The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1896, Page 6

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THURSDAY ...... ...---MARCH 19, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. In the Cuban war the toreh is mightier than the sword. Morgan's speech for free Cuba wasex- haustive—it lasted seven hours. The Republican harmony established in the City isin perfect accord with that of the State. If King Menelex and the Mahdi could only agree to join hands their shake would shake Europe. Loyal Republicanism finds its way to victory through open primaries and the path of straight politics. From the Buckley lambs the Junta will get much cry but little wool, and even that will probably be unwashed. Kentucky is one State thatis prepared to favor an election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people without fur- ther talk. In the Republican procession that moves toward honest politics there is room for every man who is not too crooked to walk a straight path. Open primaries will establish Repub- lican harmony at home and unpledged delezates will give power in the conven- tion at St. Louis. From the way it looks now Central Africa is not going to serve Europe as a colonization field so much as a graveyard for surplus conser ilroad lobby has a large variety of s s.on hand, but in every hem turkey for the monopoly crow far the peop) As Rudi s Italy will not make peace Aby a it is clear the British expedition up the Nile has begun to bear bitter fruit already. The testimony already given in the trial of Dr. Jameson proves his raid had been carefully prepared beforehand, and by and by we may learn who prepared it. The Cubans claim te have 60,000 men under arms, but whenever a battle takes place they say they had only a few hun- dred opposed to several thonsand. Most of the men who rose to fame dur- ing the Kentucky contest must now retire to obscurity, but there is a place for Jack Chinn on the melodramatie stage. From the present outiook it appears that at the St. Louis Convention McKinley will have either a tidal wave on the first ballot or a trip up Salt River on the last. It begins to look as if Cleveland’s vigor- ous Venezuelan message was intended strictly for home consumption and some- thing milder had been provided on the side for John Bull. After the two votes that have been taken on the silver question in the Senate one would suppose the discussion of it was overin that body for this session but it isn't. Senator Pugh has afew more re- marks to submit. The French newspapers are demanding of their Government an open treatment of the Egyptian question by a message “ala Olney,” and thus does Paris give diplo- macy a new phrase. According to the statement of Sir George Curzon in Parliament England and Italy have no alliance but they have an under- standing, and perhaps from that France and Russia may also get an understanding and know what to expect. By the language in which the miotion was put the Kentucky Legislature ad- journed “‘everlastingly, eternally and for- ever,” but as it did not pass any appro- priation bills the Governor may ecali it back as soon as it has had time to cool off. i by The British Ministry announces a will- ingness to join an international conference for the restoration of bimetallism, but as it also announces that England wili not adopt bimetailism the other nations will probably decline the conference without thanks. If the Sultan is rightin saying the Pa- triarch of Armenia is to blame for all the trouble in that country he would have been justified in deposing the Patriarch, but not in slaughtering the common peo- ple who bad nothing to do with his ap- pointment or his continuance in office. ‘Whatever view may be taken of the war in Cuba, all will agree that Senator Morgan was right in saying: “If neither party to the struggle can defend the rights and property of American citizens who are there, it is time the Government of the United States should intervene to protect them.” According to the San Jose Pioneer the first American disccverer of goid in Cali- fornia was not Marshall, as history re- ecrds it, but Mrs. Sarah A. Aram, who with her husband and a party of immi- grants camped on a branch of the Yuba River in 4846, and while there found gold in the stream. Baah < Tt The New York Zribune has taken the trouble to poll the members of the Stock, Cotton, Produce and Consolidated Ex- changes of that city on the Presidential question, with the result that among Re- publicans Morton led and McKinley came next, while among Democrats very few were willing to name a candiaate. They said the question was premature. A MONOPOLY EXACTION. 1n & recent incident occurring in that section the Visalia Delta has found a good means of illustrating to Eastern people why California is opposed to the Southern Pacific of Kentucky and why they are fighting by every means in their power all proposals for refunding the railroad ‘debts and every other scheme that means a per- petuation of the monopoly. -4 The incident recorded by the Delta is the experience ‘of a. gentleman named J. B. Mills, who ‘recently ordered ‘from a wire- fence company of Holly, Mich., & car- load of material. On the shipment the Southern Pacific made so heavy a charge that an inquiry into the matier was un- dertaken. An extract from a letter written by the secretary of the wire company to Mr. Mills is quoted by the Deita, as fol- lows: You perheps understand from our former letter that we had & rate of 50 cents per hun- dred pounds to terminal points in California. Some of them we named to you, Stockton among others. We found, when we came to make an investigation, that from Stockton to Tulare the distance was 166 miles, and that the reguiar locsl rate was 63 cents. We an- ated, from information that we had for- merly received, that the rate could be reduced. and we made apolication to_the sailread people for a special commodity rate, and, after forcing the rate all that was possiole, we found that the Southern Pacific people would not make y reduction, hence you will see that they get the 63-cent local rate for hauling your car irom Stockton to Tulare, the distance named, and we only pay 50 cents on the long haul of nearly 3000 miles, You no doubt will look at this matter in the same light that we do—that it is a genuine steal. Anywhere in this section of the country we could send this carat least 300 miles at the rate of 12 cents per hundred, and they ge: 63 cents for the short distance mentioned. This instance of a charge so excessive that the Eastern writer calls it “a genuine steal” does not by any means stand alone. It is noted solely because it happens to be one that has come to hght. There is hardly a shipper in Caiifornia who could not, from the records of his own business, furnish many more of a similar kind, and some of charges even more excessive. It is just because such offenses are so com- men that the Californians have become aroused to that if the State would flouri monopoly must be overthroy IMPROVING THE MISSION. Never were the evidences of intelligent ‘getic co-operation more conspicu- i broad district of San ¢ called the Mission. trict is getting noth- ublic expenditures for im- which its proportion of taxes »vle are organized and ng, and that is bound in the end to g them everything they deserve. It nly by the hardest kind of organized the appropriation for the Fol- reet boulevard was secured, but that victory will make othersall the easier. The Mission is now desirous of having a park and a high school. These are most reasonable demands. It is impossible for Mission pupils fo attend the present high schools in the Western Addition without ng car fare and consnmingabout an and a half a day in transit. As many b of the residents of that district are not so | zenerously provided with worldly goods as the r ents of the Western Addition, the situation of the high schools in the Western Addition worksa severe, unneces- sary and unjust hardship. AsJames D. Phelan has pointed out in a discussion of these matters, there are two prime considerations which determine the future importance of that section. One is its climate, which was the main con- cern of the Franciscans in their selection of the spot for the Mission Dolores a cen- tury ago. Its warmth and comparative freedom from fogs and winds will always operate in its favor with those who prefer comfort to commanding and conspicuous situations on the heights of the Western Addition. The other is the fact that as the peninsulabecomes filled up the growth must necessarily be southward, tkrough the Mission toward San Mateo, and that with the development of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties there will be an in- creasing traffic between those counties and Ran Franeisco, and it must be conducted throngh the Mission. The City, north of Market street, is reasonably well supplied with parks, and besides the minor ones is the nearness of Golden Gate Park. Excepting Holly Park, which might be made ornamental but can never be very useful, the Mission has no outdoor resting place. North of Market street are two high schools, two technical schools, all the colleges of the State Uni- versity and a Normal School. The region south of Market street is destitute of these conveniences. This is an unfair distribu- tion of public conveniences and should be remedied. LOOKING TO THE WEST. The significance of the vyisit made to California and the Pacific States by friends of two prominent candidates for the Presidency should not be dis- regarded. It means that these States are now recognized as a power in National polities—possibly less on the score of their voting strength than by reason of the new industrial and political principles which their interests have created and which are finding so vigorous expression. In any event, whateyer may be the expianation of the fact that National politicians are look- ing to the extreme West, the opportunity of these States for making the most of the situation is the thing to be considered. The Trans-Mississippi Congress was the first movement toward a centralized exer- cise of the power which the Western States possess when acting in concert. The work of the cangress was largely of an industrial character, but much attention was paid to the need of this great section in the way of National legislation looking to the just recognition and promotion of its industrial needs. The only trouble with the congress was that, embracing asit did all the States west of the MMississippi, it inciuded those having needs not strictly appertaining to the Pacific States. The more urgent needs of the latter are adequate irriation laws, transportation regulaticn, improvement of rivers and harbors, coast defenses and protection of mineral lands and the public domain. Among the trans-Mississippi States east of the Rocky Mountains some of these propositions have no interest and others are totally absent. A concern of National importance is the inevitable increase in the population and development of the Pacific States. Within the next ten years this progress undoubt- edly will be great. Never before in the history of the country has the pres- sure of California been so strongly feit in Oongress, and never have the needs of tke Btate been so well understood. The bitter controversy over the fanding bill has edu- cated the East an the transportation ques- tion, and the suits pending before the Su- preme Court of the United States on our irrigation laws have opened Eastern eyes to a matter of very vital concern to us. It is beginning to dawn upon the Eastern in- telligence that the obstacles to the progress whiéh the superior advantages of Cali \ nia deserve are artificial and removable, and that their disappearance in time is in- evitable. This makes it all the more ineumbent on California and her sister Pacific States to send unpledged delegates to both the Na- tional conventions and thus be in & posi- tion to wield their power for the common good of thesection. Such concert of action would be more effective in accomplishing what we all need than anything else, CLEVELANDISM " REBUKED. The speeches made in the Senate on the resolutions to open the Uncompahgre res- ervation in Utah would have caused under any administration save this & profound sensation throughout the country. The main arguments of the speakers were con- cerned less with the merits of the bill than with the action of the Secretary of the In- terior, who, in dealing with the matter, had deliberately ignored the law and acted as if he were the minister of an autocrat and not the secretary of a President bound under the constitution te the faithful main- tenance of law. Had charges of snch nature been made only by political opponents of the admin- istration, it is probable they might have passed in the public mind as something in the way of campaign material to be used in the approachine Presidential election. They were made, however, by men of ail partiesand by none with nfore force or with more eloquence than by Senator Vest, who is not only a stalwart Democrat, but was for a long time among the foremost of that section of the party whose subservience to Oleveland gained for its members the un- complimentary title of *‘cuckoos.” The charges themselves are of a charac- ter about as serious as can be made against a President without going to the extent of impeaching bim. The constitution in- trusts the President with great powers— greater than those possessed by the Queen of England and ber Prime Minister com- bined. Inthe hands of a headstrang, ob- stinate man those powers would be dan- gerous if any precedents were set up that allowed them to be stretched beyond their constitutional limits, Mr. Cleveland has not only stretched them to an evil degree himseif, but he has encouraged his secre- taries to imitate bhis example. Acts have been committed by the Becretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as by the Secretary of the Interior, that show a contempt for the laws of Con- gress and a desire to administer the affairs of the country in accordance with indi- vidual caprice. It is to the credit of the Democratic party that it has leaders like Vest who will not condone or excuse such offenses for the sake of party harmony. Such acts | merit the fullest rebuke the Scnate can give them, and Demoecratic Senators act wisely in taking the lead in administering the rebuke. Democracy has heavy bur- dens to carry in the way of lezislation en- acted by the last Congress and it cannot afford to carry Clevelandism in addition thereto. ON THE VERGE OF 600D TIMES. It is dangerous to indulge in excessive optimism, for disappointment often fol- lows, but to any one who will study with care the sitnation in California at the pres- ent time the conclusion must come that the State is on the verge of what, for Jack of a better term, we call an epoch of good times, There are certain industries which are absolutely essential to the prosperity of a State or community, and they may be sum- marized, generally, as agriculture in its various branches, commerce, domestic and foreign, mannfactures, mining, where min- eral ground exists, and cheap and ready transportation. Of course there are sub- divisions and ramifications of these gen- eral essentials, but they cover the field closely enough for any one except the pro- fessional collator of statistics. Taking this, then, as a text, it is easy to see that this great State is on the very edge and verge of a development which is al- most incredible except to those who be- lieve in material as well as scientific evolu- tion. . The early and the latter rains have relieved the farmer and the orchardist from anxiety, and the possibility of severe frosts hereafter is hardly worth consider- ing; our commerce will receive a new im- petus by the establishment of a line of steamers in competition with the Pacific Mail and by increased facilities for inter- change of products within the State; mining has taken on, not the asvect of a boom, which is a thing to be deprecated, but the appearance of a genuine enter- prise, whether it be gold, coal, copper, quicksilver or petroleum, and the progress of the Valley Railroad insures cheap and ready trapsportation within one of the best and most favored portions of California. If to these material advantages be added the restoration of public confidence, the disposition of moneyed men to make large investments and to lend their surplus funds on landed security and the general feeling in the community that better times await us we may predict with at least rea- sonable certainty that California is on the eve of a prosperous era. THE OUTDOOR GIRL. Dainty as a sunbeam, royal as a rose, Fiow the Gutdoor Maiden in her beanty glows! Eves like morning dewdrops; cheeks like evening re; Voice like liguid rapture of the sunrise choir, Round of limb and supple—strength allfed with zrace: Sparkie of health’s rubles in her winsome face. How she seems 16 queen it over all the land With the witching magic of her slender hand. Juno in her chariot drawn by peacocks gay; ‘Apbrodite rising clondlike from the spray— Goddesses outrivaled! Now the poets kneel To the charm of Beauty pedaling a wheel. ‘Womanhood supernal uty at its height— Hail the Outdoor Maiden, vision of delight! Spin and flash and glitter, steed of burnished thews: Thus through woman's lifcblood God the race re- news. JaMas BUuCKHAM, in Harper's Bazar. SRR AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Among the guests at the Russ House is James B. Oleott, whe haf just returned from Australia. Mr. Olcott is in charge of the sta- tion of the Connecticut Agricultural Commis- sion, and his exhibit of grass at the experi- mental station on his ranch at South Man- chester.is of National reputation. In order to add to his collection Mr. Olcott has been making a tour through Australia spending a short time in Victoria and New South Wales. He has brought a number of roots from Australia, and hopes to be able to make them propagate successfully in his Con- necticut home. At Manchester Mr, Olcott has a number of fine specimens from England, Ireland, Aus- tria, the Sandwich Islandsand other sections of the globe, and is endeavoring to find & sort of grass which will be in America 8 worthy mmrumx of the verdant, velvety turf of England and her colenies. Harry E. Hills, manager of the chapel car Emmanuel, who has been working in this part of California for some time,is preparing for extended work at Los Anveles and vicinity. Mr. Hills has already started south. He said before leaving: “Mr, and Mrs. B. B. Jacques of Lowell, Mass., have been appointed missionaries for the car, but Istill retain my work on the car as for- merly, and have the transporiation of the car and the management of it, while Mt. and Mrs. Jacques. h-nfi:ne of all the services.” A Kinetoscopic Picture. A kinetoscopic picture of the Kentucky Legis- lature would double discount one of the - A 1SCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1896, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. “Kenilworth,” the first American opera ot any serious pretensions which has made s European success, is shortly to be periormed in New York by the Damrosch Company. The work is by Bruno Oscer Klein, & German- Amerigan, who is now 38 years of age, and who is sald to have waited for his first dramatic work till his individuality had thoroughly asserted iteelf. The librettist of “Kenilworth” 1s William Muller, who is well kndwn among the German-Americans of New rk. The wortk was produced for the first time at the Stadttheater in Hamburg on February 13, 1895. The great Wagner.interpreter, Frau Klafsky, created the role of Amy Robsart, while her husband, Otto Lobse, condueted the orchéstra. The opera scored an enormous success. Ata meeting of the intendants of the German and Austrian theaters Klein's opera to give lyric dr: the imperial court of Japan. In spite of the extraordinary gift of assimilation which the Japanese possess, they have not yet succeeded in producing a native- born operatic éinger, but with perseverance they may succeed in doing so. Who knows? In another twelve years graduates of the Tokio Conservatory may be “lrfl‘ll globe-trotting artists, t The London School Board has just passed & decision which will fill -all the pianoforte manufacturers of the United Kingdom with joy. Beginning with the firstof this month, pianoforte instruction is being given gratu- ituously to the boys and girls in the board schools. At present the 209 schools in the city of London contain 272 pianos, but this number will be doubled and tripled before the end of the year, and yet there will not be enough pianos for all the pupils. At this rate England European | Feproduced from Bruno Oscar Klein, Composer of the First American Opera That las Won a Great Suceess. the Loaker On.] was chosen for the festival performance on April 29. The ever-increasing popularity of the new work caused it to be accepted fmme- diately in Berlin, Vienna and London. At the | first performance in New York Klafsky will agein sing the part of Amy. The form and | orehestra of “Kenilworth” are said to be ihose employed by Wagner in his “Lohengrin.” Klein makes use of leading motives to a very limited extent, using but six in the entire | opera. The work is said on all hands tobe stamped with a strong individuality and to show melodic invention, as well &s the com- poser’s powerful sense of form and his pro- found knowledge of the orchestra. The New York production of “Kenilworth" is being looked forward to with ereat interest, Considerable comment has pbeen passed by the French press over the neglect of the Gov- | ernment to give Ambroise Thomas a public | funeral. Le Menestrel says: - ‘“The ceremonies were not ‘National’ in the official scceptatis of the word. Not one of the Ministers w struck by the honest thought of disinteresting hlmullemmgl‘l'lrom hisown personal affairs to say to the Parliament: ‘Gentlemen, a great | artist has béen taken from us, let usfors mo- | ment forget our Parliamentary quatrels and | pay Ambroise Thomas the rights which are his due.’ This would have made 8 moment's truce from eontemptible discussions, woula have been like a little pure air let into the , overcharged with sessions, 8 touch of | ideality in short given to the country, in the midst of scenes of violence, of the lies and wranglings with which we are overwhelmed. But though it did not receive the official stamp, the funeral of Ambroise Thomas was not the less imposing and papular. Perhaps it was | better for this noble spirit, this great and good | man, to have had no compromise, even aiter | his death, with the contemptible politicians | who lead us.” Le Menestrel gives an account of e theater | which has been founded in a yillage of Russia | named Patjano by a wealthy man of the name | | [ i of Bunastrow. In this theater all the singing | and acting are done by the peasants them- selves, and they are the ouly patrons of the performances. The very modest ball conteins 116 places, of which the most expensive cost 20 kopeks (about 8 cents); the other scats vapy from 18 to 1 kopek. The performers are all pupils of the public schools, ery, costumes, lights, ete., are all Mr. Bunastrow. The money taken at the door is distributed equally among the young per- formers, who in the ecourse of the winter sea- son can make about five rubles each, a sum which the little villagers by noe means despises The hall is always crowded and everything put on the stage 15 of & highly moral character. The Fanfulla, an Italian newspaper, pub- lishes an interview with Mascagni apropos of his new opera, “Zanetto” (The Passer-by). The work has been bilied for performance at La Scala this Lent, but it secms that the con- poser declares guthoritatively that he will not permit the rehearsals to proceed. “I will not allow Zanetto’ 1o be given at La Scala this season,” he said. “The opera is mine, excin- sively mine, and I will not giveit up for any royalties that Italian or foreign publishers | may offer me. Those.who want to hear the work will haye to come to Pesaro, where I shall give the first performance, prepared by myself, directed by myself and executed in my own fashion.” The dearth of really fine new masses for the Catholic church is so great that considerable interest attaches to the recent first production of Alired Bruneau's requiem in London. This French composer has hitherto been best known as a collaborator with Emile Zola in the pro- duction of operas, a training which would not strike oneas being the most fitting preparation for writing devotional music. To tell the truth Bruneau seems to have succeeded better in opera, with Zola as his librettist, than he has dome in his recent attempt to compose a requiem. When Alfred Brunean’s. opera “Le Reve'’ was produced in London the mest sober- minded critics declared that though the music was madness, there was method in it. “L’At. taque du Moulin” evinced a great advance in musical beauty and general coherence and Zola's libretto was pronounced on all hands to be splendidly effective. The music of the requiem, however, has met with scant praise from the London press. The Saturday Review, which is noted for its fearless sud just criti- cisms, says: ‘‘There is oply one requiem— Mozart’s—the rest are but imitations, or worse still, endeavors to be original. Of all such en- deavors Bruneau's is absolutely the uglfest, worst, dullest, most pretentious, most tedious we have ever come across. There are masses for the church, like Palestrina’s, masses for the concert-room, which are expressions of per- sonal like Beethoven's, and masses for the theater, like Gounod's. Of this last sort is Bruneau’s, and it is not good even of its sort. The only possible way of endowing the score with'the faintest interest is by adding & part for the bagpipes to the setting of *Piu Jesu. . Bruneau’s requiem is shortly to be produced in Pans, where possibly it will mees with a bet- ter fate than it has done in London. The Mikado, whose income has been aug- mented by Chinese gold, has become a great patron of lyrie art. Not long ago he founded conservatory with European professors of s music, and now he has given orders.for an Jielish opers (soupa o e Hmporied fy order l | Emperor rose and approaching her said with | finished & series of representations amid ove- will soon pecome a pianoforte-playing ma” chine. A new pianist has laomed up on the Eur pean musical horizon in the person of Herr Franz Fischer. His specialty is to play Wag- ner’s works on the pianoforte in such a man- ner that the audience imagines it is hearinga whale orchestra. Poor Hermann Levy, the great Wagnerian conductor whose health has s0 completely broken down, says that he con- siders Franz Fischer hss achieved gigantic | success and that he Is unique in his power of | reproducing & Wagnerian orchestra on the | pianoforte. This is the latest musical anecdote of the | Emperor Willlam which is going the round of | the German press: “Miss Frida Scotta, & young | Danish violinist who is extremely beauiifal | and taented, recently played at 8 courtcon- | cert, When she had finished her selection, the & smile: ‘Fraulein, you play so well that when Iclose my eyes I seem to be hearing Sarasate— but I prefer to keep my eyes open.’”’ Among the list of foreigners who have just | been made officers of the French Academy of | Fine Arts, the offielal joarnal names two | Americans, Miss Sibyl Sanderson, Iyrie artist, and Miss Fannie Edgar Thomas, musical eritic. “The other day, at argeeption where Mas- senet happened to be present.” ssys L'Echo Musical, “a laay who was asked to sing made agreat fuss about doing so, but finally, after much pressing, she consented and announcad her intention of rendering the grand aria from Massenet’s ‘Cid." Then, turning to the com- poser, she exclaimed, ‘Ah! dear maestro, how Itrembie. ‘And what do I do?’ murmured Massenet, sotto voce.” At the theater during a performance of the Storn Barming operatic troupe: The berytone to the tenor—It seems to me that you enjoy playing to empiy benches. The tenor, with a sigh—At least they dan't hiss me. At the opera at Nice, Adelina Patti has just tions and flowers. For ner adieu she sang Zerlina in “Don Juan.” With Patti was alse feted Febea-Strakosch, a rising star. No time is bemng lost in the issue of a biog- raphy of the late Sir Joseph Barnby. The work is already in the press. A STYLISH COSTUME. The waist shown here has a fitted lining, which fastens in the center front. Over this the goods are seamless but for the under-arm gore, where the bodiee fastens at the left side. The skirt is cut circular in front, and has two gores in the back which are laid in box-pleats. A costume of blue serge had yoke and sleeves of bright plaid silk. Across the top of the bodice was a band of spangle trimmings an inch wide, and the same trimming formed & narrow belt. A new moliair had sleeves’ and voke of natural-colored batiste, with lines of gay colors forming crossoars. A dark green wohair, having a design in the weave, had the yoke and sleeves of two-toned taffetas in green and yiolet. The trimmi 3:1: o‘f“fh of vioig: velr’et rxn).lo:flnn’ thbe“np# e e M ', and aiso us i i A‘ handsome wnmul blktgk on Y e yol wn blue milk;" th with piping of velvet at the the points was apparently held by & h-nd;’:me bnttoxfpol flli;ao (oill\'i pearl. A gilt belt was worn. * ° trh ¢ each of place over Demoeratic Exports, Albuguerque Citizen. Fvae g o 4o i g s PUBHT WA going according to Democratic count 'a.l‘ rgdvm;:: :t the tari }umm &; ?r‘lnelm and Chu!eu going out in ballast. Sy se——— PERSONAL. Dr. J. H. Barr of Marysville is in the City. F. H. Olmsted of Japan arrived here yester- day. M. H. Howe of Akron, Ohio, is at the Occi- dental. E. Wettengel, an attorney of Chicago, isjat the Palace. D. A. Russell, s business man of Towa Hill, is at the Russ. W. B. Webber, a merchant of Fresno, arrived here yesterday. T. M. Lane, a mine-owner of Angels, reached here yesterday, Dr. Edwin J. Boyes will leave Saturday fora trip to New York. Senator J. H. Shine of Sonora is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. 1. B. Rowe, proprietor of s large tannery at Stockton, is in town. F. H. Webster, the vineyardist of Minturn, is here on a business trip. H. Van Buren and Mrs. Van Buren of Nyak, N. Y, are at the Palace. The Rey. and Mrs. G. A. Ottman of Sacra- mento are at the Occidental. Mrs. Hester A, Harland, the woman suffrage Tis are church. /Erastus Buck, the oldest man in El Paso, Tex., is blind in one -eye and deaf in onéear. He lost his right arm during & misunderstanding with a United States Marshal in 1861, and his left leg in & railroad accident 10 1875. On ac- count of these peculiarities and the fact that one lung is gone, he is gemerslly known as “0ld Single Buck.” F———— BALANCED ON A RIDGE. About five miles from San Francisco on the San Bruno road stands a house occupied by s Portuguese gerdener that is practically balanced on a ridge of clay. Twoyearsagothe house stood on & comparatively level spot with a small gully, washed by the rain, about ten feet on either side of it. The position of the house was really the bottom of & hollow be- tween two hills, and the natural effect of the r:ln was to g:;:e both gullies wash toward E come one. on both sides of the house and undermised it seyeral ieet, so that there is only & small ridge under the center, Instead of Tealizing his danger as soon ss the floods commenced to wash beneath his house and moving ittoa place of safety, the owner devoted all Iiis ener- gies to the_work of bracing it, He fastened poles on all sides and built posts under the curners.d A few r:pe: were also used to aid the strengthening process. su'fill)gsflzada;fshed’ IWZB:E the earth from in front of the door so that it was impossible to advoeate, is at the St. Nicholas. FEx-Senator Spragne, who is now practicing law in Sacramento, is in town. President E, L. Colnon of the State Harbor Commission is on a visit to Los Angeles. William Nettleton of Spokane was among the arrivals here from the Northwest yester- day. Dr. F. R. Starr has returned from Santa Bar- bara, where he has been spending his snnual vacation. M. H. Walsh, the real estate agent and own- er, of the Sonora abstract office, is at the Cos- mopolitan. W, F. Hete, an extensive farmer of Wheat- ville, Sunset District, Fresno County, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Herman von Mumm, son of the great eham- pagne manufacturer of Rheims, France, is at the Palace, accompanied by one or two friends. E. F. de Camp,a pioneer business man at Mott and Willets, and owner of large areas of land in the vicinity of both towns, is at the Russ, W.T.Burns, a prosperous business man of Houston, Texas, is at the Russ, accompanied by his family. He is in California for pleasure. W. A. Belkirk, the editor and owner of the new and prosperous daily evening paper of San Bernardino, the Sun, is on a visit here. He is at the Lick. A.C. Antrim of Los Angeles, who is exten- sively engaged in the manufacture of ala- bastine for finishing white walls, is among the arrivals here. Lieutenant J. H. Heatherington. formerly of the United States steamer Adams, has been as- signed to duty at the Hydrograghic Oftice at Port Townserd. A. H. Denny, the well-known and wealthy pioneer general storekeeper and land-owner of Callahans Ranch, Siskivou County, isdown for a few days' stay. T. F. Moran, train dispatcher Southern Pa- cific Company at Reno, Nev., is visiting his friend, Major William Fabey, proprietor of the Cosmapolitsn, for & few days. General A. T. Goshern of Cincinnati, who has long been conspicuous in Ohio and held ditfer- ent positions of trust, is at the Palace. He is accompanied by Mrs. Goshorn, Miss A. and Miss C. Goshorn, and Mr. and Mrs, R. R. Skees of Charleston, W. Va. W. C. Ralston, seeretary of the Califor- nia Miners’ Association, has returned from Boston, Washington, New York and Chicago after a long absence. . He says there is a better feeling regarding California mining invest- ments than six menths ago. He thinks the feeling would nave been stronger hut for the Vengzueian episode, but from this we are re- covering rapidly. J. Ross Clark of Montans, owner with his | brother, William A. Clark, in a bank at Butte and in mines there and elsewhere in Montans, | and also jointly interested in the great United Verde copper mine, Artizons, is among the recent arrivals here. Mr. Clark is en route to Los Angeles. The Clarks own a railroad to Jerome, Ariz., which they lately built, and which carries out the product of their mine. J. B. Hobson, for a lang time owner of mines at Jows Hill and well known in California, has for some time past had the management of some very rich gold mines in the Carriboo country, British Columbia. Itissaid that he lately discovered one streak of gravel on the bedroek whieh assayed $20a car. The mines ere owned mainly by English and British Columbia capitalists. Mr. Hobson, who is now in the city, hasengaged seventy-five California | miners of long experience to go north with him. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. . Y., March 18.—C. 0. Bald- win is at Brunswick; A. E. Bayes, Cosmopolitan; A. Bradford and wife, Gil- sey; J. Krider and wife, “rand Union; J. A. Sanford, Plaga; J. L. Ja. _bs, Albert; D. Loh- man and wife, Warwick; F. Hinckley, Holland; W. C. Martin, J. Rosenfeld, R. P. Schwerin, J. Stubbs and wife, Windsor; C. P, Osgood and wife, Imperi: CURRENT HUMOR. “No, my dear, I never aid any wheeling, but in my younger days I was & greatathlete. Why, i | | NEW YORK, | T once walked fifteen miles to umpire s base- ball game. “And walked back, too?” ‘‘Oh, Bo, my dear; they brought me back in | an ampulance.”—New York Herald. - | “Anything new at the seance?” g “Yes. Rabelais was there swearing horribly because his laurel wreath had been stolen by | ‘Thowas Hardy.”"—Chicaga Record. i She—Did you see the Latin Quarter while in Paris? He—No, but I got several lead francs passea on me.—Judge. First burglar—Got your chloreform ready? Second burglar—Yes, Dope the old man first, I suppose? “Not on your life. The baby first.”—Detroit Tribune. A mother, commending her daughter fora situation, was asked if she wasan early riser “An early riser!” she exciaimed. “Well, I should think so! Why, she’s up in the morn- ing pnd has breakfast ready and makes all the beds before any ope else is up in the house!’— Youth’s Companion. Patient—I am so much better to-day, doctor, I really feel .as if I could stand almost any- thing. Doctor—Ah, glad to hear it. Permit me to present my bill (Pstient has a relapse).—Lon- don Answers. Watts—So you don’t look an young Sharpe as s coming man,eh? Potts—I would if I was in charge ot the peni- tentiary.—Indianspotis Journal, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Sir John Millais was a contemporary of Lord | party, he is not thereby de! House on a Ridge of Clay. [From a sketch.] use it and the owner cut 8 door in the back, Each storm carries off a little more earth and the owner puts in a féw more braces. He nas encceeded in making the house picturesque, but has noi really done anything to secure its permanence in its present position.. The poles that he has put up are so weak thatthey couldn’t even keep it trom falling over should the earth wash away more on one side than another so as to throw it out of balance. The owner has plenty of lapd on which house could have been moved with but little trouble, but for some reason he seems to prefer running the cnances ot losing it altogether. A few heayy rainstorms would soon ent out tiie little earth remalning under it and wash it down against & culvert under the railroad track. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, TuE CARLETON CoMPANY—L. L., City. The Carleton opera troupe has been in this City twice in two years and a Ralf. THE WHAT CHEER HOUSE—R. O., City. The What Cheer House in this City was opened im 1852 by the late R. B. Woodward. Major ANDERsON—J. T., Alameda, Cal. Gene- ral Robert Anderson, who was a major in the United States army at the time he was forced to surrender Fort Sumter, died in Nice, France in 1871. Frou Cicsro—M. 8., Oakland, Cal. “In eadem re utilitas et turpitudo esse non potest” is Latin, & saying credited to Cicero, and means; “Usetulness and baseness cannot exist in the same thing.” A As arule the indf- MORTGAGE—A. S., city. vidusl vho is accommodated is the one whe pays for making outa mortgage, the mortgagee pays for the recording of the same and the mortgageor pays for the release. REPUBLICAN WOMEX The head. quarters of the Women’s Republican Associas fion of the United States are in Washingto D. C. Mrs. Ellen Foster is the president au Mrs. Thomes W. Chase the secretary. . City. SaN Fraxcisco-RENO—A. R, City. San Fran. cisco came into prominence in 1847, while Reno, Nev., aid not_become generally known until after 1864. Nevada, in_which Reno is 1«\8%«:&1, was ceded tothe United States in NatroNaL CommirTee—J. E. W, Santa Mone ica, Cal. The National committees have s per manent seeretary and other employes asthe necessities demand. The secretary of the Nae tional Republican Committee is L. E. McComas, whose office isin New York City. PARES—N. M., City. Minneapolis has the largest number of parks of any city in the United States. The number is forty-seven and the acreage is 1552; but Philadelphis, with only forty parks, has a greater acreage. That city has forty parks, with 3175 acres. Goop Roaps—H. K. C., Haywards, Cal. The purposes of the National League for Good Roads are “w awaken & general interest in the im. provement of public roads, determine the best methods of building and maintaining them, secure the legisiation, State or National, that may be necessary for their establishment aud support,and conduet or foster such publicas tions es'may serve their interests.” ApaxposMeNT—K, K., Chico, Butte County, Cal. Henry N. Copp, one of the best suthori. ties on United States land laws, says: As the law sllows bot one homestead privilege & settler relinquishing or abandoning his claim can- Rot thereafter make a second eniry: but where aa entry is canceled as ipvalid for some reason otber ban abandenment, and not the willfal act of the darred from emtering again, If 1n other respects entitied. No oredit is owed for fees and commissions alresdy pa:d oa a new homestead entry. CarrroryIA glace fruits, 50¢ I Towasead's® e STANDARD paper patterns and Delineatar for April, Domestic S. M. office, 1021 Mazket st. ® ———————— ErEciAL information daily to manutsatarers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e . - — Mrs. James G. Blaine has practically decided | 10 remove the remains of her late husband | from Washington to Augusta, where she is ' negotiating for a site for a private cemetery on a loity hill overlooking the Kennebeo River., Cafe Zinkand Souvenir. Charles'A. ZinRand has in active an{u-uon an illustrated souvenir of the inkand. Large photo-engravings have been made, showing sall the several departments. As a work of art it will be in all respects the finest of its kind ever issued in Californis. John F. Uhlhorn has charge of the compilation, and it will be of much interest to the public, as the visitors and patrons of this model resiaurant can have the best cuisine and service, while the charges are no higher than other publie Tesorts aid restaurants. : § King Menelek of Abyssinia rejoices in a better half who is & most picturesque woman. She is fond of dabbling in State affairs, and if she is not allowed to have her way she indulges to Balisbury on the Australian goldfields in 1852, It is stated that the Emperor and Empress of Russia intend to visit England in the summer and stay for nearly a month, The Sultan has received from the Russian Embassador in Constantinople two jasper vases three feet high as a gift from the Czar. An autograph letter accompanied them. - Professor Lecky, the historian, who is a mem- ver of the new British House of Commons, made his first spegeh the other day, and it was an appeal for a more liberal policy toward *‘Governor Greenhalge was the only English- born ehief magist ! “that we have had in 120 years since Governor Gage sailed away from Boston harbor, as Gov- ernor Hutchinson had two years earlier.” A Kansas paper says about the only person in Wichits qg: does ng g0 to hear Ilrl.’l‘uu is Mr. Lease, her husband. This is not BRI excess in French wine and makes Menelek's palacea center of disturbance, colored by red paint, Shepossessesslarge and costly Parisian wardrobe, but she prefers to wear the semi« barbaric costume of her country. To impart strength, purify the blood and to give & feeling of health and vigor throughout the sys- # tem, there is nothing equal to Hood's Sarsaparilla, Take only Hood's this spring. ———————— “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothers for their children white Teething with perfect suc- cess. It toothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and trate,” saysthe Boston Herald, | is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising {rom teething or ather causes. For sale by Drug- glsts in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soo:hing Syrup. 25¢ & bo:tle. e e T No well regulated household should be without a bottle of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters, the appetizer. DISEASES AND COUGHE For relieying TEz0AT uae * Brown's Brancigt Troches,