The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1897, Page 6

e D SAN FRANCISCO OALL THUBSDAY, JANUARY T, W07 . THURSDAY. JANUARY 7, 1897 CHART_E:S M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fre .oneweek, by carrler..$0.15 » one year, by mail.... , six months, by mal Dally and Daily an Daily d Su Daily and Sunday CALL, one mouth, by mal Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail W KEXLY CAL, one year, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, san Francisco, Californ Telephone A 5 ia. Main—1868 | | | | | sents that uninspiring type of man, in whose words there is no influence and EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 C Stre Telephone BRANCH OF ntromery sireet, corne : open until 9:30 o'clock. 30 o'clock. lon streets; treet; open street: open ui open OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 24 Park Row, New York Clty. AVID M. Send a statesman to the Senate. Catifornia’s voice at Washington should be eloquent. All wea the best man sb A United ator shoutd under- stand tihe constitution and be able to ex- pound it. Itis time to take the dummy off the Senatorial track and make way for some- thing better. Quay hes won bis victory in the Sena- torial fight and Wanamaker will continue The only way the vigor of Californis is to have that vigor illustrated in the Senate. The Republicans of California must have in the highest legislative body in the | ion a represeniative who can speak for their interests with force and effect. The steps already taken by the Legisla- ture in the direction of economy are full of good assurances to the people. s is going to be a Legislature to be proud of. The report of a battle ending in a vie- for the Cubans on New Year's day ws some light on the unexplained return of Weyler to Havana a few days ago. The Eraminer’ inuations that the Republican members of the Legislature are open to bribery are, of course, intended to help Perkins, but it is hard to see how they will do it. When the leaders of a caucus break their pledges to those whom they induced by such pledges to enter 1t, the decision it Teaches is no more binding than any other contract obtained by iraud. Sir Charles Tupper did wrong in telting nglish that the United States desires We have no such de- y create it and then s would begin. Agriculturists from all parts of the on are in Washington asking for pro- tection to home indus The farmers have learned at last tection does protect and that free trade is disaster. The Senate did not open up as lively as was eassemblinz after the ator Pefter read a long rters announced that marked by a “sl-epy nd the rep doy was ‘the resolutions adopted by the Legislature said exactly the right things in the right way and will be ac- cepted at Washington as a true expres- sion of the sentiments of the people of Cahfornia. Those New York Democrats who have issned a manifesto denouncing Senator Hill as a hypocrite have done him an in- There was no hypoerisy in re- ng to follow the Bryan crowd and still less in scorning to take part in the Palmer fake. Secretary Herbert's report on the result of his investigations of the cost of making armor plate comes too late to be of any benefit 10 this administration, but all the same he deserves credit for his work and thete can be little doubt the country wil! profit by it. By way of a change from sermons a Kansas clergyman is said to have started in to read to his congregation every Sua- day evening a serial story entitled “Jake the Merchant,” written by himself; and thus does the new era bring the pulpit into rivalry with the press. Bayard is not to go altogether without a gift for the holidays. The American colony in London has raised money to get him a loving cup, and as it is said hic bust is to be displayed on 1t there is every reason to expect the presentation will be accompanied by hilarity. In the New York Journal Willie Hearst lampoons Senator Perkins as the laughiny stock of the Senate, and in the Ezaminer he declares Mr. Perkins is better fitted 10 represent Californ in the State. It is evident that doesn’t think much of Caiifornians. Willie The insinuations made in the Eraminer against the honor and integrity of R pub- lican members of the Legislaiure are in accordance with its usual practice. Any- thing calculated to defile, defame or in- jure California in the estimation of East- ern people is exactly the kind of sensation it delights in. There should be unitea and harmonious work among Republicans of California to secure a representative of the State in the next Cabinet and now is the time for the Wwork to be done. The Cabinet will soon be made up and any dissensions at this juncture might ruin tha preseni bright chances of success. The very fact that Senator Perkins en- gaged the Eraminer to make his fight for the senatoyship was fair notice to the public that it would be a campaign of slander against honest Republi- cans. The Ezaminer has elready charged that Republican legislators are corrupt and are waiting for bribes, There can be no baser lie than that, but there can be dirtier ones, and, as the Ezaminer is capa- ble of them, we may as well look out for them. g than any other man | | whom has been entrusted the duty of electing Senators. remain in our politics, and American genius is as eloquent as ever. | ship by depriving it of office. STATESMAN. There was a time when the United States Senate was the luminous center of American politic: There was a time when there emanated from that body great orations which served for the education of the people in all matters of politics and legislation. There was a time when the country was proud of the Senate. There wasa time when every citizen was led to take an interest in- great principles of government by the very eloquence with men of tie country. prestige in the Union by the matchless which they were presented by the states- There was a time when the whole Pacific Coast was given eloquence of Baker. By common consent those times were regarded as the glorious days of the Republic, and the American Senate was conceded even by European writers to be the most august legislative council in the world. If a different condition of affairs.prevails to-day it is the fault of those to Great principles still If, there- fore, onr politics iz not expressed with the eloquence of other days, it is simply because | an evil condiiion of affairs has as far as possible divorced falent from statesman- ‘We can revive the glory of the former age and re- store to the Senate its prestige by the election of right men, and if we fail to do so the fault is our own. California now has an opportunity to do her share toward restoring the conditions which made the Republic illustrious. Her Legislature is engaged 1in the task of determining who shall represent the State in the United States Senate for the next six years. in whose actions there is no leadership. The choice has been virtually narrowed down to two men. One repre- The other repredents the type of character }which at all times and among all peoples has been regarded with admiration and esteem. Which of these men will the Legislature elect? It is to be regretted | that such a question should have to be asked. Itisa shame that the answer should | | | | tical and industrial life. i | i ‘ be doubtful. Samuel M. Shoriridge out of office and devoid of large wealth, having no adventi- tious aids from time or circumstance, has though ia his youth filled a larger place in the political bistory of California and in the esteem of its people than his competi- | tor, clothed though he be with the robes of office, bscked by large wealth and baving | every assistance which age, official station and money can give him. Give us & statesman. man who fully repr thizes with all her aims and ambitions, California needs at this time -in the United States Senate a nts all the characteristics of the new era in her social, poli- She needs a man who feels her aspirations, who sympa- who understands her relation to the United States, who comprehends her desire to play a great part in making the | destinies of the Nation, and who has in him the power to give axpression to these aims, ambitions and aspirations in a voice of gennine eloquence. Give us & statesman. ration of the world. We should send to California should do her share toward restoring the great | days of the Republic and making the United States Senate once more the admi- that, the highest of the great courcils of the Nation, a man who can worthily take his part in the discussion not merely of the petty interests of trade but of the which affect the larger destinies of our Repablic. a man who can do something more than of opinion on minor issues. borizon. trate California great and far-reaching issues of politics We should have in the Senate mumble and stammer his opinion or lack ‘We should have an orator with a large intellectual We should have a Senator who in the fullest sense of the word will illus- A Greek poet ages ago told the Athenians a fable which well illustrates the dil- ference between the types of men who are represented in this contest between Sam- uel M. Shortridge and Mr. Perkins., Both the serpent and the eagle, he said, can reach the highest peaks of the mountains. must wind a slow and tortuous way to the The serpent, however, must crawl. He summit. The eagle, on the other hand, has but to spread his wings, soar through the air and light upon the peak. Ii Senator Perkins wins his way to t and tortuons of such a man exultation in his attainment of than an opportunity of serving vided for 1 his private counting-room. in office, and he the Senate would be like the eagle’s flizht to that high eminence, processes of political intricue. it, since interests he office it will be but by the toilsome The people will not be proud himself will have little reason for to him it can be nothing more which might be as well pro- The election of Samuel M. Shortridge to He would be borne there by his own merits, supported by the fayorable winds of public esteem, and from his high position would watch wi th eagle eye and guard with an eagle courage the welfare of the State and the glory of the Republic. A CAMPAIGN OF INSULT. The campaign of insult which the organs of Senator Perkins are conducting in their effort to compel his re-election is arousing indignation in the heart of every believer in wolitical decency, and especially in the breasts of the members of the Legislature. The San Francisco Ezaminer und-the Los Angeles Times seem to have agreed that the proper way to increase the chances of Mr. Perkins is to persistently charge that every member of either house who dares to vote against him is to be successful has been bought, and that if his opponent t will only be by a wholesale indulgence in brivery to which it is | broadly intimated a sufficient number of the Senators and Assemblymen are suscep- Libl This double insult to the members of the Legislature and to the candidate for Sena- tor whose merit may find favor in their eyes deserves a signal rebuke. The Los Angeles Times is indulging in a style of journalism in this respect which is a disgrace to Southern California and which the members of the Legislature from that important section of the State must, in justice to their own honor, disapprove. In its issue of last Sunday the Zimes pub- lished what purported to be a dispatch received *By the Times' special wire” (which it has not) from San Francisco, asserting that the friends of Samuel M. Shortridge had entered 1nto a vile conspiracy to bribe a sufficient number of the Legislature to insure bis choice as Senator, and that already by this de- bauching process a majority of them had been secured. The Times proceeded to comment editorially upon its gestions of the purchasable quality of the Legislature. the whole matter was a lie, and that his ed| evidently faked dispatch with added sug- Its editor knew perfectly that orial approval of it was not only an out- rage upon honesty but was also a foul and inexcusable insult to every member of the State Legislature. The San Mr. Perkins’ cause. gather at Sacramento suggestion that there was a election of a Senator and susceptible to its influence. charge was to frighten as many legislators “sack” that ncisco Examiner is the original offender in this method of advancing From the day that the members of the Legislature began to it has not ceased to indulge in every offensive form of at the the The obvious purpose of this infamous and unfounded State capital to be used in the Republicans of both houses were as possible into the belief that an honest expression of their preference for any other candidate than Senator Perkins wouid lay their reputations liable to the smut of a charge of brib ry. The outrace, insult and infamy of this method of conducting a Senatorial cam. paign may not be apparent to the Ezaminer, for the reason that it is merely indulging n its usual and favorite habit of libel and lies. It may be possible, also, that it is not yet fully impressed upon the minds of Mr. Perkins’ managers, but unless we mistake the jealous regard which the members of the Legisiature have for tieir own honor they will resent the 1nsult in a way which will be sufficiently impressive both oM ing his fight. Perkins and the two newspapers who are employing this perilous method of The fact that the aspiration ofa candidate for the United States| Senate is fou ded solely upon his | merit is one whica should of itseif | attract the friendship and favor of every man who is inspirzd with a | worthy ambition for a wider sphere of nobie and us:ful ac- tion. The members of the State Legislature cannot well afford to deal hastily or slightingly with such a candidate, nor fail to realize the honor which would redound to themselves and to Cal- ifornia in the choice of such a Senator. Let it therefore not be | forgotten that the friends of Samuel M. Shortridge base their claim to the favorable considera- tion of his name for Senator upon no other argument than that of his most eminent fitness for the office. OALIFORNIA'S VOICE. The resolutions adopted by the Legisla- ture condemning the Powers- Gear bill now before Congress and favoring the immedi- ate collection of the Pacifi¢ roads debts on waturity, is in the fullest sense the voice of California. It is an official expression of the sentiments of the great majority of the people of the State and as such it is entitied to respectful consideration from every memb:r of Congress, The resolutions go further than a mere condemnstion of the funding bill. They ask on behalf of the State of California for a hearing before the respective com- mittees of Congress having jurisdiction of the subject. They request tbat the bili now before the House be recommitted and ac- tion delayed until such a hearing can be provided. It is not at all probable that the request for a hearing will be granted by the House, inasmuch as that body bas already fixed upon the time for the consideration of the bill and arranged the programme for debate and for taking & vote. Never- iheless the petition will have its weight in determining the action of a considerable number of Congressmen when the vote is taken. There is, moreover, a chance that the petition will receive favorable consid- | resolutions themselves. eration in the Senate, At any rate, it ai- fords to the opponents of the measure a reasonable ground for advocating delay in t e consideration of the measure untii California can be heard by her representa- tives and make clear the interests which she has at stuke. Taken as & whole the resoiutions are wise, conservative and statesmanlike. There isnot a word in them which any one would care to have eliminated. They ask as much as the State hasa right to expect and no more. They request noth- ing which is not as much to tne interests of the whole Nation as to California. They can be cordally supported by all members of Congress who are not adyo- ates of relieving the Pacific roads from thewr liabilities to the Government and acknowledging that the Republic of the United States is not strong enough 10 en- force its laws against a defauliing corpora- ticn. The Legislature is to be commended for its promptness in passing the resolutions. The vigor which it has displayed by so doing will have as much weight as the Certainly if the funding bill is passed no blame can be laid on thos: who have been elected to guard the interests of the State and look after its welfare. They bave acted with wisdom and with promptness, and this 1s the full measure of the duty imposed upon them. FARM INDUSTRIES The hearing before the Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday was one of the most interesting of the session. ject under consideration was protection for the agricultural industries of the coun- try, and the attendance before the com- mittee gave ample proof that the farmers have learned irom the depression of the last four years the imporiance of protec- tion to their general welfare. One of the gratifying features of the hearing was the fact that all sections of the country were represented. Testimony was given to the committee by men from Penusylvania, Kansas, California, Vir- ginia, New York, Connecticut, South Caro- lina, Michigan, Massachusetis and Ari- zon The industries represented were stock-raising, fruit-growing, cotton, mar- ket gardening, hay-growing, rice culture, raisin production, horticulture, wool, gran and the hop industry. From the evidence submitted to the committee, it appears that €very one of these agricultural industries has been in- juriously affected by the Demacratic tariff. Allsections of the country have suffered, The sub- | and as a consequence meén in all depart- ments of industry and in all States of the Union are now united in sustaining the Republican policy of protection. This gives assurance to the belief that the tariff issue will be eradicated from politics, and that with the enactment of a thoroughly comprehensive protection measure by the next Congress, thislong debated question will cease to distarb our industries or in- terfere with the enterprises of our people. The free-traders in the committee were not le't a leg tostand on. They attempted to obtain from' the farmers who asked for protection an admission that the protec- tive tariff wou!d increase the price to the consumer, but even in this they failed. As an illustration of how the point wit met, it is sufficient to cite the answer made by Congressman Bowers to the statement that an increase in the duty on fruit would raise the price. In reply to the suggestion Mr. Bowers said that the fruit-growers of California would guaran- tee to increase production and decrease prices, and to confirm the guarantee he vointed out the well-known fact that such had been the case in the past. The only objection made to increased duties came from a representative of the produce merchants of New York City, who asked for a low duty on early vegetables. His argument was that these goods being imported from tropical countries would not come into competition with the prod- ucts of American soil; which ripened later than those of the tropicislands. Whether this plea is good or not, it is sigmficant that it was the only objection made to protection to American agricultare. It came not from a farmer but from a mer- chant, and thereby emphasized the fuct that the farmers as a body have become thorough protectionists. THERE ARE T+0 KINDS THE OLD JOURNALISM COMPARED WITH THE NEW, OF WHICH THE EXAMINER Is. A LEADING EXPONENT. San Francisco Chronicle. The “old journalism’’ is not approved by the “pew journalism.” And for cause. The old journalism, of which the New York Herald is the foremost American type, was sending a relief expedition into Afriea, which ovened up a continent, while the new journal- ism was confined to the office of the Police Gazette. When fhe way seemed open to reach the north pole through Bering Sea, the old jour- nalism sent the Jeannette to flnd it, while the new journalism was content to make salacious pictures of the New York dives. The world was appalled by the misrule in Ireland, and the old journalism, still repre- sented at its. best by the New Yerk Herald, opened a subscription for the Land League, which it headed with $100,000. Meanwhile the ldtest essay in new journalism, the New York Truth, had forged the Morey lotter. A bloody civil war broke out.in Chile. The old journalism sent its correspondents to de- scribe it and printed aaily reports which the London Times felt obliged to copy and which the new journalism made no effort to rival. The latier was too busy describing tne wed- ding hosiery of New York belles. The ola journalism spends its money with- outstintin the collection and publication of the news. The new journalism never avoids a lie if the lie is well told nor loses a chauce to print a fake if the fake is sensational. It makes murderers of innocent men, acquires | vast circulations with a nod to the afidavit- maker, takes crimina] cases out of the hands of meg ry and tries them in its own columns. The ndw journalism is found in every saloon, gambling den, brothel nd water-front dive, and {n nine cases out of ten it is the first re- lief, except a drink, that a jailbird craves | when he has served his time and is about to be turned loose on the commanity. The old journalism Is honest, decent, enter- prising, respecied and profitable. The new journalism shines and smells and smells and shines like rotten mackerel in the mooniight, and after making the highways odorous for a season is plowed under for compost. PERSONAL. D. J. Morgen of Marysville is at the Lick. C. A. Splinter of New York is at the Palace. James Topley, a druggist of Vallejo, is in town. W. W. Vogel of St. Louis, Mo., is at the Cos- mopolitan. Dr. M. B. Campbell of the Highlands Asylum 15 at the Palace. H. Baker, a mining man of Spokane, is here on a short visit. P. L. Albeslor, a business man of Louisville, is on a visit here. F. M. Graham, an sattorney of San Jose, isa recent arrival here. P. H. Noonan, a whelesale butcher of Santa Rosa, is at the Russ. E.S. Carver, a business man of Maders, was one of yesterday’s arrivals here. H. Black of Redwood City, superintendent of the Hopkins ranches, is at the Grand, John G. Roberts, who is identified with the banking business at Maaera, is in the City. L. Fiynn, a business man of Los Angeles, is among recent arrtvals at the Cosmopolitan. The Count and Madame Modjeska took up their quarters at the Occidental Hotel yester- day. W. 0. Miller, a mine-dwner of Relief, Nevada County, is at the Russ, accompanied by Mrs. Miller. Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the Home for the Feeble-minded at Eldridge, isat the Grand. E. B. Sargent, the wealthy old time resident of Salinas, is hero for a few days and is regis- tered at the Occidental. M. D. Kell, & pioneer and prominent citizen of San Jose, accompanied by Mrs. Kell, is stay- ingat the Cosmopolitan, John Quinn, well-to-do resident of Merced County, has returned to the City for the win- ter and is making his home at the Cosmopoli- tan. J. Wells Smith, the mining broker of Denver, who arrived here tour or five weeks since with Captain Jeffray of London and went south to examine gold properties, has returned to the City. Captain A, Y. Trask, who is well known in this City, has had a stroke of paralysis at Port- land and is ina precarious condition. He isa brother of the late Captain Freeman Trask of this City. H. J. Laux of New Orleans, who is buying Calitornia fruit, especially oranges, and ship- pingto the great city of the South for con- sumption in Louisiana and surrounding States, is among the arrivals here. 1. N. Peyton of Spokane, the wealthy owner of a large intereit in the noted Le Roi gold mine, the leading property of Rossland, the big camp of British Columbia, was in the City yes- terday on his way to Spokane. He has lately been visiting his family in Santa Barba where not long since he purchased' another home. Mr. Peyton will probably be in the north several months. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 6.—At the St. Cloud, C. L. Spencer, C. F. Reynolds; St. Denis, C. A. Windel; Brondway, W. Fleisher; Belyidere, C. Gundlach; Grand Union, F. Basch. J. D. Warrrack and G. D. Davis are here buying. Edmond Harvey of Oroville, Cal, With Rev. F. P. Harvey of Hartford, Conn., left the St. Cloud to suil on the Campania. CALIFORNIAN> N wASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 6.—E. M. Wardell of Monrovia, Cal., chairman ot the California Populist committee, is at the Avon. Henry G. Wyles of San Francisco is at the Ralelgh, —— General Willfam Cullom, who has just died at his home in Clinton, Tex., at the age of 87 years, was for several terms a member of Con- gress from the Carthage district 1n that State, and was once the Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives. R L Sir Henry Irving is one of the best swords- men in England. He has practiced scientific swordsmenship for many years. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS__ The latest addition to the ranks of feminine composers is Mme. Clara Novello Davies, the iounder and conductor of the Royal Welsh Ladies’ Choir, which took the first prize at the World’s Fair for its singing of Schumann’s “God Is My Guide” and Lassen’s “Spanish Gypsy.” Mme. Davies and her band of pretty Welsh girls are well known in tne East, for they toured there last year, and will probably become an annual institution in this country. In Boston last season the talented leader of the choir was presented with a beautiful ivory baton mounted in gold. In Great Britain the Royal Welsh Ladies’ Choir is one of the mu- sical features of the kingdom. Wales is essen- tially a land of song, and it is to song-writing that Mme. Davies is turning her gifts for com- position. She was born in 1861, and is a dark- eyed, dark-haired, petite, vivacious little woman, with none of the somber traits that might be expected from her Calviuistic par- entnge. Her maternal grandtather, the Rev. opportunity of hearing the works of two great S elans, whose music is too much neglected in the present day. Reyer has retired from Paris and s spending the winter In & little fishing village on tne French coast, perhaps to obtain inspiration from the thunder of the Waves. De Wolf Hopper has reconsidered his deci- sion not to play in San Francisco again and will appear here in the spring with Sousa’s new opera, “‘El Capitan.” —_— PARAGRAPHS AROUT PEOPLE. John Jacob Astor and Governor Morton are members of the Schell Hose Company of Rhine- beck. Adelina Patti is hard at work rehearsing a new operatic role in *Dolores,” composed for her by Andre Pollonais. The part is to be MME. CLARA NOVELLO DAVIES, Leader of the Royal Ladies’ Welsh Choir. spected Calvinistic Methodist minister, and her parents were both musical, esvecially he father, Jacob Davies, who at the ageof twelve conducted a choir of 200 voices. Mme. Davies made her own debut at 4 years of age, and at 12 she made such & hit as an accompanist that she was thencefortn engaged for nearly all the principal concerts {n Wales. William Evans, was a noted and highly rch/ A dozen years ago Marie Van Zandt, then in the height of her fame and so much spoiled that the public gave her anything she wanted, undertook to sing the role of Rosina at the Opera Comique and could not finish the famous cavatina, some people said because of esudden indisposition, others insinuated for @ very different reason. She was carried off the stage by her comrades, and the following morning Paris had shattered its idol of the night before. The public wouid not hear the little American’s name pronounced. The ncxt year Carvalho, director of the Opera Comique, remembering the fine Teceipis which the singer had once brought him in, tried to bring ner back to grace, but the Parisian press was aggressive, the public Hercely indignaat. | Carvalho knew the changeableness of human thought. He waited twelve years, and this time he has brought Van Zandt back in triumph. If the taiented arust was really not fit to be named, by acclamation, president of all the temperance societies in the world, how can she possivly have preserved through so many years the {nfantine freshuess and purity of her voice? You only have to go the Opera Comique to be assured that she has done so. Her present success has in it something of the nature of a reparation.—Le Monde Iilustre. Plunkett Green, the well-known vocalist, has just told a good story about himseli and Borwick, the pianist: “Shortly after one of the recitals given by Mr. Borwick ana my- self,” sald the singer, “I received a letter from a lady, the secretary of & charity, who asked me if I would come and play atan entertsin- ment ‘some of the piancforte pieces you ren- der so magnificently.’ I replied that I was sorry I was enguged on the date she named, and that I was afraid the public might not take 80 favorable & view of my playing as she thought. Some time later I met Mr. Borwick and toid him the ‘story. He burstinto laugh- ter and said: ‘Why, the lady Wrofe to mé and asked me to sing some of the songs of which I was so splendid an exponment.’ Mr. Borwick replied that he would have been most de- lighted to oblige her but for the fact that he had been singing so much of late that his voice required a complete rest.” Telegrams from Vienna state that Girardi, the star of the Au der Wien and the Carl Theater, has had to be taken to an insune asylum. Overwork and domestic unhappiness have preyed on the distinguishod artist’s mind and have given him the hal.ucination that he is the object of relentless persecution. Re- cently, afier a short reconciliation with his wife, Helene Odilon, an actress of note, Gi- rardi left bis home and went in great agitation to a friend’s house to demand shelter and pro- tection. Having obtained: it, he at once insti- tuted suit for a divorce from his wife. Itis hoped that rest and medical skill will give Dback to the theater the most perfect portrayer of Viennese character and to Johann Strauss his most genial interpreter. Every one interested in Massenet's operas knows that the “Herodiade,” just like the works of so many other French composers, received its first representation on any staga at the Monnaie Theater, in Brusseis. Each year, in December, when the anniversary of the first performance of his work occurs, Massenet, wherever he may be, sends to the directors o the Monnale the following letter: My Dear Friends : To-day,lt 1s * * % years siuce “Herodisde” was ficst produced by you, st the Mounale. I preseat to you my n-ost grateful remembrance and my most affectionate senti- ments. " T. MASSENET. Last month, Massenet, true to his custom, sent the regulation letter, which ran: It is fifteen years since, etc.” Fifteen years is a long time to be annually grateful. The prize of Romeat the Paris Conserva. tory has been awarded to Alfred Bachelet, for his operatic setting of an Irish legend which was written in dramatic form by Leon Durocher. The libretto, which is mythical, deals with the adventures of Tiona, the shepherdess; Flathal, the wicked fairy of the forests; Patrick, the hunter; Turl, the awasf, and Tregar, the enchantress. The plot deals with the eternal conflict between pure and sensual love, and around the little opera Alfred Bachelet has written such charming music that he is marked as a rising composer. The wandering ministrel of living composers is certainly. Saint-Saens, who never seems able to abide in any one place for many weeks ata time. He has just left the Pyrenees for Bar- celona, where he will conduct & grand repre- sentation of his “Samson et Delila.” After leaving Spain he will wander about the Ca- nary Islands till May, when he proposes to return to Paris for a few days. It is a growing fad in Europe to give recitals dedicated to one certain style of song. Thus there have been recitals of the “Sones of Spain,” “Russian Folk Song” recitals, recitals of “Patriotic Sougs,” ete. The latest idea is the “Campaign Song” recital, at which the campaign songs of different countries are sung. The Mozart-Gluck Society, of which Mas- senet, “Saint-Saens and many other distin- ‘guished composers are members, is doing ex- cellent work in Paris by giving the public an created by Patti at Nice during the next spring visit 1o the Riviera. Dickens’ daughter hss completed & book called “My Fatheras I Knew Him,” which will be published soon. Some of the vagaries of Emperor William may be attributed to his smoking an inordi- nate number of cigarettes. Many of the leading men of France have be- come teetotalers. Among them are President Faure and Alphonse Daudet. The larzest annual pension is $95,000, paid by Great Britain to the Duke of Richmond. It is & perpetuity since the time of Charles IL Cecil Rhodes, the one-man power in South Africa, has had the title of “the bull that sep- arates the fighting bulls” conferred upon him by the natives. Queen Victoria is said to have been greatyy pleased with a present of fruit, thirty boxes in all, sent her from Canada. It comprised ap- ples, pears, grapes and quinces. William Morris, the British poet, who died October 3, left a fortune of $275,000. Though Morris often preached community of goods, he has not left a penny to his comrades of social- ism. Herbert Spencer has completed his life work with a volume on “The Principles of foci- ology.” He is now 75 years old and has been engaged in writing for 40 years, notwith- standing the fact that he has been an invalid for a great poriion of the time. The new status of Ibsen, which is to orna- ment the front of the National Theater at Christiania, 1s finished, and has been sent to Berlin to be east. Itrepresents the dramatist in a long, closely buttoned coat, with his hands behind his back, bending forward in a reverie. Ibsen himself is satistied with the statue. After having a number of articles accepted by Esstern magezines, Will N. Harlen, the Southern story-writer, wrote to the editor of one to ask why nothing of his was published. The editor’s answer was: “There is a con- spiracy here to hold your articles until you are dead, as they would naturally bave greater in- terest then. How is your health?” THE SCORCHER. He tumbled from his weary wheal, And set it by the doo, Then stvod as though he joyed to feel HIs feet on earth ones more: And as he mopped his rumpled head, His face was wreathed in smiles; very pretty run.” he said; “Idid & hundred miles?” #A hundred miles!” I cried. “Ab, think! What beauties you have see: The reedy sireams where cattle drink, The meadows rich and green. Where did you wend your rapld way i hrough iofty woodland alsies®” He shook his head. “I cannot s 1 did & hundrea miles! “What hamlets saw your swift tires spin? Ab. how 1 envy you! To lose the city’s dust and din, Beneath the heaven's biue: To get a breath of country alj TJ lean v'er rustic stiles!’” He only said, ““The roads were falr; 1did'a hundred miles!” —Youth's Companion. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Where ist?” exciaimed the neryons man. “Where’s what?” asked the clerk. “The City Directory.” “We naven’t one. But here’s something that'll do just &s well, perhaps. It's a listof the people appointed to serve on the=inaugu- ral bail committee,”—Wushington Star. He—Darling, I have loved you ever since first we met. She—Well. why didn’t you say so long ago? Did you think 1 was a mind reader?—Cleve- land Leader. Papa—Don’t you think he is very large for his ave—only 14 months? Friend—Ye-es. Do you know I've observed that most babies are very large for their age?— Puck. X Complaint is made that there is a deterior- ation in Sarah Bernhard Tt 8s the resuit of 100 many foreign tours. The London Daily News says that she has become very unequal in her work. Medium (to perty at sitting)—The spirit of ‘your deceased husband desires to converse with yon. Wife—Huh! if he ain’t got no mrre spirit now than he had when he died he ain't worth troubling about,—New York World. She—\r. Fullback never boasts of his football exploits, does he?” He—No. I understand that he has n rly killed half a dozen men, but he never says a word about it.—Pueck. * ""‘Thnyouing Borus, who writes verses for papers, is rather clever, but he’ an imitator.” ¥ ooy Do you know, I've often suspected that? It anybody yawns in his presenco he always YWD, 100.”~—Chicago Tribune. “G1i any presents this year, Jimmyt” “No—only dad.” . :'Ix:;:.’.v‘flhs! did he git?” 5 me man give him a bottl whiskey, an’ *nuther man give him v:m:; days I'"—Atlanta Constitution, Joel Chandler Harris says that his “Unele Remus” 1s a composite of three or four old negroes whom he knew as & boy, and that his “Brer Rabbit” stories are for the mostpart plantation tales. Eieven times has Emile Zola been-e‘)}dl. dute for election to the French Academy, and eleven times has he been defeated. Lord Rosebery is eynical and philosophical. He is reported to have said: “There are two pleasures in life—the real and the ideal. The ideal s to Teceive the seals of office from your Queen. The real is to return them to her.” DANGER OF FA.S IN ELUCATION. 2 Detrolt Free Press. While this age is fortunate fu the enjoyment of advancea theories and methods of educs- tioa, there is davger of the movement degen- erating into a mere pursuit of fads—a striving for external ornament at the expense of in- ternal worth, flowers without fruit, husks without kernéls. The primary end of educa- tion is to fit the child ior 1ifd's duties. That end cannot be attained by smoothing awsy every difficulty thau iies before him nor by diluting Lis mental powers with a multitude of accomplishments merely ornamental. bl e NOT DIS.OV&RED YET. Brooklyn Eagle, Dr. Thomas Powell ot Los Angeles thinks he has discovered the laws of life, whatever they may be, and believes that he can repel disease and live for a long time. Dr. Brown Sequard thought so. Paracelsus thought so—or pre- tended to. Many other people fancied that the eternal laws of nature, which aré more inflexible than the so-called laws of life, couid be set aside. Science is doing much to pro- long life, to increase security ; art, society and Jetters are doing their share to make life pleasanter, if not happler; but the elixir of life is as far_irom discovery as it was in the day- of the nichemists and as it will be when the .ast man stalks lonesomely amid the ruins of cities, EARLY DAYS IN EANSAS. ‘Washington Post. “Many people are unaware,” said Repre- sentative Curtis of Kansas yesterday, “that Kansas had s shibboleth in border - State times. In 1854, when the first tide of New England settlers began to drift into the Southe west, it is related that the Missourians tied & cow at each crossing of the Missonri River. When an emigrant arrived at the crossing he was certain to make some remarks about the animal. If he saia ‘cow’ he was suffered to cross, but if he said ‘keow’ he was husiled out of the country as a bloody - minded aboli- tionist. Inretaliation for this the Kansans tied a bear on their side of the river and when au emigrant crossed who called it ‘bear’ he was weicomed with open arms, but if he pro- nounced it ‘bar’ he was scooted back into Mise souri as an unwelcome slavery advocate.” A SIXTEENTH-STREET FIESTA. Plans of the Improvement Club for a Gala Night With Masqueraders. The Sixteenth:street Improvement Club held a meeting last night 2009 Sixteenth street and appointed a committee to visit merchants and property-owners along Sixteenth street for the purpose of further interesting them in the extension of the work of the club. The present parpose is 1o have more arc lignts up and down the street. An effort will also be mede to do away with the cobblestone pavement ana substitute bitumen, but that is an object not so easily attainable. The committee consists of Thomas O. Dwyer, Fred Raabe and Pau! Sperling. During this week five more arc lights, suspended midway of the thoroughiare, will be placed on Sixteenth street, be- tween Vaiencia and Guerrero. Next Sunday forenoon the club will confer with the Mission Turn Verein relative to its ctive masquerade ball, the date of which will at that time be decided upon by the Turn Verein. The proposition 1s for the Turn Verein to combine its celebration with a night fiesta proposed by the improvement club, so that the masqueraders on their way to their iiall may pr. merade Sixteenth street and add to the spectacular features of the programme. Best peanut taffy f the world, Townssnd's.® S e - THE handsomest dress for the price can bs got at J. Samuels’, 104 Kearny street. I ported boucle cloths, all colors, at 50¢ & yar ——————— SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— In his two days’ shooting at Buckeburg re- cently the German Emperor bagged to his own rifle no feiver than twenty-nine stags outof a total staughter list of 130 head of big game. ————— PRINPS’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, vi Grande and Rock Istand Kallways. n‘:nf;; tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Eoston. Man. ger and porters accompany thess excursions to Boston. For tickets. sleeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kock Isiand Rallway, 80 Monp gomery street, San Francisso - THE GENUINE “BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCH®S"? are sold only in boxes. They are wonderfully effective for Coughs and Throat Troubles. T e THERE is youthfulness and good 10oks in a fine head of hair, If yours is harsh, faded, gray or scanty, use PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. WITH a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral (the unrivaled cough cure) and Ayer's Almanac (the best calendar), we wish you a happy New Year. b A iy “Daddy,” asked little Ephraim, de fust tukkey come from?” “Nebber yo' mine askin’ irreligious ques- tlons,” sald the old man. ~An’ wen Pahson Thompson comes fer dinner Sunday doan’ yo' fink yo’ hab ter ask what dat tukkey come fum, eider.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “whar aid NEW TO-DAY? A Baking Powder Inspector would be a use- ful officer. He would cause all lovers of pure, clean, whole- some food to permit only Jrophy Baking Powder in the kitchen. . Tillmann & Bendel, My By -