The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. T SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free #nd Sunday CALL, one week. by carrier.$0.15 snd Funday CaLi, 3 2 h:.:g Tally snd Sunday CAL Taily snd Sunday CALL. one month, by mail £unday CaLL, one ye: .. W EEKLY CALL, one ye o, California. +even. MAIN—1868 9elephone.. EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.. ..Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £rCMontgomery street, corner Clay £:F0 0'¢lock. £5¢ Heves street : open nntil 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. open untll €W corne eenth and Misslon streets; open Toti) § o'clock. 4615 Mission street; open nntil 9 o'cloc. 31eNinth street; open untll 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broad FASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 3 DAVID THURSDAY... THE C;ll. SPEAKS FOR ALL. PR Get in your subscriptions early and avoi the rush at the mass-meetin, We shonld see the $100,000 in sight be- fore the end of the we 1d their own they will n is all Cuba. If th be sati; The Convention movement should find everybody responsive to its touch. In the role of his own lawyer Holmes is liable to play the partof hisown execu- tioner. The subscription to the National Con- vention fund rises high, but there is no bluff about it. not yet certain whether Hill's v will assist Brice to stay in, or only im out. No doubt Van Alen wishes be had held on to that foreign appointment and got out of this country in time. ‘The Reynolds confession is 8 mystery story that should not be left open very long for a guessing contest. Perhavs Cleveland h orous foreign policy at on when he writes his m It is fortunate for Kaiser William that he will never be called on to defend his speeches in a campaign of education. Victory in the Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight will rest on the shoulders of the man who first issues an ultimatum and shuts up. kept Olney’s vig- ome to sit down The bloomer costume may not have come in to stay, but so far as the restanrants are concerned it has evidently come to waita while. The Western Addition improvement clubs should remember there never was anything improving to the public in a squabble. The prospective sale of the Glenn ranch is one of the prospects of Glenn County that is bright enongh to attract the atten- tion of the whole State. Whether it is the effect of the title or not. it seems to be admitted that Lady Sholto Douglas is acting much better than she did before her marriace, As it is reported in England that Salis- bury thinks of resigning, it is possible that Bayard's talk may have made him tired, but certainly it never scared him, vention movement, the East sees itasa 8an. Francisco movement, and we must make it lively from their point of view. It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that when the battle over the Lieutenant-Goy- ership really begins the Senate will know how to pick its flint and put it in the right place. On Monday Senator Chandler prophe- sied a war with England, and on Tuesday the British Government ordered half the garrisons and warships in Canada to come home. Platt is quoted as saying that he does not expect to have time to read Sherman’s book, but that if he ever has the time he will write a book of his own and give the Ohio man a notice. At the present time we are supplying Russia with locomotives for her railroads and armor plate for her warships, and if there is anything more she wants she has only to ask for it. A controversy in the Board of Educa- tion of Philadelphia has disclosed the sad fact that the young ladies of the High 8chool of that city are in the habit of lunching on bananas and pretzels. Tt is now asserted that England is seek- ing a war with China simply to put her- self in a position where she can protect China from Ri Such are the compli- cations of oriental diplomacy as seen from the outside. When the South African mining boom collapses the Pacific Coast will be ready to show the speculators several holes in the ground they can crawi into for conso- lation and come out with big profits if they understand business, The new schedule of trains on the Santa Fe road by which the time of travel from Chicago to San Francisco has been reduced half a day goes far toward removing one of the Eastern objections to holding National conventions in this City. This is an era of peace, and industrial expositions are designed to promote the arts of peace, but all the same it is noted that one of the first applicants to whom space has been awarded at the Mexican exposition was Krupp, the cannon-maker, According to the oflicial reports 27,861 pensioners died during the past year. Thus rapidly does death work along with Cleveland and his pension-haters in reduc- ing the payments the Nation makes to the men who fought its battles and saved it from death. ‘There is a striking oddity in the fact that the main objection to holding the National Convention in this City is the alleged in- adequacy of the telegraph system. It would appear from this that the age is too speedy for electricity, that everything has got ahead of it and that lightning cannot keep up with the procession, THE CONVENTION OUTLOOK. Even the least sanguine citizen of San Franecisco can hardly give a serious con- sideration to the movement for bringing the Republican National Convention here without seeing that the prospects are decidedly encouraging to our hopes and bright enough to be stimulating to our efforts. Against Chicago and Pittsburg, the two cities considered to be our strongest rivals, the objections made are more serious than | any that have been urged against San rancisco. The experiences of the Repub- licans in 1888 and of the Democrats in 1892 show that Chicago is not a good city for Presidential conventions. Pittsburg has not the hotel accommodation necessary for the fit entertainment of delegates and visitors, In both cities the sum- mer climate is oppressive and ex- hausting. These objections are not to be easily overcome or explained away, and as a consequence membersof the National Committee who are opposed to those cities now may be expected to remain in opposition to the end. The objections made to San Francisco are of another character altogether. They are based simply on the length of the transcontinental trip and the alleged in- adequacy of the telegraph service. Such objections can be met and mastered readily. The transcontinental trip will be really a pleasure and not a fatigue to the delegates. By a little combination among leading newspapers the telegravh can be made ample for every need of the public by the press. We may expect, therefore, to be able to win over many members of the committee who are now apparently averse to us, and our chances for doing this are "the more favorable because we have so many of the ablest members of the committee working for us. From present appearances the contest will result in our favor if we only show sufficient energy and promptness in mak- ing the fight. What has thus far been done in the City is certainly creditable to our enterprise. The $100,000 needed to aunch the movement is almost in sight. It ought to be subscribed before the close of the week, or at least before the close of the mass-meeting on Monday night. Now is the time for action. A great triumph for the City is apparently at hand and a strong pull all together will probably make it a certainty A DANGEROUS POWER. It is not until such a condition arises as that which has been recently presented in the action of the North Pacific Coast Rail- road that we begin to realize the dangerous power which public carriers are permitted 10 exercise in this country. That company has withdrawn one of the two boats which for so many vears it has kept plying between San Francisco and Sausalito, with the result that the people of the densely populated region which the rail- road traverses are put to greatsincon- venience. In other wordsa certain’set of conditions had existed for a long timeand were found to be favorable to the idea of buying and improving vroperty and establishing residences and business along the line. so greatly modified as seriously to impair their character, and the probability is that much material damage has ensued from the change. The company possibly had excellent business reasons for making the change. Assuming, however, that it could not profitably maintain two boats, or that by reducing the service it can make a larger profit than formerly, is it right tbat its interests should be the only interests to pe regarded? It is here that the whole ques- tion of the relation between a common carrier and the public which it serves is raised. In this case the communities served have a much larger population in summer than in winter, and the assurance is given that with the return of summer the other boat will be again put in commission. The presumption, therefore, is that the winter service bears the same relation to the volume of business that the summer service bore. That seems plausible on its face, for it is the universal and unques- tioned custom everywhere for a tem porary summer service to be established between cities and suburban settlements and resorts and for the service to be abandoned or re- duced at the close of the season. Hence it is assumed that this custom is fair notice to all who may contemplate a permanent residence or business in these communities that they will have a reduced service or no service at all during the winter months. The situation becomes modified by the extent of the permanent settlement and the relation of the volume of traffic during one part of the year to that during another part, but under the prevalent custom it is left almost entirely with the transporta- tion companies to determjne the extent of the service to be furnished. The question of the right to exercise this power arbi- trarily has been raised in the courtsofa few States, and to a certain extent it has been laid down as a fixed proposition that a carrier must furnish an adequate service without regard to its own preferences, whims or profits. Still it is a proposition that has worked itself out slowly and somewhat indefinitely, and the ground principles determining exactly the rela- tion between a public demand and the ex- tent of the service have not been fixed with sufficient clearness, and have hardiy been touched upon at all, except in inter- state matters. Itis time that the people should give the subject more careful attention than it has received in the past. Had this been done long ago the prosperity of California would not have been governed so inex- orably by the arbitrary exercise of power assumed by its one great railway monop- oly. As for the people along the line of the North Pacific Coast road, they are fur- nished with an opject lesson of great value concerning the need of better govern- mental regulation of railway companies. ARE THE PEQPLE INJURED? Commenting upon the charge that much of the money borrowed by the Cleveland administration, ostensibly for the purpose of maintaining the gold reserve, has really been used to make up the deficiency in the revenue caused by the Democratic tariff, the Philadelphia Record asks, “What then? Are the people of the United States any worse off?”’ The question involves a curious method of evading the vital point of the contro- versy. The issue is not so much whether the people are worse off as whether the ad- ministration has not been guilty of violat- ing the law and borrowing money under false pretenses. The Secretary of the Treasury has a right to borrow money to maintain the gold reserve when necessary to protect the credit of our currency, but it is more than questionable whether he has any right to obtain money in that way to pay current expenses. 1f a Congressional investigation this win- ter should disclose a use of the borrowed money for current expenses, the Cleveland administration would be placed in a very awkward position. Over and over again it has been officially asserted that the issue of bonds was rendered necessary by the export of gold and not by the deficiency in Of a sudden these conditionsare | the revenues. If these assertions are proven to be false, the President and his Secretary of the Treasury will have but little credit left among any class of the American people, and may account them- selves fortunate if they escape impeach- ment proceedings. Even in the view the Record takes of the matter the answer must be against the claim that the use of the borrowed money to pay current expenses makes no differ- ence to the people. The borrowing of the money entailed the bestowal of a large bonus on the gold syndicate, and has bur- dened the country with a great in- terest charge on the money borrowed, These are serious items to people who have to pay taxes, and few are likely to agree with the Record that they are of no conse- quence. Finally there is the matter of de- ception to be considered. Are not the peo- ple injured whenaver high officials deceive them by juggling with financial state- ments instead of telling the truth? GROSS CARELESSNESS. It seems incredible that the accounts of the treasurer of the State insane asylum at Stockton were permitted to run thirteen vears without the slightest overhauliug. By the merest accident it was discovered that the funds had been ‘‘misappropri- ated.”” The thousands of dollars taken from patients and held in trust for them were finally deemed available for improve- ments, and when a demand was made on the treasurer for the money he could not produce it. An investigation of his ac- counts was then made by an expert ap- pointed by the Governor and a most dis- graceful condition of affairs was discov- ered. The directors at once deposed the treasurer and turned over the office to an- other person. Manifestly the culpable officers are pri- marily the directors of the institution and secondarily the State Board of Examiners. The Governor is also responsible to the ex- tent of being charged with a general over- sight of the affairs of the State. Why there is no plan for an annual or semi-an- nual experting of such accounts surpasses the comprehension of ordinary persons. The case illustrates once again the old fact that many of the men who assume official duties are not inclined to give to their dis- charge the same fidelity and intelligence that they would give to their private con- cerns. The directors of the Stockton institution are now on trial before the publie. If they have any defenseit is impossible now to imagine what it is. TUnless they can clear themselves of the appearance of gross and inexcusable negligence it is difficult to see how they can have the assurance to remain in office or how the Governor can con- scientiously permit them to remain, FERSONAL. . 8. Sargent of Ferndale is a gnest at the am Vanderhurst of Salinas is at the Cal- B. K. Upham, & vineyardist of Martinez, is at the John J. Seymour, an attorney of Fresno, is at the L it 1p of San Felipe reg| yesterday. Louts Kehn, a grain-dealer of Oakdale, is at the Palace. Dr. George H. Fiela of § the Palace. L. Abramotsky, the Grand. R. M. Shackleford, & capitalist of Paso Robles, is &t the Occidental. James A. Louttit, a lending attorney of Stock- ton, is staying at the Lick. W. Murray, a horseman of Sacramento, regls- tered at the Grand yesterday. H. J. Barling, & leading salmon canner of Alaska, registered at the Palace yesterday. Attorney J. R. Aftken leaves for San Luis Obispo to-day on law business, to return Sun- day. veral big bicyclers arrived from the East sterday and put up at the Baldwin Hotel. They were: E.C. Bald of the Columbia team, his trainer Asa Windle; Tom W, Cooper and his treiner, James Temple, of the Monarch team; Charles M. Murphy and trainer, W. B, Young, of the Humber team; E.S. Kiser and trainer, H, B. Gleezen, of the Stearns team; Charles 8. Wells aud W. A. Terrill of the Cali- fornia Giants, and F. Ed. Spooner, cycling cor- respondent for a number of Eastern papers. tered at the Lick n is staying at a merchant of Jackson, is at WONDERFUL MINES. Jackson Ledger. The systematic manner in which THE CaLL is making an expert inspection of California mines and its published descriptions of their character and working has developed many extraordinary facts and has informed the world of the astonishing activity and profits connected with the industry. A specimen of the articles in this line appeared in Monday’s issue concerning the Mokelumne region, and it serves to demonstrate the fact that mining is really in its infency and that dazzling possi- bilities reside in the future. INDORSING “THE CALL." Alameda Telegram. The stand taken by the an Franciseo CALL in exposing the gross violations of the fish and game laws of this State has received the in- dorsement of all true sportsmen hereabouts, many of whom &re fully conversant with the facts, having seen undoubted evidence in their MR. HEARST WILL STAY EAST. York Fourth Estate, Oct. 20. M. H. de Young, Charles M. Shortridge and William R. Hearst, the three great San Fran- Cisco newspaper proprietors, were in New York last week. De Young has started home, Short- ridge will follow soon and Hearst is here to stay. NOT BY COUPONS, Woodland Mail. Charles M. Shortridge of the San Francisco CALL was recently interviewed in New York and struck a keynote when he said that up-to- date papers were made by brains and not by coupon fakes. BEST FOR THE FAMILY. Willapa (Wash.) Pilot. The San Francisco CALL under its new man- agement is easily the best newspaper published in that city, asit gives the best news and its literary excellence renders it the best for the family circle, FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Tet the Good Work Spread. Fresno Republican. It mightnot be abad thing if the crusade against impure milk in San Francisco were ex- tended to other foods and 2150 to other locali- ties. Producers and dealers in pure goods will not object to inspection. The evil of food adulteration is more common thanis generally supposed. An Off Year in Oregon. Pendleton East Oregonlan. The people of the Willamette Valley are pray- ing for rain. Never before at this time of the year was the valley short of rain. Usually there s more than is needed and prayers are sent up for one or two days of sunshine, but this vear the tale of woe is for rain and lots of it. Delayed by an Extra Issue. Capay Valley News. We are later than usual this week from two causes—our attendance at the trial Thursday, and—look in the birth column. Ere the Funeral Flowers Had Withered. Los Angeles Times. Mr. Jeter has been formally inducted into the office of Lieutenant-Governor of California. ‘“Indeed, it followed hard upon,” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel A. T. Vogelsang, the attorney, is re- garded as one of the best raconteurs of the legal profession. In the Palace grillroom yes- terday he leiont a string of excellent bar an- ecdotes, He said a few weeks ago that Dennis Spencer, tire Napa luminary. was called upon by a Chinaman one evening, when the follow- ing dialogne ensued : *“‘One Chinaman kill another Chinaman with & hatchet; how much you charge make him clea: “‘I'll take the case,” esid Mr. Spencer, ‘for $1000." ‘¢ “Allee right,’ said the Chinaman, ‘I be back aiter while,’ In about a week he returned to Mr. Spencer's ATTORNEY YVOGELS. RTS TO THE MUSTY [Sketched from Ufe for “The Call” by Nankivell.] office and laid down #1000 in gold coin on his table. Mr. Dennis swept the money into the drawer. - Well, ,he dead.’ “‘Who k I m? “ “When did youkill hi von thepartot the 1t on the disposition of sang immediately the $1000, but M spun off onto anothe “There wessman & for assault and battery. He said he could prove an alibi if he could only get a ceriein witness. Well, he finally secured the witness and put him on the stand. The accused said he would wsk the questions, which he did as follow “Tim, tell the court where I was when I hit that man in the nose in frout of the City Hall? “‘You was down in Mill Valley, said the witness, ‘fishing with Dan 0’Conneil.’ *“Up in Nevada,” continued Mr, Vogeisang, ‘a queer thing happened in & Justices’ Court at Pizen Switch. When the jury came in the winner of the case was notified by the court that before a verdict was rendered he would have to pay the e Judge in ey in a case at- tempted to get in some evidence which was promptly ruled out. He soon | another form, but Beatty again sat down on | him. When he dressed it up in_another guise and attempted to palm it off on the court Beatty became nettled and read hima lecture, saying that no amount of masanerading on the part of the attorney would ever result in that evidence g “qsn’t that — rough on us? said the client, leaning over to the attorney. The attorney leaned back his head and in a hoarse whisper, that could be heard all over the room, replied ‘Yes, but it’ good law.” " THE SHERMAN BOOK. New York Sun. John Sherman writes a booklet, And a thousand people rise To slug him in the neekiet, And to smash him in the eyes, Jobn Sherman writes a booklet, And a thousand people say He doesn't know a truthlet When Le meets it in the way. Jobn Sherman writes a booklet Which is bound to give us light; And he doesn’t care 8 d—nlef For he knows when he is rig LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE BOOKS NEEDED. AN APPLICATION FroM THE REN0 PUBLIC LI- ERARY THAT DESERVES ATTENTION. RENo, Nev., Oct. 28, 1895. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: 1 am endeavoring to resuscitate our public reading-room and library, which latter at pres- ent contdins only 250 volumes. You, as a literary man, I ask if outof the kindness of your heart can yon not procure for us some of the books sent you for review and from others. Your State owes no small debt to Nevada, in that most of the money gotten here has gone to build up California. Our university students, numbering 350, are combelled to stand about the streets these cold nights, having no place of resort save the clube rooms and other questionable places. Any do- nations in the shape of books or periodical literature would be most welcome. Such could either be sent in care of Mr. Doxey or direct to me. Confiding in your kppreeiation of cur needs, believe me, very sincerely yours, . F. Hoop, Librarian Reno Public Library. RUSSIAN FRIENDLINESS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—StR: You note a remark of the Russian Prince bid- ding farewell to our Secretary of State con- cerning the presence of & Russian ficet in New York harbor during the war and their friendly intentions then and now, toward us. Ifind in my diary of September 13, 1866, on board one of our men-of-war at Buyukderah, in the Bos- phorus, the following: None show us_the consideration that the Rus- sians show us. Not & boat’s crew can board one of their ships, either here or 4. Athens, but that any- thing they bave is p! 1 before us, and they Vie With each other when we ncet ashore in oftering all the attention in their power to grant. They re- member and always speak 0f the attention their 8hins’ crews received while wintering in our ports, We should never need help when Bussian sailors or their officers were within call. We may be sure they will defend our title to the land they sold ns. NAVAL VETERAN, Auburn, Cal., Oct. 28, 1895. FOR PURE WINE, TOO. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Please belp enforce the pure-wine law. This is more important than pure milk, as the State interests are at stake. Yours truly, . HAYNE. £, San Francisco, Oct. 29, 226 Market street. MRS. FINNEGASS OBJECTS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sn Isee by to-day’s CALL that some one has con- nected my name with that of Walter 8. Brown s assisting him in his fight with Secret Service Agent Harris, I most emphatically deny that Siich is the case, or that Mr. Brown has even asked my assistance; and, furthermore, I do not know nor have I ever seen or knew that there was such a person as Walter S. Brown. Anything I have against Mr. Harris is my own personal affair, and Chief Hazen of Washing- ton, D. C., knows my_opinion of Mr. Harris. Respectfully, Mgs, HENRY FINNEGASS. 626 Eady street, October 30. OUT OF THE WORLD AT CORINTO. Richard Harding Davis, in Harper's Magazine. Richard Harding Davis, in the November Harper's, tells the humorous story of an en- forced stay at a Nicaraguan port, where killing time is the principal occupation of the resi- dents. Every afternoon we all tramped a mile‘or two up the beach in the hot sun for the sake of aquarter of an hour of suri-bathing, which was delightful in itself, and which was ren- dered especially interesting by our having 1o share the surf with large man-eating sharks, When they came, which they were sure to do ten minutes after we had arrived, we generally gave them our share. The phonograph men and onr party did not believe in sharks, so we would venture out some distance, leaving the Englishmen and the Germans standing like sandpipers where the water was hardly up to their ankles, and keeping an anxious lookout for us and them- selves. Had the sharks attempted to attack us from the land they would have afforded excel- lent protection. When they all yelled at once &nd ran back up the beach into the bushes we knew that they thought we had been in lon, enough, and we came out and made as mucl noise as we could while doing so. But there would be invariably one man left behind—oue man who had walked out farther than the others, and who, owing to the roar of the surf, could not liear our shrieks of terror. It was interesting to watch him from the beach, diving and_splashing happily by him- self, and shaking the water out of his ears and halr, blissfully unconscious of the deserted waste of waters aboutthim and of the sharp black fin that shot like a torpedo from wave to wave. We would watch him as he turned to_ speak to the man who the moment before had been splashing and diving on his right, and, miss- ing him, turn 1o the other side, ana then whirl about and see us all dancing frantically up and down in & row along the beach, beckoning and screaming and waving our arms. We could observe cven at that distance his damp halr rising on bis head and his eyes starting out of their sockets as he dug his toes into the sand and pushed baek the water with hisarms, and worked his head and shoulders and every muscle in his whole body, as though he were fighting his way through & mob of men. The water seemed very opaque at such times, and the current appeared to have turnea seaiward, and the distance from shore looked as though it were increasing at every step. When night came to Corinto we would sit outon the wharf in front of the hotel and watch the fish darting through the phosphor- escent waters and marking their passege with a trail of fire, or we would heave a log into it and see the sparks fly just as though we had thrown it upon & smoldering fire. One night one of the men was obliging enough to go into it for our benefit, and swem under water, sweeping great circies with his arms and legs. He wes outlined as clearly in the inky depths below as though ke wore a suit of spangles. Sometimes a shark or some other big fish drove & shoal of little fish toward the shore, aud they would turn the whole surface of the water into palf-circles of fire as they took leap after leap or safety. ABOUT THE NEW WOMAN., Philadelphia Ledger. The West is ahead of the East in extending the voting right to women, and in conservative England there is & strong woman suffrage sen- siment which crops out in Parliament, Prop- erty-owning widows and unmarried women vote at the local elections, and in 1893 a bill conferring on women the right to vote for members of Parliament was defeated in that body by only 25 votes in & poll of 175 to 152, its defeat being due mainly to the hostile efforts of Mr. adstone, who, among other reasons for his action, was moved to opposition because of the indifference of the women, and because the movement would eventually in- troduce women into Parliament and other offices. Philadelphia Inquirer. There wmust be something redicaily wrong with the Woman’s Committee of the Atlanta Exposition. Its preilminary organization was easily effected and in the course of several months of later existence it has not had & seri- ous row. This will never do. In the same {length of time the Woman’s Committee of the Worlds Talr had, fguratively speaking, knocked itself down ‘and dragged itself out five or six times at least. It had likewise called it- self hard names end several times looked ap- prehensively for the police. The Southern women are evidently Dot up to the Chicago standard of refinement and spirit. New York Tribune. The new woman appears to have no show in China. The Governor of Kwang-Shau-Fu has lately issued an edict prohibiting women's clubs in his province on the ground that they “break up homes” and constitute “a danger to matrimony.” He declares that, owing to the existence of these clubs, men are frequently deprived of the society of their wives. The proclamation concludes as follows: *‘I there- fore order that these clubs be ciosed, and that the married woman go back to her husband within the space of one month. Contumacious wives will be taken back to their husbands by the police.” Phlladelphia Times. Massachusetts is one of the States in which the female population is in the mejority. Ac- cording to the sufiragists themselves there are 624,995 possible women voters in the State. The registered malo vote in 1894 was 459,307. The registration for this veer is not complete except in the cities, which contain more than half of the entire population. In these cities, which had & registered male vote last year of 255,750, the whole number of women who have qualified themselves to vote either way upon the referendum is 26,072. New Bedford Standard. Mrs. Ballington Booth has stopped her Sal- vation Army work for & minute to talk about the New Woman—that sort of New Woman which is indicated by capital letters and of whom we read on the joke pages of the maga- zines. Mrs. Booth condemns this New Woman. She should rather condemn the paragraphers who have created her. We have very serious doubts as to whether there is any such woman. Boston Herald. Mrs, Howe hopes the men remonstrants will marry the women remonstrants and that they will live happily ever afterward. It would seem to be in order for the other side to recip- rocate this graceful sentiment and express the hope that the men who favor woman suffrage wiil marry the women in favor of woman suf- frage, and that they will live as happily ever afterward s poseible with so much polities in the family. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WATERPROOF PAPER—L. H., Sacramento, Cal. The following is given as a receipe for making paper waterproof: Take 26 ouncesof alum ann 4 ounces of white soap and dissolve them in a quart of water; into another vessel dissolve 2 ounces of gum arabic and 1 ounce of gine in the same quantity of water and mix the two solutions together, which is to te kept warm and the paper intended to be made waterproof dipped into it, passed between rollers and dr&d ; or, without the use of rollers the paper mey be suspended until it has been periectly dripped nns then dried. The alum, soap, glue nnif gum form a kind of artificial leather, which protects the suriace of the paper from the action of water. THE PostofricE—Subscriber, Oakland. Previ- ous to the Revolution each colony had its own postal service, the first Postofice being estab- lished in Boston in 1639. In 1710 an act of Parliament established a uniform system for all the colonies. On July 26, 1775, Congress adopted William Goddard’s plan for a consti- tutional Postoftice, with Ben Franklin as Post- master-General. Congress continued the Post- ofice Department by several ensctments snd on May §, 1794, gave it a permanent estabiish- ment.” The Postmaster-General was not a member of the President’s Cabinet until the Jackson administration in 1829, RIGHT To VoTE—Subscriber, Oakland. A son of Chinese parents born in the United States has the right to vote when he attains his ma- jority, by reason of the fact that he is a native of the UnitedStates, and is a citizen just the same s is the son of anenu of other foreign- ers who was born while his parents were in the United States and who had never been na- turalized. 5 PARLIAMENTARY RULES-—-S.,, Ukiah, Mendo- cino County, Cal. The rules prepared by ex- Speaker Reed are those which now govern in Congress, and bf mlnx are considered the best parliamentary law. Any bookseller can pro- cure a copy for you, THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH—G. M., City, Thomas Bailey Aldrich resides at Cambridze, Mess. He ‘was editor of the Atlantic up to 1891, No Stewarp—H. C,, City. The Board of Health has not appointed a steward for the quarantine boat. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. THESE ITENMS ARE TAK Frox THE LaTEs? ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN AND ITALIAN PavERs. Itis again Mascagni who istriumphing in Berlin under the direction of Sonzogno at the Neues Theater. His opera, “Silvano,” has just received its first German produetion; the com- poser directed the opening performence, and it cannot be said that he received much of & wel- come. The glacial silence which characterizes Berlin audiences was not broken when M cagni stepped on the conductor's stand, but after the first act the applause began ana continued to grow more ssisstic all through the evening till it resched a full-blown crescendo on the final fall of the curtain, when th ¢ audieace ot appear to be inferior to that of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” and that will remain treditional. The libretto of “Silvanc” resembles the Sicilian plece and contains several strong drematic scenes, which Mascagni hes treated with great talent. This, at least, is the general verdict of the Berlin critics, snd it fs the more remark- [From a photograph by Zacearia, Florence.} able, s “Silvano” only had a success of esteem when it was produced at the Scala last winter for the first time on any stage. Another feature of Sonzogno’s season in Berlin has been the singing of Miss Delma, & young and pretty American who has passed through the Italian school. She sings equally well in English, German and Italian. The critics state that this young polyglot artist will carry from Ber- lin a well-merited success. Fairy operas are the craze of the hour in Europe, and the most advanced and Wagne- rian opera-houses are the very ones that are welcoming them the most warmly. It is cer- tainly something novel to see such titles as “Lohengrin” and ‘‘Tristan and Isolde” sand- wiched with “Princess Sunbeam,” inder- ella” and other names familiar to nursery but Humperdinck’s “Wagner Made in his “Hansel and Gretel” pleased the musical masses as well as the classes, and com- posers great and small seem anxious to follow in his footsteps. ‘‘Princess Sunbeam” is by Peter Benoit, prigoipal of the Royal Conserva- tory of Antwerp¥and it will shortly go into rehearsal at the Royal Theater in Antwerp. Gunzbourg, the director of the Casino, has engaged Adelina Patti for four concerts at Monte Carlo. The last day she will play “Mirka the Enchantress,” the fairy opera in two acts by Boyer and Andre Pollonis, which she produced during the summer at her castle of Craig y Nos. Massenet's ‘‘Cinderells’’ will probably be brougnt out in Paris. Humperdinek, the composer of “Hansel and Gretel,”” has just produced with great success a new iairy opera at the Royal Theater, Cassel. The work is called the “Bronze Horse,” but beyond its title it has nothing in common with Auber's opera. eralof the leading German opera-houses are prepering to mount Humperdinck's *Bronze Horse.” Sev- “We think it rather hard on music,” writes a reviewer in the St. James Gazette, ‘“‘that it should be made responsible for so much mad- ness in modern fiction.” In the novel under discussion the heroine is a musicel genius, at least so the author assuresus, As to herin- sanity there can be no doubt whatever. She declares in her diary that music is untransliat- able into any imagery but its own, but unfor- tunately lapses from this doctrine—an admir- ably sound ome in her case—and takes to explaining musical illustrations by trees, stars, flowers, ete. Finally she produces a wonder- ful ‘‘opera without words,” which wins her immediate renown and admission into alu- nati¢ asylum. Whata pity it is, in the inter- est of the public, that authors of this sort cannot invent some means of writing ‘“books without words.” It isjtoo bad that music should be so constantly made the stalking- horse of the decadent novelist. Some of the most lurid novels of this generation—*The Kreutzer Sonate,” “Keynotes” and ““Discords’— have all been given musical names. Is there no means by which music can be legitimately avenged on its traducers? There is great feeling among the Czech population in Bohemia over the refusal of the Austrian Governor to allow a street in Prague to be called after the famous Bohemian com- poser, Smetana. The municipal council recently decided to rename llestreet in Prague Smetana street, but the Governor denied his sanction, and now people are asking whether he intended gratnitous insult to the Czech population, for Smetana, whose operas are winning their way on all the lyric stages of Austrie and Germany, thoroughly merited the honor of giving his name to a street in the capital of his country. Smetana’s posthumous opera, the “Bartered Bride,”” has reached its three- hundredth representation at the National Theater of Prague. This fact is without pre- cedent in the national art of the Czechs. A bust of the defunct master was placed on the stage before the commencement of this memorable performance, ana groups repre- senting the characters from Smetana’s prin- cipal operas entered and placed flowers and wreaths before the bust. One of the singers, M. Moschna, who had taken part in all the per- formances of the “Bartered Bride” at Prague except one, was the object of ovations from the public. Smetana’s family gave him a superb present. Virtuosi who are rich enough to spend a small fortune on the acquisition of s single instrument belong to the fortunate few. Among them must be classed Eugene Ysaye, the Belgian violinist, who has just bought one of the most celebrated Stradivarius violins— the viol known to musical history under the name of “Hercules.” It is a beautifully formed instrument, dated 1732; the varnish is an ambered red and the preservation is so perfect that the “Hercules” figures among the most admirable products of the old Cremona mas- ter. It has belonged to several distinguished artists, the last of whom ceded it to Ysaye for tne trifle of 26,000 francs. It goes without saying that when the Belgian violinist pur- chased his fiddle he received at the same time documents which established its authentieity, for instruments of its class and price have their civil standing established by legal docu- ments just as if they were human beings, A highly gifted pupil of the Liege Conserva- tory, Signor Ipolito Ragghianti, who had ob- tained the first prize for composition and who recently died at the age of 27 at Nice, has leit the nearly finished score of an opera in one act, “Jean Marie,” founded upon Andre Then- riet’s drama, in which Sarah Bernhardt ap- peared with so much success, The score, which was found to be of considerable merit, has been completed, chiefly in its orchestration, by Paul Gilson and the work will shortly be brought out at the Teatre de la Monnaie, in Brussels. The chief attraction for the coming season at the Royal Opera, Copenhagen, will be the production of 8 new opera by Augustus Enna, ayoung composer who has already proauced seyersl remarkalle Arameatic works, The new opera, which is based on & Prench plot, s named siter G of Gretry's works, *A ucassin snd Nicolete,” The Jepanese thesier is wbout to be reor- genized scoording Lo the idens of the Em- press, who 18Kes & EDecil interest in nusic a8, Bhe has kuthorized women to eppear on the stage, Which until now has heen forbidden. The Empres % enusing ropean works to be transleted 1n1o Jupanese. Theodore Dubols, the weilknown French organist, s giving &1l Lis tizie v the compost- tion of an opers which will shortly be pro. duced at the Opers Comique, The work will be entitled viere. ¢ 22Uy tier. - Bacox Printing Compeny, 508 Clay st =L CALIFoRNTA Glace fruits, 50clh, Townsend's.® e The American thus speaks of Philedelphia's coming seafon of grand opera: EBesides Mme. Emma Nevadsa, who, s 8 matter of course, will be the real prima donna, Gustav Hinrichs has secured Mlle. Amelia Loventz, a lyric soprano, = singing 8t the Paris Grand Opera i<, & soprano of the dramatic type; cey, & young American, whose favorably known among Parisian Signor Reoul Viola, a tenor of the florid style and a son of the artist Viola; signor Brazio Pirols, an Italian, whose tenor notes have for some #ime been charming the habitues of the Paris Grand Opers, and M. Jules Cogny. to whom either heroic or lyrie Toles are scceptable, 8s before singing at the Grand Opera he appeared on the stage of the Opera Comique. The honor of directing the orchestra Mr. Hinriehs will share with an Italian composer and pianist, Signor Algier, whose coming wili surely be none the less wel- come to the musical public of Philadelphis be- cause of his being & friend both of Mascagni and Leoncavallo. 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