The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPIEMBEK 17, TRURSDAY. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Dally and Eunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CaLL, one year, by mail... 1.50 WXEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Bens ing to the country on a vacation 0. 1513 6 troupls for ns to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Tmiss ft. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt sttentiom. NO EXTKA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californta. Tetephone ... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. veee Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomiery sireet, corner Clay: open untl 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:80 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open watll § o'clock. 2618 Mission street: open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICEs Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Telephone. 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. ——— e Gold will be freer to workingmen under & protective tariff than silver will be under free trade. Now that Bryan has gone to Kentucky to talk, we may be sure the State is going for McKinley. The campaign of Teller, Boies, Dubois and Bland is thoroughly golden in one re- spect: Itis silent. Sewall may know he has had enough, but he seems determined to keep his feet in the trough just the same, The latest Democratic scheme is to get Sewall and Watson to get off the ticket and settle their little controversy by a dog fall. _— Bryan has never favored protectign to any American industry, and, therefore, has no claim on the support of any “man engaged in industry. Wherever you find a sound business man or a sound working man you find a man who favors sound money and protec- tion, for they are essehtial to both busi- ness and work. Bryan went to Kentucky to avoid the frost of Maine and was caughtin a rain- storm at his first stopping place, so it seems he cannot have things favorable to him in any part of the country. Every speech made by McKinley raises him in ihe estimation of the public, and the people are beginning to regard him as the ideal leader, whom they can follow with love as well as with loyalty. International bimetallism is a move- ment to improve the conditions of in- dustry, but the Bryan scheme of silver monometallism is as Bourke Cockran said, “‘a conspiracy against wages. " The remonetization of silver can be safely effected by statesmen supported by the business men of the country, but the people will not intrust it to the party of bungling and coniusion, led by a man more noted for his rhetoric than for state- craft. —_— If any man wishes to know what is best for the country at this time, let him com- pare the condition of his industry under the Gorman tariff with what it was before the Democratic panic setin and he will see at once what is needed and know just how to vote. “1t is immaterial in my judgment whether the sheep-grower receives any benefit from the tariff or not,” said Mr. Bryan, when talking for free trade, and the people can learn from that statement just how much Bryan cares for any American industry. To promote industry and provide for the revival of business the Republican party offers the country protection, reciprocity and international bimetallism, while the Popocrats offer nothing but silver mono- metallism and even thatis to be accom- panied with free trade and the competi- tion of the cheapest labor countries in the world. Under Republican administrations the National debt was decreased by over $1,881,- 000,000, while under the present Demo- cratic administration the debt has been increased by over $257.000,000. With these facts in mind the voter can early decide for himself which sort of administration is best for the Nation and the people who have to pay its debts. As this campaign is conducted with the object of devising the best means of pro- moting the industries of the country it shoula not be overlooked that a Republi- can administration would revive the reci- procity system which Democracy broke down and would thereby open large mar- kets to our manufacturers and farmers withoat surrendering a single day’s wage of any workingman in the United States. The nimblest and most agile rainbow- chaser of the season is Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He has performed the aston- ishing task of finding a rainbow for his party in the Maine election ana in the face of the biggest Republican vote in the his- tory of the State cheerfully points out that the Democrats cast 3000 votes more than in 1894 and claims thatas “a marvelons gain for silver.” “It is my serious and solemn opinion that the full recognition of silver will come soon and that it will come through the efforts and under the direction of the Republican party.”” These words of Sen- ator Wolcott addressed to 10,000 persons st Colorado Springs won their approval and wndoubtedly express the sentiments of ‘Western Republicans generally. To have silver safely remonetized we must first have the success of the Republican party. ’ IN DESPERATE STRAITS. Divided, disorganized, demoralized, de- spondent, Democracy finds itself in des- perate straits, and turn which way it will it can find neither a safe path to take nor a wise leader to follow. When, in the Chi- cago convention, it broke in mad folly from its established paths and its accus- tomed leaders it undertook to blaze outa way for fusion with Populism, and as a re- sult both it and its alties, the Populists, are now wandering in darkness, blind leaders of the blind, who know neither whither they are going nor where they shall stop. Never in the history of our country did a great volitical party approach a Presi- dential election in such a confused and disordered rout as that of Democracy at the present time. 1t matters not whetner we cousider the condition of the party in the Nation, in a State or in a city, we find everywhere the same blind bungling and blundering. The leaders or bosses, or what- ever they are who are in command, are moved by the same folly of seeking Popu- list allies at the expense of losing the con- servative and stalwart element of their own party. A species of political insanity im- pels them to denounce Cieveland, Palmer, Hill, Carliste, Whitney and Caffery for the purpose of cornering the favor of Peifer, Tiliman, Allen and Mrs. Lease. Half-hearted even in their folly and be- wildered in the confusion of untried ways, these blind leaders of Democracy are unable to act with vigor or consistency on the course they haye decided to take. Having driven the conservative Demo- crats out of the camp they still hesitate to carry their bargain with the Populists to its logical conclusion. They keep the millionaire Sewall on their ticket for Vice-President despite the cry of the Pop- ulists clamoring that he shall be taken down and Watson substituted. This strife over the Vice-Presidency disturbs the party leaders so that they cannot attend to the campaign and fills their councils with a confusion worse confounded. How gladly they would get rid of both if they could 18 known to every one, but they have neither the wisdom to devise a com- promise nor the courage to enforce one. In this confusion and demoralization it is of course impossible to carry on an ef- fective campaign. The days go by, but no voice is heard for the fusion save that of the wandering boy orator of the Platte. The men who were expected to lead the onset of aggressive free silver, Teller, Boies, Matthews, Blackburn, Crisp, Dan- iel and Bland, are allsilent. Some ofthem have spoken once or twice, but none has entered with any vigor into the campaign. Even the Populists bave assumed an un- wonted silence, and Peffer, Allen and Simpson are as mum as the Democrats and the bolting Republicans. What can be expected of a party so demoralized and divided? How could it possibly adminis- ter the affairs of the country if by any mischance it came into posseseion of the Government? The whole scheme of the fusionists shows a political imbecility that is as reckless as it is incompetent. Democ- racy in fact is shooting Niagara, and nothing can save it from the swift ap- proaching catastrophe. In 1892 our streets were full of American Jjobs looking for men; now our streets are full of men looking for jobs. When the Wilson bill was passed the American jobs went across the water. They will never come back until there is displayed upon our seacoast the an- nouncement that sound money, proteciion, re- ciprocity and William McKinley have been indorsed by the electors of the United States.— Senator Thurston. WORDS OF A TRUE AMERICAN. Undoubtedly Major McKinley is an American of the highest and truest type. ‘When called upon the other day by dele- gations from a number of Grand Army posts he gave them hearty welcome to his home as comrades in the war days, but in addressing them he said: “You are here to-day not as soldiers, but as citizens— citizens of the best Government in the world, made better because of the services you rendered it nearly a third of a century ago, Coming to this city to give me con- gratulations not only are those who served on the Union side during that great struggle, but also the men who served on the Confederate side. Both have been here to tender congratulations and give me assurances of support.”’ Major McKiniey had a splendid oppor- tunity to “ring the changes” and fight the war all over again. Heé might have painted word-pictures of the suffering they endured and revived the bitter feel- ings of a third of a century ago, but the lofty patriotism of the man inspired him to tell the men who stood with him in the heat of battle in defense of the country that “you are here to-day not as soldiers, but as citizens,”” and that men who served on the Confederate side had been there “to tender congratulations and give as- surances of support.”’ Only a truly great man would let such an vpportunity to play upon the events of history pass unimproved, but Major Mc- Kinley is seeking tne Presidency of the whole, not a section of this country, and he looks upon all Americans as his fellow- citizens. Surely such a man can be trusted to manage the public affairs of the people upon lines that would better the conditions of every citizen. It is en- couraging when men who stand for high office refuse to consider any policy that does not contemplate a closer union, a bet- ter feeling and general prosperity among the people. In the future, as in the past, I shall stand for protection and free coinage. Firmly be- lieving that the best interests of our State and the Nation at large will be subserved by the election of McKinley and Hobart, I shall give them my support, notwithstanding the Na- tional platform does not meet my approval in one particular.—Senator Carter. SENATOR WOLCOTT'S LOYALTY. The Republicanism of Senator Wolcott has never been questioned, nor has his loyality to the cause of bimetallism ever been dounted, and that is why 10,000 peo- ple turned out to hear him discuss the po- litical issu‘s of the day at Colorado Springs. He spoke in his own State to his own people, and he talked very plainly to them. Like very many other advocates of silver coinage without limit, Benator Wol- cott 18 satisfied that if silver is ever re- monetized the Republican party will have todo it. He knows, as does every other observing man know, that nothing good has come to the people of the United States in the past thirty-five years that was pot the direct outcome of Republican legislation; hence he knows -that if the mints are ever opened to the fiee coinage of silver the Republican party will open them. But as the Republican party is pledged to a bimetallic monetary system there is no nisk taken Ly Senator Woleott or any othersilver man, and the surprising thing is that any sensible person could expect the remonetization of silver through any party other than the Republican party. Silver monometallism is not bi- metallism, but that is what Bryan’s wing of the Democrstic party is advocating. Benator Wolcott believes that commerce needs a larger volume of redemption money, and the Republican party believes s0 too; but the Republican party knows very well that the remonetization of silver would not add a single dollar to the vol- ume of money employed in current opera- tions unless commerce sanctioned the re- monetization. Hence it is that the Re- publican party proposes to make commerce a party to an agreement to open the mints to silver, and hence it is also that Senator Wolcott and a!l other sensible students of the science of money are supporting Major McKinley. It is very true that the Bryanites are aiming at the remonetization of silver, put they propose to defy commerce and the law of trade and arbitrarily legislate values. That would do very well if laws could be enacted which would oblige com- merce to accept values that were created by law, but it so happens that commerce in the matter of fixing values is a law unto itself, and it is superior to any nation or people. It follows, ti en, that if silver were remonetized in opposition to the wish of commerce, commerce would make a distinction between the money it ap- proved of and that which it did not ap- prove of, and very naturally it would carry that which it did approve to countries that were in harmony with it, thus leav- ing the nation issuing the other kind of money upon the basis of that money. To avoid such a calamity to our home and foreign trade, Senator Wolcott, a free silver man, urges the people of his State to aid the Republican party in its effort to remonetize silver upon a basis that will make a silver dollar the equal of a gold dollar the world over. Silver advocates desire that money shall be cheap and plenty. Let us see what this con- tention leads to. The cheapest money in the world is found in the strongest gold country— England. The dearest money is in the free- silver countries. Gold in London can be bor- rowed on good security at £ per cent’ per annum, while silver in Mexico, China, Chile, the Argentine Republic, Spain and India commands a loaning value of 13 per cent.— Washington Hessing. DEMOORATIC AID, 1t looks as though Sewall would have to walk the plank. Some one must be beld responsible for the Republican victory in Maine, and Sewall is the logical victim, but it is wrong to sacrifice him. It was not his fault; besides, as between Sewall and Bryan the people of Maine would take the former almost to the msn, for he is a protectionist, and thatof itself would com- mend him to the people of his State as against any free-trader. 1f thereis need for a sacrifice Mr. Bryan should be offered up. His own wild and ill-considered dec- larations was what made Maine Demo- crats vote the Republican ticket. Bryan bas made the issue one of hatred and sec- tionalism, and in defense of public morals and the Nation’s honor the true men of Maine crossed and recrossed party lines that they might give greater emphasis to their disapproval of Bryanism. It is easy to understand the lesson which the Maine election teaches. The people are not ready to substitute Bryanism for the principles of Washington, of Jefferson and of Lincoln, and the voice of Vermont and the voice of Maine is the voice of an overwhelming majority of the people everywhere. Even in Arkansas, it now transpires, the majority for Bryanism was only about one-half as large as the man- agers of the campaign ordered the return- ing boards to make it, which shows that there isa strong feeling of resentment in that State against the effort- of Bryan to foist his fallacies upon the Government. There is a vast deal more than a Republi- can victory in Vermont and in Maine, and in the cutting down of the Democratic majority in Arkansas. If Mr. Bryan does not see in these things an expression of public sentiment that is condemnatory of his theories of government, he is blindly joined to his stupid idols. 1f Bryan's maunagers want to punish some one for the overwhelming defeat of their ticket in Maine, let them get after the thousands of Democrats who either refused to vote at all or voted the Repub- ican ticket. J. H. Manley, Republican tional committeeman for Maine, says: “We have been aidea in this great con- test by many Democrats, who h: placed country above party and who believe that you cannot divide the people into parties on a question of simple morals and com- mon honesty. They share our victory with us.” THE KEYNOTE. Albuquerque Citizen, The San Francisco CALL struck the keynote of the financial question when it said: “On the rock of international bimetallism the free- silver wave has spent its force, and itison that rock the Republican party builds its pledge to the people to restore silver to its former position as a money metal, without injury to any trade or industry, by means of an ufireemenl. witn the leading nations of the world.” CAMPAIGN ECHOES Altgeld has taken the stump. He hasalso teken away Bryan's last chance.—Cleveland Leader. Mr. Bryan’s letter of acceptance is another bounding argument for the election of Major McKinley.—Des Moines Register. Bryan is still confident of victory, which is simply a fresh proof that Bryan’s inteliect stands at an acute angle with the horizon.— Philadelphia Ledger. Now, really, is there anything too good for the ‘‘common people” of the United States? Is there any money too good for them? Why should they not have as good as the best?— Sioux City Journal. McKinley in the White House and Cleveland a private citizen, bobbing for bass, willbea great change, and one that the country will appreciate after “four years of clover.”—Chi- cago Inter Ocean. _Noting Mr. Bryen’s fondness for quoting Solomon the Philadelphia Record suggests that he might profit by Solomon’s advice: ‘‘Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”. Ex-Minister Pnelps is ‘to take the stump for McKinley and sound money. The brains of the Democratic party are oozing out rapidly since the Populists began their free-silver trephining.—Philadelphia Press, Mr. Bryan’s letter of acceptance is chiefly re- matkable for its failure to supply the reasons why people should vote for him, which his speeciies aiso failed to give. All the indica- tions prove that it’s going to be & hard year on boy orators.—Philadelphia Enquirer. Mr. Bryan indulged in some idle chatter in his Chicago speech to the effect that it was “not considered dishonorable” for the carner to earfi his bread by the sweat of his brow. Who said it was dishonorable ? This shows the cheap caliber of the candidate.— Salem News. This is a campaign of extremes. To the youngest candidate who ever ran for the Presi- dency is now added the oldest who was ever nominated for that office. When Bryan was born Palmer was already considerably older than Bryen is now—and according toall ac- counts he knew more.—Providence Journal. It is certainly a striking fact that on the evening the votes were being counted in Ver- mont the Democratic candidate was address- ing almost as many people at one pointin Ohio as had voted that day in the whole State of Vermont; but the trouble is that the voting went the other way and votes count,—Spring- field Republican, ~ MUSIC AND De Koven and Smith's new Chinese opera, “The Mandarin,” is soon to be produced at the Herald-square Theater by Messrs. Evans and Mann. The plot deals with & case of mistaken identity, a mandarin having to undergo the humiliation of being ‘mistaken fora common cooly laborer. The mandarin is punished for the cooly’s misdeeds, while the real laborer, recognizing a good thing when he sees it, wears the mandarin’s yellow buttons and bat- tens in the lap of luxury. The action of the vlece passes in Peking, and De Koven was very anxious to introduce some local coior by the introduction of some real Chinese music. He went & number of times to the Chinese theater, and though he did not admire Celestial bar- mony as much as Paderewski did, he mi aged at last to pick up a'few tunes and get an idea of Chinese orchestration. William Mann says that he and Mr. Evans were not so enthu- siastic about the Chinese music as De Koven was, but they consented to sllow some of it to be rehearsed for them on a hired piano, brought to the theater for the purpose and played by & professionai accompanist engaged for the oceasfon and who is known to his mu- sical friends as “The Hoboken Rock Crusher.” The plano had stood the wear and tear of a continuous varjety show performance for some weeks, but one repetition of the Chinese mu- sic caused the treble wires to slacken & quarter of an inch. It was noticed also, on the authority of Mr. Mann and Mr. Evans, that the Salvation Army band, which nightly, at the corner of Thirty-fitth street and Herald square, drives terror into the heart of the devil to musical accompaniment, moved down the street after the Chinese rehearsal began. Then De Koven gave in and the Chinese local color was elimi- nated from the score, Leoncavallo and Mascagni sre rivals. The “‘Cavalleria Rusticana” made Mascagni famous, Shortly after “I Pagliacei” was given to the world, and Leoncavallo, in a sense, snatched some of the laurels from Mascagni’s brow. Since then the two young Ita)ian composers have both been worrying along the roed to universal fame, each fearing that the other would get there first, Last season Mascagni made the tour of Germeany and Austris as 8 conductor and created a sensation, which must have made Leoncavallo feel that his lot was one of comparative obscurity. The composer of “I Pagliacei,” however, is evidently not to be outdone by his hated rival, for it is now an- nounced that during the coming season he will make a tour of the United States to direct symphony concerts. Fragments of his own works will aiso be performed at these concerts. The route of Leoncavallo’s tour 1s not yet an. nounced, but the successful young composer will certainly receive as much lionizing in this country as Mascagni received last winter in Germany, for Americans are proverbially in- dulgent to foreign artists, and & composer in the heyday of his career will be something of & novelty. Leoncavallo is said to be a very gifted conductor. “Hansel and Gretel” was such sn over- whelming success in London that it is inter- esting to learn something of the prima donnas who first created the title roles in English. The late Sir Augustus Harris wanted young singers, but he took care also that they were endowed with remarkable talent. Miss Jennie Douste, who represented Gretel, appeared before the Queen as & pianist at the early age of five and a half years. Indeed Miss Douste, 1o use her own words, still loves the piano, and when Signor Tosti suggested a few years 0 that she should become a vocalist, she felt atfirst some hesitation about accepting his 1896. MUSICIANS. that you cease to play well.” Of Mozart he used to say: “It was not for nothing that Mo- zart was haif Italian. People piay his music, not even as if he had been born at Salzbour; but as if he had first seen the day at Stock- holm. Thisis too glacial; too dead. Study his operas, or play his sonatas for pianoor violin. With Mozart, even in his pianoforte souatas, there is slways a dramatic ground- work. Each theme by Mozart is an individ- uality.” Iu England they are trying the experiment AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘The average hotel proprietor and clerk will tell you these days that it beats the world how many loungers there are at the hotels, who do not stop there,and who are in no way con- nected with the hostelries. Many of these peo- ple kindly have their mail come in care of the hotels, and it is & good part of the clerk’s job to answer inquiries from these ‘‘patrons.” The hotel people call men of this class “ghair boarders,” because all they do is to hold down the chairs at the hotels. Not a few of them have divers schemes on foot for winning a useful dollar from the guests. All the principal hotels have their fuli quota of the chair-boarders. There are no ex- The Honorable Stephen Brodie’s Master Play at the Baldwin Hotel in Routing Out the Chair Boarders. (Sketched from life by a “ Call™ artist.] of making pianos of paper. The Neue Musi- kalische Presse of Vienna, which gives an ac- count of the process, demands to know what satisfactory result can come from the new de- parture, aud opiues thateven if they sunceed in constructing a& sounding board of pressed i Y fu ! ceptions. Fors year or two during the dull times the seats at the hotels have been partic- ularly crowded. It may be thought that the gentlemen from the outside only linger within in profusiou during rainy weather, but rain or shine they are always on hand, and can be {fully depended on. The other day the manager of one of the leading hotels, in answer to a request that he point out somebody who had some news, said in disgust, as he waved his hand down two long rows of men who occupied chairs: “These men you see are all chair-boarders, ana have drifted in from the street. Just wait till I count them and you will get an idea how itis. On that side are eleven outside men occupying the entire eleven chairs, and on the other side the entire eight you see sitting are alsomen who are not registered here. The guests are forced to stand up in the corridors. Whatdo you think of that for a hotel for which you've got to pay a rent of $50,000 & year?” But Stephen Brodie, the hero of that great play, “On the Bowery,” got in and asserted himself yesterday at one of the hotels, to wit, the Baldwin, and there was in consequence a scattering such as was extremely gratifying to the attaches. “How many of you people ain’t got no homes?” inquirea Mr. Brodie, as he got out in the rotunda and gazed at the long line of seli- appointed customers who do not pay. There was some ducking of heads, and some shambling pretense at letting other fel- lows reply. Nobody did reply, in fact, hut gradually the crowd filed away, possibly con- templating the lines, “They do such things and they say such things On the Bowery.” MISS JENNIE DOUSTE and MISS MARIE ELBA, Who Created the Roles of Hansel and Gretel in the First English Version. advice. At the early age of 8 years Miss Douste—in company with her sister, who is #lso & well-known musician — visited the United Ststesin a professional capacity, and 50 enamored were the ladies of Boston of the sisters’ musical talents that they formed a ‘‘Douste” club, which is stilla flourishing in- stitution. Miss Marie Elba, who created the English role of Hansel, is the daughter of a Danish clergyman. It was her intention to be pianist, but the conductor of the Stockholm opera, after hearing her sing at Copenhagen when she was in her eighteenth year, induced her to go to Stockholm to study. This she did, and after remaining tnere a year she made her debut in “Lakme.” The young debutante made such an impression that she was called before the curtainno less than fifteen times. Both these young prima donnas contributed largely to the success of ‘*Hansel and Gretel,” for though the plot of the opera issimple the music is intricate. The latest news respecting the opera is that it is to be produced in Italy this coming winter. The musical paper, I Trovatore, spesking of it says, * ‘Hansel and Gretel’ is the best product of musical Ger- many since Wagner left off writing."” A curious piece of mews is contained in the Monde Orphanique: *“A new instrument has just been introduced into the orchestra of the Royal Opera at Dresden. It is known as & ‘wer horn,’ and is no other than the horn of an African antelope, perforated with great sddress. Jts mouthpiece is of metal, and ex- actly resembles that of a trumpet. Its natural scale gives five notes—ut, sol, ut, mi, sol—and it appears that its sound is much more ma- Jestic and penetrating than that of any metal hora.. William I, in his quality as & musician, has interested himself very much in the new instrument and has given orders for its intro- duction into the army. It isstated at Berlin that the new war horn will supplant the reg- ulation clarion of the Prussisn army. lts length of nearly a yard and a half wil astonish the soldiers, and those who are of the Hebrew faith will be able to imagine themselves in an old synagogue, for it seems that the antelope’s horn very much resembles the old religious horn of the Israelites (scho- phar). It is to be hoved that, musically speak- ing, it will give more melodious results.” The parallel between a metal horn and one of real horn seems rather doubtful from the stand- Ppoint of acoustic science. In any case, admit- ting that the projects of William II are well founded, it will be curious tosee the German army adopting for its signals the ancient war- horns of the indigenes of Kassai. Inja volume which he consecrates to Hans von Bulow, Viennese pianist, Vop Motta, cites some aphorisms of the great artist: “It is possible to play correctly and well snd yet be interesting. Do notjtry to be so interesting e G C L MBS bald e e E i el e st et b ock X MBS St et it SRS B S Bl R Sl beutut paper it would not respond to the conditions of sonority necessary. AnItalian newspaper has opened an inter- national competition, with a prize of a thou- sand francs in gold, for the best scientific monograph, either manuscript or printed, on the parallel and reciprocal laws of music and poetry. Communications have to be ad- dressed to the Artagnan, Rome. A society of German musical instrument manufacturers, with headquarters at Berlin, has decided to open an immense department store, where everything possible pertaining to music will be sold. It isstatea that all the capital necessary to start the enterprise has already been subscribed. The success of Isadore de Lara’s opera, “Amy Robsart,” was sufficient to induce the com- poser to write another Iyric drama. The new work is called “Moyna.”” It will receive its first production at Monte Carlo next winter, and Victor Maurel will very probably be engaged for one of the leading roles, A new local choral society that promises to be very flourishing this winter is the Apollo Club. It already numbers sixty members. The smaller works of the great composers will absorb its attention for the present, though later it is intended to undertake heavier works. A new opera by George Janos, “Die Schwarze Kaschka” (The Black Kaschka), has been repre- sented with great success at Breslau. The work will be produced in a number of the leading German towns during the coming season. Thy ris Opera is rehearsing Alfred Bru- neau’s “Messidor.” NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. He—I can assure you that I am a bachelor from chotce. 5 She—So L suppose; but whose choice 7—Pick- Me-Up. He—What was the object of Mrs. Eitmore changing the furnis hings of ber dining-room? She—To harmonize with the new cook’s dresses.—Buffalo Times. J;u»wnm the best day to get married on Snaggs—The 366th day of the year.—Adams an. “Your husband painted the house himself this spring, didn’t he?” asked one of her neighbors. - *“Well, yes,” was the wiie's answer; *‘1 sup- pose he got some of the painton the house, but you wouldn't think 50 if you could see his clothes,”—Buffalo News. INDIAN SUMMER. They call it “Injun summer”—can’t see the reason wl a0’ the sky, An’ the fallin’ of a feather makes you start an’ aroun’, Anx' the win'less woodlan’s shiver when & acorn dents the groun’, Aln’t a Injun In lt'— —nary one hed tl:g wlllrie'a give a yell— Scalp things, an’ be done. ‘They call it “Tnjun summer”—can't see tho reason why, When the river in & whisper goes stealin'— stealin’ by: ‘When the lonesome leaves air listenin’ fer the win® that's lost away, A the clonds air driftin’ lazy in the blue seas of the day. Afn't a Injun in {t— Nary—nary one, Or he'd take a tomahawk— Soalp things, sn* bedone. FRANK L. STANTON in Chicago Times-Herald, LADY'S CAPE WITH SQUARE COLLAR. This stylish cape is made with a round yoke, which allows the cape itself to be cut very full. Over this is a collar cut square, while the neck is finished by a full fuche. Charming comblnations are possible in such & garment, and when made to match a costume the effect is decidedly “chic,” as, for instance, & gown of mixed novelty goods, of which the tone was mgna green, but which was a harmo- nious blending of many colors, with a dash now aud then of rose calor predominating, had a cn})e of the goods with square collar an: greeu velvet and an inner ruche as :;&ol;':,rufl}:hnfiu:a the collar of green match, with another 8 0. colored chiffon T4aide of the collar. ~ . " ‘A cape of black velvet with guipure in light twine color was very A cape of nmh¥ ed by a fringe of flwu-.\- of ressy. ®o0ds in many colors, sub- e age ot e erall bdats esiting: L ly cover with black e PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Maarten Maartens, ‘visit to England, of 20,000 words. Americus Symmes, 85 years old, has just died at Louisvilie, Ky. He was a son of John Cleve Symmes, who maintained that the world was hollow, and that the entrance to the in- terior would be found at tbe poles. Baron Rothschild maintains as his pet T- ity the largest school in the world. ‘;‘: ?:nln the east end of London, and has 3500 scholars, Tecruited from the poorest class of Russian Hebrews, with 100 teachers to instruct them. Breakfasts are provided each morning for the who is at present ona has completed a short story A Inl in leavening strength.— pupils, and each child is given a suit of clothes and two pairs of shoes yearly. France’s Soclete des Gens de Lettres has a woman for i's oldest member. She is Mme. du Bos d'Elbecq, born in May, 1799, who wrote a number of noveis in the ’forties. She lives at Angers, and still writes vigorous letters to the newspape: PERSONAL. Richard 8. Post of Fowler is in the City. Senator J. H. Shine of Sonora is in town. Dr. J. J. Miiler of San Jose is at the Palace. H. L. Sargent of London arrived here yester- day. L.L. Holt of San Luis Obispo is on & visit here. E.B. Law, a banker of Woodland, is at the California. 2 Robert Catten, & sugar-planter of Hawaii, is in the City. €. M. Talcott, a leading citizen of Omaha, Nebr., is 1n town. J. P. Conway, a business man of Los Angeles, is at the Baldwin. District Attorney W. F. Cochrane of S8an Ra- fael is in the City. W. B. Ayre, a weslthy resident of Portland, Or., is in the City, H. G. Balfour-Vicucila of New Zealand is a recent arrival here. Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Cochrane of Philadelphia are at the Baldwin. K. E. Kelly, a wealthy business man of Wil- lows, is at the Russ. John W. Mitchell, an attorney of Los An- geles, is in the City. W. J. Deater and daughters of Maders are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Marion Biggs, the well-known resident of Gridley, 1s at the Grand. Andrew Moore, a sugar-planter of the Ha- wailan Istands, is in town. A. B. Wood of the firm of Waterhouse & Co., Hawaii, is at the Occidental. Alderman Rudden of Liverpool, Eng., 18 among the arrivals at the Palace, The Rev. R. M. Mesirees of Monterey s among the arrivals at the Baldwin, Professor B. C. Brown of Staniord University 18 registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. L. F. Harvey and Miss Harvey of Buffalo, N. Y., are among the recent arrivals here, Dr. George Hobart, one of the leading physi« cians of Honoluly, arrived here yesterday. R. 8. Odle and C. 8. Schankleton, of Lafayette and Affivs, 1nd., respectively, are at the Occi- dental. Edger L. Lewis of the firm of Lewis & Co., Honolulu, arrived yesterday morning on the Australia. Colonel G. W. Macfarlane, proprietor of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, is at the California. R. D, Weeks, a prominent business man of Albuquerque, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel ‘with his son. E. R. Hutchins, an extensive dealer at Chi- cago in California dried fruit,isamong the arrivals here. George Buckrer, s Wealthy mining man of Siskiyon County, is registered at, the Cosmo- politan Hotel. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel are Mrs. C. F. Keefe and daughter of Sonora, Cal. Alexander Young, owner of the Honolulu Iron Works, Hawaii, arrived here on the Aus tralia yesterday. Captain John C. Clunie of Hawail, who is one of the early settlers in that country, and long interested in sugar-growing, is at the Occidental. John Breslin, s well-known wholesalo liquor man of Philadelphis, is visiting friends im town. He will remain on this coast for a month or two. Lorenzo H. Sweeney of Dodge, Sweeney & Co. has returned from an extended tour of East after an absence of several weeks, and bas taken up his home at San Rafael. J.W. Camden Jr. of Kentucky, son of United States Senator Camden of Virginia, ishereon a business trip. He thinks Kentucky, West Vir- ginis and Maryland will go Republican. W, F. McMfllen, genéral agent of the Cht eago, Burlington and Quiney Railroad, with headquarters at Salt Laka, arrived here ves- terday, after several weeks in the Hawaiian Islands. Major W. P. Hooper of the Occldental, who Jpft here several weeks ago because of Pneumonis, is now sojourning quietly at the Westminster Hotel, Los Angeles. His health has materially improved, but he will remain some time yet in Southern California. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 16.—San Francisco folks here are: F. A. Robbins at the Astor; K. Maddox, Holland; Mrs. Bixler, Westmin- ster; L. C. Strauss, Normandie; D. McCul- lough, C. H. Corbett and wife, Metropole; Rev. J. Hemphill and wife, Mrs. A. Hosley, F. Jenks, Mrs. L. Jenks, Gilsey; J. C. James, Broadway Central. BTRONG hoarhound eandy,15¢. Townsend’s.* ——————— SprcrAL information daily to manufscturers, business houses and public men by the Presa Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ~ —————— Mother—What is the matter, my dear? Why are you erying? Harry (between sobs)—I left my m’'lasses canay on that chair, and the deacon’s a-settin’ on it.—Harper's Bazar. © Are You Going East? The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad—Santa Fe route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from alkall dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of familles becaunse of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tonrist slesping cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors wna porters. San Francisco Ticke: office. 644 Market street, Chroa- icle building. Telephone, Maln 165L Oakland, 1118 Broadway. ———————— Great Rock Island Route Playing Cards. Send 12 cents In stamps to John Sebastian, gen- eral passenger agent C. E. I and P. Railway, Chicago, for the slickest pack of playing cards you ever handled, and on receipt of such remit- tance for one or mare packs they will be sent you Ppostpaid. Orders containing 60 cents in stamps or postal note for same amount will secure 5 packs by ex- press, charges paid. — - DE. SIRGERT'S Angostura Bitters possess an ex- quisite flavor and are a sure preventive for all diseases of the digestive organs. S WEEN your food has no relish the stomach needsto be cleansed and strengthened by & dose or two of Ayer's Pills. ——————— Polities and Wool. Fresno Republican. A wool-buyer in Sonoma County is making contracts to pay 5 cents a pound for wool if ryan is elected and 9 cents if McKinley is elected. This gives the suffering grower assur- ance of fair price for his product. NEW TO-DAY. B POWDER Absolutely Pure. cream of tartar baking m'er.ml'flzhog‘: Beport. o ROYAL BAKING Pow’nu Co., New York, 7/