The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. L8 CALL, thre Cavr, one BUSINESS OFFICE: 0 Marke San Francisco, € Telephone.... -...Main—1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone ..Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 30 o'ciock. 839 Hay 713 Larki EW. con treet; open until 9:50 o'c! reet: open until 9:30 o'clock. | rSixteenth and Mission streets; open | antil § o'clo | 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. | 116 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. | OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. | Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THURSDAY THE CALL SPEA FOR ALL. | | = E | ival ball was not big, but it was | | Roasted pelican is not good diet, but it | is better than crow. | | | It begins to look as if the monopoly cen- tipede would scon be without a single leg | to stand on. | Once more the French republic is said to | be in danger of falling, and once more it doesn’t even totte: It is now said it was not the cathode ray but what sci ts call the X ray that made the te; The next thing we know Huntington ’t remember that he owes the Govern- ment anything at all. What Hun railroading fill Southern Pa 1 doesn’t know about all the books of the Company. | Senator Morgan’s cr getting in all the eff s-examination is Huntington with de ray. its wo e sht in thinking | Rainey he has a long reach and may apture them yet. 1t is worth the Unio: dustry noting that every State in | that has a large gold mining in- in favor ot free silver coinage. Whenever the Huntington burr is opened up we find the two old chestnut *Idon’'t know” and “I don’t remember. 1t will be a long time yet before the fistic carnival gets its quietus, for Jim Corbett has begun to take a tongue in it. The Senate made a good record for itself in passing the pension bill in eight min- utes, but 1t doesn’t promise to keep up the lick. / In ber rapid acquirement of all the features of civilization Japan has just de- | veloped a railroad combination and a Cabinet cris The report from Berlin that the Kaiser is worse in society than he isin volitics | may be put down among the tales that | fatigue credulity. The boulevard movement is good, but 1t | musin’t get too far ahead of the move- ment for the improvement of streets where business travels, About the time Huntington gets off the stand the bond deal investigating commit- | tee will put Carlisle on it and then there will be more fun. ‘With tne cold shoulder on one side and | bastea ribs on the other monopoly doesn’t know yet whether it has struck acold &nap or a hot time. The goldbug papers may be right in calling Tillman the “Senate stable-boy,” but all the same he does his work well in | currying down the donkeys. It was perhaps well enough for both houses of Congress to turn their fire on Becretary Morton, but why hunta rabbit when there is a bear in sight? Although Senator Morgan has been forced to play a lone hand in the Pacific Roads Committee, he holds the winning cards and can euchre the crowd. It would be a good idea to give the | Balfe-Moore concert a series of encores to raise money to erect a memorial to Balfe and Moore as an ornament to the park. Senator Hill objects to the investigation of the Cleveland bond deal and it seems these New York fellows Laye found out | that it is time for them to stand together. The carnival in New Orieans may be larger than any single one of ours, but-we will have enough to surround it with such a ring of rose festivals as would lose it in the whirl, Huntington persists in asserting that the Cliff House is a saloon and 4 gambling | den, but fortunately the fame of that beautiful resort is too well known for the | lie to obscure it. Now that the Cleveland Chamber of { funding scheme. | work which it would be useful at THE TAOTICS OF FOOLS. In the whole course of the contest against the funding bill no feature of the contro- versy has been more surprising than the part played by the literary bureau of the railroad. 1f in other departments of the monopoly camp there have been cunning | and skill, in the literary work there has been nothing but awkwardness and blun- ders. The men appointed to obtain inter- views with prominent Californians favor- able to the funding scheme have gone about their work with the recklessness of a journalistic faker who believes that any- thing will do for the day so long as it fills space and 1s published a long way from home. Column after column of the Washington Post has béen filled with what purports to be interviews with men of more or less prominence in California, and these inter- | views invariably are made to represent some form of sentiment favorable to the A wide variety of ex- pression is given to the different state- ments, but all are so fashioned as to tend to the same end. In some the funding scheme is directly commended. Others oppose the policy of Government opera- tion of the roads. and the false inference |is put forth that such men support the funding scheme, Still others are made to | denounce the great majority of their fel- low-citizens as “‘sand-lotters” and “wild- eyed anarchists’” because as isalleged they are opposed to doing justice to capital. In the 2oncoction of these reported inter- views there is a seerzing cunning, but the ‘blundering awkwardness of them is dis- played by the vigor with which they are denied by the men who are reported to have given them. Man after man has arisen to repudiate in language more or less emphatic the statements attributed to bim. Some of them assert they were never interviewed at all. Others found their words garbled or distorted, and in not a few instances the reported interviews | contained statements the direct opposite of what the persons interviewed had said. We have here therefore coming forth | from the literary bureau of the monopoly ly iteration of statements conta ining v form of misrepresentation, from a sly innuendo to a dowrright falsehood. | Such methods of conducting a’ controversy | are so dangerous to the employer of them it is difficult to understand how men of | even ordinary sagacity, much less honor, could be tempted to use them under any circumstances. Their employment by the railroad therefore is one of the encouraging nsof victory for the people. The monop- oly must be in a corner, indeed, when it resorts to such weapons, or perhaps it is nother illustration of the old truth, “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” THE TRUTH ESCAPING. Mr. Huntington is having an experience entirely new to him—he is being cross-ex- amined by men in Congress who have neither fear of his power nor respect for his money and character. Under the ex- asperating pertinacity and contempt of Senator Morgan he is driven occasionally into outbursts of anger that alternate with his abortive attempts at facetiousness, and under the torture of a cold and merciless band of iron that holdshim to the issue he is giving forth some truths that all his powers of evasion are not able to withhold. He has divulged the fact, for instance, that it was he who suggested the destruc- tion of the Contract and Finance Com- pany’s books. His assigned reason was that the concerns of the company had been closed and that the books were no longerof any use. Yet he admits that the books of the Western Development Com- pany were not destroyed,so far as he knows. The significance of this is appar- ent when 1t is reflected that the crooked this juncture to discover was done by the Con- tract and Finance Company. Moreover, it is netthe custom among business men to destroy the books of enterprises that have expired unless there is something in | : {:he recosds that would be dangerous to have discovered. Lt is commonly believed in California that the books of the Contract and Finance Company were not destroyed until Mrs. Colton filed her famous suit for an accounting, and that the destruction was intended solely to prevent their con- tents from being made public. Mr. Huntington has been compelled to disgorge other useful information. He testified that the Southern Pacific Com- | pany paid the Central Pacific $1,360,000 a vear as rental until the earnings of the | Central fell below that figure, and then made a new contract to pay only what the | Central Pacific earned. A close inquiry | would possibly develop the fact that the | new contract was made after the passage | of the Thurman act requiring the crea- | tion of a sinking fund. It might not be ; difficult to show, further, that about this time and for the further purpose of im- | poverishing the sinking fund the sye- | tematic plan of diverting traffic from the Central to the Southern line was begun. On top of all that is the consideration | thattne question of foreclosure was gradu- | ally approaching, and that a destruction | of the value of the Central Pacific would | make foreclosure and a full recovery of the | Government debt a more difficult process than-if the Central Pacific had been kept | up to its full earning capacity. Mr. Hunt- ington indeed is unwittingly and unwill- ingly giving some very useful information. IMPROVING THE RIVERS. While the committee appointed to advo- cate before Congress various appropria- tions for the improvement of the rivers and harbors of Califorma is presenting its case to the Senate and House committees | baving in charge the bills governing such appropriations it is well to turn to an eminently practical contribution which Commerce has rejected Carnegie because |'has been made to the Woodland Democrat “he is an oppressor of the poor,” they | should not allow their philanthropy to stop there. The poor are still with them. In the great international game for the | Korean stakes Russia holds the King, but it remains to be seen whether he belongs to the tramp suit. There is a chance yet for Japan to turn up a card of another color. In publishing interviews of prominent Californians favorable to the funding bill, Huntington not only counts his chickens before they are hatched, but what is more no sooner are they hatched than they rise up and deny the allegation, Ex-Senator Ingalls has appealed to the Republicans of every county in Kansas to give instructions on the senatorship to their representatives in the Legislature, and if his scheme works he won't be a statesman out of a job much longer. The report of the State Liquor Commis- sioner of South Carolina states that from February 1 to December 31, 1895, the total sales amounted to $1,076,963, from which counties and towns derived a net profit of $106,131 and the State $133,467. It will be seen therefore that whatever the system be in other respects it has proven a fairly profitable one as a matter of busi- ness, p by J. R. Price, Chief Engineer of the Cali- fornia Commission of Public Works. For the basis of his argument Mr. Price takes the majority report of the Mississippi River Commission, dated February 17, 1880, which report went to the value of levees and other means for restraining the flow of inland streams as a safezuard against inundation of contiguous territory and the occurrence of shallows and bars to obstruct navigation. Mr. Price’s argument is reducible to a simple formula: The restriction of streams to definite channels may be accomplished the circumstances, as levees, wing dams, jetties and the like; such restriction not only prevents the overflow of contiguous low regions but by confining the flow re- duces the flood level by bottom-scouring, prevents the deposition of suspended solid matter and increases the facilities for navigation. All these principles are fa- miliar to intelligent persons and need not be stated, either in Mr. Price’s terms or those of James B. Eads, that brilliany genius who not only was a member of the Mississippi River Commission, but who was the author of the jetties which in- creased the depth of the Mississippi chan- nel from nine feet to thirty-one, and thus made New Orleans a port of the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Price makes a suggestion of great | flourishes beneath its very nose as Tur | by the construction of devices required by [ pushed with vigor. value. It is that the whole subject of river improvement in California should be in the hands of the Federal Government, and that under its direction there should be conducted a series of improvements, the expense of which should be borne in rea- sonable proportion among the Federal Government, the State government and the owners of the riparian property affected.’ As the present inadequate carrying cavacity of our rivers has been ascribed wholly to the filling process of hydraulic mining, it may be proper to call attention to other current and increasing factors contributing to that end. Wherever the soil of watersheds is ex- posed or stirred there is bound to ensue a flow of silt down the draining streams. The only rivers which are never roiled ave those which issue with an easy flow from dense forest regions. Such is the case with the wonderfully impid and sluggish rivers of Florida. When there comes about a barbarous burning of the undergrowth *to preserve the forests,”” or a clearing and cultivation of the ground for agricultural use, or hydraulic wmining, or anything else that gives the erosive powér of rainsan opportunity to work, there will be a wash- ing down of the soil into the rivers and a consequent filling up of rhe beds of slug- gish streams, with all the ensuing evils. Hence the spread of agriculture presents ultimately as grave a menace to our rivers as does the mining industry which onr agriculturists are fighting so strenuously. These are matters to be ponderea in all fairness and wisdom, and the more they are considered the wiser will appear Mr. Price’s suggestion that the Federal Gov- ernment should be the center of all move- ments to improve our rivers. MOORE AND BALFE, The popular interest shown in the en- tertainment of the Balfe-Moore ciub was sufficient to afford reason for the members to venture upon further efforts and to in- spire them with an ambition for greater undertakings. It would be well, there- fore, for the club in the flush of this suc- cess to consider whether it could provide for doing honor to Irish genius and adorn- ing the City at the same time by erecting a memorial to Moore and Balfe in the Park. Asin the muking of San Francisco there have been employed the energies of all the best races of earth, so it is fitting that her great ornamental garden and public pleas- ure ground should be marked with memo- rials of those great men who have been at once the glory of their own race and an in- spiration and a joy to the whole civilized world. The souls of genius and of worth to whom has been given the power to cre- ate and make known to men immortal ideals of beauty and truth deserve com- mendation everywhere, and particularly so in San Francisco, where men of all na- tions have been united by destiny in the commeon task of building up a city that ought to reflect the finest genius of all. Tom Moore and Michael Balfe have made the poetry and the music of Ireland a precious heritage unto all who debght | 1n those things which are both noble and | beautiful. In the Irish melodies of Moore there is music in every line, and in the | strains of Balfe’s “Bohemian Girl”’ there | is poetry in every chord. Thousands of hearts in this City respond to their music and their poetry as ardently as they are responded to in Iréland iteself. All these would willingly unite with the club in erecting in‘the park a memorial to serve as a companion to that erected to Goethe and Schiller. The undertaking certainly deserves the best efforts the club can | make, and there can be little doubt that | if made, success will be achieved and we shall have the memorial. FIOTITIOUS MERIT. That sort of journalistic “enterprise’” which seeks to better its financial condi- | tion by resort to lotteries, coupons and similar devices is evidently distasteful to | the Argonaut, which, in its last issue, pub- lishes the following: “The San Jose Mercury copies a recent | editorial in the Argonaut entitled ‘Peter | Funk Journalism,” and says: “I'he Argo- | naut speaks with truth and force, but had it desired to be perfectly fair and candid, it would not have traveled nearly two thousand miles from Lome to select an ex- ample of honest, straightfornard journal- ism, when so conspicuous an example | CarLL.’ “The Argonaut has already frequently commented approvingly on the course of Tue CALv in this regard, as that journal will doubtless admit. We repeat it, how- ever—it is the only daily journal in San Francisco which is apparently able to stand alone, and does not depend on lot- tery fakes and premium snaps to keep it going. The article to which the Mercury refers was necessarily restricted to Chi- cago, as it discussed the return of journals | to journalism, and Chicago is the only city where that practice has as yet become gen- eral. In San Francisco, as we said, there is but one daily journa! which is not edited on the Peter Funk plan and which is not engaged in junk jomrnalism.’’ | | | FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Travel Serves to Remind. Los Angeles Express. People who come home from the East at this time of the year appreciate climate. Buy a Home. East Oregonian. He who has no clear, inherent right 1o live somewhere, said Horace Greeley, has no right to live at all. Fun in Arizona. Pheenix Republican. There is gotng to be a lot of fun in Arizona politics this year, but the Democratic party will be at the other end of it. Remarkable Coincidence of Langunge. | Galt Gazette. There is a remarkable unanimity of senti. | ment and coincidence of language in that por- | tion of the State press that favors Huntington’s funding bill. The stuff reads like newspaper | syndieate work—as if all penned by the same Land. Argaments can always be found to bolster a bad cause. Competition Sadly Needed. Santa Clara Journal. Fresno has wisely decided to grant the Valley Railroad the right of way through the city. It was unfortunate that the hicn oceurred in the first place, but owing to the recent law passed for the purpose of covering just such cases, the delay wasunavoidable. Now that the right of way has been secured, the work will be Cleveland the Autocrat. San Jose Mercury. Cleveland has in several instances, either directly or through the departments, deliber- ately set aside the law. He has assumed that the legislative, executive and judicial powers of the Government all center in him. He has been imperial in his dictation and conduct, and ‘that he hasnot been impeached is due solely to his retainers in Congress whom he has purchased with official patronage. Progressing Backward. Petaluraa Argus. / In the past three years we have increased our indebtedness 262 millions of dollars and at the same time aecreased - the revenue. The interest-bearing indebtedness has been in- creased for the sole purpose of retiring green- ks, preventing the circulation of silver and to give the wealthy classes an _opportunity to escape taxation on’ $262,000,000 of capital by investing it in United States bonds. | such periume-ladened atmosphere, such rare | Ohio, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. DR.JORDAN TALKS ABOUT NANSEN President Jordan of the Stanford University talked with a CALL reporter yesterday concern- ing the Arctic explorer, Dr. Nansen. Dr. Jor- dan said: “Dr. Fridtjof Nansen is a man of tremendous physical strength and endurance, young, am- biticus and withal a highly educated gentle- man, thoroughly treined in the methods of scientific work. “‘When I first knew Nansen, in 1886, he had but lately taken his degree in science at the University of Christiania and was then director of the Natural History Museum of the eity of Bergen. He wes a brilliant young fellow, with the solidity ot mind common among Norwe- gians. He stood over six feetin height, well proportioned, tremendously sirong, delighting 'HE CALL may be the means of causing a re- {Iorm in such mluarhn ?? bednefit those whose ves are spent on the briny deep. The main cause of ill treatment on board American vescels is the sysiem of shipping crews through the means of boarding-house keepers. and their runners, whose words are taken as to the capabilities of the men they introduce toships’ officers. A sailing vessel carries a crew according to the amount of her tonnage,and among the number Te- quires so many able seamen in each watch, the remainder of the crew being made up of what is termed ordinary seamen. When the ship gets to sea, however, and_the officers find half the men to be land-lubbers, it is no wonder that trouble occurs, and especially so as that class of men are, as a rule, insubordinate and what is termed “‘cheeky.” Every ship master and officer in these days of fast passages on clipper ships is anxious to make good voyages, and nothing is more ag- gravating than for a mate to find when too in physical exercise. He had on a summer vacation to the far North killed and mounted | fifteen Polar bears, which he sent to the differ- ent museums of the world. He had published several papers on the anatomy of the hagfish and ou the anatomy and morphology of cer- tain groups of worms. “In 1387 it was my fortune to be able to offer him a professorship in zoology in the Univer. sity of Indiana, which position he came very near accepting. But he gave it up to accept the offer of the Norwegian Government of means -to carry out his scheme of walking across the glacial plateau of Greenland. He wrote me that his friends in Christiania all re- garded him as foolish togive up the certainties of a professorship for a scheme such as he was going into. But hisadmirable good sense and | bis wise choice of men, combined with his un- { | tiring physical strength, made this dreary ex- pedition a success, adding considerable iufor- mation, largely negative, to our knowledge of the glacial plateaus of the far north, ‘“Since then he come ‘to feel that the north pole must be known, and he, if any one, has the strength and the ability to find it. 3 “Not long ago I had the pleasure of naming for Nansen a new gennus of Arctic fishes, the species being Nensenia groenlandica.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “One of the most delightful recollections 1 have among all the events of a rather busy career 1s that of a week spent in Honolulu some four or five years ago,” said Kalie Putnad at the Columbia Theater last night. “We had been to Australia for a season of twenty-six weeks and were on our journey home. We stopped at Honolulu, and ‘at the solicitation of the King. who was then alive, we gave a series of performances under royal patronage. The whole commuuity received us with open arms, and the kindnesses shown us were such as one never can forge “But, aside from that, the beauty of the isl- ands, the strange, almost weird customs of the natives, the ease and langour which seemed to permeate and envelop all life made the week | seem like a quickly passing visit to another ex- istence. Such profusion of flowers end plants, and pleasing hospitality made one think he had fallen heir to a quarler-section in an earthly paradise. “Major Macfarlane. who, I am told, is at present in San Francisco, Was unremitting in his attentions and his purpose to make our visit one to be forever remembered. Our per- formances seemd to delight everybody, and though anxious to set foot again on our own ground, we all felt a keen regret when the fune came to leave. Itis the dream of my life to go Again to those islands of a thousand de- lights.” PERSONAL. L. Kinney, a business man of Portland, is in town. Edward Siltner of Oregon arrived here yes- | terday. H. is here. J. J. Boyce, the attorney, of Santa Barbara, is in town. Captain George Hark of Carson, Nev,, is in the City. John W. Mitchell, the grocer, of Los Angeles, is in the City. H. G. Turner, an attorney of Modesto, arrived here yesterday. Duncan McNee left on the Corona for Los Angeles yesterday. Bedford, a stockbroker of New York, | Fred Pelham, agent of a Chicago lcctum! bureau, is at the Palace. 8. Clark. who owns large mining interests at Forest Hill, is at the Lick. C. D. Hazzard, a wealthy merchant of Min- | neapolis, is at the Palace. A.T. Evans and J. R. Marion, business men of Mazatlan, are in the City. Hon. John McMurray, the banker, of Reno, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan, J. J. Pratt, the extensive truit packer of Yuba City, is here on & business trip. Joseph M. Locke, & capitalist of Cincinnagi, Austin Abbott, the wéll-known farmer of Sonora, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. J.W. Casebury of Sacramento, who is eu- gaged extensively in cattle-raising, is in town. R. D. Boyce of Portland is a guest at the Cos- mopolitan, accompanied by his wife and sister- in-law. Frank M. Berry, a business and mining man of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Russ, accompanied | by his wife. Captain B. F. Day of the United States navy and recently commander of the Baltimore is at the Palace. Licutenant E. A, Rogers of the United States navy returned from Seattle yesterday after a month’s absence. District Attorney J. Charles Jones of-Sacra- mento came down yesterday and heard Pader- ewski at the California. Dr. Hawks, formerly surgeon of the cruiser Baltimore, left for San Diego yesterday to join the cruiser Philadelphia. W. H. Mills of the Soutkern Pacific system left yesterday on a business trip to Los An- geles. He will be absent abouta week. Godfrey Holterhoff Jr. of Los Angeles, treas- urer, assistant secretary and tex commissioner of the Southern California Railway, is in the cit; E. M. Ross, United States Circuit Judge of the Southern District of California, will leave for his home at Los Angeles to-day after a month here. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Mrs. Howard is at the Holland; M. Moses, Broadway Central; H. Huntington, Murray Hill; R.P. Vail, St. Cloud; E. C. Peiber, Astor. Mrs. W. R. Foster and Mrs. A. Vanbergen were among the pas- sengers who sailed on the St. Louis for South- ampton. E. J. Priber and Miss Elsie Priber Wwere among the passengers who sailed on the Normandia for Genos, via Gibraltar, Algiers and Naples, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. TREATMENT OF SAILORS. A PLAN SUGGESTED FOR IMPROVING THE LOT OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: One can scarcely take up a newspaper pub- lished in a maritime city that does not contain an account of illusage by ships' officers of sailors, and that chiefly on American mer- chant ships, and the question arises, Why is it 50? The writer having followed sea life for many years of his early manhood, feels to some extent able to answer the question, trusting that the publication of this commu- nication in so widely circulated a journal as late to remedy the difficulty that one-half of his watch do not know a bowline from a Wwagon wheel or the main brace from a mule’s halter. Hence the knock-down and stringing- to-the-shrouds business. n the British mercantile service seldom does anything of this kind take place, and the reason is obvious, for the following arrange- ment: When a crew signs articles with a British ship for a foreign voyage each man Who ships as an_able seaman procures a ‘cer- tificate from the Board of Trade of his compe- tence, which he deposits with the ship's officers, and if found incompetent may be landed at any port and can claim no wages; and those who ship as ordinary seamen have todo likewise; and seldom is punishment or hard usage reported in consequence of such arrangement, for an officer knows he can de- pend ou the men that comprise his watch in any emergency. Chief and second mates have to undergo ex- aminations before the Board of Trade as to their efliciency in navigation and seamanship, and cannot ship on a foreign-bound vessel Wwithout producing a certificate of competency. It would be wellif the same rule were car- ried out at every American seaport, and if & law were enacted to severely punish eyery res- cally person found guilty of ioisting dock loafers and other vagabonds on shin's officers as able seamen & seaman’s life would be much umproved. OLD-TDMER. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 14, 1896 THE POINT OF VIEW. ‘This worid is as we make it, T often hear them say. 15 weare sad and tearful, The world will seem that wa; And if we seek the dark side, Where every thing goes wrong, And see molenills as mountains, Our lives will seem too long. But if we seek life’s sunshine, Sweat 10y to other’s give. And gayly climb life’s mountains, As thouzh we're glad to Live; To overcome disaster, And roynd us sunshine shower— To make our dear friends happy— Then joy will be our dower. The world is but a mirror, Reflecting each one’s mind. 1t we 100K at it crossly To us 'twill not look kind; But if we smile upon it, 1t will be joyous, t00— No matter how we see it, "Twill give us our own view. 8o, when the world seems dreary, And Iffe seems bitter, (00, Just ask your disposition 114t ean petter do; Aund, if it turns to sunshine, The world will 100k 8o bright That vou will be forgetting How dark has been the night. MARTHA 8. LIPPINCOTT, in Philadelphia Leager. LADY'S WAIST WITH BOX-PLEATED BLOUSE FRONT. Here is a charming model for extra waists of silk, batiste or other cotton, as well asfor entire costumes of silk, wool or cotton. The pattern has a fitted lining, the material being seamless both back and front. The box- pleat is cut separate and sewn on, which is less troublesome for the maker than to have it cut in one viece with the front. A bandsome crepon gown of old green was made with a waist after this pattern, and a perfectly plain skirt. The trimming consisted of embroidered bands of creamy batiste laid over black satin ribbons. Wide black satin ribbon made the stock collar with & bow at the back. A bow like that shown in the illustra- tion was set on either side of the box-pleat at the waist. A serge dress of black had the shoulder straps of bright rose-colored ribbon, overlaid with white embroidery. The box-pleats were of white lawn, with a’ ruffie of narrow Valen- clennes lace on the edge of each fold. The sleeves on this gown reached to the waist ex- actly like the pattern, which is longer than shown in the illustration. g A printed organdy made after this model was trimmed with brettelles of ribbon, with a bow ‘on the shoulder. Over the stock collar, which was of the same violet ribbon, were tiny points of white nainsook, edged with lace, six of these points just meeting extended all around the coliar, being sewed in at the log and over- lapping the collar, points downward. MAY PROVOKE A SMILE. Personal Experience.—He—Her treetment of Jack has made him an anti-vivisectionist. She—How is that? He—He knows what it is to feel cut up.—Puck. A Wise Child.—Dickie, what do you want for your birthday present? Oh, papa, get me a savings bank that mamma can’t get nickels oui of with a hair-pin.—Chi- cago Record. Photographer—Yes, sir; 1 can photograph the money in your pocket-book just as you stand. Visitor—Well, you're a real genius then; I went through it just now and couldn’t find a cent!—Chicago Record. “Doctor, my father wanted me to study medi- cine, but I wouldn’t have made & successful physician.” “Indeed! Why not, pray?” “Because I could not have felt a lady’s pulse without causing her heart trouble.”—Fliegende Blaetter. You've seen them more than ouce o twice, ‘These vagaries of fate; The thinner Johnny thinks the ice, The more he wants to skate. —Washington Star. Fenderson—You say that man is a deaf mute, and that he has an impedimentin his speech. Pray, how cen- that be ? 5 Foggs — Very easily. A few months ago he lost two fingers by a buzz-saw.—Boston Tran- seript. Willie—I knew you werc coming to-night, Castleton—Why, Willie? Willie—Sister has been asleep all the after- noon.—New York Truth, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Payne Ciarke has come very near losing his life since his arrival in San Francisco. When he opened here in “Aida” with the Tavary company the tenor was suffering from & slight lameness caused by the friction of & new shoe. He paid no attention to the scrateh, however, and continued to go about as usuel, till blood- poisoning from the wound set in. Even then the tenor refusedto consider himself on the siek-list, and it was not till he was very ill that he gave up his work and sent fora doctor. The physician, who found him delirious, arrived just in time to avert an attack of lockjaw, and for some days Payne Clarke hovered between life and death. He is on the highway to recovery now, and it is hoped wiil 8oon be able to resume his work in those roles where he especially shines. Great commisera- tion is felt for him among his many friends, particularly as his illness occurred when he was suffering considerable mental anguish on account of adverse criticism for his Radames in “Aida.” It is said that Payne Clarke has not denied that he deserved “roasting,” but he felt that he was entitled to a few shreds of the mantle of charity on that memorable occasion when he sang the part of the Egyptian hero. Mr. Guille, the real Radames of the company, had been sent on ahead to rest for the opening performance, but rumor says that Mr. Guille found on taking up the Monday papers that he had not teen given the prominence due to his | merits in the way of interviews, and, therefore, declined tosing. Whatever his reason, he cer- tainly refused to appear, and Payne Clarke, who had never sung Radames without the score and who had just arrived from a‘long journey, was good-natured enough to save the performance by appearing at & decided dis- advantage. There are few artists who would have been so self-sacrificing. Musieal celebrities are beginning to shower upon us. The latest announcement is that Martin P. Marsick is on his way here to givea series of concerts. He is one of the leading violinists in Paris, and is the great professorof ihe violin at the Paris Conseryatory. Marsick is & native of Liege, Belgium, and at 12 years of age was organist of Liege Cathedral and soprano soloist of the great religious festivals. Later be went to perfect his studies at the made honerary members of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences. President Cleveland still remains silent as to his desire to expevience the “ex” rays, General Horace Porter at a recent elpb din- ner in New York said that the first hulf}i(,n man’s life was spent in getting his name, into the newspapers and the last half in & struggle to keep it out. A MISPLACED MONARCH. peror William,” said a well-informed iscerning Frenchman last summer to an American traveler, “is precisely the kind of monarch that the great majorlty of the French people would delight to have as their ruler. Unquestionably, if Emperor William, instead of being the head of the Hohenzollern family, had been the head of the Bourbon, the Orleans or the Bonaparte family, and had 'in_this way | come to the throne of France, as, h his fa- voring personal qualities, it is hot unlikely he would bave come, in spite of the republic, he would without 'doubt have been fcr the French the idel of the people in a way that he mever can be with his Ger- man subjects. Their devotion is for “Unser | Fritz,” _or the old Emperor, the good but | somewhat commonplace, rulér and fighter, who will stand at his palace window each morning at a certain hour to see his troops go by; who will lead what the French would call a bourgeoise species of domestic life—that is, quietly and after the rather tame midile-class method—but & man who wjll never startle them by doing anything thd% is wnexpected, nor make too frequent demands upon them for displays of personal enthusiasm. The French, on the other hand, have in the ast delighted in having over them a man who kept himself constantly in evidence. General Boulanger almost succeeded in securing a dic- tatorship by his pleasin, rsonal bearing and the art which he showed in attracting notice at military reviews and on other public occa- sions. The Frenchman who looks back over his national bistory finds in such sovereigus as Henry IV and in Louis.XIV, particularly the former, the type of man who bas appealed most powerfully to the popular mind.. There has been in them that exaggerated egotism that monarchs who wia the adoration of peo- ple like the French must possess. They have entire confldence in themselves and in their judgment and demand and expect to receive | the unquestioning confidence and respect of their people. This quality of supreme egotism is one which the present Emperor William of and MARSICK, THE BELGIAN VIOLINIST OF PARISIAN REPUTATION. Brussels Conservatory under Leonard, but, having more than his usual share of the artis- | tic tendency to resent rivairy, he shook the dust of the conservatory from his feet at the | age of 15 because he had been debarred on ac- count of his youth from receiving a prize. Marsick went to Paris and graduated at the conservatory, after which the seal of success was set upon him by Vieuxtemps, who pub- licly embraced the young violinist for playing his fourth concerto. Marsick is well knownat the Colonne and Lamoureux concerts, and has also toured with success through Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Russia and England. 'his is his first visit to Amer- ica, and partly owing to differences of opinion with his manager he did not at first create the enthusiasm in the East that was expected. Lately, howeser, he has aroused considerably more public interest. The critics have always spoken in the highest terms of his scholarly work, which is said to show to the best ad- vantage in chamber concerts. Siegfried Wagner, the son of the Bayreuth master, has just created & great sensation in Vienna, where he was invited by Hans Richter to make his first appearance before the Vien- nese public by directing an_orchestral concert at the Imperial Opera. The young man con- ducted with great sentiment the idylle of «Siegfried,” the delightful excerpt which the happy father aedicated to his son when he was only an infant in_arms. Afterward Siegfried Wagner attacked Beethoven’s symphony in F, and is said to have shown real talent s acon- duetor. The Viennese were very anxious to hear his own cantata, “Homesickness” (Sehn- sucht), which Siegfried Wagner has written on Schiller's celebrated verses and which has Dbeen already performed in Munich, but he ex- cusedl himself from appearing gs & composer during his visit to Vienna. It is a quarter of a century since Richard Wagner conducted in the Austrian capital for the last time. Tnat was in May, 1872, and he gave his concert to raise funds for the Bayreuth enterprise. More than 50,000 francs were cleared.. It is true that Wagner offered the first fruits of the “«Nibelungen,” and among other fragments the famous fire ineantation from the *“Valky- rie,” whose first execution has become legend- ary, for the elements mixed real lightning and thunder with the music. The' resemblance of Siegfried to his father has been greatly com- mented on in Vienna; his eyes, however, are said to reflect a vague souvenir of his grand- father, Franz Liszt. Siegfried has been so much sneered at as “the son of his father” that it is quite retreshing to find him receiving a little considaration on his own account. «Jennie Deans,” the opera founded by Joseph Bennett on Sir Walter Scott’s novel, “The Heart of Midlothial and composed by Ham- ish MacCunn, has just been given for the first time in London. Scotland, of whom it was contemptuously said not many years since that she had not produced a single composer of genius, scems now coming to the front in this department of art, and among the most talented writers must certainly be placed Mac- Cunn. His overture, “Land of the Mountain and the Flood,” and svinphonic poem, “The Ship o' the Fiend,” have proved him & tone poet of no mean order, and if his first essay in grand opera cannot be called a masterpiece it at any rate is said to afford evidence that with due experience he may give something to the world in the department of lyric drama which the world will not willingly let die. Joseph Beunett has teken just as much of the original story as was convenient for his libretto. Cardinal Perraud, Bishop of Autun and a member of the French Academy, has- just written & book on music according to Plato, Its title is “Eurythmie et Harmonie.” The author expounds the Platonic doctrine of the assimilation of music and morals, and devel. opes this thought by quotations from the Serip- tures. “The wise man is & musician, and virtue is harmony.” A dispatch from Odessa says: “The Russian composer, Alexander Fedoroff, has just pro- duced a lyric drama, “The Fonntain of Tears,” which has been received with enormous en- thusiasm at Ekaterinsolaf. All the papers speak in the highest terms of the music, the libretto for which was based on a fable by Pouschkine. A French translation of *“The Fountain of Tears” is already being made, The Regio Theater at Turin has given the first representation of Maestro Conti’s new opera, “Savitri.” The reception accoraed the work was favorable, but not enthusiastic. Nine calls were given the composer, but that was very little for Italy. 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