The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1896, Page 6

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There are signs that Rainey intends to lose McNab as soon as he gets him in the woods. In the contest with Democracy this year the only thing the Republican’ party has up its sleeve is a langh. Mills of Texas may be a fool on the tariff, but he talks the best kind of com- mon-sense on the Caban question. Democratic politics this year is an open gawe of free trade in bosses with no pro- tection anywhere for the better element. The combination of Rainey, Kelly and Mahoney undoubtedly makes a boss firm, but it will never be able to fill a potitical contract. Something seems to have gone wrong with Congressman Boutelle at this ses- sion. Heis always playing a lone hand and he never plays it well The proof that the Republican proces- sion has taken to the straight road .is found in the fact that all the crooked fel- lows are dropping oat of it. Some people in the festival counties are quietly watching the battle of the ballots for queen, but most of them are hustling for the ballots of the battle. The Morton movement in New York has been started well, is headed right and will undoubtedly get to St. Louis with strength enough to cut a wide swath. There were enough McKinley men in the New York convention to make a mo- tion, but they lacked a great deal of hav- ing strength enough to keep it moving. Senator Davis may be the favorite son of Minnesota, but in the Sate convention somebody heaved a brick at him and the subsequent proveedings interested him no more. According to all miners who return from Alaska there is a great deal of gold in that country, but the man who hopes to get it out must have a great deal with which to start in. Senator Miils would have Uncle Sam say to Spain, *Give Cuba local self-gov- ernment or I will,”” and in such a remark there would be no bullying and a good deal of business. The appearance of Rainey, Kelly and Mahoney ‘in one combinatign is’ such'a queer deal as to suggest the possibility that Buckley may have had something to do with the shuffie: It cost New York about $110.000 to re- move the snow blown into the city by the blizzard of the 16th and by the time the job was done another blizzard came along and blew in some more. % e By requesting our Navy Department to make tests of the armor-plate they have purchased in this country the Russians have paid us a compliment and escaped the cost of paying for the tests. The fact that a Fresno vineyardist has begun to predict a speedy beginning of the millennium may be taken as pretty fair evidence that rabbits are dying out and the raisin crop is looking well. Congressman Barham was right in tell- ing the Pacific Roads Committee “‘The people of California are almost unani- mously opposed to any sort of a refunding bill.” That is exactly the sentiment of the State. In all Republican conventions of the year the principle of reciprocity is placed side by side with that of protection, and it is made certain thst the great policy of Blaine has become the permanent heritage of the party. Judging from the comparative amount of public attention shown to the two stars in the Vanderbilt-Depew combination now coming west, it is clear the American peo- ple think ten times of brains where they think once of money. The appointment of Senators Frye, Brice and Wolcott to draft a funding bill for the Benate is very good for the rail- roads and not altogether bad for the peo- ple, inasmuch as it gives fair notice of what we may expect. The ease with which Chauncey Depew can maunage the performance of arduous labor is made evident by the fact that when he travels thousands of miles to look after railroads and attend to politics on the side he calls it recreation. Bayard was right enough in saying ata recent banquet, **A man mnust not be ex- pected to speak in atone that will suit everybody,” but that is no reason why an Embassador should speak in a tone that dosn’t suit the country he represents. White has been always regarded as an emblem of peace, but in the present con- troversy between the W. C. T. U. and Ballington Booth over the use of a white ribbon as a badge it is likely to become the sign and symbol of a mighty racket. The New York Republican platform is virtually summed up in the sentence,* We believe in & business administration of the Government by business men on business principles for the benefit of the business interests of this great people.” Those who do not like that platform can voie for the re-election of Cleveland. country whose governiment is based on RAINEY'S NEW SCHEME. The success of the Republican party in the National contest is so well assured, it is natural the people should pay more dttention to local politics than is usually given at this season in years that are to be ‘marked by Presidential elections. Itisfor this yeason the public ds. more interested now in the faction fight of the City Democracy.than: in any speculation as to whom the Democrats will nominate: for the Presidency. In the National ‘contest there is no danger, but in the local contest there is enough to arouse the minds of the taxpayers and put them on their guard against any possible combination of the bosses. ; | The most notable feature of the local | situation. is the fight which. Rainey is making to obtain in City politics for the future that supremacy which Buckley abused in the past. In the conduct of this fight he has shown how well he profited of the trusted lieutenants of the old boss against whom he has now turned with all the bitterness that can be engendered by a combination of greed and ingratitude. He has made cunning use of McNab.and the Junta to down the Ruckleyites, and is now evidently arranging a combination by which he will be able to drop the Junta | and stand forth as the supreme boss. To effect the combination needed to as- sure his power it is natural that Rainey should turn to Martin Kelly and J. H. Mahoney. Nominally these men do not belong to Rainey’s party, but really they are men of the same type, belong to the same gang and practice the same kind of poiitics. Kelly and Mahoney, having been baffled in their attempt to gain con- trol of the Republican orgaunization in the Fourth District by means of forged proxies and other tricks of a similar kind, are more than ready to stand in with the Democratic boss and render service for service on almost any terms he pleases. That the combination of these bosses implies considerable danger to the better element of both parties in the City cannot be questioned. Rainey’s heelers will belp the Kelly and Mahoney ganz- in the Re- publicun primaries, and the favor will be returned whenever the Democratic pri- maries are held. Itis to this complexion the local situation has come. - Democracy, hopelessly divided between Buckley and Rainey, has no .chance to redeem itself this year. The Republican party, by forcing such fellows as Mahoney and Kelly out of their assumed leadership, has aroused against it all the force of whatis known as gang politics both in its own ranks and in those of the new Democratic boss. It behooves the people therefore to be on their guard. The Rainey, Kelly and Mahoney combination is -liable to be dangerous if it ever becomes strengthened by a singie victory. - It must be crushed at the start. THE HOTEL MANAGERS. The visit which leading hotel managers of the East will make to California in the latter part of next month will be a far more important event than might be supposed at a glance. It will be the an- nual business convention of one of the strongest assoeiations in the United States, but the occasion will be employed also to see the sights and enjoy the beauties of California. The men composing the body are able and responsible members of their | several communities, and necessarily come in contact with a greater number of people than any other class of business men. Being themselves professional enter- tainers, they will be alert to the spirit ana manner of their treatment in California. They should not for a moment be co: founded with the organized bodies who visit the State and accept every generous attention as a matter of course. They know the trouble and expense of such royal entertaining as California indis- criminately extends to all visitors and will appreciate it accordingly. The importance of these considerations should not be lost sight of in the prepara- tions for their entertainment. Although the hotel-keepers of California are famous for their generous hospitaity, and al- though these visitors will be their special guests, they should not be permitted to bear the whole expense of a royal enter- tainment.. It would be difficult for citi- zens and organized bodies generally to ex- hibit too much liberality, The gathering will be more valuable than any other that could be brought hither. Although the latter part of April ie not the most attractive part of the yvear in California, being in advance of the regular fruit season, we shall have much to offer the visitors. Our wines and dried fruits should be given every possible oppor- tunity to make their excellencies known. The quantity of these articles consumed in the hotels of the Eastern States is enormous, and we have buta meager hand in supplying the consumption. Poor French wines still rule the cellars, and they command a much larger price than ours. Ourdried prunes, figs and apricots are the best in the world, and they are comparatively unknown in Eastern hotels. Our canned fruits should be advanced to attention in all their superb beauty, as articles of that kind are “largely consumed in hotels. G The travel which hotel-keepers are in a position to influence is a very important consideration. = As. yet California is' re- garded as an excellent winter resort, but little is known of the fact that itisa superb summer resort as well. This refers to climate alone; other natural charms exist in abundance. Even the indnstries peculiar to the State have a grace all their own, and. they should be brought to the attention of the yisitors. SOCIALISM AND LABOR. The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor is holding a meeting. at Indianapolis for the purpose of sifting the complaints received from the labor federations-of New York, Omaha and San Francisco that socialism is insinuating itself into the ranks of labor and endeavor- ing to use labor organizations for advanc- ing that doctrine. The dispatch announc- ing the fact indicates.very clearly the determination of the federation to check the tendency in its incipiency. The infer- ence is drawn, however, that the federa. tion opposes the movement solely on the ground of an attempt to use the labor or- ganizations for the advancement of a par- ticular political idea, and does not go to the merits of socialism in its relation to the interests of the labor classes. It is in- tended merely that the American Federa- tion of Labor shall not be made the in- strument of any political movement. This is both a wise and.a conservative position. It leaves the individual mem- bers of the federation free to uphold what- ever political doctrines they may prefer and 1o concentrate the energies of ‘the or- ganization on the legitimate purposes of its being. These are sufficiently broad and deep to engrossall the attention of the body. Should the organized laborers of the country bedrawn intoa political movement they would be seiting them- selves up as a class. That would be fatal, for it is opposed to every principle of & by the lessons he Jearned when he was one | the equality of all. Class politics is the beginning of revolution. The fact that thiere is probably a strong sentiment of socialism in the labor ranks creates a temptation to embrace socialism as & political doctrine. But socialism has not yet become a serious factor in Ameri- can politics, and there is a powerful senti- ment which regards the republican form of government as sufficient to meet all the demands of the people for such a common sharing of public benefits as will produce Government and the freedom of the people and regulate it. Socialism thrives best in those countries whose people have. the least to say in the direction of govern- mental affairs, Itis far more philosophic to make a good republic on the present lines by causing it to be a reflex of the best sen- timent among the people than ‘to charge it with being the author of ills for which it is not responsible. THE PANAMA SOUBSIDY. to the funding bill does not withdraw his alert oversight of the isthmus route. Itis clearly evident to bim that if the isthmus of Panama were in a position to compete freely with his overland routes it would possess an enormous advantage'in hand- ling those classes of freight which need- not be hursied and which ordinarily do not command a high rate of transport. Be- fore he secured a controlling interest in the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which, with its Panama Railway connection, was an annoying competitor for traffic between the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard, he paid that company a heavy subsidy to keep out of the fight. This was in the shape of a charter for space which he could fill with freight or leave emnpty, as he chose. This is 8 notorious fact of history. But the Panama Railway remained a thorn in his side even aiter he haa secured a controlling interest in the Pacific Mail. It was the most stubborn and independent little concern that he had ever encoun- tered. He finally convinced it that an agreement would be better than a fight and thus induced it to withdraw its steam- ers running in competition with the Pa. cific Mail, on the understanding that the overland traffie would be -fairly divided among the railroad, the Pacific Mail and the Panama Railway. No sooner had he bound the little company under a contract than he advanced.overland- rail rates 50 per cent. 'This meant a corresponding ad- vance for the isthmian line. The Panama Railway soon discovered of businessand that the Sunset route of the Southern Pacific, with its line of steamers from New Orleans to New York, was carrying an abnormally heavy traffic. Thea the Panama Railway rebelled, as- serting that there was something wrong with the differentials stipulated for in its favor. These differentials had been ad- justed on the old basis of onen competi- tion and hence were satisfactory, but for some obscure reason they failed to bring business as formerly. Another singular circumstance was that although the Pa- cific Mail had been similarly hurt it made no complaint. Whether the Panama | Railway got an inkling of the familiar system of private rebates which in the past had made the Southern Pacific popu- lar with many shippers, and which had | | { | helped to fasten it as a monopoly on Cali- fornia, cannot be known. It is certain only that the Panama Railway rebelled. Then came a repetition of the old story of the Pacific Mail—the Panama Railway, according to latest accounts,” has been promised a subsidy. The contract having failed to make it a party to the monopoly it must be paid to keep quiet. California may take what comfort it can from the reflection’ that this' subsidy for the strengthening of the Southern Pacific mo- nopoly will be charged to its industry. AMERICAN SEAMEN. Senator Frye has at last introduced his promised bill requiring that the officers of vessels registered in this country shall be American citizens, These include the master, the engireer and all his assistants and all persons who command a watch, They may be citizens either through birth or naturalization. Provision is made whereby such persons who are not conve- nient to the ‘inspéeting board originally licensing them may procure & renewal through American Consuls. The term of the license is-three years. An important feature of the bill—that particular feature, in ‘fact, which explains the whole—is the consideration which it offers to these officers when serving the United States in time of war. In that event “‘every such muster, mate, pilot or engineer shali be entitled to the highest rate of wages paid in the merchant marine of the United States for similar service; and if killed or wounded while performing such duties under the United Btates they or their heirs or legal representatives shall be entitled to all the privileges ac- corded to soldiers and sailors serving in the army and navy under the pension laws of the United States.”’ The dignity of the American merchant marine is thus raised, but more impotiant than that is the fact that. those charged with the grave responsibilities attaching to the service shall be loyal American cit- izens, ready when called upon to defend the interests of their Government. The loose way in which this matter has been treated in the past has constituted an ominous danger in case of war. The war scares to which we have been treated lately seem to be having a beneficial effeat in many ways. They have made us aware of the defenselessness of our coast and the inadequacy of our navy. The Frye bill is one of the most useful measures that has been proposed, and Congress should push it through as rapidly as possible. Another contribution to the pamphlet issued under the title “That Demon Gold ‘Which Is Destroying the United States.” The work, which is by J. H. Tingman, is a San Francisco publication, and takes the form of a catechism, -the. various argu- ments being arranged as questions and answers. It contains a great deal of infor- mation in a brief space and can be read with profit by all interested in the subject. That which most painfully disturbs New England at this juncture is a report that Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island has shocked Washington by wearing a silk hat with a sack coat. As the Senator lives in Newpart there are some who denounce the report as blasphemous and others who sadly admit its truth -and call on the Senator to render to his constituents th apology of a resignation. ! Colonel Cockerill recently wrote to th New York Herald tbat he had authentic information of a giant in China ten and a half feet high and, while the Herald pub- lished the story without comment, the later telegrams of the colonel show he was for some reason ordered by the Herald to leave China and go to Egypt. b g : There is a promise in evérything in these days—even Congress 'shows signs of blossoming into an early adiournment. asafe balance-between the powerof the |- Mr. Huntington’s anxiety with regard | that it was getting nothing like its share | literature of the silver question has been') THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1896. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Of the thousands of tall and short men who are to-be seen at the various hotels of San Francisco trom different parts of the country at the presert time the tallest is J. K. Choate of Denver, known as the human lightning- rod. % Mr. Choate is so attenuated that he looks even taller than he is. He suggests altitude wherever he goes, and countless men at the Brown Palace in Denver, where he frequently 18 to be seen, and at the Palace Hotel, where J. K. Choate of Denver, the Human Lightning-Rod. [Sketched from life by @ “ Call” artist.] he is now staying, feeling thémselves dwarfed. “chirk” themselves up and elongsie their necks, 8o a8 to, if possible, wet somewhere in the neighborhood of the long gentleman.: Do what they will, however, and though Mr. Cnoate is amiable of disposition, it is odds that they don’t get to feeling quite natural. Mr. Choate is a business man who has large enterprises on hand. He is president of the Denver Cotton-mills Company, and came to California with Henry Wolcott, the million- aire manager of the great Argo Smelting ‘Works, and C. R. Condit, another wealthy gen- tleman: of the Queen City -of the Plains. Mn. Choate has deep reddish ox dark auburn hair and & thick reddish mustache. He towers to the height of 6 feet 414 inches and is referred toas the king of Denver tall men. Even the “tall sycamore of the Wabash’> would seem to have a poor show alongside of him, for Mr. Choate has no superfluous flesh to handicap him in his aerial fiight, and this gives him the advantage as compared with many who by the measuring line might oyertop him. “If you think I am tall, though,”said Mr. Choate, “you ought to have seen Dr. Bancroft, one of the early pioneers of Denver. For a long time this gentleman, whose white whisk- ers gave him & venerable appearancé, was known as the tallest man of the Rocky Moun- tain region. His measure has been given at more-then. twe inches over me. Everybody has heard of Dr.Bancroit. He made a lot of money, and has been known far and wide.” To hear Mr. Choate tell of how other men have overtopped him one is constrained to try and think he isn’t talking to & tall man at all, but when he leaves him and feels the queer sensation im his neck as the result of this up- ‘ward gaze, he cannot get it out of his mind | that the suave Coloradan is indeed a human 1ightning-rod. x A PLAIN OLD MAN. A plain old man with the pisinest ways, Witha humble mien an’ an honest gaze, ‘Was old man King. He know'd no more of creation's plan Than's told In his well-thumb'd Bible—*-An’ That tells me more than the scienters can,” Says old man King. He’s seen but little beyond the farm, “ But lovin' my home can’t be much har m# Says old man King. “ Ive studied the Bible-map,’” he'd say, “An’ the p'intsof the morai compass, they Show well whar' the realms of Justice iay,” Saysold man King, - - - A plain old man with the plainest waysy With & humble mien an’ honest gaze, ‘Was old man King. Though littie of praise for 1ooks he could wimy ‘Had Sodom a-had ten sich, in its sin. It now on the m-r. 1 think, would a-been— Grand old man King! WILLT. HAZE, in Mempbis Commercial Appeal. A YOUNG ' GIRL'S NIGHTDRESS. A nightdress for little girls, which is cut on very simple lines, and yet is up to date, recom- mends itself to'all mothers, for 1tis easily made and will please the little miss by its pic- turesqueness, which is the result of the large lace to match with an inch wide flg:n of it ase rea. 3 s one by its dsintiness. The | ey Be Roiahed. by & Lttlé rule with and insértion to match. - - . - - ‘The gown without the collar is very pretty, the full sleeves relieving its plainness. _PERSONAL. Professor J. E. Beard of Naps is st the Cali- fornia. . J Rev. A. Martin of Eureka isat the Cosmo- politan. » 5 John C. Dornin, & business man of Seattle,’is in town. F, C-Lusk, the lawyer, of Chico, is at the Palace. : George V. Northey, s mining man of Sulphur Creek, is at the Lick. W. H. Gibson, & mining engineer of Gridley, isat the Cosmopolitan. A, H. Walrath, the mining man of Nevada City, is here for a brief stay. Thomas Henderson, the orange-grower, of Porterville, is at the Cosmopolitan. 5 Fred Cox, the wealthy and well-known resi- dent of Sacramento, 18 in the Ciiy. Colonel John T. Harrington of Colusa ar- rived here yesterday and is at the Palace. L. T. Hatfield, the attorney, of Sacramento ,is here for a stay of two weeks. Heisat the Lick. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett of the Cali- fornia Natlonal Guard, Sacramento, is in the City. 4 e B. F. F. Chandler, 8 business man, of Elmira is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife and son. Joseph D. Lynch, the Los Angeles journalist, at one time préprietor of the Herald, arrived here yesterday. Ed B hawk, the discoverer of the Mare’s Nest ruby mine in Fresno County, is at the Cosmopolitan, Mrs. W. C. Bush of Rochester, N. Y., sister of Mrs. General R. H. Warfleld, has arrived here on a visit to Mrs. Warfield, and is at the Cali- fornia. % The Rev.John Wren of Moscow, Idaho, ac- companied by Philip Wren and 8. Wren of Sac- arrived here yesterday. They are at the Grand. James McGovern of Butte, who has beengfor nearly thirty-seven years a resident of Mon- tana, and who has been identified with many important enterprises, is at the Palace. He has been visiting the East for some time, but re- turned recently and spent a month in Butte. He is not in very robust health and intends to remain in California three months to recuper- ate. He says he will go to the springs at St. Helena, Napa County. He sold out his mining properties last fall entire, he says, and is no longer engaged at mining. A.B. Hammond of Eddy, Hammond & Co., Montana, who some time since bought the Or- egon Pncitic road, and are now building one from Astoria to Portland, is at the Palace. ‘For the Oregon Pacific road only about.$100,000 was paid, whereas the cost is stated to have been about $3,000,000. The road was from Salem to Yaquina Bay, and besides this there is & long stretch graded eastward from Salem along the Santiam River and up toward the Blue Mountains, over which the road is expect- ed to go eventually, and reach Boise. Daniel J. Lyons, the well-known Pacific Coast hotel man, formerly of the Baldwin Hotel, and for a year past of The Portiand, in Oregon’s me- tropolis, is in the City. Mr. Lyons will prob- ably remain here. He yesterday told a curious and interesting story anent the death and burial of Joseph Tilden, formerly manager of the Baldwin Hotel and & member of the Bo- hemian Club, who went to Honolulu as man- ager of the Royal Hawaiiau Hotel, and passed away in 1884. Tilden’s body was laid side by side with George H. Fassett, who had also been manager of the Baldwin and of the Royal Hawaiian, and who died but four months be- fore him. Recently Mr. Tilden’s brother, who 1as been & merchant in India for many years and espoused the Buddhist faith, arrived at Honolulu to visit the grave. He had not met his brother for eighteen years before his death, and being engrossed with business cares could not possibly come to Honolulu. He went. as Mr. Lyon tells, and lived with local Buddhists .in Honolulu while there. Mr. Tilden lately ar- rived here on his way East. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK, NEW ‘YORK, N. Y., March 25.—H. H. Ban- croft isat the Imperial; M. J. Herrick, Plaza; E. Bare, Continental; T.Blanckenburg, Belvi- dere; J. A. Britton and wife, Gerlach; W. Emerson, Sturtevant; J. Irvine and wife, Sin- clair. A FISH-EATING DOG. Dogs as a rule will not eat fish, either raw or cooked, even though they are on the verge of starvation, but on the McNear ranch in Marin County there is one that will, and she has also taught all of her puppies to do the same. Her owner says she is the best mother-dog he ever had on the plage. Topsey is the name of the dog. She is a Spitz, and is nearly 5 years old. Topsey ac- quired the habit of eating fish when she was very young, and obtained them from a Chinese eamp not far from the ranchhouse. .. When her first puppies had grown old enough to eat she insisted that they should have fish, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Suceessful women conduttors aré beginning to come to the front very muchin Europe. One of the most ladies who wield the baton seems to be Mrs. Sophie Keller, the first female conductor in Denmark. She is a daughter of the composer and former singing-master at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Henrik Rung. He was her teacher, and when she was 19 years old she made her appearance on the operatic stage as Agathe in “Der Freischutz,” and for twenty- five years continued s brilliant lyric career. In 1895 Mrs. Sophie Keller retired from the stage and began to teach. Very soon she found it would be a help to her pupils to have a small theater connected with her school, and by this means her interest in conducting was adeveloped. Last autumn Mrs. Keller founded an institution known as the Woman's Private Society for Concerts, which opened with about & thousand active and associate membars. The undertakine has proved a brilliant suc- cess. Mrs. Keller is now gathering & complete female orchestra, and she is beginning to pay her “orchestra girls” in such a way that they are able to get their livelihood by their instro- ments. The music given at the women's con- certs isof a high character, and Mrs. Keller Mrs. Sophie Keller, the First Woman CGondnctor in' Denmark. [From an engraving.] maintains exeellent discipline, as. well as being able to excite the interest and ambition of her musicians. The new departure has ex- cited great interest both in Denmark and abroad. - The numerous changes which are being made in the subirbs of Vienna have just brought to light an interesting souvenir of Franz Schubert. In reconstructing an old house in the suburb of Waehring the workmen dideovered an inscription which recalls one of the composer’s most charming melodies. The ingeription is conceived in the following terms: ‘“Franz Schubert composed in this house, then named the Beer Sack (Bier Sack), in June, 1826, on a Sunday afternoon, sur- rounded by some friends, and in the midst of the clatter of the inn, his song, ‘Harx! the Lark.” It was the celebrated aubade on Shake- speare’s words, which has remained as fresh &s his serenade, and which has been sung so much that it has become almost banal. In the suburbs of Viéenna almost all the inns are pro- vided with gardens (Gasthbausgarten), where the habitues sit in fine weatiner, and it was in the garden of an inn, opened in 1791 by a host named Biersack, that Schubert composed his aubade. The inn and the garden still exist, even to the spreading chestnut tree beneath which Schubert wrote his melody. The pres- ent proprietor of the place has changed the name, however, since the aiscovery of the tablet, and the inn is now known as Schu- bert's Garden. The.celebrated tenor Tamagno has just been the object of & most unprecedented exhibition of interest o' the part of the Czar. Tamagno was singing at the Aquarium in St. Péters- ‘burg,and at the end of his engagement the Czar desired him to give one performence of “Othelio” at the Imperial Opera. The tenor, however, was under contract to proceed fmme- diately to Monaco for the opening of the opera season. The Czar wrote a personal letter to the Princess of Monaco, begging her to grant Tamagno & delay, & request which was imme- diately granted. The aristocracy of the Russian capitalall felt it incumbent on them- selves to attend the special performance of “Othello,” and the price of seats assumed enormous proportions. A simple seat in the orchestra cost $60 (three hundred franes), and boxes were as much as $400 and $600. The performance wasa grand success. Tamagno setout for Monaco the next morning, and the Czat, not wishingto repay him for his delay with money, sent his daughtera presentofa magnificent set of jewel Reginald de Koven is complaining bitterly that very few of the nrtists in the Damrosch German Opera Company- can sing. He says. Max Alvary depends entirely on his. per- sonality for his success, and that as an exhibition of absolute vocal incapacity his singing is “unequaled. Speaking - of the “surpassing badness” of Alvary's “Tann- hauser,” De Koven says: “In Western wilds and frontier towns® meéu have died for less; his performance was simply impermissi. ble.” Frau Klafsky comes in for her share of blamé. ' De Koven owns that she has a “gor- geous” voice, but he says she cannot produce it, and reviewing the company in general he [ ‘I often think regretfully, when hearing German opera by German singers, how many good voices there are that are marred, ruined and let go to waste for lack of a little intelli- gent vocal training.” . = Topsey, With a Meal for Her Puppies. [From a sketch.} She would go down to the camp and earry home the largest fish she could find, and tried n cvery way to let them know that it was good food. e puppies did not like it ve; well at first, but soon acquired the taste. r{f other food was placed before the younz ones she would take it away. Strange as it may seem, they never touched it during heér ab- sence.. . Topsey, however, wasted all her efforts, for when her children grew up and were allowed to run around by themselves they always pre- ferred meat to fish. Occasionally she will make an effort to show them the error of their ways and will bring up a specimen of the finny tribe and lay it before them. When they re- fuse to eat it she shows unmistakable signs of not Topsey’s only secnlhrny. She is an unusually smart dog, and whatever she does she do¢s in_her own way. When she drinks water, instead of lapping it up she puts her nose into it and sucks it like a horse, She will not sleep in the same part of the stable as the other dogs, but has & icular corner of her own, and when she lies down always man- ages to cover -herself with the instead of stretching out on top of them. She sel- dom barks, but is nlwn{s good-na , al- though never showing a disposition to romp. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Mrs. Johnson—Hateful, stuck-up thing! How proud she was of that new dress of hers.. She ‘would hardly look at me.. ButIgot even with her!” Mrs. Jackson—How did you do it? Mrs. Johnson—Oh, I-told my servent girl ‘where she could get a dress just like it.—Somer- ville Journal Distinguished Naturalist (in Africa)—By Jove, | 1y boy, I guess 'm your breakfast! But just . wait till you commence to feel in your own in- side the pangs of the dyspepsia I've had for the last twenty years, and you'll wish you had let me alone.—Harlem Life. She—Why don’t you talk to me as if youloved me? He (absent-minded—I'm so horribly out of practice!—Detroit Free Press. ° An American woman who recently visited the ruins of the House of the Vestals, in Rome, said to the guide, after he had given the history of the place: “Say, mister, were these ledies of the Catholic or Protestant religion?’—New York Tribune, and gifted of the | ord eccentric. Massenet figuratively hides him. self in & cupboard the night any opers. of his is produced. He is a splendid raconteur, and is very popular in bohemian society of the firs¢ er. Saint-Saens delights in surprising his friends. He has been k to disappear after some great triumph &nd Five the papers achance of finding hisdead body in & dozen different places at the same time, tosay noth- ing of the veiled hints that his mind has broken down and that he is in & lunatic asylum. A new opers, called “The Bard,” has just been produced very successfully at Nice. The story, which is dramatic and interesting. is supposed to pass in England in the ninth cen- tury, at the time of the Danish invasions, and the stirring- epoch’ gives plenty of scope for passion and pathos. The music, by Leon Gas- tinel, is of the modern French school. It is full of color and gives great prominence to tho orchestrs. The “March of the Standard” is said to'be & magnificent number in the opera, and a chorus of laborers was encored ‘again and again. ~ The-sixtieth- anniversary of the first repre- sentation of “Les Huguenots” in Paris has just passed. It was on the 29th of February, 1836, that Meyerbeer's chef d’ceuvre was played for the first time. Mme. Faleon, who created the role of Valentina in an admirable fashion, is still living in retirement in Paris. '.The ancient hall of the German Reichstag is going to be transformed into a theater, as it has become tenantless in consequence of the inauguration of the new Parliament house. In the old Reichstag Prince Bismarck has oftem pronounced his resounding discourses. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Costaki Anthopoulo Pashs, the newly ap- pointed Turkish Embassador to the Court of St. James, recently remarked to an inter. viewer: “Look at me. Iam,although a Turke ish official, a Greek and a Christian. Many Christians are in the Turkish service. If Tur< key had any feeling against Christians as such ‘would this be possible?” The editor of the London Sporting Times hag discovered ina little old church of East Sute ton, in Kent, an interesting monument to the second wife ‘of Lawrence Washington, a fore- father of George Washington. The monument proves Washington's descent from the founder of Baliol College at Oxford and the brother of John Baliol, King of Scotland. Miss Jennie Hilton of Kansas City is said to be the only active woman gold-miner and pros- pector in the Southwest. Forseveral years she has been engaged in prospecting for gold in tixe mountains of Arizons and New Mexico, and has invented s number of useful appli- ances in mining engineering. She sold her share in an Arizoua mine the other day for $35,000 in cash. Sarasate once found his memory deserting him at a recital; but he discovered the reason of the mishap in time to prevent a failure. A lady was fanning herself in the front row of the stalls. The violinist stopped playing. “Madam,” he said, “how canI play in two-four time when you-are beating six-eight?’ The lady shut up her ian and the recital was con- cluded successfuily. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ONE OF 1840—A., City. N6 premium isofs fered for & half dollar of 1840. FAcE VALUE—Subscriber, Virginia, Nev. A ten-cent Fieca of the year 1835 1s worth to col« leetors of old coins only its face value. Dimes of that date are not scarce. A MINERAL FIND—J. S., Evergreen, Cal. If an ingdividual should find mineral land on the private property of another, he would not have the rifht to locate a claim there. The land and ull there is in it belongs to the owner. To VOTE IX CoLORADO—S., San Jose, Cal. To vote in the State of Colorado a party must be a citizen or one who has declared his intention to become such. Previous to offering his vote he must have resided in_the State six months, in the county ninety days, in the township thirty days and in the precincgn which he wishes to vote ten days. Frox DEAKE’S ADDREsS—Subsecriber, Clement, Cal. The quotation— ‘When freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air She tore the azure robe of night ‘And set the star of glory there, is from “Drake’s Address to the American Flag.” A Muxeor—C.T.; City. It you have a lady’s navy blue cloth dress that has been stained by - milk falling on it you will save time and money by taking it to & professional cleanser, who will be able to remove it by the use of the pmser preparation. Ii youshould undertake 1o do it yourself, in accordance with news- paper instructions. vou in all probability would ruin the dress. ‘WOOLEN-MILIS —A. R., Tracy, Cal. There ‘were two woolen-mills in operation at the Mis~ sion in this City at one time. One was the Mission Woolen-mills at the northeast corner of Folsom and Sixteenth streets, which was put in operation by Lazard & McLennan 1n 1861. The othet was the Paclfic Woolen and Knitting Mills on' the west side of Folsom street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, which was completed in 1866, but the maehine ery was not put in operation until June, 1867, These mills were originated by James Roberts, for many years superintendent of the Mission Woolen-mills, and Lazard Freres. were the agents. In 1869 the Mission and the Pacific mills were consolidated and continued sa until 1882, when they went out of existence because the people preferred to patronizé East ern manufacture and did not think enough of home manufacture to help it along. —— FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Not a Hoax. Riverside Searchlight. Hoke Smith would like to go to the United Ds‘u#xk?unm. This is not & hoax, but a desire (oke’s. Eternal Vigilance Necessary. A wonderfal child of 10 years old {s astonish- ing the Parisian public. She is named Jeanne Blancard and she gives recitals at which she appears as pianist, composer and improvisa- trice. A programme wasrecently performed at the Borodine, entirely composed of her works. They were fifteen numbers, nine for piaxno, all of which she played herself, two for violin, two for violoncello, and two songs. The critics ‘were astonished at the ripe and artistic play- |, ing of the child, and say that if as a composer ‘her works are not marked by much bteadth,. her imagination and knowledge of musleal |- form are extraordinary. It may be that little Jeanne Blancard is the long-looked-for female composer, who is to wipe away the reproach that no woman has ever stéod on the same plane with men asa writer of music. Many charming compositions are due to women, but hitherto they hawe written no great works. In France the cost of paying a ¢claque to lead the applause is & regular part of the running expenses of & theater. Thers has been some talk of abolishing the elaque in theaters subsi- dized by the Government, but tite Administra- tion of Fine Arts has just declared that the claque at the Opera Comique shall be ini charge ofan official efigaged especially to hire and superintend it. This agent will have a certain number of places assigned to him for his “clappers,” and the men he hires will be ad- mitted on identification, in order that they may not sell their seats to others. The agent is also formally pledged not to receive the smailest remuneration from any of the per- formers, as the Administration of Fine Arts has decided that no artist shall win an illu- sionary success by bribing the claque. It.was the protests raised by the composers, the sing- ersand the ballet dancers which decided the Government not to abolish the clague. The Gazzetts Officiale of the Kingdom of Italy publishes a royal decree by virtue of whith the rights of Rossini’s “Barber of Se- ville” are protected for two more years. The opera was first presented in 1816, and should, according to the law, become public property in 1896 (eighty years being the term of the copyright), but as the Music Lyceum of Pesearo exists to a large extent on the révenue which the royalties of this work bring it, the authori- ties have judged it proper to prorogue the ex- piration of the copyright in its favor. It is strange, however, that a soverelgn decree can nullify a general law. Even in the interests of art, this seems scarcely right. ; The chair left vacant by Ambroise Thomas the Conservatoire shonld fall either lnl:lt senet or Saint-Saens. Both of them are most San Jose Mercury. The friends of California must be vigilant it they Hope to defeat Mr. Huntington’s refunds ing scheme. Bogus Miners. . .. BodieMining Index. The man who merely dabbles in mining stocks is not a miner any more thama Who lies is & lawyer. Y e Health Better Than Wealth. San Diego Sun. ‘As & publisher Mark Twain went broke. As 8 lecturer he proposed to recover his fortunes, butif in the latter effort he loses his health or life it will be a bad go, for Twain broke 2:1{]:;0141!}11 better than fiun broke physic Distance Lends Enchantment, ingly shown by the departure of larg bers of gold-seekers to Alaska. There sfe many locations _in California and Newsda where better prospects are offered the treasures hunter than can be found in distant Alasis. — EASTER eggs at low prices. Townsend’s ® s o SoLID chocolate créam eggs, 5¢. Townsend’s. ¥ DTABI s N i e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townend's.® ————— Fxnfl:yeglmel.' 15¢, 8134 Fourth, n-. barber (note imber). Sundays, st street {Km’l shnem;n). 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