The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, oy mall.. 3.00 Daily snd Sunday CAxz, three months by mafl 1.50 Daily &nd Sunday CALy, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. A 1.50 W XEKLY CALL, OD€ year, by ma 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation? It 10, 1t is 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 receive prompt attention KO EXTRA CHARGE. 710 Marke: Street, San Francisco, California. Celephore.......... eeeeeeeeeesee.. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Felephone. Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, coruer Clay 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9 713 Larkin street: open until 9 EW. corper Sixteenth and Mission stre : open untll ntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1168 Minth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : ew York City. Rooms 81 and 32, 84 Park Ros THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. S The Santa Monica job has been scotched, but it isn’t dead yet. Chicago will have to advertise her con- vention to make it draw. It is worth noting that no one treats Pop- ulism as a joke any more. A week’s festival not only sets the blood into circulation but money also. The fiesta agitation has become a move- ment that will get there if we push it along. About the time spring gets its ethereal mildness out of doors in the East a cyclone runs over it. Ii greater New York needs any licking into shape Chicago stands waiting and willing to do it. Whenever Democracy finds what it thinks a good place for a bedge it runs into a barbed-wire fence. The nomination at St. Louis will not be made swiftly, but once made it will sweep the country like wildfire. California Democracy has become a purely local 1ssue. The leaders of it won’t even talk of Natioval affair: It is more than a month since Congress passed the Cuban resolutions, and Cleve- land hasn’t resoived yet what to do with them. Any Democratic newspaper wishing a live mystery story can get one by asking Cleveland if he is a candidate for renomi- nation. It would have been big money in the pocket of this country if we had hired a substitute for Grover when he was first elected. All Republican clubs should keep their doors open for converts as they will soon be comisg in thick and fast all over the country. The course taken by the Sacramento convention may win no offices for the Pop- ulists in this campaign, but it is sure to win them converts. Boston is so exultant over having ex- pended $13,000,000 for parks, it seems worth while to imitate the example just to have the feeling. If we are to have a season of revelry in San Francisco we should aim to make it the gayest in the Nation and give it a world-wide reputation. The paragrapher of the Boston Herald says the McKinley boom has become Han- namated and now we know the nature of & mugwump roorbac! In booming Russeil as the ‘“boy candi- date” for the Presidency the Massachusetts Democracy overlooks the fact that he will be a pretty old man before he ever gets there. In trying to make & choice between Pat- tison and Russell as & Presidential candi- date the average Democrat would rather have a man who can run better than either of them. The Democrat who wishes to combine with the Populists this year must take off his party coat and his Cleveland badge and join the procession in the middle of the road. Now that the Populists have agreed with Republicans to make a straight fight and get the true sense of the people there 1s nothing left for Democrats but to take to the woods. Two things at least have been learned by the Democratic organs in the last two years—one is to talk no more about free trade and the other is to quit calling the Populists hayseeds. . Democraey is to have another chance for & Presidential candidate, as the friends of Joe Blackburn have resolved to put him into the race for the purpose of crowding Carlisle against the fence. —— If it was the arrival of Secretary Morton that prompted the weather burean man to turn on our normal weather again we are doubly glad he came, and will be glad to have him stay with us until the season is over and the grape crop picked. President Kruger is said to be sufficient of a speculator to have made $2,000,000 out of the Transvaal gold excitement in the last eight years, and yet so thriity that he gouged an aching tooth out of bis jaw with a jackknife rather than pay a dentist. bill. Secretary Morton was right in saying “the Government cannot create values any more than it can create human souls,’” but he must remember it can depress values and harass human souis and the Cleveland administration has been doing both. That the Cleveland civil service order should please the Buckley gang shows how completely local Democracy has got itself mixed up with jtself, stood on its head, turned inside out and reduced to such imbecility it doesn’t know whether it is a tiger or a lamb. THE POPULIST CONVENTION. The actions of the Populist Convention which will have most effect upon practical politics in this campaign, and therefore are of most interest to the general public, are the indorsement of T. V. Cator for United States Senator and the adoption of a plank in the piatform favoring a union of reform forces at St. Louis, providing it can be beneficially effected without the sacrifice of the People’s party. Their actions are of interest, because they affect the question whether we are to have what is called straight politics in this campaign, or a contest in which Republi- cans will be opposed by any kind and every kind of a combination which politi- cal bosses and tricksters can arrange to deceive the unwary portion of the people. What has been done at Sacramento has been distinetly favorable to honest poli- tics. There has been an evident pur- pose in the convention to set the prinei- ples of the party above the gpoils of office, and the two particular actions we have noted seem to make it clear that no com- bination will be made that involves any compromise of the measures to which the party has pledged itself and is so earn- estly devoted. The clause in the platform relating to the proposed union with reform forces at St. Louis is subject, of course, to the re- vision of the National Convention. Tke party in no State can bind the action of the party or the Nation. It will be for the majority that assembles at St. Louis to decide how far a union with the silver men and reform forces can be carried with- out sacrifice to Populism. It is clear, how- ever, from the passage of this plank that the Populists of this State are opposed to fusion on National issues and it is reason- able to assume they will be equally op- posed to any kind of surrender of princi- ples for the sake of men in State affairs. There can be no question that the stead- fast loyalty of the Populists to their own party, their own principles and their own men will be of advantage to them in a partisan sense. It will keep their organ- ization intact, strengthen the discipline in the ranks and enable them o poll the full vote of their earnest and stalwart mem- bers. In a broader sense, however, it will benefit the whole people. It will present the issues of the day to the public in a way in which they can be dealt with intelli- gently and decisively. The voter will have tbe choice of three tickets to choose from. He mav, on the tariff, vote for Re- publicanism and protection, for Democracy and free trade or for Poputism and a Gov- ernmental tariff commission. On the money question he can vote with the Re- publicans for bimetallism, with the Popu- lists for an extreme free-silver and paper- money policy, or with the Democrats with a goldbug or a straddle policy, accordipe as the Chicago convention may declare. Taken altogether, what has been done at Sacramento well deserves the commenda- tion of good citizens whether they are Pop- ulists or not. It has not been dominated or even influenced by cranks. Much that is demanded in the platform isout of the reach of practical polities in this campaign, but all vital issues have been dealt with conservatively and well. The Populists are in error in our judgment in separatin; at this time from the great party of proteé- tion and prosperity, but baving done so they are certainly to be congratulated on their sagacity in avoiding the party of free trade, Clevelandism and Wall street. MONOPOLY BAFFLED. If the conclusion of the Senate in regard to the Santa Monica job does not give a decisive victory to the people of Los An’ geles and indirectly to all California, it does at auny rate baffle for a time the schemes of the mouopoly and give promise of their ultimate defeat. In this result the people will find no little satisfaction and will return with renewed courage to the greater battle of defeating the funding scheme. The contest over the Santa Monica job may be fairly considerea a skimish which enables us to estimate the strength of the Congressional lobby of the Southern Pa- cific Company. The fight was not made of course with all the force that will be employed to pass the funding bill when the time comes for that venture to be made. Nevertheless the votes favorable to the monopoly were undoubtedly made use of to their full extent to defeat the de- sire of Los Angeles to have a free harbor at Ban Pedro, and as the scheme todo this was baffled both in the House and in the at present. Mr. Edman gives an outline of his system, from which it appears that the idea of reducing the gravel by screen- ings and siftings to a definite specific grav- ity and the extraction of the metal in part by mechanical and in part by chemical agencies is the leading principle. Whatever may be the merits of Mr. Ed- man’s system, be is indubitably right in his original declaration that half the gold is lost by present methods, and that the next direction which intelligent investiga- tion should take is 1o recover a larger per- centage of gold from new workings, and to work over the tailings of old mines. As the author says, an immense field is opened by this new branch of the mining indusiry, and large protits await those who first enter the field with experience, skill, energy and capital. LABOR AND PROTECTION, No one is more interested in the tariff question than the skilled workman. His knowledge of his trade is bhis capital. It is to him what invested dollars are to his employers, and he is prosper- ous in ratio to the income he has op- portunity to secure, If the knowledge of the intricacies of his trade, which he spent along apprenticeship to acq , 18 to have a value to him he must have a demand for it that is not only compensatory, but is continuous. 1f his capital, which is his skill, is idle he receives no income from it, whether it be enforced or voluntary idle- ness. ldleness that is enforced by economic and trade conditions that are the fruit of events for which the country is blameless, such as crop failure, a disease epidemic, or war that is forced upon the Nation, is attended by financial loss, but the basic vrinciple of labor valuation is not dis- turbed. It is merely u suspension of de- mand for the time. Tae capital of the workingman is in no wise impaired. That is to say, its earning opportunity has been temporarily lessened, but its value as the basis for income is not depreciated perma- nently. But if the workingman’s general govern- ment permits opportunity for the employ- ment of his skill to be not only lessened by an outside competitor, but the rate of compensation for its use lowered, the de- preciation in the value of his knowledge of his trade is made permanent, which in turn obliges him to adjust his method of | living to a very much lower basis of ex- | penditure. He is a stupid workingman who cannot see that such conditions would force him to conform to a very much | lower standard of living than would war or pestilence or famine. The workingman finds pleasure in the employment of his skill when he receives enough for it to | stimulate him to independence of thought, | for it is independence of thought that makes manly men, and the better opinion one has of himself the further he is re- moved trom the position and requirements of a mere cog in the wheel of social and business life. 1t ceruinly ‘ollows, therefore, that-our skilled workingmen, and unskilled, too, should take a lively personal interest in the approaching campaign for political supremacy in the country. Upon the out- come of the November election depends much. The Democratic party’s theory of government is that the labor markets of the world should be open and free, ana that in the strife for employment it should be the survival of those who bid the low- est. The Republican party’s theory of government is that the American labor market should not only be protected against foreign invasion, but that the product of American laber should be pro- tected against the competition of coun- tries that debase labor by keeping their wage schedules at a point where it be- comes impossible for working people to foster that independence of spirit which inspires a man to strive to own his home. In alarge degree if not altogether the question of whether this country shall or shall not protect our working people is for our working people themselves to de- termine. A DANGEROUS NUISANCE. The Baden (San Mateo County) Enter- prise calls attention to a condition of affairs that should give grave concern to | the San Francisco Board of Through the intelligent Health. and energetic efforts of this body, the City for some time has been undergoing a thorough overhaul- ing, and many exceedingly valuable re- forms have been instituted. But it cannot Senate there seems good reason to believe that the funding bill would be defeated if it were brought forward at this session. The argument in the Senate on the Santa Monica job was curious. After it had been pointed out by Senator White that two Government commissions had reported in favor of 8an Pedro against Santa Monica, that the people of Los An- geles favored San Pedro, and all the Rep- resentatives in Congress from California took the same side, Senator Frye, for sole answer to all this, pronounced a strong eulogium upon Huntington and argued that because he is so great and good the Government should ignore the people, the nature of the coast and the welfare of trade and make a harbor atthe point where Huntington bad erected a wharf. Against Frye's impassioned argument and appeal Senator Perkins opposed the coolly convincing statem ent that no less than sixleen wharves have been con- structed at exposed points along the Cali- fornia coast and that one is as much en- titled as another to have the Government constract a harbor aronnd it. This posi- tion was unassailable, and the advocates of the Huntington scheme were forced to a compromise. The settlement of the matter is to be left to a Government com- mission, and to that extent Los Angeles has gained a victory for herself and the State. The prestige of the monopoly has thus been broken, and even the most timid will no longer regard it as some- thing too poweriul to tight in a gooa cause. SAVING WASTED GOLD. John E. Edman, M.E., of Meadow V. ley, this State, has issued a highly sug- gestive little pamphlet entitled “‘Studies in Placer Mining in California.’ It goes to the subject of the loss of gold in hy- draulic mining, the amount of gold con- tained in hydraulic tailings and methods for recovering it, and also that contained in beach sand. He points out that the great error in hydraulic mining has been the attention paid to mechanical appliances for the rapid handlinz of large quantities of material instead of careful inquiry into the amount of loss or the possibility of preventing it. Taking into account the objections to hydraulic mining on the tremendous scale of a few years ago, his suggestions are specially valuable. Starting out with the assertion that this waste gold can be economically recovered from the tailings, he deciares that the gold remaining in the tailings runs from 10 cents to $1 a cubic yard, and averages over 50 cents, and that they can be worked for 15 cents a cubic yard. More than that, double the usual amount can be taken from original workings and the waste rroduct stored in dams more safely than operate beyond its jurisdiction. Accord- ing to our Baden contemporary, some of the dangerous nuisances which have been suppressed in San Francisco bave been moved across the line into San Mateo County, where they are beyond the reach of the San Francisco authorities. PERSONAL. G. Vincent, a business man of Papeete, is at the Occidental. Calvert Wilson, an attorney of Los Angeles, is on a visit here, Dr. H. M. Bishop of Los Angeles was among yesterday’s arrivals, Deputy Distriet Attorney Mark Walser has returned home to Fresno. Dr. Henry Meyer has returned from a trip in the southern part of the State. Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding arrived here yesterday. He is at the Grand. R. A. Thompson, editor and one of the owuers of the Santa Rosa Democrat, is in town. G. P. Dodge of New York, a nephew of William Walter Phelps, is on & visit here. John D. Spreckels and Samuel M. Shortridge have gone to San Diego on a business trip. T. J. Henderson, ex-Judge of Court of Ses- sions of New York, is at the Cosmopolitan. Edward E. Leake, the newspaper man of Woodland, is among recent arrivals at the Grand, Thomas Ason Burke, an extensive mine owner of Tuolumne County, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. S. Mono and R.Nakayama of Japan, exten- sive business men, who are here on important missions, are among those registered at the Occldental. Samuel Jackson, the well-known attorney, of Fresno, who has been in the City for several days on legal and mining business, left for home last evening. H. C. Carney, P.E. Corbett and J. W. Fair- fleld of Butte, Mout., who have been visiting Tabiti for some time past, arrived here yester- day and are at the Palace. W. H. Purcell, the most extensive publisher in the East, who has houses at Hongkong, Yokohama, Calcutta and elsewhere, is here on his way to New York and other cities. Colonel J. Bridges of the English army, an old friend of General Phil Sheridan and who Visited California in 1869, is at the Occidental. He hasbeen in the Orient for some time past. J. L. Robinette of Sacramento, editor of the California 0dd Fellow, is in the City attending the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mr. Robin- ette Is a candidate for the position of grand warden of the Grand Lodge. Among the passengers on the Australia to Honolulu was Yuen Chone of Canton, son of the Chinaman who furnished all the Chinese labor for the Central Pacific and Canadian Pa- cific railroads. He has a large sugar planta- tion near Honolulu. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13.—At the Cosmo- politan, C. Baron; Albermarle—Mrs. J. C. Flood, Miss Flood; Hoffman—F. A. Hartman; Imperial—L Jacoborsis; Grand Union—W. H. MeCormick; Murray Hill—R. I. Thomas; Astor House—C. E. Trevathan; Belvidere—Mr. Mec- Mullen; Everett—Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Vaulet; Normandie—The Misses Oxhard. Arrived per steamship Saale from Bremen—John D. Nipper. Sailed per steamship Normsnnia for Cher- bourg, Plymouth and Hamburg—Albert A. Ehrhardt, Lewis Heinburg, Mrs. McMullen, Mrs. William Michelsen and baby, W. Win- terhalter. NEW RAYS. Will men still say the light is good When nothing lies from it concealed; ‘When, thrown on living flesh and blood, 1L shows a skeleton revealed? We aye have loved the softened fays Which will not let us see too much, But wrap, a8 in a kindly haze, The things that ebrivk from human touch. ‘We hide our skeletons away When they have played their living part, And shut them from the light of day ‘Within the twilight of the heart. And all the wrongs that shock and shame Our tender feeling or our pride— The sullled honor, tarnished name— In dim forgetfuiness we hide. But now we dread lest some fierce beam More strong than our resistance prove, And make us look where only seem Unlovely relics of our love. And vet, it may be, we were wise To welcome each new ray of light And face with frank, courageous eyes What now we bury out of sight. 'Tis not, perchance, true self-control, Nor any part of charity, To shut the windows of Lhe soul ’Gainst aill we do not choose to see, New light which shines on earth may teil How brighter rays which shine above Can touch the lowest dept Yet touch with tender tints of IN PERFECT ACCORD. San Diego Union. The outcome of the Sacramento convention will have the effect to unite the Republicans of | California. Lack of harmony, it is true, hes | never been a characteristic of the party in this | State, but it is especially desirable, owing to { the vital importance of the coming election, | that there should be perfect accord among California Republicans. This result has been attained by the convention. There will always be honest differences among the members of every party. But op- POSIDE views on matters of policy need not be- come dissensions and need not be so regarded. And now that the Sacramento convention is a thing of the past its outcome indicates that whatever divergence of opinion there may have been there was no dissension and will be none. Inspite of some spirited passages the general sentiment was one of conciliation. Upon one point only was there any substan- | tial difference of views, and this was on the | question of pledging the delegates to St. Louis. While the sentiment fof a great majority of “These concerns,” says the Enterpris “pick up wornout worthless animals, at the trifling cost of a dollar or two per | head, and, in many instances, without | cost, which they slaugiter, selling such | portions of the tiesh gs they find a market for to chicken and hog ranches, the bones | to bone-dealers, the remainder being manu- factured into fertilizers, which have a com- mercial value and find ready sale.” Our contemporary does not intimate that any of this flesh is offered for sale in the markets of San Francisco for human consumption, as that would be unlikely in view of the stringent market inspection in vogue here. Still the mere fact that such meat is for sale creates a danger which even the most painstaking inspection might find it impossible to suppress. Aside from that, however, our exchange shows that the business is specially con- ducive to the dissemination of infectious diseases among animals fed with this flesh. The assumption is perfectly ra- tional. Of course, San Francisco is the market for this entire product. It is next to impossible to establish a system of in- spection that shall protect the people from the danger which this business represents. The only remedy open is to secure the co-operation of the San Mateo Board of Supervisors. The Enterprise asserts that the proprietor of one of these establish- ments has applied to that body for the contract to remove all the animals found dead on the highways of that county. As the factory is situated in the extreme northern end of the county it will be im- possible to remove dead animals through- out the county before putrefaction has| made them noxious. It is difficult to imagine the Supervisors granting any such contract; but that should not pre- veat our health officers from taking prompt steps in the premises. Such a contract would legalize a dangerous indus- try and San Francisco would be the main sufferer. WILL RAISE POLITICS. Placer Argus. The San Franeisco CALL comes out flat-footed for woman sufirage, and will fight on that line to a finish. We congratulate the women of the State that they have secured such an able champion. We also notice that the Examiner is giving liberal room to the subject, and is at least treating it fairly in its editorials. The Berkeley Gazette is mllxn% & good fight for the suffrage emendment in that locality, and we congratulate ourselves in being placed in such excellenlt company on this question. Give the women their half of the world, and our word for it they will raise the politics of the couuntry to a higher plane, members of ihe convention was strongly in fa- vor of instructing for McKinley there were some who belicved that it would be wiser to This was the view taken by one or two delegations from San Francisco, but they were greatly in the | minority. | , Yet their leader, Mr. Spreckels, was chosen a delegate-at-large, and it is a notable fact that although the opinion which he was known to entertain in regard to pledging was opposed to { that of the mn;omy}w received the largest | yote of any of the six candidates for St. Louis. | This was an iucident thatspoke well for the harmonizing influences that were at work in the convention, ard it was very agreeably sup- plemented by Mr. Spreckels' straightforward, | manly words expressing his acquiescence in | the will of the majority. It is gratifying to recall these incidents, es- pecially in view of the acerbity which some hotheaded partisans sought to inject into the controversy before the convention met. The outcome is as pleasing to the entire party as it is disappointing o the party’s opponents, who iancied they saw in those preliminary skir- mishes on the question of instructions the en- tering wedge of serious dissensions in the Re- publican ranks. THE MOST VOTES. Btockton Graphie. John D. Spreckels’ straightforward, square- toed, free and aboveboard manner of doing things political has been heard from, and will be heard irom again. He received the highest number of votes given for delegates, towering over George A. Kuight, the next highest, by 75 votes. This means clean-handed Republi- can politics—the people have said it. Here is the vote: John D. Spreckels 563, George A. Knight 490, both of San Franeisco; U. 8, Grant, Sen Diego, 481; L. A. Sheldon, Los Angeles, 398: J. M. Gleaves, Shasta, 214; Jumes A. Louttit, Stockton, 173. The first four were elected. Alternates were elected as follows: E. Knight, Marysville; Gleaves, Louttit and George Stone, San Francisco. C. F, Crocker and Trving M. Scott were nominated for Presi- dential clectors at large. T.Lynch, San Ber nardino, was nominated for Lieutenant-Gov- ernor. John L. Spreckels, addrbssing the con- vention, said: I know what instru¢tions have been given to the delegates, and I will carry out the wishes of the peopie of California.” st ettt HONESTY AT THE HELM. Stockton Graphic. Every honest Republican in the State of Cal- ifornia is rejoicing and congratulating him- self, his party and the new brilliant leader, John D. Epreckels. Such a political victory has not taken place in years, if it ever did, in this State. In the face of a perfect bulwark of obstruc- tion, and in spite of the diabolical conniving and low cunning of men who for years have been steeped in political corruption, Mr. Spreckels went calmly and methodically to work, 85 & business man, to weed out the men who had so long disgraced the State and the Republican party by their nefarious practices along political l?nen. Many warm friends of Mr. Spreckels had misgivings as to the outcome. They were and afraid at times, but not o with the | seud untrammeled representatives. man who, like a general, was planning for the utter routing of nis enemies. He stood like & bowlder through it ail and never yielded or relaxed one jot nor tittle, and refused to enter- tain anything but a square, honest fight for nghl', and he has won and his victory is the State’s victory and the Republican party’s vie- tory. Not a’'man in the honestwing oi the party but delights to do him honor. The people were notsatisfied with one honor, though a great one indeed, o they made it a double-header by supplemeniing the honor of an_election (by the biggest vote cast) as & delegate at large and naming him as Cali- fornia’s representative on the Republican Q:Eonll Committee to succeed M. H. de ng. It was a very hard battle to fight, for combi- nations as unscrupulous as unholy were ar- raved against him, one phalanx after another, and everything possible was resorted to: cal- umnies cunningly invented, conceived in slums and born in dark corners, were shot at bim by bidden foes, but all to no purpose. The political bushwhackers and character as- sassinators met their David and like Goliath lhegloll their head. The work has been so neatly, so thoroughly done that it brings out & spontaneous burst of applause for the man who accomplished it. It shows a master and the masterly hand of & very shrewd man, The people are with him and will stay with him, for they have weighed him in the belances and he has not been found wanting, /THE ‘RIGHT MAN. Stockton Graphic. An esteemed contemporary announced the next day after the Republican State Conven- tion that “‘Spreckels owned the earth and the fence around it.”” So beit. It could not bein better hands and, what is more, so long s he is the owner no Rainey-Kelly corruptionist ¢an climb over or crawl under that fence. The fact is the honest Republicans are the owners and they have simply decided 1o put an hon- estman in charge. SAVE SILVER. Pasadena News. The San Francisco CaLL published a eartoon in Monday’sissue that will strike a responsive chord in the hearts of many good Republicans justat this time. It aptly illustrates the mone- tary situation in California. On a high pro- montory, safe from all chance of harm,is & figure labeled “protection,” Across & yawning chasm is the British lion in the actof charging & second figure labeied “silver.” The figure stands ready to baltie with the oncoming lion—labeled *‘British gold.” A third figure, representing the Golden_ State, stands betwixt- silver and protection, the sword of ‘‘Republi- canism” in hand, watching with great solicita- tion the imminent danger in which silver finds itself, and, protection being already safe, she seems about 10 join the figure behind the shield labeled 16 to 1” in its battle with the fero- cious beast. Below the whole is the legend, “Protection is eafe. S8ave silver.” The lesson is a good one, aud represents the political situa- tiou iu California most aptly. FAIRLY AND SQUARELY. San Diego Vidette. The San Frangfsco CALL has come out fairly and squarely for female suffrage. There may be method in THE CALL'S madness. Here is the Way our contemporary reasons it out: “A jourxmfthnt represents the thoughts and sen- timents of but one sex—the sterner sex—can- not be said to speak for all the people. Asa matter of fact, it speaks for but halt the com- muanity—and not the betier half, either.” OUR MINING INTERESTS. Sonora Union-Democrat. In its jssue of May 5 the San Francisco CALL published a leading editorial from last week’s Democrat on the injustice done this county in the apportionment of the mineral product of the State. THE CALL is the especial champion of the mining interests and Fore particular attention to matiers connected therewith. It is receiving a richly deserved support from the southern mining region. A TEN SIRIKE. Fresno Populist. The San Francisco Calr has made another “‘ten sirike’’ over its contemporaries by its an- nouncement that it favors woman suffrage. It was a master stroke on the part of THE CALL and all the more effective because it is right and timely. It pays sometime to do the right thing, and we believe THE CALL may find it so in tois instance. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE MONTEREY CELEBRATION. The People of San Francisco Asked to Join in Making It a Success. To the Editor of the Sen Francisco Call—SiRr: Your to-day’s editorial, under the above cap- tion, inspires me, as general manager of the California jubilee celebration at Monterey from the 4th to 7th of July next, to ask from you a little space to deplore and deprecate any aetion on the part of San Francisco that shall in any way tend to diminish the luster of the grand National event we shall then celebrate. Shakespeare divides men into three classes, “Some men are born great, sume achieve great- ness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Monterey has had ‘greatness thrust upon her” in this case, and to enable her duly to sustain the State and the dignity of this great nation we ask San Francisco to join heartily with us, and make a demonstration commen- surate with the event. In thus honoring our State we honor our- selves. I trust. therefore, that the mansgers of the “Metropolitan fete”” will time their fiesta so as not to conflict with the State celebration at Mon t V. Relying on the cordial co-operation of Tur CaLL and every other journal in the State, 1 am, sir, yours fraternaliy, EDWARD BERWICK. San Jose, May 13, 1896, COLLARS AND CUFFS. Two extremely stylish sets of cuffs and col- lars are shown here. Flax-colored or white linen or batiste is generally used. The plain turn-over sets are generally stiffly starched, but the same models are used for sets of flax- colored batiste trimmed with lace or em- broidery, or for sleeve with lawn or linen, to be siightly starched. These are now worn with dressy waists of silk and wool. The other set is designed solely for dressy waists, whether of cotton, silk or wool. The collar may be worn with a high collar or with only a band at the neck. The cuffs _look best on rather short-puffed sleeves, bus®are pretty also with the bishop sleeve. Narrow insertions of lace or embroidery are the usual trimming. This may be seweéd on top of goods, but is much prettier when let in about half an inch from the edge. A narrow edge of embroidery or lace to mateh is set on the edge. Plain hemstitched sets in this shape are very dainty and e to make, as both collar and cuff are cut square. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. His Mamma—You children know more now- adays than they used to in my time, Freddle. Freddie—That's coz there’'s more to know, ma.—Roxbury Gazette. Teacher—Suppose, Johnnie, your mother cuts apound of meat into eight parts, what will each part be? Johunie Chafle—One-eighth of a pound. “*Correct. Now, suppose she cuts each eighth in two, what will each part be then?” “One-sixteenth of a pound.” “Just so. Now, suppose she cuts each six- teenth in six pieces, what will each piece be?”’ “Hasl MUSICIANS S S N ey Miss Lillian Avel, a Michigan girl who made | & brilliant debut in Paris as a pianist last | month, announces her intention of celebrating | her triumph by spending the summier concert- izing in the West, thcugh it is doubtful whether her tour will extend to the Pacific | Coast. The young lady, whois only 22 years of age, is the daughter of Franz A. Apel, di- rector of the Detroit School of Music, aud her | first master was her father. Turee years ago she directed her steps to Leschetizky, of Pad- erewski, Essipoff and Fanny Bloomfield Zies- ler fame. After threg yeers’ study abroad she decided to make her debut in Europe, and to | judge from the commeats of the French papers her success in Paris was very marked. Miss Apel is described as & handsome brunette of a winning personality, and she is said to be pos- sessed of a facuity for winning the friendship of every one with whom she comes in contact. | Was Moussorgski one of the greatest geniuses of the new Russian school of music, or was he simply & misgnided poet whose musical works are without form and void? Th & question thatisarousing considerabl est in French musical circles. Moussorg: s works are only just beginning to be known in Western Eu- rope, and in this country they are practically | unknown. Pierre d'Alheim, after holding a | series of lectures on the Russian poet-com- poser at the Teatre Mondeain, in Paris, has published a beok called *‘Moussorgski,” in which he retraces the life and works of this i Le Menestrel, criticizing the Dook, says: *‘Moussorgski, like Berlioz, was a poet who made use of musical elements to ex- | press his ideas. His education, however, was | too incomplete for him to be able to stamp | upon musie the idess he sought; he could not | 4 which shows the high price which Beethoven relics bring 1n the international market. Meyer-Helmund has just come out with success as an opera composer, his one-act work, “Trichka,” having made & most favorabla im- pression om its recent production at the Municipal Theater in Frankfort. The libretto revives the old legend of the celebrated dancer, who was engaged by & no less celebrated brigand to give a gratuitous and compulsory performance in the middle of a forest. In “Trichka” Marie Taglioni is made the heroine of the story. Meyer-Helmund is well known in this country as the composer of “The Daily Question,” “Of Thee I'm Think- ing, Marguerita,” etc. Count Geza von Zichy, former intendent of the royal theaters of Buda-Pesth, has just pro- duced an operain that city of which he has written both the words and the music. The first two acts met with some success, but the last two failed completely. It is believed that “Alar” will not remain in the repertory of the Buda-Pesth opera-house, in spite of the mag- nificent way in which the work has been mounted. The composer is well known as the one-armed pianist. An accident made it neces- ary to amputate one of his arms, but his ex- ecution with the one hand that remains is simply prodigious. An account was given last week of the record of forty-six hours at the piano recently made at Cuneo by the Italian pianist Camillo Bau- cia. Itseems thatin accomplishing this feat he triumphed by one hour over an English pianist named Bird, who made & record of forty-five consecutive hours at the piano. It is now announced that the two champions will Miss Lillian Apel, the Young Michigan Girl Who Has Won Success in Paris as & Pianiste. [Reproduced from the Musical Courier.] even give form to a simple vocal melody; his romances have no rational development, and, for the most part, they end prematurely, with- out eny apparent reason. With all that Mous- sorgski’s musical idess possess & strange charm, their poetry is often exquisite, and the dramatic sentimentis of astonishing depth; he expresses trus crises of the soul with an in- tensiiy sometimes tragic and always touching. A remarkable artist was this Russian tone- painter, but incomplete.” La Gazetta Musicale of Milan gives an ac- count of some metallic tubes, shown at the Eucharistic Exhibition in that city. “These tubes, constructed in England, are destined to replace church bells. They have been branght to a high state of perfection, and are made of all dimensions and all degrees of sonority. To the excellence of their tone, which rivals that of the finest chimes, they join the advantage of occupying & very limited space, It is easy to see how well adapted they are to theatrical use, for they are light to carry, can be placed in the wings without being in any one’s way, and can even, if necessary, be placed on the stage, where it is very easy to hide them, Added to all these advantages, they are much cheaper than bells, so it is not difficult to pre- dict that they will soon be adopted in all theaters. Itmaybe added that in Puceini’s new opera, ‘La Boheme,’ they were used for church bells with excellent resalts.”” The reparation of the wrongs which the town of Vienna did Mozart is now complete as far as post-mortem reparation ean ever be complete. The inauguration of the Mozart monument, at which the Emperor, the court and all the principal authorities assisted, was asplendid affair. The monument represents Mozart in an upright attitude, clad in the pic- turesque costume of his period, resting his hand on his piano. The base is ornamented with flowers and musical instruments n re- lief, and bears also a charming grotup of chil- dren. Its simple inscription is “Mozart— MDCCLVI—-MDDXCL” Two reliefs sculptured in the base represent Mozart as a child seated at his harpsichord and the last scene from ‘“Pon Juan.” A sad feature of the inaugura- tion was that the sculptor, Tilgner, who de- signed the monument, died just too soon 1o be Ppresent at its inauguration, A few years ago an interesting little Beethoven museum was founded at Heiligeu- stadt, the suburb of Vienna, where the Bonn master resided for some time. There were a number of fine manuscripts in the collection, which it appears had just been transferred to the Vienna Museum, where the relics will be much better placed. The house at Bonn, where Beethoven was born, and which exists 88 & museum, has been enriched by twelve sutograph letters of the master, which come from the archives of the celebrated Brentato family. They cost more than 5000 francs, measure their strength in Englana tosee which of thetwo gan furnish a piano recital of fifty consecutive hours. These musical tests of en- durance are ridiculous and can do.nothing to further art. The composer Spiro Samara, who wrote “Le Martire” and several other operas produced with success in Italy, has composed an *“Olym- pic Hymn,” to celebrate the revival of the olympic games. Samarais of Greek nationale ity himself and his work has already been in- terpreted with great success by four hundred singers in Athens. The condition of Mme, Schumann’s health is said to have improved somewhat, The physi- cians now believe that it was not anattack of apoplexy from which sbe was suffering, but that she was simply seized with syncope, ag- gravated by general debility. Ethelbert Humperdink, the fortunate com- poser of ““Hansel and Gretel,” has just termi nated incidental music for the celebrated Spanish drama. “The Judge of Zalames.”” At the Theater An der Wien, in Vienna, a new opera is about to be produced by Leopold Kuhn, entitled “The Woman Hunter.” The composer is the musical director of the theater. On the 9th inst. the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Berlin celebrated its two hundredth anniversary. The event was marked by the first performance of a new oratorio by Max Bruch, entitled ‘Moses," — e e 3 ANicE present for Eastern friends—Town- send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. 627 Market st. * —————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Pross Clipping Bureau (Allog'l). 510 h:om"o::ory. > ———— Jinks—Would you call Brobson a fool? 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