The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1896, Page 6

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SW. corner Sixtéenth and Mission streets; open atil @ o'clock. 5 2518 Mission street; ‘open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninih street; open until § o'clock. ** OAKLARD OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. e ULY 30, 1896 | THE. CALL SPEAKS _FOR ALL. o PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. S —— One word'to Republicans: Organize. As weresolve at mass-meetings soshould we vote on election-day. In making the clean sweep for reform let us begin; with our City. All good ‘business men will find good company in' Republican clubs. Democracy has shiaken off most of its leaders, but none of its barnacle Thereused to be some free-traders among the woolmen, bat it is not so now. The only sure way to get rid of bad Sup- ervisors is to elect good ones in their places. . The seven may boast that they aré solid, but they feel a sense of emptiness some- where. It is a very narrow Populist platform that- can.be built on a Democratic foun- dation. By this time the Solid Seven have Jearnea what the people are going to do about it. 3 If taxation without répresentation is tyranny, what is taxation with misrepre- sentation? . The soldier candidate is the one whom patriotic young men will support with a | true énthusiasm, Youhg business men should take a prom- | inent- part in the Republicdn. canvass, for i it means business. < | The Republican campaign is to begin at once. Now is the time to-join the clups and take part in the work. i 5 1 It is now the time of the tax-shirkers to call a mass-fheeting. to indorse she Suver visors who worked the big shirk. It Clevelana has not sunk into & state of total collapse we shall hear him reading the riot act to his Cabiget before long. It.ig hard to satisfy the morbid Demo- crat, who complains that McKinley doesn't talk enough and Bryan talks too much. Alégeid may have constructed the machine, but it is more than probable that Gorman will bé given the job of run- ning if. When .assessments are made with fia- grant injustice taxation:--becomes a cor- Tuption to the rich and an oppression to the poor. ‘When one man ghirks his taxes another has to pay them, and that is why just men protest against officials who allqw such practices. The Populist National organization at this time rests on Watson alone, and sup- pose Mr. Watson should decide.to step from under? E 5 Republican organization and Democratic demoralization are going forward with an equal rapidity, and the campaign pro- presses beautifully. No Republican should be content to be an onlooker in this campaign. There is work in it for every man who has the | energy to undertake it. Indignation meetings -are excellent things in a way, but we shall never have good government in this City until we have something more to harmonize on than indignation. -The integrity of the credit of the Nation and the protection of the industries of the people are.the two issues for which Me- Kinley stands, and what sane citizen will vote against them ? B Bryan’s character was molded in debat- ing societies and McKinley’s character on the battlefields of the war for the Union. ‘Which is more likely to prove himself in office a true patriot President? Despite the kick given at Chicago to the Cleveland administration most of the Cabi- net will support the ticket, and now we know just how sincers they were in pro- fessing to think Grover was right. The conquest of the Democratic party by such leaders as Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman is a seriousdanger to the Republic and every good citizen should give active and earnest aid in the campaign sgainst it. When we are denouncing Dunker, Hughes, Morgenstern, Wagner, Scully, King and Benjamin for betraying the people to the powers of corruption let us } have been accomplished. .| ful corporations. THE WOOL INDUSTRY. ‘Wool production should be a prominent and profitable industsy throughout the Pacific Coast country, but it is not, and for very good reasons. In Californiaalone the loss is enormous because of the Wil- son tariff act. It is estimatea that tbhe clip this year ‘will show a degrease of nearly 6,000,000 pounds as compared with the last year of the tariff act of 1890, and unless ihere is legislation to put a stop to importations from Australia and other countries where the cost of production is 50 much less we shall not ouly not pro- duce wool in California for commercial purposes, but the guestion of a sufficient supply of mutton will become a serious one. Wool-growers are so isolated from the highways of trade and travel that people generally are unacquainted with the im- portance of the bnsiness to the coun- try. Under the operation of the pres- ent tariff law we are importing nearly 125000,000 more pounds of wool annually than formerly, which not only operates to just about cut former prices in half, but sends fully $18,000,000 abroad to pay for wool that should go to oir own wool-producers. There are grades of wool which are not obtainable in this country and their importation does not interfere with our home indus- .iry, but when it comes to importing say 125,000,000 pounds of the kind we do pro- duce at about 50 per cent of the price "our producers should have to make the business profitable, there is not much to encourage sheep-raising in this country. The last year of the McKinley act we im- ported wool, shoddy and woolen goods to the amount of, in round numbers, $31,000,000, and the importations of the same kind of articles last . year aggregated $94,000,000. This makes a difference against this country of $62,000,000, fully $50,000,000 of which was not only a net loss to us, but we had to send gold abroad to pay the bill. . In 1891 wool-growers realized a good profit ‘on their clip, while the value of their sheep was $108,000,000. This is put- ting sheep per head at $2 51, which was the average price that yvear. In 1895 the wool clip had a valuation of $26,000,000, against $70,000,000 in 1891, and, mean- while, the total value of the sheep of the country decreased to $67,000,000. In 1891 the average price of wool was 17 cents and 9 cents in 1895, It isvery evident that unless the cause of these decreases in wool and sheep values is removed it will be a mere question of time when the entire wool industry of the country will be a thing of the past. It would seem to bpe- hoove the people of California to bestir themselves in the interest of the State’s wool industry. Unless reasonable protec- tion is forthcoming in the near future there will be no sheep on the coast for any purpose. THE MASS-MEETING. The great mass-meeting at Metropolitan Temple on Tuesday evening will hardly bave much effect upon the gang of seven on the Board of Supervisors whose con- duct it so severely condemned. Thatgang has been condeianed many times at the bar of public opinion and has grown callous in conscience and feeling. The de- nunciation of their practices by honest men affects them now only in their man- ners and not their morals. They swear, .but they do not repent. The benefit to be expected from the mass-meeting will be in the effect it pro- duces upon the popular mind and the influence’ it will have in determining votes in the coming municipal election. If it rouses the people to an understanding of the evils which result from the election of corrupt officials to office much good will For the punish- ment: of evildoers we must look to the courts. Mass-meetings, however large or | however earnest, can punish no man who | is careless of fair fame or good repute among his neighbors. They can serve no good purpose except the one of making the people resolve to turn down all rascals at the next election and raise to office only those citizens whose tried and tested probity in private life makes it certain they will be honest’ and true in official station. It should be borne in mind by every taxpayer that a certain sum of money is necessary every year for municipal pur- poses. If one citizen isallowed to shirk his taxes another citizen must pay them. 1f pfoperty valued at millions of dollars is allowed by official favoritism to escape the common tax, then other property must bear a heavier burden. Unjust assess- ments, therefore, work a double injury to the community. They induce the rich to resort to corruption in order to escape tax- unjust portion of the burden of municipal government. Where iniquity is permitted the innocent suffer, and all human experi- is always the strong and the nowerful that escape, while the weak are overwhelmed. 1t was not by chance that the property on which assessments were lowered by the gang of seven was that of rich and power- Only such powers can gain favors at the hands of such men. It is a matter of concern of every taxpayer, therefore, to elect just men to office. That fact should be borne in mind from now until election day. The indicted seven can be left to the courts. The thing for the people to do is to elect honest men next time. THE OLD DEMOCRA(QY. The announcement that Senator Hill is for & ticket that shall represent Demo- cratic principles strengthens the revolt against the acts and platform of the Chi- cago convention, but action looking to the calling of another convention had already been taken by the old Democracy, and a convention will surely be held early in September to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President. Of course no one expects that such a ticket would stand the ghost of a chance to carry the country, but with the Simon-pure Demo- crat the next best thing to enjoying the spoils of office is the keeping of his party’s fences in good repair. The Democratic party hasagood many able politicians, but it does not require a very great smount of political sense to know that if Bryan is defeated his wing of the party would go into oblivion and thatif he wins there would be a permanent fusion between it and the Populist party. As a political proposition, therefore, an« other convention will have to be heid and candidates nominated and voted for in order to have a political- organization in 1800. The work of the Chicago conven- tion was theft, pure and simple. The con- vention was packed with anarchists, Populists, communists and a few weak- kneed Democrats, who captured the name and the machinery of the Democratic pariy, but refused to carry off any of the principles of the party. 1t wasa case of stealing the livery of reputable, though erring, principles to serve the cause of re- not forget to give honor to Charles L. Taylor, Joseph I. Dimond, Adolph B. Bpreckels and John K. C. Hobbs, who maintained the cause of justice and honest dealing, pudiation, confusion and sectionalism in. The “true blues’ are thus driven into holding another convention to maintair their self-respect. In fact it is either candi- dates of their own or rallying to McKin- ' ation, and they oppress the poor with an’| ence proves that wherever this occurs it} THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 30. 1896. : ley, and while it would go against the grain to vote the Republican ticket it would not be nearly so humiliating as it would be to support the despoilers of their own party. By hotding another conven- tion two very satisfying results would be obtained. In the first place, such action woula secure the return of the name ana the machinery of the party to those who have stood guard over the organization in the past, and in the next place they would have the opportunity to vote for such a ticket as they would have nominated at Chicago had they not been deceived by Populists and anarchists disguised in Democratic clothing. In view of the plight in which the “‘true blues” find themselves they have no other way out of the dilemma than to hold another convention, for, after all, it is more desirable to keep free and unspotted from Bryanism than to win a great yictory at the polls. OALIFORNIA'S NEEDS. However much importance may be given to the money question in other parts of the country, in Qalifornia the tariff ques- tion will naturally and necessarily take precedence. The industrial resources of California are as valuable as they are vast- and the progress of the State unquestion, ably lies on lines that are in harmony with such a policy as will encourage capi- tal to engage in the work of transtorming the various kinds of raw material into fin- ished merchantable commodities. The State is interested in the money question, auite as much so as any other section of the country, but what is wanted first is opporwunity for new capital to open up new industries, and by opportunity we mean such governmental protection as shall assure capital that it will not be driven to the wall by unreasonable and unfair foreign competition. The BState needs a very much larger population, but there must be something to not only make it to the interest of home-seekers to come here, but they must be assured that when once here they will not be obliged to sit idly by ana see the ships of Chine and Japan land goods upon our docks at prices to compete with which they would have to accept a reduction in wages equal to fifty per cent or more. California is in her swaddling clothes as to industrial enterprises, but she has everything that is neaded but opportunity to make her an industrial giantess. The time has arrived when the issue of whatever protection may be needed to un- fold the State industnal possibilities should be made not only clear and dis- tinct, but paramount to all other Na- tional questions. California must bave a merchant marine, but first let there be mills and factories to furnish tonnage for a merchant marine. California needs to be gridironed.by railroads, but there must be manufacturing centers in different parts of the State to give freight to haul. There needs to be scores of interior manufactur- ing and commercial centers, but capital must first go and offer employment to labor. California is rich in everything that is required to make her an empire of wealth, industry and commerce, but what is the sense of undertaking tbe de- velopment of her resources if there be no protection against destructive invasion? Keep the question of the necessity for protection prominently to the front until it is secured. THE OOWARDLY POWERS. It i hard to understand how Christian Europe could permit itself to be dom- inated by the Turkish Government when- ever the Sultan concludes tbat he wants no interference in the work of butchering his Christian subjects. A Turkish Cabi- net Council has just been held, and Greece notified that she would be held respon- sible for any assistance that is hereafter given to Crete in the way of permitting arms and ammunition to be smuggled out of Greece and into Crete, A parallel case would be a threat of Spain to thrash the United States unless public sympathy and secret aid to the Cubans quit manifesting themselves. Right upon the heels of the Sultan’s bold stand the Christian powers joined in a note to Greece that she must obey the Mussulman butcher, and moreover the diplomats of Eurove have suddenly with- drawn their sympathy from the Cretans. With the news of the cowardly backdown of the powers come accounts df the most horrible Mussulman atrocities in Crete, Armenia and Macedonia. To their credit and manliness, be it said, the Cretans re- sent all overtures for veace on the basis of submission to the Porte’s authority, Itisto be hoped that Russia, as was in- mated in dispatches the other day, has and will continue to refuse to co-operate with the powers to maintain the Turkish Govern- ment, for it certainly means only hostility toward the Sultan by the Czar, and as the outcome of such strained relations could only be a declaration of war, the end of the Turkish empire may be near. Never- theless, we permit Spain to do to Cuba what the powers allow the Sultan to do to his Christian subjects, and just at this time there are no indications that our Government is going to change its policy toward the struggling Cuban patriots, NAVAL MATTERS. Washington Post. Lieutenant C. A, Bradbury of the navy has been found physically incapacitated and or- dered before a retiring board. The United States steamship Castine has ar- rived at Rosario, Uruguay; the Raleigh at Tompkinsville and the Marblehead at Messina. The Navy Department has turned over to the State of Georgia for the ase of the naval militia the monitor Passaic, now at Boston. The Co- lumbia has been chosen to tow the Passaic to her destination, Brunswick, Ga. The Cincinnati has arrived at New York and will be docked and put in shape for the ap- proaching naval maneuvers. "The Yorktown is at Nagasaki. The Marion has been ordered back from Panama to Callao, Peru, owing to the great heaton the isthmus, Medical Director G. H. Cooke has been de- tached from special duty in Philadelphia and ordered to take charge of the naval hospital there in place of Medical Director D, Kindle- berger, ordered home on waiting orders; Med- ical Inspector W. G. ‘Farwell to special dut; at Phlmelph% attending ulflclr!l;ncAali"lnyl Burgeon F.C. Cook, detached from treatment at the New York hospital and ordered home. —_— NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. He—I don’t remémber the Browns at all. She—You don’t? Why, they were marriea about the time we were first divorced.—Town Topics. “I say, Trivvet, can you lend me 850 for a few days?” . “I have only $1 about me, Dicer.” “Well, I'll try to make that do.”—Judge. Not over twenty years ago some teacher tola Bryan to be a good little boy and he would be President some day, and the teacher knew then he was 1ying.—Wichita (Kans.) Eagle. ‘Willle—Grandpa, tell me a story. Grandpa—Once upon a time, before people thought of marrying for money— Willie—Oh! I don't mean a fairy story.— Norristown Herald. “Littls Johnnie opened his drum yesterday to find where the noise came from.” “Did he find out?” “Yes; when his father came home the noise came {rom little Johnny.”—Pick-Me-Up. AROUND TBE CORRIDORS. “There is a peculiar, powerful and very big crab found on the Marquesas Islands. It is known as the cocoanut crab, and measures all of eighteen inches across, including its claws. Itruins a large number of cocosnuts by crush- ing tte thick shell between its strong mandi. bles after getting a good hold in oneof the eyes of the nut.” It was G.L. Kennedy, s merchant of Nuki Hivi,who was speaking,and he wasentertaining few persons at the Ocoidental with some of the peculiarities of the islands where he has lived for nearly five years, and from which he arrived yesterday with his wife after a forty- five days’ passage in the brigantine Papeete. He will remain here about a week purchasing goods. “But that is not the only pest,” he continued. ““We have rats by the hundreds. They climb the cocosnut trees and gnaw holes in the young nuts, letting in the water and ruining them. But fish; you should see the fishl Finest you ever ate and in great variety. One in particular, the vara, asort of shellfish— looks like a centipede, is articulated, lives in | the shallow water of the coral reefs—well, it is the greatest eating imaginable. You boil it and the meat is as white as drifted snow, and rich. An ordinary vera is from eight to twelve inches in length and each joint is about an inch across. If they ever do bring any to this market the epicures will 80 wild over them, The Marqueansgroupisa French possession. There are about eighty or ninety islands in all—many of them very small. My experience has been thatthe na- tives pay their debts better than the Euro- peans. Well, the French Government made them. The chief productsof the islands are cocos, cotton, vanilla and sugar. They export a good deal of sea-island cotton, copra, pearl shells and vanilla. The sugar is menufactured for home consumption. It is & good place to make money, but a poor country for social life. There are not over twenty-five Europeans on the whole island where we live.” “The standing army of the republic of Ha- waii consists at present of two companies of regulars or one hundred men. They are quar- | tered in the basement! of the Government building which it is their duty to guard,” re- marked Captain E. 0. White yesterday at the Occidental, Captain White is himself a military man at Honolulu, where he has command of one of the six militia companies majntained and regu- larly drilled in the island eapital. ‘‘The regulars receive the highest pay of any soldiers in the world. Privates get $30 a month, corporals $35 and sergeants $40 and #50 a month. Recently the regnlar army was reduced to its present size as a matter of econ- omy. ““There is a salaried colonel in command, and he 1s at the head of the regiment of which the six militia companies form a part. Heison duty all the time in the Government building. There are no soldiers on the other islands, al- though each island has what is called the home guard. These guards on the different islands have frequent {friendly shooting matches, the results of the target scores beiug communicated to each other by mail. There is no fear of an attack from the royalists, butof course there is the same talk that has been heard for a long time. ‘‘On the average, five men die in our camp each day,” said D. Muir, who is in charge of & big refinery in the new oil regious on the Isiand of Sumatra, whither he will start to-day on the China with his wife and family, who came to the Oceidental recently from their old home in Titusville, Pa. “The trouble is the 1and is low and level and 8 good deal of it is covered with stagnant waterabout a foot deep. The weather is hot, the average temperature ranging from 80 deg. all the way to 115 deg. Vegetation is raak. We have 5000 natives, hali-castes and Chinese employed about the wells, the sawmill, the box factory, the can factory and the refinery, which makeup the complete ofl plant. Fever is common and effects the Chinese the worst ofall. Theylive in such an unhealthy way anyhow. But we are getting more Chinese all the time to take the places of those that die off. ‘‘Europeans can’t stand the c'imate very well, either. They stay six months ora year per- baps, and then they have to getaway fors change. I nearly died when I first went down there, but them 1 got acclimated. I don’t drink, and that makes it easier to stand the climate. When I leit there in May cholera was in the camp, and men were going at the rate of from eight to twelve a day. Well,if my family can’t stand it I'll send them right home. Everybody talks Malay down there. Itisn't like Chinese. For instance, you count up to five; it is: Satu, dua, tigs, smpat, lima. Su- matra is bigger than most people think, It is about 900 miles long, and comes pretty near being as large as California.” THE MAN WHO WILL. Though lowly born and humbly bred In Poverty’s dominion, ‘The man wio will may rear his head— Onward and upward may he tread, Desplie adverse opinion. 1f tricky Fortune seem to smile On many auother brighter, The man o2 whom she spends no wile Should quickiier pass each weary mile— His knapsack’s all the lighter. With naught to woo his steadfast will Astray from his ambition, Sooner should he ascend the bill, Prepared to win and ably fill The coveted position. Let none lament that Fate declined ‘With plenteous gifts to store him; Il N \ MUSICIANS SN 7 NN\ 7 774 2% Joseph Alfred Novello, organist, composer, scientist and member of the internationally known firm of Novello, Ewer & Co. of London, died at Genoa on July 17. The deceased, who was born in 1810, was the son of Vincent Novello, who established the important English publishing-house in the year 1811 when in his thirtieth year. The son Joseph . Alfred, at the age of 19, entered into his father's labors and main- tained the policy of the firm, which was mainly characterized by the project of issuiug high-class music at cheap rates, witha judgment and artistic liverality which hive had a permanent influence on the progress of mausic. Vincent Novello’s early works had been limited to the Roman Catholie ritual and until the innovation made by Alfred the only printed editions of Handel’s oratorios cost $22 each, and this while oratorio was the form of music most in use. “The Messiah” can now be bought, thanks to the Novellos, for 25 cents. Through long years of usefulness watching the complete development in cheap publication, and busy with various labors of science and philanthropy, as well as with mausic as an art, Alfred Novello lived, and was loved and respected. In 1856 he retired from business and left England to establish him- self in Italy. John Sebastian Bach is going to have & suf- ficfently original monument at Berlin. Wil- liam II has conceived the idea of ornament- ing the Avenue des Victoires in Thiergarten with thirty-two groups of statuary, each one representing a sovereign, supported by two of the most illustrious men of his reign. Now William II has ordered that the statue of Fred- erick IT, the royal composer and flutist, shall e & general on one side and the grand “cantor’” of Leipsic on the other. Itisevident to-day that the poor musician is much more illustrious than the Prussian general and that Frederick II cannot complain of hav- ing him at his side. But what is J. S. Bach going to do in this position? He was mnot a Prussian subject, he owed nothing to Prussia, and his short in- terview with Frederick was quite accidental. 1 J. 8. Bach was certainly contemporaneous with Frederick IT,but what was there in common between him and the King of Prussia, and by what right can he be placed as an illustration of the reign of Frederick II? The Menestrel awaits a reply. Portugal is preparing to celebrate one of its glorious anniversaries. It will be in honor of the fourth century of the discovery of India by Vasce de Gama, or, at least, of the route thither by the Cape of Good Hope. In 1497 the great navigator was ordered to take charge of this expedition by King Emmanuel of Portugal, and it is this important date which the Portuguese intend to celebrate next year. For this purpose a grand central commission is being formed at Lisbon to invite, on the part of artistsand composers, works of a national and other kind, among others a commemoration hymn, a triumphsl march, & historic drama upon s patriotic subject, finally a grana opera or lyric drama on a national subject, etc. Besides these there will be organized concerts of ancient Portuguese music and rep- resentations of the ancient national theater. Probably among the modern operas Meyer- beer’s *‘L’Africaine” will be produced, as it would be difficult w0 find anything more suit- able for commemorating the glory of the he- roic discoverer of the Indies. From a private letter we gather that Mrs, Car- michael Carr, the well-known pianist who has done so much to foster the love of good music in San Francisco, is greatly enjoying her vaca- tion in England. She has been to many very interesting entertainments,’ but the one she speaks of as having enjoyed the most was given by William Nichols, the tenor singer,at Staf- ford House, the residence of the Duke of Sutherland, which was lent for the occasion. Among much high-class musie, two songs by Miss Carmichael, Mrs, Carr’s sister, 'were rendered, accompanied by the composer, who also accompanied the other numbers. The Prince of Wales and his family were pres- ent, and Mrs. Carr expresses herself as much astonished at the extreme beauty of the Prin- cess, beside whom her daughters look abso-' lutely plain, aithough they are really not so. Mrs, Carr purposes returning early in Septem. ber, when the popular soncerts will be re- sumed. Cablegram from Bayreuth: “July 20— The man who wili may leave behind The clay he was and some time find Life’s joyance spread before him. —Frank Putnam in Chicago 1 imes-Herald. GIRL’S DRESS TO WEAR WITH GUIMPES. There is no daintler or more seasonsble style of dresses for little girls than those made for wear with lawn or silk guimpes. This little gown is made with a plain waist, but- toned in the back, the trimming of ruffles almost covering the body. The skirt is simply gathered on the waist, and for an apron would be open in the back and hemmed, while for a skirt it is sewed up in a seam, leav- ing six inches open at the top for a placket. A charming little gown of French challie, in grav and pink flowers, had ruffies of pink chiffon and was worn with & pink China silk guimpe. A more serviceable dress was of cheviot, in myrtle green, with ruifles of China silk to mateh. Ginghams this year areof the gayestcom- binations of colors suggesting rainbows. A gingham of pink and blue sheding into each e other had ruffies ot blue gingham embroidered in pink. A white guimpe was shown with this. Ruflles of the same goods are used on other ging and on uhug!lyl- etc. This design ma; e:l:ge b:fmth for lper:]nl. ':Il‘ Ry e same colored materials, & Thstead of of very dainty. White lawn el 53 A prone ot heavir Whils Wi ' are rufiles are also (ood.ng‘ Rheingold mediocre; Walkyrie tremendous. Attendance and enthusiasm enormous.” The Bayreuth festival began July 19 under the direction of Hans Richter, who twenty years ago led the orchestra at the first production of the tetralogy. Twenty years ago Bay- reuth was unknown, except as a sleepy place, which gave a title to a Margrave who possessed a castle there. Richara Wag- ner built himself a home in this little town and calied it ““Wahnfried,” and in 1872 the foundation of the Festival play-house was 1aid, thanks to the assistance of the late King Ludwig II, without whom Wagner might have remained & mute inglorious Milton. On Aun- gust 18, 1876, the first performance of the tetralogy began, before & gathering of imperial princes, artists, musicians and the Abbe Liszt, King Ludwig, in solitary state, attended the first dress rehearsal, but the effect was so depressing that on the three following days invited guests were present. A large propor- tion of the visitors this year are foreigners, among whom the Americans and the French are conspicuous. The first cycle ended July 22 with the Gotterdammerung; the second cycle began July 26, the third will begin Au- gust 2, the fourth on August 9, and the last o; August 16, > A rather good joke is going the round of the foreign papers: M. Carl Goldmark, the author of “Merlin” and “La Reine de Saba,” one of the best known German composers, has also written several symphonic works, among them a “suite” for orchestra, which has inspired him with a peculiar ai- fection, so much so that he takes it with him wherever he goes. Itisstated that recently he arrived at Saltzbourg for the Mozart fetes with Conductor Hellmesberger, who undertook to inscribe their names in the register of the hotel. For his friend he wrote “‘Carl Goldmark and his suite,” and nutil the departure of the travelers the host waited in vain for the “suite,” for whom he had reservea rooms. The Government of Maarid has issued a de- cree that all theatrical performances must be terminated by 12:30 henceforth, and that the abuse of prolonging them till 2 o’clock in the morning will no longer be tolerated. This order has been provoked by a grave scandal which took place at the Theater Ciro de Colon, on the occasion of the first per- formance of & new opers, “The Great Fair.” The public having energetically protested against this very mediocre -work, the proies- sional applauders (la claque) offered a turbu- lent resistance, and in the end the police had to interfere, From Milan it is stated that Verdi is hard at ‘work on *The Tempest,” or on “King Lear,” or ofi “Cymbeline”—at all events on some- thing from Shakespeare—libretto by Boito. Boito’s “Nero” Is, as happens every year, again spoken of. Other works announced are Fran- chetti’s comic opera, “Le Malade Imaginaire,” -";-mm" by !cln:t,), ll'Tom" by Puceini, a Japanese opera ascagni and “The Boheme" of Leoneavallo. At the jubilee performance of ‘“rhe Elijah,” at the Crystal Palace, was one bass-singer who had taken part in the irst rendering of this work fifty years ago, when Mendelssohn him- self conducted. This veteran, Mr. Pountney, is still 1n excellent health, and came from Bir- mingham to London to sing on this occasion and returned immediately afterward, Among the 28,000 persons present there were many who had witnessed the first performance of “The Elijah.” PERSONAL. Mayor H. N. Boggs of Stockton is at the Lick. A. B. Jackson, s farmer of Salinas, is regis- tered at the Grand. Ida Conquest, the New York actress, isa guest at the Palace. Julius Storke, an art woodworker of Mon- terey, is at the Palace. Leland Stanford Stillman of Brooklyn, N. Y., is & guest at the Palace. Dr. D. T. Callahan of New York City arrived at the Grand last night. Rev. Joseph de Forest of Baker City, Or., is registered at the Grand. Charles Aull, warden of Folsom Prison, ar- rived in town yesterday. W. P. Thomas, an attorney of Ukiah, is a late arrival at the Grand. A. D. Gassaway of the Mayflower mine, near Forest Hill, is at the Lick. G. McM. Ross, & mining man of Petalumas,is visiting at the Occidental. Dr. Woodmansee, wife and child of Grass Valley are guests at the Russ. W. P. Harris, & mine-owner ot Portland, Or., is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. J. M. Lakeman, the foundryman, of Grass Valley, is registered at the Lick. E. L. Newberne, & capitalist of Washington, D. C., is registered at the Cosmopolitan. E.B. La Pier, & capitalist of New Orleans, arrived at the Palace yesterday with his wife. Mrs. Arpad Haraszthy, wife of the big wine merchant, is at the Lick with her daughters. They are registered from Sonoma. Hugh Richardson and wife of Mississippl arrived at the Palace yesterday. They will sail to-day for Japan on the China. Sisseretta Jones, the “Black Patti,” and her husband, D. R. Jones, returned yesterday from Los Angeles and aro at the Russ. - J. Lamb Doty, United States Consul at Tahiti, arrived at the Palace yesterday on his way to Washington. He has a ten months’ leave of absence. J. E. Quinn, son of Capitalist Quinn of Walla Walla, Wash., arrived at the Lick last night on his way to Santa Clara College, which he will enter as a student. Joe Gibson of Williams, a capitalist and landowner of Colusa County, is a guest at the Russ, where he arrived yesterday with J. E. Rathbun, a liveryman of Williams. Charles. H. Keyes ot Pasadena, president of the Throop Polytechnic Institute, president of the Pasadena Board of Tradeand director of the Whittier Reform School, arrived at the Lick yesterday un a short business visit. G. L. Kennedy, & general merchant on the island of Muki Hivl, one of the Marquesas group, nine degrees south of the equator, arrived at the Occidental yesterday with his wife, after & forty-five days' sailing voyage frum Papeete, one of the isiand ports. W. D. Tobey, a lumber-dealer of Carson, is among those registered at the Palace. Hels accompanied by his nephew, C.T. Bliss, & lumber-man, whose summer home is at Lake Tahoe, but who spends his winters in Carson. It was Mr. Bliss’ father who built the fine new excursion steamers now on Lake Tshoe, near which be has an attractive summer home. Among the arrivals at the Occidental last night were two notable Japanese. Dr.T. K. Murata, & major in the Japanese army, who has for some time been in Cuba makinga study of Spanish war methods, and his com- panion, Ariya Irakuty, a civil engineer and professor in the college of engineering in the Imperial University at Tokio. He has been in England for the last two years observing en- gineering as practiced there. Both men are residents of Tokio. . Three teachers and the physician from the Nez Perce Indian reservation in Idaho arrived &t the Baldwin yesterday from Uregon. They have come to attend the interstate Indian school-teachers’ convention that is to be held here next week. The party consists of Dr. O. J. West, Miss Crawford, Miss Stan- dirg and Miss Young. The last named has been promoted and will, after the convention adjourns, go to New Mexico to teach among the Navajoes. Miss Young says that there are about 3000 Nez Perces, but that the race is decreasing at the rate of one hundred a year. Itis a superior tribe. The children are quick to learn and keep their minds well on one subject while studying. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 29.—Rey. T. de Ma- sini and William Wolff sailed on the American liner New York for England. At the Plaza—J. §t. Jackson; Murray Hil—W. H. Hart; Im- perial—W. B. Peck; Metropole—H. E. Brown; Barreti—Mrs. C. A. Keesing; Westminster—F. H. Davidson. Mr. ¥. Korbel, Austrian-Hun- garian Consul, Mrs. E. and L. L. Korbel left the Plaza to sail for Austria. SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT MONEY. New York World. A correspondent asks us some questions which we print here, with a reply to each: F 1. Was siiver a legal tender for any smount of debts, public or private, from the beginning of the Government until 18787 Yes. 2. Issilver only alegal tender to the amount of $5 now? No. Thesilyerdollars are full legal tender for any amount. The subsidiary coins, being pur- posely made light weight in order to keep change 1n the eouun‘{. have been legal tender only to the amount of $5 since 1853, 8. Is a silver certificate only a legal tender to the amount of $57 A silver certincate is not legal tender at all. It is merely & warehouse receipt. It certifies that so many silver dollsrs have beon de- ited in the treasury, payable to bearer on lemand. The certificate is not money and not a legld tenaer. Bul its hoider can exchane it lalr 11 legal 'vendor silverdollars whenever he pleases. 4. To what amount is a N webaTe a National bank note legal 1t is not legal tender atall. It ismerel bank’s promise, guaranteed by the Guveein’ ment, to pay so many dollars in greenbacks, 1t passes current 1n thé payment of debts, pre. cisely as thesilvemeertificates do, becanss 1t 1o on demand for legal-tender exchangeable money. 6. To what extent s & greenback legal tender? It is a legal tender for any amount. In the ordinary transactions of life no dis- tinctions are made between the nine or ten dif. {erent kinds of currency that go to make up Thia 5 Tabrely ‘besaase.tha Homcoiu, But thus far succeeded in "m:h! h:l' OE the party of our several kinds of money by me;;h chote-hol the curreney even '“;‘“‘;’ b “:v era that choice lies by law ut the banks in paying out money natu Pay out by preference those forms 'zi cun;.nl(l:; which cannot be counted s a part of their re- uruvxn. T:g‘zoazn xuo& n;d -l:lvn coin, cert; 0] S, AN g. other forms whm‘v’n they can. POt e Queen Victoria has opened twenty-five ses- sions of Partiament during her reign, IT WILL BE THE ISSUE. Cleveland Leader. Benator Quay said in an interview the other day that he believed the tariff quesiion would soon come to the front in the campaign. Sena- tor Quay is right. There are millionsof people in the United States who are still determined that protection shall be restored to the tariff law of the coun- try. The hundreds of thousands of workmen employed in the industries of the Eastern and Middle States who have suffered untold loss because of the inauguration of Democratic tariff reform; the thousands of merchants who have seen their business nearly destroyed by the blighting effects of the Democratic policy; the farmers in all partsof the country from whom millions of dollars have been taken by the Democratic free trade in wool—all these are convinced that prosperity can return only through & restoration of protection. . . ‘Why should not the tariff be an issue? The Republican platforn: adopted at St. Louis con- tains a strong declaration in favor of a return to the protective policy, while the Popocratic platform adopted at Chicago insists that the Bresent tariff law is all right, and that tariff uties should be levied solely for purposes ot revenue, The two platiorms define & tariff js- sue, and when once the people become ¢on- vinced, as they are sure to be, that all they need is the opportunity to work and earn a living, they will demand that the orators of the two great parties explain their position upon the tariff question. Every man who Votes this year for the candidates of the Chi- cage convention will vote for a continuance of the present ruinous tariff policy, for a tariff law which, while failing_to protect American labor, also fails to provide sufficient revenues for the support of the Government. Protec:ion is bound to come to the front, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Lord Bute has lately been making some pur- Chases of lend in Jerusalem. Governor Foster of Louisans is taking a va- cation by making an extended trip through the Northwestern States, Rev. Charles E. Bentley, the Presidental nominee of the Prohibition bolters, lives in Lincoln, Nebr. James Payn, the London author, works from 10A.M.t04P. M From 4 P.M. t0o 6 P. M. he plays whist. Dr. Conan Doyle has been speech-making in London and has been telling his auditors how much he owes to Sir Walier Scott and Lord Macaulay, to whom, he says, he is indebted for the inspiration of his romantic stories. The late Colonel J. T. North’s will has now been proved. The exact net value of his per- sonal estate has been sworn.at £263,866 1s 114, the gross value being £575,535 10s 11d. His widow, Mrs. Jane North; his son, Harry North; Mr. Lockett and Worford Budd are the executrix and executdrs. 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