ington, under command i f Mr. I. C. Russell, who wits temporarily detailed by Major Powell, and permitted to conduct ttie survey. The Geographic Society raised an Explora tion Fund which it entrusted to Mr. Russell, who chose hi ; assistants and started in May Inst. He returned a few weeks since, and next week will give an- account of his work at a special meeting of the Geographic So ciety, to beheld at Lincoln Hull. The Bus sell" expedition reports Mount St. Ellas to be not more than 13,000 or 14,000 feet in height, while Coast Survey authorities have heretofore claimed 17,000 and 19,000 as its height, and the Russians assured the United States, at the time of the Alaska purchase, that we were getting the highest mountain in all North America thrown in with the rest of the great bargain. Taking opportunity at this time of so much inter est in Alaska, Keith, your San Francisco artist, lias sent East for exhibition his large painting of an Alaskan glacier. To those cot familiar with this feature of Alaskan scenery the painting causes amazement, and creates quite a sensation with its wonderful azure ice-cliffs rising from a fore ground of berg-strewn^ gray green glacier water. The painting lias been for a fen days at Fisher's (-store, but goes to the Cosmos Club-bouse for a few weeks to en joy the post of honor in the large exhibition room. Fisher's little gallery has bad many visitors, fists, geologists and northern ex plorers expressing a keen interest in the unique landscape. "And it is not by Pyalt?" ask the amazed diplomates, who know only that Munich artist, who accompanied the Austrian Polar -dili-ui nnd brought back so many wonderful Ice pictures. "who else can paint ice and have had the oppor tunity?" they ask, and "en Monsieur Keith of California" is being discussed In many foreign tongues. Mrs. Harrison. General Greely and Chief Engineer Melville were among the admiring visitors to the picture in one afternoon. THE CONDIT-SMITH-WOODS WEDDING. 7 Justice Field's home was the scene :of a merry wedding patty this week, when Mrs. Field's niece. Miss Louise Condit-Smitb, was married to Dr. Woods of the navy. There was a great gathering of the family friends and of the Pacific Coast colony in Washing ton, and there was the traditionally merry time, tho bride-cake, the shower of rice and the driving away wiih an old slipper on the carriage-top. Dr. Woods is stationed in California and they go to the Coast in a few weeks. Mrs. Peter Donahue and Mrs. E. Martin of San Francisco, who spent the summer in Europe with Justice and Mrs. Field, came from New York to be present at the wedding and will spend a. little time here at the Shore.ham. Mr. Burdett-Coutts of London was one of the celebrities in town this week. Ho was taken to call upon President nnd Mrs. Har rison by Secretary Blame, nnd be left them a photograph of Baroness Burdett-Coutts in exchange for those which he carries back to London for the philanthropic little woman whose name he bears. Another London vis itor has been Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, who came over to Washington, which was her old home, while the i visiting Irish statesman only came as far as Baltimore. Later in the . winter the whole party will be here. Mrs. O'Connor was a social favorite and beauty here some twenty years ago, when her father. Judge Paschal, came from Texas to fill a place in the Supreme Court ', of the District of Columbia. She first married Frank Gassaway, then-: a cashier in one of the leading banks of Washington. A divorce ensued; Mr. Gassaway went West and be came ".; the * Derrick Dodd, ■■„. whom - the whole Pacific Coast knows; and after her father's death pretty Bessie . Paschal took a clerkship in .: one of the depart ments to support herself and child. - : --.j iflfl -Hi A C'HMIMIXG WOMAN. She was one of the mostcharming and fas cinating women of her day, and traditions survive as measures of the success of the beauties of ; to-day. -Don Cameron and a score of eligible men were her suitors, but she surprised them all by suddenly marry ing Captain Wright of the army, and hying away to his post,; near Philadelphia. f In a year, or 'so Captain Wright committed sui cide, and the young and beautiful*. woman was again thrown upon her own resources.' Government employment and journalism were tried, and in the course of her news paper work she I went to London nnd met the fiery ami enthusiastic : young Irish leader, who fell desperately in love with her at ths first sight of her lovely eyes, and never rested until his suit was successful. Mrs. O'Connor has been an immense help to her husband in bis Parliamentary life, and her tact, diplomacy and social genius have done much for his causo. .In addition, she was one of the hardest-working members of his start when Mr. O'Connor started bis paper— the Star— in London. Recently she has been a grievous sufferer from rheuma tism, and has spent much time undergoing treatment at German battis.*BßM__3 Mrs. Miller is receiving many congratula tions upon the arrival of her first grand child, the daughter of Mrs. Eichardson Clovor, and quantities of flowers and the most beautiful presents have been sent to Mrs. Clover and the infant, nun amah. HE PUT ON THE GLOVES. How a Muscular .Honker Became a Sul- livau of the Wilds. ■ / 7 „ '~< r A | \p^ S 1 I A o».i»(i Certainty. Miss Summit (coldly) — Mr. Dashaway, I think it would be a friendly act in you to call your friend Mr. Clevcrton's attention to his watch chain. It Is so extremely brassy. 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When Boston was the great seaport of New England, to which emigrants ' of Great Britain were directed, among the. classes of British subjects came numbers of our coun trymen, seeking homes in the New World. It was then as now, the poor came as well as tho rich, and many of the farmers were poor, indeed. Some of these had to sell their labor for a specified sum in advance, in order to pay their passage money, thereby contracting for themselves a measure of slavery, justifiable in itself, but ever irk some and unpleasant even under the most favorable conditions. To those already resi dent in Boston who had overcome tlio first trials of the emigrant condition in a new country, this modified and limited tinge of slavery was repulsive, and so the Scots' Charitable Society of Boston was instituted on the lith of January, 1667, with the view of relieving the unfortunate poor from the grasp. of the individual creditor and placing him under the protection of the society, ex tending to him all the time necessary to repay his obligations from the money he earned in freedom. Provision also was made fo r "relieving the distress and mitigating the hardship of many a worthy Scot wheu friendless and a stranger in a foreign land." Of course emigration then was numbered by tens and not by tens of thousands as now. so the society at its organization was limited to a membership of 100. The initiation sub scription was twelve pence and the quarterly dues six pence. These very moderate 'figures show, too, what great changes have taken place in the people's minds finan cially as well as otherwise. That humble re union of Scotchmen 230 years ago in the straggling village or township of Boston Harbor did its work in its day and passed through the inevitable charges of reorganiz ation as required by growth and develop ment of population, doing good all the time, till it lias attained to an eminence benevo lently, socially and financially, that marks it a great success. Taking the State of Mas sachusetts as an example, we find that only one Scotchman lias ever been buried by the Slate, and as soon as this became known the Scots' Charitable Society of Boston promptly refunded the cost of burial to the Slate. Doubtless the reason why so many of our countrymen have been prevented from seek ing public aid has been due to the heroic en deavors of the different societies, such as the one just named, « ho devote time and money freely to relieve their less fortunate coun trymen. - - HELPING FELLOW-MESIHERS. Many other Scotch societies and clubs have been organized and are doing their share to help their fellow-coiintrvnieii. Notable is the Philadelphia Scots' Thistle Society, 'funned on November 30, 17P6; also the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia, started in 1749. Caledonian and Thistle clubs could be mentioned, but -I will not encroach, but promise to give a brief his tory of these societies m the future through your valuable paper, which has done much to advance the interests of the Scotch people of San Francisco. Now let me say some thing about the latest Scotch society formed in these United States. It is destined to do the most good for the widows and orphans or a dearly beloved mother or sister. l refer to the Order of Scottish Clans. This order is engaged in the noblest work that animates the human heart— that of providing for the weak and helpless, so as to leave them a sufficient sum so that they will be Independent ol the cold pitiless charity that is so often doled out to those who have often been left- to -f nee the world by the (tenth of an improvident husband who was not a mem ber of this or some other of the sister societies of a like nature. And what a man may leave to his family cannot be called charity in any sense of the word, for the treasury of each clan is held as joint stock for the mutual benefit of all ' members, and what his heirs may receive nt bis death is what he has provided for them by contributing bis mite for the heirs of brother clans men under like circumstances.. Now, while athletics may be regarded as the basis of Caledonian and Thistle clubs in thiscity, insurance is undoubtedly the foundation of the Order of Scottish Clans, and for the in formation of many Scotch people, who may be desirous of forming a Scotch Clan on the Pacific Coast, it will not be cut of place to mention the names of several clans, each representing its own tartan. They are: Abercrombie, Buchanan, Cameron, Camp bell, Ciiisiioliii, Colquliitin, Cumyn, David son, Douglass, Dalziel, Drummond, Frascr, Forbes, rarquharson, Ferguson, Gordon, Graham, Grant, Gunn. Hay, Lament, Lo gan, Leslie, Lindsay, MacAllister, McAuluv, MacDooald, MacDougall, MaeDuff. Mac- Farlane, MacGillivary, MacGregor. Macin tosh, MacKenzie, MucKiiy, MacKinnon, UacLnughlin, Mai 'Lean, MacLeod, Mac Nab, MacNaugbton, UacNetl, MncPhersou, Mac- Qnnnie, MacLennan, McUhirr, MacAlpiue, Mncline, MacLaurin, Mclntyre, Mm-Inness, Menzies, Munree, Murray, Matheson, Ogil vie, Robcitsoii, Ross, Hose, Sinclair, Stuart, Sutherland, Scott and Urquhart. This Order of Scottish Clans has passed through the trials of infancy and youth and is now in robust manhood, and claims to take its place ns one of the most useful Scottish so cieties in America. It was organized In St. Louis some twelve years ago. For a timo its schemes wero confined to thai city, but after a year or two it was taken up by a number of Boston Scots, and a "In om" was Started on its behalf which still continues ns Vigorous as ever. As the advantages offered by the order became known clans com menced to spring up all over the country, until at present there are eighty of these, and several ln course of formation. Fight or ten clans aro located in Canada, but across the border the order has not progressed as was at one time expected. A OltANI) FEDERATION. .When the order was started the idea was to institute a grand federation of Scotsmen in America, which, by united effort and a display of the truest fraternal spirit, was to combine sentiment and patriotism with more practical matters. The members were to unite in insuring their lives, sick benefits were to be provided, and a helping hand extended to any overtaken by misfortune. The fraternity was to be a secret one, that ie, it was to meet with closed doors and have signs and passwords,' after the fashion of the Odd Fellows or Masons. It was to have all the social features which distinguish the Caledonian or Thistle clubs, and, if need be, it would give public exhibitions of old Scottish games, lt was to be a complete organization, offering to fill all the require ments of Scottish Americans, ouly that its benefits were to be confined to its own mem bers, possibly on the theory that all Scotch men should -be on its rolls oi be regarded as unworthy of the name. The ideas of tho new organization, while well enough for a local organization, the members of which were known to each other, were ton crude to be successfully worked in a large fratern ity, the members of ; which were scattered throughout the country. The insurance .scheme, that of each surviving member paying. a dollar on the death of ono of their number, seemed iho very essence of simplicity, but experience had demon strated in other societies that the plan was not aa effective nor as equitable as it appeared on the surface, and after a few years of the existence of the order doubts were enter tained by many 'of its Warmest adherents. This, however, might have been expected. In insurance, matters no society was ever organized at ouce on a perfect basis. Expe rience is the great requirement of them all; and until that experience has been gained, mistakes are certain to be made. -■; Such so cieties require to be watchful; to put into practice one year, what they learned during the year before; to make changes after consideration— and practice shows the ne cessity for change— and to be constantly strengtheniug the - organization at . every point, - no matter how trivial.- This policy lias evidently characterized the officers of the order during the past few years. They havo proved themselves thoughtful, I progressive and capable, and the fraternity lias advanced under their direction in a surprising manner. They have .; bad to - encounter opposition, sneering, grumbling] and fault-finding, but they have kept on doing .their appointed work, and the last assessment netted close on two thousand dollars to a Scottish widow, who would 'otherwise have been left with almost . nothing. /_ Fault-finding •* does ■; not amount to very much, but $2001) is a happy, tangible fact, y y y .-..-.; .* •'•* A DEGREE OF. PREJUDICE. ;..'■-■" .-' There is undoubtedly a degree of prejudice In Ibis country | against * assessment life In-. ■ surance schemes. -They bave • been ! repent ' edly tried and the number of failures is ; ap < palling. : These have been due, however, in a great measure to other causes .. than any i defect in the general or, leading principles. The work of . organizing such schemes has I been tio generally undci taken by men who i hr. ye not had the slightest experience in that class of work, and the result was, sooner or later, a partial breakdown or a complete failure. Then dishonest men have some times managed to get lo the head of affairs, and their doings, when made public, have disgusted people almost with life insuranco of any kind, and sometimes stupidity, bor dering on dishonesty, has -proved a stumbling block. :- But there really seems no reason why assessment insurance should not be a success, -if managed with honesty, brains and perseverance. . In fart, that is demonstrated by the suc cess of those which have been in operation for several years. Among these maybe mentioned an aid association' of Chicago, which has been in existence about sixteen years, and has paid nearly 85,000,000 to its beneficiaries. It has also about 30,000 mem bers scattered all over the country and has met every obligation promptly. There is no reason why a similar degree of success, should not be the lot of the Order of Scottish Clans. The great necossity for the welfare of all such institutions is the want of Gov ernment or State supervision. If the law compelled assessment insurance companies to apply for permission to trade, if their promoters were made to give bonds to the State for the honorable carrying out of their agreements, if the policies were issued with the sanction of the law-advisors of the State, and the business books were liable to be examined by some comoetent officer at irregular intervals, we might regard as sessment lusurance ns being as safe as any other. Fewer companies would then be or ganized, but those which fulfilled all the re- . quirements would possess stability. We are certain thai the officers of the Koyal Clan would welcome such a law and would cheer fully comply with all its requirements. The management of the order has been clean ; it has paid every debt as it has arisen ; it has had no scandals ; its officers, except the Sec retary, receive no emoluments, and its mem bership is selected with care both as re gards character and physical strength. The mode of assessment is by grading. The in surance feature of the order might be that of any society, but in the subordinate clans the Scotch element comes to the front. . . SCOTSMEN ONLY. The membership is confined to Scotsmen and their . immediate descendants, aud the moral character of each applicant is carefully inquired into. The ritual which is used in the initiation of can didates is founded on Scottish his tory, and when intelligently rendered is, we are told, both impressive and instruct ive. The sick allowance in most of the clans is $5 a week, with lree medical attend ance, and these benefits, as well as the work ing expenses of the clan, are provided by the monthly dues of the members. Nearly all the clans, too, havo a funeral benefit of $50, whicti Is paid at once, on intimation of death. The meetings are generally well attended, and are managed with loth order and decorum. Open social meetings, at which relatives and friends of members are invited, are frequently given, and the public balls, concerts and anniver sary festivals whieli some of the clans have given have generally been successful. But this feature, although one of the ob jects laid down in the constitution, has not been attended to as it should have been: Bach clan has its regalia, in which its own partienlar tartan predominates, and the ap pearance of the members of the order on public occasions dressed in the costume is one of the most gratifying spectacles which a Scotchman in America can see. Any fif teen Scotsmen or descendants of Scotsmen meeting together can organize a clan. The Royal Secretary is Peter Kerr, 2G Boyistoc Building, Boston, Mass. As soon as the charter is issued the members of the new society are in direct affiliation with tho whole order. They share in all the benefits aud have all the stability which comes from . years of experience. In the short spaca of' six weeks two clans have been formed. Clan Eraser, No. 78, of this city, the pioneer of this Coast, and Clan Macdouaid, No. 70, of Oakland, and now Clan Cameron of San Jose Is getting into line. H.F. ACORNS. Original contributions and .solutions are re quested irom all I lie readers. Communications mutt be wi men In ink-, on one side of tlie paper and I lie name and addiess must accompany lliem as a guarantee good faith. Addiess I'uzzie Editor Daily Morning Call, COU Clay street. Ban Francisco, Cal. Answers. .■—.. No. 14- MAGELLAN. No.l6— M-AID. No. 15- C Ko. 17— B NAP PET PARAS COL£B NATURAL POLEMIC CARU 0 A B 8 BEL I' 11-1 T V A A EX TEMPEST .» a i X £> -* .. 1-K-S-A LET. C I I S X . Solvers. H. Y. Frost, Harvle O. Balcnck. nettle Burke,' Annie Sullivan, M tny Mack, Olivet, Alice Hi en. nan. Aloha, Zuielka, Oakdale, Moses aud J. Hat lleld. BloMnme. No. 28. SQUARE. I— A large serrcnt in the marshes of South America; 2— A cnltou cloth lioin Bengal; 3— Oxygen in a condensed foini; 4 — Madness; 5— Near (■ MAliue. .San francisco. No. £9. SQUARE. < I— Latin proper name (Webster); 2—Pene trates; 3— lays no penally; 4— Slate of holding Certain caids; s— Elevates; C— l'o levy a tax upon. Aspiito. Dubois, Hl. flflfl No. 30. ■ INVERTED I'VHAMin. Across: I— dihedrals; 2— An ancient Roman blogiapher and historian, 55? alter 117? 4— To steal (obs.); 5— A letter. Down: I— A letter; 2— Near by; 3— ln En glish law, the privilege enjoyed by the lord of lie manor, of holding courts, to ny causes and im pose lines; 4— An Image (obs.); 0- Discolored, as flesh by Contusion ; O— A separate .i. licit- , 7— A gash; 8— Similar; 9— A letler. Oakland. Vol. ATLAS. Ko. 31. SQUARE. 1-Accoinpanlfil; B— Vacuity (rare); 3— My lady; 4— Growing out (nbs.); 5— A territorial division of Attica, corresponding to a township. .Sail >Vinieiico. llakvik O. BaBOOCK, No. 32. yy SQUARE.* - I— Exterior covering oi seeds; 2— Portion; 3— To lie Ignorant of; 4— Greek or Latin proper uame(V\eb.); s— Vagrant (obs.); 6— iv being. Berkeley, Cat. „■-. Lviha. No. 33. PYRAMID. Across: I— A letter; 2— turn to the off side; 8— Social assemblies for the purpose or dancing; 4— A soil, of spear about live and a half feel long; s— Fine paper (sup.) i --• Down: I— A letter; 2— A sweetheart (Scot.); 3— A heavy silck; 4— Grained; D— Group ol Islands near Australia; O—A0 — A girl's name signi fying light; 7— To drink; B— Not fobs.); 9— A letter. 1.. 11. STAFFORD. . .San francisco, ■ Answers and solvers In three weeks. -. Slrsy Lrsv.s. '-tfly The members ot Kwlz Kluh are reminded that the next meeting of the ki b will take place on Monday evening, December Bih, at the residence of one oi the numbers, 2523 Sutler stieet, ibis city. - We publish the last of Atlas' puzzles to-day and Invite him lo call again. Capi. N. Frank, J CM., H... Fiost, Grace Hibbard and all our oilier correspondents are also Invited, aud we hope to lereive an early call. The puzzles piinllsbrd this week are all forms and nol very difficult of solution, so we trust that all will send in many complete lists. Ye , should they 1101 succed in solving all of them, one an swer will be as welcomed as solutions to all. The Interest taken lv a department of this char acter Is shown by ibe number ol persons solving and not the number of answers sent to me ed itor. Lei Ibe solver* bear tins In mind. Some ul our correspondents feel dissatisfied over the lesnit of the 21 puzzle. All we have Io say, and all we will say, Is mat any iix of the numbers must be added, and whole or Improper fractions are not allowed. When fractious are Used lo obtain an Integer this Is Using more num bers than the luies of lhe puzzle permit and none know It belter than I hose who understand the common i ules of addition. A new niiin ileal puzzle has come into vogue and we oiler it lo lhe lends of Hits department for solution. It Is as follows: Add all of ibe fol lowing numbers: 1. 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 11 aud ob tain the sum of 100. When we weie permitted to edit this depart ment we did not imagine ilia; It would ever be known beyond the piecnils of Its many friends, but judge ol our suipn.se when we read tbe fol lowing Hems, oue from I lie <; olden Slate Catholic of this city, as follows: A new puzzle depart ment has been oi eiieii In the Sunday edition of The Daily Morning Call under the super vision of Kernel. The first number presents some fair puzzles and is not devoid of chat. The editor must be an old-i Inter, judging from the ar rangement of the puzzles aud 'lie appearance of Uie d. pailuieiit. We wish it success. - And the oilier from lhe I'm Hand Oiegonlan: A new department has appealed In Hie Sunday Cat.l ol Sau Francisco edited by one Kernel, It Is a new noiu de plume, but apparently an old puzzler, and his department baa already achieved much success. ■-.-■■_ -.--.■ Kernel. The Girl ni\ct the Speaking Tabes. ', . "Tliere never was anything like that girl's terror of the bell and tube arrangement in our flat' The first time a caller came she rushed in tome with eyes like soup plates and gasped out: 'Alarm 1 , Mann 1 - There's somebody a- whistling somewhere, and, if you please, I don't know where I' I explained and encouraged her to put her ear to the tube and get the message. : bho never did it with out first crossing herself. I know she was convinced the whole process was operated from a place considerably south of our lower hall. 1 urged het the next lime she beard the call to go to the lube and call 'Yes?'.- The whistle came, and, my. dear, the roar she sent down ihat | tube would have raised the scalp of a Pawnee Indian. : 1 (led down stairs iv terror to see what effect it had hail,* and Mis. de Nerfs— you know what a shat tered | condition ;- she is in. ( just recovering from nervous prostration!— was sitting tin the lower step, quite limp and faint, clasping her vinaigrette, -i 'Martha,*,.- she said, 'even if you didn't want to see me. why | need ion fiie a gun down the • lube?'"— Boston Com monwealth. ■' yfl ::-i-y-, V There are now 'four widows of Supreme Court Justices living in Washington Mrs.' Watte, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Stanley Matthews and Mis. Miller. ;y THE LAST OP A WAYWARD KING. Traits Inherited by William 111 From Emperor Pan! of Russia. The Last of the Hale Descendants of the Home of Orange— The Riotous Life of Citron," Prince of Orange. Special to The Scxdat Call. CSSWHAT terrible modern disease, mental t-I-jo paresis, found a fresh victim In the *_!?* person of William III,* King of the Netherlands, but many who knew him well wondered that this inevitable ending to a career of reckless dissipation bad not set in much' earlier, for the King attained the age of 73 years. That William 111 should have combined so many peculiar traits, prompting every species of vagary, is principally due to his ancestry on the maternal side. . His mother was a daughter of tho Emperor Paul jof Russia, one of the most dissolute mon archs in Europe. The Dutch King's way-' wardness antedates his accession to ' the throne in 1849, for it is current talk among the Dutch that when tne Prime Minister, after William IPs death, went in search of the new sovereign, then absent abroad, he found him after much difficulty traveling incognito with a French singer among the highlands of Scotland. His mar- William 111. rled life, at least that portion of it which he passed with his first wife, a daughter of the. King of Wurteniberg, was not a happy one to either husband or wife. The latter was an amiable and gifted woman, but too much of a blue-stocking* to suit her pleasure-lov ing lord. She gave up trying to reform him and Bought consolation in the society of art ists and men and women of letters. Her friendship for John l.othrop Motley, Ameri can Minister at The Hague, and author ot the " Rise and Fall of the Dutch Republic,'.* was one of the rays of sunshine in the life of that great writer. Of the two sons born of the royal union the elder proved himself possessed of his father's traits by making Paris, his heme and leading the riotous existence of the gilded .youth of that city. Tho nightly orgies of himself and his companions, alter nated between "Peters," in the Passage dcs Princes, and the renowned Bignon's. lt was on one of these occasions, 1 believe, that the Due de Grainniont-Cailerousse, in arising to toast the Prince of Orange, by which title the Dutch heir apparent was known, solemnly filled his glass and drank to the health of— Citron (lemon). Hereafter this nickname clung tenaciously to the Prince, so much so that one of his numerous cred itors In presenting his hill inadvertently ad dressed it to the "Prince of Lemons," Jot which involuntary blunder he was" prompt-* iliJ3E3i Queen Emma of Holland. ly thrown out by the attendants. Poor Cit ron's constitution was uot that of his father, and so he succumbed at the age of 30, leav ing debts to the tune of several millions. His younger and -rigidly virtuous brother followed him into the unknown not long after, nnd thus robbed the moralist of an opportunity to dilate ou the advantages of virtue over vice. The King in the meanwhile was- pursuing the uneven tenor of his -wayward course; and although hi* duties keot him oftentimes among his stolid and industrious subjects, he seldom missed tho opportunity to secretly visit the gay French capital on the sly. A free spender, he was ever welcome in the mondc galant aud the fen. ale members of the leading theaters vied with each oilier to se cure his royal favor. Soon lie .-bowed marked interest in an American woman named Eliza Musard, the wile of an orchestra leader whose 'concerts in the Champs Elysees daily brought together what is fittingly, called the tout- Paris. Suddenly the concerts ceased and the. leader was seen driving around alone in swell equipages. No secret remains a secret long when the curiosity of Paris is aroused,' and presently it began to be bruited about that Musnrd's wife had found .a rich ad mirer— less a personage, in fact, than his Croicn Princess of Holland. Majesty, '. tho King of the Netherlands. Tim Musards after that led • a truly regal existence. One new turnout followed another and handsome .. stables . y were constructed beside their newly a quired mansion on the Avenue d'lcna. - They also acquired the chateau of Yilleqnier on the banks of the Seine, and in visiting it used a luxurious railway carriage which had formerly belonged to the Due de Morny. L^ .- . .'Mi«wpt_Maw__H PAGES 13 to 16 — — — ■ - .fi ■ ~» Then when the dethroned Duke of Tuscany put up his villa on Lake Como for sale, the couple bought it and installed themselves there for the summer months, entertaining in a style worthy of a princely household. y The meetings between.. the King and Mrs. Musard took place at first in Paris, but ha soon arranged to have her conducted to his home. A charming little hunting-box, near the chateau In . den Bosch, situated in the heart of the handsome forest adjoining the Hague, was selected for her, and when with in a mile of tbo capital -Mme.'Musard was picked up by a mail coach and taken thither. All her visits to the • hunting-box were ' ar ranged In secret manner; so were her depart ures, on which occasions shewas pretty sure i to take with her a souvenir in the form of a satchel full of trinkets. These little Dutch trips were occasionally relieved by a journey to Switzerland or the north of Italy and were naturally cairied out in the strictest in cognito. This lasted for several years and curiously enough ended in the King's being v© jk^'S <ji^ I J " Citron," rrlnce of Orange. told that he was not wanted any further..' Mine. Musard having finally saved up enough . to be able to dispense with him altogether. Her dream was to retire with her husband, to whom she. was still attached, and liva happily and tranquilly to the end of her days. Fate willed otherwise and before at- ' taining the ago of 50 lime. '-Musard died. . blind and insane, in a public lunatic asylum. Emilia Ambre, whose artistic successes on the lyric stage in this country, .as well as • abroad must still bo fresh to. the memory of many of us, was another of the King's fa vorites.. It is true that *ho held the sway for a short time only. The Dutch, who saw more of her thau' of Mine. Musard, dubbed her "the King's Tulip."- An exceedingly vain woman, she managed to secure from his Maj esty the title of the Countess d'Ainboise, with 5 a coat of arms thrown in/to which she added the motto, "Flat voluntas men." Her arro- . gance became so -unbearable that the King . decided to rid himself of her, and as sho would pot leave the kingdom voluntarily Im * caused her to be escorted to the frontier by a counle of police agents. ". A short while after she returned to tlie Hague and attempted to approach the royal presence, butbeingrecog- - nized on the "I'leiu" by the afternoon prom--* : enaders, was mercilessly mobbed and. con-* ; strained to leave once more the scene of her' former conquests. About five years.. ago.' Mine. Ambre published a noVel entitled..' "Une Diva," in which under. a thin disguise.' she disclosed some of the details her • relationship with the King of Holland. .*..:'. Upon his marriage with Princess. Emma,* of U'aldeck-Pyrmimt, witch event occurred ■-' about two years after the death of his first wife, the King appears to have turned Over a new leaf. The union was even a compar- - atively happy one, and has been blessed With a daughter, who. succeeds to the throne . of Holland. Her accession severs the polit ical bonds that unite the " Kingdom' of the' Netherlands with the Grand Duchy Lux- '. emburg," for in the latter .country tbe Salio . law prevails. . ' ..' . .'. ■ King William's death -.is not merely... an .' extinction of 'the last of Ihose merry inon- • archs, who, dining the. last two generations, . have supplied food for gossip, to the -Paris v green-rooms and saloons, The' event has * its pathetic, sine, for. was not ttie old man', after all the ..male' descendant of that" strong and historic •' houso of Orange, to *• whose energy, and loyalty ..Holland owes: all • the greatness of her past and present pros perity? Itis this thought thntdias palliated every bad action'; the King has ever been . guilty of. It is this thought that . now..* spreads gloom over the entire land..- v.g. THE JAPANESE WAY. *.';• Afl Rules That Most Be Observed when Her Mfijesty l'..s<- m \ 1 r,n B ix Street. ... A recent visitor to Japan says .that there-' has existed in Japan lor many centuries a curious law to the effect, tliat whenever the. Emperor.or Empress appeared in public no. other person should seem to occupy a higher * place thau this member of tho royal family; . therefore, on such occasions the shutters Of all upper stories were drawn and the upper parts of the houses through which the royal party moved were seemingly deserted.* j The., law Is still in effect, . • . '• '..•'". . Three months ago, when the . Empress . went into.the.country for a brief period,' an 7 , elaborate announcement was posted in con spicuous places along th'! line of her con templated route commanding- the public to' observe strictly certain requirements of eti quette, to wit: When her Majesty shall past along no one must look at her from the frame . built on houses for the drying of clothes, or through cracks in doors, or from any posi tion in the upper . part of their nouses.*' If anybody wishes to see her Majesty he or she must sit down at the side ot the mad by which her Majesty will pass, All children must be taken particular -care of, that they • do not play in the road and so obstruct the passage of her Majesty llirougn the streets. No one must look at her Majesty, .without taking off bis bat, in c.k-cloth or turban, or . whatever else be may be wearing on his head. Moreover, no one must be smoking while he or she is looking at her Majesty, nor must* any one carry a stick or cane. Only women wearing the clothes of foreigners will be . permitted to retain their head-covering.- Al- '• though it may rain, no.person will beallowed'. to put up au umbrella while her Majesty may be passing. Dogs must not be allowed' to - wander on the road. by wliich her Majesty" will pass. Until the passage of her Majesty the route by which she will, come Will be • kept free from carriages and jiuri kashas. The roads which she will take must be com pletely free from all traffic. As her Majesty passes no one must raise bis voice, nor must any sound be beard, nor must the crowd close in and follow her carriage, for no.noise • must bo made. Winn her -'Majesty reaches Uuieda Station there will be a discharge of fifty fire-works.— New Orleaus'Picayune. •• Oermnn (. I '* 11 ll.m- The German girls are beginning to corn -plain will! considerable • bitterness that'" American aud English girls are encroaching upon their preserves. Very many Ameri- • cans and English 'send, their daughters to Germany to be educated; the pretty dears not only master the language in a short 'time —quite as quickly and as easily they mnke a » ! conquest of the hearts of ihe susceptible German officers. The number of army offi cers in Gei many with American and English, wives is veiy largo nnd the fad seems to be increasing. In Dresden particularly tho. English and' Americans are In great demand; the native madeben (be she ever so piety) seems to have nd chance* at all. In Berlin there is a fancy for a peculiar style of femi nine beauty ; the Berliner admires bmwa ' eyes and hair and a dark clear complexion; these features argue amiability, fidelity and gentle breeding, they c'aim. The German girls complain that tbe American girls are natural adepts iii affairs of the h»art— that they seem endowed by nature with all the arts, the audacity and the ■ confidence of the .average young widow-.— Field's let ter in the Chicago New.-*. ... • The Flowered Bon. i. Long fur boas and short fur or feather ruches fastened with ribbon bow around the neck are in hicli favor just now with tho»e wbo can wear them. A novelty for carriage or evening wear is the flower. boa, which consists.of a long Strip of black or col ored silk velvet oil which flowers are thickly sewn. For instance, on a strip of black vel vet, large pink roses', yellow chrysanthe mums, white carnations, violets or lilacs are massed, and the effect is. very striking and handsome for a dressy occasion.— X. Y. Ledger, 'y. flfl;