The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THUBSDAY, JUNE 6, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$8 per year by mail; by carrler, 15c per week. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—#1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Burean, Rhinelander bullding, Rose and Duape streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation? If #0, it Is 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 streef, will receive prompt attention. JU. 6, 1895 : Long heads and long purses are friends. People assist crime by thinking about it. Even Corbett’s wife has wearied of his oratory. Insanity is the logical end of Oscar Wilde’s career. The Pioneers are as ardent for progress in ’95 as they were in '49. No man ever accuses a pretty woman of having too long a tongue. gus-eyed in picking out s in California. There is no political economy that teaches politicians to be sparing of words. If we could only get Europe to burst that war cloud the future would be full of sun- shine. Some people are so sensitive that they mistake an ailing liver for an outraged con- science. It is about time to notify the State that erybody is invited to our Fourth of July celebration. By the time 1806 gets here there will be a general stampede to get on the platform of bimetallism. The talk of prog ive men for any pnb- lic enterprise is sooner or later emphasized as a popular demand. The ‘wheels of progress and industry have begun to move fast enough for every- body to hear them hum. ‘When some men are weary of the bur- dens of life they commit suicide, but most of them commit them to their wives. Hunger may be the best sauce, but it is one of those condiments which we prefer to seek rather than have it thrust upon us. 1t is said to be impossible to make a mir- ror so perfect it will not to some extent dis- tort the proportions of the face it reflects. The proposition that the sovereigns of the world do a becoming thing by travel- ing has set President Cleveland to think- ing. It is a happy circumstance that when the strawberry reaches the fullness of a ry it consents to accept a demo- cratic price. If more of the literary school of which Vi an exemplar were in the penitentiary the mor of the reading world would be healt) If the Eastern people were wise they would drop the exciting silver debate during the hot weather and leave it to the ‘West for arbitration in 1896. The vacancy in the Cabinet has given many an old, hali-forgotten Democratic warhorse 2 chance to prance out on the track again as if he was in the race. It is purely by logic one arrives at the conclusion that when there is a murder there must be a murderer, for the fact is rarely ever proven in law in this country. The latest war prophet predicts that within two years France and Russia will combine and drive England not only out of Egyptbut clean oat of the Mediterranean altogether. The latest novelty suggested for the Paris Exposition is to turn the garden of the leries into a paradise of children and fit it up with everything for childhood’s play known to the world. Just before Gresham died, it appeared that Cleveland didn’t have a political friend in the country, but as soon as there was a vacancy in the Cabinet, the voice of the cuckoo was heard in every bailiwick. 1t is a happy consolation for & 8an Fran- ciscan that whenever he lifts his eyes from the cobblestones he sees the bay or the goaring hills and knows that his City is beautiful however rough its ways may be. Optimistic orchardists in the East are rejoicing that the late frosts killed the in- sects as well as the young fruit, and it is now believed that Eastern orchards are freer from pests than they have been for many years. Oroville has a new paper in the Morning Times, established by Robb & Sefton, and the community may be eongratulated on the appearance of the new champion which shows so much promise of promoting -its interests and welfare. This is evidently a good time to borrow money for public improvements, for Pitts- burg bonds for $5,625,000 at 4 per cent for eighteen years were recently bought by local capitalists for $6.115,500, being a pre- mium of $490,500 or 8.72 per cent. After the National convention of State Railroad Commissioners, called for the purpose of regulating interstate transpor- tation, it might prove advisable for the railroad presidents to hold a National con- vention for the purpose of regulating the Commissioners. It is not surprising that the residents of San Francisco should be regarded as the best-dressed people in the country, for if they were not they would be showing a small appreciation for the tailoring skill which Nature displays in adorning her plants and landscapes in California. smoes An ey e A mathematician who has nothing else to do has calculated that there are 17,000 newspapers printed in the English lan- guage, and that the useless letters in our mode of spelling cost these journals annu- ally $7,000,000 in time and work of yflting &nd $15,000,000 in paper, spaceand printing. Had the Southern Pacific long ago paid as much attention to the development of California industriés by imposing encour- aging tariffs, as to charging all that it could collect, the tarifis would havead- justed themselves with as great profit to the owners, and with much less need of oil to reduce friction with the public. A SERIOUS SITUATION. The address made by Major Charles E. Pearce before the Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday states one of the most serious problems that concern the prosperity of this country. Asalarge St. Louis manu- facturer of jute fabrics he felt a pressure that threatened to crush his business, and in order to inform himself and seek for a better place in which to pursue his busi- ness he visited India and Japan, and has now formed the decision to remove his immense plant to Japan. He announces that we can bardly men- tion a product but that it can be imported from Japan and sold below the prices which we can afford. The two reasons for this are that in that country wages are extremely low, and that our present free- trade tariff affords altogether inadequate protection of American industries. Hede- clares that by reason of England’s free- trade policy the jute manufacturers of Dundee and the cotton manufacturers of Manchester are unable to compete with the products of India, where labor is only 6 cents a day. He remarked incidentally that the closing of the Indian mints to the free coinage of silver has given the East Indian manufacturer an additional advan- tage by affecting the relative values of Indian coins. Thus he makes it clear that the manufacturers of both England and America are jforced to move their machinery to India and Japan and there pursue their industries in order to save the money which they have invested. Undoubtedly Japan is our most danger- ous rival, and itis but natural that China should follow in her footsteps to control with India the manufacturing of the world. The dense population of these three coun- tries makes the struggle for existence ex- ceedingly keen and the rate of wages correspondingly low. Under the hard necessities which there prevail the science of economical living is carried to a length which even the poorest peasants of Europe cannot comprehend. As enforced frugality and the necessity for constant application are the surest enemies of shiftlessness and dissipation, the labor of the Orient is as steady, methodical and reliable as a ma- chine. Although in point of development the Orientals are not admitted by the white races to be their equals in intellect- ual alertness and physical vigor, and although unremitting application to labor and the absence of abundant nourishing food make a drain upon the vital forces, Major Pearce declares that the efficiency of Oriental skilled labor falls only 15 per cent below that of white labor, while its wages are 90 per cent less. The whole situation is disheartening. It is absurd to say that we must come to ac- cept a condition in which we shall appear as the producers and the Orient as the manufacturers. This carnot be defended even on the spreading belief that the law of specialization is universal—that if the Orient can manufacture more cheaply than we, we have a monopoly of produc- tion from unlimited resources, and that there is no violation of economic principles in making one group of nations producers and another manufacturers. It would be better for the United States to close all its ports and erect a wall around it as high as the heavens than surrender its individual- ity and place itself at the mercy of a de- grading competition. i ever there was an eloquent plea for the maintenance of our National integrity it lies in this ruin or migration that our manufacturers have to contemplate. The transference of our factories to the Orient wonld be a confession of governmental in- capacity that no civilized country can be so shameless as to make. The Federal ac- knowledgment of our right to exclude Ori- ental labor with which it would degrade civilized men to compete would find even a higher and broader application in a pol- icy which would make home manufactur- ing possible by the imposition of a pro- tective tariff. DEPARTMENT STORES. An astonishing report has been made by the Illinois Senate Committee appointed to investigate the department stores of Chicago. The report condemned these stores and recommended that they be placed under stringent regulations, in the absence of which the smaller concerns of the city will be driven out of existence. Thereupon two bills were presented, one declaring such stores anuisance and de- manding their abolition, and the other pro- viding for * cumulative license charges” on stores dealing in more than one class of goods. ‘While it is not at all likely that the first of these bills will become a law the sec- ond is more ‘rational; in any event it may be profitable to glance at the idea which the department store represents, for it illustrates some of the broadest principles of business. The Bon Marche in Paris and Wana- maker’s establishment in Philadelphia were the inspiration of this idea on the two continents. It has not spread so rapidly in Europe as in the United States, for in this country the department store is becoming a feature of all the leading cities. The idea which it represents is that which has been manifested in the thousand ways by which the varied busi- ness capabilities of a person, firm or cor- poration may be expressed in diversity of application. The department store bears no relation whatever to trusts, it is not a monopoly and does not operate in re- straint of trade, and it enjoys no priv- ileges except those which its intrinsic worth has created. It is revolutionary in that it omits the jobber and buys directly from the manu- facturer, being enabled by its large capital thus to proceed. For this reason and for the further reason that its conduct is much less expensive than would be the aggregate cost of conducting its various lines under separate ownership and management and under many roofs, it is enabled to sell goods at retail at a lower price than the ordinary dealer can afford. A conspicnous illustration of this is seen in the case of books, which the department stores can retail at a price lower than that which publishers offer to their ordinary retail customers. The department store therefore repre- sents co-operation in one of its most suc- cessful forms, and not the least successful because the co-operation is among busi- nesses instead of individuals. The success ought to be a hint to smaller dealers; they could easily combine, and under one roof and one general management conduct a department store that would be limited in size and variety only by the number of partners representing different lines of trade. WINE TO NEW ORLEANS, The determination of the Wholesale Gro- cers’ Association of New Orleans to estab- lish a line of steamers between that city and San Francisco by way of Panama, in order that the wines of California may be transported more cheaply thither, is a piece of news that will delight the wine- makers of this State. The first steamer is already loading to leave New Orleans. This action is taken for two reasons. One is that there is a heavy consumption of ordinary wines in New Orleans, and the other is that by reason of the discrimina~ s tion practiced by the Southern Pacific Com- pany it is cheaper to ship wines from Cali- fornia to New Orleans by way of New York than over the direct Sunset route. That is, the rate to New Orleans is 7 cents a gal- lon, to New York 5 cents, and from New York to New Orleans 134 cents. The same facts hold with regard to shipments by the Pacific Mail. In the first case, the wine passes through New Orleans on its way to New York. The large French laboring population of New Orleans consumes from 5000 to 6000 barrels of ordinary claret a month, and the dealers are content with a profit of 2 cents a gallon. It would seem to a person of ordinary understanding that if the Southern Pacific, by the adoption of a reasonably low tariff, should encourage the use of California wines, it would be the ultimate gainer in making the wine industry of California more profitable and extensive. But the inscrutable wisdom of the great corporation chooses its own methods of expression. A few years ago, when the City of Mexico decided to ex- pend §3,000,000 in improving its streets, it sent an agent to California to examine our asphalt and bituminous rock. He found them perfectly suitable and was anxious to secure them, but was unable to make any arrangements with Mr. Huntington’s roads in the United States and Mexico for the transportation of the material at a reasonable figure. As a consequence this $3,000,000 was invested in pavements made of Trinidad asphalt. For the same and for no other reason, Mexico, which is a large consumer of light wines, and which would infinitely prefer the product of the California vineyards, is compelled to draw her supply from Spain. The danger which our wines will en- counter in the heat of the tropics surely cannot be very formidable in view of the fact that the Pacific Mail annually carries 70,000 barrels. Even a small reduction in the cost of transportation would greatly increase the competition, as the French, though a thrifty race, are wise and shrewd, and understand the art of drinking better thanany otherracein the world, and the fact that they prefer the ordinary wines of Cali- fornia is sufficient proof that our vineyard products are honest and wholesome. The whole Gulf region is thickly peopled by them, and if we could lay down wines at New Orleans for 2 or 3 cents a gallon less than the present fieure—if we had even the advantage at New Orleans that New York enjoys—the consumption would likely be more than doubled, and would cover the whole region from Pensacola to the Sabine River. The one doubtful element of the new shipping enterprise is the uncertainty of westbound cargoes. If there is any way in which our people can assist in the solu- tion by preferring Louisiana products to those originating elsewhere, it is clearly proper that they adopt it. MONOPOLIES AND PATENTS. The decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the validity of the Berliner patent, thereby giving the Bell Telephone Company a monopoly of the microphone until 1908, has aroused a storm of angry criticism that may go far toward bringing about a change in our patent laws. Indeed some of the more in- fluential journals in the East advocate the abolition of patent rights altogether as being opposed to public welfare and in no wise beneficial to inventors. The facts of the Berliner case are suffi- cient to justify indignation. The inven- tion followed very closely after that of the telephone itself and made long-distance telephony possible. The Bell Company bought and used the invention, but did not patent it until the Bell patent was abont to run out. It wasclaimed by rival tele- phone companies that the patent was void because it had been illegally delayed, and this claim was sustained by a decision of the Circuit Court, which has been over- ruled by the Court of Appeals. Asa con- sequence the Bell Company, which had a monopoly of the telephone for many years under the Bell patent, now continues a monppoly of long-distance telephoning under the patent which they succeeded in obtaining upon an invention which has long been in use. It is clear that this is a perversion of the real intent of our patent laws. When Con- gress undertook to promote the increase of labor-saving appliances by securing to the inventor the profits arising from his inven- tion for a limited number of years, it was not foreseen that combinations of capital- ists would buy up every widely useful in- vention and thereby establish a monopoly injurious to the public welfare. Still less was it foreseen that by securing the title to improvements made upon the original in- vention and delaying the issuing of a pat- ent for them, it would be practicable to continue the monopoly almost indefinitely. This, however, is what has come about in recent years, and while the trick of the Bell Telephone Company is the most fla- grant example of the kind, it does not stand alone or without a precedent in our recent history. That the inventor should derive some benefit from the success of his work is be- yond question. It is evident, however, that our patent laws should be amended so as to prevent inventions from falling into the hands of a monopoly, especially if the invention is of a kind that affects the pub- lic at large. There are abundant reasons for believing that the formation of such monopolies acts as a restriction upon the progress of the world in the direction of useful invention. Frequently they prevent improvements being made in the appliances under their control because the adoption of such im. provements would entail a loss of a part of the plant already established, and in other instances they render the cost of the invention so high that it cannot come into general use and be of benefit to the poorer. as well as the richer classes of the com- munity. These objectionable features have now become so common it is time some remedy should be provided, and it would seem the Berliner case may prove the occa- sion of arousing Congress to action at its next session. - SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Mrs. Blifkins—Do the bathers shock you? Mrs. Snifkins—On, no. I traveled in Africa.— Town Topies. Temperance lecturer—Friends, how can we stop tne sale of liquor? Inebriate (in the rear of the hall)—Give it away.—Tid Bits, She—T heard such a good joke to-day. I have been hugging myself about it ever since. He—You must be tired. Let me assist you.— Pick-Me-Up. “It's surprising,” he said as he threw down his newspaper, “that some people should think that free coinage at sixteen to one should stand any chance.” “John,” she commented, severely, “I'm ashamed of you. It seemsto me that for the last six months you have done nothing but talk horseracing!”—Washington Star. BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ——————— CRYSTALLIZED ginger, 25¢ Ib, ’l‘ownund’u.' * e Gro. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* Ariseeroimia i TRY our *“Atlas Bourbon” and you will want none other. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.* e ' Best Eyeglasses—15 ctsup. 81} Fourth st., nr barber. Sundays, 736 Market (Kast's shoe- store. - AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “John McCullough, the &ctor, was not & great actor, but his master, Edwin Forrest, was,” said Mr, Frank C. Bangs in the Palace dining-room yesterday, after he had let the fourth match burn out sagainst his fingers without lighting his cigar. “He wulgupd actor and possessed & magnificent personality to carry him forever in the hearts of the people. There was a magnetism ebout the man which made him irresistible to sll those who came in contact with him, but the one fact still re- mains, that he was not the great actor many people supposed him to be. Certainly that fact is conceded.” ‘“How is it then, Mr. Bangs,” queried a gen- tleman near, “that he came 50 near being a counterpart of Forrest in his acting? *“Ah, my good fellow,” exclaimed Mr. Bangs, “that is the one issue upon which my state- ment finds its supreme strength. I do not make that statement altogether personally, FRANK C, BANGS TALKS OF M'CULLOUGH. {Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] but as I said before it is admitted. Do you not understand that in 1865, when Forrest was touring through the Eastern States, there were no stock companies such as there are now, and in consequence it was necessary for some com- petent member of the company to constantly rehearse the subordinates. Well, Forrest was in ill health and McCullough, his leading man, ‘was the only available person who could at- tend to this. Mind you there were times when Forrest did it and naturally his indiviauality prevailed, being the stronger of the two. It 'was in this way that McCullough came to use the Forrest gesture, the Forrest style, the For- rest inflection ana the Forrest method. He tried to, and in a great measure succeeded in clothing himself in Forrest robes, but in his best moods, in his finest acting, there was con- stantly above him the sublimity and grandeur of the master, He had reached his topmost rung, yet the invincible tutor was beyond him vould not time bave placed him beside Forrest hed he not been uniortunate 7 “No. He had gone as far as he was able, There was nothing more for him todo. His early education barred the possibility of fur- ther progress iu his oid age. He was but good in the parts where his master was great. “When Forrest died in Englend in eighteen —Ilet me see—eighteen sixty-nine, I believe it was, it makes no difference a year or two either side, McCullough was the only available man to step into his shoes. 1 havg no doubt he was one of the most available men there was at that time, but nevertheless what I have said of him is true. Poor John, the last years of his life were spentin playing to phantom audiences from & sceneless stage. I am indeed sorry for him.” Mr. Bangs looked s though he meant just what he said. Out of the entire State of Virginia, from which sculptors, poets, artists, musicians, statesmen, mnovelists and journalists have sprung, there has been but one actor, and that actor was Frank Bangs. He has been on the boards for over fifty years,and was a warm friend of the lamented McCullough. Louis A. Garnett, & mining and financial expert whose article in the January Forum on the monetary controversy has roused the rabid resentment of Mr. Harvey, the autnor of the unique publication, “Coin’s Financial School,” was the organizer and president of the old Am- ador Mining Company. He tells the following story of how Alvinza Hayward, owner of the mine, got his start in life, which as an illustra- tion of the pluck and depth of teeling that characterized the pioneers is not easily sur- passed: “Back in the *50's Hayward and a man named Chamberlin were partners in a little mine in El Dorado County,and Chamberlin, growing disgusted with the outlook, sold out and in- vested in a small farm. Hayward went over into Amador County, got possession of the un- developed mine and proceeded to sink for the ore he felt convinced was there. He worked in the face of no end of discouragement, such as lack of means, the growing discon- tent of his men, and, above all, the apparent worthlessness of the vrop- erty; but he kept right on with the dogged perseverance that has had much to do with his subsequent success. Two hundred, three hundred feet were sunk, and no ore in sight. The situation was becoming desperate. He 'was employing a large force of men, was $120,- 000 in debt, and had got down to his last sack of flour, but still he was game. Going over to the store one day he asked for more provisions, but the proprietor’s patience was exhausted. “‘I know, Hayward,’ was the polite reply, ‘you're honest, and will pay when you can, but really, sir, I can’t give you any more credit.” «Well, says Hayward, ‘let me have one more sack, and if I don't strike ore when that’s out, Iwon’t ask for more.” “On those conditions he got the sack, and went afler the ore again. But it was no use, the sack was exhausted and yetno ore insight. “Hayward didn’t say much about it—he isn’t aman of words—but he quietly mounted his horse one day, rode over to Chamberlin’s ranch and laid the situation before his former part- ner. Chamberlin heard him out witaout com- ment or sign of any kind, and when he had finished the tale rose wuietly and motioned him to follow. Going out behind the house, he took a pitchfork standing there and scratched away some straw that lay on the ground near by. From a small hole thus disclosed he took out & bag and without a word handed it over to Hayward. The bag contained $6000. No scratch of the pen was wasted, no more words were exchanged. Men acted in those days. Hayward rode back to his mine, paid off his men and quietly went to work again. At a depth of 500 feet ore was struck, and & rich lead it was. In a few months a sixty-stamp mill was erected and the mine paying hand- somely. When about thirty thousand a month ‘was coming in Hayward had the property divided into three equal parts,a deed made out for one of them and sent without comment over {0 Chamberlin’s little farm in El Dorado | County.” A. 8. Garretson of the Union Stockyards Company at Rodeo has been at the Grand Hotel several days, on business for his concern. He says that the killing of sheep and cattle by the Harris Company, on the Union Stockyards Company’s premises, has been going on since last September, and that some Iowa packers have been out within the past two weeks ne- gotiating for facilities for pork packing. “Pork-packers here,” he said, “can make & good profit after paying the same prices that prevail along the Missouri, and they can get all the hogs they want at those rates. Thisisone of the best markets for their products. Thereis taken here over $7,000,000 worth annuelly, and there is no reason why it should not all be produced here. The raising of hogs is con- tinuous the year round in Califorma on ac- count of your atic conditions. “In Iowa, Nebraska, Kansasand all that g_regt hog country six months out of the twelve itis impossible to care for the little pigs on account of the gold weather. Then California is en- tirely free from the hog cholera, and thatis the cause of the loss of 25 per cent of the pigs that are born in the States along the Missouri. Then you have here an abundance of good food for fattening hogs in aifalfa, wheat, fruit and other things. With the incoming of the pork-packers the hog-grower of California to day has a most inviting market. It will be many years before as much pork will be pro- duced in this State as is consumed, and until then prices for hogs will be high. The prices now are higher and steadier than they were in the past, when the fresh-beef trade con- trolled the prices. In fact there has never been any market here for hogs except what the fresh-meat men would make for them.” PERSONAL. Judge J. C. Ball of Yolo is at the Lick. Dr. J. J. Sims of Nevada City is a guest at the Grand. W. H.Scott, & mining man of Denver, is at the Russ. M. A. Sawyer, a merchant of Ukiah, 1s staying at the Russ. E. McGettigan of Vallejo registered yester- day at the Russ. P. A. Buell of Stockton registered at the Grand yesterday. . H. M. Keyes,a merchant of Healdsburg, is staying at the Russ. L. Johnson, a lumberman of Guerneville, is staying at the Russ. C. D. Woodworth, a merchant of Portland, is staying at the California. F. W. Johnson, 8 merchant of Marysville, is & guest at the California. G. S. Easton of Stockton was one of yester- day’s arrivals at the Russ. R. H. Brown, a prominent land-owner of Pescadero, is staying at the Lick. James A. Harding, a prominent cattleman of Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Russ, 1. L. Delano, & quarryman of Rocklin, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. D. 8. 0'Callaghan, an insurauce man of Santa Cruz, registered yesterday at the Lick. B. S. Hirsch, & merchant of Ukiah, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the California. W. P. Faul, Deputy Collector of Internal Rey- enue at Ukiah, is a guest at the Grand. H. W. Posthelwait, a prominent fruit-grower of Saratoga, is staying at the Occidental. Thomas H. Thompson, & real estate man of Tulare, registered yesterday at the Lick. Aaron Smith, a railroad man of Los Angeles, ‘was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. H. R. Bernard, secretary of the Preston Re- form School at Ione, is staying at the Grand. A. W. Simpson, a leading lumberman of Btockton, registered at the Occidental yester- day. Charles K. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee came down yesterday and registered at the Grand. W. X. Sellar, 8 wellknown mining man, registered at the Palace yesterday from Los Angeles. E. 8. Churchill, a banker of Napa, and Mrs. Churchill, came down yesterday and registered at the Palace. Ex-Sheriff J. M. Standley of Mendocino County came down from Ukiah yesterday and registered at the Russ. L. T. Hatfield, member of the Assembly and an attorney of Sacramento, was one of yester- day’s arrivals at the Lick. Professor Maxwell Sommerville of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania has returned to the ity from a trip to the Yosemite, and is regis- tered at the Palace. W. B. Gilbert, United States Cireuit Judge, arrived from Portland yesterday to sit in a rail- road ease in the Circuit Court here and is reg- istered at the Occidental. James McNaught of New York, chief counsel of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and Jay H. Adams, counsel of the same road at Sesttle, arrived here yesterday,and registered at the Palace. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. California fruits have been more favorably received in the New York markets this season than eyer before, and while the opportunity for making this good impression upon Eastern buyers may be from the fact that there have not been many Florida productsin competi- tion, still it is now conceded that the fruits {from this State have gained such a firm foot- hold with all classes of consumers that it is doubtful if they can ever again be supplanted. —San Diego Union. Oh, liberty, 1iberty! to live the healthy life of the woods; to see the sun rise between the leaves; to see the moon march on through the oak trees; to come in for the dew of the morn- ing; to bear the birds heralding the glories of the day; to wander without hindrance about the beautiful flowery paths and fruitful gar- dens of Templeton.—Templeton Advance. The efforts made by Cenada to extend her trade on this coast by improving harbors, estab- lishing shipyards, lighthouses and the like are bound to stir up our slow-moving Government (slow as to this coast) into doing like things on & mighty scale out here.—Salem (Or.) States- man, The Democratic papers will talk and talk, but in the “show down” will support the single gold standard and State bank scheme of the gold bugs.—Albuquerque (N. M.) Citizen. 1t s gratifying to note that Mr. Carlisle’s financial speeches are warmly indorsed by all the Southern papers which are edited by Post- masters.—Arizona Republican. A voting machine is spoken of as a novelty. And yet there area great many voting ma- chines in every State in the Union.—San Ber- nardino Times-Index. Those who cannot"x(ve a subscription toward the Fourth can make it up in patriotism.— Benicia New Era. PEOFPLE TALKED ABOUT. General Von Hanneken, who has played so great a part in the Japan-Chinese war, ison his way beck to his home in Germany. Ex-Mayor Hewitt is quietly enjoying himself in England, and is thankful to be so far away from the unrest of New York politics. Lord Rosslyn will shortly make his debut as a professional actor, having been engaged at & large salary by Charles Wyndham. Lord Ross- 1yn has long been regarded as one of the best amateur actors in England. —————— Sure Cure for Cancer. The urgent demand fora sure and permanent cure for cancer has been met. Dr. Miller’s Cancer Cure is a great success, it being the only medicine that kills all kinas of cancers. Its action is quick and the least painful of any treatment known. ‘This enables us to place it within the reach of all and insure the pl&?‘ll against loss. We havea large list of people in both the City and country who have 'n cured and also mlniolllerl who are now taking treat- ment to which we can refer. 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Makes Music and » Musicians, The recent triumphant revival of “Tann- hauser” at the Paris Grand Opera-house must bave given great satisfaction to the Princess de Metternich, Wagner’s generous protectress, who persuaded the Emperor to have the work pro- duced thirty-four years ago. The three per- formances that were given there were inter- rupted by hissing and the theater was the scene of a perfect tumult on each occasion. Berlioz tells how the Emperor, who was pres- ent at the second representation, turned in the midst of the uproar toward the box of the Princess Metternich and saluted her with a gesture of resignation which seemed to say, “You see, I have done all I could; it is useless to attempt more.” Itissaid that the Princess broke her fan with rage and disappointment Wwhen the Storm of hissing began. She was one of the few who believed thoroughly in Wagner, end after all her planning and scheming to get his work produced by imperial order it wasa BTeat sorrow to her to see the Parisian public absolutely refuse to give it & hearing. The Princess, who lives in seclusion, has shown her satisfaction at the Parisian success of “Tann- hauser” aiter the interval of thirty-four years by supplying Le Temps with the following hitherto unpublished letter, which Wagnsr ‘Wwrote her after the fiasco of his opera: “Princess : For the last few stormy days I have not been able personally to offer you the homage of my respect. To-day an invisible force urges me to express to you the sentiments that fill my heart. What I have suffered lately is of little importance; it is thrown in the shade by the sentiment of pride and gratitude that springs from the knowledge that your Highness pities me. I have never yet brought happiness to any one; indeed, trouble has overtaken every one who has shown me good will, so, Princess, 1 can promisg you no recompense for your pro- tection. Buf perhaps when I die my works will survive me. You are in the prime of life, and will live much longer than I. WhenI shall be no more my music will tell you the profound gratitude of a soul and heart that are devoted to your Highness. “RICHARD WAGNER.” “The melancholy wish of Wagner is amply realized,” adds Le Temps. “His works have survived, and will continue to do so, and on Monday evening, at the triumphant perform- ance of ‘Tannhauser,” the Princess de Metter- nich must surely have recalled with pride the evening in 1861 when the opera was flascoed. It was she who was right after all.” For the first time on record an opera by an English composer, in the English language, is to be produced in London during what is known as the “grand” sesson. The work is F. H. Cowen'’s “Harold.” It is historical and spec- tacular. Harold himself cuts rather a despica- ble figure, for although in love with Edith the Saxon, he for political reasons allows the an- nouncement of his betrothal to the Princess Adele to go forth to the world, and likewise takes the oath of fealty to William, Duke of Normandy. Edith therefore becomes a nun; in the third act sees a vision of Harold slain on the battle-field, and in the last act finds his corpse among those killed at the battle of Hastings. One of the characters is Malet, an ancestor of the present British Embassador at Berlin. People on the inside track of musical hap- penings in this City are laughing at a terrible plot which is being hatched by two dis- gruntled musicians. One of these individ- uals is an orchestra leader and the othera music-teacher, and they are suffering from lack of appreciation at the hands of the musi- cal eritics of the big dailies. Lately they have breathed threatenings of a scheme for wither- ing up these offending erities which, if child- ish, is certainly original. Omne is loeal cor- respondent for a German and the other for an Italian paper, and they have intimated thata scorching “‘roast” of San Franciscan mmusical journalism will be their next contribution in the form of correspondence to those foreign journals. Presently they hope to receive copies of the same, which they intimate they intend to translate and have printed as an unbiased criticism by foreigners of the un- couthness of wild and woolly Western journal- ism. Unfortunately for themselves they have ‘boasted about their plans and now their pros- pective victims only smile in expectation of the threatened onslaught. A new opera, “Der Evangelmann,” has just had an astonishing success at the Royal Opera- house, Berlin, its composer, Dr. William Kienzl, being recalled ten times in snccession. Dr. Kienzl is the leader of the orchestra of the opera-house at Hamburg. He has already pro- duced two music dramas, one on an Indian theme called “Urvasi,’” and the latter & Scan- dinavian one, called ‘‘Heilmar. These two drames gave little promise of a brilliant future, and the “Evangelmenn” is probably not the masterpiece that the good Berliners, in their anxiety for & successor to Wagner, imagine it to be. Itis full of melodious songsand prayers and love duos—all embroidered on a religious theme. Of course there are intermezzl in it; since the ““Cavalleria Rusticana” there must be an intermezzo in every opera. One eritic says that “Der Evangelmann” is as cleverly made up to suit the day and hour, and the taste thereof in Germany, as carefully and cleverly as Pinero made up his second Mrs. Tanqueray to suit the London publio. Emma Calve is known to be intensely super- stitious, and recently when she retired from the castof the mew opera, “Guernica,” some of the French papers circulated the report that it was because a spirit had told her not to g0 on with the rehearsals. On reading this the diva sent the following sharp letter to Le Fig- ero: “Ihave just returned from my country Pplace at Aveyron, where I read the paragraph that several papers have consecrated to me. The idea is a droll one, but it has no founda- tion in fact. The spirit which, according to re- port, counseled me not to sing in ‘Guernica’ took the guise of a painful sore throat, which, to my profound regret, hindered me from cre- ating the titie role of a delicious work. The same spirit will be stupefied at my heroism when it hears thatI have signed with Harris for the Covent Garden season. Yours, ete., Emma Calve.” Musical students ought to “read, merk, learn and inwardly digest” a piece of advice which is given by Sir Charles Halle in arecent article, “The theory so widely held that ‘a few lessons’ will do all that is necessary i3 a very miscel- laneous one, and cuts at the root of all genuine musicianship. Indeed, it would be s much sounder maxim to propound that the more musieal aptitude a pupil shows the greater is his need of thoroughly drastic training. Fa- cility is the veritable pitfall of many would-be musicians. They learn easily and are satisfied with mediocrity. Only those who ere patient enough to sit with patience at the feet of the great masters and endeavor with infinite labor to wrest [rom them their secrets can ever hope to become artists themselves.” A pretty tribute was paid to a dead composer the other day by two singers at the Opera Com- ique. Itisnot known whether Victor Masse was born at Lorient in France, but a few years 2go & statue was erected 10 him in one of the Squares of that city. Victor Masse’s opera, “The Wedding of Jean and Jeannette,” re- ceived its thousandth performance at the Opera Comique recently. Shortly afterward a superb floral tribute, sent by the two artists who actually interpreted the roles of Jean and Jeannette on the occasion, was deposited at the foot of the composer’s statue. It bore the inscription: ‘Jean and Jeannette to Victor Masse, for the millennium of their wedding ¢ the Opera Comique.” ‘Le Masque de Fer,” one of the most saturnine jokers in French journalism, makes the follow- ing comment on the fad for German music: (Coming out of the opera-house, on the night of the revival of “Tannhauser.”) She—Whata success! He—Yes, indeed. One did not even dream of listening to the music; all one thought of was applauding. A noted French critic, however, says of the ovations on the revival of “Tannhauser”: “It seemed as if Paris wished with all its heart to efface the souvenir of the fashion in which it received Richard Wagner's work, 34 years ago.” Estelle Clayton’s comic opera, ““ The Viking,"” was recently produced for the benefit of the Actors’ Fund, at Palmer’s Theater. One New York newspaper sums up its criticism thus: “ Everybody seemed bored, there was faint ap- plause, and during the only wait—for the opera was only two acts—tbe audience went out on Broadway and roasted itseli—and the piece.” Rumor states that Gilbert and Sullivan have buried the hatchet, and that Sir Arthur will probably set Gilbert’s new libretto to musiec. The book was partly written during a recent trip to Jamaica, but Gilbert states that his libretto has no Jamaica coloring. The Danish composer, J. P. E. Hartmann, has just celebrated his ninety-second birthday, and great honors were tendered to him on tha occasion in Copenhagen. Hartmann is sup- posed to be the oldest living European com- poser. Esther Palliser, an American singer whe is very popular in London, is going to givea vocal recital there on the 13th inst., in which she will confine herself entirely to music by modern women composers. It is said that Wolfson, the well-known im- presario, has made an offer to Lilli Lenman for an American spring tour in 1896, which offer will probably be accepted. On the occasion of Mascagni’s first produe- tion of “Ratcliff”” at Naples the composer, who directed, was called out twenty-seven times by the enthusiastic audience. Miss Mattie Walton Hess, daughter of the well-known operatic manager, C. D, Hess, has made a successful debut in Planquette’s comic opera, “Rip Van Winkle.” The new Theater Adrian and four adjoining houses, in Rome, Italy, were recently burned to the ground. 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