The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by earrler, 15¢ per week., SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on s vacation? It £0, it 15 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to ur address. Do not let it miss you for you will iss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will recelve prompt attention. THURSDAY.. JUNE 18, 1895 great. The carnival is It is only carrion birds that croak. To the dull man even sarcasm isn't cut- ting. Some of our orchardists are taking things cooly. | To the extremist all conversatism is a platitude. | ‘Where everybody dances it is easy to pay the piper. Santa Cruz calls it Venetian, but Venice is not in it. Sobriety and thrift are the worst enemies of discontent. No one need regret being off if he is off for Santa Cruz. Lying is the vice of the foolish and the sword of the wise. | Out of the mouth of babes man is often taught to wake up. Queen Anita did not paint the town red, but she gave it a rosy glow. There is no complaint of a lack of patronage of home festivals. A man may not be content with his lot and yet make his home on it. The gift of speech has made it easier for many of us to preach than do. Those who named the streets of the City were probably expert saw-filers. Perhaps Cleveland is slyly grooming Oluney for the Presidential race. Improvements do not cost so much in the long run as the lack of them. Better charge the Harrington murder to the trolley and strike it off the books. is the root of evil t of good works. To one man mone; and to another the f The Half-million Club isa fine institu- tion for the cure of chronic silurianism. The man who always gives the devil his due is liable at times to give himself away. The Civic Federation not only puts in some good licks itself but causes others to do so. When Market street gets its new dress some will be tempted to call it Boul’ Mar- quette. St O Crooked contractors ‘‘view with alarm’ the encroachments of the Merchants’ Asso- ciation. After this the Santa Cruz man will always wish to take a little carnival with his water. There would be truly good times this fall if we could write Kentucky up as a Repub- lican State. The silver dollar is not much of a buzz- saw, but it managed to split Democracy just the same. A single practical application of a hu- manitarian spirit is better than a thousand sermons on socialism. If Grover intends to make room for an American policy in the White House he will have to move out. Tt breaks the hearts of King Cobble and his retinue of silurians to learn that Mar- ket street is to be paved. Every workingman can help all other workingmen in the State by using only the products of home factories. How can weiexpect much sincerity in the ranks of the Democratic party when we see its chief fishing so often? ‘With Laura de Force Gordon at the head of the Co-operative Commonwealth there is an assurance of earnest progress. The fight in the South between the silver men and the gold men isenabling Memphis to do a lively trade in conventions. The Manufacturers’ Association might do good work by publishing for general in- formation a list of articles produced in California. AsJapan apparently is as much dissatig- fied with the results of the war as China itself she ought to be permited to fight it out again. ‘When we consider the liberal use of our wines by the French of New Orleans we can bear Editor Dana’s strictures with fortitude. There will probably be a good many home-seekers at the Atlanta Exvosition, and California should have an inviting dis- lay for them to see. A fertile soil, a genial climate and a live journalism can be found in every county in California, and what more does an in- telligent home-seeker wish ¢ If our local industries were patronized by the people of the State as they should be there would be plenty of employment for every idle man on the coast. San Francisco could distinguish herself by making an annual celebration of the Fourth of July brilliant enough to attract the attention of the whole Union. By interesting herself in the welfare of the unemployed Laura de Force Gordon has set an example that all other able and earnest women might follow with profit to the State. Until the Morgue is provided with a corps of skilled detectives, who could give to the first inspection a greatly needed skill, the police will be hampered in the discovery of murderers. Santa Cruz had a notion that having an occan she would start a calm motion to make a commotion to boom her calm ocean, and to do the thing neater she brought in Anita, and s of fate has gone with both feet into the feat ofa fete. THE GRAND JURY REPORT. Out of the silence and the secrecy of the Grand Jury room has come at last the re- port which gives the public some little knowledge of what has been going on there. The report does not differ in its essential features from those which are nusual to such bodies and will afford additional reasons for the popular discontent with the whole Grand Jury system. It contains much that may be read with interest, and much that may be skipped without loss; much that might have been weighty had the facts to sustain it been brought out in public, and much, also, that probably would never have been written had there been an open instead of a secret examination concerning the affairs to which it refers. Reading portions of this voluminous re- port one would infer that San Francisco is wicked above all other cities under the sun. Our election boards, our Police, our Har- bor Commissioners and our Judges are alike assailed. In some instances the charges in the report have long since been made familiar to the pub- lic through the press and the report adds nothing of importance to what was known concerning them. In other in- stances grossinjustice seems to have been done to worthy officials and as a matter of fair play and common justice the CALyL has interviewed some of them, to whom the injustice appeared grossest, and has given them a chance to tell their side of the story on the same day the report is pub- lished. These interviews should be care- fully read by impartial citizens in order that intelligent judgment may be formed concerning the matters in issue. ‘While the report cannot be accepted as a whole, and while the greater portion of the intelligent people of the City will commend the course of the member of the Grand Jury, H. Mayer, who refused to sign it, there are, nevertheless, several passages and recommendations in it that will receive the almost unanimous approval of all good citizens. One of these is found in the statements made concerning the lottery evil which is so wasteful a drain upon the earnings of the people and so pernicious to public morals. The report justly declares: “The fact that newspapers continue to publish no- tices of lotteriesis a crying shame,” and the better element of the people will agree that it is to be regretted that such offenses do not come within the province of the Grand Jury to indict. Equally favorable will be the public judgment on the further statement that “the jury desires to express to the people of the City the commendable course of such of the dailies as have now refused to advertise the drawings of the various lot- tery companies. It is to be hoped that other proprietors will, in justice to them- selves and to the public, follow this good example, which will gowell in the line of progress this State is now making.” The report recommends that the Legis- lature make the sale ot lottery tickets and the advertising of lottery business a felony; it condemns side-entrance saloons as a menace to the welfare of society; de- nounces the practice of accepting straw bail 'in the courts; points out sev- eral evils in the management of the schools; pronounces severe judgment, largely unjust, upon the police; recom- mends the acquirement of suitable pieces of property for public toilet purposes, and with considerable detail ecriticizes much of the work that has been done in street paving. It will be noted with pleasure in this general mass of criticism and condemnation that the Fire Department receives the praise it merits, and is declared to compare fayor- ably with tisat of any city in the Union. THE NATIVE DAUGHTERS. ‘While Santa Cruz is rejoicing in her water carnival and delighting in pleasures that suggest a revival of old Venice, Grass Valley feels the stimulus of the Grand Parlor of Native Daughters, and in the beauty of the strong young womanhood gathered there beholds at once a symbol and a proof of the glory of California. It is not necessary for the Native Daughters to wear Venetian robes to make a festival nor to wear crowns inorder to reign as queens over joyous hearts. While, there- fore, Santa Cruz is rich with splendid pageants and glad with a thousand joyous sights and sounds, Grass Valley has noth- ing to envy her, and in the fair beauty of the Grand Parlor will not lament the ab- sence of the ceremonial glories of the water carnival. It is pleasing to learn from the reports read at the business meeting that the Grand Parlor is in a flourishing condition as regards both membership and finances. The order now includes 2174 members, and its finances have enabled it during the past year to extend many benefits to the sick. Thus the order grows in vigor and usefulness, and, like the California woman herself, is both strong and helpful. There can be no doubt that in the past it has rendered great service, not only to the members, but to society at large, and from the record of these past accomplishments good auguries can be drawn of greater benefits yet to be gained through the ever- widening influence of its noble and loyal membership. Grass Valley has shown itself in every way worthy of entertaining the company which the Grand Parlor has brought to it. The Native Daughters and their friends have found there a welcome as substantial as the mountains and as genial as the cli mate. All factors of the reception have tended to confirm the good opinion which the visitors and their hosts had of one an- other at the start. No locality better rep- resents the spirit of California than Grass Valley, and looking at it, therefore, as an epitome of the whole State, we may safely say it has afforded the Native Daughters reason to be as proud of California as Cali- fornia is of them. THE BIRTH OF TASTE. It is not surprising that Californians are giving evidence of the effect their environ- ment of natural beauties might have been expected to produce. Not until this year, however, has this movement found an ex- tensive development. Santa Barbara had already given its beautiful flower festivals as an evidence of a refined taste in under- standing that an abundance of handsome flowers presented a splendid opportunity for artistic effects in a spectacular demon- stration, and not only has its example been followed in other parts of the State, but the idea has been rapidly expanded, and now Santa Cruz aids the last touch with its gorgeous water carnival, the most brilliant and artistic spectacle ever seen in the West. In other directions the growth of taste is seen. The organization of a league to pur- chase the work of local painters of merit is one of them. Equally gratifying is the great advancement of taste in the archi- tecture of homes. Long before either of these had taken firm ground interior deco- ration had been carried to a very high point, followed quickly by a demand for artistic furniture. For some time the in- teriors of San Francisco houses have been far more attractive than their exteriors, In every ity and town of the State ex- cept San Francisco the value of flowers as an exterior decoration is fully understood and the art assiduously cultivated. The almost total lack in this City of a refined taste in this regard is as inexplicable as deplorable, and the lack is made all the more poignant by the indifference shown by the wealthiest residents, whose dreary acres of blue-grass lawn are the only evidence they know how to give of the floral possibilities of the climate. But their successors, who possibly will have enjoyed the benefits of a higher edu- cation, will correct this fault in time and show us gardens which at least approxi- mate in beauty those observed in Eastern cities where extreme cold makes gardening a task. All the advances in taste which we do observe are so clamorously urged by the natural conditions of the State itself that it requires extraordinary denseness to re- sist their influence. THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION. The efforts which the State Board of Trade is making to provide a suitanle dis- play of California products and resources at the Atlanta Exposition should not only find favor with the people, but should re- ceive every assistance which individuals and which counties can give. All the leading States of the Union will be repre- sented there, and Califernia owes it to her- self to take her place among them. We can never make our products too well known and consequently can never display them too often. Each display of the kind has added to our prestige and increased our markets, and we would lose much if we neglect the opportunity of a display now. There is a special reason why we may expect more than ordinary benefits from a comprehensive display at this exposition. The droughts of summer and the blizzards of winter have discouraged thousands of settlers in the rainless regions and treeless plains of Kansas and Nebraska, and these people are now on the lookout for new homes. The South has been making earnest efforts to attract them, and indeed to attract immigration generally, while Southern railroads have been heartily co-operating with Bouthern State bureaus and chambers of commerce in the work. The Atlanta Exposition is a part of this widespread and far-reaching scheme to bring new settlers to the South. Every man who desires a home in a milder climate than the North will be given great inducements to go to Atlanta and see what the various Southern States have to offer. California is in this respect a rival of the South. Bhe also desires immigration and can offer an even more genial climate and fertile soil. Therefore it behooves her to look after her own interests and to meet the home-seekers who visit Atlanta with a display that will invite them to come to the Pacific Coast. In addition to looking after our interests in regard to immigration, we must also look after our fruit trade. The Southern States will make big displays of fruit, and try to gain customers not only in the big cities but in all the small towns of the North. Florida will show her oranges and strawberries and Georgia will exhibit her peaches, pears and watermelons. All the luxuries of Southern fruit products will be displayed to tempt the Northern palate and make a market for the coming season. Here again California is a rival of the South. We also have fruit to sell. At present we are seeking mainly the big markets of New York and Chicago, but it would pay us well to seek likewise the merkets of the smaller citles, Therefore we must show our frhit in Atlanta in order to get our share at least of the great trade of the Northern States in those produets. As the exposition opens in September there is no time to be lost in preparing for it. The Board of Trade proposes a general conference of Supervisors in order that eazh county may do its share in providing meney for the necessary expenses. The plan promises good results, and will no doubt be favorably received throughout the State. As every county will be bene- fited by the display each should do its part, and as was stated at the meeting of the Board of Trade on Tuesday, San Fran- cisco ought to lead off on the theory of the Half-million Club that what is done to benefit the whole State is of advantage to its chief city. A SUMMER STORY. The report that in appointing Olney to the State Department Cleveland intends to Americanize his foreign policy must be taken with as much allowance as the re- }ports of his success in trout fishing. From time immemorial the beginning of sum- mer has been known as the silly season. It is the time when the world shifts itself from & business basis to a hammock and flitta- tions become so common that men are pre- pared to flirt even with politics. In such aseason we may expect anything. Rumors are as rife as insects, and political specu- lators in the easy swing of the world’s sweet hammock may be excused if, when hearing some droning noise in the picnic air they should be too calmly lazy to seek to determine whether it be the buzzing of a Presidential bee or the careless hum- ming of a June bug. It is a ponderous idea that is suggested by the rumor. A conception of Cleveland and Olney constructing a vigorous foreign policy as a platform for the fat man to stand on as a ¢andidate for a third term is something the imagination cannot sus- tain. Vigor of design comes not from oleaginous tissue but from brains, and Americanism is not the result of a bean diet, but a warm-hearted sympathy with the aspirations of the people. What then are we to expect from Cleveland and Olney? Are these already semi-fossilized functionaries to be born again and born different? Buch ideas do not belong to the domain of probabilities. As Shakespeare said, they are “beyond beyond.” They are out of reach of reason and can be enter- tained only by men who are willing to grant the hospitality of the mind to every tramp report that strays about the world. It is to be regretted that the man who started the rumor did not give us an out- line of the proposed policy. The idea, which is too leaden and heavy for consid- eration in its compact form, if it had been beaten out thin might have afforded a holiday amusement. There is certainly room enough in the present international situation for Grover to make a wide spread if he wishes. Itistruehe has compromised himself beyond redemption in Bering Sea, Hawaii, Venezuela, Cuba and Central Anmerica, but there are chances for him in Armenia and Madagascar, and possibilities in Korea. Interference in these places would get him into the very thick of diplomacy, and the combination of Cleve- landism and Olneyism there would make all Europe gasp and stare, as well as cause & novel sensation at home. BOOM IN SANTA ORUZ According to a dispatch from General Manager Charles B. Tidball there are plenty of rooms disengaged as yet in Santa Cruz. Visitors to the carnival, therefore, may be sure of comfortable and commo- dious lodgings in which to rest after the gayeties of the day and evening. This 1 abundance of accommodation is one of the best features of Santa Cruz asa place of Ppleasure resort and general festivity. The homes and hotels are planned in hospita- ble proportions. The city may be thronged but it is never crowded. - All reports agree that the carnival is one of the brightest and gayest entertainments ever provided in an American city for the delight of pleasure-seekers. Itissufficiently different from the floral fetes of other cities to be as djstinct from them as the carnival at Venice is from that in other Italian cities, and like the famed Venetian festivals therefore is sure to hold a favorite and un- rivaled place. in public estimation. It has been no slight work to arrange a fete of this kind and the people of Santa Cruz well deserve all the praise it brings them. The number of visitors already present is large, and now that it is known there are abundant rooms for more, we may be sure the closing days will be brighter, gayer and livelier than those that preceded them, —— UP TO DATE IDEAS. A device by which the weight of the rider of a bicycle is made to automatically act ass brake 1s 8 recent invention. It is called the saddle brake. Itis light in weight and strong. Itis clamped securely to the saddle springs underneath the saddle, and fits equally well, it is seid, two round springs, one flat spring and one square spring, or, in fact, any kind of & spring, says the New York Sun. It isalso THE AUTOMATIC BRAKE. clamped to the two rear forks, and the spoon is attached to the spring steel, so that when the pressure is released it immediately comes back toits normal position, disengaging from the tire. The upright rod is in two parts, so that it may be lengthened or shortened to correspond with the height of the saddle when raised or lowered. The spoon and spring are enameled in black, and the upper part of the brake is nickeled. The point is made that the brake works directly on the rear or power wheel; also that with both hands on the handles and both feet on the pedals the rider can regulate the brake at pleasure by moving a little further back on the saddle than usual. It is explained that in case of a collision being 1nevitable the rider can throw the entire weight of the body on the brake and stop in- stantly, but that a header is avoided by the ‘weight being so far back. PERSONAL. H. L. Ricks of Eureka is in town. G. L. Turner of Los Gatos is in the City. J. H.L. Tuck is down from the Golconda mines. A, B. McKee, a merchant of Stockton, is a guest at the Lick. George M. Matheson, turer, is at the Grand. V. 8. McClatchy, of the Sacramento Bee, is a ghest at the California. W.S. Hughes, of the United States Navy, is registered at the Palace. J. W. Hueston, a merchant of Portland, Or., is registered at the Grand. H. L. BorgwardtJr., Bheriff of Kern County, is staying at the Russ House. Harry Postlethwaite, a mining man from San Jose, is staying at the Lick. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Humboldt County is staying at the Russ House. Frank L. Coombs, lawyer and politician from Napa, is & guest at the Grand. Professor and Mrs. Driver are down from San Jose and are staying at the Palace. T. L. Arnold, a member of the State Board of Equalization, is registered at the Lick. M. V. Brown, a wealthy fruit-buyer and com- mission man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. L. A. Richards of Grayson. Assemblyman from the Fifty-seventh District and a noted horseman, is in the City. Byron Waters, claim agent for the Southern Pacific, has returned from a long sojourn in the south and is registered at the Occidental. Miss Marjorie Forbes, the gifted young Australian soprano who arrived by the steamer Monowai, has left for the East. She will fill an opera engagement in New York. Robert B. Marshall, W. T. Turner and R. U. Good are at the Occidental. They are mem- bers of the United States Geological Burvey, and Mr. Good is chief of this division. a Stockton manufac- BUSINESS POINTERS FOR LIVE PEOPLE. The Amargoza (Los Angeles County) irriga- tion district will hold an election, pursuant to the call of the board of directors of that dis- trict, on Monday, July 1, for the purpose of submitting to the electors the proposition of bonding the district in the amount of $40,000, bonds to be of the denomination of $100 each and bear interest at6 per cent. The election will be in conformity with the Wright act and acts amendatory thereto. The Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz | County advertise that up to and including Monday, July 22, at 10 A. ., they will receive Dbids, to be opened at that time, for the erection of a courthouse building on the courthouse lot on Cooper street and Pacific avenue in the city of Santa Cruz. The plane and specifications were drawn by Architect N. A. Comstock, and are on file with County Clerk Edward Martin at Santa Cruz. The city of Portland, Or., will receive sealed proposals until Tuesday. June 18, at 3 p. u., for the whole or any part of $200,000 of the water bonds of that city, i denominations of $1000 each, dated July 1,1893, payable thirty years from date, and bearing 5 per cent interest, payable on the first days of January and July of each year. Frank T. Dodge is clerk of the City Water Committee of Portland. Until July 1 the City Council of San Diego will receive bids for the construction of a water-distributing system for thatcity. The ‘water works are to be paid for by the city in 5 per cent 40-year bonds. The plans and specifi- cations for the work were prepared by E. M. Cepps and Thomas M. Shaw, civil engineers, and are on file with City Clerk George D. Gold- man of San Diego. The Board of Trustees of the city of Merced have advertised that on June 20 they will open bids for a franchise to construct, lay down, operate and maintain an electric telephone and telegraph plant and system, with all the Decessary appliances, in the public streets of Merced, for a period of twenty-five years, the {ranchise to be granted to the highest bidder. The city of Marysville will hold a special election on Tuesday, June 18, when the propo- sition to incur a municipal debt of $40,000 for the purpose of acquiring, constructing and completing a drainage system for the city will be submitied to the qualified electors. The Foard of directors of the Selma (Fresno County) irrigation district have called a spe- cial election, to be held on June 25, for the purpose of raising the sum of $7500, to be ap- plied to the liquidation of the outstanding in- debtedness of the district. Sealed bids for the purchase of $2500 school bonds of $500 each, bearing 6 per cent inter- est, issued by Lugo school district, Los Angeles County, will be received until June 20at2 P.)M. by the Board of Supervisors of Los An- geles County. Monte Vista school aistrict, Los Angeles County, will on June 14 hold an election for the purpose of bonding the district for $1500, that sum to be used in building and furnishing a schoolhouse. The citizens of Anaconda, Mont., will on June 24 vote on the proposition to bond the city for $34,000 for the purchase of a site and the construction thereon of a City Hall. Santa Monica, Cal., will on June 15 vote on the question of issuing school bonds in the amount of $3000, of the denomination of $500 each, bearing 7 per cent interest. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. A writer in & Boston daily defends the in- creasing size of the Sunday newspapers in an original manner. No one, he remarks, ob- 1«? to the increasing size of & city directory, dictionary or s bili of fare, regarding these things rather as an indication of progress than otherwise. He regards the tendency of the Sunday newspaper in the same light. Possibly the excellence and populerity of the Sunday newspaper is largely due to the great number of advertisements it contains.—New York Printers’ Ink. The great principles that will animate the Republican party henceforth will be bimetal- lism and protection. They go together and constitute the “cloud of smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night,” that will lead this coun- try out of the wilderness of financial despond and political incompetency that now over- whelms it.—Pheenix (Arizona) Herald. Oregon will soon pay all the annual interest (and later the principel) she owes in the East in prunes and other fruit. Intensified farming and fruit-growing will make us independent and prosperous. Let the work of dividing the large farms and the development of the small ones proceed.—Salem Statesman. The goldbug press says that free silveris the policy of men who wish to pay their debts in cheaper money than they promised to pay. But what motive is it that prompts those men who favor free silver and have no debts to pay, are not mine-owners and are well to do.—Vir- ginia (Nev.) Enterprise. Banks may fail, cashiers may abscond, but no | cashier ever absconded with & block of city real estate in his grip, and no man with his money invested in good property ever awoke in the morning to find that his little saving had van- ished during the night.—Berkeley Dispatch. As long as Alameda will not undertake & iocal celebration of the Fourth of July there is no urgent reason against co-operating with San Francisco in the observance of the day, but, on the contrary, very good reasons why she should co-operate.—Alameda Telegram. It will be a weli-deserved compliment to Cal- ifornia, both as a political factor and a desir- able section of the country for a summer gath- ering if San Francisco is selected as the city in which to hold the next Republican National Convention,—San Diego Union. The man who has been all his life & high- stepper, who has from his high pedestal looked down upon his neighbor’s frugality and ealled it parsimony, is flourishing in bankruptey courts nowadsys, He is bound to fly high.— Woodland Mail. When we have an honest administration there will be no trouble about the honesty of the silver dollar.—Albuquerque (N.M.) Citizen. PEOFPLE TALEKED ABOUT. Lionel Brough, the comedian, was the first publisher of the London Daily Telegram. Miss Mary Philbrook of Jersey City has been admitted to the bar—the first women in the State to take the examination. The see of St. Louis,in which Archbishop Kain has succeeded the venerable Archbishop Kenrick, has had but two occupants before in 100 years. Samuel Johnson made application recently for appointment to the New York police force. 1f his prayer be granted he will be the only col- ored man in the department. ¢ General Green Clay Smith, who went from "Kentucky to become pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church of Washington City, is making a success as & capital pastor. Having grown tired of organ grinding in the streets of London, that eccentric nobleman, Viscount Hinton, is now acting 2s & showman to a kinetoscope entertainment. Of the defenders of Fort Sumter it issatd thatsll but seven are dead. Oneof the sur- vivors is John Doran of Meriden, Conn., who, when hostilities began, was on a pleasure trip 10 the fort. Cheret, the man who started the artistic poster fad that is now raging, has grown to dis- like that style of ert. He is overwhelmed with orders for posters, but makes every possible ex- cuse to decline them. A correspondent writes that every one who sees the Princess of Wales is astonished at her youthful appearance. It is no hyperbole to say that she looks younger than ever—far younger than her own daughters. Herbert Gladstone is looked upon as the champion of the government in the parlia- mentary golf tournament. On every occa- sion—four times in all—that he has met mem- bers of the opposition he has come out winner. It is thirty-three years since General Buckner surrendered to Grant at Fort Donelson. The veteran soldier walks about Louisville now- adays, corncob pipe in mouth, waiting for a summons to represent Kentucky in the Senate. Mrs. Patrick Campbell has told a British in- terviewer that the public does not appreciate the mental and physical wear and tear which an actress undergoes in performing emotional parts. Her own remedy for this exhaustion is to devote herself to the commonplace duties of life and of her own household. Mrs. Olney, wif!ol the Becretary, does not take & great interest in the woman question, although she hasn’t the slightest objection to other women settling the matter to their own taste. For herself, she thinks her home duties are enough to occupy her whole time, Mrs. Olney is a young-looking woman, especially for a grandmothe: SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Mr. Bikelelgh (taking his first lesson on the wheel)—Am I to keep on riding until you tell me to stop? Instructor—Yes; keep on as long as you can. ‘When you can’t, get up and start again.—New York World. “This old fellow,” said the teamster, fondly patting his horse on the neck, ‘‘has been haul- ing for the city for twenty-five years.” “Got a pull, I suppose,” sneered the mug- ‘wump gentleman.—Indianapolis Journal. He (who has just been refused)—Of course I know I am not worthy of you. She (who edits a paper)—Pardon me. Your rejection does not necessarily imply that you are lacking in merit.—Truth, Brooklyn Magistrate—The evidence shows conclusively, madam, that you threw a stone 8t & streetcar. ‘Wife of Striker—No, it doesn’t, your Honor. It only shows that I hit the streetcar.—Hudson Register. “It seems funny,” says the Manayunk Phi- losopher, “that a boy can go to Bunday-school alone, but it usually takes a father and mother, a grandmother and a couple of aunts to take him to the circus.”—Philadelphia Record. Catterson—I've been hanging pictures all the morning. Hatterson—Didn’t it make you tired to hold ‘your hands above your head? Catterson—No; I've just been on a railroad trip through Texas.—Judge. Miss Zalby—I went into a place the other day and ordered icecream,and just think of it, there were two flies in it. Miss Lazjin—What did you do about it? Miss Zalby—I ordered another plate. Miss Lazjin—Dear me! How fond you are of fiies.—Roxbury Gazette. “Hiram,” said Mrs. Huskins, ‘‘we see & heap 'bout ‘tho Mosquito Coast in the papers nowa- days.” ““Well,” was the reply, “I'm glad of it. Ihad Do cause ter regret emigratin’ from there, but T'm allus glad to see New Jersey comin’ to the front.”—Washington Ster. Music and : Musicians. Emily Crawiord, the Parisian correspondent, speaks enthusiastically of the Australian voices in Mme. Marchesi's school. “The pro- fessor,” she says, “‘who taught Krauss, Nevada and Melba can now cull voices for her concerts from every quarter of the globe. America seldom furnishes anything but light sopranos. They are high, clear, tuneful, ot wanting in sweetness, but often what the French call voix blanches. They are voices, perhaps, to ad- mire, but not to fall in love with. Do they in- dicate unloving natures? Warmer yoices come from Australia, the competition from which quarter of the globe existing queens of song must be prepared for. Melba.l need hardly say,isan Australian. Ihéard at the last Mar- chesi concert® very fine contralto singer, and was told that she was a Miss Crossley from Melbourne, She was engaged to sing a few days later before the Duke and Duchess of York. A rich, rare, strong and expressive voice it was, and very well managed.” Immediately after appearing in Paris Miss Crossley went to London and made her debut at Queen’s Hall, with another Marchesi grad- uate, Miss Laura Burnham of Boston, a high light soprano. Both girls made an immediate success in London, Miss Burnham surprising MISS LAURA BURNHAM. in “Hamlet,” “La Navarraise” and the “Damna- tion of Faust.” It is stated that the veteran conductor and composer, Dr. Carl Reinecke, will soon lay down his baton and retire from active musical service in Leipsic, where for years he has con- ducted the Gewandhaus concerts. Rafael Joseffy, the pianist, has renounced his allegiance to the Emperor of Austria as & pre- liminary to becoming a citizen of the United States. Joseffy lives in North Tarrytown, N. Y. Paderewski has nearly finished his opera and the work will probabiy be first produced in London under the auspices of Sir Augustus Harris. A newspaper in Paris, that was hard up for & sensation, recently invented the news that Miss Sibyl Sanderson had committed suicide. I_.,ady_fln.lle. the famous violinist, will, it is said, give concerts in the United States next season. —_— HOWARD CHUROH TO MOVE. A Pioneer Institution Turns Toward the Western Addition. The Howard Presbyterian Society has asked leave of the Superior Court to sell its property on Mission street, near Third, on which its church stands, and purchase alot in another locality. Itasks leave to mortgage the lot at present in its posses- sion for a second $20,000, in order to make the desired purchase. The society is an ancient one, having been incorporated in September. 5 It now intends to move into the Western Addition, to the corner of Oak and Bal streets. The petition says: In the course of events_and the development and extension of the City and its interests, your petitioners can best meet the needs and conditions of its population by this action. At the time of incorporation of this society, the in- vironments were different from what they ex- ist to-day and the religious necessities and exigencies have been met through the in- fluence of this corporation. Your petitioners have zealously watched and guarded the wel- fare of the Howard Presbyterian Society and now are convinced and persuaded that they must respond 1o new requirements and needs and that the territory which it is the desire of this society to occupy offers flattering induce- ments and results to the ends and aims for ‘which this corporation was created. Judge Hebbard will hear the petition on Monday next. ——————— every one with the fluency of her vocalization and the purity and range of her voice. She is already well known in Massachusetts as a church and concert singer; but two years ago Miss Burnham decided to give herself artistic finish by study abroad, and she has been pre- paring for concert work in Paris ever since. European singers will certainly have to look to their laurels now thet so many American and Australian girls are fired with the ambi- tion to win lyrie honors. Walter Damrosch is evidently determined to outshine the Abbey, Schoeffel and Gran organ- izaticn next season asfar as German opers is engaged, for he is securing the best talent pro- curable in Europe. Among the Jatest additions to his list of artists are Frau Kiafsky, Fraulein Tuerina end Herr Demeter Papovici. Klafsky not only possesses great dramatic talent, but has & superb singing voice, a requisite which is often lacking in great Wagnerian prime donne. Wagnerian opers, interpreted in the Bayrenth style, is not especially popular in London, but last season, as one of Sir Augustus Harris' Wagnerian artists, Klafsky's singing won her triumphs equal to any won on the French and Italian nights, when Calve, Eames, etc., were appearing. Fraulein Tuerine is also said to be ayoung and besutiful woman, possessed of a splendid dramatic soprano voice. The London Truth says: “Miss Wesley, who died last week, aged 76, was a grandniece of the founder of Methodism. She was for forty years organist at St. Margaret Patten’s, and was the friend of many distinguished people. The fact that her father, Samuel Wesley, com- posed his first oratorio, ‘Ruth,’ as far back as 1774—that is to say when Beethoven was a child of 4, and 18 years before Mozart wrote ‘Don Giovanni’—wili show the link that this veteran laay was with the musical past. Her father, indeed, who was 54 when she was born, could remember the United States Declaration ot Independence and the settlement of Aus- tralia. Miss Wesley herself was in childhood befriended by Samuel Rogers, banker and poet, and by Madame d’Arblay, whom Dr. Johnson had nursed. The deceased lady was full of reminiscences of musicians, actors and other personages of the past.” A beautiful monument has just been un- veiled at the cemetery of Pecq, in France, to the memory of the composer, Felicien David. Built against an eminence it is formed of a roof, supported by four columns. The background, sculptured by Chapu, is composed of a plaque of marble, on which isthe bas-relief of the com- poser of “The Desert.” At the foot of the mon- ument & weeping woman, to personify Music, throws roses on the tomb. On the marble are inseribed the dates of the birth and death of the composer—1810-1876—and the names of his principal works—“The Desert,” “Christo- pher Columbus,” “The Pearl of Brazil,” ‘“‘Her- culaneum,” “Lalla Rookh” and *“Eden.” Am- broise-Thomas pronounced the address when the monument was unveiled. Fifteen librettos were sent to the jury on the competition for the Prix de Rome at the Paris conservatory this summer. “Clarissa Har- lowe,” by Edouard Noel, has been chosen. It is said to be a very dramatic scene for three personages: Clarissa Harlowe, Robert Love- lace and Colonel Morden. Copies of this libretto have been given to the six students in musical composition who have been admitted to the final competition for the Prix de Rome, and they have been given twenty-five days to write their respective scores to “Clarissa Harlowe.”” The one whose opera is pro- nounced the best will win the Prix de Rome, which means that the conservatory will pay his expenses for three years while he stuaies in italy. TLe smallest, dingiest theater in Italy pays $600 per night for the right of giving the “Cavalleria Rusticana,” and very rarely are the receipts double this sum. Deduct all the expenses, salaries, etc., and the manager has very little benefit out of the speculation. Verdi’s “Aida” still commands $2000 and eyen $3000 per night in large theaters, and $1000 in the provinces. The publisher gives 40 per cent of his profits to the composers, but he has all the expenses to pay, and often spends large sums to “puff” the operaand make it known. Under these conditions many com- posers, such as Mascagni, for instance, make a fortune in a very short space of time. A dispatch from Barcelona states that Senor Albeniz has made a great success there with his new grand opers, “Henry Clifford.” The libretto, which turns on an incident in the ‘Wars of the Roses, is the work of F. M. Coutts, & partner in the banking-house of which Lady Burdett-Coutts holds so large an interest, Al- binez is known as the composer of the operetta ‘‘Magic Opal,” in which May Yohe made her English debut. He wrote down the music to suit that young woman's peculiar voice. At the revival of “Tannhauser” in Paris (heard from & box):_» He—No doubt it would be beautiful if one could only understand the music and make out what the plot's 21l about. She—Hush! People in the orchestra might hear you, and if they thought you did not un- derstand “Tannhauser” they would take you for an imbecile. 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