The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1896. ”__-_—__“_——_‘M A STUDY IN DEPRAVITY. benefit of the few by fraudnlent means, FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN. the Park News will in the future accept no San Francisco News Letter. 2 5 i such advertisements in its colamns at any California 1s at present being treated to the degrading spectacle of 8 o When young Mr. Hearst adopted journalism as his profession and entered it 85} price.”” Thig gives us another strong ally lionaire groveling in the dirt for the nickels of the unwashed and the unedu- the owner and editor of the San Francisco Examiner ne had an opportunity t0|in the gooa cause, but there is room for cated mob, We refer to Mr. Hearst and his method of conducting the achieve greatness and honor and good repute which few men in the history of time | more, Every paper In San Francisco lvi'zamtmr The tricks resorl;d to by this most servile of newspapers have have had the fortune to possess. He was the son of a United States Senator who, in | snould join the movement, for all of them ite oad . ain been laid bare to the public, the better part of which has long addition to his political prominence and prestige, happened to be & millionaire. He | gnow that lottery advertising is not only Tnee v.rufed it with the contempt it merits. The mob, however, whose was a graduate of Harvard, the oldestand most famous of American colleges. He had | unlawful but is an enticement of swindlers D Aol Talites coave Aoet alficiive dishes In’oné: form oF another, and to been reared in California, where the contrasted consequences of engaging in aecent | and wholly fraudulent. ‘h' °n;| p: \.hfd' is wit and vulgarity a form of amusement, look up to it and in aisreputable joarnalism had found former example. He was made by gift whom blackg: 130 }8 Wit &ng yuig: the owner of the Eraminer, an already established newspaper, which if it had no P I for the garbled mess of siander, obscenity, falsehood and criminal statistics particular character had yet acquired no large degree of evil repute. He was not put Letters From the eople. appearing in its columns as news. Rebuke has fgllt:wedbre‘b?oke‘.i:fi;ni;é:v:;:.d Ci tate, u o to the necessity of earning an income dishonestly by yielding to the temhpt;llnns f(; Z};’Inl:: :i‘mc;?;ssg:fise?:z::i;r:fxgfl?:b::;::doci:: t;; S iusutyice Gie the impecunious editor or by engaging in the publication of anything which woul b i 4 i fendt be il oy Merida the SENlio rtads /0% théeoniraty. every lndhaemant | HAD: A SINIEAR « IDEA. pager ::; ::;::::iy going from bad to worse and is now of decency, honor, ambition, pride and fame was present to urge the publication of a ‘ R Diss el Wiek 2 i e newspaper which should be a model to the journalists of the world, and which should » “‘,':";: f;:.:';:.:n;m:;::fl.: San Francisco bears the reputation elsewhere o g exemplily in its daily issues those lofty ideals of which the hizh-minded editors of To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The article in TmE SUNDAY CALLentitled “‘A Craft of Whirling Blades” contains an idea so BALY WITH BISHOP SLEEVES Baby with his bishop sleeves is tight in tne fashion. The epau.etie trimming, too, is y, to date, but may be omitted if a simpler gown is desired. ‘White nainsook is the softest and duiuueld\ WEDNESDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, bycnm:r“‘;.lul, Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. D ay CALL, 8ix menths, by mall., end Sunday C. snd Sunday CaLy, one month, by mall. Sunday CaLL, one year, by mall.... WAEKLY CALL, one year, by mail.... BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, vice exists unhindered and where moral corruption is bred in every class of so- every country have dreamed and attempted to realize. ciety. For this we have to thank the Ezumim‘y—the jo}xrnallst{c harlot o(IiMis- ‘What has Mr. Hearstdone with his opportunity? How has he exemplfied the sion street. The smallest crimes committed in this City are given precedence in its columns over the numerous acts of goodness and of charity perpetrated ’ ' Ean Francisco, Califorala. ideals of his chosen profession upon the pages of the Eraminer since he became its | nearly like one which I myself thought out A & g f it 7 Tutephane - et s et MA2E08 | G 0P Wikak evider:me has he supplied gla noble desire and effort to elevate and | originully and worked up last summer in a daily by our citizens. The views of criminals on ““""Twr'."n:f,cj‘c::rri:gvt;e 7 EDITORIAL ROOMS: dignify the press of his age and country? What worthy and successiul struggle | 5101 that I would like to stmply motice the | - more notice than the ssyinge oflou; v&:,rtb! d;v"'lfl-m e an st i / y S 5 i i iti } i 5 OND=e he visiter from other lands, but it inculcates in /i 513 Ulay Burest. has be engaged in to purge of its shams, impurities and follies the journalism | f°¢*#nd have it go on recor eye of the v ) 2 Y ) = i A As th t accepted by the B icious them- b/ e e ot e to-day? That he has hired brillisnt writers and skillful artists no one will s,n'n‘:nzti:z;’:;’;g!&x:zd" Sne of Doz laborers—who are me]cm“;Dn:“on:v'):,:?:(gwifm:d:'t‘;ectfovli’:e.v ,/’/( BRANCH OFFICES: deny, and that he has expended a respectable fortune in the conduct of the Examiner selves, and thus acquire notoriety by ng P A “f T tha il SHher 1, PR for publcARORIY S aeY. It is for this reason that we call on all respectable and God-fearing citizens #97 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untll 0 o'clock. 0 Hayes street: open until 8:30 o'clock. E ©5l § O'clock. 4015 diission street: open nntll 9 0'clod. 367 ALb sireet; open until 9 0'clock » Markel sireet, open uill 9 o'cle OAKLAND OFFICE: $U8 Broadway. EASTERN Rooms 81 and Park DAVID B Collis will not bave a walkover. The Committee of Fifty takes the war- path. The street-lighting movement brightens everything. The next big work should be the repave- ment of Market street. The Committee of Fifty is prepared to see the funding bill bluff and call it. Every day of delay in Christmas shop- ping from this time on will be dangerous. The work of framing a new tariff has begun and fortunately California is ready for it The next Dingley bill will not be an amendment on the old one but something different altogether. It looks as if some of the Senators were resorting to Cuban filibustering to delay work on home issues. Tom Watson is making a fight for a seat in Congress, but even if he gets it he won’t sit down half the time. Burglars are bad, but after all they do not take as much money out of the town as the lottery swindlers. “Long Green’ Lawrence should send his friend Earp in search of Dunham and thus give him exercise and the towna rest. There is such a defect in the make-up of the Cuban sympathizers in the Senate that they always go off before they are loaded. The Grant monument is not all that we expected, but as it seems to be all that we were willing to pay for we must accept it and be satisfied. Fresno claims tobean epitome of all California, and what 1s more she points to resources enough to come very near mak- ing the claim good. The Cuban League of the United States is composed of most estimable gentiemen and many of them are elcquent, but what do they propose to ao? The stockholders of the Central Pacific are opposed to Mr. Huntington’s funding bill, but of course he cares for them no more than for the rest of the people. Willie Hearst and Long Green Law- rence have a crow to pick with one an- other over Wyatt Earp’s reputation, but as it is a very dirty crow they will find the job congenial. 7 Holiday shoppers need not try toinspect all the stores in town. By reading our ad- vertising columns they can see where the best bargains are and learn exactly where to go to be suited. The pursuit of Dunham at this season of the year must be so unpleasant as to | make the officers of the law regret exceed- ingly they were not more active when the summer time was with them. The election of Charles A. Dana as a vice-president of the Caban League of the United States will probably save that or- ganization from caustic criticism in the Sun for as much as forty days. The improved system of lighting pro- moted by the Merchants’ Association widens s it brightens, and there is a pros- pect that before long the whoie central area of the City will have the benefit of it. The people will not complain much of Cleveland’s hunting trip this time, for they know McKinley will soon be in office and they sre willing the business of the country should be left for him to attend to. The first passenger train on the Valley road from Stockton to Fresno made the run on Sunday at an average rate of thirty miles an hour, and competition is now an established fact. In the San Joaquin the monopoly is at an end. It is seldom we find anything to com- mend in Senator Allen of Nebraska, but his indignant refutation of Eastern at- tacks on the West was vigorous and truthful and will find approval every- where this side of the Alleghanies. Eastern reports concerning the make-up of the McKinley Cabinet are becoming more definite, and the statements that Al- lison is to be Secretary of State and Ding- ley Secretary of the Treasury may be verified when the completed work is made public. The fight between San Pedro and Santa Monica, as well as that of the funding bill, is on, and Huntington has to defend himself at both points. The people have the chance therefore of beating him along the whole line and breaking up his mo- nopo.y forever. The legislators-elect of the southern counties of the State have met and consid- ered plans for obtainin- legislation needed in that section. Itis by such tactics that the south gains her ends in the State, and it would be well for the middle and north- ern counties to imilate them. The advocates of the creation of a Na- tional Department of Commerce have Le- gun work in Congress, and those who favor the establishment of a Department of Mines should combine with them and keep pace with them. Each wonld gain strength by the combination and be much more likely to succeed. | upon its chosen lines is also too well known to admit of contradiction. What bas Mr. Hearst succeeded in gaining by the aid of this aggregation of talent and with this lavish outlay of money? Honor? No. opinion of men? No. Reputation? No. The respect of the profession? No. Dignity? No. The good What, then? Nothing but the deserved notoriety of being the publisher of the nastiest newspaper on earth, The case of young Mr. Hearst furnishes an interesting study in depravity to those who take pleasure in the investigation of abnormal mental and moral conditions. The problem which presents itself is this: ‘Was the descent of Mr. Hearst to hitherto unsounded denths of journalistic depravity aue toa sinister strain in his nature, which led him irresistibly to attempt to mirror the vileness of his mind on the slimy surface of his newspaper? Ishe by some recurring atavism wreaking upon society the ancestral taint? Is he the victim of heredity? Has the young man turned his face away from every inducement to an honorable career because his natural tenden- Can Mr. Hearst be decent if he tries? | cies toward evil have unfortunately been given rein by his father’s gift of the Examiner? This is one phase of the psycholcgical problem, but it is not the one which either | charity or pity would impel the close observer of Mr. Hearst’s experience to adopt. The more reasonable theory and explanation of the young man’s indulgence in de- praved journalism seems to be that, like many another youth who has begun active life with large opportunities and plunged at once into the midst of a profession, heis the victim of association with that class of bright but unprincipled men who o often seize upon adolescence, when supplied with a goodly share of wealth, as their natural and proper prey, and who, finding young Mr. Hearst bent upon becoming & journalist, fastened themselves upon his fatness, where they have since remained. The most conspicuous example of Mr. Hearst’s misfortune in the selection of assistants and avisers is the present managing editor of his newspaper, who is now widely and familiarly known as “Long Green'” Lawrence. It is be who must be given the largest share of discredit for baving dragged Mr. Hearst’s newepaper into the shoals and sloughs of sensational journalism. It is to him that the briliiant writers and artists who have drifted into and out of the Ezaminer office owe little thanks for having compell-d their talents to the basest uses to which ability can be degraded. It is to “Long Green’” Lawrence that Mr. Hearst shou!d credit the repu- tation which his editorial rooms have acquired as the nesting place of journalistic scavengers and scandal-mongers, and the dumping ground of that kind of social carrion which finds its natural place of deposit upon the desks of a depraved newspaper. 1f thislatter solution of Mr. Hearst’s descent into the depths of indecent jour- nalism is the correct one it would seem to be an office of genuine mercy for some true friend of himself or his family to warn him of his danger before it is too late. Mr. Hearst is still young, and, it is currently believed, is not giving sufficient personal atten- tion to the details and doings of his local newspaper to apprise himself fully of the depth of disrepute into which it has fallen and of the immeasurable injury not only to his adopted profession, but to his own personal reputation, which is being done by tne ‘‘Long Green” manag-r who is in local charge of his affairs. THE OOMMITTEE OF FIFTY. The Committee of Fifty which has in charge in this City the fight against the funding bill has prepared to take an active part in the contest at Washington this winter. It will send representativesto the National capital to act for the people of San Francisco and California and to give every aid possible to our delegation in Congress in their struggle to defeat the iciquity. The meeting of the committee on Mon- day was well attended and wasa most har- monious one in every respect. It dis- closed the fact that the members of the committee are as resolute as ever in their opposition to the measure and propose to make their influence felt in the strugele for the welfare of the State against the greedy schemes of the monopoly. The report from Washington that the fund- ing-bill lobby is sanguine of success has evidently produced no discouragement in the minds of the committee. They be- lieve they can win and will fight aggres- sively to that end. The sub-committee apnointed to wait upon Senator White to discnss plans for moaking the fight for the people and em- powered to select representatives to go to ‘Washington to take part in the contest was well selected. It consists of Mayor- elect Phelan, J. H. Barry and George K. Fitch. These men can be relied upon to be vigilant, earnest and faithful in the work intrusted to them, and good results may be counted on from their efforts. It must be borne in mind that the Com- mittee of Fifty cannot fight this battle alone, nor shounld it be expected to do so. The members represent the peopie in a hard strugg!le for popuiar interests against a great and powerful monopoly, and should have the cordial support and co- operation of the citizens generally. The business men of San Francisco are as much concerned in the outcome of the contest against the funding bill as are the farmers of the interior of the State, arnd ought to contribute liberally to the funds necessery to meintain a representative of the City at Washington so long as the measure is before Congress. As was said at the meeting of the com- mittee by Mayor Sutro, it is evident that Huntington and his supporters in‘end to make a desperate fight to pass the nefari- ous measure at this session of Congress, and it behooves the people of California to present a statement of the matter that will block his schemes and put an end to the outrageous measure forever. Now is the time to fight, and we must present such a front and show such unity of pur- pose and resolution as will give encour- agement to all the opponents of the meus- ure snd rouse them to a determination to defeat the bill in whatever shape it comes. FRESNO'S RESOURCES. The address of weicome delivered by Judge Carter at the opening of th= citrus fair in Fresno gave a glowing statement of the resources of the great valley of the San Joaquin and of Fresno County in par- ticular. This portion of the address was short, but is sufficiently noteworthy to deserve the full attention, not only of Cal- ifornians, but of the Union generally. According to Judge Carter ¥resno County is in itself an epitome of all Cali- fornia. Few, if any, of the boundless resources of the State, he said, are lacking in tuat valley, or even in that county. He then proceeded to enumerate the giant forests of sequoia, redwood, spruce and su- gar pine, the herds of cattle, droves of horses, flocks of sheep, the petroleum products, the natural gas and asphaltum beds, the deposits of chalk and of lime- stone, of gypsum and ashestos and coal, the soil capable of yielding grains of all | kinds, vines, fruits, berries and sugar beets. > The rounded periods in which the orator summed up this superb showing of the resources of the S8an Joaquin were not more eloquent than truthful. That great valley contains within itself a wealth of naturzl resources sufficient for a great kingdom. There is scarcely auy form of fruit or flower, or any plant, useful, medi- cinal or beautiful, which cannot be pro- duced in a high state of excellence within the valley or on the slopes of its hills and mountains. Every form of industry, therefore, can be carried on within its limits, and every talent of its people can find full employmen: and development in the work best suited to it. In any other section of the world a dis- trict so rich ae this wou!d be unique. It would have no neighboring rival. It would stand alone and be renowned and famous throughout all the country around it. In California, however, this 1s not so. Rich as are the resources of Fresmo, so well portrayed by her eloquent advocate, they are not superior to those of several other counties of the State. There are many valleys in California that can with good reasons claim to contain each within itself an epitome of the resources of the State. In nearly all portions of this glorious.commonwealth of ours there is a capability of the most widely varied and diversified industry known to man. Each of our greater counties can safely invite enterprising immigrants with the full as- surance that whatever may be their tastes, talents or capabilities it can find within its borders full employment for the best energies of every man who comes to it. THE OUBAN LEAGUE. The organization of the Cuban League of the United States by a number of men of well-known ability and influence will be received with no little gratification by the people generally., It 1s everywhere recognized that the time has come for the United States to take some determined action in putting an end to the prolonged war in the island, and since the Senate seems incapable of doing anything more than moke speecnes itis well that inai- vidual citizens should take the subject in charge and propose some plan for the so- lution of the problem. Among those who are prominent in the league are many to whom the people can reasonably look for earnest action. Among tuese may be cited Theodore Roosevelt, General Buttertield, Colonel Fred Grant, Colonel Ethan Allen, Chauncey M. Depew, Roswell P. Flower, Powell Clayton, War- ner Miller, Charles A. Dana and John Jacob Astor. These men are certainly capable of devising some plan for putting an end to the war, and as they represent all parties and are men of more than ordi- nary influence, it seems fair to presume that whatever plan they devise can be car- ried out. * The league proposes to hold a great mass-meeting at the Cooper Union in New York on Monday night, and some of the leading statesmen in the country, includ- ing Speaker Reed, Senator Cullom, Sena- tor Morgan of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate, and Congressman Hitt of that same committee in the House, are expected to speak. This meeting will be awaited with no little expectation. It may possibly turn out to be no more than an occasion for expressing sympathy, but the prospects are that the resolutions adopted there will formulate some plan which Congress may adopt and the admin- istration put into torce. Popular expectation of good results to follow irom the organization of the league is based wholly upon the character of the men who compose it. The men who have accepted offices in the league and made themselves responsible for its direction are certainly well aware of all the diffi- culties mvolved in the problem. It is hardly conceivable that men of their posi- tion and repute in the country would ac- cept such responsibility unless they bad first well considered now they could carry it with honor to themseives and accom- plish with success the duties which it im- poses. ‘The resolutions which set forth the ob- jects of the league give no intimation of what plans of actions are to be proposed. They go no further than to assert that the organizers regard the continuance of the struggle in Cuba as calculated to prolong a sense of abasement and humiliation in the minds of all who are confident that this Republic has the power to end it. It would seem, therefore, that these gentle- men bave that confidence, and the coun- try now awaits 1o hear what they propose todo and by what means they expect to put an end to the war and establish the independence of the isiand. In its last edition the Park News, which circulates in Golden Gate Park every Bunday, says: ‘“Believing that lottery schemes of any kind are against the best interests of the people, and worked for the issue,” presumably Christmas, it would be out of place for me to say more about it than thn,f the title is “The Discovery of the North Pole, and the keynote the use of eleciricity. But permit me to say that, as I have been amus- ing myself with the thought of my fancy sketch being possibly the means of rousing interest in the idea suzgested to the extent of some man’s actually building and equipping such a vessel as I descrioe, I am now Cross enough to even deny that 1 have a rival iu Warrington Baden-Powell, whom I shell cer- tainly challenge instanter! But all I really meant to say is this: If you wiil be so kind as to give me the space, this note, written the day I first read the article on the other man’s ship, and the word of several friends who read my story in manuscript in July or Angust last, will, Thope, keep me from being charged with p aglnrhm when the News Letter uses my story. Yours truly, CHARLES P. NETTLETON, Haywards, Dec, 9, 1896. GRAY ANy SILVER. 1had a love: darx-haired was she, Tier eyes were gray; For sake of her, across the sea 1 sailed away. Death, sickness, tempest and defeat All pagsed me by: ‘With years came foriuue, fair and fleet, Andrich was I Acain for me the sun looked down Familiar skies; T fouud my love, her locks had grown Gray as her eyes. “Alas!” she sighed, “forget me, now No longer fair”; “Iloved thy hear:,” I whispered low, “And thy fair hair.” C. E. D. PHELPS. SOMETHING OF . CHANGE. Philadelphia Bulletin, Certainly there is a transformation that must ‘be stupefying to the grave diplomatists of the Old World between the tone of the Tory press now and a year ago, when we were re- minded daily what a trifling task it would be for Britain to biockade our ports, blow our sea- board cities into fragments and, if need be, Tepent the lesson General Ross gave Madison in 1812 by burning down Washington over the insolent heads of the Cougress that dared send the Venezuelan affront to the British people. Yet 1t wiil be remarked that we have not, diplomatically or otherwise, done a single act toward repeutance. We have not, o far as officlal recoras show, modified one jot or tittle of the Monroe doctrine, THANKSGIVING DAY IN LONDON The American Society in London celebrated the old New England Puriten institution “Thanksgiving day”’ by a dinner at the Hotel Cecil, says the London Graphic. Mr. Bayard, the United States Embassador, was to have Deen present, but an invitation to Windsor prevented this. There were present Sir Rich- ard Webster, Sir Frauk and Lady Lockwood, Mr. and Mds. Henry M. Stanley and meny President Cleveland—Sketched by Sit Frank Lockwood from Memory. others, including a large number of prominent American residents in London. Sir Frank Lockwood gave the toastof “The President of the United States.” He had lately experienced in company with the Lord Chief Justice of England the kindness, courtesy and hospitaiity of the United Stdtes. The Lord Chief Justice and he had the pleasure of visit- ing the President at his country home. 8ir Frank Lockwood during the dinner made a sketch of President Cleveland from memory, which was published in_the Graphic the fol- lowing day and is reproduced here. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “All little girls,”” said the caller, “should have some kind of light work for thelr leisure hours. Of course you do something in that way, Susie ?"" “Nit.” “That's especially nice. So few children knit nowadays.”—Detroit Free Press. ‘“Mrs. Higby, what was that bundle you had hid under the sofa when I came In ?”” “Never mind; you don’t need to know just yet."” “Great Cmsar, wvoman! Have you begun al- ready tc make me Christmas slippers out of my old straw hat ?”—Chicago Record. “I thought this road was for the benefit of the public,” said the passenger on the trolley from whom the conductor had 1efused to take pennies. “You're mistaken, boss,” replied the polite 1. “Tae publi¢ is for the benefit of the —Buffalo Times. ICECREAM and cakes. Guillet’s, 905 Larkin.* e ———————— OPEN evenings for the exhibition of holiday goods. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Marketst. * —————————— TIME to send your Eastern friends Town- send’s California glace fruits, 50c Ib. it ————————————— FPECIAL information deily to manufacturary business houses and public men by the Pross Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————————— First Commuter—It’s & perfect little gem! It has been the ambition ot my life to buy a nice little place in the country. Second Commuter—Well, I once felt that way myselt. At present it’s the ambition of :‘ny life ut:kull-nm little place in the coun- y.—] ] “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup” Hasg been used over fity years by millions ot mothers for their chiidren white Teething with per- dect success. It soothes the child, softens thegums. allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates :he Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether aris- ing irom tee.hing orother causes. kor sale by drug 8ISi8 in every part of the worid. Be sure and ask {or Mre. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & bottle. ——————— “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” are of great service in subdulng Honarseness and Coughs. | Sold only in boxes, Avoid imitations. e - AYER'S Pllls, taken 1n doses of one, dally, after ‘dinner, admirably reguiate the digestive and assimilative organs. Buy them and try them. to help us stamp this evil out before it attains further power. The children are the makers of the country, and they must be protected from influences that will prove hurtful to them. By allowing their minds to be polluted by dwelling on the degrading literature and obscene cartoons favored hy. the Ez- aminer we endanger not only their own futare but that of our own fair State, Common-sense bids us call the halt; combined action will enable us to do so. HYPOCRITICAL AND FALSE. Pasadena Star. The Ezaminer has been talking recklessly about papers taking subsidy from the Southern Pacific Company, and in some cases being supported wholly by it. The Alameda Argus pertinently calls attention to the fact that no paper in the State has been so grossly subsidized by the same influence as the Eraminer itself, and that its warfare against it did not begin until that subsidy stopped. The Eraminer's pretense in this matter is whoily hypocriti- cal and false #nd its crocodile tears relate to the loss of the $30,000 contract and not to any prickings of conscience. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Miss Anna V. Bing, who has spent five years as a missionary in Japan, is at the Occidental. Her home is at Delaware, Ohio, and she is re- turning to her mission work after a protracted vecation. The lady is a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal church, and her particular labor is to teach the young Japanese girls music, in o 7 \ TR MISS ANNA V., BING, Who Is Teaching Our Music to Japan- ese Maidens. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] — il the girls’ school, which is running at Naga- saki. “The music of the Japanese is so aifferent from ours,” said Miss Bing yesterday, *that for & time it was & question whether the girls could ever sing or play as we do. “The Japanese have no musical notes, and their native insiruments are so strange when compared with those of Europe and America that it seemed impossible that they would make any progress in our music. I had &hard tesk of it. One very peculiar thing to me was that there was no book written about music, 1o history of the progress of music, in the empire. No such a work had ever been written. “But while the Japanese were not musical at all, from our standpoint, I nevertheless found that the girls learnea rapidly. Since the Japanese have no notes, their music is given by ear. Their largest instrument is the koto. It is as long as a sofs, and has thirteen strings on it. Each string has a bridge of its own. And sometimes the player stops and changes the tune in the middle of his music. “The geiken is another queer Japanese stringed instrument, It is next in size to the koto, is double stringed and almost round, like a mandolin. It is played the same way, t0o, with a little pick. “The samisen is a three-stringed instrument, with a very long neck. Its neck is almost four feet long, and it is played with a very broad pick. Then there is a one-stringed instru ment, with a very small pox. All these stringed instruments are very peculiar, and each has peculiarities of its own. For instance, the big instrument, the koto, is played with two fingers. The Japanese never think of using all the fingers. “The girls at Nagasaki thought it so stranze that we should use all five fingers in playing. Notwithstanding the use of the native instru- ments, to which the people are asccusiomed, they are taking rapidly to the piano, violin, guitar and others of our instruments, and are also learning to sing our best religious and other songs. I think the time wili come when they will adopt our music as & system. "’ Miss Bing will sail on the Doric to resume her teaching of the Japanese maidens. PARAGRAPHs ABOUr PEOPLE. Mayor Haughton o North Adams, Mass., has given his $1000 salary to the local hospital. Sir Benjamin Richardson, the famous Eng- lish physician who died recently, was cre- mated. R It is not unusual for the Duke of West- ‘minster’s charity bill to amount to $100,000 & year. Next to George W. Vanderbilt, the largest land-owner in North Carolina is Minister Ransom. Margaret Thomson, a granddaughter of the poet Burns and widow of Wingate, the miner poet, has died at Glasgow. The original manuscript of Rossini’s famous opera, “Willlam Tell,” was sold in Paris re- cently by auction for £188. A London Daily Mail representative says the Queen hasbeen a total abstainer from alcoholic liquors for the past three years. Lady Jane Harriet Swinburne, mother of Algernon Charles 8winburne, the poet, has just died in England at the age of 87. The Queen of Greece is an accomplished yachtswoman, holds a master’s certificate, and is an honorary admiral in the Russian navy. The Queen Regent of Spain, who will soon have & motor carriage, wiil be the first Euro- pean sovereign to use one. It will be known as an ‘“electric victoria.” Miss C. H. Lippincott of Minneapolis has the largest exclusively flower-seed business in the United States. she is the pioneer woman in the business, which she entered ten years ago. The Empress of Russia intends to keep as a souvenir of her visit to France all the bouquets and crowns of flowers offered 10 her by the French people, and has given orders to have them prepared for preservation. The Prince of Wales prefers strong and powerful cigars which cost half a guinea that are especia.ly made for him at Havana, being presented to him by Baron Ferdinand Roths- child in lots of 10,000 at & time. Lord Mayor Faudel-Phillips of London broke down while introducing Embassador Bayard at & meeting recently, Owing to the weight of his official robes. He sat down suddenly, took the robes off in the presence of the audience, end was brought to with Mrs. Bayard’s smelling bottle. i PERSONAL. C. 8. Shank of Seattle is in the City. A.J. Pillsbury of Tulare is a late arrival here. Dr. W, H. Cope of Pleasanton is on a visit here. H. Basher, a business man of Spokane, is in town. J. W. Houston, a merchant of Portland, isin town. Mertin Schenck of New York is at the Palace. R. Lewis, a business man of London, is at the Palace. Edward F. Smith of Sacramento is a late arrival here. E. May, a business man of Portland, arrived here yesterday. H. H. Broaie, an old miner of Leadville, isat the Cosmopolitan. W. H. Pyburn, County Recorder of Monterey, is at the Baldwin. Samuel Daggett, a weglthy horseman of New York, is in the City. L. W. Smith, the wealthy salmon packer of Alaska, is at the Russ. William H. Newcomb, a8 mine-owner of Silver City, N. Mex., is in town. Dr. J. M. Mussey of La Porte is among the arrivals at the Occidental. W. C. Van Sant, a carriage manufacturer of Columbus, 0., is at the Grand. F. G. Weller, a mining man of Butte, Mont., 1is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. A. Steuart, a business man of San Luis Obispo, is a visitor to the City. J. B. Peakes, proprictor of the Yosemite Hotel, Stockton, is in the City. G. d'Ablaing of Ellensburg, Wash., is here, accompanied by Mrs. d’Ablaing. P. G. Hart, who owns several mining proper- ties near Redding, is in the City. A. Abrams, a merchant of Reno, Nev., arrived here yesterday. He isai the Paiace. G. M. Francis, the old-time eaitor, of Napa, proprietor of the Register, is in the City. Phil Metschan of Salem, Treasurer of Oregon, is at the Grand, accompanied by his bride. L. L. Rogers of Norwich, Conn., is visiting the Pacific Coast and stopping at the Cosmo- politan. W. Grosvenor, a wealthy mining man of Castleton, N, D., isamong the arrivals at the Baldwin. W. T. Root, & wealthy resident of Denver, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and daughter. H. M. La Rue, the State Railroad Com- missioner, whose residence is at Sacramento, is on a visit here, Thomas B. Wells, a banker of Sonors, Tuolumne County, who has lived there many years, is at the Baldwin. Colonel J. B. Overton, superintendent of the Virginia City and Gold Hill Water Works, is among the arrivais at the Russ. Major J. V. Lauderdale of the United States army is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Lauderdale and their two children. E. B. Willis, editor of the Record-Union, and W.D. Pennycook, editor and one of the owners of the Vallejo Chroniele, are in the City. James Clark of Humboldt, Nev., who owns extensive cattle ranges and large herds of cattle, as well as horses, is & visitor here. L King of San Jose, an extensive mine- owner, is in town making arrangements for his wedding tour and stopping at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. J. W. Conant, formerly one of the owners of the Young America and Uacle Sam gold mines, not far from Redding, is a late arrival here. Mr. Conaut owns other valuable min- ing property in Shasta County. Dr. E. 8. O'Brien, who has for some time been practicing his profession at Merced and Wwho has been nhere for the last few days, left yesterday for Randsburg, the new and boom- ing mining camp of San Bernardino County, where he expects to locate permanently. Among the arrivals at the Russis C. B. Thompson of Fort Madison, Iowa; 8, W. Wid- defield of Brooklyn, N.Y., and nine others from different parts of the country, who are here with the view of locating. They will visit Los Gatos, Monterey County and other places. State Senator-elect W. F. Prisk, editor of the Grass Valley Union, is in the City. Mr. Prisk was formeriy a reporter on the Sacramento Record-Union, and only three or four years ago went to Grass Valley and became interested in the Union. With one exception, he is the youngest man in the State Senate. James Dunsmuir, the millionaire coal-mine owner of Britisn Columbia, is at the Palace, accompanied by Miss Dunsmuir and R. W. Dunsmuir. The Dunsmuirs own the great Nanaimo coal mines at Nanaimo, on the main- land of British Columbia. They have at Vie- toria the finest mansion in all the provinge. Ex-Governor J. H. Kinkead of Nevada, the Palace. The ex-Governor's home 'i? :: Virginia City, where he has for some years been superintendent of one of the Comstock mines. Prior to taking the latter position and aiter being Governor of Nevada, he served as Governor of Alaska. He is here to spend the holidays. K. Sugiyams, a wealthy owner in the Osaka Mercantile Steamship Company of Osaka, Japan, is at the Palace, on his way home from Eogland. While in England he ordered six steamships built at the Clyde yards for the coasting trade in Japan. Most of the steamers of his line are engaged in the coasting trade, but the company runs steamers at intervals to Korea and China. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 15.—Theodore Michaelis sailed on the Spree for Bremen. At the Manhattan—C. J. Ferrin; Continental—D. Q. Dixon; Normandie—Mrs.Woeffer. Mr. Stone and Miss Annfe L. Stone left the Manhattan to sail tor Europe. e e Gabley—Babley, will you oblige me by ex- plu;nlng the currency question thoroughly to me' Babley—Certainly; that 1s, if you will prom- ise to expiain it thoroughly to me after I'm done.—RoxMury Gazette. N fabric for infant’s wear, but bat bric are less costly and probably wee Ruffles of batiste with tiny embroice in pink or blue are dainty, ax ribbon of the same color 1orm shoulder make & charming ¢ PIONEER WOOLEN City. The Pion Point, in this cit; 1889. MiL . C. 8 and § r Woolen . Mills at ¥ ¥, were shut down Jul THE PALACE—E. G. L., Callaha County, Cal. The superstructure of Hotel in San Francisco is wood, brick apnd) iron. If your question refers to the charagte of the walls tne answer is that they ardo brick generally, with some ironwork. iyon he Palafy TABLE CEREMONY- Atadinner where the host serves the guests aeed not wait until the last one is servel before par- taking of food, but they should wait u wo or three are served and then commence to eat very slowly, so as not to get through long before the last one is served. APPROPRIATE TO CHRISTMAS—A. A., City. Without knowing for what purpose the phrase is to be used it would be rather difficuit to “furnish a Latin phrase appropriate to Ch mas.” If the correspondent will give an of what he desires this department will e deavor to procure the information. WHIST—E. G.S., Livermore, Alameda County, Cal. The law of whist says: Any player may demand to see the last trick turned, and no more. Under no circumstances can more than eight cards be seen during the viay of a band, viz.: The four cards on the table which have nov been turned and qaltted and the last rick turned. PUBLIC LANDS—J. F. §, City, A person wish- ing to obtain information about vublic lands should make application to the United States Land Office in the section in which the land is located. For $1 the Registrar will forward a lat of the land open to pre-em‘]:uun. For 1n- ormation about school land applicatic should be made at the office of the State per- intendentof Instructiou at Sacrawnento, either personally or by letter. A BALLOT—A Reader, Durham, Butte County, Cal. This department does not propose to settle election bets. The figures must speak for themselves. The ticket marked in the manner described ought not to have been counted, for it certainly came within the pro- vision of the law which declares that no voter shall place a mark upon his bailot so that it can afterward be identified. The judges who passed upon it ca t have had any evi- dence to snow that the voter who placed the crosses where he did did not do so to prove to some one wio would be present at the canvass that he had voted as he promised to. ON A WAR FooTiNo—A. L., Stockton, Cal. The following figures show the strength of the nations named in case of war: Gern Army—4,643,432 men, 178,680 horse: 3 guns; vy—256 _vessels, 17 2,874 eulisted men, 45,000 naval France—2,907.077 men, 195.141 hors: guns; nayy—471 vessels, men and 87,000 naval r 52,000 men, 59,500 horses, 577 vessels, 6403 guus, 66. nuval reserve. Italy—1,998,880 men, reser horses, 1852 guns: nayy—169 vessels, men and 18000 naval reser Hungary—1,476,017 men, 108.960 horses, 2724 guns; uavy—125 vessels, 806 guns, 13, 684 men and 9000 naval reserv TREATY OF QUERETARO—F. A. K., Grass Val. ley, Nevada County, Cal. 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