The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1895, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. i WSLBgCIiIPTlON RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per ¥ mail; by carrier, 15¢ >3 Adver- Rose and The seven are solid, but the eighth is shaky. ance is needed to supervise nce of political job- e Democrats of almost all kinds D = To preserve the rofits of the fruit indus- serve the fruit itself. ctrine doesn’t cover the we can make one that s a solemn pledge to t be trusted with any obli- nge if China should find ner best friend in the hour time o open the rain- bonnet does not keep the eyes of a girl, but it puts her heart. no way of settl thout startinga E of H. H. Scott does citizen whom Chris not be wasting d of cement oof of the advance of bi- e continuous howl g the face of a corl his best lai pt official, but it jobs. has had a storm that laid hail- slarge as a goose’s egg and they ed $200,000 worth of damage. In her attempt to collect damages from ragua England runs the risk of pick- ing up a war with the United States. idence of the tendency of n to sweeten life for the people. 1f the British lion puts his foot on the soil of Nicaragua, he will come very close to ing on the tail of the American eagle. There is really no sense in having a Solid Eight when seven are just as effective and there is a smaller number among whom to divide the swa; Men who climb into office over a Repub- lican platform canuot kick the platform | down without leaving themselves hanging like political suicides. 1f SBupervisor Scully has been shouldered out of the Solid Eight as a superfluity about the only combination that he can make is one with his sense of duty. No recent innovation in journalism has received more praise than the CALLS re- production of pictures by telegraph, and it may be fairly said that none deserves it more. _— It is now about the time of the month for the daily papers hereabout to assist the lottery companies in the work of injur- ing the community by publishing the list | of “winning numbers.” The great body of workers may profit- | ably reflect that opposition to public im- provements which would bring them the most benefits comes from selfish rich men, who are too mean to pay taxes. The Fresno Republican isof the opinion Ban Francisco will never prosper urtil she completes her sewer system, and it must be admitted that sewers are the best me- dium through which to get rid of the Solid Eight. et Bt If the amateur writers of ““theories” and “suggestions” knew how ridiculous they look in print they would not want their “‘theories’’ and ‘“‘suggestions’’ printed, and if they really were inspired by a desire to serve the ends of justice they would write to Chief Crowley and not to the press. Telegraphing without wires has been successfully accomplished across the SBound of Mull, in Northern Scotland, and while the distance was only two miles, the re- sults are regarded as justifying the belief that we will be rid of wires altogether in telegraphy much sooner than in politics. The latest edition of ““California; her in- dustries, attractions and builders,” com- piled and edited by J. C. Hoag, is one of the most attractive and valuable of the geries. It forms a compendious pamphlet of 144 pages, printed on heavy cream-laid paper in the best style of typographic art, is bandsomely illustrated with picturesque views and portraits of noted men, and con- tains a large amount of important informa- tion concerning all sections of the State. 1t constitutes a splendid advertisement for our industries and being sufficiently beau- tiful to serve as a souvenir should be widely distributed by Californians amopg their friends in the East. crease in the use of sugarin | THE EVIL OF NEGLIGENCE. Recognizing the fact that in the case of public construction there is not the direct moral restraint which a private builder ex- ercises over his employes, honest political governing bodies select for the work men whom they Lave every reason to trust. The men so selected are expected to be as diligent and faithful as if the presence of the builder were at hand to observe their conduct. It isout of the failure of such | men to be diligent, or through their in- | clination to be corrupt, that all the numer- | ous scandals arise over public construc- Ition. Sometimes it is difficult to disting- | uish between negligence and knavery, and { it is equally difficult to say which is worse. In the case of the ferry construction, we are having a repetition of the shameful | scandals that arose out of the construction jof the City Hall. It has not yet been | proved that the contractors violated the specifications and attempted to swindle the State by employing inferior material, but the suspicion that they have isso prevalent that extensive machinery bas been set in motion to discover the truth. | Harbor Commissioners are having compe- tent scientists from the State University make such a physical examination of the | foundations as is possible, the Grand Jury is making an inquiry along other lines, and the indications do not breed a cheering hope that the work may have been | honestly done, and that it would be | to proceed with the erection of the build- | diligent or hon | the presence of f | couraging. When the ferry foundations { were begun and it was announced that | A. Page Brown would be the architect | there was not the s { The improvement was urgently neede | Nothing like negligence, rascality, delay }or danger was dreamt of. It en | one’s mind to reflect that weak four might be constructed, and that b of human lives might be lost in a frig collapse of the stru nds of | men do not voluntaril spect that there | are persons walking abroad among them, with all the semblance of a well-rounded manhood, who are capable, thr gence or du; of deliberatel mine in the the po; wholesale and p h men hment shoul, d is reformed, the pun! of minor crimes is a farce. In spite of the fact that the architect has not proved that he attended diligently to and that the presumption of constructed foundations sincerely hope that the work found done according to contract, for a snperstructt and that the hame, delay of condem is law can deliver. THE BRITISE AND NICARAGUA.| The vigorous and prompt action taken by the Britisn Government to exact dam- ages from the peo, of aragua for in- | jury done to British subjects residing | there, is not in itself to be condemned. It is only by such swit action that civilized lands and protect the property of law- abiding industrious men from plander and d uction at every outbreak of insurrec- tion and war. There is therefore nothing inthe act itself for us to condemn. On the contrary, there is much in it for us to approve and to imitate in cases where American citizens are deprived of their | property and denied redress in countries where, under fair treaties, our people have a right to go. The affair assumes a different aspect, however, when considered not in itself | alone, but in its relation to the Monroe doctrine and to the proposed construc- tion of the Nicaragua canal. The American people have learned to give a very broad construction to the Monroe | | doctrine and are ready to apply it to every | | form of controversy that arises between any country on this continent and a | European power. That the doctrine has | ;; never been recognized in international law, | | nor received any formal diplomatic sanc- | tion, does not materially affect its real | N validity, for it has come to occupy a great | place in the National aspirations of the | people of the United States, and this fact | is in itself sufficient to give the doctrine importance in politics and diplomacy too | | great to be overlooked and too pressing to be evaded. | Not less impertant to the issue than the Monroe doctrine is the proposed construc- | tion of the Nicaragua canal. That also has | become a great aspiration of the American | people, and one that is of more than senti- mental interest to them. It is essential to the development of American commerce that the canal should be constructed, and equally essential to the security of that commerce that the canal when constructed should be under American control. We have therefore two reasons for watching the proceedings of the British in Nicaragua from the standpoint of opposition. Those | proceedings are distinctly adverse to our | interests, and while we may concede the right of Great Britain to demand redress for | the wrong done to her citizens, we cannot | favor any action on her part that shows an intention to lord it too far on American soil. 1t is not altogether unfortunate that the interests of the United States are intrusted at this critical period to two such blun- derers as Cleveland and Gresham. A | blunder sometimes teaches wisdom more effectually than reason itself, and the mis- takes and imbecilities of the present ad- \ninistration may be needed to crystallize public opinion in favor of a more vigorous American policy when the next one comes in. There can be no doubt that Cleve- land’s attempt at tariff reform has made the people of the United States practically unanimous for protection, and it is quite probable that his weak and meaningless foreign policy may be teaching the people an equally good lesson concerning our re- lations to Central Americaand the part we must perform in directing its development. THE NATIVE SONS ALERT. Following up the suggestion which it made on Wednesday, to the effect that the Native Sons of the Golden West, working as a body, would be a powerful force in the development of the State, the CaLL has secured, and presents in this issue, a num- ber of interviews with leading members of the order. These are very instructive, and should be pondered by every member of the organization. Naturally the CALL's suggestion appeared to the Native Sons in the light of a novelty. While every member of the order is pledged to a patriotic cherishing of the best interests of the State, it seems to have been taken for granted that this praise- worthy course should be pursued by the members in their individual capacity of citizens only, and not by means of definite purposes pursued by the organjzation as a ‘While the | | foundations of the science of physics. We | nations can make their force felt in lawless | | whole. Hence it is that in the scheme of the order there is no plan for a direct at- tack upon any line of action, the general organization being maintained Drincipn_lly as a bond of union and for the promotion of sociability. But it is pleasing to observe that the members who were interviewed regard the suggestion favorably, and clearly see in it a plan for bringing the patriotic effi- ciency of the order to its highest develop- ment. It must be clear to them, asitis to us, that the organized efforts of the mem- bers would be immeasurably more effective than their individual work; and further, that such organized work would be only a logical development and extension of the obligations which the members have indi- | vidually assamed. The prevailing impression of those who were interviewed is that the subject is 100 | new and important to be brought up be- | fore the present annual convention of the order, that the proposed departure from established usage is too radical for imme- | diate action, and that in any event the in- | dividual parlors must take action before thecentral body will have the power to | move. The members believe, therefore, { that the Carr’s suggestion will readily commend itself to the attention of the par- | Tors, that out of the discussion which will | arise some general plan of action will be | evolved, and that the Grand Parlor will be | invested with authority to take the neces- | sary action to secure the working harmony | of the order as a whole. Hence not until the next annual convention, a year hence, can the Native Sonsas an organized body | be expected to take action in this very im- | portant matter. With regard to political affairs, Grand President Sproul has made some conspicu- | ously commendable observations. He | thinks, for instance, that while the order cannot enter into politics in the ordinary sense, its members can properly bind them- selves to two obligations—omne to work for THE FAR-OFF PRINCESS. Translated from the French for the CALL by Mel. The lstest theatrical sensation in Paris is “The Far-off Princess,” & wonderful mystic play by Eugene Rastaud, founded on a legend of the troubadors of Provence. The singular thing about the Dew WOIk is that its mysticism does, mot prevent it from being intensely restless and modern in spirit. When it was first produced on the 6th inst. ‘Wagnerians almost imagined that they were witnessing a musicless representation of *“Tris- tan and Isolde,” only Sarah Bernhardt gave a more ideal rendering of ““The Far-Off Princess” than the most modern of prima donnas could do. This is the strange part she is nightly in- terpreting: “The Far-off Princess” is a sort of Queen of Sheba, who refgns in Tripoli toward the end of the dominion of the Byzantine emperors. Her beeuty, her wit and her wisdom have made her celebrated even in the west of Europe. A French troubador, Bertrand d’Alamarion, has taken her for the lady of his dreams and extols her merits as Dante extolled tnose of Beatrice. Bertrand has been pushed by his spirit of ad- venture as far as the court of Geoffrey, Prince of Sicily, and to the Prince himself he has talked so much of the beauty and graces of the unknown Princess that Geoffrey himself falls in love with her. Itis & Platonic affection, however, for the poor Prince is dying. But he cannot besr to leave the earth without having seen the Prin- cess, so he embarks with Bertrand and sets sail toward Tripoli. The first scene shows the vessel bearing Geoffrey. All is going badly, fever decimates the crew, and it has been necessary to fight against the barbarous pirates, the tempest, hunger and thirst. Nevertheless the dreamed- of Princess has such & hold on the imagine- tions of the sailors that Bertrand hasonly to evoke her name to give them fresh courage and hope. Their faith is recompensed as the sun rises, for the mist covering the sea rises, | showing in the distance the white walls of Tri- poli and the palace where tne mysterious Prin- cess resides. The second scene shows the interior of the strange palace, and which is full of marvels, flowers and perfumes. Pilgrims just returned from the Holy Land salute the Princess, who the election of those candidates, without i to party, who represent California | patriotism in its highest form, and the | other to prevent the re-election of any Na- | | tive Son who may have proved recreant in | | office. This covers generous ground, and | 1ch a stand would be manly, patriotic cial. The rviews, therefore, are most en- | raging, and are altogether what we ex- | d from this splendid body of young It is well that there is a yearin | ec for the material development of the State | can be accomplished, for that much time | is needed in which the wisest scheme may sed. Let us hope not only that all | e Sons will at once apply their ener- | gies to the solution of this great problem, but that they will do all that is possible to | enlarge their power by increasing the mem- | bership of their order. These young men— | the flower of California—have the making | | | of the State in their hands. A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA. Some months ago Robert Stevenson, a civil engineer of this city, born in Scot- | land and graduated from the Glasgow Uni- | versity, startled the California Academy of | Sciences by announcing a discovery, | which, if it is true, overturns the very remember that Mr. Stevenson was chaffed unmercifully. That has had the effect to | rouse his Scotch blood, and now he bas issued his lecture in pamphlet form, with | expansions and a few demonstrations, and | promises to follow it with a book in which | his remarkable theory is to be proved to | the smallest detail. This publication is | awaited with the liveliest interest; even | the preliminary pamphlet is sufficiently | | startling and suggestive to set students ! { thinking. ‘ | Until Mr. Stevenson has either proved his case or feiled in the effort adverse crit- | icism makes the utterer more ridiculous | than the victim. Ptolemy’'s elaborately | demonstrated theory that the sun, stars | and planets revolve round the earth was | accepted implicitly until Copernicus proved that the earth and planets revolve | round the sun; and while Mr. Stevenson's | theory completely overturns Newton’s the- | ory of gravitation, and therefore, if true, | distributes to them white lilies, her emblem. But 1f pilgrims receive easy entrance it is not the same thing for troubadorsand knights. The Princess is betrothed for reasonsof state to the Byzantine Emperor, who is jealous of her, and under the pretext of supplying a guard of honor has placed over her an officious guard- ian, the Knight of the Green Shield, a sort of fairy tale giant, who keeps the Princess in captivity. She, however, charmed with youth, poetry and beauty, would like to meet some knight to deliver her from the fate of having to marry the old Emperor. To the melancholy of legendary heroines the establishes the meas- | which the great work of formulating a plan | Princess joins the restless nervousness of the end-of-the-century woman, and it is with al- most extravagant joy thatshe learns from the merchant Squarciafico, who has come to sell her stuffs from Genoa, that & handsome knight is roaming round the palace as if he would force its gates. Itis Bertrand. Geoffrey, at the point of death, has charged him to seek out the Princess — Melissinde is her name—and lead her on board the ship. Bertrand accepts the mission and executes it valiantly. He scatters the guards under the eye of Melissinde, who has thrown him Ler white veil and car- ries it back to her stained with the blood of the Knight of the Green Shield, whom he hasslain in mortal combat. Bertrand has been wounded and he faints. The Princess binds up his wounds and learns with sorrow that the hand- some knight is only the Prince’s messenger. On his side Bertrand is struck with love for her, but, remembering his promise to his friend, tries to persuade Melissinde to go on board Geoffrey’s ship. In the next e the Princess has ylelded to the troubadour’s supplication, and is about to visit his friend Geoff: The more she sees Bertrand, however, the more she loves him, and at last decides to confess her feelings. Bertrand is so overcome with the avowal that for a time he forgets his loyalty. He is over- come with remorse when he sees a shipsailing out to sea under a black flag, for it was the sig- nal agreed upon to tell him that Geoffrey was de However, this was but & delusion. The ship with the black flag was the oue bearing the re- mainsof the Knight of the Green Shield to Con- stantinople, and the lovers, seized with disgust at their selfishness, prepare to visit the dying man. The scene changes to Geoffrey’s ship, where the Prince is anxiously expecting the return of his messenger. Soon, on a galley, decked with fiowers, like Cleopatra’s, the Far-off Princess appears. Come back to the idesl, she consoles the £ man, cuts off her lowing locks beside his couch and makes his last mojuents happy in the joy of a pure and triumphant love. After his death, Melissinde, hoping for no more happiness on earth, retires into a convent. Although this action issimple it isadroltly the grandest scientific discovery since ewton that Copernicus bore to Ptolemy. Mr. Stevenson declares elasticity of mo- on to be the true cause of universal grav- | itation; that is, thereis nothing inherent | in bodies which causes them to gravitate | toward each other, but the persistence of | energy imparted by some extraneous cause | According to Mr. Stevenson, suppose that & body moving along a straight line in free space is acted upon by a force equal | to the original force and transverse to the | | original line of motion. The author flatly i denies the old law that this body will be | deflected along a straight line which shall be the diagonal of a rectangle, of which the two conflicting lines of motion are sides, and declares that instead it will pur- sue a curvilinear course, which, he says, is | an ellipse. He explains this by saying that | unless the secondary impulse imparted to | the moving body is infinity (in which | event the body will move on the straight | line of the secondary impulse), the original | impulse will constantly act on the body as a force of restitution, striving to return it | to its original line of motion. This is what he calls the elasticity of motion and | the persistence of energy, or “kinetic sta- bility.” Hence Newton’s theory of a centripetal force (gravity) that keeps one body re- volving about another falls to pieces. It is not gravity, acting as a centripetal force | against the centrifugal force of a body, or its tendency to fly off into space, that keeps it revolving in an ellipse, for such revolution may eccur without the presence of a central body. Such is the body of his startling theory. There is not space here to give it any elaboration, as he does, but some of his ob- servations may be noted. He says that he has demonstrated the fallacy of Newton’s theory that gravity acts independently and constantly. He has proven that a projectile does not fall sixteen feet in‘the first second after its propulsion, and that a projectile traveling at a velocity of 1036 feet a second (instead of having to travel at a rate of 25.000 feet a second, as we have been hitherto taught) would travel round the earth without fall- ing, if there were no atmospheric resist- ance. In indicating the results which would follow from his discovery, Mr. Stevenson says that we could learn how the planets are formed and constituted, what their heat, mass and atmospheres are, and even the character and bodily structure of their inhabitants. And in applying it to molecular vhysics we might reduce to an exact science the problems of matter, soul and spirit. The recent exhibition of fine art at Whitechapel in the slums of London was attended, during its three weeks’ term, by over 72,000 people. On this basis, tak- ing into consideration the comparative culture of the two localities, how many people ought to attend the Spring Exhibi- tion in San Francisco? | dramatized; indeed the legend,while retaining Newton’s day, we may not yet say that he | q11 jts philosophical and symbolic ideas, be- will not come to bear the same relation to | comes full of the intensity of dramatic action. | In the love scene between Melissinde and Ber- trand the fashion in which the lovers close the | window which commands a view of Geoffrey’s | ship and the terror which seizes them when | the wind reopens it can either be considered | 8s a fine drametic effect or asa powerful psy- | chological study of passion. The base of the play is the eternal struggle exp}ains thig phenomenon. Hence the New- | between the real and the ideel, and from this tonian gravity is not reliable in determin- | point of view one of the finest passagesis the ing the masses of bodi | discourse of the ship’s chaplain, who affirms | that love, when it is part ideal, s as sacred as | religion, sinee it can put a consoling hope into | the heart of a dying man and can render the coarsest beings capable of devotion and self- sacrifice. It is the ideal that illumines the end of the play from the moment that Bertrand and Melissinde are seized with horror at the selfish- ness and perfidy of their love. All through the performance Sarah Bern- hardt realizes the plastic ideal of the Princess. There is not a detail of the performance which she has not attended to herself, not an acces- sory which she has not ordered in person. She has invented a process for giving the costumes an air of not being brand new and for soften- ing the colors. There is not even a shoe, be it ‘worn by the Princess herself or by one of the pirates, which has not been exposed to the atmosphere to make it lose the effect of being worn for the first time. There are only two scenes, but they are very beautiful. The ship of the first act, with pink sails painted with pictures of patron saints, ad- vances on a dark sea, that is gradually lighted with the rosy tint of dawn, and through the haze one sees the white walls of the palace inhabited by the mysterious Princess. Then there is the hall of the palace, an odd mixture of Gothic, Byzantine, Roman and oriental architecture, with a throne of Ravenna mosaic. Then the audience sees the Princess, hierarchal and royal, in her hands the white lilies, on her head a crown with gold wings, and clad as if in a dream. Her robe of Indian damask was especially woven for her, her man- tle of Venetian brocade is covered with jewels, and her girdle is fastene? with a monster’s head. These garments that envelop the Prin- cess idealize her, so that one does not know which one 1s admiring, Sarah or the draperies. PERSONAL. Frank A. Cressy, s banker of Modesto, s at the Lick. Dr. J. D, Davidson of Fresno is a guest of the Baldwin. Fred G. Wadsworth, 8 benker of Yreka, is &t the Grand. Rev. J. N. Maclean of Vacaville is registered at the Occidental. R. M. Shackleford of Paso Robles registered at the Occidental yesterday. H. Guernsey, a cattleman of Golconda, Nev., isamong yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. J. Challer, the Consul of France to Guate- mala, and Mrs. Challer are at the Occidental. Louis Weinberger, & prominent wine mer- chant of New Orleans, is stopping at the Grand. Ex-Harbor Commissioner C. F. Bassett has gone to Southern California for & fortnight's outing. Major H. C. Dane, the lecturer, and Mrs. Dane arrived from Boston yesterday and are stopping at the Lick. Judge sWilliam A. Bockes of the New York Court of Appeals, Harry W, Leach aud State Benator 0’Connor, all of New York, are in the city. General George H. Durand, & prominent at- torney of Michigan, arrived in this city yester- day and registered at the Palace. He ison his way to Portland, where he is to appear for the Federal Government in the prosecution of & number of opium smugglers arrested there. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Pve got a kick coming, and 1 intend to kick,” said Colonel K. B. Brown, as he satin the corridor of the What Cheer House, with bis heels higher than his head. “I want to protest against a nuisance, I might almost say an out- rage, to which hundreds of restaurant patrons are every day subjécted. I refer to the practice in vogue among restaurant waiters of giving, unasked, a joint che(*tonneb;u two or more reons sitting at the same table, pe“?or insu:{‘w, a customer enters, takes a seat at one of the tables and gives his order. Pres- ently another person enters, takes a seatat the same table, and gives his order. The two per- sons, we will suppose, are slightly scquainted; recognize each other, and during the meal en- gage in conversation. When the meal is fin- ished the waiter comes forward,and beving noticed the exchange of words, looks directly at one or the other, and with unwarranted pre- sumption, asks, ‘One check?' “If the person addressed has the weakness which is born of politeness of gentleman—a quaslity which that particular waiter lacks—he will in all probability say ‘Yes’ take the check and pay the bill, although having no such intention when he sat down. If the cus- tomer is unprepared or does not feel like pay- ing for both, it is humiliating and awkward to call for separate checks in answer to the weit- er'squestion. If either customer desires to pay for both it is an easy matter to inform the waiter of that fact by asking for one check or by taking both checks to the cashier’s desk. “This criticism applies also where friends enter the restaurant together, and likewise parties composed of ladies and their several escorts. Instances are, no doubt, numerous where, in the latter case, gentlemen have been placed in very embarrassing situations by being presented with ‘one check’ for the entire party by an unsuthorized and presumptuous waiter. “As a frequent patron of restaurants, one ‘who sometimes either by accident or purposely sits at the same table with a casual friend or street acquaintance, though the intimacy mey not be such that I want to pay his bosrd or have him pay mine, I emphatically protest against this pernicious custom. I protest against it whether the custom prevail to en- courage the waiter’s laziness, to display his ignorance, to gratify his pleasure at seeing others embarrassed or, it may be, to satisfy the economic scruples of the restaurant proprietors by saving the waiters’ time and also the paper upon which the checks are printed. “In the interest of patrons, and incidentally in the interests of the proprietors themselves, I | should strongly advise restaurant proprietors to instruct their waiters to give a separate check to each customer, making an exception only where ladies enter in company with male escorts or where an unsolicited request is made for a joint cneck; and immediate dismissal from service shonld be made the penglty for an infraction of this rule. I speak earnestly on this subject, by George! for I have been a re- cent sufferer, and it will be a long time before my next pension day will come round.” Judge Seymour Thompson of St. Louis cley- erly captured a burglar who had entered his room at the Russ last night. The fellow had not noticed that the Judge was lying on a lounge in the corner dozing, end proceeded to ransack the wardrobe. When the Judge woke he saw the man’s back and asked what he was doing, but the burglar, without walting o explain, bolted out of the door. He did not get far before the jurist had overtaken him, knocked him down and collared him. This seemed remarkable considering Judge Thomp- son’s avoirdupois and the fact that the burglar was an active, comparatively young man with a good start. The Judge explained it by say- ing: “When I wasa young men I weas a mem- ber of the metropolitan police of Memphis and o formed a habit of acting quickly in just such emergencies. One instinctively makes a rush without taking any time to consider, while the average citizen would hesitate and lose his opportunity.” PEOFPLE TALEKED ABOUT. Alma-Tadema’ laucusand Nydia” wassold for $1100 at & recent Loundon sale, and Sir John Millais’ “Pippa” for $1200. Signor Demetrio Alata, a telegraph operator in Milan, claims to have invented a method of transferring musical notation by wire. Rev. J. T. Cole of Washington has been elected gemeral secretary of the American Cnurch Missionary Society in place of Rev. W. A. Newbold. The Turkish postal suthorities seize and de- stroy photographs of Mr. Gladstone and Pro- fessor Bryce since the Armenian troubles bes gan, on the ground that they are seditions lit- erature. Premier place in the Queen’s scholarship (women) list for England and Wales was taken this year by Miss Jessie Tomlinson of Stoke Newington. There were 9000 candidates. For several years the honor has gone to Liverpool. The announcement is now made that the famous Wagner museum of Herr Gesterlein in Vienns, the disposal of which occasioned so much controversy, has been purchased for $10,- 000 by the municipality of Leipsic, Wagner's birthplace. ‘The widow of the famous Bohemian composer Smetana intends to visit Vienna on the occasion of the performance of his opera ‘The Secret,” as she has never heard oneof his operas in German. She says that Smetana was absolutely deaf when he wrote thatoperaand “The Kiss.” The statue to Emma Willard to be erected by her old pupils on the grounds of the seminary that bears her name in Troy will be unveiled May 16. Work is to be begun this week on the foundation. The sculptor hasrepresented Mrs. ‘Willard as she was in 1821, when at tLe age of 34 years. Rev. Samuel May of Leicester, Mass., one of the few living veterans of the anti-slavery con- flict, who espoused the cause of the slave al- most at the outset of the contest, and who re- mainéd actively in the conflict to the end, cel- ebrated his eighty-ffth birthday snniversary last week. Rubinstein left to his heirs, among other things, two houses in St. Petersburg, valued at 340,000 rubles, but with & mortgage of 166,- 800 rubles on them. The artistic legacy of Ru- binstein includes 12 operas, 16 symphonies and overtures, 18 pieces of chamber music, 35 pieces for piano alone, 196 songs, ete. The grave of the beautiful Duchess of Lein- ster was laid with palm leaves, from which rose a lining of arum lilies, mixed with aspar- agus fern, and round the edge like & huge oval wreath were masses of violets and ferns. In this bed of flowers now reposes England’s fairest woman, well named Hermione. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The golden trumpet which Grover Cleveland blows is not the horn oi plenty.—Fresno Re- publican. i From present indications it would seem as though Uncle Sam would have to point out to England the existence of the Monroe doctrine, —Santa Clara Journal. _ TFiestas and flower shows are all right, but the broad valleys and eternal hills of California, as nature adorns them at this season, surpass in ‘beauty all the works of human ingenuity,— Fresno Republican. Ii counties were given the power to control and regulate their internal affairs, the ques- tion of compensating county and township offi- cers would soon be settled to the satisfaction of all concerned.—Dixon Tribune. Smiling nature, the valleyrailroad and the political revolution seem to have combined to give California a brighter year during 1895 than has been her lot for several years past. Business is revlving, our mines never looked so well as now, and these perfect spring days inspire even the chronic growlers with life and hope.—San Andreas Prospect. Just now all California is coming to the front in making known to the rest of the world her climate, soil and resources. Every town and hamlet, from the metropolis at the Golden Gate to the most insignificant mining camp or cross- roads town in the State, is doing something to arrest public attention. San Francisco has set the example and the rest of the State has caught the boom fever.—Oroville Register. Never in the history of the State has there been as much unity between the various com- munities as at present. There is also great rivalry between different sections, & healthy competition, which means that the people of California ere awake to their possibilities and are prepared for the harvest which is sure to follow. Now is the time for Lake County to do something while the people are interested.— Lakeport Bee. The present year looks very favorable to be one of great activity in this State, and one that will greatly benefit the laboring masses, of which California has her share. The building of the valley rallroad, the opening of new mining properties in various parts of the State, together with the good erops of grain and fruit that are now assured, wiil all have a tendency to put the surplus labor to work and more money in circalation.—Folsom Telegraph. We hope the Republican National Committee will select San Francisco as the place in which t0 hold the next National Republican Conven- tion. The Democrats of this State should do all they can to further the proposition, and when the convention is held here to make things as pleasant to the visitors as possib) "Rah! for the National Republican Convention to be held in San Francisco! San Franeisco is the best convention city in the United States.— Vacaville Reporter. An era of good roads is upon us. When will it come? Itwill come with the return of pros- perity. The farmer who, for economy, must do his own hauling demands The man who breeds fine horses demands it. The man who likes to drive s fast trotter demands it, and the bicyeler and the electric wagon and the gas motor and the pedestrian and the health and THE BALL TO COME DOWH, Mr. Sutro Wants Uncle Sam‘, to Pay Rent for Tele- graph Hill. The Government ToofiPoor to Pay for Operating a Time Signal. The time ball on the top of Telegraph Hill, which has been going up and down for the last ten years, will come down for good unless the Government pays the rent inside of thirty days. The property is owned by Gustav Sutro, and for the ten years for which the ball has been operated for Uncle Sam it has been going up and down at Mr. Sutro’s expense. Now, the proprietor of the hill ‘wants to know why Uncle Sam cannot pay for the location of the ball, and so he asked the branch bhydrographber's office some time ago. The result of the query was a corre- spondence between Lieutenant Fechteler and the departm in Washington, but very little sati was ved from Captain Bigsbee, the hydrographer. That gentleman said the department was not in pleasure seeker and the capitelist who wishes to invest in bonds, ell demand it.—San Luis Obispo Reasoner. The genaine opinion in this country is that if England sttempts to bombard Greytown or land troops on Nicaraguen soil she will get her- self into a serape with this country. England will hardly do anything that will cause her trouble with the United States. She remembers 100 well a couple of previous attempts to assert herself in this country. She was then licked upon both ocecasions, and if she makes a bad break azain she will be wiped off the face of the earth. We are nota country of unarmed, | inexperienced people, like England prefers to fight.—Petaluma Courie: SUPPOSED- TO BE HUMOROUS. Luey (single)—Do you think it is wicked to smoke, dear? Fanny (married)—No, dear; I'm sure it isn’t. Lucy—Why are you £o sure? Fanny—Because my husband doesn’t smoke; and if it was wicked I'm sure be would do it.— Spare Moments. If time wasn’t money how could people take it to pey visits?—Philadelphia Times. An exchange asks what we would do with Cubs if we had it. Why, tax it, of course.— Dallas News. As soon 8s & youth begins to fancy that he knows it all he should be started off to school.— Galveston News. A teakettle can sing when it is merely filled with water. But man, proud man,is no tea- kettle.—New York Obzerver. Japan has agreed to civilize China. This | seems to be an infringement on England’s pre- rogatives.—New York Journal. An English Judge has recently defined gen- tleman 8s a term which “includes anybody who has nothing to do and who is outside of the workhouse.”—Tammany Times. There is one point the woman voters haye not been able to make out yet—why it takes & man from 6 o'clock in the morning till 11:30 | at night to cast his ballot. But women are not supposed to know everything. — Cleveland Plaindealer. This is the season of the year when the young man who is going to graduate from college this summer begins to wonder how many $5000 po- | sitions will be offered to him tne first month after he acquires his degree. He will know all about it before August 1.—Somerville Journal. COMPETITE - DRILLING. League of the Cross Cadets Practicing for the Contest. i made fast to the axles ofthe car, but which a position to pay rent and called attention to the fact that rent was not other city in the Union. In Georgia, he said, the cotton gave the department all the nece veniences. In Chicago the M ple has erected a ball at its own expen: acost of $1400 and in Cleveland the ¢ put up a ball aiso at an expense of from $400 to $500. Captain Bigsbee also called atten the fact that the ball wasnot established for the benefit of the Government, but for that of the community, and hinted that if any rent was to be paid, the benef might find it consistent to foot the bi Mr. Sutro fails to see where heis fited, and thinks that he shou sisted in payingtaxes and other incidental ex{»enses for maintaining the house Telegraph Hill. He argues that i of having supplied the Government a station for the past ten years, the Government should now pay him a rental of $30 a month, and yesterday he gave no- tice to Lieutenant Fechteler that if the rent were not forthcoming in thirty days, the ball would have to slide up and down some other poll than tnat on Teiegraph Hill. Unless the city comes to the assist- ance of the United States, the ball will have to come down, for no appropriations has been made for such an emergency a3y paying rent. The ball is mostly beneficial: to ship captains in port for rating their chronometers. A New Street-Car Guard. Among the many suggestions w have been submitted to the street-car compeanies for a guard attachment, is one invented and patented by John Craig, & loeal ca maker. The inventten consists of a so arranged as to be rigid, L. e. and down with the motion of the is, besides, a flexible or ninged permits the guard to be_placed position, and which also el tions, moving up and down h ventor claims that it is n struct 8 new frame for needed is to attachthe flex: board of the present ar Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. ————————— VERMONT maple sugar, 15¢ Ib, Townsend's.* —————————— In Eastern Bengal a will cannot be made in favor of a man, and the property only descends tarough the women. ————————— WE guarantee our ports and sherries to ba pure. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street.® ————————— ‘GENTUINE eye-glasses, 15¢. 813¢ Fourth, nr. bare ber. 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The cadets are very efficient in all the movements and the keenest interest is being taken by the different companies in the competition. They present a hand- some appearance in their blue-black uni- forms. The result of their training is shown in their manly bearing. The officers and soldiers of the Presidio are expected to be present. In fact all the military men of the city together with the Boys' Brigade have been invited. From the deep interest the friends and families of the boys are taking in the exercises it is certain that there will be a large gathering at the competitive drill. NEW ATTORNEYS. One Woman Among Seventeen Success- ful Legal Candidates. The Supreme Court Commissionersdesig- nated to examine applicants for admission to practice law in the courts of this State have reported favorably on the following: Francisco Ignacio de Lemos, John Chis- holm Crooks, Robert Martin Price, Miss Luda V. Fulkerson, J. Richard Freud, John Brown, Henry Newburgh, F. J. Hambly, Michael Seleyson, Green Majors, Herman' T. Miller, W. A. Fine, Louis O’Neal, Daniel A. McColgan, Carroll Emerson, Archibald J. Treat and J. F. Gawthorne, and the Supreme Court has ordered them admitted to practice law in all the courts of the State upon taking the oath and signing the roll of attorneys. The Commissioners were Belcher, Searls and Vanclief. This was one of the first orders made by the Supreme Court on its return from Los Angeles. ———————— State Horticultural Society. President B. M. Lelong has given notice that aregular meeting of the State Horticultural So- ciety will he held at 220 Sutter street to-day at 1o'clock. It isplanned to have a general con- ference on the outlook for marketing California fresh and dried fruits during the coming sea- son. Invitations to address the meeting have been extended to the following gentlemen: H. Weinstock of Sacramento, chairman of the committee on transportation of the Fruit Growers’ Convention of 1894; B. F. 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