The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY DECEMBER 19, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDG Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTH Daily and Sund; Daily and Sunday RAT! ‘AL1, one week, by carrier. “ALL, One year, by mail. 11, six months, by n Daily and Su Sunday Ca WEEKLY CALL, one year, by San Fr co, California. | Telephone. ... ... S . Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 7 Clay Street. .....Maln-1874 Telephone...... R BRANCH OFFICI $30 Montgomery street, corner C £:30 o’clock. 39 Ha; pen nutfl 9:30 o'clock. open until 9:50 o'cloc! 1 and Mission stree 2518 Mission street; 116 Ninth street; Reoms 31 and DAVID M. THURSDAY.. We sing of peace on earth, but we talk | war. Olney shonld write a message to the Sultan. 3lizzards are bad and snow is severe, | but Canada looks very tempting just now. et that any possible warisa v off and that Christmas is right Whether settled by war or by diplomacy the Monroe doc will be the ulti- matum. here is a good chance for the British rnment to get even ing it out of Go the ¥ “I am for war and free coinage,” says Senator Pugh, and the country says “Go it brave boy.” an opportunity to see smile and put the We sh how diplon question by. There is nodanger of war, but it is worth noting how the very thought of it braces the country up. | There are thousands of ardent patriots ready to serve their country on tire Venez- uelan Commi: ton pronunciation of hi it. He s our Oney. name he can have The Britieh press seems to regard the mple of American humor | and cannot nnderstand i Congress will adjourn, but the great issue won’t, for the Senate committee will keep 1t warm during the holidays. It is evident that duck-shooting in Vir- | growing | to thrive. ginia more invigorating to statesmen than fishing at Buzzards Bay. | The proper thing for Cleveland to do in Tesponse to the encore is to give us some- thing to the tune of Free Cuba. -If ordinary speech is ver that of the President was goiden and Salisbury’s | biuster will be only Britannia metal. Grover’s message has cast that of C lisle in the shade, but after all it was hardly more than a shadow anyway. The settlement of the Venezunelan dis- pute is no longer a conundrum to this country. We know the answer but Eng- land will have to give it up. All the members of the gang in the | Board of Supervisors have reached for | base rewards, but Dunker is said to be the | fellow who took in the Wurst. By the time Salisbury hears the voice of | the American people on the message he | will understand it is not a theory buta | condition that confronts him. 3 | | After this any use of the slang phrase about a man * having a sausage on” will | be regarded by the members of the Solid Eight as unpleasantly personal. Philadelphians are having the pleasure _of spending the holidays at home and en- joying long walks in the frosty air. The streetcars have stopped running. In the glow of patriotic feeling aroused by the Venezuelan controversy it is hard to have to keep track of the dirty work of | the Solid Eight, but we are going to do it. 1t is a safe proposition that if the admin- istration had any idea of even a remote probability of war it would not have been 80 urgent in recommending the retire- ment of greenbacks. That the Republicans in the Senate ap- plauded the message even more warmly | than the Democrats isa fact worth noting | asa sign the way party sentiment stands I on the Monroe doctrine. 1 Now that the Alaskans bave got far enough along in politics to be divided into Prohibitionists and anti-Prohibitionists they must be pretty nearly in a fit state to be admitted into the Union. To make a judicial investigation of the disputed boundary between Guiana and Venezuela may seem like a hard task, but we can rely on the ingenuity of an Ameri- can commission to makeit a soft snap. As candidates for the Presidency Kansas offers Ingalls to the Republicans, Peffer to the Populists and St. John to the Prohibi- tionists, but, like the rest of the country, she cannot even make a stagger at offering anything to Democracy. The truest presentation of theclaims of the Monroe doctrine for universal recog- nition is that of Senator Lodge in saying, | “It is not a question of international law at | ell, but a matter of fact as real as the in- dependence of the United States.” After the first flurry isover the people will see that the Venezuelan affair is only an episode at present, and that the main business of the Congress is to look after the affairs of this country and restore prosperity to American industries. Prompt action 1n accordance with the President’s message would be-an enter- prise of great pith and moment, but the remark of Senator Brice that a commission drawing a per diem would continue to draw out the work and draw out the per diem for a very long time “Sicklies it o’er with a pale cast of thought” and give us pause. , THE MAIN ISSUES. The vigorous indorsement given to the President’s message on the Venezuelan question by the leaders of all parties in Congress and by the press of the country lifts that issue out of the domain of party politics and gives it a place #5 an established policy of the Nation. This, together with the fact that there is no probability of a war resulting from our mainténance of a just canse, virtoally eliminates the issne from political discussion. There is, in fact; nothing in it to discuss save the de- tails of carrying out the President’s plan or amending it, as Congress may deem best. These are minor matters, in which the vpeople will take comparatively little interest. Public attention therefore will turn again to matters of home politics and on these the big debates of Congress will take place after the holidays. Itis doubtful if even a probability of a war with England would be sufficient to distract attention long from the serious questions of tariff and finance which are now urgently pressing upon Congress for solution. Great industries like those of wool and lumber are suffering in this country from the unrestricted competition of the cheap labor of other lands, and the sugar industry, that was so rapidly under the bounty system, calls for an intelligent and patriotic consideration of its claims by Con- uress, a deficit even by the estimates of Secretary Carlisle himself awaits us at the close of the fiscal year, the export of gold continues to disturb our currency, | imports from Japan threaten many indus- tries hitherto supposed to be fairly pro- tected, and in every section of the Union there still linger evidences that the paraly- sis of enterprise caused by the disastrous legislation of the last Congress has not yet been sufficiently overcome by the energies of the people to assure an immediate re- turn of our normal prosperity. To remedy all these evils the President and his Secretary of the Treasury offer nothing except a useless scheme for the ! retirement of greenbacks. The scheme is, in fact, doubly useless, since it is idle to urge it on a people opposed to it and a Congress that will not accept it, and, furthermore, would be found inadequate to the needs of the Nation, even if by any chance it were adopted. Under these cir- cumstances, the Venezuelan affair is to us but an episode. There is nothing in it that measures up to the ‘vast problems involved in the evil condition of our home affairs. To protect the soil of Venezuela s well, but we must also protect the finances of the Nation and the industries of our own people. This 1s the work before Congrers, and in the fulfillment of it the Republican party will be as resolute in opposing Clevelandism at home as it is in defending the Monroe doctrine abroad. ORUSH THE POOLROOMS. Chief of Police Crowley is exhibiting ad- mirable zeal in pursuing the disreputable downtown dens, whose pretense of operat- ing as commission-houses is maintained in violation of the Ellert ordinance. Doubtless the managers of these institu- tions set up the defense that they are not in fact selling pools, but only making books. This will probably require a new | interpretation of the Ellert ordinance, and | pending it the poolrooms, backed by the influence of the Solid Eight, will continue It hoped that no intelligent citizen will fail to understand the sitnation. Itis simply this: The decision by Judge Wal- lace baving made it possible for these in- stitutions to be conducted on a commis- sion basis, the Grand Jury caused to be drafted and presented to the Board of Su- vervisore an ordinance prohibiting the maintenance of these dens on any basis. The Solid Eight of the Board of Super- visors have refused to pass the ordinance | and have resorted to every possible subter- fuge to befog the issue which it raises. There is a general belief that corrupt in- fluences are at work in the premises, and the Grand Jury has been trying to dis- cover them. From the very nature of things it could hardly have hoped to find conclusive evidence of guilt. Cnief Crowley, comparing Judge Wal- lace’s decision with the Ellert ordinance, has come to the conclusion that the gam- blers, emboldened by the support of the Solid Eight, baye deliberately gone out- | side the Wallace decision and are selling pools in violation of that part of the El- lert ordinance which prohibits the prac- tice. This raises an entirely new issue, and it isin this fact that the danger lies. The next interesting development will be the construction which the courts may place on this phase of the matter. Meanwhile the fact should be kept in mind that Chief Crowley is proceeding under a great disadvantage, and that it is the duty of the decent elements of the community to support him in the position which he has taken. He has arrayed against him a superior and powerful branch of the municipal government—a majority of the Board of Supervisors—and he is therefore inviting endless browbeat- ing and harassing. This makes his task difficult and thankless, unless he is sure of the moral backing of the community. Like other intelligent citizens, he is doubt- less aware of the fact that the Solid Eight are a stench in the nostrils of the City; that they represent degraded boss politics in its meanest and lowest form; that they stand for none of the higher aims of good citizens, end that it is the geueral desire to expose them to the con- tempt and ridicule of all self-respecting persons. Chief Crowley cannot better dis- charge his duties in this matter than by antagonizing the Solid Eight and depend- ing for his permanent reward upon the ap- | ! han1 and also his Napoleonic mien. probation of all good citizens, A VALUABLE LESSON. The Southern Pacific Company has raised its rates between San Francisco and Portland 50 per cent for the special trains running in opposition to coastwise steamers, having discovered that it could not maintan the very low rate adopted for the purpose of crushing its rival, and probably realized that the rival is not ready to be crushed. Two important de- ductions may be drawn from the situa- tion. One is that the great wide ocean is open to our enterprise, that its highways cannot | be made 2 monopoly, and that it extends to the furthermost limits of the worid. For its traversing no rails have to be laid, no mountains tunneled, no rights of way bought, no subsidies secured which shall add to the burden of its debt. It must al- ways and inevitably be- less expensive as a mode of transportation than raiiroads. Knowledge of this fact is asold as trans- portation, but the people of California have never seemed to realize the f: In every possible way they have contributed to the development of a railway monopoly and either neglected or deliberately ham- pered an extraordinary opportunity for encouraging ocean traflic. The State laws regulating harbor matters in this port have the direct effect of discouraging ocean transportation and strengthening the hold of the railroad monopoly. » 5 The other deduction is that this railway mounopoly exerciscs without restriction the privilegze of making whatever rates it pleases in the vast territory under its control. In this regard it exhibits exactly that indifference to public interests which characterizes the conduct of these who heedlessly precipitate streetcar stikes. It enjoys the privilege of making rates which if continued a sufficient length of time will produce radical changes in'in dustrial conditions, and then of making other rates which will force a violent tead- justment of these conditions and entail enormous private losses in the process. This fact presents in its most glaring Jlight the folly ef that lax practice which permits theése powerful "quasi-publie insti- tutions to exercise the privilege of con- trolling the conditions upon which the prosperity of the people depends. Asany railroad in the country may do this on its individual account, they may all agree on it for a common purpose and produce a state of affairs wholly revolutionary. It will not do to argue that their own in- terests would prevent their taking such a course, There are conceivable reasons why it might be to their interest to exer- cise such a power. FOR THE CHILDREN. The managers of the Children’s Hospital have sent out their annual appeal to the fathers, mothers and friends of the chil- dren for such everyday aid as is needed to perpetuate the usefulness of the institu- tion. There is nothing spectacular or flaring in this appeal. It is a plea for such modest transient or monthly donations of money, clothing, groceries or what not as are required for the maintenance of so worthy an institution. The ladies who manage it devote a great part of their time and a large share of their energies to the work. Their self- sacrifice is as worthy of emulation as the substantial results which they achieve are beneficent. It is something to bave in the community women who are concerned over the necessities of the poor and friend- less children and it is something more to find that there are many among us who appreciate such motives and are willing to forward such purposes. This is the annual call for needful things. Thousands of cards have been sent out, the filling in and signing of which wili simplify the efforts of those who have the inclination to lend assistance. There are doubtless many willing ones whom these cards will not reach. If they are meved by a small part of the spirit which ani- mates the managers of the hospital they will encounter no difficulty in a search for an easy way to make manifest their kind- liness of heart. RELIABLE INSURANCE. It seems likely that the fire insurance companies are to agree at once and so end the danger of the too cheap insnrance that has ruled for nearly a year past. If current accounts are to be trusted the fight was institated and maintained by the minor compa which, in order to offset the advantage which the superior prestige of the greater companies assured them, instituted rebates and rate-cutting, which demoralized the business. However this may be the fact has been that fire insur- ance was too low to be safe: At the same time the companies have public obligations which it will profit them to observe. The major towns and eities of California are now emerging from a condition which for so long has justified the imposition of heavy insurance rates. In simply furnishing an indemnity against loss by fire thé insurance companies are not doing the best by themselves or their customers. They might exert a very strong and useful influence in educating the public with regard to means for pre- ventinig fires. It is not good business sense for them to neglect an opportunity so to improve safeguards against fire as to enable them to charge lower rates for safer risks. THE McKINLEY SHAKE. Governor William McKinley has a brand- new shake this year, says the Washington Post. He had what he thought was a glorious one in 1892, but subsequent events showed him his error. Ile has discarded the 1892 When Mr. MeKinley greets a man who may be of service to him he takes a step forward and, lifting his hat witn his left band, swingsout the right in a semi-circle and, tilting his head out at & confidentirl angle, silently presses the hand of the visitor. This is known as the *“confidential clasp.” It makes the visitor believe that he is one of the few real friends McKinley has on earth. It says plainer than words, “Stand by me, my boy and all will be well.” Itisa pleasant, manly sheke, reassuring and graceful without being boisterous or presuming. It is said that Mr. McKinley has endeavored to teach Mayor Strong, who is running the New York end of the Ohioan’s campaign, this accomplished handshake, bt without result. JOYS WE NEVER FIND. The sinking sun lights hill and plain, The chalets 'mid the green, With crimson roots und window pane, Like beacon lights are seen. ‘The mountains 11ft their rugged heads And pierce the azure sky, While down their sides, o'er rocky beds, The torrent rushes by. To yonde: valley, far away, With grassy meadows wide, The air p-rfumed with new-mown hay From fields on every side. "Neath apple trees and hazel nuts Its winding course it takes, Past clover fields and buttercups, And empties in the lake. And thus, sometimes, our life glides on; ‘We leave our joys behind o seek for others far beyond, But which we never find. R. C., in Philadelphia Times. The overhead trolley will never encircle the globe, though it continues to stretch from pole to pole.—New York World. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Walter 8. Young, & young Englishman, who arrived here {rom Yokohama on the Gaelic on her last trip. is at the Russ. “I have lived many years in Yokohama,” said he, *‘but I don’tlike it there, and want to settle in California if I can get my remittance. There are many others of my couutrymen in that country like myself. I like it immensely here.” B About the hotel thie young man is reférred to as the lord, though how the story that he was The Young Young, Known as Englishman, “The Lord.” [Sketched by a “Call” artist.) Walter S. probably a nobleman originated none could say. Asfor himself he has been silent on that subject. He walks with the usual English stride, carries & big cane after the manner of his countrymen, and dearly loves bicycling. He has visited Gojden Gate Park frequently since his arrival, and as a scorcher he has re- ceived much applause. He will leave for Butler's ranch in a day or two. In one of the side-shows along & well-known street in this City is exhibited a strange being, known as The Wild Man, about whom the “spieler” has stranger things to say. Whether they are true or not any one can judge for him- self. It is probable the wild man does not lose any of his singular characteristics by what his “spleler” says of him. Yet he is odd and striking enough, taking him singly. The natlsof his.fingers and toes are fully three inches long, rounded iike hazels, and bent upward, The bottoms of his feet and hands are calloused, like the feet of a bear. Robinson Crusoe, when he chased down and captured wild goats among the rocky cliffs of his lonesome island, could not haye had feet and hands more impervious to hurts than he. The tongue of the wild man is hard and white on top, too, till it looks.like the tongue of & herb-eating animal. These things, taken with the tangled mane, bronzed, scraggy beard and dark complexion of the man, combined with 8 heavy body and thin, spindly legs, makes him look like a verit- able curio as a representative of the genus homo. George is his name, and he is represented to be an Aztec Indian, and of the age of some 40 or 50 years. His manager says he was cap- wred October 10,1883, by Guiterez and his band in the mountains of Guadaloupe, Mexico. He says that George then went an all-fours, and ate herbs and twigs. “This sccounts for the singular appearance of his tongue,” the keeper set forth. To this day he eats nothing but raw food. When captured he could not speak & word, and though in the twelve years since his capture, he has learned to telk, he has no recollection of how he came to be alone and wild in the mountains. “The long nails of his toes and hands once turned down like hooks. They have been softened and pushed back, where they now are, by chemicals, so that he can now use his hands and feet something like the ordinary man. “His slim legsare two weak to support his bulky frame long, however, and he cannot walk 100 yaras till you will find him down on his hands and feet, going like an animal, s he used to doin the mountains. In this way he can travel at a prodigous rate, goiug about as fastasa horse.” PERSONAL., T. J. Field of Monterey is here. . Gentile of Mexico s as the Russ. John 8. Dore of Fresno is at the Lick. 0. F. Nonale of Oregon is at the Russ. . Dr.C. A. Burleigh of Forest Hill is at the Grand. w. Rogers, a mining man of Amelis, is at Dr.J, Goodwin Thompson of Oakdale is in the C J. H. Blythe, a merchant of Sacrameénto, is at the Grand. Dr. W. H. Davis of Detroit is among recent arrivals here. Dr. E. K. Hopkins of Saeramento is gnartered at the Palace. J. J. Hebron, an extensive landowner of Salinas, is here. Lyman Green, a merchant of Petaluma, is here on & business trip. J. H. Giade, a merchant of Sacramento is among recent arrivals. R. B. Marshall of the United States Geological Survey arrived here yesterday. L. Bardo and J. A. Webster, fruitgrowers of caville, were in town yesterday. V. 8. McClatchey, one of the owners of the Sacramento Bee, isat the California. George F. Weeks, editor of the Kern County Californian, at Bakersfield, is among recent arrivals. P. A, Preston, & business man of Waitsburg, in the wheat district of Eastern Washington, is at the Russ. A.E. Hughes and S. H. Cohen, owners of lumber mills at Point Arena, are lere on a business trip. George F, Weeks, for three years past editor and publisher of the Bakerstield Daily Califor- nian, is at the grand. John C. Lewis, a wealthy business man of Portland and one of the oldest residemts, reached here yesterday. Among the arrivals at the Lick is Eugene Bruce, a business man of Great Falls, Mont. He will be here some time. Lieutenant-Governor William T. Jeter is up from Santa Cruz, where ne has been for several days, and 1s at the California. Frank J. Brandon of San Jose, ex-secretary of the California Senate, and identified with the banking business, is in the City. George Warren, assistant manager of the Palace Hotel, has returned here and assumed his usual duties, after five weeks’ absence in the East. He visited relatives in New York, and then saw the other large cities, including Boston, Baltimore, Chicago and Buffalo. He reports having had a very pleasant trip. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 19.—C. Branden- stein is at the Brunswick, E. E. Rice at the Grand Union, C. Berthean at the St. James and L. Ashman at the Westminster. TRANSPORTING TROOPS. The transportation of troops, properly equipped and supphed for active service, is one of the greatest problems of war. “To send troops for & long distance by sea requires fast preparation and is attended by great expense. Few people comprehend the difficulties in- volved, and outside of the councils of military men who have studied the problem, the sub- ject is hardly nnderstood. In the November number of the United Ser- vice Lieutenant William K. Hamilton, U. S. A., has an article entitléd, »If Attacked, Could the United States'Carry on an'Offensive War ?” One gets the idea from a reading of the contri- bution that the United States. aithough able to resist an invasion sustained by all the great European powers, is not able to %ip, trans- sustain an army of 50, men in a port o country as remote, for example, as Chile, Figutes ave presented ot ofcial records to show that In Mexico in 1861-63_there were 39,000 men, 6000 animals and 36,000 tons of stores, be- SRR S e S R Y e ‘“;.‘Eo" of French troops to s1des 100,000 tons of coal. This large amoun t and number were taken across the Atlantic on 60 vessels, requiring crews of 18,000 men and making 76 voyages. + England claims to be. able to put on the con- tinent of Europe, a voyage of only tnree days, 85,000 men, 30,000 horses and vehicles. e writer in the United Service says that short as js the distance it would be simply im- possible for herto do 80 in one trip. Ships enough ‘are to be had, but their withdrawal from their usual avocation would imperil her food supply. Her maximum effort, aiter giv- ing every possible edvantage to her, would be to transport 52,000 men, the three arms in due proportion, with _food and forage for four- teen days’ voyage and fourteen after landing, On this basis it isseen that men are allowed twoand & half tons per man and seven tons peranimal. It is from voyages like this that a general rule can be made for the safe tr portation of troops and materials of war, and it may be formulated as follow: For short voyages of three to five days, allow one ton per man, two and a half tons per ani- mal and five per vehicle. For voyages of a week to twelve days allow two tons per ma three per arimal and six per vehicle. For vo; ages of two weeks 1o eighteen days allow three tous per man, ten per animal and seven per vehicle, and for voyages of from eighteen to twenlty-five days, three and three-fourths tons per man, thirteen per animal and ten per vehicle. It must be understood that these rules are not arbitrary bus are adopted by all powers as being the :best guide as o what is, safe and comfortable in the transportation of troops long distances by water. 1t may be asked why & man who weighs but 150 pounds should Ym\-e an_allowance made him of three tons. It may be easily figured. The ration of a man weighs Imi; pounds, and he uses one ration a day. Iu two weeks, therefore, he will eat fifty-two pounds of food, He must have s0 much ammunition with hi: his arms and accouterments, his blankets, greatcoat, haversack and clothing bag. The weight of these, amounting to fifty pounds more, must be accounted for, and everything must be multiplied by three in order that he may have enough to last him for thirty days after landing. I, therefore, he is to be Kept1n good heaith on the voyage he must have air space and room to breath in and turn around in with some degree of comfort. Therefore his weight and that of his rations and other sup- plies is taken by bulk measurement and not actual weight, and & little mathematical cal- culation on the basis of the weights given will prove that three tons is not too much. To the military student the difficultes of em- barking large bodies are so thoroughly under- d that he can comprehend better than the vilian that when it comes to a mass of 40,000 men the ratio of trouble is much greater than when only small numbers are taken. “From the foregoing,” says the army officer, “it will be clearlfiy understood how utferly im- possible it is for England, France and Germany combined to send enough men to this country to subjugate it. It would strain them to their greatest to transport 100,000 men, and such & number would be a bagatelle to land on our shores with any liope of conquest of anything more than a few seaport cities, from iwhich, notwithstanding their fleets, they would soon be driven away.” FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Settlers Relieved of a Double Tax. Ukiah Press. The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Rice vs. Trinity County will settie the troubles which have so long afflicted the property-owners who were removed by the Rice survey from Trinity to Mendocino. For the past three years many of these settlers have paid taxesin both counties rather than allow their lands to be sold to the State. The decision of the Supreme Court practically es- tablishes the correctness of the survey, so double taxation may in the future be avoided. The survey added a strip of territory about & mile in width” 10 the area of Mendocino County. Remedy for Hard Times on the Farm. Los Alamos Central. Mix industry and, economy with diversified farming; an1 when thoroughly united, add small farms well cultivatea; and with a few grains of “horsesense” you will then have a panacea that can be trusted to drive the hard- time epidemic from'the land. This is the only remedy, the only salvation. Take this meai- cine in large or small doses and be convinced of its wonderful power for good. Vaccination, Marriage and Divorce.] Secramento Bee. In Norway and Sweden at the present time a couple cannot be legally married until certifi- cates are produced showing that both bride and groom have been satisfactorily vaccinated. If some vaccination could be devised that would keep the couples in this country from catching the disease of divorce the moral health of the Nation would be raised to & much higher standard. Irrigation Is King in Idsho. Pendleton East Oregonian Irrigation is king. In the irrigated sections of Idaho the people are more than prosperous. The mortgage has obtained no power over the people. Farins are sl aod crops diversitied. nds are invariably worked by those who own These conditions insure prosperity. The Round Valley Cattle King. Eureka Times. Now that the land of “Cattle King” White has been sold to satisfy the judgment obtained by his divorced wife it is a query what meas- ures the irate ex-spouse will resort to in order to prevent her realizing on the property. No one will suspect him of an intention to submit to & court decree or any other earthly decree, them, Southern California’s Mineral Resources San Diego Worid. It is great. It awaitsonly capital, industry and enterprise to extract it from nature’s rich treasure-box. The mineral resources of South- ern California are rich beyond description, and every effort for the opening up of same_ i§ deserving of the strong encouragement of this community. Whatever wealth - that is pro- duced from the quartz veins and placers adds to the wealth of the world. The Free-Trade Fallacy. San Jose Mercury. It has been one of the main arguments of the free-traders that the United States, with the advantage of its improved machinery, could “““',‘,““e ‘with the products of the cheap labor of the world, but when cheap labor is applied to improved machinery the argument loses its force. The growth of manufacturing industries in Japan, China and Mexico is demonstrating that free trade is a fallacy. A TAILOR COSTUME. The jacket shown here has the new and best features of this season’s coats. The skirt is full in the back, the front is in the stylish entaway style, and the sleeves are made in the new wa with a seam from the shoulder to the wrist. The jacket may be worn with fitted vests, as shown here, with the pretty blouse fronts, or over thrin silk or cotton waist. Made of mixed cheviot or tweed, with -rmn skirt as here shown, it is the most useful of gowns, serving for traveling and general wear. A jacket of plain blue, black or brown cloth, with a plaia or checked skirt, is extremely stylish and useful. 3 'or an extra jacket.to wear with any skirt, plain cloths are preferred; and tans brown and lack are most useful, harmonizing with other colors more generally. The skirt is appropriate for making entire suits or for separate skirts. It is cut with a «g!‘rc;xhr front and three godet folds in the ck. ' Yeast—I hear the tramps are going to have a convention in & Western town. Crimsonbeak—It'll be a failure. “Why so?” “They won’t be able to get & working major- ity.”—Yonkers Statesmran. ‘ MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Some of the English papers allude to the re- cent Purcell bicentenary as “The Great Purcell Massacre.” Labouchere’s paper says: ‘‘Lon- don last week awoke to the truth that two centuries ago we possessed in” Henry Purcell 2 musician who was greater than all his con- temporaries. To a great many people who do | not go regu'arly to church and consequently are unacquainted with his antheans, he s little more than a name. Last week, however, the Purcell Society resolved to organize & com- memorative performance in Westminster %h— bey, the chief sea:of hislabors. The British manager is an imitative animal, and other per- formances were at orce arranged for, and we had last week a series of Purcell’s music, last- ing from Wednesday morning till Friday nigh_t, with & promise of Purcell’s ‘Jehovah’ this week as a further dose.” It seems that all these performances did not do justice to the predecessor of Handel and Bach. Purce_“’l “Dido and Eneas” was revived from oblivion and was performed at’the Royal College of Music, and, in order to bring it up to date, Dr. Wood was commissioned to massacre the opera by writing additional orchestration. Notwith- standing the unpleasant noise which resulted from this “modern treatment,” the forgotten “Dido and Eneas” ‘was found to faintly for- shadow the glories of “Tristan and Isolde.” The Westminster Abbey celebration, consisting of anthems and other sacred musie, proved to be the best. In the current 1ssue of La Scena Iilustrata some interesting personal reminiscences are given by F. Giarelli of Paganini and Berlioz. The writer went to school with Paganini’sson, the present Baron Achilles. He says: *Berlioz was not honored in life as he deserved, but he had in Nicolo Paganini a benefactor like & prince in a fairy tale. They met in a year that was full of sad days for Berlioz. His ‘Harold music was not approved by the public, that great slayer of talent. The work was being played, and the audience in that Parisian theater was listening icy and unmoved, when Paganini entered by the orchestra door. He gesticulated furiously, for larnygeal troubies were rendering his voice uninteiligible, and his son Achilles interpreted ‘for him.” ‘My father, he said to Berlioz, ‘says that your music bas filled hin with enthusiasm; in all his life he has heard nothing more beautiful. 1f you do not give him your hand he will kneel before you to thank you for the sublime im- pressions.” And, falling on Berlioz's neck, Pagsnini gasped Yes; yes. " The day following the failure of his ¢“Harold" Berlioz was lying in bed coughing and lament- ing the malady that was paralyzing his efforts and depriving him of the mesns of subsistence, when & boy's voice exclaimed, “Maestro, here is & letter from papa, he,would have come himself, but he is sick.” It was Achilles Paga- nini. Berlioz opened the letter, which read: “My dear friend—Boethoven is dead, and only Berlioz can make him live again. I have relished your divine compositions, Worthy of any genius. I believe it my duty to pray you to accept, in proof of my homage, the sum of 20,000 francs, which will be handed to you by Baron Rothschild when you present the in- closed. And believe mealways, your affection- ate friend, Nicolo Paganini.” Berlioz was seized with a terrible fit of emotion. When Achilles had retired the wife and the son of the maestro knelt by his bed -and in a prayer, which is still extant, they lifted the name of the generous benefactor heavenward, Gilbert and Sullivan are working together in beautiful harmony over their new opera, which will be produced at the Savoy Theater early in the new year. Mme. Ilka von Palmay, » Hungarian prima donna, has gone to London to rehearse the leading female role. She is very popular in Austria, and when she gave her farewell concert in Buda Pesth the other day, the people draped both her hotel and the con- cert hall with Austrian-Hungarian and English 5, Hka von Palmay, Prima Donna in ‘the New Gilbert and Sullivan Opera. [From a photograph by Krziwanek, Vienna.] flags, while an awning festooned with flowers was stretched from one building to the other. When it was time for her to go to the concert, the carpeted pathway from the hotel steps was strewn with flowers and the people cheered Mme. von Palmay as she passed through’ their midst. In privatelife the‘‘Austrian soubrette” is merged into the distinguished title of Countess Eugene Kinsky, her husband being a eadet of the noble family of Austria which has as its head Count Eugene’s uncle, Prince Kin- sky, & peer of the Apostolic Empire and a knight of the Golden Fleeee. probably be heard of Mme, von Palmay as soon as the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera is pro- duced. Musicians seem determ ined not to leave poor old Handel a shred of musical reputation, if delving and diving into oid archives can prove him to be the grand old robber that it is the fashion to call him. The latest discovery of Handel's indebtedness to other masters has been made by Sedly Taylor, who s deseribed as one of the most intelligent and well-read Han- delian students of the present day. In the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge, England, Sedly Taylor has run to earth'the fragments of harpsichord pieces by Gottlied Muffat, copied in Handel’s handwriting—and the conclusion Jumped at 1s that Handel regarded them as public property and used them to hisown glorification. Such is fame. Half a dozen generations may elapse, during which a man’s reputation shines as the noonday sun,and then some over-enterprising inquirer sets the ballof investigation rolling and enongh evi- dence isdug out of musty museums.to prove to the world’s satisfaction that another man wrote the author’s books, or that the musician was “indebted””. to his more obscure contem- poraries for his finest flights of isney. ° Some of the surprises of this season’s opera season in New York have been the cold recep: tion given to Calve as Carmen, the great sne- cess of Nordica as Isolde and the magnificent manner in which Jean de Reszke's voice stayed with him all through the exacting role of. Tristan, while his singing shows decided wear and tedr in ‘“Faust,” Calve bas conquered back her laurels as Santuzza in the “Caval- leria” and as Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet.” La Scala, Milan, wili open its winter season with Saint-Saens’ “Henry the Eighth.” The second performance will be Massenet's “La Navarraise,” with Lise Frandin, the great Carmen of Italy, in the title role. The wife of Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, has appeared at Stockholm as a vocalist with such success that she is' now touring through Denmark and Sweden. The 'piano which ac- g nied Dr. Nansen to the Arctic regioms f::,p;yflgm ebony, one of English make, and- has probably got mearer the north pole than - ‘any otliet piano in the world. g An:Bastern pagper publishes an interviéw.: with'Calve; mPv’vhlgh. the .prima donna is re: . ported as saying, I used to'laugh, as'the ma- jority of people do, at everything in life that was what people call mysterious. Then I was taken ill and nearly died. Strangely my thoughts turned to these things that were so impossible to me before. Iiuvestigated spit- itualism and studiéd theosophy, and now I am halted face to face with Budaha.” Signor Arditi is writing his reminiscences. Te has been an orchestra chief for consider- ‘ably over haif a century and in many lands so that his revelations promise to be interesting. _ Lola Beeth, a dramatic soprano, from whom much was expected, has made a distinct failure at the Metropolitan Opera-house as Elsa in “Lohengrin.” 8ibyl Sanderson and Marie Van Zandtare pro- posed as the two sisters in Massenet’s opera “Cinderella.”. The work will soon receive s first performance at the Paris Opera Comique. e s Stk NG calendars for country mer- ADVER' 9! chants. _Write to Roberts, 220 Sntter st. e R ifornia Glace Fruits, & nice pres- Eastern friends. 50c Ib. in Jap paskets.* ettt Hoitt’s School for Boys. Burlingame. Term begins January 7. 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