The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1%96. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year,by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six mouths, by mi Daily nad Sunday CALz, three months by mal y and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail... WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation? If 10, 1t 18 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let It miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attentions NO EXTRA CHAKG BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Celephone... <eer.Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Felephone o BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 359 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; antil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until § o'clock. 116 Minih sireet; open untll § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Spe Maln-1874 open ..APRIL 23, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. In the San Joaquin they are beginning to laugh at monopoly. Democracy has fot only lost its head but is in danger of losing Texas. Smalley says we may have war with England, but it is only a smallish scare. There is a possibility that England may find in Africa what Spain struck in Cuba. The Morgan report struck the funding- bill lobby like an explosion of dynamite. Judging from results prediction bureauns seem to be operated very largely on the principle of the Weather Bureau. Los Angeles is as gay as if she were hav- ing a frolic of angels amid aurora borealis decorations. The California miner is liable to lose more than his name when he becomes an Alaskan miner. There is ahrdly likely to be a union be- tween Democrats and Populisis, but there may be a conspiracy The Los Angeles man finds his hat as useful as ever to talk through, but he can- not wear it any mo: General Weyler’s trocha promises to add a word to our language even if it adds nothing to hisreputation. The New England Democrats have been the first of their party to get a Russell on for a Presidential candidate. If Senator Morgan isn search of health he had better come to California, where everybody is ready to pledge it. Tae CaLwis playing no favorite at St. Louis; the field is good enough so long as California interests are at stake. As the Valley road goes forward in Cali- fornia the cinch of the Southern Pacific of Kentucky goes steadily backward. It is not the Hebrews only, but the peo- ple of all the world who have suffered a loss in the death of Baron de Hirsch. Congress had better pass the appropria- tion bills and leave everything else until after the people have spoken in November, If Populism has the nerve to make a straight fight this year it will come very near wiping Democracy off the face of the W, — Why should our delegation to the St. Louis convention sacrifice the chance to get a Cabinet officer for a chance to get nothing? The majority report of the Pacific Roads Committee might just as well be dropped into a waste-paper basket without any further fuss. If the posing of Kelly and Mahoney as | Republican leaders in the Fourth Con- gressional District were not a farce it would be an insult. —_— Competition has settied the monopoly vroblem in the San Joaquin ana eventu- ally the same means will be used to settle it throughout the State. An investigation of thebond deals may not expose a frand, but it will nevertheless be worth while to lift the mask off and let the people see what is under it. The Senate made a good record in war talk and ought to make a better one in providing for coast defenses in case the next war talk should happen {0 mean war. As nearly every intelligent man in San Francisco knows the position and conai- tion of Kelly and Mahoney it is easy to es- timate the character of those who follow them. The great central transcontinental road must be saved to the American people and not be permitted to fall beyond con- trol into the hands of monopolists and foreign bondholders. Herr Bebel told the Reichstag the truth when he said the imperial decree making the duel obligatory in the German army in the settlement of quarrels was unwor- thy of a cultured state. The chances for Democratic success this year are very siim, but it seems there are quite a number of sideshow leaders in the party who are small enough to get into them and find themselves suited. Holmes, the murderer, has received thousands of applications for his auto- graph, and some who are posted go so far as to assert a belief that he has even broken Paderewski’s record in that respect. Streetcars in Boston move so siowly and get blockaded so often that a correspond- ent of the Journal of that city has started an agitation to have them provided with libraries for the amusement of the pas- sengers. The Republican party of California as an organized body has no favorite und no antagonist among the candidates to ap- pear befors the convention at St. Louis, and will send there a delegation pledged to carry the State for whoever is nomi- nated. POLITICAL WISDOM. For California 1o send a pledged delega- tion to the St. Louis convention would be a political blunder. Wisdom demands that our delegation to that great National gathering should be made up of strong men unpledged, untrammeled and iree. To these conclusions nearly every Republican has come who has given the subject the consideration it deserves.® The press has in many instances declared 1t. Xarnest members of the party in'interviews pub- lished in Tme CaLL have indorsed it. Leaders of the party have urged it. In fact, it may now be announced as the pre- vailing sentiment of the party throughout the State, and there can be little doubt the convention will act in accordance with it. The dominant factor involved in the question was well expressed in a commun- ication published in Tnr CALL yesterday from General Chipman in these words: The Pacific Coast has never received just recognition by any administration. It is en- titled, by reason of its varied and important industries, by reason of its location on the map as the western entrance to our continent, by reason of its contribution to the wesalth of Nation and its promise of future greatness, | the toa Cabinet office, at least. By wise counsels and harmoniousaction I believe we can secure this very importantand very proper recogni- tion from the next administration. 1f we instruct for A or for B, we go with our hands tied. We sink every opportunity to urge the cause of silver, we leave entirely to chance the hope of obtaining aplace in the Cabinet counsels, we push aside the pecullar wants and demands of our region, and we thus declare the man to be our paramount | object and all other thingssubordinate. | No man, as General Chipman points out, can at this time forecast what will be the situation at St. Louis when the convention assembles. If weat the State Convention pledge our delegates to a particular man we will be taking a leap in the dark. We will be depriving California Republicans of all power to take an influential part in the deliberations of the National assembly. The folly of such acourse isnow becom- ing generally recognized even by the | stanchest friends of particular candidates. Irving M. Scott, a strong supporter of Mc- | Kinley, is in accord with the ablest advo- cates of other candidates on this point. “I | believe,” he says, “that the best interests of the State can be subserved by sending an unpledged delegation to St. Lou: | That is the way it goes everywhere. Cali- | fornians are beginning to stand up for California. | FIXING FREIGHT RATES. There is no surprise that the managers of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Val- ley Railroad have employed an able traffic manager and instructed him to prepare a schedule of freight charges that will serve to pay an income of 6 per cent on the in- vestment in the road. Still, the idea is so novel in the conduct of railroad matters in California that it has necessarily attracted surprised attention. Itis to be observed that neither the competition offered by the | Southern Pacific Company nor thespropo- | sition of charging ‘“all the traffic will | bear” in those places where the competi- tion will not be encountered is cutting any figure in the plan of the Valley road. It | is going ahead on the simple business proposition of securing a reasonable re- turn on its investment. Itis impossible to encounter antagonism on such a basis | as that. It may be assumed that the schedules | first put in operation will be calculated on | uncertain data and that an allowance on | the side of safety may be made on that ac- | count. The managers cannot ascertain | definitely beforehand the volume of traffic which they will obtain. They owe it to | the shareholders and to prospective bond- | purchasers to make the rates safe while | placing them below the figures to which the shipvers have been accustomed. As the road is extended the amount of traffic | per mile will increase, and this will lead | to a reduction from the first rate. After that will come a denser settlement encouraged by the lower rates, and this will add constantly and unceasingly to the volume of business. The policy of operat- ing the road so as to secure only a fair return on the investment will necessitate steadily decreasing rates, so that the factor operating to the development of the section will be progressive in its tendency. It will not be possible for the Southern Pacific to pursue its old tactics of cutting rates for the purpose of crushing opposi- | tion. Not only is the opposition too streng for that, but the Southern Pacific Company's suit against the proposed reduction ordered by the California Rail- road Commission has tied its hands. In time the Valley road will come to be regarded as the pioneer in a movement on the part of capitalists to respect the grow- ing sentiment that money is entitled only to a fair return on the amount of its invest- ment in enterprises which bear a vital relation to the public welfare. It is the contempt with which this just principle has been treated by capitalists that has given rise to the movement for bringing railroads, telegraphs, water supplies snd the like under government ownership. A few such examples as that set by the Valley road would check a movement engendering bitterness and threatening vested rights. PROTEOTING INCOMES, The operatives who assisted the Demo- cratic party to establish free trade were persuaded to do so by the argument that the manufacturers, not the operatives, would receive the benefit of protection, and that wages would be no better under protection than under free trade. On the contrary, while wages would remain the same, the cost of living would be reduced and the lot of the workingman would be easier. These arguments were effective before the Gorman-Wilson tariff began to compel many manufacturers to suspend and others to reduce wages. Ir might have been reflected then, as it is well understood now, that a protection which insures the prosperity of a manu- acturer places the power in his hands to raise wages, whether he exercises it or not, and that competition which destroys rea- sonable profits renders it impossible for a manufacturer to increase wages; that heavy imports induced by a low tariff mean a large drain on the money of the country, and that we cannot expect to live as cheaply as the poor of Europe without accepting the other conditions of their lives. The point made with the operatives who assisted in ‘forcing the Wilson-Gorman tariff on the country is now being tried on the orange-growers'of California. They have been exceptionally prosperous this year in spite of the competition which the free-trade policy of the Democratic party compelled them to meet, and now éfforts are being made to persuade them that they have secured good results in spite of the absence of protection. The argument is similar to that of the worldling who poiuted to the extreme old sage of a man who had used tobacco to excess since his youth and sought. to: prove -by this fact that tobacco is not injurious. “Ah, but,” replied the reformer, “how much longer he might have lived had he never touched tobacco!” ¢ However large the profits of the orange- growers have been this year it stands to reason that they would haye been much larger had they been protected againstthe cheap labor competition of.the Atlantic tropics. No sensible person ‘is'satisfied with a good thing if by the exercise of a little wisdom he can secure a better thing. Of all the producing States in the Union California has most reasen to uphold pro- tection. It produces a range of articles finding no competition 1n thiscountry and produced nowhere else save in foreign countries where wages are exceptionally low. Thbis is trne particularly of wine, figs, raisins, citrus fruits and prunes. There being no home competition a protective tariff would remove the only competition that 1s possible. California oughtto bethe strongest protection State in the Union, and it very probably will be in the next election. VACANT PUBLIC LANDS. There are some things in the recently published report of the Geological Survey that demand attention, as they are likely to create a damaging, erroneous opinion concerning California. Among the inter- esting matters set forth are the following: California has 57,737,000 acres of land still public. Railroads have received 6,000,000 acres, and the grants and swamp lands em- brace 10,000,000 acres. The lands disposed of to individuals amount to 19,000,000 acres. The greater part of the still unocenpied 90,000 squere milesof California will probably remain in the public domain for a‘long time to come, Itisin the southeastern part of the State, and includes the great Colorado Desert, Death Val- ley and similar barren regions. From there the strip extends northward along the eastern boundary to the lava-covered plateaus in the northern part of the State. There are &lso vast stretches of vacant land along the northern coast ranges, north and northwest of Mount Shasta. Much of this latter area, and also the vacant lands along the Sierra Nevada, are for- ested and have considerable value in lumber. Al this is well, but Mr. Newell, the ex- pert of the survey, goes further and makes this declaration: The estimates of the water supply of this State show that, while there is an excess for the humid and sub-humid portions, thereis a great deficiency for the remainder of the State, there being probably not enough to cover the lands now in private ownership, should these be in such position as to have ‘water brought upon them. It is impossible to utilize for agriculture more than a very small percentage of the vacant public lands, espe- cially those in the southesstern part, although it is probable that by means of wells and stor- age reservoirs small settlements may be estab- lished at such localities that the grazing can De used to better advantage than at present. A more misleading statement could hardly have been imagined, Of course, Mr. Newell is referring to the desertsin the southeastern part of the State, but in making his estimates of the water supply he completely ignores the Colorado River, which, in view of the insignificant pre- cipitation of that region, is the only sup- ply worthy of consideration. He conse- quently fails to call attention to the fact that the water of that stream can be turned upon millions of acres of desert land and would be sufficient to invest them with the highest conditions favorable to agri- culture. Even now a strong company is at work constructing an irrigating system from the Colorado River for the Mojave plains. *‘Pasturage” has nothing i0 do with that scheme and is absurd to con- sider in connection with the irrigation of desert lands. The moment that water is placed on any of these lands in California they become entirely too valuable for pasturage. that there is an inviting opportunity to revise this report. IT SIGNIFIES NOTHING. Mr. G. W. Smalley, the American corre- spondent of the London Times, informs his paper and the British public that there is a great deal of illusion in the belief that the Venezuela question has passed beyond the point where war between the Unitea States and Great Britain is probable. Mr. Smalley is in the habit of letting an over- loaded stomach influence aad direct the flow of his gray matter, and so his alarm just now may be attributed to no more substantial cause than indigestible food. The troubie with Mr. Smalley has al- ways been that Le is too much of an Eng- lishized-American to see any good in our people or in our Government; besides, he has no more facilities for obtaining inside information at Washington than the most obscure gatherer of news items in and about the halls of Congress and in the de- partments, and his speculations upon com- ing events are of no value whatever asa basis for forming cpinions. The English public, how ever, appears to take Mr. Smalley’s observation quite seri- ously, but all this is food for amusement rather than alarm among our people. The utter absurdity of Mr. Smalley’s alarm is too apparent to comment upon. In the first vlace, Justice Brewer's committee is nowhere near ready to report, and until it does report and its recommendations are formally rejected by Lord Salisbury there will be no occasion to talk about war. But if the London Government should refuse flatly to consider a settlement of the boun- dary question upon lines suggested by the American Commission, one hundred and one other avenues would be sought out to lead to an amicable adjustment of the dispute. No, Alarmist Smalley is all wrong in his surmises. He has allowed his imagina- tion to lead him far out into the swamp of miasmatic poison, and his thought circu- lation is woefully disturbed by unfounaed apprehension for English safety. There will be no war, not even rumors of war at all serious, until every means of reaching & satisfactory settlement of the Venezuela misunderstanding is entirely exhausted. BARON DE HIRSOH. After all it is whata man has done to make his fellows better and happier and to advance civilization by example along safer and truer lines that gives the histo- rian opportunity to say that the world is better for his having ‘lived in it. Baron Maurice de Hirsch, who was gathered to his. fathers yesterday, leaves ‘more than enough records ot substantial effort in broadening and deepening the . ties that bind man to man to supply ‘the future writer of past events with ample material fora pen picture of sucha man. Baron Hirsch was great in simplicity‘of charac- ter, grand in work for the betterment of his people and supreme in demonstration of love for humanity. It is said, and truthfully no- doubt, that the Baron’s annual expenditure for public charities reached the enormous sum.of $15,000,000, but what the sums, were that he gave in secret to secure joy and com- fort to men, women and children only his God und himself ever knew. That they were princely, however, the world may be assured. AJew? Yes, Earon Hirsch was a Jew, and not only so, but a distingnished rep- resentative of traits of Hebrew character which are seen in the code of ethics and jurisprudence of the world’s greatest law- givers, in the rhyms of the world's great- est sacred poet, and in the lofty lessons of the world’s greatest teacher of ethics. But Baron Hirsch, although in hign social favor with kings and royal families, made it the object of his life to be a manly map, with a stapdard for the conduct of It is respectfully suggested his life that should not only recognize the brotherhood of man, but demonstrate his thorough honesty of purpose by acts that were all in harmony with bis high aim and purpose. Yes, the world is better off in every way for Baron Maurice de Hirsch having lived in it. WHAT “THE CALL” DOES. Seattle Argus. The San Franciseo Daily CALL s working up &n immense circulation in Seattle and vicinity. THE CALL prints the news,all the news, and puts it in such shape that it can be read. A HIGH-CLASS NEWSPAPER. Los Angeles Civic Review. The San Francisco CALL takes rank as a high- class newspaper, for it is making its claim Zood that *“it speaks for all.” While itisa stalwert Republican journal, its columns ap- pear to be always open for a fair statement of views not in line with its own policy, and the dishonest policy of suppressing such news as does not suit its purpose finds no tolerance in THE CALL office, 1f we may judge by the space glven in its columns to the news of the People’s party and of the movement for a complete development of the silver sentiment of the country. Moreover, Joseph Asbury Johnson is & regular correspondent of THE CALL and his contribu- tions show that there sre “no strings on him’ #s to what he shall write. Thisis a notable devarture from prevailing newspaper meth- ©0ds and is worthy of unstinted commendation, The Civic Review has the highest authority for stating that it is the settled policy of Tue CALL to be a fair, broad-gauge, impartial news- paper, regarding that as the true province and 1nission of modern high-class journalism, and in pursuance of this policy it will give the Populist news, reports of conventions and the like all through the campaign, no matter how hot the bsttle may be. As no other news- paper has done 80 or proposes to do so, and as the news service of THE CALL, that of the United Press sgency, is in many Tespects superior, and in every way equal, to any other news service, it should be the pleasure, as it is the duty, of the Populists of California to sub- scribe for THE CALL in preference to any of the other San Francisco dailies, the contributions of Mr. Johnson alone offering a sufficient in- ducement to Populists and silver men for giving THE CALL the preference, for he is, as our readers know, not only a trained editorial writer of far more than average ability, buta tried and true Populist and a recognized leader in the movement for a union of reform forces in 1896. THE SERENADER. 1 saw a gallant cavalier, In raiment rich and rare, With gems a-hanging from his cloak And twinkling in his hair. “They glittered us he swept along, A million sparks of flame, And then methought I heard his voice A-singing as he came. He lightly thrammed a mandolin, Its tones right cheerily rang, Like raindrops pattering on the eaves, And this is what he sang: “Heigho! Demoiselle Daisy, Loosen your wimpie white. Heigho! Violet darling, Open your blue eyes bright. Heigho! grasses and leatlets, Hear you my tender call? Helgho! come, pretty Mayflower, You are the shyest of all, eyday, come, Pussy-Willow, Wrapped in your hood of fur. Heyday. come, Duffodilly, Prithee arouse and s°ir. Heyday, gone are the snowdrifts, Gone Is the biting blast. Heyday, wake preity maidens, Summer i3 coming at last.” e e MR L e R A hundred pretty heads peeped out To hear the gentle sound; A hundred pretty heads peeped out Above the frozen ground. He flong his jewels o’er them all, A crown of heatless flames, A fascinating cavalier To wake a hundred dames. “Who are you, sir?” I anxions cried, I fain would learn your power.” The serenader laughed and said, “My name Is April shower.” —Youth’s Companion. PERSONAL. D. T. Perking of Hueneme is in the City. K. Nordenfelt of Minneapolisisat the Cos- mopolitan. E. K. Stevenot, a mining engineer of Sonoma, is on a visit here. Among the arrivals at the Palace is George E. Woodhead of the Isle of Man. Colonel Ironside Bax of England is atthe Palace accompanied by Mrs. Bax. G. R. Eckart, a mining and business man of Marysville, arrived here yesterday. John Garwood, one of the weil-known busi- ness men of Stockton, is at the Grand. Frank McLaughlin, a hotel man from Goshen, Tulare County, is at the Cosmopolitan. Senator AlexanderJ. McCone of Virginia City, Nev., is among the arrivals at the Occidental. 1. W. Peyton, a business men of Spokane, Wash., was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. H. H. Welsh, a lawyer of Fresno, is a guest of his friend, Major William Fahey, proprietor of the Cosmopolitan. A. H. Barr of Callahans Ranch, and of the general merchandising house of the Denny- Barr Co.. Callshans Ranch and Etna, is in the City on a business trip. 3 A. D. Remington, the wealthy paper-manu- facturer of Watertown, N. Y., who formerly was proprietor of the Evening Post, this City, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Palace. District Attorney N. B. Gillis of Yreka, one of the ablest and best-known men of Northern California, is at the Grand. The District At. torney is reputed 10 have large wealth, it con- sisting in part of various mining interests, Z. W. Burnham of Chico, and formerly of the general merchandising firm of Tickner, Burnham & Co. of that city, one of the larg- est north of Sacramento, s in the City. Mr. Burnham’s old firm having been dissolved he is now extensively engaged in the wool and grain business. James P. Booth of the Daily Report, who has been very ill with typhoid fever for a good part of the time since early in January, is able to be around once more. Two weeks ago he left Dr. Lane’s hospital and has since been visiting at the residence of his brother, Attor- ney Booth, in Berkeley. Journalist Booth was at the Press Club a day or two ago, it being the first time for months. Ex-Sheriff B. F. Walker of Yreks, who for a number of years has been interested in gold mines and cattle-growing, and who since_the expiration of his office as Sheriff of Siskiyou County has also become interested in the drug | business, was among yesterday’s arrivals here. He is yet scarcely 40 years ‘old, but has lived for most of his life in Northern California, ‘The ex-Sheriff is here on & business trip, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. Sailed per steamship Paris for Southampton: Claus Spreckels, Mrs. Spreckels, Miss Spreck- els and maid and R. J. Techan. ‘Atthe Grand Union—Mrs. Duncan, C. M. Gor- ham; Murray Hill-D. H. Goodsell; Bruns- wick—W. M. Randal; Westminster—W. ‘Hobbs. Salled per steamship Augusta Victoria for Plymouth, Cherbourg: and Hamburg: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bier, Mrs. M. Ehrman, Miss Annie R. Ehrman, M. Ehrman, Mr. and Mrs. A. Gallaud, Miss Flora Gallaud, Miss Selina Gallaud, A. S. Crump, William Goeggel, Mrs. Goeggel, Edward Goeggel, Miss Gladys Goeg- gel, William Haas, Mrs, Haas and maid, Miss Florine Haas, Miss Alice Haas, Charles Haas, I W. Hellman, Mrs. Hellman and maid, Miss Clara Hellman, Miss Florence Hellman, Mrs, Isaac Hecht and maid, Miss Helen Hecht, Miss Elsle Hecht, Henry Meyer, Mrs. Meyer and child, Miss Edna Meyer and maid, Julian Meyer, Miss Anna Simon and H. F. Stolz. e Another of Queen Vietori servants re- cently passed at the good old sgeof 97. He ‘was her Majesty’s herdsman at the home farm, and he could remember the alterations being made in the castle in the reign of George III. He had worked for four sovereigns in succes- sion, and would tell with pleasure the story of how he saw the Blues leave the Windsor bar- racks 1or Waterloo. A commercial traveler from Marseilles, to whom was shown the homse at Besancon where Victor Hugo was born, exclaimed con- temptuously: “Thattumble-down piace! Ah, it he’d been born in Marseilles it would have Dbeen somothing like s house | MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Frau Clara Schumann 1s reported to be dying from a stroke of apoplexy. The grest pianiste is one of the noblest women that have ever adorned the musical profession, and her loss will be deeply deplored, not only at Frankfort- on-the-Main, where she has resided since 1878, buialso wherever the music of Robert Schu- mann is appreciated and loved. The history of Clara’s life, and her wifely devotion to her unfortunate husband are almost too well known to need repetition. She was the daughter of Professor Wieck, who abso- lutely refused to countenance the dreamy, romantic Robert Schumann as & proba- ble son-in-law, though he had been so impressed by the talent of Schumann that he himself had advised him to take up music as a career. The young people finally married in spite of the professor. After poor Schumann's insanity and death, Clara devoted her talents to making his works known and appreciated by the public, and his popularity to-day is largely due to her brilliant and sympathetic playing. Since 1878, when Mme. Schumann took up her Frederick Lux, ‘‘The Princess of Athens,” has met with equal favorat the Municipal Theater of Mayance. Isidore De Lara’s “Amy Robsart,” whicn has already been played with a success of esteem at Covent Garden, and which created quite & furor at Monte Carlo, has just been produced at the Pergola Theater, Florence. De Lara was called before the curtain twenty times. In this country he is little known, except as & song composer, his “Garden of Sleep” being about his favorite song. Certain theaters in Italy seem to be beating the record in giving the audience its money’s worth, in quantity at least. A Neapolitan newspaper, Il Cigno, States that on the Sth inst., at the Theater Dei Fiorentini, the spec- {ators were treated to “Norma’ and ““Il Tro- votore.” Begun at 6 o’clock, this solid and sub- stantial entertainment lasted till long after midnight. Mme. Calderazzi played, one after the other, the two roles of Norma and Leonora. Poor Mme. Calderazzi! The German poet, Otto Roquette, has just Mme. Clara Schumann, the Celebrated Pianist, Who Is Dying at Frankfort.on-the Main. residence at Frankfort, she has been professor of piano at the Hoch Conservatory, though she has often appeared in concerc at London and elsewhere. She is now 77 years of age, and her age added to the severity of the attack give little hope of her recovery. It seems to be settled that Mapleson will be heard from & good deal in American operatic circles next season. He has made himself very conspicnous lately in England in connec- tion with his Imperial Opera Cowmpany, for which he proposed to build an opera-house.on the site of the Haymarket Theater. Mapleson stated that a large amount of stock in his com- pany had been sold, and that he was quite in a position to establish a permanent London headgquarters for his company. The Hay- market scheme is now supposed to be dropped, but Mapleson is engaging artists in Italy. These singers it is understood are for a season of Italian opera which this veteran impre- sario contemplates giving at the Academy of Music, New York, next season. The possibility of a tour to the Pacific Coast is also on the tapis, for with Abbey and Grau and Walter Damrosch’s German opera season Mapleson will find plenty of competition in the New York fleld. Henri Murger’s novel, “La Vie de Boheme,"” seems to have taken a new and sudden lease of life in opera and drama. No sooner has Puc- cini’s “Boheme” met with success than Leon- cavallo comes forward with an opera bearing the same title and written round the same sub- ject. Itisat the Lyric Theater in Milan that the newest *‘Boheme” will first see the light. In an interview Leoncavallo states that the action of his opera will be absolutely different from that of Puccini’s, and that the music will also be of an entirely diverse genre from that of his confrere. Clyde Fitch’s adaptation of “La Vie de Boneme,” which is running in New York, has proved a substantial success at the box-office in spite of the onslaughts made by the critics when the drama wes first produced. A very painful criminal trial 1s creating a sensation in the musical world of Vienna. Thesubject of it, whom the public prosecutor accuses of perjury, is Carl Zeller, aulic coun- sellor to the Minister of Public Instruction, director of the public department of fine arts and a composer of very popular music, His two operas, “The Miner” and “The Bird Mer- ¢hant,” have had almost as much success in Vienna and Germany as the best works of Johann Strauss or Von Suppe, The trouble is over a disputed Inheritance, and people are at aloss to understand how Zeller could have compromised himself by committing perjury, particularly as the amount in litigation is comparatively trifiing. The whole sum does not exceed $10,000,and the bulk of the suc- cession was in any case assured to the com- poser. It is hoped thet Zeller, who has {allen seriously ill, may yet succeed in proving his innocence. Every day seems to add to the popularity of Carl Goldmark’s new .opera, “The Cricketon the Hearth.” The Royal Opera of Buda-Pesth has already followed Vienna’s lead in produc- ing the work, and a number of other theaters are preparing to do likewise. The composer of “La Reine de Saba” and ‘Merlin” has given proof of unexpected taient for grand opera in his “Cricket on the Hearth.” Its music issim- ple, almost popular, in regard to the melodies, but the orchestration is spoken of as being full of splendor and refinement. The prelude to the third act seems to have proved s irresisti- ble as the now celebrated intermezzo in the “Cavalleria Rusticana,” for at every perform- ance it has to be repeated again and again. The students of the University of Bologna have just collaborated in & rather singular ‘way to produce an opera. One of them, Ales- sandro Tirelli, wrote a libretto, entitled ‘‘Boms« bacina’s Marriage” (I1 Matrimonio di Bom- bacina), and the most promising young com- ‘posers among the students took aifferent parts of the work to set to music. Federico Buga- melli wroteé the overture; the first act was the Jjoint production of G. Grazioli, A. Rubbi and R, de Matthaeis, while Ugo Della Noce wrote the second act. The students produced their operetta at the Corso Theater, and the musical journals speak of it seriously as being quite a clever production. The blind contralto, Signorina Belinfante, who has met with so much artistic and social success since her arrival here from the Orient, is to be tendered a concert by prominent mem- bers of the Italian colony on Sunday week. She has many credentials from such people as Sonzogno, and the peculiar pathos of her story adds to the interest of her artistic powers, The German Club is also tendering a benefit to the young singer. New operas continue to be the order of the day in Germsny as well 8s in Italy, A work founded on Shakespeare's comedy, ““Much Ado About Nothing,” by A. M. Doppler, has just met with success at the Municipal Theater, Leipsic, and the posthumeus comic opers of | died at Darmstadt, aged 72 years. He was the descendant of a Huguenot family, which took refuge in Prussia after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Roquette was the librettist of Franz Liszt, to whom he furnished the words for “The Legend of Saint Eiizabeth,” an ora- torio which is often played with a scenic arrangement in German theaters. The Ziliani Choral Society has been for some time rehesrsing Verdi’s “Ernani,’ and’ the work is shortly to_be given in public with a number of popular dilettanti of the Italian colony as soloists. Py POLITICAL GOSSIP. Minnesota doesn’t even sing, “Whére is my wandering boy to-night ?’-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Secretary Carlisle’s letter indicates that, like Hoke Smith, he has at least two minds.—New York Press. Governor Russell of Massachusetts is Democ- racy’s Little Lord Fauntleroy.—New York Re- corder. 1t is never safe to count on a SoutherniRe- publican delegate during the watermelon sea- son,—Atlanta Constitution. Several band wagons which will be taken to St. Louis ought to be so constructed s to be utilized "for ambulances later on.—Chicago Dispatch. As to the Reed delegation from Rhode Island, it 1s possible that the Ohio movement has no time to break into story-and-a-half cottages.— Detroit Tribune. Speaking of the close struggle in Kentucky, amorning Democratic contemporary remarks that “the McKinley boom is checked.” Ap- parently it is checked right through—to Wash- ington.—New York Meil and Express. While Mark Hanna claims the victory with confidence he loses no opportunity to have it known that there is alittle room on the ground floor for influential politicians with delegates in their possession.—Pittsturg Dispatch. The outlook for Senator Allison was never brighter than it is now. This is not a mere assertion. It is a statement based on a careful study of the political conditions that now ob- tain in this country.—Iowa State Register. His fellow-citizens of Maine have not eulo- gized Mr. Reed a whit too strongly. His is the sure and powerful master mind in whose guid- ance the country could instinctively trust as it trusted years ago in Lincoln’s,—Boston Jour- nal. " ! The first man to suggest Thomas B. Reed for President was Rodrney L.Fogg, at present the superintendent of the Limerock Railroad, with headquarters at Rockland, Me. Mr. Fogg made the suggestion in the fall of 1874.—Kennebec Journal. “ When the achievements of the Democratic party are examined into they present them- selves as incontrovertible arguments for the completion of its annihilation. And this will be attended to this year, whether ex-Governor Russell of Massachusetts is the Democratic candidate or not.—New York Morning Adver- tiser, LADY'S SHORT CUTAWAY JACKETS, The jaunty models of this season are cutaway in shape, very short with small revers. The flaring skirt is preferred to the fan back in “ these short jackets. Narrow belts are much worn slipped” through the under-arm seam or the dart, leaving the tront free. Made of plain colors, such'as brown, tan, black and blue, a serviceable garment to wear With any skirt is galned. There is a fancy for plain jackets with skirts of checked or pleid goods. One of blue with a broken blue ana white check for the skirt, had no buttonholes, but on either side several tiny gilt buttons, and was worn with a gilt belt. A hunter’s green cloth jacket had a skirt of mixed cheviot that toned in beautifully, Shirt waists are worn for general use, but there is an innovation this season in the shape of exquisitely dainty vests of iace tc be worn with tailormzde costumes. These are gener- ally made on a body of cambric partially fitted. The woman who cherishes her pretty jacket lining puts sleeves in this under-waist. The skirts made specially to wear with these jackets are well gored to ensure a lasting shape. They are moderately wide usuelly, not more than six yards round, and generally less than this. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PECPLE. Vincent Ray, 8 Chippewa Indian, who died the other day in Superior, Wis., left an estate of $75,000. Harry Furniss, the cartoonist of London Punch, is coming to leeture in the United States this fall. When Thomes B. Reed graduated from Bowdoin College his oration took the first English prize. Hissubject was *“The Fear.qf Death.” Bishop Hamilton of Nisgara, who has been chosen the first Bishop of the new diocese of Ottawa in Canada is about 60 years cld and s graduate of Oxford. Mme. Melba, the celebrated singer, lives at Paris in a beautiful mansion in the Rue de Pronoy. The house is furnished with exquis- ite copies of the furnishings with which the Trianon was fitted for Marie Antoinette. William H. Nourse of Boston, who was a member of the Nile expedition of 1885, thinks that Generai Kitchener is the greatestliving fighter of Arabs. He knows their language and the customs, religious and social, and is able to go among them in disguise with im- punity. CURRENT HUMOR. “My girl gave me the marble heart last night,” said the single one. “Your woe is naught to mine,” said the mar. ried one. ‘It has not been two hours since my wife gave me the marble cake, of her own mak- ing.”—Indianapolis Journ; Ferry—Why don’t you get married? Don’t say you can’t stand the expense. That excuse is too thin, Hargreaves—I could stand the expense well enough, but the girl’s father says he can’t,— Cincinnati Enquirer. “Naw, the world is not getting a bit smarter,” said the aged gentleman, “My grandson asks exactly the same. ridiculous questions thet his father did at his age.”—In- dianapolis Journal. “If women get into politics,” says the Mana- yunk Philosopher, “they won't throw mud, anyway; and, even if they did, they wouldn’t hitanything. ”—Philadelphia Record, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ENGLISH B ANK HOLIDAYs—J. 8. N., Oakland, and H.V.W., City. In England@ood Friday and Whitsun Monday are legal bank holidays. Nor EXexpr—F. Mc., City. Greenbacks are not exempt from taxation. If you deposit greenbacks in a bank they are treated as so much coin. STA1ES IN THE UNI -J. E. J. Thirty-two States have been admitied to the original union of thirteen so there are now forty-five States in the Union and six Territories. BERING SEA CLatMs—J. A. R., City. The United States refused to pay the Bering Sea claims on the ground that it is opposed to pay ing for anything but actual damages, and will 1ot pay consequential dameges. MINING CLAIMS—There is no law in regard to the location of mining claims then that which has been in operation for several years. No new law went into effect last July, as'suggested by the communication sent by you. BARBARA FRITCHIE- . P., City. The poem “Barbara Fritchie” was written by J. G. Whit- tier. If you kncw the first line of each of the other poems you esk sbout and will furnish them, will endeavor to obtain the desired in- formation. ~Itis exceedingly difficult to trace poems by title only. INDUCEMENTS IN CHILE—J. M., Minturn, Ma- dera County, Cal. If you will addressa com- munication toJuan M. Luco, Consul for Chile at San Francisco, he will furnish you all the in- formation you desire about the country he represents and what inducements it holds out to any one wishing to settle there. “WACHT AM RHEIN"—S. B., Oakland, Cal. The famous German song, “Die Wacht am Rhein” was written in 1840, a few months after the famous Rhine song by Nicolaus Becker. The author was Max gch;eck‘e‘%’bur— ger, & native of Thalhetm, Wurtemberg. It was set to music several times, but only one tune has become popular. It owes its origin to Carl Wilhelm, formerly Kapelmeister at Crefeld, Rhenish Prussia, and was written by him prior to 1850, ALDEN'S SENTENCE—"‘One Concerned,” City. J. W. Alden, who was sentenced on the 5th of last January to imprisonment for twelve years as a punishment for forgery by Judge Dainger- field,glve & notice of appeal on the 8th of the month. As the appeal stays the execution, he was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff, to be detained in the County Jail to_await action by the Supreme Court. Should that eourt deny him & new trial he will be sent to the penitentiary to serve out the full term of his sentence, léss such time as he may earn for good behavior, and the time he spends in the County Jail while awaiting action by the Su. preme Court in his case will not avail ilm. RCoasT RecORDS—H. J. L., Oakland. There is no record of professional running on the Pa- cific Coast that is authenticated record for 880 or 440 yards. The record for 100 yards is held by Harry Bethune, made at the Olympic Club grounds, Center street, Oakland, February 22, 1888; time, 94-5 seconds. The Pacific Const amateur records are: 880 yards, 2 minutes 3-5 second, Bert H. Coffin, Midwinter Fair grounds, May 5, 1893; 440’ yards, 50 3-5 sec- onds, Jack Belcher, Oakland, September 20, 1880; 100 yards, 10 seconds, R. 8. Haley, Oak. 1and, September 9, 1882, and 'Victor E. Sohiffer. stein, July 4, 1887. Amateurs have not run ten miles. The longest distance has been five miles; time 28 minutes 30 seconds; record held by George D. Baird. Music—A Subscriber, City. The word key is synonymous with scale and implies a regular succession of sounds, regulated by a principal note called & key note or tonic. There are only two natural keys, C major and A minor; any otheris a transposition from these. The major key is known by its major third and the minor by its minor "third. ‘'When from the tonic to the third note above there are four semitones (on the piano five keys) the tnird is major, and the key is_called a major key. O E isa major third. When from the tonic to the third note above there are but three semi- tones (on the piano four keys) the third is minor and the key & minor key. A C is a minor third. To tell in what key a piece of Tusic is written it is only necessary to iook at the signature alongside of the clef. STRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b. 627 Market, Palace Hotel, 5 - SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business honses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * . —— Teacher—Gracious, child, but you are stupid You'll never learn anything, and then you'll die a bad man! Little Mickey—Teacher, no’m. Me father read in a book last night that all great men didn’t *mount to much when dey wusschool kids,— Pniladelphia North American. THE chief reason for the marvelous success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is found in the medicine itself, It s merit that wins. 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