The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1896, Page 6

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FOLTZ, Special Agent. The emergency ta is for revenue only, and still the Demozrats do not like it. The Governor of Cape Colgny bears the | name ot Hercules, to it. but he is not living up The capture of Havana by the Cubans Il not be the fall of that city, but its beration. Boston proposes to elevate the stage, but it may turn out to be a movement to ele- vate Bost Y If General Campos does not soon resign his command to Spain he will have to sur- render it to Cuba. Now that Fureka hasstarted “a seli-help ociation,’” she will find it easy to start hing else she wishes. a &ny In ‘he path that Grover is walking there is no room to turn round, and if he ever gets out he must back out. The City Hall dome must be completed in ninety da; nd let us hope it will be well done if it were done guickly. We may surely count on peace this year, for there is enough blowing among the na- tions to blow the w ud over. be too prompt in sending an Senators to Congress. try needs them right now. Utah cannot her two Republi The co ‘We will thank the Senate kindly to give us the tariff bill at once and save the sil- ver discussion until tbere is more time to ta! According to Jamescn’s statement he would never have been captured by his foes if he had not been taken in by his frien The Kaiser's letter may have been in- tended merely to distract the attention of | the Germans from the agitations of the so- cialists. Cleveland bonds will rest upon the whole country, but Huntington's bonds would have Coast alone. to be paid by the Pacific Now that work has begun in China Basin the competing road is coming into sight in San Francisco as well as in the San Joaquin. As the British press has come to the | scriptions for 4 per cent bonds without ation is proper, we | giving Congress a chance to authorize an may consider the victory won and call off | issue of 3 per cents, calls it ‘‘undeserved | the war d. Don't forg you can attend next M mass-meeting for the relief of the Arme- nian sufferers. Clevelandism has put an end to old De- mocracy, and if the party ever hopes to have a new life it must be born again and born different. It is not certainly known what the Queen wrote to the Kaiser, but she prob- ably told him if he recognized the Boers she wouldn’t recognize him. 1t becomes more evident every day that we can count on Congress to supply the medicine that will cure the ills of the country and make Grover sick. he Associated Press has not yet ven- tured to declare Boston the storm center of the Cuban war, but it continues to use her as headquarters for dispatehes. Cleveland has already increased the Na- tional bonded debt by $162,000,000, another $100,000,000 is in sight, and he has still more than a year to work his bondmill. We may get Cleveland out of office, but the old man has got his administration saddled on us in the form of a debt that will stay with us for many years to come. The Portland Oregonian eclipsed all its recent efforts by issuing a superb edition with which to open the year. It presents the attractions of Oregon in a masterly way. The House has taken a good step in ask- ing the Attorney-General what has been done to enforce the law against trusts. It is full time to make the administration begin to explam itself. Senator Perkins’ bill providing for the settlement of Alaska may notattract many people there so long as Caiifornia has room for more, but all the same so long as we own the country we might as well open it up. A New Year’s edition of great size and special merit was issued by the Ogden Standard. It is particularly timely as a review of Utah’s greatness, in view of the recent admission of the Territory as a State. The statement of Huntington at a meet- ing of the Southern Pacific directors that ‘‘henceforth the railroad and politics must be divorced” will not be accepted by the courts as evidence that the railroad was ever wedded to politics, while the people won't accept it as evidence that he ever bad any intention of divorcing them. The motion of Senator Lodge to have the editor of the New York World prose- cuted because he published interviews with leading Englishmen on the Cleveland loan is one of the freaks of the season. If there is any law on our statute-books that forbids an American newspaper to publish interviews with anybody anywhere on any subject of current interest, then that law has been a dead letter ever since modern journalism became alive. funding-bill | s t to arrange your dates so that i | 1 | | believe that they can raise their tariffs suf- | and have withheld its use in the p: | Government. | payment of their debt impossible, and to | ernment under the terms of a funding bill A DELUSIVE SCHEME. It seems to be tauken for granted that a funding scheme providing fcr a gradual repayment by the aided railroads of the debt which they owe the Government will accomplish its purpose. The fact that the railroads themselyes desire such a meas- ure is a curious and significant thing. It must be taken either to mean that the companies all along have been earning sufficient to have extinguished the debt, or that, if they have not, they wish us to ficiently to produce the increased revenue required. 1f the first of these views be accepted, then a funding bill would be a condone- ment and perpetuation of a swindle; for if the companies have earned the money of an honest debt they have robbed the In that case they would deserve mno consideration whatever, and the roads themselyes and their accumu- lated earnings, held by their owners as private property, can be recovered if there is any justice in the laws and courts of this country. If the other view be accepted, that the companies have not earned sufficient to pay the debtand will be compelled to in crease their revenues by raising their tariffs, the question arises, To what extent can they raise their charges without de- stroying their traffic and thus making the what extent have they the power to raise their charges at all? An assumption that they can raise them must mean that they have the power as monopolies to do so, for the announcement of such a power means the absence of competition. Therefore a funding scheme which contemplates a raising of tariffs is a provision for encour- aging and perpetuating a monovoly. This is infamous on its face. The Southern Pacitic Company, in its recent announcement of an intention to advance its east-bound freight charges, has proclaimed that it is just such a monopoly and has the vower in the ab- sence of competition to make such an advance at will. Those who may regard this as evidence of that company’s ability and intention to pay its Government debt by raising its rates in the exercise of its power as a monopoly evidently deem the payment of the debt a more important matter than the effect which such a raise would have in retarding the development of the country and preventing tne pros- perity of the people. It is worth while further to cousider the policy of fostering | a power which experience has shown to be | S0 dangerous. But suppose that this power to raise rates to a point sufficient to cover the mounts which must be paid to the Gov- does not really exist. In that event (if the companies have not been withholding earnings that the Government should have received) it would be impossible for the | companies to pay their debt under a fund- ing scheme. In order to secure the neces- sary revenue from an advance of rates they would have to put the rates above a point at which the bulk of the trafiic could be handled profitably round the Horn. Our Traflic Association has pledged itself to meet such a contingency. For that matter such a raise would invite the construction of a new competing overland railroad. Still further, the Fanama Rail- way might not be willing to serve as a tool in such a scheme. In short, a funding bill would be either | the condonement of a swindle, the perpet- uation of a monopoly, the saddiing upon | our industries of a burden which they cou!d not bear, or a bald and naked sham which would not secure the payment of the debt. Those who advocate such a measure may take their choice among these four propositions. DESERVED CENSURE. The Ezaminer, objecting to our criticism on the administration for inviting sub- censure,” and goes on 10 say: “The Ezaminer finds 1t impossible to call such a criticism candid. There is no bond bill before the Senate. The meas- ure which passed the House as a bond bill has been transformed by the Senate Finance Committee into a free-comnage bill, pure and simple, with no trace of bonds in it. It does not provide the means for the redemption of notes in anything, | even in silver. * * ¥ “In view of Mr. Cleveland’s well-known npinions with regard to such legislation as this, we think that our contemporary, on reflection, will agree with us that he could hardly be expected to postpone any finan- cial operation he had in mind for the sake of giving Congress time to present him such a bill to veto.” In this statement the Eraminer does not give an accurate account of the facts. At the time Carlisle issued his call fosa 4 per cent loan, the Finance Committee bad not reported a silver bill to the Senate. It had given notice during the previous week that it would report on the bond bill at the meeting of the Senate on Tuesday. Carlisle forestalled this report by publish- ing his call for bonds on Monday morning, and the Eraminer can hardly be serious in pleading in defense of his action some- thing that took place subsequent to the action itself. Our contemporary is furtiier wrong in assuming that the report of the silver biil by a majority of the Finance Committee disposes of the bond bill. The Senate has still to act on the report. The bond bill has not been killed by the mere fact that a majority of one in a committee voted against it, and Cleveland cannot by the action of the committee be exonerated from the charge of having practically nullified the intent of the bill while it is yet in the hands of Congress. It must be borne in mind there was nothing in the condition of the treasury that compelled an immeaiate issue of bonds. Carlisle’s report showed money enough on hand for current expenses, there had been a surplus of revenues for the month of December and the gold reserve was considerably above the dan- ger limit. Moreover Cleveland had asked Congress to remain in session during the holidays to pass relief measures and Con- gress had done so. The vroposed measure of reiief wasin the hands of the Senate and official notice had been given that it wonld be reported for action at once. For the President, under the circumstances, to ignore Congress and practically nullify the bill the House had passed, was surely an undue interference with legislation and | tance of the metropolis. an offense so grave it not only deserves censure, but comes near impeachment. A THIRD-TERM BOOM. By his latest move to increase the public debt, Cleveland has strengthened his chances for arenomination in‘two ways. He has given the money power added reasons for desiring his re-election and by making the chances of Democratic success more desperate than ever he has weakened the ardor of any rivals likely 1o contest his nomination in the convention. History has many examples of leaders who have sought to rule or ruin, but Cleveland is the only conspicuous one who has sought to rule bis party by ruining it. It is evident that if the Democratic party were not hopelessly demoralized it would no more think of renominating Cleveland than of nominating Van Alen. In its present condition, however, where is it to turn and what is it to do? No prominent leader of the party cares to undertake the forlorn hope of the coming campaign, even if any were willing to face the people as an apologist for the Cleveland adminis- tration. Itis evident, however, the party must have a candidate or go to pieces. The logic of the situation therefore is either Cleveland or some candidate so ob- scure as to be practically nobody. It is clear that by making his policy dis- astrous to his party the President is mak- ing himself necessary to it. He can claim in the convention the support of a power- ful class of money-lenders and mugwumnps, while no other candidate likely to oppose him can show a strong support from any class. Tt is a fact that at this time Democ- racy has not a single leader of National re- pute who is popular with the people or has the confidence of any great number of in- telligent men. The Cleveland faction in the party may be small, but it is stronger than all other factions put together. Itis more than probable, therefore, the bond business will have a marked effect upon the politics as well as the finances of the country, and that Cleveland will either get a renomination or split the party in con- vention and send each faction off, as in 1860, to nominate a candidate of its own. FARMERS ON HAND. The executive committee of the State Grange has decided to take two important steps. One is to ascertain whether and to whatextent certain commission merchants have been making improper returns to farmers, and the other is to seek to es- tablish a free market on the water front of San Francisco. A test case is to be made in the matter of a return made by a commission mer- chant to a country customer. It is charged that he reported a less price than he re- ceived, and that thisis a common practice where single packages are handled. If, as is assumed, this is embezzlement, it should be prosecuted to the full limit of the law. If it is not, it should be suppressed as & manifest wrong. The grange is amply able to handle the matter satisfactorily. The establishment of a free market in this City would be one of the best things that the farmers could possibly do, but there is a serious question as to whether the water front is the best place. A large proportion of the produce would be brought in wagons owned by the farmers them- selves, and the only extra transportation expense they would eucounter would be the ferry charge across the bay. When this side is reached it would cost nothing additional to drive the wagons to some central part of the City, where they would be easily accessible to a large number of buyers. If the water front be selected buyers will have to pay carfare both waysand lose from thirty minutes to an hour in travel. most of the purchases wou!d be very small there would be little or no saving in mak- ing the long trip to the water front, and so tne market would largely fail of its pur- pose. Itis not to be denied that the Mar- ket-street Railway would benefit by such a selection. The better plan would be to select the streets surrounding one of the numer- ous public squares in the City, or it might be possible to obtain the co- operation of the City, or of large capital- ists, and provide a free market on a scale commensurate with the size and impor- The proposed en- terprise is certainly one that affects the people of the City as weil as of the coun- try, and afforas therefore a good ground for the exertion of the combined efforts of both in order to accomplish the best re- sults. VENEZUELA'S ODD RAILWAY. This is & scene on one of the most remarkable railroadsin tne world. It is the railroad be- tween Caracas, the capital of Venczuela, and its port, La Guayra. As the bird flies the two towns are only about six miles apart, put the Tailroad that joins them is nearly twenty-four miles long. Caracas is in a deep valley, but it is two-thirds of a mile higher than La Guayra, and the mountains between them are nearly 9000 feet high. So the railroad train, that never exceeds five or six small and very light cars, winds along the precipitous flanks of the mountains, puffs up one side of the valiey and down the other, | darts through short tunnels, and keeps up its The Caracas Railroad. ver? sinuous way until finally the glorious valley of the capital city bursts into view. Then steam is shut off, and the brakes are applied, and slowly the train slips down the inward face of the mountaius to iisstation in the eity. The most charming and exhilarating views are revealed at every stage of the journey; but this short Ixig is not one of the safest in the world. We have not heard that nature hes ever bombarded & train with rocks from ebove, Lut, says the New York Sun, thisisa contin- geney that might happen. Sometimes during violent storms rocks are detached from the mass that towers above the roadbed and go thumping down unon the track. During the rainy season traffic has sometimes been inter- rupted for more than a week &t & time by the damage done in this way 1o the track. It is & reat problem how to ‘obviate this source of anger, and no solution has yet been found. If England were to make war on Venezuela a few hundred natives with crowbars for loosen- ing rocks, perched high above the track, could maske it very tough traveling for the enemy to Teach the capital by the railrond. This great work of railroad engineering does honor to the energy and initiative talent of ex- President Guzman Blanco, who conceived the project and carried it through to success. The railroad was completed in 1883. Great Britain’s Debt. . Redwood City Gazette, Among his items of strength that John Bull is submitting for our consideration has not been mentioned his debt of %3,350,000,000, being more than three times that of the United States. As | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Captein George A, Raabe, the veteran cru- sader against the custom of uncovering the head at funerals, is still laboring industriously in his efforts to have religious and benevolent socicties abolish the old rule of removing the hats while burying the dead. Several years ago Captain Rasbe began writ- ing letters to physicians, ministers, boards of health and officials in the principal cities of the United States, Europe and Australis. From all these points he received favorable answers. The physicians gave their unqualified approval of the idea and the health boards without exception recommended the adoption of the rule of keening the head covered in the open air upon sanitary grounds. “You have mno ides,” sald Captain Raabe vesterday, “how easily people are converted to this pet idea of mine. Ittakesonly a few words to convince my hearers that numerous cases of sickness and death have resulted from the custom of males removing their hats at funersls and standing with their heads ex- posed during the long services at the grave. Since I called the attention of the public to this matter five yvears ego almost all the societies in this City have passed resolutions that the hat be not removed outside of the hall. Many ministers of the churches have promised to advocate the question before their congregations, but some still cling to the old custom. A number of times in my life T have been called upon to act as pall-bearer, and after walking alongside the hearse 1or several miles, and thereby becoming fatigued and heated with my long march, was obliged to stand bereheaded during a long interval around the grave. I passed through a long spell of sickness from that needless exposure and when I recovered I determined to do all in my power to have the custom abolished. “Everywhere I have met with encourage- ment in my endeavors. From Bodenhause, in Germany, I learned that my circulars had been received, and, as a result, all the merchants had posted in their stores that customers were requested to keep their hats on while making purchases. The ladies of Marienburg declared themselves in favor of my proposition and an- nounced that they requested that gentlemen should not lift their hats upon meeting them in the street. The London Lancet, the highest medical authority in the world, says that the custom of standing uncovered at funerals, with the head exposed to the chill air, 1s pro- ductive of diseases of the respiratory organs. “The soldier, that highes type of discipline, never removes his hatata funeral or at any time when on duty. Why should the civilian be forced to doso? The custom of uncovering the head originated in ancient Rome, where slaves were obliged to bare the head when meeting a freeman to show which was the slave. Why must we follow the eld slavish custom, especially as we are all ireemen, and particularly when it endangers health?” Captain Raabe is a retired butcher and an ex-president of the Butchers' Protective Asso- ciation of this City, PERSONAL. G. R. Agassiz of Boston is at the California. Dr. J. F. Christal of Santa Cruz is in the city. Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento is in town. D. W. Crabb, the fruit-grower of Oakdale, is in the City. Woods Crawford, an attorney of Lakeport, is in the City. Justice of the Peace Willlam Mountbey of Hopland 15 at the Russ. A. Chisholm, the wealthy tanreryman of Benicia, was in town yesterday. 0. C. Peters, a mining man of Angels, is at the Grand on his way to Arizona. Superior Judge R. F. Crawford of Santa Rosa is at the Russ, accompanied by his son. Dr. Robert Eugene Payne, who has been ab- sent from the City for three years, has returned here to remain permanently. A. B. Hinckson, a wealthy boot and shoe manufacturer of Boston, is at the Grand, ac- companied by Mrs. Hinckson. R.J.K. Aden and A. E. Pryor of Goodall, Perkins & Co. will leave this morning for Truckee to attend the carnival. Orno Strong, proprietor of the West Coast, the weekly trade journal of Tacoms, is &t the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Captain John Henderson, the well-known land and mine owner of Fort Jones, is at the Russ. He isone of the weaithiest men in that part of the State. D. N. Hershey, the extensive grain-grower of Yolo County, who is one of the officials of the Bank of Woodland and also of the Grangers' Bank here, is at the Grand. Williem B. Dudley, an extensive merchant of New York City who handles a large amount of California canned goods, is at the Palace. He is here on a business trip. J. H. Richardson of Stewarts Point, Sonoma County, the potentate of that section, is at the Russ. He owns large areasof land, boats and other property, and ships extensive quantities of wood and-tanbark to this City. General Manager Kruttschnitt left for Port- land yesterday, accompaniea by W. G. Curtis, his assistant. The purpose of this trip is said to be Mr. Kruttschnitt's desire to inspect the road, as he has never been over it CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 8.—Miss Crocker is 8t the Netherland, Miss McKinstry and R.J Wilson and wife are at the Holland, J. M. Hin- meg is at the Colemwn, J. M. Holmes is at the Imperial, W. W, Inland and A. 8. Weiler are at the Grand Union, T. Carroll is at the St. Cloud, E.J. Lofstrong 15 at the Ashland and W. S, Watson is at the New Amsterdam. A LEAP-YEAR IDYL, When she proposed my heart beat fast; My blushes cume, with eyes downcast 1 listened while she told her love. While earth below and heaven above Had seemed 10 meet at last, &t last! She begged me not her hope to blast, And sbowed the wealth she had amassed Was for us twain more than enough, When she proposed. 1 could mot turn from love so vast, When I was as an ange) classed. And caught and kissed and called her “dove So while T thrilled with joy thereof, A trembling “yes” from my lips passed, When she proposed. —Munsey’s Mazazine. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Protect Home Industries. American Fconomist. American manufscturing makes American wages; American wages make the American | market. Stop the mauufacturing sud you have destroyed the market. For & little fem- POTary gain to tho free-trade importer is it wise ‘to dissipate the wealth of an entire nation? A Weak Commission. Sacramento Pee. It strikes us that the Venezuelan Commission named by President Cleveland is a rather milk-and-water, namby-pamby affair as a whole in contrast with what it micht have been. Such men as George Edmunds, Benja- min Harrison and William M. Evarts certainly should have been on that commission. The Bond Age. Livermore Kcho. . The House has passed a bill to increase the Government’s revenue to something about eaual to its expenses and the Senate will doubtless approve the measure, but Grover will promptly veto it and the expenses will continue to be met by issuing bonds. How- ever, we have only fourteen months more of bond-age to endare, The Eagle Still Lives. Irvington Press. ‘The vigorous scream that the American eagle has indulged in over the Venezuelan matter willdo him & great amount of good. It has been & long time since the emblem of freedom and liberty has had a chance lot;x his lungs. They are, however, in pretty good order, for his screech was heard across the great water and the Britishers were made awere that he was still alive an e to & startling degree. Taxing Foreigners. Stockton Independent. There is considerable of what is called Americanism in the Transvaal. The people there believe in making those who get the cream of the wealth in the country pay the Government's expenses. They, therefore, make transient gold and diamond miners pay aboutall the revenues. The amount is but & trifle compared with what the “outlanders” carry away with them. Ii woul 8 plan to pursue in the United States, If those who come only t0 acquire wealth and take it back to their foreign homes were taxed more heavily than_citizens there would be less of a drain upon the country’s money. Never Wanted to Arbitrate. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Great Britain does not want to arbitrate in the Venezuelan matter. Neither did she when she took Gibraltar from her Dutch allies, nor when she gobbled Malta by force, nor when she seized Aden from a weak State on & flimsy pretext, nor when she gockeled Meauritius by @ show of power, nor when she stole Trinidad, nor when, by deliberate aggression, subsidizing companies and compulsory annexation she ac- quired the best parts of Afriea, nor when she eaptured Jamaice, nor when she wrested Ceylon from the helpless Dutch, nor when she grabbed the Ascension Island, nor when by conquest she took in British Burmah, Berbice, Borneo, Hongkong, Hellgoland, Gozo and St. Helena, nor when she invaded the indian empire, nor when she simply sat down upon innumerable coaling stations in various parts of the world. If there had been arbitration there would be no British empire. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. President Faure is a great sportsman, and his preserves are among the finest in France. Every member of M. Bourgeois’ Cabinet, e: cept M. Berthelot, according to the Tablet,is a Free Mason. A nephew of Washington Irving fs the land- lord of the old-fashioned hostelry at Birming- ham, England. Prince Pedro of Coburg, grandson of the late Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, is only 30, and 1s now hopelessly insene. John Morley says that ‘‘there are probably not six Englishmen over 50 years of age now living whose lives need to be written orshoula be written.” Ruekin once wrote to Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “If you wanted to oblige me you would keep your room in order and go tobed at night. All your fine speeches go for nothing with me 4l you do that.” Meissonier was proud of his shapely and delicate hands. He said that his fingers were 50 sensitive that he could, with his eyes shut, lay on the exact amount of color he wanted on a given spot if somebody placed the point of the brush upon it. The house in which George III was born is still standing at the back of Norfolk House in St. James squar-, London. It is & dwarf Hano- verian building, almost of the cottage type, and has been used for many years as a ser- vants’ and stab e house. Of the fourteen new stars discovered during the last 300 yerrs Mrs. Fleming of the Harvard Observatory has discovered four, namely: One in the constellation of Perseus, in 1887; one in Norms, in 1893, and one each in Carina and Centaurus during 1895. Atarecent performance of “Trilby” at the | Haymarket Theater, London, the Princess of Wales, the Princesses Victoria and Maud and Prince Nicholas of Greece were present. The Trilby craze has struck England vigorously on its rebound frox this country. Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay have Dbeen awarded by the French Academy of Sci- ences 50,000 francs for their discovery of | argon. This grant is known as the prix le Comte, and is intended as a reward to the | author or authors of a new discovery in | physics, chemistry, mathematics or medicine. Congressman Smith of Michigan, expecting | that the House wou!d adjourn for the usual holiday recess, accepted an invitation to ad- dress the Young Men's Republican Club of Grand Rapids last week. Finding himself un- able to get away from Washington, Mr. Smith dictated his speech into & phonograph and | sent it by express to Grand Rapids, where it was run off to the meeting. Major Toselli’s death in Abyssinia and the conduct of his native servants read like a page of Roman history. After sending on the | wounded and those who could escape, Toselli | faced the enemy and held them back till the ammunition failed and he was killed, When they sew their master dead, two of the ser- vants shot themselves through the head with revolvers, while a third stabbed himself to the heart with a dagger. | According to a publication recently issued at i Berlin thirty-six persons figuring in the “Almanach de Gotha” have appeared as au- thors in the course of the present century. | Among the most celebratea are Queen Eliza- beth of Rumanis (Carmen Sylva), the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince George of Prussia, King John of Saxony (Philalethis), King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, Emperor Willlam 11, Alexander 110 of Russia, who wrote “Souvenirs sur le Siege de Sebastopol”; the Grand Duke Constantine, Emperor William I of Germany, four members of the House of Bavaria and the Shah of Persi POPULIST POSSIBILITIES. The Colorado Road, a Populist organ, sug- gests the foilowing names from which a Presi- dential ticket may be chosen: Governor Altgeld of Chicago. Mayor Pingree of Detroit. Senator Allen of Nebraska. Senator Tiliman of South Carolina. Tom Watson of Georgia. Judge Caldwell of Arkansas, J. C. Sibley of Pennsylvania. Governor Pennoyer of Orezon. Congressman Howard of Alabama. General Weaver, and many others could be mentioned. A USEFUL MISSES’ GOWN. All the fashlonable features of " dy’'s gowns are reproduced in misses’ co: mes. This charming example was of pink and white silk, with a bodice of white lace over pink silk. The shoulder-straps are of pink velvet. The same model is used for high-necked gowns; the yoke, being plain and incorporated in the waist, is simply cut away for an evening gown. The | sleeves afe in the new Bishop shepe, and in the gown shown above are drawn up by elasties 1o form a shorter puff. A charming gown of blue serge haa the full blouse of cashmenienna silk with shoulder-straps of plain colored vel- vet. Another gown of Petunia boucle cloth had trimmings of leaf-green miroir velvet. A chestnut brown and green mixed goods had pale 1:““ clothstraps over the shoulder, edged with beaver. A mixed cloth in blueand black had the plain yoke of blue veivet, with black satin shouider straps, belt and collar. Over the top of this collar stood scollops of blue velvet, wnich formed a frame for the face, suggestive of the petals of a flower. 5 A school dress of mixed tweed had_ shoulder straps, belt and crushed collar of leaf-green velvet, with & large smoked pearl button on both ends of the shoulder straps. ‘01d Murgans has committed suicide.” “‘You don’t say so! What was the cause?” “You know what & hater of corporations he was 1" “Yes. “Well, he saved a man from drowning the other day, and afterward discovered that the fellow’s life was insured for $50,000.”—Chi- l cago Record. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. The first week’s performances show that the success of Jobann Strauss’ new operetia “waldmeister” (Asperula) is much greater than that achieved by his last work. “The Apple Feast.” The Viennese critics find l‘hll, in spite of a rather weak Iibretto, * \n}d» meister” recalls the freshness and originality ot Strauss’ early and his best operetta, “‘Die Fledermaus” (generally known in this country by its originai title of “La Tzigane”). For the first three performances of “Waldmeister” the old master directed the overture himself, after which he passed the baton to the regular chef d’orchestre of the theater, as he was not Johann Strauss, the Waltz King. strong enough to stand the strain of directing the whole performance. Strauss’ friends say that he is already preparing another opera. He is 71 years of age, and gives every promise oi retaining as perennial an activity as the octogenarian Verdi. The critics are beginning to suggest that, as Verdi wrote a comic opera— “Falstafi”’—at the age of 80, it is not improb- able that when Strauss reaches the same age he'may be ready to come before the public with & new departure in the shape of an opera seria. ST Le Menestrel tells an amusing story of the late General Sir He: Ponsonby, who was for many years Queen Victoria's private secretary. The general was noted for his politeness, and whenever an artist performed at court he always telegraphed the following day to inquire after the performer’s health. If a com- plete troupe performed at the castle the general employed a formula, always the same, which included the various members of the compuny. A short time ago Rogers Prat was sent for to court to exhibit his educated geese beiore Queen Victoria’s grandchildren. The day fol- lowing the ‘‘artist” received the traditional telegrem from General Ponsonby, written in the following immutable terms; “Her gracious would be delighted to kuow if the members of your troupe are well and if they have had an agreeable journey. For my own part I beg you to convey to them the expres- sion of my esteem.” It is notstated whether | the educated geese replied 1o the general's polite message. S Few singers haye been more ‘“boomed” dur- ing the last few years than Miss Ellen Beach Yaw. This young Californienne is said to have the greatest range of any living soprano, and bucolic crities in Texasand New Mexico, the localities where Miss Yaw has most loved to tour, heve indorsed her with all the superla- tive adjectives in their verbal repertory. The incense offered by these rural critics has ap- peared, elong with Miss Yaw’s portrait, in numerous music journals, and the public has frequently marveled why such a phenomenal diva should prefer the homage of Houston and San Antonio to the aduiation of New York, Paris and London. Itis now announced that Miss Yaw iutends to tour through the princi- pal cities of the Union, so that the public will at last discover whether she is indeed the most phenomenal singer of the age or whether she only has an exceptionally clever press agent. There is a visible falling off of interest in the opera performances at the Metropolitan this winter in New York. The public does not seem to know what it wants,or, if it does know, when it gets it stays at home, or should it come forth, shows no enjoyment in the per- formance. Even Melba, who was stormed on her first appearance this season with the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra, met with no explo- sive greeting at her operatic debut in “Romeo and Juliet,” whereby the diva was grumpy, and when she really was applauded for the valtz song she surveyed the passive expres- sionless lines of boxes, which used to lose their sanity for her, with a glance which meant, “Too late; you've kept your greeting until I have done something you would like repested, 50 now you won’t have it.” Mrs. Mary Anne Keeley, whose ninetieth birthday was recently celebrated in London, 18 the lest person living who sang in the first performance of Weber's “Oberon.” in April, 1826, and she is probably the only one alive who saw the composer of the “Freischutz’ conduct his orchestra. The old lady is still well and strong, and when she went to Wind- sor to receive the congratulations of the Queen she proved to be the more active of the two, though Victoria is fourteen years her junior. The opera comique, ‘Panurge,” music by Planquette, is said to be neither ingemious, logical, nor amusing. The composer, accord- ing to the Progres Artistique, copied from a varied repertoire, extending from “The Bells of Corneville” to the Wagner music dramas. A song, *Je suis Cocolati, Cocolati,” is sung to the second period of the first motive of the vorspeil in the “Meistersinger.”” Emily Soldene, weil known in this country asa sometime famous burlesque actress and singer, is now in Australia, where she is doing newspaper work, and acting as musical critic. She will shortly issae a volume of reminis- cences, which will no doubt prove highly in- teresting. Harry B. Smith, Reginald de Koven’s Iibrettist, has a younger brother who also has a taste for libretto writing. He has lately finished tbe book for an opera tobe called “The Shah of Persia.” A remarkeble violoncello virtuoso, Jeite Sholei, has died suddenly at Florence. For thirty years he was professor in the musical institute of the town, and it was in the insti- tute that he was struck down with a sudden iliness from which he expired in a few hours. A new opera in four acts, entitled “Hedy,” and founded on Byron’s “‘Don Juan,” has been produced with great success at Prague. The libretto is by Frau Agnes Schulz and the music by M. Z. Fibich. The full name of Chevalier, the London music-hall singer, is Albert Onesimo Brittani- cus Gwathveoye Louis Chevalier. It would make & good yell for & Welsh college. A new operstta, ‘‘Madame Sans Gene,” by Dloueki and Wereni, has just achieved a bril- liant success at Moscow. Meseagni is about to start a musical paper in Milan. CURRENT FUN. The Jook on any married woman's face should convince the girls that the men are not worth the exertion necessary to catch one.— Atchison Globe. When a man starts in to drown his troubles he generally acts as if he thought they were located in his stomach.—Somerville Journal. “Miss Bobleigh said she dreamed of me,” said Willie Wishington. “‘Indeed?” “Yes. And shealso says that's the last mince pie she's ever going to touch.”—Washington Star. “Mme. Hulda does not sing as well as she did three years ago.” “She does not. What & shock it must be wl:gen & singer discovers that she has lost her voice.” ‘It is still more shocking when she does not discover it.”—Fliegende Blaetter. The hypnotist smiled confidently, Ves,” said he, by making & few passes I can cause a man to go to any part of the city I choose.” “H’m!” said the railroad magnate, “Icando nd & man clear —Cincinnati Enquirer, the same thing and here to San Francisco. T say,” said one British official, “whatll we do with this remote little_country of ours. It isn’t much good as it }Hes.”” 0N, was the reply, “just put one of our patented indiarubber boundary lines around it, and let it be awhile.’—Washington Post. He—What would you think, dear, if Ishould say you were a harp with a thousand strings? She—I should think, love, that you were a Iyre. ~Town and Conntry Journal. In the South Sea.—“Surely you remember Mr. Twaddles, who preached the gospel to your tribe ten years ago?”’ g «Oh, ves! I remember him well. He was Life. “No many” said the C more than half right.” )h, come now,” began the new boarder. 'he other hali,” continued the Cheerful Idiot, */is left.”—Inaianapolis Journal. delicio 20 eerfut Idiot, “is ever dog—very. Have you taught itany new tricks since I was here last? 5 She (sweetly)—Yes; it will fetch your hat if you whistle.—London Tit-Bits. He—N Dukane—I don’t believe that man knows beans. 2 Gaswell—That man not know beans! Why, he is Mr. Emerson Backbay of Boston.—Pitts- burg Chronicle Telegraph ¢ 1b. Townsends. 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