The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1895. ok 0 BT R ) e BT AL SCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free ¥ and Sunday CALL, one week. by carrier. Sn:l)g 6. BUSINE. OF! 10 Market San , California. Telephoze.. 2 . Main—1868 ED! ..... Main-1874 Telephone.. BRANCH OFFICES £70 Montgomery strect, corner £:50 o'clock. ¢ Haves streot : open until 9:80 0'clock. 7 Larkin street: open un 30 o'clock. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open Tntll § o'clock. 4618 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 316 Ninth street; open until 8 o'clock. ay: open uatil OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway.. EASTERN OFFIC! Row, New York Clty. 7, Special Ag ..OCTOBER AKS FOR ALL. THE CALL SP We must have the convent nd Arkansas did nob d of them. Tex tue is pre By and by Marlborough will go to join raven and we will be at rest. D Skim milk may be a recognized article of sale, but do buyers recognize it? he prize-fighters have been knocked out, but the champions are not speechless. h time a President of the ocean- ublic should be nominated on the shores of the P ar for politics in Ohio, aid to have big meetings m. It is pot an off y for even Coxey and lots of enth The Wilson tarit is too good a Republi- can campaign document to be ignored either t ear. If Boies really has a boom for the Presi- "it must be well corked, for there are ns of effervescence anywhere. tion it is Lord Sackville s te indiscr was not intended for publication, but always the unexpected that happens. Cleveland may be a candidate for a third term, but he does not seem to have any ist the City an end to milk adul- Tammany has cheered itself into the in- xication of believing it can carry New ity by 60,000 majority on the Sun- It is reported from the Massachusetts campaign that the Democrats are furnish- Platt has not yet picked out his candi- date for the Presidency, but he has been overheard to say, “We want no more Ohio men in the White House.” Should Harrison, McKinley, Reed and Allison tie up the Republican National Convention the friends of General Alger eay he will be the man to loosen the knot. Cleveland may attempt to force a fight for the retirement of greenbacks at the coming session of Congress, but who will he get to do his fighting for him in the House? The sweltering heat that prevails in all Fastern cities during the summer is far more exhausting to delegates to National conventions than would be a trip across the continent. The American Gaslight Association, which held a meeting in Philadelphia last week, is said to represent $500,000,000 of capital, so after all there must be some- thing solid in gas. Asa general rule no man should put his hands in his pockets while public work is to be done, but it won’t hurt if he takes them out again at the right time with the right stuff in them. Chicago would like to have the Republi- can National Convention next year, but the people remember how the Democratic convention was treated there in 1892 and are shy of the invitation. Louise Michel of France is coming to the United States on a lecture tour to raise money to support a home for aged anarch- ists in England. What kind of interna- tional complication is that? To Don Dickinson’s assertion, ‘“The Ior- eign policy of President Cleveland is vig- orously and aggressively American,” there are just four objections. First, it is not vigorous; second, it is not aggressive; third, it is not American, and fourth, Don Dickinson said it. Now that Chang Chih Tung is about to tumble from his hich estate as Viceroy of Nankin a report is going the rounds that, take him for all in all, he is a much greater man than our old friend Li Hung Chang. Thus does adversity bring fame and ruin result in a little free advertising. A curious lawsuit is repo rted from Min- nesota. A man named Phair, who was out shooting, was attacked by a big moose. As moose are protected by law Phair was afraid to shoot the animal and was badly hurt. He has now brought an action for damages against the State on the ground that the animal is a ward of the State and he was handicapped in defending himself. It is reported that at a fair in a Con- necticut town a few days ago there was a monkey at which the public were allowed to throw rubber balls, three for 5 cents, with prizes for whoever hit him. The humane agent interfered on bebalt of the monkey, but when a small colored boy was substituted he let the game go on. That seems a good -deal like monkeying with humanity. The emblems adopted by the various parties in New York City to head their tickets on the official ballot are: = Eagle, Revublican; star, Democratic; water foun- tain, Prohibitionists; bared arm of me- chanic, Socialist; three-leaf clover, Popu- list; full-rigged sloop, Empire State Re- formers; cannon, Independent County Democracy; and anchor of hope, Good Government Club Non - Partisans. Just imagine that many straight tickets ina municipal election and then consider the feelings of the friends of Dr. Parkhurst When they start out to scratch! THE SITUATION REALIZED. The handasome addition of $7500 made by M. H. de Young, proprietor of the Chroniele, to Tue CALL’S contribution of $5000, as the nucleus of a fund to defray the expenses of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, sets the pace for the wealthy and public-spirited Re- publicans of the West. Meanwhile, Mr. Hearst's Eraminer, a Democratic paper, heads its subscription list with $1000. This sets the pace for wealthy and pub- lic-spirited Democrats, who regard the opportunity as one of far greater im- portance than that which concerns the Republican party. The opportunity is exceedingly valuable in that it will test the public spirit of the rich men of the West. While subscriptions from men of moderate means would be welcome they still would serve as a rebuke to the hundreds of millionaires who in- habit this region. When we reflect that only $100,000 is re- quired, that Boston recently raised and placed in bank $250,000 to secure the con- clave of Knights Templar and that the West has a greater proportion of million- aires than any other section of the country and is most in need of the benefits which would arise from a National political con- vention held here, it is not difficult to ap- preciate the position in which the wealthy men of the West are placed. Nevada, with its marvelous stores of silver, needs the convention; Arizona, New Mexico and California, with their vast empires of arid lands clamoring for irrigation, need the convention; Oregon and Washington, with their inexhaustible stores of base and precious minerals, their illimitable forests of valuable timber and their splendid watercourses and harbors, need the convention: Utah and Colorado, with their inexhaustible treasures in coal, iron and silver, need the convention; Cali- fornia, with its locked treasures of gold, its watercourses needing opening, 1ts millions of acres of mineral lanas threatened with illegal occupation by a powerful monop- oly, its wine industry singled out for de- struction by means of a ruinous internal revenue tax, its incomparable agricult ural resources held in check by the crushing weight of an unlawfuily exercised trans- portation monopoly, its matchless soil products begging to contribute to the wealth and happiness of the Nation—Cali- fornia needs the convention. The country has no conception of the undeveloped wealth lying west of the Rocky Mountains, If in all this splendid territory there can- not be found twenty rich men to subscribe $3000 each for this convention, when the | single city of Boston raised $250,000 the other day for an assemblage of leadersin a benevolent organization, we might as well go out of the business of development and work fora return of the primitive condi- tions which prevailed during tne Spanish occupation, and sarrender the business and wealth of the West to the brains and energy of Chicago. FOR THE OHILDREN. - Mrs. Maud E. Hunt, secretary of the executive committee having in charge the concerts to be given at the Mechanics’ Pavilion on the 19th and 20th of next month for the benefit of the Children’s Hospatal, struck some of the good people of the City a severe blow when she said, the other day: “If people can subscribe $48,000 for a horse-show in this City they certainly ought to contribute that much and a good deal more for a most worthy . It goes to the root of one of the most interesting peculiarities of human nature. Those who subscribe o generously to horse-shows and other forms of amuse- ment and entertainment are the well-to-do persons who maintain what is termed ‘“‘society.” Admitting the necessity for a certain standard of bebavior, membership in thiscircle isotherwise a matter of taste— of a fondness particularly for the more frivolous pleasures of life, and for social pursuits which are not intended for the benefit of the race. It is a tacit ignoring of all human concerns not identified with those of the guild, and is a species of selfishness which always has invited the animosity of the peor, the contempt of the wise and the satire of the wifs. ‘Within recent years a spirit of what has come to be called humanitarianism has been steadily invading the exclusive ranks, and, as might have been expected, it has taken the vitiful nature of a passing fad in many instances. This has somewhat re- tarded the movement of education and progress among the fashionables. Never- theless, the movement has been gaining a most wholesome bezdway, and the ex- clusives, as a body, are slowly bringing themselves into alignment with the more noble purposes of It has gone so far in many directions that good-doing is no longer a fashion, but a duty; and this is the finest fruit that the tree of modern civilization has produced. He would be unreasonable and a churl who would deny wholesome pleasure. to those who have the means to indulge it. The pastimes of the rich and fashionable elements are for the most part harmless, and if harm is ever done it is confined to those who precipitate it. But thereisa secondary harm, and that is the spirit of rebellion which is roused in the needy from observing that vast sums of money are spent in a loud and flaunting way, while poverty, wretchedness and despair cry aloud for human sympathy and sid. The Children’s. Hospital is a charitable institution founded and conducted in part by some of these very people. Its conduct is with women of the finest and noblest natures, who have educated themselves to an understanding of the true position of intelligent persons in the community. They are preparing two entertainments for one of the best charities ever devised, and this fact arraigns the other well-to-do people of the City at the bar of auty, and places them on trial for character and wis- dom and humanity. Those who best know the spirit of generosity and helpful- ness that warms the hearts of all true Californians have no fears regarding the case which the defendants will make out for themselves. A PECULIAR DISCOVERY. Since THE CALL has made its expose of the manner in which Chinese fishermen are permitted to violate the law prohibit- ing the taking of certain kinds of small fish the State Fish Commission is placed on the defensive. Itischarged by a dep- uty who wasformerly in the service of the commission that the Chinese have cor- ruptly bought their illegal privileges; but it is not necessary to take this view of the case. Thatig a matter for the criminal courts to investigate. For the purposes of this discussion it is sufficient to assume that the Chinese are pursuing their course without the knowl- edge of the commission. This makes the case hardly any better for that body. That the Chinese enjoy the peculiar privilege, or at least exercise it, of catching small young fish, and, consequently, of assisting to deplete the waters of the State, is a fact that has been established by the investiga- tions of Tur Canr. It will next be inter- esting to observe what the commission will do. The Chinese are peculiarly insidious and persistent, and they have an extraordinary facility for concealing their crimes. That is the experience of all officers who come in contact with them. For this reason they shouid be watched more closely than any other members of the community. They select obscure places, or, if com- pelled to be conspicuous, surround them- selves with other safeguards. The fish which they catch are dried and sent to China, and hence do not appear in the local markets and so come under the notice of the public. What is needed to watch them is a special patrol which may not be easily corrupted. A WASHINGTON ALARM. The reports from Tue Carr’s Washing- ton correspondent to the effect that the Cleveland administration is considering the advisability of a scheme for placing an internal revenue tax on wines should be sufficient to rouse every Californian toa realization of the danger which threatens him and the duty which lies before him. The rumor appears most reasonable. The free-trade policy of the administration has resulted in so disastrous a falling off of the public revenues, and the adminis- tration is so firmly committed to the doc- trine of free trade, that, the idea of pro- tection being out of the question, the im- position of an internal revenue tax has be- come a necessity. In casting about for articles upon which to impose such & tax a great deal of politi- cal shrewdness may be expected. Wines are a luxury. Why not place them in the category of whisky? If it is proper to tax one kind of intoxicant why not all kinds? There is & strong prohibition sentiment in the country, which, observing the evils of intemperance on all sides, is impatient to remove them at once by radical measures rather than by the slower and surer pro- cess of education. It cannot be made te believe that the rational use of the whole- some wines which California produces in 80 great abundance would be one of the best temperance movements imaginable. Mr. Cleveland feels that he could depend on the sympathy and applause of this sentiment in imposing a revenue tax on wines. Inall likelihood the making and mod- erate use of wines will endure tothe end of time. California isthe one and only State in the Union that can and does pro- duce wines of the fine quality of those im- ported from abroad. Our wines are better than those because they are honest and healthful. The wines produced in other States of the Union are comparatively in- significant in quantity, and are not of a character to bring them into competition with foreign wines. California has and must always enjoy, by reason of its pe- culiar climate, an absolute monopoly in the making of wines equal in quality to the best products of Europe. We have millions of dollars invested in this enterprise, and only lately has the in- dustry become profitable. The excellence of these wines is forcing their recognition and consumption. The business is merely in its infancy, and it will, unless destroyed by Democratic taxation, become one of the greatest in the world. But Mr. Cleveland may shrewdly reason that he can well "afford to lose California if by so sacrificing its great industry he can gain a tremendous support from all parts of the country. Therein lies the danger to the State and the reasonableness of the belief that the wine tax will be im- posed. Should the Democrats hold their National Convention here and see for them- selves what this industry is, and what an enormous benefit to the whole country, it is not conceivable that they would uphold such a tax. There is no movement look- ing to the holding of their convention here, but there is one for securing the Republi- can National Convention, and the threat which has come from Washington should make us redouble our efforts to accomplish that result. PERSONAL. J. P. Farrell of Los Angeles is in the City. E. W. Haule of Sacramento is at the Baldwin. Dr. C. A. Clinton has returned from his trip Eest. . Dr. M. J. Gates of Fresno is registered at the Grand. B. V. Sargent arrived here from Salinas yes- terday. George Swein came down from Stockton yes- terday. R. C. Rathbone, an Eastern insurance man, is in town. A. P. Halfhill of Los Angeles is staying at the Grand. A. A. Blyth of Portland is among the arrivals at the Occidental. Sol Hirsch of Portland, Or., is among the guests at the Palace. Professor Earl Barnes of Stanford University came up to the City yesterday. Rev. W. W. Case has moved his residence to the Stewart House, 212 Powell street. Mrs. Ballington Booth will speak at Mills College at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. P. P. Armstrong, an orchardist of San Joa- quin County, is in the City. He is at the Pal- ace. Edward Walden, & wine man from the East, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Cali- fornia. John T. Sullivan, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel in Santa Cruz, is spending a few days at the Grand. J. W. Linscott, Superintendent of Public In- struction of Santa Cruz County, is a guest at the Grand. ENCOURAGEMENT DUE. Hueneme Herald, The constant improvement in the San Fran- cisco CALL under the management of Charles M. Shortridge, formerly connected with the San Jose Mercury, 1s in line wiih the assertions he made on teking control of THE CALL, and he is meeting with the encouragement due an editor who is determined to issue & clean, newsy paper, devoid of all catering to sensa tionalism. THAT BEAUTIFUL DOLL. Colusa Sun. The elegant doll which Mrs, Clara Foltz pre- sented to the Catholic Fair and named Madge Morris in honor of the suthor of “Liberty Bell” and many more beautiful poems, was won by little Gertrude Houchins, daughter of our Tax Collector. Her friends purchased 8151 worth of tickets. Her sweet little oppo- nent from Maxwell, Pugenia Corby, brought §‘§§580 to the cause, making the doll br“lg e — THAT BIG FLOWER. Santa Rosa Farmer. The cut of the chrysanthemum, said to be life-size, given on the first page of last Sun- day’s CALL, measured seven and a half inches. It is certainly a king among flowers, and we are grateful to it for coming at this season of the year to console us for the absence of the rose. THE GECGRAPHICAL CENTER. Brentwood Enterprise. San Francisco is in a fair way of getting the next National Republican Convention. As Alaska is to have delegates, we can claim San Francisco as the nearest available geographical ceuter {rom which the delegates are {0 come. ARCUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel John Burns is patronizing only home industries now, owing to an experience he had not loug ago with & hatmaker in Japan. He was telling the story up at the Baldwin last evening, “Some time before I went on to Bos- ton to the Knights Templar conclave,” he said, “I concluded to get & fatigue cap—something fine it was to be with ¢ tortoise-shell visor, such as they use in Japan. I had & friend on one of the China steamers,a purser, whom I asked to get the visor for me. He suggestod thut Ilet him get the cap made there, too. He knew & Jap who had & big reputation for mak- ing the finest caps for the officers in the Japa- Dege army and was an artist at the business. o1 told him to go ahead, but be sure that he got_something worth sending so far for. I made a drawing of the shape and gave him the 74 The steamer returned the might be- fore Ileft for Boston and the purser hurried the cap up to my house as soon as he landed. Itwas in & big box about a foot square and eight inches deep. Bus you ought to have seen the cap. Big cnough for Goliath. The maker did not understand our sizes and made it 7% inches in diameter. But it came in handy in Boston—for some of the boys in the mornings after they had been up late.” William McCracken was talking with some friends at the Lick House yesterday about the big chicken hatchery he and J. A. Finch and others are starting up near Naps. “Why are you starting it up at this time of year?” asked his friend Hall. “You will not get your chickens to lay during the winter enough to pay expenses.” “Don’t worry about that,” replied Me- Cracken. “Finch will make them lay. What Finch don’t xnow about chickens is not worth knowing.” “I don’t care how much he or &ny one else knows,” eaid Hall. «“I have been raising chickens over in Alameda for years, and if yon can make hens lay anywhere in winter you could in Alameds, but you can’t.” “That’s all right. You wait till Finch gets started this winter. He has a scheme that can’t help working, at least the first winter anyway.” Hall insisted that McCracken explain Finch’s plan, which he seemed loth to do, but finally un_ld: “I know Finch will notlike to have me give away the secrets of the business, but then you won't 1et it go any further. His plan is this: He will bring out his hens from the East about the 1st of January, from some cold section of the country, and when they get hers into our balmy winter climate they will imagine that spring nas come and go to laying like fun.” e VERSES ON THE RUN. THE FOOTRALL OBANK. X Come, flap your wings, my muse, and sing, Thy notes possess the proper ring; Thy Verses have an airy swing That every jay admires. We've read of Hermes' winged heel, The messenger of woe or weal, But that is threadbare, old, unreal— The mention of it tires. Give me the toe—the wingad toe— With college brawn to spsed the “g0,” And grit and pluck behind the show— 1U's worth a modern song. The winged tos that thrills the hearts Of thousands by the boom 1t starts ‘When swift the gphere from coutact darts And goalward speeds along. L Ho! for the rush of Stanford’s men To charge, and wheel and charge agaln, Or Berkeley's scienced grapple, when The battle's plunged in doubt. The bards who sang of Greek athletes Made all the glory—not the feats. ‘The peerless act alone completes The fame that now we shont, Away with pagan brag and myth; Of sturdy sport we own the pith. ‘We've heroes fit to conjure with, And count them by the score. With brain and eyeand brawn, you know, To plan, survey and drive the foe, By magic of the winged toe, 11l chorused shouts and music’s flow Speak victory o'er and o'er. BONANZA ¥OR SCHEATTEB. Come hither, Francis sSchlatter, Beside the sundown sea, And thine shall be more labor Than Denver makes for thee, 1t thou wilt rid the City Of Junta and of Boss, ‘We'll build the grandest church for thee— Thy house shall be a achloss. No license shall be charged thee, Nor water rent, nor tax, Shouldst thou get Boss his boodle Where the chicken got the ax. COMMENTS ON THE ELECTIONS. Chicago Times-Herald.' Hurst's campeaign bears all the signs of Ger- man's cheap cunning. The speakers have been attempting to stir uprace feeling by de- claring that Lowndes' election would mean “black rule.” A combination has been formed with & few nominal Republican leaders wnerebv German expects to gain the votes of unworthy Republicans. But the Cleveland Demonrats aré against him, the unpurchased press of the State demands his overthrow and the people of Baltimore and other cities who bave suffered from his withering touch on municipal affairs are determined on sacrificing every other consideration to their one purpose of beating him. New York Mail and Express. The coming election in the State of New York cannot fail to have a most important influence upon the Presidential contest of 1896. The is- sues of that campaign are already framed. They have been framed during nearly three ears of Democratic misrule, of blundering and isastrous legislation,and of a foreign policy s odious as it is humiliating. The greatest American Btate, the leader in commerce, wealth and industry, 1s called upon to pass judgment upon & National administration whose every act has been & blow at the Interests of the Union, and especially of New York. Philadelphia Ledger. One of the most interesting campaigns of the present year is that which is now proceed- ing in Kentucky. It is interesting not only to the people of that commonwealth, but to the people of the entire country, as the issue, that of honest and safe, or dishonest and unsafe, currency, is one of common concern. This issue, which is, in fact, the only real one, the anti-sdministration and free silver Democrats are striving with all their might to belittle or evade and to give prominence to the negro equality question. New York Tribune. Thereis floating about the.State a rumor which the Republican ecampaign managers should set at rest immediately, if they have the power to do so. We refer to the alleged in- tention of the Platt machine to pay off old scores on election day by not supportihg those party candidates wno were chosen in ?pout- ton to the wishes of the boss. Every indepen- dent aspirsut for office, it is_said, will feel the effects of this revengeful policy, but a few con- spicuous examples are tom made. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Under the best possible circumstances the outlook for the Democracy in Kentucky this year would not be very bright. Republican strength in that State has been growing for i‘nrs past. Inthe Congressional elections of 894 the Republican vote in Kentucky was sbout equal to the Democratic. In that can- vass, 100, the Democracy was fairly har- monfous. This year, however, the party is split on the silver question. Boston Herald. In the face of this state of affairs, we see no prospect of & Democratic revival in the elec- tions this year. If the party do not lose Mary- land and Kentucky, it wiil be fortunate. It has approached neater to the reguisite uni in New Jersey than anywhere else, but, wit 50 much discouragement in other quarters, it is difficult to see how it can overcome the l.z;-rly 50,000 Republican meajority of a year 0. Philadelphia Record. Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio in one of his late utterances declares that the Democratio party in Ohio is making great gains inthe country as distinguished from the cities, The country has always been the reliance of De- IMOCTacy. Pznmyl’nnu is a Democratic State on & full poll of her voters, if the Republican majorities in Philadelphia and Pittsbi be ex- cluded from the e:ugeh s i Indianapolis News. The Democratic Mormons do not forget that the Republican party originated the legisla- tion by which polygamy was prohibited, and thatthe Territory was r tedly refused ad- mission as a Stato under Hepublican adminis- trations. The Democrats are not without influ- ential leaders. The vote of the women is to be considered as a factor. It is estimated that there are 13,000 women in Utah who were put away as plural wives under the operation of the anti-polygamy laws. It remains to bo seen ‘whether m:x vote for or against the perty which was chiefly responsible for this. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. ROGERS ON MONEY. A POPULIST PARTY AUTHOR'S BOOK CONSIDERED BY A LEADER OF THAT CULT. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Taylor Rogers' new work on “Scientific Money” is & distinctively new book, though #o much has been written on money. It is de- cidedly a reaaable book, with a thought-evok- ing power of unique character. It iseminently American in the broadest sense, full of fire and aglow with love of country. It is aluminous treatise, brief as it is, on a subject vaguely considered by many people as abstruse and dry. Even thestatistics are made interesting— 8 rare gift in & writeron finance. While novel in style as a treatise on money, it is logical in development, grounded in reason, compre- hensive in scope, persuasive in speech and con- clusivo in argument, with not a dull page in it. The least informed on mouney matters can read it understandingly, and students of finance will rise from iis perusal with broad- ened views, with quickened interest and stronger desires than ever to lead their coun- trymen to a speedy understanding of the money’gnesnon as e matter of vital importance to the Nation. A notable feature of this little book is its mastery of the legal aspects of the subject, in the treatment of which Justice Field’s theory of the issue of money s a function of govern. mentis subjected to merciless analysis and drastic eriticism. There can be but one verdict rendered on Judge Field—guilty; gullty of betraying the reople by judicial decision into the hands of plutocracy. Lawyers will appre- clate it, even though Justice Field is their highest authority; and the exposition is so clear _ltnd strong 'that laymen will equally enjoy it. commend this brief treatise on “Scientific Money” to all classes of readers, but more es- cially to Sherman Republicans and Cleve- and Democrats. Lincoln Republicans and Jefferson Democrats will read it with avidity nd will accept its conclusions with deep sai- isfaction. Some (housands of the intelligent citizens of California will recognize in the thor, Taylor Rogers, a well-known lawyer of San Francisco, who is associated with Mayor Sutro as his secretary and legal adviser. The book is published in cheap form that it may pe wmol{ circulated among the masses. I hope it may be sold by tens of thousands in every Brate in the Union. It will not only convert men to a sound American system of money, but it will make missionaries of them to labor for the establishment of such a system. JOSEPH A. JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco, Oct. 22, 1893, A NATIONAL STANDING. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Allow me to express my admiration at the course pursued by THE CALLsines you took hold of it. People areso liable to find fault with publishers of newspapers that no doubt some censure fallson your head. But I feel DOUNA 10 *ay tAAT your editorial and reporto- rial articles' are doing a Herculean work for §cnd in thisState. In to-day's issue your four eading editorials will, without doubt, give di- rection and encouragement to all who have the best interestsof California at heart. On its present lines THE CALL is destined to bave & Nationel standing. Iem yours truly, DONALD M, Ross. October 22, 1893, 604 Douglass st. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Boys, Learn a Trade. The Whittier (Whittier School). A trade well mastered is an absolute guar- anty of selt-support. While in one sense it is a dependence, it i3 in another sense an inde- enaence. When s boy learns a trade he has a oundation on which to build; he_ can begin business on less capital than a novife, and bas the advantage for succe: Mount Rainler Will Remain Mount Rainier. Tacoma (Wach.) Sun. Two more tea hips have just arrived at Ta- coma. If this thing keeps on the name of the town will:have to be changed o Teacoma, says the Morning Olympian. All right, just as you ;ny; but, mind you, the mountain standsas tis. They Need Bracing All Around. San Jose Mercury. It is refreshing to learn that Secretary Olney intends *b; ng up the spinal column of Em- bassador Bayard.” Now if some strong, vigor- ous person will brace up the apinal column of Becretary Olney, the Monroe doctrine will have something to lean on. A Rival’s Taunt. Pheenix (Arir.) Gazette. Some discussion is being had by certain Cali- fornia papers as to the efficacy of the climate of the Mojave Desert for consumptives. It is a fact that very few die there with consumnptio The victiras generally roast to death before t! diszease can get in itswork. The Free-Trade Policy. Portland Oregonian. The idea of our Democratic party is that it is a great thing to have our goods manufac- tured in Europe. It leaves us plenty of leisure at home and makes & large demand for our money abroad. It Will Be a Phantom Procession, Humboldt Times. The next campaign will be an coff year for the Populists, and there are indications that they will not kick up much dust marching down the middle of the political thoroughfares. Not Without Hope. Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger. Tacoma will, doubtless, some day get on a sound financial basis, with competent officials to manage its affairs, but the process of getting there is costly as well as laborious. California’s Dryer Is the Sun. McMinnville (Or.) Transcript. Thousands of bushels of apples are going to waste in the orchards of Yamhill that should be turned to money, and this can be done only with the 2id of dryers. THE FUTURE OF THE ARTIST'S NECKTIE—A SUG- GESTION FOR THE AUTUMN EXHIBITION AT THE CROCKER GALLERY. [From the New York Life] PEOFLE TALEED ABOUT. Preparations are being made in Havre to celebrate the one hundred and fourth anniyer- gary of the birth of Mme.Senecal. She was born in Ingouville, near Havre, and has lived in thesame house seventy-six years. She has been a widow eighty years. G. L. Watson, designer of Valkyrie III, says that the American people “have no more sense of humor than a cow.” Perhaps not, but tha above seems funny to us The Czar of Russia is a young man afraid of his career. He was.never strongly desirous of coming to the throne, and the cares of state do not agree with his nervous system. He spends hours, as did Napoleon at St. Helena, playing solitaire, and probably wishing he had been born 1n this country. Benjamin Riley, & colored man who died the Other day at St. Augustine, Fla., left an estate valued at $100,000, all made by his own ef- forts. Southern papers assert, as they have a right to do, that such &n accumulation is evi- dence of the opportunities that Southern ne- groes have of working out their own future in the place where they were born. MUSIO AND MUSICIANS. THESE ITEMS ARE DIRECT FROM LATEST ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN AND ITALIAN PAPERS. Mme. Ilka Palmay, the star ot Hungarian operetta, has just been engaged for three years by the Savoy Theater, London, where she will create the leading part in Sir Arthur Sullivan's new operetta. Mme. Palmay was in London last season with the Ducal Court Compeny of Saxe-Coburg, and if she sings English with the same Hungarian accent that she does German, the Londoners will certainly be astonishea at her performances. Palmay was born in Hun- gars in 1866. At the early age of 15 she left the convent for the stage—a proceeding which FRAU ILKA PALMAY. [From a photograph by Bzekeley, Vienna.] was contrary to the wish of her father. Her initial appearance was in tragedy, but later she became & comic opera singer and deveioped into star. She is very popular in Austria and is well known in Germany and America for her performance of Christel in Zellner's opera. Palmay is famous in her native land, not ouly a8 a singer and an ectress, but as an authoress, thanks to some pretty poems in Hungarian, published under the title “From a Wounded Heart.” It makes amusing reading to compare the different opinions given by the New York pa- persof “Hansel and Gretel,” which has been produeed at Daly’s. The Press makes the as- tonishing discovery that ‘it was a feeling of municipal independence that made us hesi- tant to echo the European chorus of applause over ‘Hausel and Gretel.’” Reginald de Koven in the World speaks in the highest terms of the {airy opera, but regrets that it was not produced by more important singers. Some of the crit- ics damn “Hansel and Gretel” with faint praiss and attempt to prove that it is only Wagner diluted, while others say that nothing 80 exquisitely idylic as Humperdinck’s music has been heard in New York before and that “Cavellerie Rusticana’ is trite and vulgar com- pared toit. “Hansel and Gretel” wasnot re- ceived with any enthusiasm by the public, but that was largely due to its inferior production. Daly has taken the work in hand and is mak- ing important changes in the cast. One of the most colosssl flascos ever recorded in the history of Itelian opera has just oc- curred at Bergamo. Giovanni Rossi,a well- to-do amateur, secretary to:the royal attorney (procuratore del re) at Milan, recently com- pleted an opera in three acts, “Maria Sanz,” for which he had been his own librettist. He arranged, for a consideration, to have the work produced at Bergamo and pushed the thing through, though Pome, the conductor, refused to direct, and the barytone, Terzi, also retired. The work (I) was received by the public with hooting, hisses and laughter, though the author had not the least intention of writing an opera bouffe. The action of the “Maria Sanz” is said to be awkward, dragging and devoid of common-sense, the characters make their entrances and exits without any apparent reason, and the music is only a mass of notes without cohesion, style or expression, a collection of fragments from operas, old and new, arranged, or disarrenged, to torture the ear of the listener. People are ata loss to un- derstand, say the Italian pavers, what influ- ence could have incited the author to offer such a work to the publi A German newspaper has created quite a sen- sation by announcing the discovery of a trunk full of papers which belonged to Richard Wag- ner and which he hid at Dresden when he took flight after the revolution of 1848. The trunk contalns eamong other things & manuscript poem in honor of the revolution, written in Wagner's hand and of which many people as- sert that he is the author. Quite a controversy 18 raging round the manuscript, as critics who have examined it carefully, while owning that it is Wagner's handwriting, say they discover in it none of the master genius of the librettist of “Lohengrin,” The Flying Dutchman,” ete. The probability seems to be that the poem pleased Wagner and that he copied it to pre- serve it. Some time ago the Prince Royal of Bavaria offered a prize of 6000 marks ($1500) for the best unpublished German opera. This prize is eompeted for by eighty scores that the jury appointed by the Prince has received. At present the juryis hard at work examining the scores and has promised to publish its de- cision by the 1st of November. Eighty new operas! How many of them will see the foot- lignts and what will be the fate of the one that receives the prize? Every one, even princes, cannot expect to be as fortunate as Sonzogno was when he took up the “Cavalleria Rusti- cana.” At the Woman's Exposition (Kvindernes Utsilling) in Copenhagen 117 Scandinavian Composers. belonging to the sex of St. Cecilia, have exhibited their works. The greater part of these compositions are little known, but & few of them have acquired great notoristy in the Scandinavian countries. Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer, & Dane; the Norwegian pianist, Miss Tekla Griebels; Miss Elfred Andree, organist of the cathedral of Gothenburg, and Miss Mathilde Munxsell are the best known &mong these lady composers. A sad piece of news arrives from Munich. Hermann Levi, director of the Hof Theater, has suddenly lost his reason and has been sent to an insane asylum. Levi is one of the greatest living conductors of Wagner and Berlioz, at Bayreuth he is aceounted agreat capellmeister, and his revivals of Berlioz's operas at Munich bhave attracted musical pilgrims even from across the Rhine. There are few great com- ductors who would be more missed than Her- mann Levi will be. Robert von Mendelssohn, a very rich Berlin banker, who belongs to the family of the cele- brated composer, has just bought a Stradiva- rius violoncello for $10,000. This valuable in- strument belonged to Herr Ladenburg of Frankfort, who bought it twenty years ago for the modest sum of 12,000 marks. Mendelssohn, who plays the violoncello very well, has bought the Stradivarius for his own use. The fortune left by Franz von Suppe, the Viennese operetta composer, is found to be #till more considerable than was at first sup- posed. It comprises & large estate valued at i 80,000, an invested fortune of about $100,0000 and the royalties on his operas, which annue ally amount to & round sum, A statue is sbout to be unveiled at Copen- hagen in honor of the. Danish compaser, Niels W. Gade. The musical society, Musikforen- ingen, will produce for the first time on that occasion & postbumous work by Gade called “Balder’s Dream.” Miss Edith Walker, the young Ameriean eon- trelto who made so successful a debut at Ber- I1n last season, has entered upon s definits en- gagement at the Imperial Opera in Vienna. Some Austrian papers stato that Anton Dvorak will probably not return to New York, as he is displeased with the treatment he has received at the National Conservatory. «Amen’ is the title of & new opera in one act which has just been produced with great success at the Municipal Theater at Cologne. Frau Cosima Wagner has engaged the fam- ous Swedish singer, Eilea Guldbranson, to sing Brunehilde at the next Bayreuth festival. Saint-Saens has just completed “Frede- and the opera {s now in rehearsal. City. Thereisalaw of Congress, passed in 1857, which says: 1t shall be uniawful for any person Or persons not citizens of the U d States, or who have rot lawfully declared their intention t6 become such citizens, or for any corporation not created by of under the laws of the Uniled Statcs, or of some State or Territory of the United after acquire, hold or own real estate acquired, or any interest therein, Territories of the U of Coiumbla, except such as may be acquired Dy inheritance or in good faith in the ordinary course of justice in the collection of debts hereto- fore creafed: provided that the prohibition of this section shall Dot apply Lo cases (n_which the nght to hold or dispose of lands in the United States Is secured by existing treaties to the citizens or sub- Jects of foreign countries, which rights, so far as they exist by force of any such treaty, shall cen- tinue to exist so long as such tresties are in forca and no longer. The only other country In which so extreme a law exists is in the republic of Hayti. Every foreign country bas some law on the same sub- ject. 2 CoLors oF CoL student, City. The following are the colors of the principal col» any of the d States or in the District leges and universities of the United States: Colleges. Colors. Amberst Violet and White Bowdeln White Brown University Brown College City of X. Y. Lavender Columbia Blue and White Cornell University Harvard University Towa State 0id Gold Johins Hopkins Uni Black and Blue Leland Stanford Jr.Univ. Cardinal NorihwesternUniversity Purple and Gold Rutgers Scarlet University of California e and Gold University of Chicago age University of Michigan Mauve and Blue Universlty of Pennsylv'a Red and W hite v Phik snd Gray Dark Blue A DrerEe—E. J. 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