The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—#6 per year by mall; by earrier, 15 per week. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. he SAN FRANCISCO ), Pacific Btates Adver- iander building, Rose and New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going 10 the counry on & vacation ? If 0, i oubie ‘or ns 10 forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let It miss you for you will ! ders Eusiness Office prompt attention. to the carrier, or left at 710 Murket street, will receive | Cobblesare the monuments of decay. —_— | Enthusiasm ishaving a fine Santa Cruise. ‘When a fool is against you it counts for one for you. Hunting a #oft snap is the surest way to | find a tough ti lisle’s gold speeches are delivered with an English accent. vement pays a dollar | The great contest of the day is between | the camera and the bi The silurian never takes anything more | than a cursory view of progress. i In the development of any community one leader is worth & dozen critics. citizen keeps hisfinancial ideas 1d circulates his money. 3ad luck is the implement of iron that opens up the hidden resources of a man. to the extreme on any n danger of getting off. Whoever go great question i Many a man has been started by a kick into a movement that led him to fortune. This year’s fruits are already beginning to blush at the compliments which they | Tece: Since all California has got into a state | of enterprise there is no longer any talk of State division. It will require a good many kings to marry all the queens that the carnivals are producing. To make California a home market for | home goods every man must begin with his own home. The sword which Carlisle is using was worn out by Sherman in his old battles with windmills. When “South of Market street’” begins to show pride we may be sure that silu- rianism is doomed. Never before in her history did California offer so many opportunities to capital and industry as at this tin Fresno is determined again to unfold the wings of progress on which it soared so grandly a few years ago. A great many of the tragedies commit- ted in the name of love owe some allegi- ance to the black bottle. The goldbugs should remember that honest money deals as fairly with the creditor as with the debtor. There is danger that the country may have too much of the free and unlimited coinage of financial theories. Judging from reports that come to us, there is nothing so deceptive as Eastern weather except their strawberries. —_— It is fortunate for Democracy that the Supreme Court prevented them from rubbing the income tax in on the people. The report that a Chicago woman re- cently became insane from novel reading seems like a warning against mystery stories. No matter what success Cleveland may attain with his book, he will be remem- bered mainly as the author of the great depression. it is a queer form of loyalty in which a rascal elected to office is truer to the cor- rupt than to the worthy influences which elected him. Until Pacific Coast manufacturers make their products known all over the coast, they cannot rightly expect the people to ask for them. — And now Santa Barbara bas joined the grand procession by starting to build a railroad which shall connect its rich in- terior valleys with the coast. According to the London Chronicle Brit- ish experts believe that if Russia and Japan should go to war in the Orient, Japan would get the bestof it. The voice of the conservative elements of the country will be heard on the money question when the Republican convention meets, and that will be time enough. New Yorkers are complaining that before Mre. Paran Stevens had been dead a fort- night the furniture was stripped from her house, sold at auction and a new deal had begun. LSl s Having pledged the right of way to the Valley road through thecity, together with forty acres of land within the city for ma- chine shops, Fresno’s task in achieving the ambition of the One Hundred Thousand Club is vastly simplified. ! Taking all things into consideration, the ocean and the bay with its islands, the parks and the buildings, the hills and the valleys, the variety of tne architecture and tne changing illusions of fog and mist, Ban Francisco is perhaps the scene of a greater diversity of the picturesque than any other locality on A naive dispatch from the Stanford Uni- wversity, published yesterday, said: “A elight shock of earthquake was felt here this morning at 10:42. There were vibra- tions from north to south, lasting about a second.” As this disturbance, unknown to Stanford. was produced by the explosion of the powder works at Pinole, there seems to be a sustention of the theory that earth- guakes are produced by subterranean ex- plosions, and not, as the latest theory claims, by the collapsing of caves or slip- ping and rupture of rock strata. | of the State. THE LEASE IS SETTLED. As might have been expected from sensible business men, who have the good of the State at heart, the Harbor Commis- sioners and the Board of Directors of the Ban Joaquin Valley road have finally agreed on the terms of the China Basin | lease, and the execution of the instrument is now all that remains to secure a temmi- nal in San Francisco. The Commissioners and the Directors all along have been under the controlling in- fluence of a desire to secure the same end— competition in transportation. The only point of difference between them has been as to the method. The Commissioners offered a lease which prohibited a transfer of the property to any other transportation company having a terminal in the Cit; The Directors had already guarded this point completely in the scheme for pooling shares. They held that while they hoped to be able to build the road with California money, they might not raise sufficient, and that in case of the necessity for selling bonds abroad in order that they might complete the work, the restriction imposed by the Commissioners would render such sale impossible, inas- much as » mortgage to secure bonds can- not be made on property which cannot be transferred. The correctness of this ground has been at last accepted by the Com- missioners. On their part there was never | any fear that the present promoters of the | road would prove unfaithful; it was only | the fact that the lease is to run fifty years, and that the present owners will be suc- ceeded by others, that made the Commi missioners hesitate. Realizing, however, | that the safeguards created by the Direc- | tors themselves are amply sufficient to se- | cure tne end which they desired, they have | taken the broader ground in the interest The people have cause for rejoicing and congratulations are due the Commission- e The leasehold will be at the best only a very small part of the Valley Railroad’s property, even though the line should be run no further than Bakersfield. But China Basin would ve an excellent ter- minal for an overland road, and if the present undertaking do not lead to this in the end the indications are misleading. Every mile of road added to the system will be strengthening the freedom of the people from monopoly and will be an addi- tion to the State’s protection nst an unfriendly ownership of the China Basin | lease. At the meeting yesterday Thomas Ma- gee, one of the Directors, made a remark that calls for special rejoicing. It wasto the effect that from Fresno to Bakersfield two lines will be run, one including Han- ford and the other the eastern side of the valley. This is a tangible indication that the purpose of the company is to make a comprehensive deliverance of the State | from monopoly. WHEB}; TERROR STRIKES, It is instructive to read that the people of Sacramento are preparing to reorganize ' their Citizens’ Safety Committee, which a few months ago cleared that city of the | evil cbaracters who were disturbing its peace. We are assured that “the rough element is again coming to the front, at- tempting murders and committing bur- glaries and highway robberies” It is| added that “directly after the murder of the Webers, when there were almost nightly burglaries and highway robberies, when the city was overrun by tramps and other worthless characters, the committee came into existence and soon cleared the | city of that very undesirable element.” | | | This means to say that the machinery of the law is inadequate for the purposes of its creation and that it has to be strength- | ened by the voluntary interference of | private citizens. That is no reflection | upon the law officers of Sacramento in particular. It is a condition of affairs that may arise at any time in any American city; that often does arise, and that some- times, in its fullest demonstration, con- stitutes a more violent breach against the law than the evils at which it is aimed. There is nothing in the suggestion from Sacramento that indicates any approach to lynch law, but only a desire to assist the established law. Still, it does pro- claim the inadequacy of the law, and where that feeling exists there is but a short step to the violent setting aside of the courts and the dealing out of that justice which every good citizen knows should be the rule. It has been a long time since movements allied to lynchings and vigilance commit- tees have been known in Europe. When some great criminal, as a regicide, is cap- tured there is often a wild rush to lynch him, but that is solely because the desire for vengeance is rife, and not through any fear that the courts will be laggard or un- reliable. Every movement of American citizens looking to the bringing forth of a power which is lacking in the law is a pro- test against the inadequacy of the courts and an appeal for their reformation. Mexico, the other day, passed a remark- able 'aw, making it the duty of officers to execute on the spot, without trial or a moment’s delay, all train-robbers who take life in the pursuit of their robbery. This was done with an understanding of the fact that the swiftness with which pun- ishment is made to follow the crimeis a vital part of its exemplary effect. In other words, Mexico has not only legalized lynching under certain circum- stances, but has made it a binding duty; and this is in recognition of the fact that lynching is the most formidable of all checks upon the commission of capital crimes in America. Nothing strikes so deep terror asa mob of earnest, upright citizens sweeping aside the law, breaking down its jails and leading forth its prison- ers in the dead of night to a fearful doom; and it is most instructive fact that these men, themselves greater violators of the law than the knaves they put to death, are very rarely molested, and, on the contrary, are supported by popular sentiment. It is an -unwholesome and incongruous state of affairs. Our laws are weak enongh, and running through them is that absurd- est of fictions that a man is presumed to be innocent until his guilt is proved; but their weaknesses are magnified by the Judges, who in the exercise of their discre- which the law must struggl terrifying effect of punish: quickly after the deed, and" tial part of punishment is lost. When a man at last is hanged the newspapers have to refresh the public memory by printing a history of the crime. — PALMER'S QUESTION. Senator Palmer of Illinois has contribu- | Cleveland’s foreign policy. | organization is to do? | cratic party has long been divided against | itself and is now falling asunder. | tain the Democratic party.’” | was selling eggs. | foothills back of Berkeley, and by the | some kind of a house on it, had got a fow | chi | country and make a home is, “How is that | men are determined to accomplish them. | across the plains, he and his family bear- | seriousness by a statesman of Senator Palmer’s rank and ability, it merits seri- ous consideration. There never can be in | any country having a representative Gov- jernment more than two great parties, and | there must always be two. At the present | time in the United States there issuch a condition of affairs that the only parties having any consistency are the Republi- {cans and the Populists. These parties | differ radically in aims and methods, but | each of them has a definite policy and a | basis for unity of action. On the other | hand Democracy has no policy, and is in- | capable of uniting to take action on eny | measure. This fact wasclearly shown dur- | ing the last Congress. It is evident aiso in the wrangling among the leaders of the | party to-day, and will be even more con- | spicuous when the National Convention assembles. Without discipline and withont a policy no party hasa reason for existence. De- mocracy can justify its presence in our politics only on the grounds of tradition and descent. 1t may have been a party in times past, but it certainly has no element of party vitality to-day. It is divided on every issue before the country. There is no agreement even among the leaders on the tariff, on the money question or on No severer things have ever been said about either wing of the Democracy than were said by the other wing. Why should szensible pt to keep up an organization y are not agreed as to what the Why should they persist in trying to act together when they have not a single aim in common and can- not discuss a single political issue without wishing to fight? It has been written, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” The Demo- The strife between the Gorman faction and the Wilson faction over the tariff bill split the | organization, but for the time being the leaders were able to patch it up by a com- | promise. Clevelandism and the money question, however, have created divisions | 100 great to be healed. No one would be surprised to see the National Convention of the party break up as it did at Charles- ton in 1860 and put two candidates in the d. Cerwainly Senator Palmer's ques- tion is timely and the answer to it is | simple: “Tt is not worth while to main- WHEN OTHER RESOUROES FAIL. A few months ago a printer in Oakland lost his position and couid not secure an- other. He was a cripple and had a small family and was poor. He disappeared for a few weeks, and when seen again on the streets he had a basket on his arm and He bad gone into the exercise of tact and ingenuity had got Jossession of a little land and had put ens, and now he is happier and more vrosperous than ever he was in the dreary years when he “worked at the case.” It is not given to all men to have this sort of pluck, but the most discouraging question that an unemployed city artisan or laborer asks when advised to gointo the possible when I haven’t a cent?’ It is wonderful what things are possible when We have in mind a penniless German with a wife and some young children. They were dropped from the train at a town in the San Joaquin Valley, practically penniless. The man had all the sturdiness and courage of his race. He was too wise to stop in the town, but tramped away ing all their worldly goods upon their backs. Of course they were given shelter and food that night, and of course they paid for it in honest labor. By patient plodding he found a man who would sell | bim some land, agreeing to accept a part of the annual crop as payment from year to year. He had no house, no horse, no COW, 1o pigs, no chickens, no furniture— hardly anything with which to begin the struggle. But the spirit of a man wasin him. Peo- ple lived thereabout, and there were many things which he and his wife could do for them. The house was built of odds and ends that were worked for or received as gifts. It was a poor cabin indeed, but a home for all that,and a bland climate makes a poor house comfortable. A horse, a cow, pigs and chickens came in time by hard work, thrift, frugality, tact and all the .other good things that go to make a successful man. He worked for the neigh- bors, and preferred almost anything above money—an old chair, which he needed; a aiscarded plow, which would serve him at home for the present; a chicken, which would lay eggs and multiply after its kind ; food of any sort that wasto spare. Ten years afterward this poor German was out of debt, lived in a good house and had a happy, well-clad and well-schooled family. Nor had the wife been dragged down and made hard and old and ugly. She had been wise in handling Ler strength, and her calm blue eyes and rosy cheeks told the story of how a hope for better days had sustained her. . 1t is wonderful what pluck will do for the poor man in the fertile fields of Cali- fornia. Almost everything that he may need for food he may prodace on his little farm; and as for clothing, that does not cost much in the country. We have known Ttalians, many of them, to get a startin this wise: They would find & man who had just planted an orchard, and who ex- pected to-bear the expense of its cultiva- tion for three, four or five years, when it would come into bearing and then pay its own way. They would oifer to cultivate and prune the orchard for say five years, their only payment being the privilege of raising annual crops—such as peas, beans or what not—between the rows. This would be advantageous to the owner, for the young trees would not be hurt by the annual crop. The Italians meanwhile were growing on the soil what they needed for food, and were selling the remainder for a cash profit. Itisin the development of the art of small farming that the best prosperity of our people is to be found. They can always produce sufficient to sustain life in com- fort, and most of the things which are con- sumed; and it must be extraordinarily bad management that does not permit of a sur- plus. The life is not hard. There is no biting cold weather to harass and depress. And there is always something that the wife and aaughters can be raising to make some money for themselves. Farming in California on a small scale presents a per- fect picture of completeness and comfort, ted to the study of the Nation the problem: ¢Is the Democratic party worth maintain- ing?” The Senator did not ask the ques- tion in any idle mood, nor did he intend it to be considered asa matter of abstract speculation. It is to him a problem of practical politics. He has been consider- ing the subject of free silver coinage, and finding the party to be hopelessly at sea on the issue has put to his fellow gold stand- ard men the query whether the party under these circumstances is worth keep- ing up. . The question having been asked in all A MODEL WEEKLY PAPER. The WEERLY CALL of this date isa model weekly newspaper. Allthe mostimportant events of the past seven days—local, State and National—will be found in its pages. Appreciating the absorbing interest throughout the land in the great financial issues, the WEEKLY CALL furnishes a com- plete report of the debate of the gold and silver champions at Chicago; and, recog- nizing the deep concern of the people in the income-tax decision, the findings of the august tribunal at Washington are pre- sented in detail. Thus, with the leading questions of the time the rural reader may readily familiarize himself by a careful perusal of the Wegsry CALL. To-day’s issme contains an illustrated article descriptive of Visalia, Tulare and Bakersfield, and the productive and rapidly settling regions around these prosperous places. The best ideas advanced in the Pacific Coast Women’s Congress are reproduced in a pithy manner, and will be found full of food for thought. The WEgLY CaLy furnishes not only a summary of the coast news, latest tele- graphic dispatches and carefully prepared pages devoted to agriculture and mining, but it makes itself doubly welcome to the home by its literary attractions. el ot AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Herry Dimond is back from the Islands. Yesterday mornineg he consumed 8n egg and toast breakiast with Bazil Ricketts in the Palece grill room. “Say, Baz,” began Herry, as he dumped two lumps of Hawaiian suger into his coffee, “you should have seen me do the nativesin that horserace. Snide horse, t00.” “Do they have races ? “Well, to some extent. They had races the day Igotin. You never saw such lively times ‘“THAT MAKESSIXTY MILES,” SAID HARRY DIMOND, [Sketched from lfe for the “Cail” by Nankivell.) in your life, Baz. Why, in the first place, I bought the animal for a song and put bim in training. Inside of a week he showed sufficient speed to put a little money on him. Well, we got everything ready, and the track was swarming with people who wanted to see the fun. The opposition declared that he couldn’t finish the mile to save his neck, but when the runners got off in the first quarter he was stringing it out in good shape. At the last quarter and in the stretch he woke up and pro- ceeded to run away. Baz, he ran around the track four times, bucked the jockey off, smashed a fonce and broke the mile record by two seconds. You never saw anything like it The natives nearly went crazy to see that little rat get over the ground. Three consecutive days he did the same thing, and I nearly broke the sports. The last day I ran him three miles before the race #o he would get started. That was the only thing I could do to keep him from running over the other horsesand the crowds on the quarter stretch.” Sol Runyon, whose orchards in the Sacra- mento Valley produce fruit of a quality that has mede California famous as a fruit-growing region, talked of growers,shippers and buyers at the Grand Hotel last evening. So faras he can judge, the crop this season will be fair, but somewhat lighter than the average. Apricots and pears will be light in the vicinity of his orehards, but peaches promise to be plentiful &nd of good quality. Early Bartlett pears will be ecarce and plums light. “I am inclined to favor ventilated cars for shipping fruit to Chicago and New York, provided we can get our fruit through to the lakes in four days ana to the Atlantic in seven,” satd Mr. Runyon. “That is the way Washington Porter began shipping fruit from Bacramento to Chicago, and while the trains were sent through with- out delay the shipments were suceessful. Last year some of the fruit was thirty dayson the road. If I had simply sat down and let my fruit fall off the trees, I would not have been as great a loser as I was in shipping.” Speaking of probable buyers Mr. Runyon re- marked that & number of Eastern fruit men had been around the orchards near Sacramento, but prices had not been discussed. “Wash Porter has been up there and Mr. Ruhlman of P. Ruhlman & Co. of New York is looking over the ground. Representatives of the California Green and Dried Fruit Company have been about taking observations. Ruhlman has been in the business for twenty-five years in New York and certainly stands high as to credit in mercantile circles. Ido not know that he has given much personal attention to California products, but his customers seldom leave him.” L C. Coggins, manager of the Park band, was telling yesterday about their collection of music, which, with that purchased by the rail- road through J. D. Redding and given to the Park Commission, is by far the largest on this coast. “There are,” said Mr. Coggins, “‘over 1800 packages of music, and in some of the packages several numbers. For instance, in one are twenty-four national airs, and in one of the Stabat Mater eight pieces. We have the best of music from all over the world. It has been accumulating for eleven years now and is by far the beet collection on the coast. Most of the music is loaned only, of course. Mr. Roncovieri’s collections of the music of Charles Schultz, who was for a long time leader of the old California ‘Theater orchestra, and that of the late Charles Meyer, some 600 or 700 num- bers in all, are to come here soon. Music costs & good deal. Mr. Redding paid over $1200 for the music he purchased. When this is all ar- ranged we shall have a collection that I should not be ashamed to have anybody inspect.” SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Business never was in & condition'to suit everybody. Legislation can’t help the man who won’t work or the man who prefers to growl at every one else rather than make an honest industrious effort himself. Legislation cannot prevent the daily demand for bread and butter, and the first duty of every man isto earn that. The times always improve when all hands go to work with a will, stop grumbling, hunting for the bright things of life rather :h-n its unpleasant features.—Inyo Indepen- ent. We can depend on lots of grain, lots of hauling, lots of work and expense and, well our farmers are better off than the majority of the people now living on earth and when the financial tide takes a turn for the better we will still be ghead. We have lots of iruit, lots of stock, lots of feed and there is bound to be a mergin of profit left after it is all marketed.— Santa Maria Times. x The Republican National Convention cannot do better than to adopt the old platform. The principles it annunciates cover everything that is essential for the welfare of the country. —San Jose Mercury. Just because we are assured of & flourmill, don't sit back and think the future prosperity | dignity and humilistion because they are ofthe towu fis sssured. Stir around end get several sach industries. We need them.—Eu- gene (Or.) Guard. If our toys and girls would leave the cities and scatter among the hills and mountains and fields and orchards to till the sofl and herd cattle and sheep and horses; to redeem the deserted lands and open up the new, & stronger, heelthier and more intellectual race would 500D grow up and the eriminal class would £00n diseppear.—The Whittier. In proportion to its age and populetion Celifornis stands at the head in the educa- tional facilitice afforded its young men and women. With a State University that occupies & high rank among the educational institutions of the country and the magnificently endowed university founded by Stanford, besides normal schools and numerous preparatory schools for the universities California offers educational opportunities that leave nothing to be de- sired.—Haywards Rev Officers shounld make distinctions. They have no moral right to ubject decent eitizens to in- guilty of petty misdemeanors. Neither the law, the needs of society nor the demand of the people require that any man, be he ricn, poor, humble or high, shell for trivial cause be | treated as is the rounder, the petty larcenist, | the common drunk and the erust of the Bar- bary Coast.—Kecord-Union. It is creditable to the city of Oskland that it has ceased erecting board schoolhouses, and with one exception of & poor foundation has made such & wise use of its funds that most of | the new school edifices ought to be good, | strong structures at the end of the next half century. Itis worth saying aleo that therehas | been such an advance of the public taste that | it will no longer tolerate flimsy public edifices. —Oskland Tribnne. Santa Cruz County never makes a failure, and we are going to have the grandest celebra- tion next month that ever took place on this coast. This is coufidential, of course.—Santa Cruz Record. The warmed-over Bible which the ladies pro- pose to exploit in the interest of the new woman is likely to find soap on the rails.—Los Angeles Times. PERSONAL. Charles H. Culp of San Felipe is at the Grand Southern. General Charles Cadwalader of Red Bluff is at the Lick. Frank Cronin of Ban Jose is at the Grand Bouthern. Rev. A. L. Mitchell of Salinas is a guestatthe Oceidental. C. W. Tozer, & mining man of Nevada City, is at the Grand. Bam N. Rucker of San Jose registered at the Palace yesterday. J. A. Blossom, a merchant of Virginia City, Nev,, is &t the Grand. Dr. J. H. Bryant of Los Angeles is in the city, en route to Newport, Oregon. C. R. Mason, maneger of Byron Hot Springs, registered at the Palace yesterday. Dr. Joseph O. Hirschfelder has returned to the city after a two weeks' vacation. James O'Brien, a hydraulic miner of Smarts- ville, registered at the Russ yesterday. Ex-Governor Jemes H. Kinkead of Nevada arrived from Virginia City yesterday. G. L. Delano, proprietor of large quarries at Rocklin, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick General T. W. Sheeban of the Sacramento Record-Union came down yesterday and is at the Occldental. Colonel D. B. Falrbanks, a banker of Peta- luma and commander of the Fifth Regiment, N. G. C., 1s staying at the Lick. L. C. Morchouse of San Leandro, 8 member of the Btate Board of Education, and Mrs. More- house were amoug yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. A. C. Hamilton, one of the leading Comstock miners, arrived at the Palace yesterday from Santa Monica, where he has been for some months for his health. Mrs. Charles Denby, wife of the United States Minister to China, arrived in the city yesterday from the East to join her son, Charles Denby Jr., the secretary of the legation at Peking, and his wife who sail on Saturday. Henri J. Haskell, Attorney-General of Mon- tana, arrived yesterday at the Palace. He has come to marry Miss Ella C. Knowles, who has been in this City some little time, and who is his assistant Attorney-General and was, in 1892, a candidate against him for the posi- tion he now fills. John T. Sullivan, manager of the Sea Beach Hotel and chairmanof the committee on pro- motion of the Santa Cruz Venetian Water Car- nival was in town yesterday busy about the coming fete. Most of his time was divided be- tween the headquarters at the Grand Hotel and the railroad offices,where he was to consult about rates. PEOFLE TALEED ABOUT. John G. White, & Cleveland authority on chess, has a library of about 5000 volumes de- veted entirely to the game. Benator Peffer has opened an offl peka. A local paper says: “Itisnote law of- fice, nor an editorial office, nor a capitalist’s office, and were it occupied by any one but a good man it would be cailed headquartérs.” Dr. von Stephan, head of the German postal service, has just celebrated his twenty-fifth an- niversary as Postmaster-General. He was made Postmaster-General of the North German Con- federation In 1870. The doctor is a & poet of ability. One result of the escape from captivity of Slatin Pasha has been the death of the mer- chant, Achmed Wotelegei, who helped him to escape. Achmed has been executed, his house burned down and his wives and ehildren made siaves. *‘Bulldog” Douglass is one of the best-known men in Washington. He has earned his title in a novel way. His business is to rent bull- dogs to house-owners who go away for the sum- mer. The watchdog is chained up in the back yard with a long chain,’and when Mr. Burglar comes about in the night there is a scene. They say Secretary Gresham’s illness is due to excessive smoking. His fondness for the pipe is something intense and the premier of the administration has actually been seen on his way to his office puffing away at his pipe in wild disregard of the conventionalities that are supposed to obtain in the State Department more than anywhere else. —_— SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS, ‘The meek boarder was busily engaged dis- secting the slug of steak lying supinely in the plate before him as the landlady at the head of the table was descanting learnedly upon anat- omy, physiology and hygiene. “Food, you knew, Mr. Starre,” she said, “is the fuel of the body.” “So I've understood, ma’am,” he replied, “and I was just wondering why you didn’t have this sawed up before serving it,” and once more he ran at the steak with his case- | knife.—Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Smallwort—Dear, 1 wish you eould let me have & little money to— Mr. Smallwort—Great heavens! This is too much. I have been hearing nothing at the office and all the way home on the car but the discussion of the money question, and now that I get home here you begin it again, Change the subject and let me have a little variety.—Cineinnati Tribune. ““You have an early spring here, do you?’ said the gentleman from the north. “Yes, eir, right airly. You kin always tell when spring’s come fer good by the snakes. That one you're a~standin’ on now is a ground rattler, an’ this one where you’re a-jumpin’ to isa spreadin’ adder.”—Atlanta Constitution. “And what is this?’ asked the sightseer, picking up the cold-wave fiag. M;'Do:'t gou::owl what dat is?” asked the 'y who had been left temporarily in ch: . “Certainly not.” s 's de pennant dat de Washingtons ex- pects to win dis teason.”—Washington Star. Friend—What makes you write all this time? Groom-Elect—Practicing how to write *“Jib- son and wife” on & hotel register without hav- ing the clerk ask me if we's newly married.— Byracuse Post. Music and Musicians, The new woman is just beginning to make herself felt in the new music. In bygone days ‘women distinguished themselves musically in & gentle, unobtrusive way by writing some of the sweetest melodies that have ever lppellefi to the popular heart.“The Bluebells of Scotland” was penned by a British Queen; Jusephine’s daughter, Hortense, Queen of Holland, wrote “Partant Pour la Syrie,” end endless otber in- stances might be given of women who have touched the hearts of the people with their simple lays. The woman of to-day who writes music, however, does more then write little tunes; she becomes & professional composer, and frequently sighs to vie with men com- posers in the making of symphenies and grand operas. France, England sna ltaly are the countries which to-day have most woman com- posers, In England their woman composers, such as Maude Valerie White and Hope Tem- ple, bave not met with much permanent suc- cess outside the composition of songs, but in France women such as Augusta Holmes stop at no musical berrier. Augusta’s sympbonies, though marked by too much ambition, bear marks of real talent,and her lyrie drama, “The Black Mountain,” must have ability, since it was accepted and produced a short time ago at the Opers,in Paris. The critics showed it little mercy because it was writien by 8 woman—and the French woman is not vetemancipated. In order to prove to the people that “The Black Mountain” was well worth seeing the directors of the Opera, which is & state institution, recently gave a iree per- formance of it. This means that Miss Holmes’ work was put forward as an art treat donated by the state to the people. Such an honor in the case of & young composer wasunprece- dented in France. Hitherto “gratis” perform- ances.have only been given of standard works, such 2s Gounod’s “Faust” or Thomas’ “Mignon.” In Italy woman composers are just beginning to assert themselves. One of the most sponta- neous and most artistic of them is Signora Mary Rossellf-Nissim of Pfsa. The current Is- sueof the Scena Illustrairo, which is one of MARY ROSSELLI-NISSIM. the most artistic papers in Italy, says of her: “Her many musical compositions are truly popular in Pisa, and are known and valued in Florence, Rome, Milan, Naples, and also abroad. Her style is clear and full of feeling, abounding with the exuberance of life and with the vivacity of the composer’s own youth- fnlness. More than one of her works, in the way of chamber music, is beginning to take & place among the compositions of standard mas- ters. Her chamber musicis distinguished by an originality which rebels against any con- ventionalism. Mary Rosselli-Nissim has the soul of an artist, in the widest sense of the word, and she dedicates to art every moment of time that the fulfillment of her dutiesasa loving mother leaves to her.” The London Musical Times says: “Du Mau- rier's 'Trilby,’ as any attentive student of the American papers will readily bear witness, has, indeed, a8 more potent and startling influence on the great American people than any other work written in this century. It bas given rise to a veritable cult, and has temporarily sub- merged quite a large section of sane average bumanity beneath a cataclysm of balderdash. But even in America persons are to be found who have refused to bow at the shrine of Du Maurier’s redoubtable heroine, and among these is to be reckoned Dr. Thomas Dunn Eng- lish, the composer and author of ‘Ben Bolt," which forms the groundwork of the story. The grounds of his grievance against the song which Du Maurier honored are complex, but are sufficiently set forth by Dr. English. While it was popular there were two vessels called the ‘Ben Bolt’ and a racehorse was similarly named in England. But one of the vessels was wrecked and the other blown up, while the herse was shamefully beaten in every race. ‘I never,’ says Dr. English, ‘received a cent for the song, and I shall attribute my going to an eerly grave—I am only in my seventy-sixth year—solely to the vexations which the re- newal of the verses has added to my share of the woes of life, Iam daily in receipt of re- quests for autograph copies of the song, and one young lady has gone so far as to request a lock of my hair.’ ” On the occasion of a ‘“‘Humperdinck Night,” recently given in Darmstadt by the ‘Wagner Verein, much interest was created by the per- formance, from manusecript, of & number of choruses and solos from a mew fairy opera, ‘Scheewittchen” (“Little Snow WHite), by Humperdinck, the composer of “Hansel und Gretel,” who was present. The libretto is from the pen of Humperdinck's cousin, Fran Adel- heid Wette, who also wrote the book of “Han- sel und Gretel,” and the musical treatment thereot was generally pronounced by those present to be fully equal to the &core of that | most popular work. In Vienna a parody of Humperdinck’s “Han- sel und Gretel” is drawing full houses at the Volks-Theater. The composer, under the pseudonym of “Plum Pudding,” is Herr Roth, Herren Costa and Heinrich being the authors of the libretto. In Bremen active preparations have been in Pprogress for some months past with & view to the first ecenic representation of Rubinstein’s sacred opera, “Christus,” which will take place on Saturday next at the Stadt-Theater. The scenic arrangements are under the man- agement of Professor Bulthaupt, while the muelcal directors are Dr. Carl Muck of the Berlin Opera and Herr Julius Ruthardt of the Bremen Stadt-Theater. The leading parts are in the hands of highly competent artists, and the chorus of 350 voices has been selected from among local amateurs. Beigiried Wagner paid his first professional visit ta Rome last month, and conducted a number of the Bayreuth master's works at a concert given at the Costanzi Theater in the presence of Queen Margherita. Dr. Joachim is expected to give a coucert in Rome shortly for the first time in his artistic career, and the event is being looked forward to with immense interest ln musical circles. The eminent violin- ist will be accompanied by the young violon- cellist, Herr Henselt, a nephew of Mendelssohn. It is stated on good authority that Dr. von Muller, the Bavarian Minister of Public Cul- ture, has been in communication with Frau Cosima Wagner, with a view of obtaining the right of performance of “Parsifal” for the Munich Hof-Theater, the Minister offering in return the co-operation of the Munich orches- tra and chorus in the Bayreuth Festivel. Frag Wagner, however, to the conten no doubt, of numerous admirers of “Parsifal,” who consider it sacred to Bayreath, has de- clined the offer. The proprietor of & country store sells g and musieal insiruments. tion?” remarked & visi explained the propr net or banjo or fidd and by the time s practice neighbor comes in and buys a shotgu volver or something like that, and Iget s} goin’ and comin’. See?” Le Figaro says: *“Has any one reckoned many lyric drames Tasso’s ‘Jerusalem I ered’ has inspired? Just fifty; them are celebrated work: -Armida’ and ‘Tancred,’ L del’s ‘Armida’ and Gluek's. the cause of the fumous Gluckists and the Piceinis Sigrid Arnoldson has umph at the Royal T “The Barber of Sevl from “Dinore” fn the singi | her rendering of it created she was recalled twenty-fou thusiasm had never beem seen i since the palmy days of Adelin P During last month the old Leipzig Gewand. haus, which contained the historical Conce Saal, was razed to the ground, and with it ha also disappeared the edjacent building, which bad been the home, from its foundation in 1843 to the year 1887, of the world-famed Cone servatorium der Musik. A ope-act lyric drama entitled “Seleneia,” by M. Van Bluchen Lock, was brought out re- cently at the Netherlendish opers in Amster- dam, where it achieved a complete success. The composer, who conducted the performance, is sn officer in the Dutch army. A new society has been founded in Paris called “The Society of Ancient Instruments.” Its directors are Diemer, Louis Delsarte and Van Waefeighem. The first concert on ancient instruments given recently in the Salle Pleyel Was 8 great success. The season of Italian opera commenced in London on the 15th inst. with Verdi’s “Otnello,” sung by Albani (Desdemona) and Tamagno (Othello) and Pessina (Iago). Tamagno sang the same role six years ago in London at the Lyceum. The directors of the Paris Grand Opera will inaugurate a series of concerts next season with the special object of giving & hearing to the works of young and unknown musicians. telegraphed from Florence tbat Gemmsa ioni has had & great success in Masse- ner’s The public wanted to encore every aria that she sang. The Dutch pianist, Edward Zeldenrust, has been engaged for a tour in the United States. He will sail for this country in October. 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