The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—4G per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. 8 LY CALL—$1.50 per year. ;m- fi.‘fé;"om'e ot ‘the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dafly and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and New York. _APRIL 18, 1895 Roses are riotous. We are living in a festive State. Reports of the fiestas are pleasant read- ing. He serves himself best who serves his Btate be: The man who is off for the fiestas is de- cidedly on. San Francisco weather is as good asa fiesta any day. Everything California undertakes this year is a success. Some men who are proudest of their money abuse it most. There is no robbery in takinga monopoly away from a monopolist. The way of progress is straight ahead on the road we have started. The Solid Eight seems just about heavy enough to sink itself in the mud. 1If you like the harmony of progress you should assist in paying the piper. The Queens of Beauty hold the title by natural right, as well as by election. It is an easy prediction that the number of fiesta cities will be doubled next year. Selling raw fruit and buying back pre- gerves is where we get caught in the jam. Los Angeles may have the bigger show, but Santa Barbara is just as full of beauty. Cleveland’s letter has had the effect of arousing silver-toned echoes all round the land. It appears that the goldbugs will have to renominate Cleveland, or go withouta candidate. The income tax might as well lie down and give up, for Mrs. Hetty Green is going to fight it. Though Japan is now willing to let her up it will be a long time before China gets on her feet again. The success of Boss Croker’s horse at et will probably incline him to In the racket of southern revelry we must not forget the business of advancing the people’s road. Don't fret about the money question in 1896, for the Republican convention will settle that all right. tain must arbitrate her dis- pute with Venezuela or Uncle SBam will Eknow the reason wh; California has no need to brag of her spring climate. She has only to keep quiet and let the flowers blow. The Mechanics' Institute promises an august exhibit in August, and is making the right preparations for it. The gayety seekers in the whirl of the fiesta may be having lots of fun, but those people who have staid at home are having all the rest. The gold money champions might as well understand that in fighting the spook of silver monometallism they are not hurt- ing bimetallism a bit. Pictures by telegraph as a feature of daily journalism have been proven practi- cable by the Cary, and will soon be as fa- miliar as telegraphic news. The meltine snow has turned the Eastern rivers into raging floods and the people of many cities are enjoying Vene- tian festivals in the swim of the streets. With earthquakes in Italy, floods in New England and a tornado in Kansas, Califor- nia ought to be able to bear up under the burden of her glorious sunshine and riot- ous roses. When the 8an Joaquin Valley fully real- izes that it is to be sidetracked by the South- ern Pacific it may be too late to do what it might have done before in promoting a railroad of its own. The Chamber of Commerce has done well in reiterating the demand for the con- struction of the Nicaragua canal, as that is one of the enterprises on which we cannot put too many licks. Eastern people who are complaining of the high price of spring flowers will prob- ably regard the festivals at Santa Barbara and Los Angeles as another proof that all Californians are millionaires. Eastern art exhibitors have not been so good this spring as formerly, but ours will be better than ever before. That is the way we are catching up with the centers of culture and making our way to the lead. An interesting hint to California is con- tained in the coincidence between the great rise in the price of oil in the East and our knowledge that abundant unex- plored stores of this oil exist in this State. England’s greed for territorial acquisi- tion and the absence of such an appetite in the United States should not make our Government less cautious with regard to Guatemala merely because we are less hungry. The Chinese must have some peculiar and instructive reason for believing that their presence in a white nation with which China has no treaty is necessarily danger- ous to them, else those in Guatemaia would not have called on the United Stgtes to protect them. By persisting in her demand for the opening of the Chinese empire to trade, Japan may walk into a spider web like a foolish fly. The Chinese are not good at war, but when it comes to industrial and commercial competition, the Japanese will have to look out. Denver hasa double woman-strangling horror somewhat similar to the one in S8an Francisco, but a very remarkable differ- ence is seen in the fact that the accused man’s sister has gone insane since his arrest, and that in her rayings she dis- closes pitiful contradictions between her efforts to shield him and her evident knowledge of his guilts THE CITY'S OREDITORS. The attempt of the creditors of the City of S8an Francisco, who have or are soon to have claims against its general fund for supplies furnished during the current year, to coerce its officials into making some provision for their payment by the threat of cutting off supplies, is of itself entitled to but small measure of consideration. These creditors cannot afford to put San Francisco on their blacklist, nor persist in & refusal to supply itsvarious departments with the necessary articles to maintain them. The City of San Francisco, we safely assert, is in no such state of abject dependence upon a few contractors. It is not at all likely to go without needed sup- plies because it happens to have no ready money in one of its several pockets. If any particular body of contractors con- clude that it is & bad customer, there are plenty of other contractors who are ready to step into their shoes and take the chances of being ultimately paid. It is none the less an important and very serious fact that the general fund of the City is empty at this distance from the end of the current fiscal year. It is, moreover,a fact which is getting into the habit of repeating itself annually and in the last quarter of each fiscal year. The reason usually assigned for this condition, viz.: that the City officials have been wasteful of its finances, is not as a rule the true cause for this poverty of the general fund. The real reason rests in the well established truth that every growing city which by law or by conserva- tism seeks to keep within an inade- quate tax rate finds that its general fund will persist in becoming insolvent toward the ‘close of each year. This is because the annual expenditures of a city, which increase most noticeably with its growth, are in the main drawn from the general fund. The salaries of officials, the current expenses of the increasing offices, the furniture and sundry expense ac- counts and the like are augmenting charges against this fund. The revenues from which the general fund is replenished never keep up with its increase of outlay, and the result is inevitably that as the city grows its funds and finances get into a tan- gle which becomes more hopeless with every year's devotion to the illogical policy of growing great by dollar liits and free- dom from debt. The truth is that San Francisco has too long allowed its finances to be dictated by the tax shirker and the silurian and has dreamed that in a debtless idleness and a dollar limit lay the hope and fruition of municipal prosperity. The exact opposite is the only theory and practice by which modern cities, especizlly in the United States, have been able to grow great and populous. The time has come for 8an Francisco to adopt a new financial policy; to get out of the sad straitsin which it finds itself; to have its name taken off the blacklist of its own business men; to amply provide each year for the payment in full of its floating indebtedness and to borrow a few millions of dollars with which to beautify itself and make such permanent improvements in its street and sewer ems as the time de- mands. Such a policy would put an end to the petty worrying and squabbling in which its officials find themselves forced to annually engage in order to make ends meet in the expenditure of moneys which | are entirely too meager in amount for the | increasing needs of an expanding city. AGAINST THE LOTTERIES. The peremptory order issued by Wells, Fargo & Co., forbidding the employes of the express to receive or forward any | ticket or advertisement of a lottery, will go a long way toward putting an end to lot- tery gambling on this Coast. The success of such schemes depends on the ability of the managers to reach large numbers of people. When the mails were closed against them, they turned to the expr companies, but now that the express will no longer serve them, they are practically forced out of the field and must sooner or later abandon all attempts to circulate either their tickets or their advertisements. On this result the CarL has certainly a good right to congratulate the people. The sale of lottery tickets has been an evil to the State of almost incalculable magni- tude. It has led many industrious people to waste money which if invested in sav- ings banks or in building and loan associa- tions would have encouraged thrift and laid the foundation of a prosperous home, California is rich, but she cannot afford for her people to waste money in that way; and therefore it was on the score of thrift among the people, as well as of obedience to law, that the Carr refused to publish lottery advertisements and the list of lot- tery drawings, and began an agitation against the evil. It is probable the refusal of the express company to carry lottery matter may have the effect of stimulating local lotteries by crushing out the competition of those that have heretofore covered the Union. To pre- vent this result the police should be active and vigilant. The evil hastaken strong root in this City and it will require earnest work to stamp it out. TLocal lotteries, however, will not prove so widely injurious as the big ones have been. They cannot offer such large prizes to purchasers, nor such inducements to canvassers, nor can they expend anything like such sums in adver- tising. We may claim, therefore, that the greater parfgof the evil hasbeen practically done away with by the order of the ex- press company, and Wells, Fargo & Co. will have the cordial approval of the better element of the people in the course they have taken. TBIUMPHANT BIMETALLISM. The challenge to the bimetallists con- tained in Cleveland’s letter has been met by answers from every section of the coun- try. His bold assumption that the gold standard men are the only champions of sound money and safe currency has been refuted by the press, by statesmen and by mass-meetings. The advocates of bimetal- lism therefore have every reason to be sat- isfied with the effect produced by the let- ter. It has seryed only to reawaken public interest in the subjectand to strengthen popular sentiment in favor of the remone- tization of silver. It now seems probable that Cleveland, so far from exerting any important influence upon the country at large on this question, will hardly bave any even upon his own party. From present appearances both the great parties will declare for bimetal- lism in the conventions of 1896. The choice of the people on that issue therefore will be the simple one of deciding to which party they will intrust the great task of reorganizing our finances. Buch a choice will not be difficult to make. The experi- ence with Democratic rule, or rather mis- rule, duriug the last two years, has afforded a lesson which this generation is not likely to forget. Under its present leaders, Democracy is known to be hope- lessly incapable of any kind of systematic legislation. Such excessive bungling as was made by the late Congress was never equaled in an American legislative body, and it is certain the Democratic party will never have another lease of national power during the lifetime of the present leaders. Under this condition of affairs the hope Iof the people for any and for all great reforms must be centered in the Repub- lican party. He is but a foolish advocate of bimetallism who talks of organizing a third party to reform the currency. Such a course would lead to a division in the ranks of the bimetallists at the very in- stant victory is within their reach by remaining united. Eastern Republicans are rapidly coming into sympathy with those of the West on this issue. Ia fact, it may be said the leaders of political thought all over the civilized world are coming to an agreementon the subject. Bimetallism waxes stronger in England and Germany, as well as in this country. There is no doubt of the eventual remonetization of silver everywhere if only the extreme ad- vocates of it will act with ordinary common-sense and not attempt to ignore or to subordinate all other political issues by forming a party devoted to that one only. AN ABSURD SITUATION. A friend of the Cary bas furnished it with the following instructive narration: Not long ago, while on a visit to one of the minor cities of an Atlantic State, he entered a large store which was kept by a iriend of his. In the store he saw & number of tubs bearing the label “California Apri- cots,” and the vroprietor informed him that he prepared the article himself by stewing dried apricots received from Cali- fornia and packing the compound in the form of a sort of marmalade, in tubs, and that he sold the tubs in large numbers to smaller dealers. The price which he re- ceived from the retail merchants was twice the cost of the dried apricots, and the retail merchants sold the product at a considerable additional advance. The de- mand for the article was great and was rapidly increasing, as the consumers found it delicious. It is evident that in the production of this article the enterprising manufacturer by the necessary addition of water and some sugar at least doubled the weight of the dried apricots, and that as he charged for this compound twice as much as he paid for the dried article, he received four times the original cost to him, charging as much for the water which he had added as for the fruit itself, and it can hardly be supposed that the cost of manufacture was sufficient to offset the price which he re- ceived for the water. He certainly is de- serving of all praise for his ingenuity and enterprise, but it is something of a pity that the California grower himself had not possessed the acumen to forestall him. The situation is ludicrous. It is hardly more so, however, than the common knowledge that the delicious apricot mar- malade made by Crosse & Blackwell of Lon- don, and consumed with so much gusto by the epicures of San Francisco, is made exactly after the fashion of the New Eng- land grocer, though possibly with a little more skill—that is to say, Crosse & Black- well buy apricots grown and dried in Cali- fornia, pay the charges of transporting them 6000 miles to London, manufacture them into marmalade and ship this con- fect 6000 miles back to Sean Francisco, where in buying it we pay the transporta- tion charge of 12,000 miles on the fruit and 6000 miles on the water and the glass or stone packages, besides a comfortable profit to the manufacturers and to various dealers through whose hands the product has passed. The absurdity of all this is both pitiful and disgraceful. Theapricot growsin very few places in the world. It is nearer like the banana than any other fruit in deli- cacy of flavor and richness of nutritive elements. If California grew nothing but apricots it would still be the most fortu- nate section of the Union, for this is the rarest and most valuable of all the fruits grown outside of the tropics. Seemingly it is only Californians who do not realize how valuable it is. If the freight charges on apricot marma- lade from California to the Atlantic sea- board are too heavy to permit of the protit- able manufacture of the article here, it is difficult to see why dried apricots shounld not be shipped East and there made into marmalade by agents of the California growers, or a union of a sufficient number of growers to establish a factory on a large scale. Marmalade, however, is not the only or even the best, though the daintiest, form in which dried apricots may be prepared for table use, for marmalade isa confec- tion, whereas the apricot is not only a deli- cious fruit but is a nutritious food as well. In this last regard it stands practically alone among the fruits produced in the United States. This gives it a special value which probably not an Eastern consumer in a bundred thousand understands. The work of educating the people of the East in this regard is one that might be under- taken by Californians with great profit to themselves. _— TONIO READING. It is fortunate for us that the southern fiestas are in their glory to divide attention and relieve the public mind from the strain of the Emmanuel Church crimes. There is always more or less of danger in a long- continued reading of such atroeities as powerfully affect the sensibilities of the mind. Snch reading tends to produce a morbid condition of all the faculties, both moral and mental, and where there is any weakness or abnormal development of either, the consequences are often seriously evil and sometimes tragic. Instances of such results are common, and it is only an ordinary truth that any one who reads much about crime should read also a great deal about the brighter, happier and better things of life. The reports from the fiestas bring to us every day exactly the kind of reading needed to offset the reports of the great crime. Here we have glimpses of hu- manity under its loveliest and most whole- some aspect. In these reports, where skillful writers vie with one another to re- produce in jewel-colored, flower-sweet words the beauty and the joy of the pro- fuse festivals, there is a power to charm away all gloomy thoughts, all sick fancies and all grewsome imaginings. There is the healthful life of the sunshine and the breezy, open air in these descriptions. They are warm, rich and glowing in their pictures of a vigorous, virtuous, joyous humanity, and, in their suggestions of an Elysian life of love and grace and beauty, are a vital tonic for the morbid mind and a refreshing stimulant for the oppressed heart. Read the stories of the fiestas and see bow fair and pure and sweet life is in Cal- ifornia despite the wretchedness and the crime that torments us here and there. Happiness is the normal life of man, and in its atmosphere he breathes most health- fully. To all its impulses, moreover, he is fortunately sensitive. From every scene where joy dwells there radiates a spiritual illumination at which every mind bright- ens, and in its light every heart is glad. There are sad, bad, mad things in the world, it is true, but none the less it is a world where health prevails and goodness lives. A thousand “fair passions, bounti- ful pities and loves without stain” are throbbing all around us, and their exist- ence is manifest most conspicuously at this time in those fiestas where love dances amid the roses to the sound of sweet mu- sic; where the voices of healthy-minded, happy-hearted men and women come to us mingled with the clear, free laughter that will move us also to smile and be glad. The local elections which are now pro- ceeding in the East show that the “side parties” are cutting a considerable figure, as they possibly did in the recent elections in Oalifornia. These departures indicate the necessity of missionary work on the part of the Republican party, which may be depended upon to promote all that is best for the greatest number of citizens. That there should have been the least suspicion that Count Yamagata, a Japan- ese field-marshal, was an Austrian arch- duke in disguise might cause every Aus- trian to wonder if there are no external physical differences between them and Japs; and then they are likely to be justly angry. T AROUND THE CORRIDORS. The Hon. Jeremiah Lynch of San Francisco was in a poetic mood yesterday. “I believe,” said Mr. Lynch, “in the beauties of verse. I believe it is part of a msn’s con- science and an element of his soul. 1—" “Excnse me, Senator, but can you tell me who your favorite poet is?” inquired a echolar who sat by Mr. Lynch in the window of the Lick House, “Omar Khayam, & Persian astronomer-poet the suthor of “The Rubaiyat.'” “Why?” “Because, sir,” replied Mr. Lynch, assuming a thoughtful expression, *‘because he wrote of HON. JEREMIAH LYNCH. [Sketched from life for the *Cail” by Nonkivell.} religion and life as it really was, and did it without offending. Let me think & moment. Do you recall the lines? Let me see. Ok, here A my soul Into the Invisible Some letter of that after life to spell, And by and by my soul returned t— “Can’t remember it all, but anyhow he was a. marvelous man. I must freshen up a little on Omar. There is another verse about the—by Jove, I really must freshen up on Omar.” “Well, now, Senator, to go deeper into the world of letters. Tell me your favorite novelist.” “Robert Louis Stevenson I consider the peer if not the superior of modern writers. He was the Oliver Goldsmith of the present generation and no better writer of English ever lived. His sentences were pure and simple, but they were resplendent with meaning and strength. He was & genius. We are just learning to ap- preciate him and—I don’t know, though.” Mr, Lynch paused s moment, and after calculating to himseli a little ventured to remark that Stevenson made about $20,000 & year on his books, all of which he considered pretty good wages. B Certainly, Jere,” said an old acquaintance, s man who has been such a slave to poetry and prose must always have a musical idol.” “If you mean what is my favorite song, I will tell you the drinking song from ‘Lucretie Borgia.’ It goes like this,” and in order to further the knowledge of his listeners Mr. Lynch hummed a few lines. “Do you know it?” he said, looking around the circle for a nod of familiarity, “and the chorus is—'’ some of which he sang in a low, musical voice. “Oh, yes, of course,” responded & majority of the gentlemen present. **You'reright. That’s & great song.” At this juncture several voices hummed little melodies taken from different parts of the opera, and everybody decided that Lynch was right about thatone particular thing, enyhow. Presently the conversation turned to the right of ordiaary mortals to touch the lyre of Homer. “By the way, Senator, do you think a busi- ness man is justified in writing poetry?”" “It all depends upon the appreciation it re- celves,” answered the Senator. Now, most poets amount to nothing while they live; therefore, few men are justified. Some day I will be dead myself; therefore the future is encouraging.” “Let me tell you how I came to owe a debt of gratitude to & man with plenty of nerve,” said L. R. Mead, secretary of the Manuracturers’ As- sociation, to a few friends in the rotunda of the Mills building last evening. ‘‘About a score of years ago I visited the Coeur d’Alene mining Tegion in what was then the sparsely settled Territory of Idaho. Iwent as the representa- tive of somecreditorsof a mine that had failed, anda my business was to investigate the com- pany’s affairs and see if any settlement could be effected. Ireached the camp in the morn- ing, and was not long in learning that the miners who had been thrown out of work by the shutdown hadn’t received & cent of their last month’s wages, and that the wine super- intendent had quieted the demands by assur- ing the crew thatIwould be along in a few days and settle with the wage-claimants dollar for dollar. Consequently I was besieged from the moment I alighted from the stage. Iex- plained to the miners my position, and assured them that my visit was simply one of investi- gation, ‘‘Well, there was one miner who wouldn’t take any explanation. He was commonly known as a bad man. His appearance, his language and actions were all decidedly tough. He drew me aside, showed me his account and said, grufily: ‘Say, captain,Iwant my stuff. You can’t put me off the way you did the rest of the boys, because I won’t stand it. I want my stuff, and I want it inside of twenty-four hours, or you'll have trouble on your hands. Square me up, and I'll help you out a little, for the boys are pretty sore.’ “That bad man steered up against me time and again, repeating the warning to ‘fork over his stuff’ in the specified number of hours. The miners bad law in their own hands in that camp, and I began to fear that the bad man might do me some {njury. “On the afternoon of that day I got into con- versation with another guest at the hotel. I invited him to have a cigar with me, and we strolled through the camp together. ‘“Evening came, and the bad man came with it. Iwasstanding on the hotel steps alone. To my astonishment the fellow didn’t mention the subject of money at sll. He asked me a question. It was: “ Do you know Earp?” “ Earp? I replied, wondering what motive prompted such a question. ‘Know him,’ I laughed; ‘I should think I did. “‘Where did youjget acquainted with Earp?” ‘asked the bad man. “ ‘Why, I've bunked and eaten with thoEarp ‘boys down in Arizona,’ said I, chuckling to my- self at the curious turn of affairs. The news- papers had told me who the Earps were, butl pretended that I had always known them, 50 1 aid: ‘I went to schiool with the Earps.” “{s that s0? he murmured thoughtfully. “Then he must be & good friend of yours." *¢Of course,’ sald L. “The tough air hed actually vanished. He whistled a bit, turned on his heel and walked away. Ihad no more trouble incamp. The miners treated me with respect and politeness. I had accidentally fallen into the good graces of Wyatt Earp, who was my companion in the afternoon walk. He was & brother of the famous Bill Earp, of whom the Territory stood in respect closely bordering on fear. Wyatt Earp had the reputation of being the best shot and most nervy man in the diggings. Iwas surprised when the hotel clerk informed me the name of my illustrious companion. Did I cling to him? Well, during my brief sojourn at that camp my chief expense was in keeping that deadshot of & brother of Bill Earp in cigars and liquid refreshments. His reputa- tion proved my safeguard and security at the mines.” George B. Walker, & mining man who has been north for the past ten years,haslately been back im Arizone, where he was in the early '80's. Speaking of Prescott hesaid: “It isa lively little place. The people are there 1o stay; they believe in the town and in the country and the mines, but it is very strange that they wiil not take any trouble to beautify the place. They could eesily enough grow gress, but will not do it. One’s first impression of such places is unfavorable, and unjustly so, through this seeming want of public interest. There are some fine mines, in Arizona, particu- larly in the northern portion, where there is more gold. I believe that the United Verdi at Jerome, the product of which isgold, silverand copper, is one of the greatest mines in the world. Clark, the Colorado banke, who is one of the principal owners, has lately I under- stand invested & million in reduction works at Jersey City for handling the product of this mine.” PERSONALS. Dr. A. M. Rohr of Santa Rosa is at the Lick. Dr. James A. Moore of Hanford is at the Lick. C.F. McGlashan of Truckee is at the Baldwin. Dr. W. H. Miller of Hanford is a guest at the Baldwin. Eilas Carle, a contractor of Sacramento, 1s at the Lick. Judge W. M. Conley of Madera is a guest at the Lick. Dr. J. A. Dawson of Grayson is registered at the Grand." Dr. E. W. Whitney of Salt Lake is a guest at the Grand. Dr. George H. Jackson of Woodland {s stop- ping &t the Grand. 3 Dr. William D. Knight of Sacramento 1s reg- istered at the Grand. F. M. Miller, a merchant of Fresno, is among the guests of the Lick. Dr. J. F. Boyce of Santa Rosa s one of yester- day’s arrivals at the Lick. Dr. George A. White of Sacramento s in town and stopping st the Grand. J.C.8hinn, & horticulturist of Niles, regis- tered at the Lick yesterdsy. D. E. Knight, a capitalist of Marysville, ar- rived at the Lick yesterday. George H. Warfleld, a banker of Healdsburg, 1s stopping at the California. John T, Sullivan of the Sea Beach Hotel, 8anta Cruz, is at the California. James M. Quilter, the United States Marshal of Washington, is et the Grand. John Garwood, a merchant of Stockton, and Mrs. Garwood, are guests at the Grand. G. G. Brooks, a merchant of Colusa, and his bride, registered at the Grand yesterday. Dr. Thomas Ross came down from Sacra- mento yesterday and registered at the Grand. J. Bennallock, a mining man of Grass Valley, was emong yesterday's arrivals at the Occl- dental. Sheriff U. 8. Gregory of Amador came into town yesterday on his way East on a visit aud registered at the Grand. P. A. Buell, one of the active supporters of the new road in Stockton, came down yester- day and put up at the Grand. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. In promoting the prosperity of a city pluck is one-quarter the battle, and the courage to tell the truth about that which threatens or retards is the other quarter of the first hali. Pluck and courage, then, with natural resources and good government end good location, are all there is in the building up. Those persons who speak below their breath and whisper “don’t” when a coursgeous voice warns the people of impending danger are of the class who are content to live in the present and take no thought for the morrow.—8acramento Rec- ord-Union. The monomentallists are tearing their linen trying to persuade Japan to take gold rather than silver from China. But they will never succeed. In the first place, China could not find the gold to pay with; in the next place, Japan would not have it. The talk of “gold credit'” is all right, but that credit would at once be converted, when needed, into silver coin. Oh, what a wise lot of Wall-street pro- phets we have, to be sure.—Santa Fe New Mexi- can. The fact that the price of silver advanced about 10 cents an ounce in two weeks has been regarded by many as the beginning of more prosperous times for the silver miners. The rise was equivalent to about 15 per cent. If it were permanent it would add not less than $£25,000,000 in value to the annual production of silver in this country.—Santa Cruz Sentinel. The shipment of flowers from California to the Esst i3 & new phase of local commerce which cannot fail to call a great deal of atten- tion to the fact so often lost sight of that Cali- fornia has actually no winter.—Santa Barbara Press. As reputable papers refuse to advertise the lotteries and Wells, Fargo & Co. will no longer transact business for them, they will soon be compelled to go out of business.—San Jose Mercury. If the Monroe doctrine i{s worth anything it should be enforced when circumstances de- mand.—Pheenix Gazette. The people of the interior of the State have good cause for feeling very friendly toward the CaLL—Merced Sun. % Virtue bears up under accusation with less noise than guilt.—Pendleton Oregonian. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. MeSwatters—I tell you what, but Mesmer looks unusually happy for a man who has got twine. MecSwitters—Man, didn’t you know that his ‘business was that of a hypnotizer and he prac- tices on the kids.—Syracuse Post. Young Girl (going through jail)—Poor, poor man., May I offer you these flowers? Conviet (from behind the bars)—You’vemade a mistake, miss. The feller that killed his wife and children is in the next cell. I'm yere fur stealing a loaf of bread.—Truth. Rhoades (as he and Mrs. Rhoades are leaving church)—What & refreshing sermon that was, wasn't {t? Mrs. Rhoades (sharply)—Idon’t know,Ididn’t go to sleep.—Trilth. (The lady arrives a little late at the sewing circle.) Bervant—Excuse me, madame, but I'd advise you to waita few minutes. Just now they are talking about you.—Humoristische Blaetter. Anarchist—Our motto {s “down with all titles and decorations!” Reformer—What decorations do you allude to? Anarchist—All of ’em. The Order of the Bath New York Herald. in particular. HooD’s Sarsaparill; he only true blood puri- fler. This is the resson for the remarkable cures which have followed its use in all parts of the country. Pure blood means £ood health. > MANY ladies are martyrs to suffering. Their best help Is PARKER'S GINGxER ToNIO. HINDEBCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cents. ————————— No buffet should be without a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the South Amerlcan appetizer and invigorator. e o “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TrocHES” will quickly relieve Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh and Throat Discases. Sald only In boxes. Music and Musicians. The success of the portion of Gluek’s **Al- ceste” recently published in Paris has been s0 greas that the French critics are convinecsd that all is needed is a revival of his operas for audiences to be clamoring for Gluck’s works, The scene irom “Alceste” that has just been performed, in ité noble and yet intensely human feeling 1s infinitely superior to the feclings of the low-lived passion and crimes on which the latest school of tragic opers, like the “Caval- leria Rusticana,” is based. In the temple scene from ‘“Alceste,”” which isdrawn from Greek drams, the people, the priests, Alceste the Queen, and her children are all assembled in Apollo’s temple, where a sacrifice of sorrow CHRISTOPH WILIBOLD GLUCK. [From an engraving.] is being offered, because the King Admete is attacked with & mysterious sickness which nothing can cure. Suddenly the high priest announces that the oracle will speak, and & voice, coming from the mouth of Apollo’s statue, proclaims, “The King must die to-day if another life is not voluntarily sacrificed for his.” The terrified crowd rushes away, and the Queen remains alonein the temple. Her husband shall not die, for Alceste decides to glve her life for that of Admete. “But it is no sacrifice,” cries the young and beautifulQueen. “How can they call dying for him a sacrifice?” and, exalted by her love, she defies the divini- ties of Styx, and her last ascent is, at the same time, a cry of enthusiasm and of horror as she feels the shades of death closing round her. The roles in “Alceste” give splendid oppor- tunities for tragic acting. That, however, is only in accordance with Gluck’s ideas, even though here and there his librettist has made parts of the book monotonous. The preface to “Alceste,” which was published when the opera was first produced in Vienna in 1767, was Gluck’s confession of faith—a faith which in many respects found a disciple in Richard Wagner. “I have endeavored,” says Gluck, “to reduce music to its proper function, that of seconding poetry by enforcing the expression of sentiment and the interest of the situation without interrupting the action or weakening it by superfluous ornament.’ But the Vien- nese public at that time was used to regard opera as a mere vehicle for showing off the florid vocalization of the singers, and it re- ceived “Alceste” so coldly thet in the preface to “Paris and Helen,” Gluck says: “Only in the hope of finding imitators did I resolve to bring out the music of ‘Alceste’ I am con- vinced, however, that my hopes were vain.” But in 1770 ““Alceste” won the enthusiasm of Paris, and now in 1895 it has couquered the French capital again. It would not be & strange thing, according to the French erities, if & great Gluck revival took place, now that Wagner and his disciples have pushed Gluck’s operatic theories far beyond his wildestdreams. Some thirty 0dd years ago Wagner was de- nied a hearing in France. Now the pendulum has swung back with such a vengeance that no capital in the world has such ardent Wagnero- maniacs as are to be found in Paris. More- over, Wagner has established such a firm foot- hold et the national opera-house that it is as- serted the best native composers have not a chance of & hearing. Anyhow,it is an un- doubted fact that of late years several import- ant French operas have been produced for the first time over the border. The present plight of the French composers seems a sort of Ne- ‘mesis, though the men who suffer are not the ones who attacked Wagner. Twenty-five years ago the critics attacked Bizet for hisalleged Wagnerism. Nowadays the dominant coterie in critical circles is so enamored of Wagner that a young composer who does not adopt his principles bas no chance of & hearing. What With England’s musical partiality for France, Germany’s for Italy and France's for Germeny, musical taste reminds one of nothing so much as a game of international “general post.” The death is announced from Vienna of Camillo Walzel, the libretiist of “Fatinitza,” “Boecaccio” and several other of Suppe’s operas. He also wrote the book of “Cagliostro” and “A Night in Venice” for Strauss, as well as “The Beggar Student” for Millocker and “The Marine Cadet” for Richard Genee. At one time he was an officer in the Austrian in- fantry, and later became captain of a steam- boat on the Danube. In his latter years, how- ever, he shared with Jannerthe directorship of the well-known theater, An der Wien. The town of Weimar is preparing to fete the fiftieth artistic anniversary of the Belgian com- poser, Edward Lassen. He made his debut in 1846, at the Brussels Conservatory, when he was only 13 years old. Called by Liszt to Wei- mar, he has remained there ever since. Las- sen was & firm friend of Wagner and was one of the first opera conductors to mount his works. Lassen is celebrated in Germany for a remarkable musical scene, inspired by Goethe's “Faust.” In America he is very popular as a song writer. ‘Walter Damrosch and his company of Ger- man artists are now giving & season of Wagner opera in Chicago at the Auditorium. “Thus far, and no farther,” seems to be the sign-post of the Windy City, as far as all the great or- ganizationssre concerned. Westof the Rockies people do not even taste of the operatic crumbs that fall from New York’s table. Last week Boston enjoyed the spectacle of an opera war —German opera at one house and Italian at the other. Mascagni’s latest opera, “Silvano,” has not obtained the success that “Ratcliff” had a few weeks ago at the Scala. The groundwork of the plot of “Silvano” is in substance the same as that of the “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Hatred and rivalry in love lead to the catastrophe. The music is easy and melodious, but after “Ratcliff” the public expected more and d1d not hide its disappointment. The orchestration of “Silvano” was judged to be very weak. Saint-Saens has buried himself iy the rural districts of the Malay Peninsula compose the music of his new lyric drama, “Brune- hilda.” Writing toa friend of the impression Singapore made upon him, he says: *It has remained in my eye like a dazzling vision, the landscape of & Chinese fair, with its Chinese houses of surprising luxury and picturesque- ness. I intend to go to Egypt to orchestrate the fourth act of ‘Brunehilda.’ ” It is stated that an ironclad, legal contract has been made with the violinist Ysaye and his company by which they will certainly ap- pear in San Francisco, at the Baldwin Theater, on May 13th. Too often the great virtuosi who are announced fail to materialize, but if Ysaye really comes he can scarcely fail to create a sensation. In the East last winter he more t consoled the matinee girl for the absence of Paderewski. Anew opera-house, the Theatre Mondain, has been opened in Paris. The impresario, Franck Valery, gives this information about it: “The new thoater is to help young composers of talent by giving the public a chance of hear- ing their works. In the present day the diffi- culty of getting an unknown work presented kills young talent. The Theatre Mondain will receive with the warmest sympathy the works of giited young composers who aspire to see their own compositions put upon the stage. It will, in short, direct the debuts of future celebrities, and prevent them from becoming disillusionized by disappointment.” This is certainly a generous programme, and it is said :hat the Theatre Mondain means to live up o it. Poor Benjamin Godard’s opera, “The Vivane diere,” which he finished on his deathbed, hag Jjust been produced at the Opera Comique. The librettist, Henri Cain, has had an historie remark, made by a French officer, General Marceau, printed outside the book: *Yes, my soldiers are little men, but they have big souls.” Max Bruch’slatest work is an oratorio entitled “Moses,” and is said to be noteworthy for fine and massive choruses. It is in four parts, the several headings of which are “On Sinai,” “The Golden Calf,” “The Return of the Mes- sengers From Canaan” and “The Promised Land and the Lament of the People Over the Death of Moses.” A woman’s rights society in Paris has just ad. dressed a petition to the members of the Mn. nicipal Council in Paris praying thatthe name of Alboni be given to some street or square in the French capital. The petition draws atten-. tion to the will of the great singer, in which she left 2,000,000 francs to the poor of Paris. After all America is not to have the famous Wagner museum of Herr Oesterlein in Vienna, for the announcement is now made that it has been purchased by the municipality of Leipzig for $10,000. The poet-composer was born in Leipzig, so the selection is an appropriate one, Henschel's “Stabat Mater,” which was given at the Birmingham festival, has just been per- formed in London. It is a scholarly work, but one so little inspired, that, 8s some one sug- gested, it might have been written by a man in joy at the recovery of his mother-in-iaw. Armand A. Solomon, the second violin of the Seturday Popular String Quartet, announces his intention of going to Europe in September to finish his musical education. Louis Gregh, the well-known song-writer, has just written the music of & mew operetta, “Captain Roland,” which is described as very bright and pretty. A society has been formed at Brema for pre- senting “Christus,” the religious opera that Rubinstein completed in his latter years. Some of the recent concertsin London have been wrecked by la gripp PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. Baron Max Guido von Thielmann, who is to succeed Baron von Saurma-Jeltsch as German Embassador at Washington, was born in 1846. He began his diplomatic career in Washing- ton, and since then has served in a half-dozen capitals of Europe. He is a great lingulst, and is said to have written a short account of the surrender of Sedan in Sanskrit for his Berlin teacher. He has written several books of travel. The late Professor Blackie, the distingnished Scotchman, was & man of many eccentricities. One of them was his fondness fora Panama hat, which he wore on every possible oceasion, even at times in his dining-room. With this hat on his head and a large dressing-gown around him he was in proper attire, as he con- sidered it, for receptions. Tay Hain Li, a cousin of L{ Hung Chang, s a prosperous business man of Boston. He is edu- cated, speaks English fluently and is thoroughly Amercanized. 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