The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1896 3, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor d Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CarL, stx months, by mail. 3.00 Dally and Bunday Carz, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday Cary, one month, by mail.. .85 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall 1.80 WEEKLY CaALL, One year, by m: 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation * It &8, it {5 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will iss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Ofice will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: %10 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone ... Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open £:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open nuntil 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open =ntll § o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until § o’clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 0'clock OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Erosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL” L — PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT-- WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICE-PRFEIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTIO NOVEMBER 3, 1896. See the home industries at the Pavilion. The Mechanics’ Fair gives a local object lesson on the need of protection. The latest thing for the Popocrats to dodge is the news from Vermont. Every one-who can afford it should see the State Fair and learn what California can do. Bryan draws crowds well enough, but the news from Vermont shows that he doesn't draw voters worth a cent. The vast resources of California afford abundant opportunities to industry, but it takes a protective system to make the in- dustry profitable. As Bryan refused to talk about the Ver- mont election, it seems he does occasion- ally have temporary aberrations into the wisdom of silence. Sacramento snows much and the Me- chanics’ Institute Fair shows much, but the Stockton festival will show the best products of the Siate. What with the State Fair, the Me- chanics’ Fair, the campaign and the prep- arations for Admission day all California is active in every energy. By the time the campaign is over Mr. Watson will have ceased to regret that Sewall would not give way to him and let him get on the band-wagon. The moral effect of the Vermont election will be felt everywnere in the Union and Democrats are now hoping Arkansas will counteract it with an immoral effect. The Indianapolis convention is not ex- pected to give the gold Democrats a plat- form to stand on but an air cushion to sit on as a change from the barbed wire fence. The home industries displayed at the Btate Fair and the Mechanics’ Pavilion are good object lessons for the cause of protection as every one recognizes who sees them. There yet remams to be written some explanation by the Democrats of how they expect workingmen to profit by free silver under a free-trade system that deprives them of work. Every workingman knows his work was more steady and his wages better under the Republican tariff than under Demo- cratic conditions, and for that reason they will vote for McKinley. That the farmers of Vermont cleariy anderstand the situatior is made evidenty oy the way they voted, and there is no doubt that farmers in other parts of the sountry understand it equally well. An American tariff is a tariff that yields tbundant revenues to the Government ind protects American industry. Any other tariff is distinetly un-American, be- cause it is adverse to American welfare., If Thomas V. Cator feels any interest in ais chances to become United States Sena- ‘or he had better see to it that the Demo- :rats do not fuse the Populists into noth- mgness on the legislative tickets thisyear. According to the Textile Manufacturers’ Tournal about 80 per cent of the textile machinery of the country is idle, and with' juch a showing is it any wonder the seople have had hard times under Demo- sratic conditions? The Republican movement is one that w1l set the mills running, put money into :irculation, give employment to labor, nake a home market for farm products ind break up everywhere the stagnation which Democracy has brought upon the sountry. Joseph Pulitzer recently told an inter- riewer: “There is not the remotest shadow »f a chance that free silver can ever be- tome a reality in the United States with- rut international agreement,’”” and every- rody knows that Pulitzer is a lightning :alculator. In their efforts to induce the Populists o fuse with them in the counties the Democrats are playing the same trick as n the Congressional districts. Wherever here is a chance to win the Deruocrats vill get in, and wherever the chances are he other way the Populists will be al- owed to take them. A study of the exhibits at the Payilion vill convince any intelligent man that all ‘alifornia needs to establish her industrial irosperity is a protective system that will nable her to develop her natural re- ources and manufacture her raw material ‘nder conditions that will permit the pay- aent of the present high rate of wages and COMMERCE DEMANDS IT. For the first time since the Civil War the American people have witnessed the calami- tous consequences of full and unrestrained Democratic control of the Government. It has been a record of unparalleled incapacity, dis- honor and disaster. In administrative man- agement it has ruthlessly sacrificed indispen- sable revenue, entailed an unceasing deficit, eked out ordinary current expenses with bor- vowed money, piled up the publie debt by $262,000,000 in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates and re- versed all the mcasires and resulls of success- Jful Republican rule. In the broad effect of its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American pro- duction while stimulating foreign production Jfor the American market. Every considera- tion of public safety and individual interest demands that the Government shall be rescued Jfrom the hands of those who have shown themselves incapable of conducting it with- out disaster at home and dishonor abroad, and shall be restored to the party which for thirty y ears administered it with unequaled success and prosperity.—Republican National Platform. The above is a recital of facts and not a declaration of principles, It is intended to call public attention to the difference in results accruing to the country under Republican and under Democratic admin- istrations. The iramers of the Republi- can platform did not deem it necessary to go into detail, because every one knows by sad experience the mistake that was made when the Democratic party was per- mitted to lay its hands upon the machin- ery of the Government. It is very true that the Democracy has had only two years of unrestrained con- trol since 1860, but in those two years it fully demonstrated that it is utterly in- capable of grasping the meaning of the principles of our Government. - It is not said nor is it claimed that the Democratic party was willfully dishonest during the two years that it was supreme in the exec: utive and legislative departments of the Government, but-it is charged, and the Democracy itself furnishes the proof, that its management ot the public affairs of the Nation for two years came very near bankrupting every business enterprise in the country, to say nothing of increasing the public debt, including the interest that the people are pledged to pay, by over $500,000,000. There is no politics in pointing out the failure of the Democratic party to give the country a wise and prosperous administra- tion. Business is not politics, but it makes a good deal of aifference to business what kind of political principles are applied by the Government in conducting the public affairs of the people who do the business of the country. The suspension of busi- ness over the country and the enormous loss to individuals thereby during the last two years is the legitimate outcome of blundering on the part of the Democracy. At no time has President Cleveland been able to meet the requirements of the pub- tic's demand upon the Government for commercial safety and encouragement, and hence commerce reduced iis opera- tions to the minimum, not because there was not enough business to do, nor be- cause there was a scarcity of money, but commerce and money lost confidence in the ability of the Democracy to give them the needed protection. It is for these reasons that the Republii- can platform recites the facts as they have been proven by Democracy itself, and, moreover, to call the attention to another fact, whicn is that the Democracy’s past history does not warrant commerce, in- dustry or agriculture in believing that it would be any different if that party were intrusted with their affairs for another | term. Business cares nothing about poli- tics or men, but it does demand satis- fying assurance that it will have whatever protection and safe conduct it may need at the hands of the Government as it moves up and down the channels of trade and trafiic. The Demosratic platform contains the en- tire free-trade declaration, which is' to cheapen everything, and on every stump they declare that free coinage will raise prices. How we are to have wrosperity by both raising and reducing prices is a problem which “only Democratic statesmen can solve. They say we meed a change in our money system. What we need is a change of parties and poli- cies. We want @ man in the White House who will not make it an academy of object lessons nor an experiment station, but who will uphold the long-tried policies of the country.—Senator Lodge. A GREAT EXHIBIT. San Francisco’s Industrial Exposition is the best proof that could be submitted of the variety of the products of Califor- nia. It would be a surprise to those who are not already familiar with the facts to know that there are articles on exhibition in the exposition hall in variety so end- less as to suggest the thought that the whole world had been drawn upon to fur- nish material for the display. Yet it is true that there is not a product of field, mountain, factory or shop there on exhi- bition thatis not a native of California, and the Californian who fails to go and see for himseif will have but little idea of the possibiliiies of his State in the ma- teriale of trade, commerce and industry. It will be admitted that the first pur- pose of exhibiting the various products of the State in Exposition Hall is as Presi- dent Denicke said in his address of wel- come when the doors were thrown open, “The object of this is thoroughly to ad- vertise home products and educate our citizens in the various and many indus- tries of the State.” But there is an edu- cational feature of the effort which isnot to be forgotten. As our own people come to realize what opportunities California offers to capital and to homeseekers they will grow enthusiastic and every one will beeome an immigration agent, in so far as his correspondence with friends outside the State is concerned: Such efforts to present the excellence of the State in truth to the world by giving practical and substantial evidence of its mighty and far- reaching advantages for profit ana. pleas- ure are deserving the gratitude of every one who is interested in California’s pros- perity. The orator of the occasion, Mr. J. D. Phelan, summed it all up when he said: “Of course, before everything . else, the chief element in a city’s prosperity must be the profitable employment of her in- habitants, which means a market for their productions at bome or abroad.” The raw material would not avail the people any- thing without mill and factory to convert itinto mercnantable articles, nor can San Francisco react great proportions a commercial ana financial center until in- dustrial enterprises are planted where raw material may be most conveniently reached. It is of no great consequence where in the State capital erects factories and mills, for as the State grows so grows her own metropoiis, San Francisco. The State could not have business expansion without San Francisco participating in it PES——— . to her advantage, and so the gentlemen who bring together from year to year such evidences of California’s greatness as may be seen in Exposition Hall are planting seed that will grow and spread, and all the State will surely reap harvests of pros- perity. No omne should {fail to visit this exhibit of California’s wide rapge of products. Should the Populist candidate be elected he would find himself face to facewith a deficit, with an empty treasury, with a dishonored and discredited currency. The gap could not be filled with silver. They would have to turn on the printing presses and flood the country with an inflated paper currency.—Senator Lodge. FOR THE GOOD OF THE OOUNTRY. Said Major McKinley to a delegation of West Virginia editors: “Nothing is of greater moment to the weifare of the country than the adoption of a policy which will give to labor and capital con- stant employment with fair returns. But, gentlemen, lying beneath all these, and more important than all these, is the preservation of law and order—the reign of domestic quiet. These are embraced in the contention which is upon us this year. It is not merely the success of individuais or party, but the good of the country it seeks, and it is in that spirit, animated only by patriotic sentiment, that I wish always to constantly speak and act.”” The spirit of patriotism which moved Major McKinley to thus address himself to his West Virginia friends comes from a love of right and truth which transcends party and polities. “It 1s not the success of individuals or party” that should stir the people to action at this time. The peace and welfare of the whole country is threatened by a faction that aims at over- turning the basic principles of the Govern- ment and the substitution for them of something worse than those things which the fathers of the Republic rebelled against, and it behooves every patriot to forget party in the Nation’s struggle to maintain itself upon the broad lines of civil liberty which the founders of the federation established when the Republic was born. 1tis as Major McKinley says. The Na- tion must have a policy which will give labor and capital constant employment with fair returns. It is a question of the advancement of the people in ways that shall be most conducive to their peace and prosperity, and not a question of politi- cal advantage for party’s sake. There is broadness and deepness in svch utter- ances as the visiting editors heard that indicate a sincere desire to see the peopls vrosper and be happy. The preservation of law and order is necessary to the pros- perity of the people, and therefore what- ever is calculated to incite to revolution or set section against section and neighbor against neighbor is an attack upon the liberty as well as upon the business inter- ests of every citizen. Ior these reasons Major McKinley says it is the good of the country and not the success of individuals or party that should actuate the voter. Four years ago our streets were full of jobs looking for men; now the streets are full of men looking for jobs which have gone across the ocean. Stop it. Put William McKinley in power and you will do it. The Repubtican party never pulled any one down. It believes and always did believe in reaching out for all classes and lifting them up into the glad sun- shine of Awmerican prosperity. — Senator Thurston. ALL FOR McKINLEY. ‘What is true of the workingmen of San Francisco concerning the political issues of the Presidential campaign 1s true no doubt of wage-earners everywhere. Yes- terday’s CaLn contained interviews with quite a large number of San Francisco representative wage-earners, and their opinions are valuable as showing what the sentiment is among that class of citi- zens, the more so because they are study- ing economics as they never did berore and know exactly what they are talking about. William McMahon, a blacksmith, says: “I am going to vote for McKinley. What is more, nearly every laboring man in this part of the City is going to do the same thing.” August Gunnison, a machinist, says: “I am for protection. We had better pay under the McKinley bill than we have ever had since. When a man is able to work two-thirds as longz and get three- quarters as much under the Wilson bill as he did under the McKinley bill you can wager that he is going to vote for the author of that bill.” Charles Hellwig, in the hardware trade, says: “I want to see McKinley elected, because we need better times, settled con- ditions, active business, public confidence, protection for home industries, an Ameri- ~an policy of government for the benefit of Americans, and McKinley promises all these in his person and in his past performances in public.” H. W. Baxter, in the drug trade, says: “I am going to cast my first ballot for McKinley. In my opinion hard times are due wholly to free trade. Yes, free trade has almost bankrupted the Nation. Pro- tection is needed by men engaged in all branches of industry, from the farmer, wool-raiser and hop-raiser to the mer- chant.” William J. Blair, a farmer of Dixon, says: “Free trade has nearly ruined the farmers. I know whereof I speak when I say this. We cannot get nearly so much for our crops as formerly, and everything is in a fair way for utter desolation. 1 never saw a set of men so utterly in de- spair as the California farmers are to-day.” I H. Ackerman, in the crockery trade, says: ‘“‘Atthe beginningof the campaign I was an out and out Bryan man and be- lieved that in free silver only lay the wel- fare of the country. I arrived at these conclusions without any forethought, but am coming to the conclusion that after all I shall vote for McKinley anu protection.” Charles Crewe, employed in the iron trade, says: *I shall vote for McKinley certainly. There are enough reasons why I sbiould vote for him and none why I should vote for Bryan.” William H. Crosby, a copperplate print- er, says: *“Democratic tariff tinkering has sent wages down, and free silver will cause them to fall' still lower. For myself I do not want any 50-cent dollars, nordo I be- lieve that any workman does.’” 8. W. Latz, an all-round mechaniz, says: “I shall certainly vote for William McKin- ley and the policy of protection to Ameri- can libor. I have observed enough of the course of affairs to know that free tradejis pot a good thing for the man who is com- pelled to labor for wages.” Thomas L. Phillips, a bookbinder, says: “I am a McKinley man on the protection issue. Protection has the tendency to keep up wages and American free trade tends to bring American wages down to the Eu- ropean level.” Nicholas J. Battecate, a coffee-packer, says: “I am going to vote for McKinley, for I can see clearly that my interest lies in that way. The interest of all others similarly situated—tbat is, men who de- vend on regular employment and a fair tate of pay for work performed—is the same as T find mine to be. The more we import from Europe, or from any cheap- labor country, the worse off we shall pe.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. PROTECTION IN SWEDEN. HOW FREE TrADERS IN THAT COUNTRY WERE CoNVERTED FrOM ERROR. \ September 1, 1896. Editor San Francisco Call: Noticing that I am quoted on page 10 of your worthy organ of Republicanism of to-day as saying, speaking of Sweden’s fight for protection twelve years 8£0, that “‘Protection won, snd in three years the country had 37 per centmore manufac- tories than they had before.” Thestatement is notquite correctly quoted, and as the Hon. Stephen M. White and other Democratic wind- blowers may gee fit to make capital out of it, by misrepresenting its meaning, I think for e of the Republican party and in order to prevent misunderstandings the statement should be corrected. As it is reported it is very inconsistent, as ADy person, even those who have as little sense and understanding as the msjority of the Democratic party, can readily see that it is an utter impossibility jor any country or State to increase its manufactories by 37 per cent in such a short period as three years. My state- ment was that protection won (when the sub- Ject was agitated in Sweden twelve vears ago) and a protection pelicy was put into effect which was to last for a period of three years. That aiter the expiration of the three years all the free-traders had been converted into pro- tectionists, because they were seeking for the country’s welfare and were Dot striving for free trade to further party interests. A protec- tion policy was adjusted to last for a period of ten years without & break,and to-day Sweden has 37 per cent more factories and good times are prevailing. Yours truly, » nE. Yours iy 6. scamores. CALIFORNIA WINE TO THE PROOF. A GOLD MEpar GIVEN T0 A VINEYARDIST OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Once again California wine hes won honors in Europe. The fourteenth annusal exposition of the Association for the Progress of Hygeine has just closed at Brussels, and among com- petitors from all Europe and America Pierre Klein of Santa Clara County has had the honor of carrying oft an award of the highest class, the gold medal It is alla surprise to me, though a very agreeable one. [ must say that I never heard of the Brussels association unti! last year, when my exhibit at Bordesux received ““honorable mention,” and this fact, published in all the wine journals of Europe, ed the gentlemen of Brussels to write and ask me to take part in this exposition, with the result that you can see. P. KLEIN, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 2.—D. Ewing sailed on the American liner St. Louis for England. At the St. Cloud, W. M. Bulkley; Metrovole, O. Stonnenfieid; Holland, J. Baer and wife, T. L. Cunningham, H. F. Scott; Metropolitan, S. Disbecker. Among the arri- vals on the extra boat H. H. Meier of the North German line are: Carl D. Hoyzsenberg, Carl Hoygeman, Ernest and Franz Hoffman. Among the arrivals on the regular, the Saale, of this line are: Joseph Bauten, Albert and Emil Komsthoeft. Professor and Mrs. and Miss Caroline Le Conte of Berkeley College left the Plaza to sail for France. PERSONAL. Attorney F. C. Lusk of Chico is at the Palace. John S. Reid of Portland is visiting the City. Dr. J. E. Frazier of Elmira is on a visit here. Dr. H. St. Vlalr of New York is at the Bald- win. Cesaras D. Solmodnor of Guatemela is in the City. H. Stevens and family of Guatemala are at the Russ. Mrs. R. Knowles of Denver is at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. g Max Erkes of the Stewart Hotel, San Bernar- dino, is in town. B. H. Mason of New Zealand is among re- cent arrivals here. A. N. Buck, & busizess man of Mazatlan, ar rived here yesterday. Senator B. F. Langford of Stockton is among the visitors to the City. G. L. Smith, a business man of Stockton, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Mrs. Edmond Bailey, & missionary of Swa- tow, China, is at the Occidental. P. Thompson, a lumberman of Shasta Coun- 1y, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. Josepk: M. Topmorller and B. Topmorller of Cincinnati, Ohio, are in the City. Dr. Taggart of Bakersfield is at the Grand. He is accompanied hy Mrs. Taggart. Dr. William Martin, ex-surgeon in the na vy has returned here, after several months in the East. G. Heiser and M. Schuler, agents for Fore. paugh & Sells’ circus, are guests at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. Dr. H. E. Osborne, superintendent of the Home for Feeble-minded Children at Eldredge, is at the Grand. Donald Macley, a wealthy and old-time busi- ness man of Portland, at oné time president of the Oregon Board ot Trade, is smong yester- day’s arnvals, Charles B. Alexander, the attorney of New York, is at the Palace. He is accompanied by Mrs. Alcxander, formerly Miss Crocker. They are here on a visit. Baron voun Bergen, son of the German Min- ister to Guatemala, with residence at San Jose de Guatemala, arrived here yesterday on his way East, and is at the Occidental. He is him- self an attache of the German legation. UNCLE JIM'S WAY. Couldn’t get Uncle Jim ter run Fer office, They tried an’ tried. Said 'twas a shame. Seeln’ Jones wuz his name, Aq’ the Joneses had family pride. But he'd shake his head In his o’ wise way, Bayin: “Mebbe L will—w’en I've took in the hay.’, Mother—she'd tell him: “Thar's Thompkins out Fer sheriff an’ Brown fer mayor; An’ thar’s nary a one But you'd beat ef you'd run; AD’ thar's time an’ Dlauty ter & % Bt hed Jest s hake his head. an’ wad sorter repeat: “‘Well, mebbe I will—w’en I harvesi the wheat.'” All the relations from fur an’ from nigh wCome ax Jest sot soun’ the place, il im . “They’ wanun’ you, Jim, An you'd better jump nto the race " Bnthe'd still shake bis h their votes: w'en they told o “Well, mebbe I will—w'en I'm through with the oats.” Never wuz any one like him! £fone O] the angels 'ud fix up an' fly, An’, stoppin’ his way, Tell him that whz the day They wuz 'spectin’ of him in the sky; Hed still shake his head, an’ I bet he 'ud say: “Well. mebbe Ill go—w'én L'm through With the —Frank Stockton in Chicago Times-Herald. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE An sutograph of Jack Sheppard was sold in London recently for $100. The report comes from India that Charles Rockwell Lanman, professor of Sanscrif in Harvard University, has had conferred upon him the distinction of being elected an hon- orary member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in Calcutta. Dr. Conan Doyle has been speech-making in London, and has been telling his auditors how much he owes to Sir Walter Scott and Lord Macaulay, a gueer combination, to which he sayshe is indebted for the inspiration of his Tomantic stories. Only ene of the thirteen trees planted on Washington Heights, New York, by Alexander Hamilton more than a century ago, to com- memorate the thirteen original States of the Union, is in a flourishing condition. All of the others are dead or dying. Czar Alexander IIT was insured for over & miliion, The life of King Humbert of Italy, 100, is enormously insured. Below the scale of royalties itis the young Earl of Dudley whose life is most heavily insured, over a million being the sum named. The Prince of Wales recently inspected s Derby picture which is under way for him at Newmarket. The picture shows the two lead- ers, Persimmon and St. Frusquin, within a stride of the winning post, with the remainder of the field soatiered in & lengthening teil MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Is August & musical month? This guestion isagitating the breasts of Parisian journalists. August has been accused of being the most sterile of all the months in the calendar in musical achievements. Nothinggood, from a musical standpoint, ecan come out of August, according to its detractors. August’s defend- ers, however, say that the fault does not lie ‘with the month, but with railroaas and steam- boats, which take people out of town for the Arthur Paugin has gone lov- the calendar, and has shown that in days gone by famous works have been produced from the 1st to the 31st of August. On the 1st of August, 1752, Pergolesi’s “La Serva Padrona” was first produced at the Paris Opera; -on the 2d of August, 1774, Gluck’s “Orphee” was given to the Parisian public; on the 3d of August & number of mas- terpieces have been given to the world in dif- ferent years. These include Rossini’s “Wil- liam Tell.” Evidently the fault is not with August, but with the modern tendency to go out of town during the eighth month of the year. Rosenthal’s appearance in America this fall will be the great musical event of the season. No pianist for some time has made & more enormous success than this young artist has made in London during the past year. Moritz Rosenthal is only 33 years of age, and an aviary, where night and day they sang in your honor, and that the parish being poor you contented yourself with the services of these liitle musicians, Edward A. MacDowell is spending his sum- mer vacation preparing his lectures for the Columbia University. The only thing to be regretted as regards his appointment is that he will be unable to compose much this year, as it is well known that he does most of his creative work in the country in the summer. The musical course at Columbia is to include lectures by others besides himself. He has already asked several musical critics to co- operate with him by coutributing a few lec- tures. One lecture will bear the strange title, “How Music Affects Savages and Composers.” It was only & few months ago that Lassalle, the eminent barytone, renounced the pomps and vanities of an operatic life, in order to de- vote himself to commerce, for he is a flourish- ing manufacturer aswell as'a singer. But now & grand revival of “The Flying Dutchman’ is to be given in Paris, and Lassalle has let him- self be tempted to sign for the performance. When the theater takes hold of a man or woman, it is generally for life, though in this particular case no one is likely to complain. It was desired to honor the visit of the Czar TR v il Al 1".\1{ K o, il Moritz Rosenthal, the Famous Pianist, Who Will Tour Awerica This Fall wasborn at Lemberg. He is an example of the endurance of the prodigy, for as early as his fourth year he played in public. In nis fourteenth year he accepted Liszt’s invitation 10 pay a visit to Weimar, where he stayed for two years, afterward appearing in Paris and St. Petersburg, where he made a great sensa- tion. In 1888 he gave over a hundred récitals in Americe, and since 1890 has been heard in most European towns. An opera-rate war is on in Italy and specta- tors are now admitted to some of the. most exvensive houses ‘at’ povular prices. The papers have not spared the performers in con- sequence of the reduced rates, as the foilow- ing from Italy shows: *For the revival of the ‘Lucia’ reserved seais in the orchestra were only 23 ¢ents, 20 cents for the parterre ana 10 for the amphitheater. We caundt s&y that the cheap performance had artistic merit, but Miss Fornari used her thread of avoice all right, the tenor, Prati, sang Donizetti’s melo- dies with expression, and the bass, Allegri, maintained the role well. As ior the con- ductor, he kept his musicians from losing the beat, which is a¢ much as one can expect for ten cents. The success of ‘Lucia’ was so great that the management was obliged to give a second performance 1ast night. So much the better; one cannot give too much encourage- ment to cheap opera. You know beforehand that whatever the performance is you'il be sure of your money's worth.” Dame Martha Schwerdtlein, the mature neighbor of Marguerite, whom st” has rendered celebrated, s furnishing a sensation for the German pupers at the time of the year when authentic mews languishes. A Berlin newspaper was the first to spring «n the pub- lic the news that Dr. Nekisch had distovered in & church at Padua the tomo ot the Knight Schwerdtlein, husband of the said Martha, whose last salutations Mephistopheles carries to her in “Faust.” Several German news- papers forgot that in German schwerdtlein signifies little sword, and Nekisch a practical joker, and they fell into the snare laid for them by the Berlin editor by seriously repro- ducing the astonishi ng news. Finally, a more wideawake journal exposed the pleasantry, and now the duped editors are pretending that they only spoke of Schwerdtlein’s tomb to amuse their readers, and that they were ail in the secret of the joke. Some people have not believed them, and a lively discussion is going onin the German press on the subject. News comes from Bayreuth that the Swedish singer, Mlle. Ellen Gulbranson, has won a brilliant and entirely unexpected success in the role of the Vaikyrie. People who were present at the first perlormance of the “Valkyrie” in 1876 say thut Gulbranson is not inferior to Mme. Materna twenty years ago. ‘This is no slight praise, for Materns, endowed with amarvelous talent for imitation, com- pletely reflected the. intentions of Richard Wagner, who taught her the Valkyrie role to its smallest details. Materna did not sing a note nor make 4 movement that had not been approved of by the master. It is to be noped that the reports of Gulbranson’s talent are not exaggerated. A new “Museum of Costumes” will soon be opened at Berlin. Itis the cslebrated collec- tion of Baron Lipperheide, which is now to be given to the puolic, and whnich is considered the most complete in the world. The collee- tion contains more than 800 tableatx ana paintings as well as an immense quantity of books and engravings bearing on historie dress. The Berlin theaters will now have free permission to copy the designs in the museum, and itisexpected that an era of historic ac- curacy inopera msy result, At present there is no institution which outrages all truth to: history so much - as does grand opera all over the world. ‘Was St. Cecilia a musician? - This question is being agitated by students . { history, who in these days do not shrink from challenging reputations that have lasted for centuries. In a pretty article on the subject, addressed to St. Cecilia herself, Le Temps says: It is never recorded that you loved our terrestrial music, you who for centuries have been tne patron saint of musicians. One only reads in your bistory that while the festal instruments were sounding you sang for God alone in your heart. You may have known nothing of our musie, but the more I study the text of your history the moreIfind thatit suffices to jus- tify your eminent and traditional reputation. “You sang in your heart.” The most profound song, the most beautiful and the most wo: of the name, is it Dot that of the heart? In discussing,whether St. Cecilia was really & musician Le Temps tells the following ieg- end: It was painting, they say, which toward the end of the filteenth century made you famous, first in Flanders and then in Italy. A hundred and fifty years after the death of your greatest painter a fraveler was following one Sunday evening the road to Rome, your native city. He entered achurch which bore your name. A solitary pries: was chanting vespers, and from the organ-loft soft chirpings could be heard. The piigrim made inquiries and was told that the birds were fed thers, as in and Czarina to Vienna by a performance of & Russian opera, but to the dismay of the court the directors of the Imperial Opera-house an- nounced that since the withdrawal of Rubin- stein’s “Nero” several years ago no Russian opera remained in the repertory. It has, therefore, been decided to give the Russian sovereigns a gala performance of Massenet's “Manon.” Miss Sibyl Sanderson has signed an engage- ment with the Imperial Opera at Vienna, ac- cording to which she is to give a series of performances during the coming season. “Esclarmonde’” will be mounted expressly for her. The King of Wurtemberg has just conferred on Frau Cosima Wagner the gold medal of the Order of the Crown of Wurtemberg. A number of artists have been asked to give their favorite mottos. Emma Nevada's is “Art and Home.” Judic gives *‘Vide tace,” which is rather remarkable for a woman—if she follows Ler own advic: HUMOR OF THE CAMPAIGN. *‘So the crowd ran that silver orator off the platform?’ *Yes, sir; every tooth in his head wes filled with gold.”—Chicago Record. “I tell you,” said the enthusiast, “all this patriotic demonstration is enough to set any man’s hzart on fire.” “Yes,” replied the [nervaul man, “and his woodshed, t00."— ‘Washington Star. “Paw, I’ll bet that was a free silyer man we saw comin’ out o’ that saloon wiping his mouth.” g “Why do you think so, Johuny “Couldn’t you smell the mint' Tribune. ‘‘Our statesmen,” yelled the orator, “are abotit to take steps —"" “You bet they’ll take ‘em,” squealed the professional cynic, “if they ain’t nailed down.”—Indianapolis Journal. —Chicago “That was a hair-splitting political argu- ment, wasn’c it?” “Yes, and yet every man on the platform was baldheaded.”—Chicago Record. “I understand Bryan's give up the fight,” re- marked the pugilist. “I hadn’t heard anything to that effect.” “Well, 'twasn’t so stated direct. But hayin’ lost ’is voice, what else kin the man do?'— Washington Star. “Again I am going to makea hit,” said the inventor, and when the incredulous friend anade the usual doubting utterance the inven-, to: t on: & button for this new gold Democratic party. The design will be a small gold-plated bolt off its nut.” The friend sdmitted that it was agood thing, but thought there would not be enough pur- chasers to make much of a success.—Cincinnati Engquirer. EPIGRAMS BY “IHE MAN FROM MAINE.” FLASHES OF WIsDOM, WIT AND STATECRAFT FROM THE RECENT SPEECH BY SPEAKER REED. The opportunity to labor is the opportunity to live. Man no longer shuns labor as his deadliest foe, but welcomes it as his dearest friend. Give us the opportunity to labor and the whole worla of human life will burst into tree and flower. Neither loud indignation nor flowery speech, meither great promises mor wild harangues will help any man out of disaster or any na- tion out of hard times. Temper will not even untie a shoestring, and the harder you push & rope ihe more it will notgo any whither. ‘When the pn:‘gln all work together, when they all l‘nve th in each other then pros- reigns. Pe‘v:y;hdf be saved now, not by orators or rofessors, but by the sound sense of an honest S P, Dty Pros) ) ulation, times, e same mlan of events the world over. Money in hand is better than money {n bush, especially when you cannot tell what kind of & bush it will be. The past is for the wise man the only guide for the future. What man has done man 1do. The capital of all the world is waiting to be our servant. ‘This is & borrowing and a lending world. Reasonable cermnl ‘ty makes business; un- ire you of a future pros- perity that wo! reign unbroken forever and oveli. But history knows human nature too wel You have seen exhibited many times reme- dies for all the ills the world is heir to, but d you ever see & perfectly healthy world? You never will. Everything we do not know anything about always looks big. Whenever we take a trip into the realms-of :ney ‘We see & good many things that never ere. The safe footi is i - e safe ng in this world is on things some great man hits upon something sure? If the world has got to wait for that panaces let me tell you that the rest of deathis a flash of mimmng compared to the rest we are going to take. We kngw that we shall as surely rise again to business and prosperity as that {0-morrow's sun will rise. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. A nmew recipe for making people happy: Visit them and they will be happy when you go.—Atchison Globe. “The older a man gets,” said the cornfed philosopher, ‘‘the harder he finds it to feel sorry for a woman whose pug dog has just died.”—Indianspolis Journal. In a millinery store—I want a new hatin the very latest style.” “Please sit down for afew minutes. The fashion is just about to change.”’—Texas Sifter. “Your dsughter, sir, is an angel.” “Maybe; but after you've been married awhile you’li find that she wants considerable more clothes than angels are accustomed to wearing.”—Philadelphia North American. First Clubmsn—How does it happen that Goodfellow has such & hard time getting into society? Second Clubman—Society found out that he wanted to get in.—New York Weekly. Salvation Army Apostle—If you swear &t those horses, my good man, you'll never go to heaven. & Teamster ‘(humbly)—I knows it mum; but if Idon’t I'll never get fo Tonawanda.—Buffalo Times. Bargain day—“Dearest?” He stopped reading his paper long enough to ask what his bestest little wife might want. “When they mark the dollar down to 53 cents will it be every day, or only on Fridays?"” —Indianapolis Journal. “My part in the amateur theatricals could not have been a complete failure,” declared Alice. “They did not hiss me."” “Of course not,” replied her best g irl friend. “People cannot yawn and hiss at the same time.”—Detroit Free Press. “Just got & letter from Mildred. She's ems joying the country so much. She says: ‘Every day at sunrise a neighboring rooster rouses us with his early morning lay.’ " “Early morninglay? What's thematter with the hens? On & strike?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. *‘What I want,” said the theatrical menager, “fs a genuine novelty.” “Something realistic?'’ asked the playwright. “Yes; butIdon’t want any real pugilists, or real naval disasters, or real livestock, or real battles in it.”” The playwright looked wearily thoughtful, and after a pause inquired: “How would it do 10 springsomething on the public with real actors in it?”—London Tit Bits. A USEFUL MISSES’ GOWN. All the fashionable features of ladies’ gowns are reproduced in misses’ costumes. This charming example is of pink and white silk, with a bodice of white lace over pink si The shoulder straps are of piuk velvet. The same model is used for high-necked gowns; the yoke being plain and incorporated in the waist, is simply eut away for an eyening gown. The sleeves are in the new bishop shape, and in the gown shown above are drawn up by elastics to form a shorter puff. A charming gown of blue serge hac the full blouse of cash- menienna silk with shoulder straps of plain colored velvet. Another gown of petunia boucle cloth had trimmings of leaf-green miroir velvet. A chestnut brown and green mixed goods had pale-green cloth straps over the shoulder, edged with beaver. A mixed cloth in blue and black had the plain yoke of blue velvet, with black satin shoulder straps, belt and collar. Over the top of this coliar stopod scallops of blue velyvet, which formed a frame for the face, suggestive of the petals of a Jower. A school dress of mixed tweed had shoulder straps, belt and crushed coliar of leaf-green velyet, with a large smoked pearl button on both ends of the shoulder straps. CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢1b, Townsend’s, * —————— SpEcrAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —— M. 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