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

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Telephone...... +.-MAIn-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 880 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 8:80 o'clock. $89 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open untfl 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. . 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. .JULY 23, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. Sewall has found the campaign redhot at the start. Daggett's bossing has not improved the vopular aspect of his party. The time for registration is passing rap- idly and you must hurry or you will be left. P VA SN The only sound from the Democratic camp is the braying of the donkey. The roos'er has quit crowin, If the Populists join with the Democrats it will give the country a chance to kill two bad birds with one stone. Free silver with economic protection means business prosperity, but free silver with free trade means ruin. Money may be the talk on the stump, but the need of work andewages is the talk in the homes of the people. The bolting up to date shows about six- teen who boit into the Republican party for every one who bolts out of it. The announcement that Hoke Smith -will support Bryan is another reason why Republicans are smiling and satisfied. The party leaders are talking of starting the campaign just as if it were not already started and moring like an avalanche. ‘We are not informed of any business men in any part of the country who are joining the Democratic party this year. Sewall of Bath will not be satisfactory to the average Democrat. He may stand the Sewall but he wili kick at the Bath. It seems to be the opinion of the boy orator that if he docs not keep moving and shouticg the people will forget him. Before long the wise old leaders of the Democratic party will have to warn Bryan that small boys should be seen and not heard. The Republican National Committee has planned a campaign of oratory that will make Bryan’s rhetoric flicker like a tallow candle. ‘While Bryan plies his silver tongue and runs from town to town, Grover stays at Buzzards Bay and sticks to golden silence. As soon as Altgeld and Tillman take the stump we shall know what Democracy proposes to do, if it has an opportunity to do anything. Mr. Joseph P. Keliy had better be con- tent with the vindication he has received from Daggeti, Lanigan and Rainey and go hide himself. Intelligent workingmen are asking one another what would be the profit to them of free silver if they had no work by which to earn any of it. As Joseph P. Kelly is running for vindi- cation rather than for Congress the cam- paign for him will partake largely of the nature of a personal picnie. Marion de Vries, whom the Democrats propose to sacrifice in the Second Distfict, is a nice young man and will make a lovely political cor Next. The Republican party is not only the party of the preseft, but the party of the future. Itisthe party for young men to join, and the young men know it. 80 many Southern business men are coming out for McKinley that it would hardly be a surprise if the whole Solid South turned Republican this year. McKinley will be supported on the stump by Harrison, Reed, Allison, Fora- ker and many another orator of eloquence, but who will help Bryan when his tongue fatigues itself? The Democrats of the Fifth District who have been invited to wash Kelly’s dirty linen in public haye a justitiable privilege to kick, and they otight to deliver iton the right place. The beavy export of gold which has fol- lowed Bryan’s nomination is an evidence of the tremendous panic and financial stringency which would be sure to result from his election. e Boies, Bland, Campbell, Matthews and some other favorite sons among the Demo- crats have declared they will vote for Bryan, but up to date they bhave not joined the .whoop-up nor made any speeches for hi Every intelligent bimetallist recognizes the fact that the free coinage of silver by the United States alone would postpone the success of international bimetallism for a generation to come and deprive us of <old for the whole of that period, WHY PROTEOTION? The purpose of industrial protection is threefold: ‘‘To give variety to production, a home market and high wages to labor.” It was demonstrated under protection in this country that the wazes of labor ranged from two to four times greater than in any of the free-trade countries of Europe, and, as & consequence, Amer labor enjoyed more of the comforts of life; more labor was housed under its own roof, and the cldren of labor had more social and educational advantages than the chil- dren of any otber labor in the world. Moreover, becanse of the advantages which protection bestows upon labor, more labor became identified with the legislative and executive departments of the several commun: and common- wealths of the Nation than in all the other countries together. Under protection American labor bought more books and magazines and sustained more libraries than the labor of any three coantries of Europe. Under protection American labor invented more mechanical devices for cheapening production than the labor of Europe in sll the ages. Under protec- tion American labor was in better circum- stances in every way that is conducive to healch, happiness and the development of true manhood than the labor of Europe ever was in its history. Until the country had protection there were no home markets of consequence. Our chief production was from farms and forests, and Europe fixed the price. After protection was established fully 97 per cent of the country’s products’ found a market next door, so to speak. Prior to the adoption of the policy of protection people had but a vague idea of the re- sources of the country, but when they were encouraged to go ahead in the direc- tion of converting raw masterial into finished product a surprisingly wide range of quality and quantity of materials for mill, factory and shop to work up into merchantable articles were discovered. Under protection the wealth of the country increased at the rate of $1,500,000,000 a year. Bhall the country return to protec- tion, or shall it continue as it is and has been under the Wilson-Gorman free-trade law? WORDS OF WARNING. In an open letter addressed to many leading Democrats of the country who are his personal friends, the venerable An- drew D. White, whose long experience in the higher departments of politics, whose learning and whose integrity give weight to his words, has solemnly urged them to allow ro party considerations to induce them to give even a tacit consent to the Chicago ticket or the Chicago platform. In what was done at Chicago, and in what was there vroposed to be done in case of success at the polls, Mr. White sees abundant evidences of a dangerous threat of revolution, not only in our poli- tics and our industries, but in our whole social organization. *‘Itis'aplatform,” he declares, “leading logically and histor- ically to a despotism.”” He points out the tendencies of the policy enunciated and justly argues that if all conservative men, Democrats as well as Republicans, do not combine to check at once the progress of the demagogues and agitators those men will rapidly force forward a conflict be- tween labor and capital and excite in our country the worst passions thatinflame the mobs of Europe. Mr. White is not among those who be- lieve the ticket is better than the platform and fondiy trust that Bryvan will not be ruled by Altgeld or Tillman. On this point he says: For the first time in the history of the United States we have an anarchist and social- ist platform, and for the first time, also, & can- didate who has never given the slightest evi- dence of statesmanship. The only qualification of this candidate—'‘The Boy Orator’—is that during his briet carser in Congress he made one or two speeches which amused the House and pleased its galleries, and that during'the recent convention he took the ‘fancy of the mob by a single exhibition of flaring rhetoric. Nothing beyond his speeches is needed to show that both in temper and inteliect he is utterly unfit to deal with the great questions which now confront the country, or, indeed, with any large questions whatever. ‘With such a platform and such canai- dates the success of the Democratic party in this election would be sure to result in confusion, ruin, distress and dishonor. No intelligent man who paid the slightest heed to what was said and done at Chicago, or who considers the class of men that dominated the proceedings there, can have any doubt that such would be the result. Under these circumstances, as Mr. White says, the one duty of all true Democrats is “Frankly, boldly, un- ‘qualifiedly to break loose from this wild mob masquerading in the Democratic garb and like the great war Democrats during our civil'struggle to east your lot fully for the time at least with the party which you have heretofore opposed.”’ This appeal will not fail to fina a re- sponse from many a patriotic Democrat. Already men of business and character are turning their backs upon the Chicago platform and ticket and are declaring unequivocably for McKinley. They may not like hi: that on hus side are law, order and pros- perity and they will vote for these and let the Bryans, Altgelds and Tilmans howl in vain. SEWALL'S LEVEL HEAD, Arthur Sewall, president of the Ameri- can Merchant Marine Association and Democratic candidate for Vice-President of the United States, heartily indorses the Republican party’s proposition to restore our merchant marine by adopting the policy of discriminating duties. Mr. Sew- all is a ship-builder and a ship-owner and knows bhow mnecessa t Republican party is to his business inferests, but asa politician with a burning desire to hoid office, Mr. Sewall is ready to let his ship- yard and ships take some chances. Bat, then, no doubt he feels that there is not the ghost of a chance of his election, hence there is no danger that his sh interests will not be ampiy protected. Mr. Sewall says, in his capacity as presi- dent of the American Merchant Marine Association, that under Democratic rule the percentage of our commerce ecarried in home-made and home-owned ships ha; fallen from 90 per cent to less than 12 per cent; that of the 5,000,000 tons of ships carrying our ocean commerce, less than 750,000 tons of it is American owned; that we pay $250,000,000 annually to foreign ships that should be paid to American ships; that if the Republican policy is indorsed by the people $400,000,000 would be spent in building American ships in American shipyards, and ‘that with the Republican merchant marine policy in full operation we should distribute annually over $300,000,000 to American ships which we now pay foreigners for carrying our freight, our mails and our people. The convention which nominated Mr. Sewall was too busy with sectionalism to give any thought to sn American mer- chant marine. California is deeply inter- ested in this matter, and no doubt the Btate would go Republican on that issue alone, but anyway, a thoroughly estab- lished merchant manne under Goyern- ariff policy, but they know. ment protection on the Pacific Ocean would add enormously to the volume of our commerce; besides, it would insure the establishing of a number of shipyards, which in turn would give constant em- pioyment to thousandsof men. Such a merchant marine as is provided for in the policy of the Republican party would swell the trade and commerce of San Francisco by millions of dollars every year. It is good of Mr. Sewall to recommend the Republican party to the people of Califor- nia if they want to transact their business on business principles, but being a ship- builder and ship-owner himself he knows by experience how disastrous it is to fool with the Democracy when business is to be sttended to. TRUE AND FALSE BIMETALLISM. That Mr. Bryan is aiming at silver mo- ' nometallism and not at bimetallism there is no doubt whatever. When the bill was pending in Congress to repeal the silver- bullion purchase act quite a number of amendments were offered with the view of opening the mints to free-silver coin- age. Mr. Bland was the leader of the sil- ver forces, and he undertook to secure a compromise by increasing the ratio. Ac- cordingly be demanded a vote on ratios of 17to1,18t01,19to 1and 20 to 1. He and most of his confreres were wiliing to in- crease the ratio to somewhere near the difference in the market price of the metals, but the ‘“Congressional Record” shows that Bryan voted against every proposition increasing the ratio above 16 to 1. He held, as he now holds, that it is the fiat of the Government and not the commercial value of silver that should be relied upon to give 50 cents’ worth of sil- ver the character and redemption power of 100 cents. He was consistent, there- fore, in opposing & higher 1atio than 16 to 1. But why did he then or why should he now insist upon 16 to 1? Why not the first ratio of 15to 1?7 or why any ratio st all? Certainly it would be just as easy and just as consistent to declare the metals of equal commercial and coinage valoe as to bridee over the difference between any fixed and the natural ratio by the fiat of the Government. Mr. Bryan bas been asked very many times why he insists upon a ratio of 16 to 1 and will accept no other ratio when he himself admits that that ratio represents only about one half of the actual difference, but -his only an- swer has always been ‘because that was the ratio when silver was demonetized.” The absurd and illogical position of the man becomes very pronounced in thelight of history which records a silver dollar as being wortk 103 cents as bullioh whea the ‘“‘rime of 1873" was committed. MMcre- over, history records the fact that only about 8,000,000 of silver dollar pieces had been coined between the founding of the Government and 1873, while, since 1873, incloding the treasury notes issued under thesilver purchgse act of 1890, over 600,000,- 000 silver dollars have been coined and which are now «dn circulation in fact or by silver certificates. Although a silver doliar carries as much puarchasing power as a gold dollar, its bul- lion value is only about 53 cents. The Gov- ernment 1s coining new silver dollars at the rate of 3,000,000 a montn, but instead of coining them for owners of silver bul- lion it coins them on its own account. These silver dollars possess a purchasing power equal to nearly double their bullion value because they are exchangeable for gold, which makes them the equivalent of gold. Nevertheless they are not full dol- lars, except as the gold behind them makes them so.. Now what is desired is that these silver dollars shall enter the chan- nels of the world’s commerce upon their own responsibility and at the same time tbe equal of gold in every function of money. That is to say. it is desirable that the commercial nations with whose com- merce our commerce is laced and inter- laced agree with us that the silver dollar shall be accepted in lien of a gold aollar and a gold dollar in lieu of a sjlver dollar ineveryand inall trade interchanges. To secure this most desirsble recognition of our silver dollars as dollars of equal trade balance and debt-paying power with our gold dollars, itis the purpose of the Repub- lican party to assemble the nations with whom we make annual trade interchanges aggregating about $2,000,000,000 and agree upon a basis that shall give our silver dol- lars equal standing with our gold dollars in every market in the world in which we bry and sell. Such a consummation wouald be the adoption of a bimetallic monetary system. That is what the Republican party calls bimetallism, and that is what it declares for when it declares for bimetall- ism. Nothing more nor less. Mr. Bryan admits that there is a com- mercial difference between goid and silver, and he admits that the com mercial na- tions are unwilling to recognize our silver dollars as being the equal in value of our gold dollars and that they exact gold dol- lars of us in all business transactions with them. He admits, 100, that here at home the purchasing power of a silver dollar is the equal in every particular to the pur- chasing power of a gold doliar. But he denies the right of the nations with whom we do business to give their consent or disapprobation when it comes to deter- mining what the basisof trade interchange shall be between them and us. His plan is to first destroy, or rather remove that which is behind the siver dollar and which makes its purchasing power the equal of .the gold dollar, and then by proclamation decree that there shall be no difference in the market price between 41234 grains of standard silver, whether it be coined or uncoined, and that the com- mereial nations must govern themseives accordingly. Have we jurisdiction over the nations of the earth that we may leg- islate for them without consulting them ? Bryan would move forward on the suppo- sition that we haye. G00D WOULD COME OF IT. Prince Bismarck appears to be confident that a conflict between Great Britain and Russia and France is imminent, and that it will go hard with England. The old diplomat gathers his conclusions from the anxiety of Russia to be the dominating in- fluence in India and the purpose of France to have more to say concerning the inter- nal affairs of Egypt. At present England exercises almost the authority of owner- ship over India and Egypt and derives an enormous revenue from her trade relations with those countries, With England the acquisition of foreign lands is for the one purpose of commercial supremacy that more trade and trafic highways may e obliged to make the commercial and man- ufacturing center of the little island their objective point. England never permits hu- man lives, right or justice te interrupt her commerce, and hence Russia and France will bave to take India and Egypt by con- quest if they take them at ail. It is of little consequence to us in this country whether or not it Britain is prepared for such a conflict, nor is ita matter of much concern ¢o us whether it is England or Russia or France that tem- porarily dominates in Asia and Africa, for in any event the Oriens will ultimately be s factor in manufacture and commerce of sufficient power to make it unwise for other countriea to try 10 appropriate any from it stronger than ever to assert their commercial independence, and no doubt dence would be to them, especially if they could oblige Europe to change its mone- conflict, therefore, between Great Britain who, in company with her sister, Miss Gutchus, came here the other day from Wads- worth, nartly for the wedding and partly as an interested member of the convention-of Tndian schioolteachers soon to be held in this City. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK mintter—G. B. Crocker, J. Crocker; t. Cloud—E, R. Manzy. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896. ures. A conflict between England and }!:uh and France for a better hold upon n trade of those countries, and in that the United States would be greatly benefited. Bat perhaps the greatest advantage that would accrue to this country by the com- mercial independence of India and Egypt would be in their demand for 8 bimetal- lic internatioral monetary system. - They would come into a convention as advo- cates of bimetallism, and being free to di- vert their commerce away from France and England they would, as 8 business Pproposition, insist that both silver and gold be used for redemption money asa condition of formula ing commerci treaties. They would then become allies of the United States, and no doubt we should be greatly the gainer for it. This is upon the supposition that if Russia and France undertake to drive England out of India and Egypt, or to materially weaken her influence, those countries would take advantage of the situation and emerge that would follow, for the people of those countries have been in too close touch with the commercial nations of Europe and the United States in recent years not to know what the value of trade indepen- tary system to one which would make gold and silver interchangeable as re- demption money, and that 1s exactly what they could and woula do with this coun- try as the leader in the movement. A and Russia and France for territorial pos- sessions in India and Egypt would not be looked upon as a calamity by this coun- try, for it would make international bi- metallism doubly sure and give this coun- try a very solid footing in Asia and in the Soudan country, PERSONAL. F. E. Baker of Woodland is at the Lick. * Dr. F. J. Bethel of Bakersfield is at the Baldwin. Dan McFarland of Los Angelesis staying st the Palace. C.D. Dunham of San Jose is at the Grand with his sister. E.Jacob, the Visalla banker, has & room at the Occidental. W. E. Wage, a Modesto merchant, is a recent arrival at the Lick. Judge John Caldwell and daughters of Ne- vada are at the Lick, J. Durkin, a farmer of Sonors, is registered &t the Cosmopolitan. Dr.F. W. Hatch of the Agnews Insane Asylum is & guest at the Lick, Frank L. Coombs of Naps, ex-MinisterZto Japan, s at the Grand. F. A. Gould, a lumterman st Red Bluff, is registered at the Grand. 8. J. Sachs, a merchant of New York City, is & late arrival at the Batdwin. J. L. Gillis, & lawyer of Sacramento, is smong the latest arrivals at the Grand. F. A. Boole, a merchant of Red Bluff, is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. Judge Francis E. Spencer of San Jose is among those registered at the Lick. John Burnett, son of the late ex-Governor Burnett, left for Victoria yesterday. Captain Clarke of ths ill-fated steamship Colombia is staying at the Occidental. A. C. Bilicke, manager of the Hotel Hollen« beck at Los Angeles, arrived at the Palace last night. Lyndall Milier, who is interested in a car- riage factory at Stocktom, is registered at the Grand. A. L. McOandless, a merchant of Ealinas, is at the Grand during a short visit here on business. B. H. Upham, proprietor of the Gloriana vineyard, near Martines, is making a brief visit at the Lick. H. K. Whitton, colonel of the Fifth Regi. ment, N. G. C., and an attorney at 8an Jose, is one of the Lick guests. H. C. Wyatt of the Los Angeles Theater is at the Baldwin with his wife on a little visit for pieasure and business. Alonzo Bailey, a banker and merchant of Globe, Ariz., where he has lived for the last twenty years, isat the Lick. Charles M. Hatcher, one of the best known real estate agents of the State, with offices in San Jose, is in the City on business. Tom McKzy, passenger agent at Yokohama for several American railroads, will return to Japan next Thursday on the China. Mrs. G. G. Briggs, owner of the Briggs ranch at Downieville and owner of large ranch near Fresno and Woodland, is visiting at the Lick. J. R. Burns, who is manager of & mining machinery works at Stopkton recently foundea on the old Shippee business, is a late arrival at the Grand. J. F. Clapp, a Chicago capitalist, who isin- terested in California mines, returned to the Graud yesterday from a little prospecting trip into the interior, R. P. Troy of Marin County, formerly secre- tary of the Demoeratic State Central Commit- tee and assistant doorkeeper of the United States Senate, is registered at the Grand. Ralph E. Hoyt, a Los Angeles journalist and single-tax advocate, recently returned from Maryland, where he studied and reported the single-tax campaign, arrived at the Baldwin yesterday from the South. arrivals on the Santa ing with friends near San Diego and has come here in poor health. John H. Dickey, & dry-goods merchant of Frederickton, Ohio, arrived at-the Russ yester- day with his wife and father-in-law, W. J. Haines, whose step-son is proprietor of the Walker Hotel soon going on a visit to Mr. Walker. H. W. Warren of Denver, Bishop of. the Methodist Episcopal Church, arrived atthe Palace yesterday from Santa Crus, where he has been spending the summer with his wife and three sisters-in-law, the Misses 1Iiff, of Denver, all of whom accompanied him to this City. General Wade Hampton, United States Com- missioner of Raiiroads, and his secretary, Charles E. Thomss, both of Washington, D. C., arrived at the Palace yesterday forenoon in company with Dr. B. W, Taylor of Columbia, 8. C,, and Captain R. Lowndes of Charleston, B.C. The general is on his regular tour of in- spection. M. Dickingon, one of the United States assistant attorney-generals, now on a pleasure trip through the West, arrived at the Palace yesterday with his wife and registered from Tenuessee, his home previous to his appoint- ment & year ago to the position he now holds and which keeps him in Washington a good deal of the time. D. U. Betts, the Indian agency teacher re- cently arrived from Wadsworth. Nev., regis- tered at the Grand last night with his wife, NEW YORK, N. Y., july 22.—At the West- Cramer; Belvedere—A. H, ONE OF EHB ABLEST. Los Tho Sen Franeises AT ool et and newslest papers west of the Rockies. Itis &0 uncompromising advocate of equal rights and equal opportunity for all. It isa stanch {riend of the Afro-American, part of it to themselves by arbitrary meas- nd Egypt at_the expense of Great Britain would be sure to end in greater commercial freedom for Asiaand Africa and a very much wider division of the O AN S 74 1SS S ST Stockhausen, the celebrated protessor of singing, has produced recently at his school at Frankfort-on-the-Main a work of J. 8. Bach which has hitherto been unknown. It is a cantata for solos and choruses entitled “Caffea Cantats,” and is none other than a skit upon the then recently introduced cafes. Toward the end of the seventeenth century the Dutch fashion of drinking several times a day at the cafe had spread among the Germans, and the clergy, the doctors and the moralists struggled in vain against this habit, at that time rather expensive. The women were just ss much taken with the cafe as the men and had no in- tention of abandouing it. The cantata of the future composer of “The Passion” is overflow- Sonora, whither the party is’ ing with grace and good humor; sometimes, indeed, he relapses into his ordinary styie, and then he produces little chefs-d’euvre of coun- terpoint. The setting of the cantats is very simple. A young girl defends, with conviction and grace, against two grim moralists, the right of women to gorge themselves with as many cups of coffee as their hearts desire. Unnecessary to add, tne little woman gains her cause, and that her right to coffee ad ligitum is gloriously inscribed in her marriage theaters of Naples,” writes the Trovator, ‘‘with the exception of the Fondo, wnere they are playing comedy, everything is cafes-chantants. The Nuovo, the Rossi, the Parthenope, are temples for the canzonette, which also reigns at the Varietes, at the Eidorado, at the Cosmo- politan, at the Eden, at the Scotto, at the Masella, at the Vigilante, and 5o on.” Let us go to Italy then to hear music. The late Minister Crispi had prolonged by decree the author’s rights in the ‘‘Barber of Seville,” as regards Italy, in order that the Couservatoire of Pesaro, to which the rights belonged, should continue to profit by them. This decree has now been attacked as illegal, and it appears the Barber will fall into the hands of the public, even in Italy. Mme. Gemma Bellincioni, the famous Ital- 1an singer, proposes, it is said,to buy some ground in the cemetery at Montenero, to build a chapel which will serve her for a grave, sooner or later, preterably the laiter. In this chapel she intends to erect a statue personify- ing the lyric art. % Frau Cosima Wagner has appointed, besides contract. All of which goes to show that woman’s rights are older than is generally supposed. The action of the cantat urally aimost nothing, but it makes, same, & pretty little scene, and the costumes, a la regence, produce a charming effect. “La Caffea Cantata’’ can be recommended to those who love good music and are motafraid of numerous rehearsals, for the choruses of Father Bach are never easy, even when heis only joking. As Siegfried Wagner advances in the mu- sical career wiich he has undertaken—a little under pressure—so the radical difference which exists between his character, his sentiments, his manner and those of his immortal father, becomes more évident. One knows that Rich- ard Wagner had a weakness for speaking in public; very expansive, he never missed an occasion for airing his sentiments, sometimes rather mal apropos. Siegiried is entirely the opposite, as the following anecdote will show: He went to Vienna to direct a grand concert in behalf of the Nicolai Society, which brought in 75,000 francs and much credit to the young conductor. After the concert was over the verformers assembled and a speech was made congratulsting Siegfried on the result. When it was over every one waited for the reply, but the young man only blusbed and remained Withouta word. Then Hans Richter touched him on the shoulder and sald: “Friederl, there’s nothing else for it this time; you must speak.” Then Siegfried opened his mouth and babbled & few words slowly and in a low voice. At the Theater Royal, Wiesbaden, the god Loge, invoked by Wotan to produce the famous enchantment fire in the Valkyrie, was on a recent occasion very imprudent. Heaccident- ally set fire to Wotan's mantle. Happily, a brave fireman was present, who, seeing Wotan in danger, rushed toward him, tore the mantle from him and rushed with it benind the scenes, where the fire was quickly put out. Wotan finished his celebrated speech without his maatle, but he did not receive nearly so much applause as the courageous fireman, to whom the audience gave several ovations, calling him many times before the curtain after the end of the act. According to the Berlin correspondent of the London Standard Rubinstein has left volum. inous memoirs, containing ovinions on musi- cal subjects and souvenirs of important events in his existence.. The work also contains aphorisms and anecdotes of celebrities. One of the friends of Rubinstein is said to have re- ceived from the master the mission of revising the manuscript and eliminating before its ‘publication anything which could prove offen- sive to persons still living or to their families. .The French papers, speaking of the faflure of MM. Abbey and Grau, say: “The creditors of MM. Abbey, Grau and Schoeffel, of whom we have already announced the discomforture, have much confidence in the capacity and loyalty of these gentlemen. According to an arrangement which has just been concluded, MM. Grau and Abbey will retake the theater of the Metropolitan Opera-house at New York for the next season as if nothing had ha; pened. This is a way they have in America. M. Luigi Arditi, who for twenty-five years was chief of the orchestraat her Majesty's Theater, London, author of the famous Bacio which Mme. Pattl has made famous by sing- ing throughout the world, is preparing to cel- ebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the day when, quite & little child, he made his debut as a’cellist, at Milan. It is stated that he is going to publish shortly a volume of artistic memories. La Gazzetta Musicale de Milano is grieved to see, in Italy, the Government and Parliament soanti-artistique. “The Commissioners of the budget,” it says, ‘““have decided not to approve of the item in the budget in favor of the communal school of Naples, the school of reci- tation in Florence and the school of declama- tion of St. Cecile at Rome. All that is artistic, all that is’ inteliectual has always found an adversary in the legislature in Italy. Why not suppress the Budget of Public Instruction? ‘When one does too much on one side, it fol- lows that one is reduced to do too little on the otger.” > It appears that M. Mascagni has undertaken the composition of a new opera, the subject of which will be both Japanese and fantastic. The libretto is by M. Luigi Iliica, the workin two acts and s prologue, aad has for title, “La Giapponese,” and will most likely be pro- duced at the Scala, Milan, during next Lent. M. Mascagniis also preparing for publication & volume of verses like M. Saint-Saens. Naples, the birthplace of Cimaross and of Paisello, Naples, which has given birth to so many chefs-d’ceuvre of the lyric stage, isto-day wallowing in the chanson orgy. “Inall the ber son Siegiried, Felix Mottl and Hans Rieh- ter as conductors at the performance of Wag- ner's music at Bayreuth. They are men of world-wide fame. It is said that every seat has been sold, and they have been bought by visitors from all parts of Europe and America. A new opera has just been produced, in one act, music by M. Henry Waller, by.order of ‘William II, at the Royal Opera-house, Berlin, entitled “Fra Francesco.” The success was nil, the disappointment enormoust THE REAPERS. The long day’s toil was over, A bird sang in a tree; The sunshine kissed the clover Good-by, and—she kissed me. Then lovelier seemed the sunshine And sweeter sang the bird, And if the clover listened My throbbing heart it heard. 4 For all day long a-reaping In fieids of silver shine, 11elt her heart a-creeping. And cuddling close 10 mine. And lighter seemed the labor, And winsomer the w ‘That spread its goiden tresses For the falling 0f her feet. And when the toil was over A bird sang in a tree; ‘The sunshine kissed the clover Good-by, and—she kissed me ! —Atlanta Constitution. A GIRL'S FROCK. A smart frock for little girls is of dark green and black bouele cioth, with a bodice of Campbell tartan silk, over which the boucle material forms s cut-out waist effect. The back, like the front, is in blouse effect with a lining to which the skirt is seamed, Two tucks at the elbow are in accordance with the latest style. Gilt buttons hold the cloth in place on :ne aist, \‘vhloh bnllol.::-‘h:‘the i}mk‘ A mix- ure snowing many ght colors slightl; veiled in black boucle threads is very )lngum; with a silk blouse of bright plaid. A biue plain crepon with blouse of the same, ‘lndu:eln'(un‘ln nmor: and a fancy design or the cut-out over bodice isextremely s B Plain brown cashmer, e terial in bright plaid for able and pretty. e ———— AFRO-AMERICANS WILL NOT SUP- PORT ERYAN. Los Angeles Searchiight. The Afro-American of the West eannot con- scientiously support Bryan and his wing of the Demootatic party, no matter how they feel re- garding the money question. The worst ele- ment of Mr. Bryan's party is the saddle. Strictly speaking he 13 no better than the men whose creature he is. Bryan cannot be elected without the votes of the Solid South, and the South caunot remain solid without suppress- mi the ‘Afro-American vote of that section. This, however, is understood as well by Mr. AN 88 any one else, he colored men of the West cannot, as seli- mlncun‘ men, a1d any csuse that when won will owe its triumph to a disregard of the rights of our le in some other sections of the country, leaders of the silverites in the West are the men who voted With the , With the same the waist is nrva: ts and defeated the Lodge election llw)lelll?evcfléh had for its object the protection of the colored man’s right to vote and have it counted as cast, Major McKinley vo_n.ea and { measure.: ml),r }lerd g;rr't‘l:lnh {n favor of & freé ballotand a fair count he wonld have mever actepted ihe Demacratic nom:;utg)n. n‘rha Afro-Americans t Mr, Bryan. '}‘I%Vl;mn:: ppgc.rm" the Democratic party be. cause it is against us.” LIKE THE CALL. £an Diego Vidette. ‘When Charles M. Shortridge took control of the San Francisco CALL he said that hfn paper would devote itself wholly to journalism and would not resort to fakes to attract fools. This we believe should be the aim and object of a newspaper, and that the peopie appreciate a newspaper conducted on those lines is hes_( evidenced by the success achieved by THE CaLL. Imitation isthe sincerest flattery, and we could not pay & greater coripliment to the San Francisco daily than by candidly n‘tru:lfen}. ing that it is along the same iines the Videtis has been offering itself as a candidate for sup- rt. And like THE CALL we have succeeded yond our most sanguine expectations. —_— GAINING EVERY _DAY. Alameda Argos. The San Francisco CALL has fallen into ll‘ne with vigorous Republican argument and jis helping the cause by its hearty support of the ticket. The whole-souled way, we are com- elled to observe, in which it takes up the ght, is in unmistakable. contrast to the haif- heartiness of the other great Republican daily of San Francisco. A good fighter, especially when engaged in a good cause, (s to bead- mired, and THE CALL is gaining friends every day by its sturdy Republicanism, el it S e S NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. The bold, bad eaterpillar soon, All snugly hid from view, Will murmur to the summer girl: I have a drop on you.” —Washington Star. Collector—This account must be settled, Mr. Shorts. It has been running & long time.” “Well, let it stand a while,”’—Truth. “If that ain’t just like the woman,” said the corn-fed philosopher. “If what ain’t?” asked the grocer. “Why, when we want to show that & man’s independent we say he wears no man’s collar; but woman must go and show her independ- ence by puttin’ on & man’s collar.””—Indian. apolis Journal. After the spanking.—Mother—It hurts mother more than it does you, my son. 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