The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1896, Page 6

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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The horse show has the town. Everybody wishes to see the beauties. Let us have streets worthy of our horses. Decadent journalism has had its day and it will soon be all night with it. The Dingley bill is an attempt to con- struct a Republican tariff on Democratic lines, and it won’t work. Cleveland has probably learned by this time that the writing of such a long mes- sage was a labor in vain. All who went to see the horses came away asserting that we bave the loveliest and best-dressed ladies on earth. The Chicago woman who has invented a machine for darning socks may yet live in history as the emancipator of man. Cleveland’s message will suit the Cu- bans about as well as the Spaniards, but neither of them will call him a statesman. While the funding bill is forging rapidly to the front, S8enator White isa way off in the background. What is the matter with him? When each thoroughfare has celebrated its improvement, then we can make & gen- eral festival and do justice to the whole thing. Senator Dubois is showing himself to be a good fighter, but what his constituents desire him to show is a little more sa- gacity, The monopoly may head off the Railroad Commission, but the competing Iline moves right along for the welfare of the | people. The Cuban question will give Congress- men a chance to warm the country up for Christmas with fervent oratory in voices that are stiil for war. Congress has seven appropriation bills | to tackle this wirter, and in the minds of many members they will constitute its | nmiost appropriate worl The Hot has got to work promptly, | while the Sepate is still considering the | thing. Itisa pity we cannot have Tom | Reed in two places at once. The prune-zrowers of Oregon’and Wash- ington seem to have trusted too much to | their climate. There js such a thing as| imitating California too far. Buckner has one happy advantage over | his colleague, Senator Palmer. He has not to go to Washington and meet the | Democratic braves with their war painton. Philadelphia claims to be the bestlighted city in America, but as all the people go | to ped at 9 o’clock the lighting seems to be a wasteful exhibition of having money to burn. Nearly every man of eminence in the country has said something about McKin- ley’s Cabinet except McKinley himself, and there is a growing suspicion ‘that he may be making up a slate of his own. There are some Democratic leaders in Congress who declare they are willing to let the Republicans pass any legislation they desire this winter without opposition, but there are few people who believe them. e Alsbama is about to adopt the South | Curoling plan of dealiag with the liquor problem, and it would seem that however | objectionable it might be in other places | it suits the conditions of the Southern | Btates pretty well. —_— The New York Sun, in commenting on decadent journalism as exemplified by Mr. Hearst's Journal in that city, very truly says: *‘The corrective must be ad- ministered by decent public sentiment. That is the only effectual remedy.” The old scheme of haying a commission | appointed to revise the tariff has been broaght up again, but ought to be at once dropped into the wastebasket. The peo- ple have elected men to Congress to revise the tariff and will expect them to do it. Commenting on the convalescence *‘of that interesting invalid Tom Sharkey” the Chronicle says, “The quicker San Fran- cisco is cleared of the crowd that trains with this prize-fighting gang the better it will be for the moral atmosphere.”” This is a strong hint for Long Green and his referee protector. Senator Wolcott's resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of five Senators to devise legislation for securing an international monetary conference found a cordial response from the Repubii- can caucus, and the incoming Republican administration can be countad on to pro- mote the pian with vigor and ability. In this way the money question will be set- tled by = return to bimetallism, and in the next Presidential election we can go for- ward to new issues. The Colusa Sun vronoses a convention at Sacramento of persons interested mn irrigation oistricts in the State for the purpose of recommending some action to be taken by the Legislature this winter to amend the irrigation law. The suggestion is a good one and ought to be adopted. The men who are best fitted to amend our irrigation laws are certainly those who have worked uhder them and have learned by experience wherein they are beneficial and wherein defective. 4 i THE EXAMINER UNMASKED. The braggart and bully of California journalism has been brought to bay at last and is found to be only a scurvy and cowardly hyena, masquerading in the skin of a bear. The Monsrch of the Fakirs has had the cloak of its assumed superiority as a censor of morals and defender of down-trodden virtue torn from its hideous face, and it stands revealed before an aroused and outraged public as the very opposite of everything 1t has pretended to be. _ For the past severa! years the San Francisco Ezaminer has gone swaggering up and acwn the State of California claiming to be the monarch of the dailies, and posing as the champion in journalism of decency, propriety and truth, So arrogant has been 1ts assumption that for a time it seemed to have succeeded in attaining the perfection of the faker's urt by deluding the people of California into the belief that its pretension was true. Emboldened by its success as a faker, it naturally and speedily became the patron, publisher and friend of every phase of fraud and folly. It sational journalism. embarked upon the flood tide of sen- It became the forked tongue of slander, the whispering gallery of scandal and the outstretched forefinger of suspieion. - Its editorial rooms became a breeding-place of snakes and toads and swarms of gnats, which went forth daily to infest society with every community which was entered hissing, croaking, buzz and sting. In by the issues of its press it engaged in a systematic scheme for the extortion of money from corporations, individuals and industries, and sent to the State Legislature Andrew Lawrence as its special represeniative, with carte blanche to prided itself upon its ability ventions, officials, juries bla ckmail everything 1in sight. It to browbeat and bulldoze Legislatures, con- and courts. It sent its emissasies throughout the State, seeking men and Women of prominence, position and wealth, regarding their substance and reputation as legitimate prey. Those whom it failed to bieed it boldly attempted to ruin by persistent reiteration of falsehoods and by every art of innuendo and ridicule which publisher to employ. it is withia the reach of a conscienceless The descent of such a newspaper from scandals and sensations to obscenities- and filth has been easy and swift. The natural bent of the Ezaminer to indecency became finally irresistible, and during the past year, in defiance of every canon of morals and of every duty-to society, it slime. has openly and shamelessly wallowed in The elevation to its editorial management of *'Long Green’ Lawrence was a notice to the public that its natural instincts were to be gratified at.any expense. When the person who in former years had been its licensed biackmailer and authorized representative in those lines of business of which the greenback is the only safe medium of exchange, became its editorial head, what else could be ex- pected than indulgence in the obscenities and indecencies which bave befouled the Eraminer’s columns and brought the fair fame of -California journalism into disrepute ? The time for retribution has, however, come at last. The people of Calitornia, who believe in the observance of decency in journalism, as in other forms of human activity, have become indignant at the Ezaminer's open and shameless violation of every law of honesty, propriety and truth. The respectable element in our society is aroused to the necessity of an immediate crusade against the per- sistent pandering of that newspaper to the depraved tastes of the slums. The honest and reputable press of the entire State is engaged in scourging with a whip of scorpions this defiler of their profession, and is resolved to either driveit back to decency or to expel it from the State. TrE Cavry has reluctantly departed from its long-maintained resolve to live in amity with its contemporaries, to lead and to guide this crusade. It does this because the moral welfare of the State demands ‘tbat the homes and firesides of its people should be saved from the pollution of “tbe new journalism,” of which Mr. Hearst’s newspaper is the local exponent. The subject is one which may well engage the attention and eniist the assistance of every man and woman who believes in preserving the homes and families of California from an influx of the foul and infectious slush and slime of such a newspaper. THE VALLEY ROAD. Work on the Valley road continues to go forward Wwith an energy gratifying to all who take an interest in the develop- | ment and the welfare of the State. While | the extension of the line southward from Fresno has been temporarily suspended, owing to difficulties encountered in ob- taining rights of way the task of equip- ping the line between Stockton and | Fresno and providing the road with ac- commodations for handling freight shows | no cessation of activity. It is believed the work of extension | southward wil! begin again not later than | the early part of February. The one ob- | stacle in the way of advance is the lack of | a continuous right of way to Bakersfield. | As soon as the route has been secured the work of construction will be pushed for- ward with as much vim and energy as was | employed in constructing that portion of | the line already completed. Material for | the southward extension has been already obtained and all preparations made for a | speedy completion of the work as soon as | the right of way has been secured. Two lines of road are to run southward from Fresno. One of these will go by way of Hanford and the route of the other is | to be determined by the concessions made | by land-owners in the, maiters of rights of | way and depot sites. The advantages to be derived from the road are so great that ' it is not likely the desired concessions will | be long withheld, and before the time | comes for moving the mext grain crop | there are good reasons for believing tbat | all the country as far south as Bakersfield will have the full advantage of acom- peting line. The success which has attended the con- struction of the road ever since the project was undertaken is one of the most grati- fying evidences we have of the awakening of a new spirit of energy and enterprise among the people of California. The work is the result of the cc-operation of San Francisco with the ‘SBan Joaquin and attests what can be done when the City and the interior work together for the good of the State. This line, which will break.the monopoly in a wide region of California, has within it the potency of breaking it down in every portion of the State. The work therefore is essentially one for the welfare of the people and there will be a universal gratification in the knowleage that it is so rapidly and | successfully going forward. KILLING FRORTS. It is reported tbat great damage has been done to orchards ail round the Puget Sound territory and throughcut the Northern Pacific States generally by the heavy frosts of the recent cold snap. Itis to be hoped thatthe worst of these reports are exaggerations, and that the loss inay not be so heavy as at this time is feared. Nevertheless it appears certain that the fruit industry has been pushed too far northward, and that Oregon and Wash- ington cannot hope to compete with Cali- fornia in the cultivation of such fruits as require a mild climate. The large profits obtained by California orchardists in growing prunes led the veople of Washington and Oregon to make extensive plantations of such treés in those States. For some years past these have done fairly well, but the hegvy” frosts of this winter make it clear that tne prune industry there is a hazardous ex- periment. = It requires six years to bring a prune tree into full bearing, and in a climate where it is | able to be killed by a sudden frost the industry cannot be profi- tably carried on. The prune orchardists of the States to the north of us are in about the same position as the orange-growers in middle Florida. Twe area of orange-planting jn that State was carried further and further north with considerable success for some years, but the end came with a severe frost, which not only destroyed the crops, but killed the trees. This meant a loss of many years’ work, and the orange-growers in that section of Fiorida have been com- pelled to turn their attention to other forms of industry. : For semi-tropical fruits there is scarcely a safe area for cultivation in the United Blates outside of California. In this State the orchardists occasionally lose a crop by the frosts, but they do not lose their trecs. The loss here is merely temporary. In other States the loss in such cultivation is not inirequently so disastrous as to com- pletely destroy entire orchards, This fact seems to assure to California an easy su- premacy in the growing of semi-tropical fruits, and removes from our orchardists any fear of extensive competition in othes localivies. 5 Progressive merchants are showing themselves everywhere. THE HORSE SHOW. The first day of the horse show was sufficiently brilliant to assure the success of the enterprise. Public interest has in- creased even over that of last year, and the display will be successful not only as an exhibit of fine horses and good driv- ing, but also as a social function. 1t is not easy to overrate the benefits to be derived from this and similar exbibi- tions. In New York, where they have been held for more years than in any other place in the Union, they have come to be looked upon as the most popular and among the most important of all in- dustrial expositions. The success and value of such shows in that city have ceased to be matters of doubt, and each successive one is an improvement on its predecessor. Nature has fitted Cabifornia to be the elysium of horses. The climate is favor- able to him at all seasons of the year. There is never a month when riding, driv- ing and racing cannot be practiced with comfort both to the horse and his owner. The Californians of the old Spanish days were a race of accomplished horsemen, and the native sons of to-day are rapidly acquiring an equal fondness and mastery in the same pursuit. The coutrol of horses has ever been re- garded as one of the best accompiishments of man. The modern world with its many mechanisms for locomotion does not pay so much attention to this art as was once accorded it, but it is still held in high esteem by all nations. The bold rider, the skillful driver and the able trainer of horses are objects of admiration in every community, and it is not to be doubted that this will always be so. Among the great nations of Europe the breeding of fine horses is a care of the Government. The value of such animals both in peace und in war is so well known that the improvement of the breeds is not left wholly to private enterprise. In this country, however, we have trusted toin- dividual citizens -to promote our breed of horses and the trust has not been in vain. We have, in fact, beaten Europe. The de- gree of our success is visible at the present show and moreover in the large attend- ance there of men and women of means and fashion we have every assurarce that the good work will be continued and that private wealth will in the future, as in the past, provide California with horses second to none in the world. TARIFF CONSIDERATIONS, Reports from Washington tend to the conclusion that while there is no possibil- 1ty of passing the Dingley bill in the form in which it was presented at the last ses- sion, there will stili be an earnest effort made at some form of tariff legislation. The statement of Mr. Cleveland in his message that the present tariff 1s good enough and that the deficit should not disturb us finds no more favor with the Republicans in Congress than with the country at large, and consequently they will make an earnest and patriotic attempt to provide a8 speedily as possible a revenue adequate to the expenditures of the Government. The objections to the Dingley bill are s0 numerous it can hardly have much support. In its essence the bill simply raises the rate of duties fixed by the present tariff. Itis, therefore, subject to all the objections which are inherent in the nature of the Democratic law. The Gorman tariff makes offensive discrimina- tious in favor of some <industries against others. A Republican tariff, - therefore, cannot ‘be constructed on:these lines. It must be ‘& -radically different measure, and provide for fair and honest protection to all industries alike. ‘While the Dingley bill has found favor with the wool-growers because it promises something of protection to their industry, it by no means does justice to other indus- tries no less important. Among the in- dustries thus discriminated againstis that of the production of sugar, and yet that industry, by reason of competition with cheap labor and the bounty systems of other nations, has a peculiar need ol sup- port and encouragement on the part of the Government. We have fhe soil and climate suitable for the production of sugar and the cap- ital necessary to carry on the industry. With such protection as would be suffi- cient to counterbalance the low wages paid in other countries and the bounties given by other nations we could soon build up in the United States a sugar in- dustry equal to all the demands of the population. There are good reasons for believing that California alone could pro- duce all the sugar needed in America at the present rate of demand. Whenever, therefore, we set about devising a tariff, we shoud revise it in the direction of THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, giving protection to such industries as this. If we are to haveany tariff legisla- tion at all this winter it should be legis- lation that will do justice to all sections of the Union and all the industries of the people. PERSONAL. H. Kessler of Grants Pass, Or., s in the City. ! F. Cook ot Caribgo, B. C., is at the New Western, General C. C. Powning of Reno, Nev., came here yesterday. Senator Bart Burke of Santa Cruziss late arrival in the City. A. Neilson, owner of s large foundry at Sac- ramento, is in town. B. W. Noyes, & wealthy resident of Everett, Mass., is at the Palace. Dr. H. A. Forest of Sants Cruz County Is registered at the Baldwin. J. Hart, a dry-goods dealer of San Jose, is here on a brief business trip. 8. F. Thompson, a mining and business man of Aspen, Colo., is at the Palace. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Yosemite Hotel, Stockton, is at the Palace. Harrison Griswold of La Crosse, Wis,, arrived Tiere yesterday and is at the Grand. © - John F. Boyd, the capitalist,of San Rafael, is at the ce accompanied by Mrs, Boyd.- Charles 8, Derky of Bruce, Warring & Co., a Dbig shipping firm of Honolulu, arrived here | yesterday. C. Padget, a wealthy resident of ‘San Sal- vador, arrived here yesterday and is at the Occidental. i ¥ - John McKes, who is engaged in lumbering at Mott, on the California and Oregon Rail- road, is on a visit here. J.H. Lee, secretary and treasurer of the Chino Beet Sugar Company at Chino, San Ber- nardino County, is ut the Occidental. Senator William Johnson of Courtland, ac- companied by his wife and daughter, is at the Grand. They came down to Visit the horse show. Sheriff T. A. Burnes and Deputy Sheriff D. 8. Wilbur of San Diego County are at the Russ. They brought up some prisoners, whom they lodged at San Quentin. Mrs. Newton Booth, wife of the late United States Senator Booth, has sent to County Sup- erintendent Davis of Sonoma, for the county teachers’ library, a handsome volume on the life of her husband. E. Jacobs, the millionaire land-owner and grain-grower of Visalia, who settled at that place when it was a mere hamlet among the oak trees, is up here on a vacation and regis- tered &t the Occidental. . A. R. Hall of Mitwaukee, superintendent of the Wisconsin Central Kailroad, is at the Grand,accompanied by his wife and daughter. He has been visiting Monterey and other places in California and will leave for home in a day or two. John M. Witman, a hardware dealer of uartz Mountain, Tuolumne County, is among ihe arrivals at the Grand. He s itis very lively in Tuolumne, many properties changing hands. The hills are covered with miners all along the mother lode. F. W. Bradley, suverintenaent of the great silver and lead mines at Warduer, in the Coeur d’Alene country, Idaho, kuown as the Banker Hill and Sullivan, of which John Hays Ham- mond was at one time general manager, arrived here yesterday. These mines are producing enormous quantities of lead. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 9.—At the Winasor, A. G. Booth; Park Avenue, E. H. Merrill M. H.de Young, Mrs. de Young, Miss Phyllis Mary de Young, Miss Mamie Deane and nurse left the Plaza to saiion the sieamer New York for England. A YOUILFUL SOLDIER Cresceniode Varona, a young Cuban, has just entered the Westchester State Normal School, near Phiiadelphis. Although only 12 years of age he is an oflicer in the iusurgentarmy. On hisright hand is & huge scar, 1o, which this DECEMBER 10, 1896 MUSIC- AND MUSICIANS, The Nordica-Melba-De Reszke dispute at the Metropolitan Opera-house has been inten- sifled by the engagement of Mme. Felia Lit- vinne, to take the place left vacant by Nor- dica. Mme. Litvinne is Edouard de Reszke's sister-in-law, and people who take Nordica’s part in the quarrel are more persistent than ever in affirming that there wes agreat De Reszke combine against the American prima donna, ‘and that Jean de Reszke’s advice to Melba to study the role of Brunhilde, which Nordica coveted, was only = part of the De Reszke machinations for ousting Nordica. A large portion of the public seems to have espoused Nordica’s side of the quarrel, for Jean de Reszke's reception, on his first ap- pearance this season, was marked by such coldness thzt some critics aliuded to it as a irost.' Jean’s recent marriage has no doubt taken away his charms, as a matinee girl's idol, but that would scarcely account entirely for the sudden change of attitude toward A\ book is considered to be of incalculable his- torical value, and just recently complete photographs have been taken of every page, in order that the old songs it contains may be published. The Austrian composer, Antoine Bruckner, was not so much made of during his lifetime, but his death has been the signal for all sorts of post mortem honors. A statue is to be erected to his memory in Vienna, and in the same city his grandioso Mass in D minor, which he never had the pleasure of hearing well performed, will be rendered next month, in a concert hall, with the best orchestra and chorus procurab! Anecho from the Presidential elections in the United States proves that Americens do nothing by halves. At New York during a demonstration in favor of the new President MeKinley, an ensemble of 125 bands rendered the National Anthem. Saperlotte! it could Mme. Felia- Litvinne and Mme. him shown by the New York public. Mme. Litvinne does not seem to be up to Nordica's standard, and there are rumors that Grau is making fresh overtures to the whilom Maine widow, but she could not in any case £0 back to the Metropolitan immediately, on account of her concert engagements. Nordica will sing in this City some time during January, Austria and Germany are preparing great celebrat'ons in honor of the centennary of Schubert’s birth, which occurs next month. Crescenio de Varona. youthful patriot points with pride a mark of service for Cuba Libre. At the battle of Sagua de Tanamo, while standing by a cannon waviug his tiny flag and shouting for freeaom, & ball from a Spanish rifie plerced his puim. He has been sent to Westchester by President Palma of the New York Cuban Junia, THE INVINC:BLE PRESS. TACITLY RECOGNIZED A8 A NECESSARY PART OF MODERN CIVILIZATION. Springfield Republican. Senator Edmunds was once asked how a President-elect is to know that he has been elected. *‘By reading the newspapers,” was the answer. It is a curious fact that no provision of 1aw exists for the official notifi- cation ot Major McKinley, for example, of his elsction. According to the law the Vice. President, ‘after the Teturns from the elec- In Berlin the impetus given to music in fash- ionable circles by the example of Emperor William- will cause the birthday to be ob- served in an originel manner. The Emperor has not disdained to give public performances of his owa compositions, so the members of his conrt have decided that it is not beneath their dignity to perform in public, just like ordinary play actors. 1t will be an entirely new de- parture in court circles for the haughty aris- tocracy to sing and act before the populace, but the noble squires and damesof Emperor William's svite have decided to do it. Schu- bert’s charming opera comique, “The Ladies’ Crusade,’’ will form the bill, and the Countess von Moltke, wife of an imperial aid-de-camp, who is a nephew of the famous marshal, will be the stage manaveress, The story ot “The Ladies’ Crusade” is borrowed irom an ancient comedy by Aristophanes, which is still played under the titie of “Lysistrata.” The ladies of the court will have to take the part of middle- age chatelaiues, who form a trades union against their nusbands while those gentlemen areabsentat one of the crusades. The femi- nine combination is finally broken up by ihe firm c uct of the husbands on their return. The critics are preparing themselves before- hand for & good deal of musical suffering, for the choruses in ““The Ladies’ Crusade” are very difficult for court amateurs to sing. The choir of Grace Chutch, on: California street, will tender a testimonial concert to W. H. Holt, the organist and choirmaster of the chureh, next Monday evening, at the Associa- tion Auditorium. In meking the announce- ment of their desire to acknowledge Mr. Holt's courtesy and zeal the members of the choir state that while the appreciation shown by the congregation is in itself a sufficient reward, only the members of the choir can realize the extent and responsibility of the work accom- plished by the organist. One of the most suc- cesstul features of the music at Grace Church is the monthly festival, which has become an acknowledged factor in the ecclesiastical music in this City. The members of the choir are: Frank Coffin, J. Edmund Jones, S. Homer Henley, George T. Balch, William McDonald, George H. Hook, J. M. Shawhan, George St. John Bremner, D. M. Warde, Sampson E. Tucker, N. B. Frisbie, Cyril E. Holt. The third concert of the San Franeisco Ora- torio Society will take place this evening at the Association Auditorium. The work pro- duced will be “The Light of Asia” for the first time in this City. The music is by Dudley Buck, and the text by Sir Edwin Arnold. James Hamilton Howe is the conductor, and the soloists will be: Miss Grace Davis, Miss Florence Harrles, Miss Maud Fay, Miss Kathe- rine Black, Miss Edith Hanks, M ella Van Pelt, Miss M. Henrnetta Smith, J. F. Veaco, George McBride, Edgar L. Atkinson; pianiste, Mrs. L. J. Murdoch. The Russian censor has forbidden any per- formances of *“The Evangelmann” in the Czar's dominion. The work has no political toral college have been canvassed, aunounces | bearing, and it is supposed that its religious to the Congress in joint session the choice of the electors for President and Vice-Presi- dent for the ensuing term. After reading in the newspapers that he has been so hon- character makes it inadmissible in Russia, The ‘“Evangelmann” is by the Austrian com- poser Wilham Kienzl, and at present it is ored the President-elcct goes ww»nlnswn meeting with great success in Germany. A 10 be sworn in. Meanwhile the President still in office is also dependent upon the newspapers for information as to the identity of his successor. And so President Cleveland, new opera by Kienzl, entitled “Don Quixote,” is being rehearsed at the Royal Opera of Ber- lin, an@ much curiosity prevails in German having read in the papers or in the Con- | musical circles to hear it. gressional Record that Major McKinley is to be the next President, will call at the latter's European conductors seem to be looking lodgings a day or two beiore the end of his | more and more 1o Russia for new music, and term 1o pa: hi ts. Finail; inaugural tajor Atc {li ay, Major McKinley will hap ugm the Senate cnamber on the strength of what the newspapers have told him and be sworn in. God is not officially recogni: ‘on_the | therefore a good deal of interest is felt in the coming production of two new Russian operas. One is by Kasatchenko, and although the title zed in | is not yet fixed the libretto is known to be the constitution, but the American Govern- | based on life in Little Russia. The second ment’s machinery tacitly recognizes the press [ new opera is by P. J. s a necessary part of modern civilization. One of the first presents made by the Queen of Italy to her new daughter-in-law, the Blaremberg, and is founded on a drama by Ostrowski entitled ‘A Seventeenth Century Comedian,” The University of Jena has preserved for Princess Helen of Montenegro, was a magnifi- | several hundred years a voluminous manu- cent bicycle with ivory handles and decorated | script volume, which contains, in the musical ‘with the arms of ‘Savoy and Montenegro in | notation of the fourieenth century, an impor- | enamel and gold., & tant serles of songs by the Minnesingers, This Nellie Melba, Nordica’s Rivals, A RECENT FoRTRAIT B MELBA not have been pleasant to find oneself in the center of that orchestra!—Le Menestrel. Eagar Stillman Kelly bas been engaged to lecture on Oriental music before Columbia University during the coming winter. His practical experience in Oriental music was chiefly acquired in Chinatown, San Francisco. Thirty unpublished melodies, as well asa completed mass, have just been found among the.papers of the late Franz von Suppe. These nosthumous works, of whose existence no one was aware, will soon be published, Eugene Ysaye has abandoned his ambitions as a conductor for the present and is creating a furor in Spain with his violin playing. A Barcelona correspondent writes: ‘“He hds aroused veritable delirium.” Oscar Hammerstein's opera, “Santa Maria,” will leave his Olympia ana start on a tour of the principal cities of the Union. To-morrow is the date aunounced for the beginning of the tour. Grau is trying to popularize grand opera by giving Wednesday afternoon performances at the Metropolitan Opera-house at popular prices. At St. Ignatius Church on Huyes street next Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 16 and 17, will take place two grand organ recitals and sacred concerts, on which oceca- sion will take place the inagurel of the new and elegant organ lately presented to the church. Clarence Eddy will officiate a8 or- ganist. "EABY’S LOGIC She was {roning her dolly’s new gown, Maid Marian, 4 years old, With her brows puckered down In a painstaking frown Under ber tresses of gold. "Twas Sunday. and nurse coming in Exclaimed, in & tone of surprise, “Don’t you know it’s a sin Any work to begin Un the duy that the Lord sinc:ifies?” Then, lifting her face like a rose, A s answired this wise little tot “Now, don't you suppose. The 2ocd Lord he knows ‘This little iron ain’t hot?” —New York Tribune, GIKL’S NIGHIDRE.S A nightdress for little girls, which is cut on very simple lines, and yet is up to date, recommends itself to all mothers, for it is easily made and will please the little miss by its picturesqueness, which is the result of the large collar and full sleeves. The gown may be re-enforced in yokeshape for extra strength at the top, where 1he wear and tear comes. The collar may be neatly edged with a nar- row band of Hamburg embroidery or & {rill of narrow lace, but is in itself very effective when made of 'th ‘white cotton " cloth, ba- tiste or lawn. The neatest trimming and the least expensive is a tiny insertion of Valen- ciennes let in, about its width from the edge of the eollar, with an ineh wide edge of tne lace to match, slightly gathered. This entails little more labor, but repays one by its dain ness. The sleeves may be finished by a little ruffle with lace and insertion to match. The zown without the collar is very pretty, ihe full sleeves relieving its piainness, THE DAWN OF A NEW SPIRIT. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The fact thut Bryen was 300,000 votes weaker in the South this year than Cleveland was four years ago is one of gre: gnificance. Tnere is & new a%"m. unquestionably, and it is crowding out the old South &t & gratifying rate. — PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. A bronze ‘monument has béen erected in Paris to the memory of Jean Leclaire, the man who fifty-four years ago introduced among the workmen of his factory the system of profit- sharing. Governor Hogg of Texas denies the state- ment that he has children named Ima, Ura and Shesa. He has a daughter who is named Ima, and three boys named, respectively, Wil- liam, Michael and Thomas. Maurice de Bumsen, gazetted as secretary of the English embassy at Washington, was an attache there in 1878. He has since had quite a distinguished diplomatic career in Berne, Madrid, Paris, Japan and Siam. Nansen has sold the English rightsof the work in which he will describe his latest ex» periences in the polar seas to Messrs. Consta- ble and the sum he will receive in considera- tion thereof is unusually large—$50,000 being mentioned as the price of this hook. The firm paying this price is a comparatively new one. The place for the memorial to Sir Walter Scott in Westminster Abbey has now been finally selected by the dean of Westminster. The place chosen lies between the memorials oi the Duke of Argylland Oliver Goldsmith, a half-arch in the south wall or poets’ corner transept. It is & proninent piace and the late dean, Dr. Stanley, always had a desire that Sir ‘Walter Scott’s bust should fill this niche. ANSWERS T(Q CORRESPONDENTS. ORMONDE—“Oakland,’’ and others, Cityand Oakland, Cal. The horse Ormonde, owned by Macdonough, never was in Australia. FIVE-DOLLAR PrEcEs—G. D., Suisun, Cal. No premium is offered on five-dollar gold pieces of the United States issued in 1850, 1851 and 1852, but dealers who have tnem ilor sale charge an advance of from $2 50 (0 £3 50 on each coin. THE AMENDMENTS—S. W., Pescadero, San Mateo County, Cal. It isimpossible to tell the result of the vote at the recent election on the six amendments voted for until the Secretary of State announces the official count. Assoon as the result is known it will be furnished through the columns of THE CALL. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY—M. A. J., Fitchburg, Alameda County, cal. Mark A Hanna is not eligible to the office of Secretary of the Treasury of the United States because of an old law that declares that no one shali be appointed 1o that office who is futerested in the 1mportaiion of merchandise into the United States. ILLITERATE INSPECTOES — “Wildwood,” Cal. County Supervisors cannot under the law ap- point as inspector of election a man who can- not read or write the English language. If by some chance such an individual would impose himself on the Supervisors and act as one of the officers of election he would be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to, upon_conviction, of punishment by payment of a fine of $500, and in default of payment to imprisonment in the County Jail at tne rate of one day lor each doliar of the fine. BarING Bros.—Wildwood,” Cal. In Novem- ber, 1890, owing to the continued failure of the Argentine Republic to pay the interest due upon its debt, which had been guaranteed by the Baringsof London, the firm was threatened with suspension, but was saved by the action of the Bauk of England, which, in conjunction with the firm of Brown. Shipley & Co., ad- vauced the sum of £13,000,000 to tide over the crisis. The house of the Barings has since been reorganized as a limited company for carrying on a regular banking business, though on a less extended scale than before. SCHOOLBOOKS—V. M. B., Marshalls, Marin County, Cal. From the fact that the law re- quires that every book in a districtschool { Library suall be stamped on the fiyleaf, on the title page and on each one hundredth page with the words *‘Department of Public In- struction, State of California, County, District Librar; and that the law say the school trustees shall be held accountapie for the proper care and preservation of the library, it 1s not intended that *'a teacher in one distriet shall give a school library book. to a teacher in another district, never to re- turn it, but to keep it for herself.” CrEAM mixed candis 5¢ Ib. Townsend's, * B g SPECIAL information daily to manufacturary, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Burenu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * P e Merritt—Man was made to mourn, you know. Cora—And what was woman made for, pray? Merriti—Tomake him do so, I suppose.—New York Truth. Low Kates to Phenix, A. T., Randsburg, Cal. The Atlantic and Pacific R. R., Santa Fe route, will sell on December 11,12 and 18 round-trip firs'-class tickets to Pheenix at the one-way rate. A golden opportunity to spend Christmas in balmy Arizona. Cheap rates-are also made to the won- derfal Randsburg mining camp, whicn is a second Cripple Creek, and to which people are now flock- ing by the thousands. Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle building. Telephone Main 1551, See time-table in advertising columns. and ————— Phillips’ Rock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Kailways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and poriers accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent iock islaud Rallway, 30 Mont gomery street. fan Franciseo e e e SO Through Car to St. Pauland Minneapolia An elegantly upholstered tourlsi-car leaves Oak- land every Tuesdry evening at 7 o'clock for all points in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, Nochange of cars. Dining-cars on all trains. Come and get our ratesif you expec: to makes trip to any Eastern Foini. T.K.S ateler, General Agens Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 638 Market street, S. Fu - .———— WE do not like baldness, gray hair, dandruft, nor thin locks. Avoid these erratic features of the hair by using PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. ———————————— Fom IRRITATION OF THE THROAT, caused by Cold or use of the voice, “Brown's Bronchiak Troches” are exceedingly beneficial. e —— LaDIEs are greatly benefited by the use of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the renowned South American tonic. “CyRED my cough like magic” is the frequent expression of those who testify to the merits of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. ————— “Have your heus been laying lately?” «Ishould say they had. My grocer says he hasn’t been able to sell an egg in my neigh- borhood for a week.”—New York Herald. S —— NEW TO-DAY. Jrophy is real baking powder—not starch mixed with drugs Tillmann & Bendel, MR N\