The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Propristor. —————————— SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DA".}" CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ P week. SUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per y The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New Yorl THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the conntry on & vacation? It £0, It 13 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive promps attention. ¥ THURSDAY AY 30,1885 Memorial day. Honor the heroic dead. Decorate the graves of the brave, Consecrate yourself to patriotism. Lift your hats to the Grand Army. The fruit is blushing under the kisses of the sun. Every patriotic observance is a lesson in loyalty. The loyaity of the citizen is the safety of the state. i It is queer how long is the road that leads nowhere. The finest musician is he who has a fid- dle in his heart. Wealth is the nimbus of the mean and the radiance of the good. King Cobble looks glum at Sthe prospect of a revolt against his reign. The farmer who has sand in his gizzard is the one who has a good crop. Attend to the decoration of the graves of those who kept the Union whole. Every mountain stream is about the beauties of the woods. babbling It is only very big bodies that can ac- complish much by moving slowly. Conscience is half blind unless it have an eye for others as well as for self. This is the day to show forth to all the world that the Republicis grateful. Humility is the pen which genius puts into the hand of the recording angel. The great Republic cannot for get the humblest of those who fought for her. This is the day to make manifest the Nation’s gratitude to the Grand Army. The ties which the Valley road is buying will bind San Francisco to the San Joaquin Valley. All the people should rejoice to-day in the Union made one and indivisible by the blood of heroes. It is rumored that the fat trout in the mountain lakes are now ready to be taken in out of the wet. In these days of piping peace it is wellto recall the deeds of heroes in the days that tried men’s souls. The living veterans of the war should find to-day a thousand proofs that their deeds are not forgotten. A million men combined couldn’t make a metropolis if all of them were animated by provincial ideas. ‘When political combinations begin to break we may be sure that the bosses have taken. to the woods. It has been a long time since we heard of the road that is to send us to the Yo- semite by electricity. b No striking alternative is offered us when we are asked whether we sball choose wheel or woe. The man who laughs when he is not bappy either has something to sell or something to conceal. e e Grief lies behind the confession that we must all begin to toughen our consciences and call a bicycle a wheel. ‘We owe a debt of honor and of gratitude to the living members of the Grand Army as well as to those that are dead. Paris would despair of success in choos- ing the prettiest girl among the contest- ants for carnival queen of Santa Cruz. The woman who would have the highest facial beanuty must remember that the light which shines in her eyes must come from her heart. Bear in mind thisis nota common holi- day, but a day set apartfor solemn services in honor of those who died that the Nation might be saved. Business competitions and political dif- ferences can be laid aside to-day in a gen- eral harmony upon the broad platform of National patriotism. teme el The Nation must not only guard the memory of her soldiers who are dead, but she must guard also the welfare of those who are yet alive. A composite photograph of the sweet girl graduates from the California schools this year would likely drive the roses and butterfiies out of business. The Manufacturers’ Association would perform a valuable service by making a compilation of all the interior enterprises which are aided by San Francisco capital. Senator Sherman uttered a timely senti- ment at the Zanesville convention in say- ing: “The primary and fundamental sen- timent of the Republican party is love for our country, our whole country; we are for the Union, one and indivisible, now and forever.” — This day fulfills the lofty words of Lin- coln: ““The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and pa- triot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” When in the pride of citizenship we re- call to-day the names of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and those others illustrious, whose fame shines as a star through the night of death, there willbe alsoa loyal remembrance that the preservation of the Union depended not on these glone, but upon many a noble soldier in the ranks, whose individual deeds were not widely known in life and who now rests in an un- named grave, MEMORIAL DAY. “The mystic chords of memory stretch- ing from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth- stone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” ‘When in his first inangural Lincoln wrote those immortal words he did not foresee that before the prophecy in them would be realized in complete fultiliment, the battle- fields of the nation would be increased by hundreds and the patriot graves by the tens of thousands. Hedid not foresee the long four years of war that would be neces- sary to free the slave and keep the Union whole. He did not foresee the after years that would be required to overcome sec- tional prejudices, antagonismsand hatreds and bring about the complete restoration of that National patriotism which binds every heart and hearthstone to the battle- fields and patriot graves by mystic chords that will never.again fail to swell the chorus of the Union. He did not foresee these intervening years and struggles, but he did foresee the end, and that which he uttered in the sub- limity of prophecy is to-day realized in the glory of a redeemed Republic and the strength of a united people. To-day in every State in the Union there will be held the solemn and beautiful ceremonies by which the Nation commemorates those who on land and sea dared the dangers and fought the battles that were the salva- tion of the land from slaveryand secession. Even in those States the folly of whose citizens brought on the war, these cere- monies will have place, and the very men who were formerly arrayed in arms against the Union will in not a few in- stances give honor to their former foes and rejoice with them in the consequences of the great victory for liberty and the Union. Around this holiday there cluster min- gled sentiments of rejoicing for the victory, mourning for the dead, generous forgive- ness to conquered foes, and exalted honor to the patriotic heroes to whose courage and loyalty the great victory was due. Out of such mingled sentiments there can come no ordinary feeling. It is not a time solely for sad memories of the dead, nor yet solely for light-hearted gladness in the Nation’s greatness. It is a day for us to remember that our proud Republic was not saved to us without the paymentof a great price in the lives of many thousands of noble men; and as we strew flowers upon the graves of those who died and look upon the aging faces of their surviving com- rades, it is a day for us to lift our eyes to the banner of the Republic and, in the full knowledge of all it means and all that it has cost, renew our loyalty to our country with a sense of solemn consecration that will be binding even unto death. ‘While the ceremonial observances of the day will be directed mainly toward the dead, it will be remembered that it is not to those only who are lying in their graves that the honors of the Republic ave due. The living veterans, not less than those who are gone, deserve & gratitude that should be shown by the people, by the States, and above all by the Nation, in every way that loyalty and love can suggest. Every sol- dier who offered his life for the Republic when the Republic was in'danger should be guaranteed against want, pauperism or dependence in his old age. A pension to the defender of the Nation is an honor both to thg veteran who receives itand to the Government that gives it. To the vet- eran itis an evidence of the value of his service, and to the Government it is a proof that republics are not ungrateful. Such honors the people grndge neither to the Government nor to the veterans, and as they are to-day, so on all days will they be ever willing to show their gratitude to the Grand Army by honoring both the liv- ing and the dead. ' THE 0HIO PLATFORM. As was to have been expected, the plat- form adopted by the Republicans of Ohio is eminently conservative, safe and strong. 1t reaffirms the great principles of which the party has been so long the political embodiment and which have given it such a hold upon “the intelligence and the pa- wriotism of the people. It demands a re- turn to the protective system, which, while restoring American wages and American products, shall provide an adequate reve- nue for the uses of the Government. It advocates a reciprocity of trade, which, while gaining the world’s market for our surplus products, shall not surrender our own markets to foreign-made commodities which can be produced at home. It urges the maintenance of fair elections, based upon a free ballot and an honest count. It declares in favor of bimetallism and de- mands the use of both gold and silveras standard money, either in accordance with aratio to be fixed by international agree- ment, if that can be obtained, or under such restrictions to be determined by legis- lation as will maintain the parity of the values of the two metals, so that the debt- paying power of thé dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal. With the possible exception of a few ex- treme advocates of free silver coinage, this platform will be found acceptable to Re- publicans all over- the Union. That it offers nothing new in the way of remedies for existing evils is one of its best features. The long established principles of the Re- publican party, if carried into effect by judicious legislation, would solve every problem of the time in the interests of the people. A proper protective tariff would revive industry and put an end to the de- ficit in the revenues that hasso gravely complicated our financial problems. Re- ciprocity wounld open to us such foreign markets as would be. beneficial under terms conducive to our interest, and wisely directed legislation in the direction of bimetallism would prepare the way for an enlarged use of silver that would in. crease the currency of the country and revive our languishing silver industries. This platform may be accepted as fairly outlining that which will be adopted by the National Repubfican Convention in 1896. A platform that suits Sherman, Mc- Kinley, Foster and Foraker is not likely to be displeasing to many Republicans any- where, The ““Ohio idea,” as expressed by her Republican leaders, never differs much from the National idea, and this instance will not prove an exception to the rule, It may be regarded, therefore, as now well assured that the storms of the money con- troversy have not caused the grand old party to deviate from its fixed course, and thac it moves now as steadily as everin the direction of protection, reciprocity, bimet- allism and honest elections. TO INSTRUCT THE FARMERS. As the State Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry, has indorsed the summer encamp- ment scheme set on foot by Highland Grange, near Wrights, in Santa Clara County, and has appointed a committee to further the aims of the Highland branch, it is eminently proper that the purposes and possibilities of this movement be con- sidered. This can and should be made the beginning of a series of summer encamp- ‘ments throughout the State under the auspices and guarantee of the Patrons of Husbandry and every part of rural Cali- fornia should be included. The scheme of the Highland Grange is to establish in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near Wrights, a summer camp, where tents and other camping facilities will be furnished at a small cost. The encamp- ment is to extend through the summerand arrangements have been made with the State and Stanford Universities to send lecturers who will imstruct both in agriculture and economics. This opens a very wide view of possi- bilities and opportunities. It has been the rule in this State that the success achieved by the small farmers has been that which the larger growers made possible. It is a remarkable fact that the rich horticulturists of the State have not only fought the way to successiul produc- tion and a profitable market, but in every possible way have given to their humbler brothers all the benefits that their larger opportunities have secured. This generous band of horticulturists on‘a large scale have made this industry in California what it is to-day, and they represent th'e highest type of citizen whom the State is proud to own. Between these men and the vast army of small growers who would be helpless with- out their gnidance stands the University of California with its various branches de- voted to the scientific and economical pro- motion of agriculture. Between a man of S0 conspicuous ability as Professor Hil- gard and the leading horticulturists of the State there was bound to exist the cordial relation which we observe to-day. It has been unfortunate that the intimacy and cordiality of this relation have been kept from their highest development by the in- tervention of various boards and societies with which many of the leading horticul- turists had become identified. The last Legislature, seeing the crippling effef:t which appropriations made to sustain these societies was having on the uséful- ness of the university, took measures, familiar to all, to concentrate the activi- ties in the State institution. That having been done, with more or less inevitable friction, and matters ap- pertaining to the higher development of horticulture having taken a more definite shape, it is both surprising and gratifying to observe that the old comprehensive order, the Patrons of Husbandry, hascome forward to supply the one lack that is left. Though originally inspired by politi- cal aims, it is clear now that the order has determined to begin at the ground and educate its members in the practical ele- ments of success. The first thing that it does under this regime is 1o call on the State University for practical advice, and that it has asked Stanford for theoretical instruction is equally commendable. This opens a way for the harmonizing of all the various parts of the intricate machin- ery that is working for the highest devel- opment of California’s greatest industry. REPUBLICAN UNITY. Even if there had been any tendency to- ward dissensions in the Republican con- vention in Obio, it would have been re- buked and checked by the wise, conserva- tive and statesmanlike speech of Senator Sherman. ‘“What you will say here,” he said to the delegates, “will have an im- portant influence bevond the limits of your State, for the intelligent action of the Republicans of Ohio will, as in the past, indicate the opinions of Republicans in all parts of the United States. We have a common faith and creed. We act to- gether on great matters on principle, on small matters for discipline. The primary and fundamental sentiment of the Repub- lican party is love for our country, our whole country. Weare for the Union, one and indivisible, now and forever.”’ It is a characteristic of parties capable of carrying on a government that the mem- bers ‘“‘act together on great matters on inciple and on small matters for discip- 1t is this characteristic which to so marked an extent distinguishes the Re- publican party from all other parties in the country at this time. - The Democratic party and the Populist party are but names for discordant factions. The members of. neither can act together, either on princi- ple or for discipline. The extraordinary: collapse of the Democracy after the success of 1892 is due mainly to this fact. The blunders of Cleveland no doubt had* much to do with the reversion of public opinion, but in the main it was caused by the papu- lar disgust at the incapacity of Congress and a general recognition of the truth that a party without principles and without discipline is unfit to be intrusted with the Government. The Republican party as Sherman pointed out is not made up of factions. It is an organization of intelligent men to establish a body of political principles and carry them out in action. This gives to the party the confidence of the people and enables it when in power to conduct the Government with vigor and efficiency. It is at this time, therefore, the only political orgauization to which the country can look with any reasonable hope for the suc- cessful solution of the problems that con- front us. Every citizen knows the Repub- lican party will do that which it promises to do, and that when in office the leaders will not break down and prove incompe- tent to agree upon anything whatever. The full importance of the party agree- ment on great principles and party disci- pline on matters of detail cannot be too deeply impressed upon Republicans at this time. The incessant discussion of the money question by extremists on both sides is apt to lead many people to over- look the conservative middle ground of bimetallism, on which all good Repub- licans can stand, and as a consequence there is a ganger of dissension even in Republican ranks. The sagacious words of such men as Sherman, however, are calculated to counteract the influence of extremists. All Republicans have a com- mon faith and creed, and neither on sec- tional lines nor by factional differences are they likely to divideand waste the strength needed to master theissues of the time and preserve the welfare of the Republic. VALLEY ROAD SURVEYORS. The Second Party Hgs Gone Several Miles South of Fresno and Is at Selifia. A letter was received by Chief Engineer Storey of the Valley railway yesterday from the second engineering party near Fresno. It informed him that the preliminary sur- vey had been made several miles south from Fresno, and that preparations had been made for establishing a camp west of Selma yesterday. This party is working toward Hanford. Instructions were sent both to its engineer and the third corps at Fresno survefing toward Visalia to run the preliminary lines very rapidly through Fresno County. It is believed in consequence of this notifica- tion that the surveyors will be in Kings County within a weei. # ——————— Objects to Water Pipes. Henri Pottet has sued the Spring Valley Water Works for $10,000 damages through having the company’s water pipes laid throngh his land on Nebraska street. He also asks that the company be compelled to remove the pipes, as their maintenance is & source of peril through a possible bursting ‘of the pipes, and will entail the invasion of & corps of employes on his land to keep them in repair, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 1. C. Coggins, manager of the Park band, was telling yesterday about how the playing in the park was started eleven years ago. “When it was proposed that there should be music at the park,” he said, “I went to see the streetcar people about it, but they did not believe that it would pay, and contended that the population of the City was too small to pay for the outlay necessary. Ioffered to take s percentage on the increased patronage they would get on their lines, and they finally concluded to make atrial. Ihad 25,000 programmes distributed ten days before the concert, and on Friday, August 2, 1884, the day before the first trial was to be made, I sent District Telegraph mes- senger boys around to all the schools with eir- culars and programmes and advertised it in other ways. There was such a crowd the first Saturday that the railroad people were satis- fied, and the following week the band played on Sunday t00. The crowds have grown con- tinually ever since. For years we have given the best free concert in the world. It is abso- lutely free, and in that differs from the con- certs in most European and Eastern parks, ‘where charges are made for seats and pro- grammes,” President J. Philip Smith of the Santa Cruz Venetian Water Carnival is a very enthusiastic worker in the interest of the great fete, and ex- pects lasting good to come from it for Santa Cruz. “We are repaid already,” he said, at the headquarters at the Grand last evening, “for all we are going to pay out for it in getting rid of our silurians, and getting the people of the town waked up to the common good. Lotsof old-timers who seemed to have little to do in this life except to sit under their trees, gossip and find fault with their neighbors and com- plain of hard times are getting out now and working late and early. They have become optimists. We needed something of this sort to bring the people together, and it has done it thoroughly. Old-time enmities have been forgotten and the jealousies of one partof the town of another have disappeared and every- body is working for the good of the whole of Santa Cruz. Andnothing but the carnival has ‘worked this charm.” PERSONAL. Dr. H. A. Crepin of San Diego 1s at the Russ. C. T.Jones, an attorney of Sacramento,is a guest at the Grana, A. Chichizola, a wealthy merchant of Jack- son, is at the Commercial. Colonel William Doolan, owner of Vichy Springs, is at the Commercial. J. V. Healy, & hotel man of Haywards, and his bride, are registered at the Lick. E. W. 8. Woods, an attorney of Stockton, was one of yesterday’'s arrivals at the Grand. C. E. Fleming, proprietor of the El Capitan Hotel in Merced, registered yesterday at the Lick. Captain C. M. Keniston of Stockton came down yesterday on hisway to New York and registered at the Grand. George E. Hogg, M. E., of Sutro, Nev., general superintendent of the Comstock Tunnel Com- pany, is at the Palace Hotel. Henry Janin, a well-known mining engineer, and Mrs. Janin agrived from New York yester- day and are staying at the Palace. E. A. Walrund, cashier of the First National Bank of Fresno, and his bride are in town on their wedding tour, and are staying at the Lick. George W. Lynch of the Hotel Florence in San Diego arrived here yesterday from the East, where he attended the annual conven- tion of the National Hotel Men's Association. Mr. Lynch is president of the Southern Cali- fornia Hotel Association and first vice-presi- dent of the National Association. He is stay- ing at the Grand Hotel. George S. McKenzie, Sheriff of Napa County, came down yesterday with R, N. Breckenridge, who is under a sentence to twenty-five years’ imprisonment in San Quentin for robbing the Calistoga stage with Buck English, who was killed by a Sheriff's posse shortly atter the rob- bery. Breckenridge, who is only 22 yeers of age, yesterday pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced immediately in the Superior Court of Napa. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The Czar of Russia inherits his father's weak- ness for brass bands. Itissaid that Phil May gets $150 each for his drawings in Punch. The Marquis of Queensberry is & man of much generosity, giving away more in propor- tion to his means than any other man in the British peerage, The question whether Major von Wissman, the new Governor of German-East Africa, shall bear ‘the title, “Excellency,” bas caused the authorities of Berlin great trouble. It has finally been decided that heshali have a right to the title so long as he:is actually on duty, ‘but not when he is on a leave of absence. The collection of pictures, belonging to the late Dowager Duchess of Montrose was sold in London recently. Sir Joshua Reynolds' “Lady Smith and Her Children” realized 4800 guineas, the same artist’s “Lady Anne Fitzpat- rick as Sylvia” 1550 guineas, and Gainsbor- ough’s “Mme. Le Brun” 2550 guiness. . General Gordon of Georgia tells the follow- ing story of the war period to illustrate the shrinkage of the Confederate currency: “One day a cavalryman rode into camp on a reason- «4bly good horse. ‘Hello, cavalryman,’ said a foot soldier. ‘Ill give you $3000 for your horse” ‘You go to biazes,” was the horseman’s reply, ‘I just paid $1000 to have him cur- ried.” The Evangelismos Hospital at Athens is a charitable institution, founded and managed by the Queen of Greece herseli. The firststone of the new building was laid by the King in 1884. Although all the nurses belong to the Greek church, no proselyting is allowed, and ministers of all denominations are admitted into the werds. Every contribution to the funds of the hospital, however insignificant, passes directly through the hands of the Queen herself. Much wonder and curiosity have often been stirred up in the minds of the great inquisi- tive at the sight of a little wicker basket which the ex-Empress Eugenie invariably carries about with her wherever she goes. The pig,as the French would say, is out of the poke at last. This same basket is lined with padded silk and in it resides a hedgehog. 1t is the one and only pet of the Empress, who never travels without it nor allows other hands to tend it but her own. Miss Tadzu Suglye is the name of a Japanese young woman who, after studying at Wellesley College, became s teacher in a Christianschool for girls in Osaka, Japan. “I teach,” she says, “three classes in Chinese literature, two in English, one in the history of Japanese liter- ature and ome in botany. Besides, I have to correct the Japanese compositions produced from the classes and to give & lecture each week on the Jepanese rhetoric. Added to all these I have to give lessons in Yankee cook- ery.” M. Eugene Baudin, Socialist, is the John Burns of the French Chamber. He has been a politician and an exceedingly energetic agita- tor since the age of 16. A potter and the son of a potter, he earned his living by this trade during several yearsof hisexile in England. His life has not been along & path of roses,and in fact at the very outset of his stormy career he was imprisoned for two months "on the charge of having used language which was most insulting to the Emperor Napoleon. This was in 1869. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Plagiarism should be discouraged wherever and whenever possible. Journals that incur the expense of enlighteniug the public on pub- lic questions are deserving of some protection the same as a man who makes an invention. The modern newspaper is, or at least should be, the molder of public opinion. The paper without an opinion is like a ship without a rudder, or & lighthouse without a light. It cannot steer public opinion.—Nevada City Transcript. — The movement for a “greater Los Angeles” is working along very nicely and the 100,000 population is insight. Some of the handsomest residences in Los Angeles and best improved pm:uus:l in the suburban sections, which are mow, intents and purposes, except politi- cally, in the city. The Chamber of Commerce has taken a hand in smoothing down the ob- jectors and the undertaking will soon be con- summated.—Los Angeles World. We have enough carnival poems from local poets on our table to fill the poetry columns of the Sentinel every day for several years, and fill the heads of our readers with wheels for ever and ever. However, we can insert car- nival poetry at ten cents a line, when accom- panied by certified checks.—Santa Cruz Sene tinel. . . Kern County farmers sell their hogs in Los Angeles at 3} cents & pound and buy them back again inthe shape of bacon, hams and lard at five or six times that price. How long it will take to get rich at that rate is anun. solved problem.—Bakersfield Californian. New York has added a flock of sheep to Cen- tral Park, and keeps a shepherd dressed in blue and silver to look after them. He is prob- ably the only man left in America who can make any money in the sheep business.— Marysville Appeal. According to Edward Atkinson 10,800,000, 000 eggs are laid in the United States every year. It mustcost Mr. Atkinson a great deal of time and expense to count these 10,800,000, 000 eggs every year.—Los Angeles Times. A professor calculates that the earth is skrinking about two inches a year. That ac- counts for the nervous anxiety manifested by some people to possess it while it is of some size—Alameda Telegram. When the great men of the Supreme Court can disagree upon pure questions of law, there ought to be room for honest and good-natured differences among ordinary folks.—Redlands Facts. The great objection to the modern daily met- ropolitan nmewspaper is its bulk, and not one man in a thousand gets time to read one-half of it—Escondido Times. A Democratic administration issues the bonds, but a Republican administration will have to pay them off.—Fresno Republican. It is time for the British to evacuate the Treasury Department.—Portland (Or:) Sun. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Bibbs—Who was the man you gave the quar- ter to at the hotel this morning? Gibbs—An old literary friend of mine; author ot ““‘How to Get Rich in the South.”—New York ‘World. Jack—Blower stuck to his habit of stretch- ing things right up to the very last. Bill—-Indeed! Jack—Yes; he stretched a rope out in New- gate & couple of weeks ago, poor fellow !—Spare Moments. Hobbs—Wonder why our mail is always late now? Dodds—Oh, the carriers are women and they can’t hustle much when they have allthe postal cards to read.—Louisville Courier Jour- nal. Brush—What is the distinguishing feature of impressionist pictures, anyway? Palette—There not having any.—Somerville Journal. Jones—Come, go fishing with me, old chap. Brown—~Can’t do it; just signed the pledge.— Judge. “I hN a counterfeit silver dollar passed on me last week,” said Hicks. “That was hard luck,” said Wilkes. “It was, indeed,” said Hicks. “The only way I could get rid of it was to put it in the contribution plate last Sunday.”—Harper's Bazar. Father—Fritz, I saw you last evening helping home an intoxicated studeut. Don’t do it again; it makes a bad impression. Fritz—Ob, that's all right. Ionly did it to get even with him.—Fliegende Blaetter. Mrs. Malaprop—Who are the two young ladies playing that duet on the piano? Herr Strawitzki—One is the daughter of the hostess. Mrs. Malaprop—And, pray, who 1s her accom- plice?—Eulenspiegel. Cross—What does Sellers mean by advertis- ing ‘““New blood in the business?” Blackwell—Why, didn’'t you hear? He's taken his wife’s rich old grandfather into the firm.~New York World. Mamma—I hope you behaved like alittlelady while Mrs. Hightone was trying to entertain you? Small Daughter—Yes'm. I putmy hand over my mouth every time I yawned.—Good News. She (sadly)—Well, 1f we must part, let us part friends. Good-by, and may all that’s good go with you. He (decidedly)—If all that's good went with me you would not remain here. ‘Then she smiled and Iaid her head upon his shoulder and he remained.—Chicago News. Mr. Murray Hill-If the Venus de Medici could be animated into life women would only remark that her waist was too large. Mrs. Murray Hill—That’s where you are mis- taken again. The Venus de Medici would have on a pair of corsets before any one would have & chance to say a word.—Texas Siftings. MEETING OF THE MINERS. It Ts Expected That They Will Take Up the All-Important Mineral Lands Question. Secretary W. C. Ralston of the California Miners’ Association is receiving assurance from the delegates to the forthcoming meeting of the Miners’ Association thgt they will exert themselves to attend the meeting. Just how important the meeting might be to the mining interests of Cali- fornia cannot yet be told, much depending on the association’s attitude toward the opposing railroad interest. One object of the meeting which has not been advertised in the circular heretofore described in the Cany but which is never- theless the most important matter the miners have to ‘discuss has reference to the encroachment of the railroad upon the mineral lands of the State. It is estimated that the Southern Pacific controls millions of acres in the State, which, properly considered, are mineral lands within the meaning of the law, and to which, therefore, the railroad has no title. To devise ways and means for the reversion of these lands to the Govern- ment so that they may be entered upon by miners is one of the t{ings the association must determine at its com meeting. The various committees of the Cfiifomin Miners’ Association are as follows." At Large—Charles G. Yale, C. W. Cross, A. Pichoir, Thomas R. Church, ‘A, Carigan, A. L. Scott, S.B. Christy, R. MeMbrray, Edward Coleman, E. us, A.H. Ricketts, J.J. Crawiord, W. W. Montague, Tirey L. Ford, s, K. Thornfon. Legislatin-Tirey. L Ford, E. A. Belcher, Charles G. Yale, J. M. anm A. H. Ricketts, Thomas G. Merrill, W. E. F. Deal, J. F. Touns- ley, R. McMurray, J. B. Treadwell, W. W. Kel- logg, H.YV. Reardan, C. F. Hoffman, Ira H. Reed, C. sh . Bush. Protection of Mineral Lands—A. H. Rieketts (chairman), Charles G. Yale, J. M. Wright, E. . Loftus, Charles F. Hoffmann. Executive committee—J]. H. Neff, Placer County, cheirman; Alameda County—F. llle‘:. « R. Thomas; man, W. E. Duncan, laveras County- Lane, 8. Foorman; El Dorado County—E. W. Chbapman, James Richards; Nevada ?unmy— A."Tregidgo, J. 8. McBride; Placer County—J. M. Fulweiler, Harold T. Power; Plumas County—W. W. Kellogg, George Standard; San Fran countEEA A. Belcher, D. E. Hayes; Shasta County—R. G. Hart. J. F. Lyons; Sierra County—Frank R. Wehe, D. T. Cole; County—John mfielt, A. G. Myers; Trinit; McMurray, C. W.Smith; Tuol- umne County—John H. Neale, J. W. C. Max- well; Ventura County—J. B. Treadwell; Yuba County—James O’Brien, Joseph Durfee. It is expected that from for delegates will be present at" g{awm&z ing to be held at the Palace Hotel June 6. —————— JIllicit Opium. was found guilty of illicitly manufacturing opium by a jury in the United States District. Court yesterday. Overa year ago Revenue Agents Thomas and Gilchrist raided the store of Sam Fook at 413 Commer- gc‘lm street and in the rear aiscovered the Besory. The Chinaman was arrested, but swore the Was leased toa countryman Whose name he did not know. He promised to find the man and bring him into court. After 8 year's search he succeeded and Lee Doon will now have a chance e United States customs I Music and Musicians, In their new opera, “The Tzigane,” which has just been produced at Abbey’s, with- Lil- lian Russell in the title role, Smith and De Koven seem to have fallen into the same mis- takes that they committea in writing “The Fencing Master.” The story means to be ro- mantic, but so much is given to the comedians that this aim is defeated, and in the music Reginald de Koven hasmingled many styles in amusical olla podrida. The story is supposed to be & Russian one, but the composer has con- verted it into a sort of melodic panorama con- veying Strauss motives, Sullivan motives, Tschaikowsky motives, Russian folksong mo- tives and even Meyerbeer motives. This cos- mopolitan system of blending themes is to be objected to only on the ground that a work entitled a Russian comie opera should have a distinctly Slavonic flavor. The opening cho- ruses have a distinctly and delightfully Rus- sian flavor, it is true. It is not to be com- plained of that Herbert, who represerts a wan- dering impresario, introduces himself with a pleasant French air of quick humor and con- summate finish. But after these preliminary pumbers are over the audience begins to grow confused by the airs of Paris and Vienna and London blowing across the steppes of Russia. The merit of the piece is to be found in certain of the composer’s lyrics; in some neat touches of orchestration, in the spirited finale of the second act, where the Russian natiqnal hymn and the Marseillaise are cleverly blended with LILLIAN RUSSELL IN “THE TZIGANE.” some original music, In the general spirit of the performance and in the magnificent way in which it has been staged and costumed at Abbey’s. As Vera, the Tzigane, Lillian Russell is, both vocally and histrionically, at her best, and the new comic opers, though it will add little to the reputation of its authors, is every- ‘where pronounced a big spectacular success. Le Figaro says: “The Paris Opera-house is going to give the fourth representation of ‘Tannhguser.’ The three first took place on the 13th March, 18th March and 24th March, 1861. This entracte of thirty-four years and two months has not seen the work of Richard Wagner fall into oblivion, and even at the time never did an opera make =0 much- commotion as this one did when it fell. There have been falls of empires which did not excite ‘so much talk as the withdrawal of ‘Tannhauser’ from the boards of the opera-house thirty-four years ago.” Inalongarticle Le Figaro resumes all that was said against “the music of the future” as exemplified in “Tannhauser” when it was produced in Paris in ’61. The Figaro’s own critic said of Wagner’s musie, “It is a great ocean of monotony; & gray, despairing infinity from which one hears the mournful shriek of the seven notes of the scale from beginning to end of the score.” Some of the othercriticisms were terrible. Berlioz had not the courage of his rancune. He passed the pen to his friend, Joseph d'Ortigue, who had the good taste to give “Tannhauser” less unbridled abuse than the rest of his confreres did. But that was thirty-four years ago. The taste of the French critics has veered completely round since then, and to-day they are ready to bow before “Tann- hauser.” The Marie Tavary Opera Company, which is playing in New York, has proved successful in drawing large and enthusiastic houses in spite of the heat. As usual, Thea Dorra has proved the star of the company, the eritics pointing out that there is a singular resemblance be- tween her methods and those of Emma Calve. ‘The New York Herald says: “Thea Dorra gave a Calveesque impersonation of Santuzza which was extremely effective. Later in the week she appeared as Carmen, again taking the famous French singer as her model, and scor- ing as big a hit as has been made here in Eng- lish opera for several years.” The truth of the matter is that Dorra does not imitate Calve, and the similarity in the methods of the two divas lies in their mutual admiration for that fount of dramatic inspira- tion—Elenora Duse. Calve frankly owns that she never tried to act till she saw Duse, and Dorra studied with a master of the old Modena school of acting and was taught to regard Duse as the greatest exponent of that school. An incident that reads like a romance, but that is well authenticated, occurred on the 10th inst., at the Hotel Continentsl], in Paris. A fashionable concert was being given under the direction of M. Danbe. The popular temor Lafage was to have opened the programme. When all the musicians had taken their places, word was brought that the tenor could not ap- pear, and his number was shout to be sup- pressed, when M. Bailly, one of the viola play- ers, whispered to the conductor that he was willing to replace the sick tenor. M. Danby ordered his musicians to lower the piece a tone, and in & superb basso cantante voice, M. Bailly interpreted the aria from Mehul's ““Joseph,” that the tenorshould have sung. It is announced now that M. Bailly is going on the operatic stage, and it was his success at the concert which caused him to decide upon what the critics say will certainly be a brilliant career. Emma Calve was to have sung the leading Tole, at the Parls Grand Opera-house, in the new opera “Guernica,” but she has been ill for some time and her progress toward conva- lescence is 8o slow that the role has been re- luctantly confided to Mile. Lafargue. Some people say that Emma Calve will never be a well woman again. At the Opera Comique Masse’s “Les Noces de Jeannette” has received its thousandth per- formance. There wes a brief pause when the work was concluded, and then, amid great applause, the curtain rose again, showing the bust of Victor Masse, while grouped round were the principal interpreters of his work, who recited verses in the composer's honor, composed for the occasion by Jules Barbier. The Metropolitan Musical Society has not seen its way to paying pensions during the 10 servea term 1 fisy T evading summer to Fritz Scheel’s soloists, as a retainer for their services next winter, nor does there Seem any prospect of the summer series of con- certs taking place. This being the case the soloists are already beginning to seek fresh fields and pastures new. On the 15th of June Mr. and Mrs. Marquarat will sail for Australis. Their loss will create a great gap in the ranks of the Scheel orchestra, as Herr Marquardt was 8 useful soloist in addition to being an able concertmaster, and Mrs. Marquardt’s harp solos ‘were one of the attractions of the organization. A suggestion has been made in London that the singing students of the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Royal Colleza of Mnsic shonld take part in the opera S performances chorus ass ; dlhizz year, just as the auxiliary o ed at the Metropolitan represen- tations in New York, but the young l>pe<n>1e 4id not seem to be smitten with the charms of opera chorus work, and the parents and guar- dians objected to' stage work so late at night, o the idea has been abandoned. Herr Willy Burmester, the newest thing in German Vviolinists, is delighting London audi- ences, who consider him an astonishing virtu- 050. The Athenzum says: “Itis in such com- Positions as Wieniawski’'s cleverly written ‘Faust’ fantasia, Saint- Saens’ rondo capric~ cioso in A minor, so frequently played by Senor Sarasate, and Paganini’s ‘Hexentanze,’ arranged by Herr Burmester himself, that he chiefly displayed & command over his instru- ment which may be fairly described as phe- nomenal. " The coming season at Covent Garden Thea- ter will be one of special brilliancy. Beyond Cowen’s “Harold” very little in the way of novelty is promised, but the reappearance of Adelina Patti after so many years’ absence from London’s lyric stage will go far toward atoning for the absence of new works to the ever-faithful English audiences. A new music-drama, “Der Arme Helnrich,” by Herr Hans Pfitzner, has been brought out in Mayence with marked success. The com- poser, a young musician with decided Wag- nerian leanings, though by no means devoid of originality, is said to have shown great dra- matic verve and surprising skill in the orches- tration of his score. In the case of Novello & Co. of London vs. the Oliver Ditson Company of America final judgment has been given in favor of the Lon- don firm, the effect of the decree being “that music need not be printed in the United States as a condition of securing copyright here for London firms.” Eugene d’Albert, the pianist, has been ap- pointed eourt kappelmeister at Weimar, a position once held by Liszt. He is the first musician of Scotch birth to hold such a posi- tion in Germany. The birth-centenary of Heinrich Marschner, which occurs in August next, is to be cele- brated in Hanover, as elsewere in the father- 1and, by special performances. Johannes Brahms has just completed his sixty-second year. 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