The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISUCU CALL, CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. Tafly end Sunday CALL, (b Iail a tunday CAry, one W EEKLY CALT, ob “alifornia. Main—1868 | San Telephone... Telephone Main—1874 BRANCIH OFFICES: £10Montgomery 1, corner Clay: open until £:50 o'clock Fre Haye 733 Larki W it 50 o'clogk. 0 o'clock. streets; open o'ciock. 18 Mission stree 2 pen until 9 o'cloci. 3ieNinth street until 9 o'clock. o OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 and 4 Park Row Special | | | i A few more elections and the Deniocratic party would do the Dunraven act. | i1t of the elections harmonizes perfectly with the Thanksgiving season. bout time to make England under- stand that this hemisphere is not a grab- bag for her. whole D counted in favor of a They are out of wind. party may short campa gn. vill read the election returns ¢ write in his mes- o Cleveland and then unconsciou e, “never touched you would I Convention in San the question is, How much? ke to see the rancisco, but eft of Clevelandism at dministration has a me to put it on exhibi- There is nothing home, nd the has entered the field as an ican National Iy and late, after wpers say the National con- | 1 be held in the central city and if they will count | second the motion. 1 in the last two years has erative er of the people, and with the Presidential election next year prosperity will be fully restored. ip from New York recently car- 000 ounces of silver in her cargo, as if the white metal would d on aratio of 16 to 1 as an | | Philadelphia of Sam | ‘Four More Years of | ed premature. capital Sherman or Sheric nd will strenuously ng Congress the retire- the hope of furnish- sue behind which question. Boston Journal says in comparis with Jim Corbett.of San Francisco Boston on to be ashamed of John e can only reply that t a long time. New Orleans States who used a lot of spoiled \ for his grape vines found the phylloxera was destroyed by it. The experiment is worth trying in this tate. In order. to draw an audience to a Shakespearean performance in New York Henry Irvi had to divide Macbeth into six acts, intersperse it with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and advertise it as a novelty. At the recent dairy show in London one of the novelties that attracted most atten- tion was a milking machine by which ten | cows were milked at once through rubber tubes, and the process occupied less than five minutes. Among the changes in the constitution recommended by Senator Hill is one ex- tending the Presidential term to six years; but the people would hardly be willing to run the risk of having two additional years of such a man as Cleveland. The Chicago Dispatch says: *San Fran- cisco offers $75,000 for the Republican National Convention, It wouldn’t pay for the bromo-seltzer.” Chicago should re- member, however, that in our climate there would be no need of bromo-seltzer. The Japanese are such wonderful adepts in adopting American notions that they have begun to make American printing presses, trademarks and all, and there is a growing fear they may soon set to. work | making imitation American dollars with Uncle Sam’s stamp on them. The best means yet suggested for set- tling the Venezuela question has been pro- posed by the Philadelphia Ledger in ad- vising that we buy the disputed territory | from Venezuela for §1 and settle with England directly as owners of the soil and when the controversy is over sell the land back to Venezuelafor $2 and dcuble our money. Aceording to statistics collected by the Government bureau at Washington the production of pig iron ‘increased during the years from 1877 to 1892 by one-tenth of 1 per cent in Great Britain, 197 per cent in Germany and 343 per cent in the United States. England’s supremacy in iron pro- duction is over and along with it will go her supremacy %in a good many other things. Charles E. Lenny of the Illinois Weather Bureau has recently written a paper on “‘Some connections between crime and the weather in Chicago,”” showing that crime rises with the temperature, being the low- est in February and highest in August. It may surprise many that there should be a connection between the weather and morality in Chicago, but then it must be remembered that the weather is very bad. | and the downfall of decent Democra TRIUMPHANT PROTECTION. The overshadowing meaning of the Re- publican victory in the Eastern States is that free trade is repugnant to the instincts of the American people, and that protec- tionis demanded. There is no other rea- sonable explanation for this extraordinary popular movement. If it be assumed that the tremendous addition which the Cleveland administration has made to'the bonded debt of the Nation was a factor in this révolution, it must still be admitted that it was the tariff ‘policy of the ad- ministration that made necessary this in- crease of the bonded debt. In other words, ithasat last come to be understood in i this enlightened country that the means adopted for meeting the current expenses of the Government do and should bear the closest possible relation to the welfare of | the people, and that the manner in which tiris function is exercised determines the worth or unworth of the party which puts itin operation. When General Harrison took the oath of office he found the country under the operation of the Mills bill, which repre- sented the first effort of the Democratic party to mnflict the policy of free trade on the peopie. The McKinley bill was then | enacted and under its operation the coun- try was prosperous. But the tariff ques- | tion had not been mastered by the people. The best organized and most bitter fight ever waged in this country against the idea of a protective tariff was then begun, and a Democratic victory and the Wilson bill were the result. No sooner had the Democratic party come into power and proceeded about the work of framing a free-trade tariff bill, and | the sweeping and destructive character of that measure had come to be realized, car- rying with it the destruction of the Mc- | Kiniey bill and all the industries it had brought into existence, than a general fear spread over the country, precipitated in great part by the deep anxiety which manufacturers displayed in their vigor- ous but hopeless protests before the Con- gressional committees having the measure in charge. This fear developed into a panic when the Democratic measure was put into force despite the protest of almost the entire Nation, and the result was the most ruin- ous depression that has overtaken the country since tne panic of 1873. The tremendous drop which has taken place in the vrices of articles of American manufacture which passed from under the protection of the McKinley bill to compe- tition with European articles whose importation was fostered by the Wilson bill, taught the vital lesson which pro- duced the revolution of Tuesday. If that revolution does not mean the downfall of free trade and the triumph of protection, human sagacity is utterly at fault. Nowhere in these elections has Democ- won a singie point on the issue of its tional policy. Everywhere has the Na- tional policy of the Republican party tri- umphed when that policy was the issue. ra | Out of all this tremendous wreck New York City is saved—to the Democracy? No; to Tammany. Not a National issue was involved in that fight. struggle over the Sunday liquor law, with a powerful machine of corrapt spoil-hunt- ers on one side and scattered and disorgan- ized moral forces on the other. Demo- cratic free trade did not win in New York, in the victory of Tammany Hall is more crushiug to the Democratic party than would have been a Republican victory on the great National issue of the day. Even the Solid South is broken—Ken- tucky elects a Republican Governor. In the municipal elections of the Northwest Democratic majorities were swept away by an avalanche of Republican votes. Away down in Mississippi only half the Democratic vote of the State was polled. The whole story is easily read—the country is repudiating the Democratic | idea of free trade and is fully educated to | theimportance of a protective fiscal system, | Both protection and free trade have been | tried, their meaning has been mastered | both by study and experience, and in the | exercise of a calm wisdom the people of | this conntry are announcing that they are | not willing to put themselves on a level | with the pauper hordes of Europe; that they have a grand country, incomparably | rich 1n native resources and demanding intelligent and patriotic treatment; that with its vast stores of undeveloped wealth and its 70,000,000 of strong and earnest in- habitants it can and will be independent and will not truckle and cringe to Europe, and that the Republican party is the one and only guarantor of prosperity and se- curity. EVERYTHING HELPS. The news from the Eastern elections will undoub tedly spur the Republicans of Cali- fornia and the coast generally to increased activity in the matter of bringing the Re- publican National Convention to San Francisco. These elections indicate a strong probability tlat the Republicans will be victorious in the Presidential elec- tion next year and hence that the party in power will be in a position to give this re- gion the attention it deserves. At the same time the intelligent Demo- crats of the West, though they may feel discouraged by the Eastern news, have a stronger reason than ever for working with the Republicans to bring the convention to California. It gives us pleasure to believe that intelligent Democrats are Democrats because they believe that the principles of that party, if intelligently applied, are the best for the conduct of National affairs— that they are Democrats because they are patriots. Thisis no place for an argument on the merits of their faith. It issufficient merely to believe that as they are patriots first and partisans next they will give their patriotism exercise in the interesting con- tingency which has now arisen. As there is a very strong likelihood of a Republican National victory next year the Democrats of the West have now & fairly good idea of the direc- tion in which they must turn for National assistance and relief. It is important ahove all things else that the West should be studied and understood by the powers which may control the Government; if these powers happen to be Republican, well and good. To the Republican party should our hopes be turned, and to them should | be given the opportunity to acquire the greatly needed information. 1i the Republican National Convention should come to California and thereby be made to understand the benefits which would accrue not only to the West but to the whole Nation from & reasonable help toward the development of our resources the party will be placéd under an implied obligation to extend the needed recognis tion. In a sense this obligation would be assumed by the mere fact of selecting this place for the convention. We know the value of such an obligation and would be justified in basing strong hopes upon it. And this knowledge and these hopes are ]uommon to all persons of all political be- iefs. Let the fight - now proceed with all the vigor that so virile a pedple asourscan display. Those having the management of the affair may be dépended on to do their full duty, but that fact will make it It was a-local | none the less a duty of‘e\'ery citizen to give them all possible assistance and encourage- ment. THE GERMAN FESTIVAL. If it is too much to expect that there is in this community suflicient enlightenment to lead our people to desire the erection of artistic statues to Goethe and Schiller with noother motive than to do just honor to two great men, the intrinsic charms of ‘the festival which our German citizens have opened at the Méchanics’ Pavilion in order to raise money for that purpose should be amole to assure the end desired. It-would be less interesting to know how many San Franciscans have studied these masters of German literature than itis to realize that this festival will at least serve the purpose of inducing the people to’ dig in these mines of literary gold. It will not only accomplish that, but for readers better in- formed the festival will give tangible force to the wonderful pictures which the gorgeous imaginations of these great liter- ary artists conceived. The splendid creations of Goethe and Schiller belong not to the Germans, but, like Shakespeare’s, to the world. It is eminently proper, however, that the move- ment for their honoring here in San Fran- cisco should be led by Germans. 10 an educated American the works of Goethe and Schiller are as precious as to the most loyal German in the country, but, unlike the Germans, Americans cannot have that close personal svmpathy of a common blood which Germans most cherish. The work of these two masters discovers in its richest and finest form the loftier, more mystical, more elusive, more pro- found, suggestive and analytical peculiari- ties of the Teutonic mind. Goethe was to literature what Wagner was to music, and Schiller was the poetical counterpart of the composer Beethoven. German litera- ture, music and philosophy have strange qualities that stir within the breast of an intelligent student of our composite race profound emotions that likely proceed from the thin strain of blood and tempera- ment that allies us to the peovle of the fatherland. It is nobler, however, to re- gard these effects as an evidence of the universality which pervades the power of German creations. Without a knowledge of these wonderful products one’s education lacks an anchor- age in those deeper things which lie con- cealed beneath the dross and sordidness of life, and which, when thus called into exercise, give a view of life which other- wise can be but rarely acquired. The Goethe-Schiller festival, beautiful and far removed from the commonplace though it is, and possessing exquisite charmsin its externals, has a far deeper value in its educating and refining aspect and is prompted by a conspicuously praiseworthy motive. RESULT OF EDUCATION. Those Democrats who would seek to con- sole themselves with the reflection that the National issues involved in Monday’s elec- tions were obscured by local contests can- not be blind to the offensive conduct of the eveland administration 1n its alliance with a bond syndicate organized to do for the Government what the administration proved itself unable to do — provide money for carrying on the Government and preserve the country’s credit by maintaining the gold reserve in the treas- ury. Nor can they deceive themselves into believing that this was not the direct result of the tariff scheme thrust upon the country by their Presidentand his clique of capitalists, The San Jose Mercury shows the edu- cating effect of experience on voters in the manufacturing centers which have gone so overwhelmingly Republican. Itsays: “While local issues entered into the con- tests in nearly every State, it is evident from the nature of the returns that the leading National issues of the day exer- cised an overwhelming nfluence on the result, which is a direct rebuke to the ad- ministration and to the Democratic party. Manufacturing States like New Jersey and Massachasetts, for example, have had all the experience that they desire with 2 Democratic tariff. Since 1892 the in- dustries in those States have very mate- rially declined. In 1893 the manu- factural output in Massachussetts was valued at $552,938,022; in 1894 it had been reduced to §496,144,574, a falling off of $56,- 793,448, - The decrease of wages from 1893 10 1894 was $11,392,852.. There are volumes of argument in those figures, and the manufacturers and wage-earners of Massa- chusetts have good reason to comprehend their significance and to appreciate their force. ““It is evident that the Republican tidal wave of last year has not yet subsided. Nor will it, until it hasswept every vestige of Democratic power into oblivion. The victories of 1894 and 1895 have simply cleared the way for the final overthrow of the party of Wilson, Cleveland and the deficit, in 1896.”" ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NICKEL—A. S., Port Costa, Contra Costa County, Cal. The ores used in the United States for the purpose of extracting nickel irom them &re millerite, a compound with sul- phur, containing from 30 0 40 per centof the metal, principally found in Lancaster County, Pa., and pyrrhotite, a kind of iron pyrites, in which from 5 to 10 per cent of nickel is com- bined with iron and sulphur. What are known as 5-cent nickels ere composed of 88 per cent of co?per and 12 per cent of nickel. The nickel used in the coins is the same that is used in armor-plates and for nickel plating. The nickel for ship plates in the United States and for Government work is obtained from the mines operated in La: , and the principal works where the metal is menufactured are located in Camden, N. J. A UXNIcORN—Subseriber, City- The unicorn has no wings. The unicorn is mentioned by ancient Greek and Roman writers as & native of India, about the size of & horse, but so swift that no horse could overtake it; the body white, with one straight horn about two cubits long on the forehead; the base of the horn white, the middle black and the tllip red; the head red and the eyes blue. The oldest author who de- scribes it is Ctesiag, who lived about 400 years before Christ and was physician at the court of Artaxerxes Mnemon. His information was, however, second-hand.. He called it the wild ass. Aristotle wrote of it as the Indian ass. NATIONAL CONVENTION—W. 8., City. The National conventions of both the Republican and Democratic parties admit from each State two delegates for each electoral vote, but while the Republiicans give a vote to two delegates rom every Territory, the Democrats do not. ‘The number of elecioral votes in 1888 was 401 and in 1892 it was 444. A STANDARD WORK—C. W., City. Webster's dictionary has not been laid aside as a stand- ard of Yronuncinlon, though there are many who follow the pronunciation as laid down by other dictionary-makers. CaLLIOPE—C. W., City. The Century Dic- tionary gives the following as the prounciation of calliope: Ka-li-o-pe, the a sounded asa in {at, the i 88 i in pin, the 0 as 0 in move and the eas e in meat. ALvMnNux—E. J. F, San ael, Marin County, Cal, There is an_establishment' in Cleveland, Ohio, where sluminum ware is manufactured. - MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND. (New version.) There's joy o'er all thy broad domai Maryland, my Maryland ! ‘Thou couldst not wear & despot’s chaln, ' Maryland, my Maryland! Thy native will, and heart, and brain Revolted at the Gorman reign, And greedom 1s thy battle gain, Maryland, my Marylsnd) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 18Y5. S———. A7 )V TEHE REJIECTED BUST. - When the project of holding a Midwinter Fair was under discussion in San Fran- cisco, and the commiitee of seven was making arrangements to get a portion of the Chicago exhibitors to come to San Francisco, Viscount Cornelly wrote Otto Daubertin, 2 German sculptor’ in Munich, to come to this City and assist in designing allegorical statuary for the various structures on the ground. When Mr. Daubertin reached here Mr. de Young, the diréctor-general, informed him that Mr. Cornelly was a little out of his jurisdiction when he got over into Germany. The sculptor, nothing daunted by this information, designed a plaster bust of Mr. de Young and sent the same, accom- panied by a polite note, to the director-general’s residence, but receiving no answering epistle called on'Mr. de Young, when he was informed that the work was not satis- factory owing to the fact that the features were too pronounced. With this Mr. Dauber- tin recelled his gift And attempted to place it on exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts, and failing in this he has placed the bust in the corner of honor in his studio, where it looks down on him in cold and lifeless silence telling the unhappy tale of artistic effort and disappointmen THE DAZED DEMOCRACY. (Sung by good-humored Republicans to the air of “Marching Through Georgia.) O, Mr. William Whitney, have you heard the awful news? There's mourning in the White House, Johnny Bull has got the blues; They've thrown us down and walked on us with indignation’s shoes, While we were bustling for office. Chorus—Boo-hoo! boo-hoo! excuse the painful cry ! Bo0-h00! boo-hoo! the heelers groaning liet I think the party’s busted; very likely ivll die, ‘While we are sighing for office! 0, William, would it honor you to be our nominee? There’s no one to oppose you, and the tender will be free! You're all that's left to sacrifice since dead fs David B.. While we are sighing for office. Chorus. But, Mr. Willlam Whitney, don't you think we're lightning struck? We are trampled on by tered by Kentuck; The Solid South has sickened—that appears to be our luck, While we are grasping foroffice. Chorus. ersey, and we're slaugh- 0, Mr. William Whitney, can our hulk be made to go? You see, we've got no Jefferson, or Jackson, or Monroe— The Democratic party’s been an office-holding show— And all tuat was wanted was office. Choras. O, Mr. William Whitney, will you brace the next cyclone? Standard oil upon the waters may not save a craft hard blown, But our hope is now in Standard ofl and Standard oil alone, While wearesighing foroffice. Chorus. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE DEAD ANIMALS IN TRANSIT. A STOCKMAN Gives His VIEWS IN REGARD TO RIGHTS OF OWNERS, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Str: In your news column of to-day and your editorial column of yesterday you make & somewhat im- perative demand for a law giving the City the power to condemn and confiscate all animals dying 1n transit. In your opinion public health requires it, Very well, but I would like you to calmly view the situation and then see if you can agree that such a course is just. I am a cattle dealer or trader. I willno doubt come under your proposed law. Thatis it such a law is passed I will be apt to suffer with the rest. Iwould therefore ask for a tair trial at your hands. The commercial value of a dead steer, or as it is technically known a ‘‘downer,” is $8. This much was testified to by ex-Supervisor Jeff G. James. You seem to doubt the statementso I give yqu herewith the details, which are as followsY The nide is worth from $4 to $5, fat, hoofs, horns, etc., $1 25 to $1 75, bones, $1 25 to$1 50. You may see from the above figures that ex-Supervisor James was right in his fig- ure. Imake my figures from the business col- umns of THE CALL, which are Eenenuy correct. “ The above value is what the contractor for the removal of dead animals will realize. The death of animals in transit is at the most £ 10ss to the owner. Every precaution is taxen to prevent it. A good manalways accompanies the train. His business is to keep the cattle on their feet and prevent any bruise or other in- %ury from befalling his cattle. Yet deaths are ound to happen. The owner or shipper of the animals are in no way responsible for their death. They have violated no law, they have in no way inter- fered with rights of others, and now you pro- pose that they shall be deprived of their prop- erty upon their arrival in San Francisco—and that, too, Without any consideration whatso- ever. You say the public health requires it. Very well. But I ask is it fair, just or honest that this great City should take from any man property to the value of §8 and give if to the fortunate holder of the contract for the re- moval of dead animals? Does not that seem somewhat unfeir to you? Granted that public health or public good Tequired the confiscation of the carcass of every animal dying in transit, would it not be fair for the City to compensate the owners for such animals as are seized? If the Board of Health thinks that the healtb of the City is endan- gered by these cattle dying in_transit, why not Dropose & law providing for the seizure of the objectionable clrcuafifl} authorize the in- spector to sell the same for its market vaiue, &nd turn over the money to the owner? The cattle and pork interest of California are but littie understood by people out of the trade. They have a bright future and wiil ma- terially add to the value of Californie manu- factures. The dgreu City of San Francisco should help and encourage this greal indus- try. Beef and pork made Cmem% rich. It might do much more for San Franclsco. Op- Ereslive lefislation will surely do much harm. 'herefore it should the aim of every fair- minded citizen to treat such matters fairly, honestly and justly. MAN. San Francisco, Oct. 29, 1895. WHY THE CHILDREN DIE. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In your issue of last Tuesday Rey. Dr. Gregory is reported to have said that‘‘in the Children’s West Oakland Home 50 per cent of the chil- dren die from neglect.” At first glance this looks horrible, and it is undoubtedly due to an incomplete report that such & asmaging sen- tence found its way into print, for it is highly improbable that Dr. Gregory uttered such an accusation (it is nothing less than that) with- out further explanation. Which is this: in regard to infants, some are left at the door, where they are found in the morning chilled, often starving and unable to recuperate. Many of these poor waifs are afflicted with the germs of various ineradicable diseases to which they fall victims, Some even older chiidren are taken eway from inhuman parents, neglectea, ill-treated, debilitat or starved—sometimes too late to save their lives—and of those infants and children who die fully 50 per cent die in | | as to Dr. Gregory. consequerice of the various causes mentioned. This explanation is due to the management and matron of the West Oakland home, as well Respectiully, THEO. G. ED WOLLES. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. Albany Journal Now that there is considerable talk as to the Place for holding the next Republican National Convention, why should it not be heid in some one of the Southern cities? There are many reasons why the Republicans snould look to the South for sentiment and strength. Itis not necessary to keep the Republican conventions in the North. The Democratic pary, although depending on the South for its heretofore undivided support, has never held & convention in the South—St. 'Louis excepted— since that memorable meeting at Baltimore in 1860, when the party was split asunder on the question of slavery. Let ti Republican party be the first to go South with its convention. We do not doubt but that it will be welcomed in any Southern city. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Our city had a candidate to presentat the Republican Convention which met here last. That was in 1888. Illinois took up Judge Gresham to please Chicago. Next year Chicago will have no candidate, and will be in a posi- tion to treat all candidates impartially. And even in 1888 no complaint was made, that we recall, that local partiality was carried to an unfair extent. On the contrary, this cit showed then that it had no disposition to pacl the galleries in the interest of a candidate. All sides can rely upon being exempt here from any disadvantage from adverse local pressure. Chicago Times-Herald, If the National conveutions of next year are tobe put up at auction Chicago will not be one of the bidders. Its people are willing to do their proper part toward both National par- ties, but it is apparent to the fair men of both pariies that nowhere else in the country can a national convention be held as conveniently, or,if the committee so manage, as economi. cally as in Chicago. Chicago will not bid | sgeinst any other town for the privilege of paying the dead-norse debt of any past cam- paign, Buftalo Express. In 1883 the Chicago mob tried to run the National Republican Convention. Ali other Presidential candidates but Gresham were in- sulted and browbeaten by the Chicago news- papers. In 1892 the National Democratie Con- veniion was wretchedly housed and made thoroughly uncomfortable in Chicago. It is surprising, therefore, that there should beany members of either National committee who se- riously favor the holdingof another conven- tion in Chicago. Boston Post. There isno question as to the advantages of Boston as & convention city. Its capacity has been tested by two great gatherings during the past summer, and has proved ample in every respect. There is plenty of room here, admirable accommodetions, the very pleasant- est of surroundings. It is &'comfortable place, an attractive place. Omaba Bee. If some other city than Chicago captures the great National political conventions of next year the resentment of New York at the loss of the World’s Fair will not be comparable with the injured feelings of the good people of Chi- cago. ECLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET. St. Louls Star Sayings. The Springfield (Mass.) Union wants to know how Olney could be expected to show his pluck in that row with Salisbury, while President Cleveland was sitting onit. Isit tobe a simi- lar story with the Attorney-General about the half-Investigatea bridge combine in _St. Louis? Harmon started out beautifully and like a man who was anxious to go right to the bottom of the whole thing—but, it is whispered, that at the time he had either forgotten, or had never been told that indictments in the case meant trouble and confusion for nearly the entire party of Cleveland henchmen in St. Louis. Boston Transcript. Senator Chandler has been stirring up the President again about the quasi-pooling arrangement lately entered into by the east and west railway lines. He holds it to consti- tute & colossal trust, manifestly contrary to law, characterizing it as a stupendous crime, He 8ays a single word from him to Mr. J. Pler- pont Morgan will stop it in advance. There is great doubt of that, but even if it is true there are clear reasons why Mr. Cleveland would hesitate some time before peaking any un- pleasant words to Mr. Morgan. There are wheels within wheels oftentimes. Philadelphia Inquirer. Surely there is no unusual cause to become excited beceuse President Cleveland has suc- ceeded in having “Cuban Independence Day’’ stricken from thelist of great days at the At- lanta Exposition. The act is in Knrmony with all that he hes done in the Cuban matter. It is all in line with his conduct on the Hawaiian question and wes, therefore, to have been ex- pected. But wliy should the managers of the exposition have thus deferred to his Ppreju- dices against the Cuban struggle for freedom? Does he owa them boot and saddle? Boston Advertiser. We are not a bit excited over the information that Secretary Olney is not going to resign on account of the Venezuela matter. Nobody thought he was going to resign, although somebody at Washington earned $368 on space rates when business was dull by invent- ing the entirely unfounded rumor that he was going to. He is not going to resign on account of the Venezuelan matter, or the Cuban matter, or the Waller matter, or the Hawaiian matter, or any other matter. There’s nothing the mat- ter with Secretary Olney. He's all right. —— e MOTHER GOOSE'S LACTOMETRY. z«:knry. dickery, dockery, ¢ COW jumped over the crockery; Through milkmen's guils The milk was spilt, Don't you dicker with Dockery. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. THESE ITEMS ARE TAKEN FROM THE LATEST ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN AND ITALIAN PAPERS. A German physician, Dr. Waetzold, has re- cently published & pamphlet in which he de- clares that the nervousness from wh_i n so 1many young women suffer must be attributed in & great measure to the abuse of the piano. According to Dr. Waetzold, the custom of obliging young girls to study the piano before they have =attained their growth should be abandoned, and he adds that even then only those should be put to the piano who have an evident inclination for it and who are not of a nervous temperament. In the statistics which he annexes to his pamphlet the doetor pre- tends to show that in a thousand young girls who have consecrated themselves very early to the study of the pianc 600 have been attacked with nervous diseases before attaining their ma- jority, while among those who began in their teens only 200 have suffered and only 100 among those who have never put their hands on the keyboard. If the excellent doctor is to be believed, the study of the violin is even more pernicious than tbe piano. An Ancona newspaper, 1'Ordine, publishes the following quaint letter. which Verdi re- cently wrote to the well-known and clever writer, Signora Caterina Pigorini Berti: “‘Gen- tilissima Signora: If I could write cleverly as you can—if I could even write a little (I am not peying you compliments; your letter to Peppina isa little masterpiece)—ii I could write well, I would tell you about many i sthings—about sciences, arts and politics, which I detest more from day to day. But, alasi born poor in a village, I never had opportuni- ties of instructing myself in anything. When Iwas young they put me before a little old- fashioned piano, and a short time after I began to write notes—notes on notes, and nothing else but notes! That was all. And the worst GUISEPPE VERDI AT 82. {Erom a recent photograph.] of it is that now at 82 years of age I am begin- ning to doubt very much the value of those quantities of notes. This doubt is a remorse to me; it fills me with despair. Fortunately, at 82 years of age there is not much time to de- spair in. I thank you, Signora Pigorini, for your good wishes, and ask you to remember me as a sincere admirer. GUISEPPE VERDL” L'Italia says: “We have a pleasant piece of news for our readers. In all probability San Francisco will soon have a season of Italian opera. We refer to the large company which is now acting in Mexico, where it has not yet finished its engagements. This troupe is rected by the impresarios Seina, who manage artistic combinations of & high order. The company was engaged for the largest theater in Havana, butin consequenge of the revolu- tion the contract will not be carried out, and instead negotiations are pending for & season in San Francisco. 1t seems that the only diffi- culty will consist in finding a suitable theater disengaged at the time the italian troupe would want it. We hope that all the diflicul- ties will be vanquished and that at last, aiter 50 many years, we shall be able to enjoy real Italian opera, with full chorus and orchestra and celebrated artists, ,as well as the new operas of Maseagni, Leoncavallo, Puceini &nd _lhe newest masterpieces by Verdi.” Massenet’s “Navarraise’ is tne chief lyric sensation in several European capitals at the present moment. In Vienna it has covered its composer with glory, in Brussels it has been revived with renewed success, and in Paris, with Calve in the title-role, it is making quite a furor. Massenet never goes to the first nights of his operas. He was at Vienna, superintend- ing its rehearsals there, when the success of “La Navarraise” was telegraphed to him from Paris. Before the work was produced in Vienna he had escaped to Hamburg. The first night of “La Nayarraise’” in Paris so charmed its librettists, Cain end Claretie, with the tragic talent of Calve, that they at once deter- mined to write & new lyric drama for her on the subject of “Macbeth.” It has notyet been decided who will write the music. Massenet has so many engagements to complete music he has already commenced that it is improb- able he will be able to undertake it. The Norwegian town of Bergen isabout to raise & statue to the great violinistand patriot, Ole Bull, the Paganini of the north and one of the founders of the first Norwegian theater (at Bergen in 1850). The necessary sum of £10,000 has already been raised by subscriptions in different countries, principally in the United States, the second home of Ole Bull, although the great artist when he felt death approach- ing insisted on being taken to his native land to the town of Bergen, where a few days after his arrival he died in the summer of 1880. The interesting town in the west of Norway is also the birthplace of Holberg, the Moliere of the north, of Grieg, and nearly all the principal artists of the Norwegian theater since 1850. It is very likely that at the Paris Exhibition in 1900 there will be en international theater, situated near the Trocadero on a site outside the exposition grounds. If the building is constructed it will present all the advantages of modern progress and will excel in splendor anything of the kind yvetseen. At the inter- national theater only unpublished works would be produced, and, as its name indicates, the Iyric and dramatic ert of the world would be seen there. 3 The latest infant phenomenon has been dis- covered in Moscow. He is a boy 9 years of age and bears the euphoneous name of Vasya Pakelnann. A short time ago he presented himself at the Imperial Conservatory as & stu- dent for the violin and literally enthused the professors by playing to them on his cheap lit- tle violin. The phenomenon is the son of a railroad conductor, and several wealthy Mos- cow amateurs have charged themselves with his musical education. It seems that Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss are warm and admiring friends in spite of their diverse musical aptitudes. Re- cently the esteem of Branms for his confrere showed itself in a characteristic manner. At Ischal, on the occasion of the betrothal of Strauss’ daughter, the young lady begged Brahms to enrich her aibum with his auto- graph. He complied by copying the first few measures of the ““Blue Danube’ and writing below it, ““Alas! not by Johannes Brahms.” The temperance societies of England have published & collection of airs entitled “Tem- perance Concert Music.” Among the com- posers who involuntarily figure in this collee- tion is Handel, who is represented by an air richly garnished with cadenzas which roll on the word “temperance.” If Hondel could have foreseen the use to which this piece would be put he mignt have objected—ior his own part he had no objection to the beer of nis native land. *‘Decidedly, women musicians are preparing to rule the roost,” says Le Menescrel. “It is announced that a former pupil of the Con- servatory at Naples, Mme. Espana Rieschi, has just been engaged as chei d’orchestreat the nervous at first, but soon recovered, and sang s0 well that she received threc recalls at the end of the last act. The French papers ex- press surprise that Miss Sanderson did not meet with more success in America. A committes has been formed in Wales to procure means to give a musical education to Yvor Foster, the i recently took the first prize at the Eisteddfod at Llznelly. A touching fact is that the miners at Rhondda, who are poor working- men, figure among the principal subscribers. PERSONAL. an of Fresno is at the Colonel H. Tre Palace. L. J. Maddox, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Grand. 4 A. R. Denlcke, a merchant of San Jose, is at San Leandro registered at the Grand yesterds; E.D. Bannister, a mining man from Mon- tana, is staying at the Palace. J. W. Nouline, a hotel man of Tracy, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Dr.and Mrs, Thomas Flint of San Juen re- turned yesterday from the East and are staying at the Grand. Colonel John T. Harringtou, a banker of Colusa and & member of the Governor's staff, is at the Palace. B. F. 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