The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY JANUARY 14, 1897 THURSDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, ditor and Proprietor. "SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 | s nday CALL, one year,by matl.... 6.00 | y and Sur six months, by mail.. 3.00 months by mail 1.50 D, by mail. .65 v and § ay CALL, one year, by m 150 | W kEXKLY CALL, One year, by mail 1.0 BUSINESS OFFICE: 0 Market Stree: San Francisco, California. i Telephone.... _ Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: Telephone. . .Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montsomery street, corner Clay; open until treet; open until 9:30 o'clack. Hay Larkin streec: open uniil 9:3 1 and Mission streets; oper SW. corner Sixte antil 9 o'clock. Mission street: open un + open uni OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadw ASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. = s e G CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Scandals have besun. icramento is still a storm center. ure be l:ke the rest? Now let us work together for that Cabi- net office. Will this Le A stuffed payroll to b look much like economy, n with doesn’t Itis a bad outlook when the Legislature has to begin its work with an investiga- n. Bryan's book will be much more agree- sble than a lecture tour. We needn’t| read it. There are some who talk of a lull in trade st this seascn, but not those who advertise. Of the monetary conference at Indian- apolis it may be truly said, *Many men of many mind Congress has begun to talk of the Nica- ragua canal, and there is a chance that action will be taken. The friends of Cuba in the Senate not only sav too much, but they say too many things that are not so. Wherever there is a Legislature now in session there is talk of economy, and everything is promising. e [ Republican harmony which now pre- vails should be sufficient to obtain a place in the Cabinet for California, Street improvement goes bravely on. We shall soon be ready for a municipal carnival of farewell to cobbiestones. Wheelmen are likely to be more tired | than ever this year, as there is a scheme on foot to organize a bicycle tire trust. The House of Representatives has gone forward in many things at this session, but the Senate is rizht where it started in. Catifornia has the satisfaction of know- ing she elected a Senator alittle more | speedily than any other State in th Union. Representative Powers is said to be con- sidering another funding bill regardless of the fact that Congress considered the last one a nuisance. It seems when we are tempted to say hereafter that everything about Golden | Gate Park is lovely and agreeable we must | except the accounts, Cleveland’s attitude toward the Pacific roads is said to be uncertain, and while that may be news to some people it will be surprising to none. The mystery of the McKinley Cabinet has been so far solved that we now know several prominently mentioned gentle- men who are not to be in it. The people will await the next step in the Pacific roads busizess with more than | ordinary 1nterest, for there is no telling what scheme Mr. Huntington may devise next. One of the reforms which will be most talked of in the Union this winter will be that of road improvement, and California should do her share toward solving the problem it involve: The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is talking of putting nursery cars on its express trains, on the ground that sep- arate cars for babies are as necessary as separate cars for smokers. Great scheme. The promptness with which the Legis- lature has begun the work of investigating the alleged stuffing of the payroli is en- couraging. The best way to deal with such ofienses is to expose them at the start. The Venezuelans have imprisoned a foreign opera singer because she refused to respond to an encore, and now Uncle Sam may have to interfere again and de» termine what bounds shall be set to that country and its people. One good resuit of the defeat of the funding bill 15 the fact that Congress has now time to turn its sttention to the Nicaragua canal, and public sentiment should show itself strongly in favor of speedy action on that subject also. The Galveston News declares the ulti- mate destiny of the United States is “to be fillea with benches and have a grand stand for orators in the center thereof.” 1t is probable, however, that the prophecy was meant merely to please the Texans. ‘Whether the President has the exclusive right to recognize foreign countries may be a great constitutional question for the Senators, but among the people the opin- ion prevails that the President nas the right to act only on condition that he acts right. In commenting on the conclusion of the Senatorial contest the Sacramento corre- spondent of the Post says as an illustra- tion of public sentiment at the capital: “Mr. Shortridge lost no prestige by the fight he put up, as it is recognized by all that he acled like the courteous, genial, broad-minded. gentleman that heis. He carried on a clean campaign, in which he avoided personalities, and put bimself in line for the indorsement of bis party should it two years hence be intrusted by the people with the seiection of a Senator to succeed Stephen M. White,”” JOHNSON AND MAGUIRE The people of California will find no satisfaction on either side of the contro- versy on the floor of the House of Repre- sentatives between Congressman Johnson and Congr ssman Maguire, The episode, which is regarded as disgraceful to the House, was in some iespects disgraceful to the State. It resulted in no good to either party and can have no other effect in the East than that of confirming the :dgment of those who in their ignorance regard California as still in the wild and woolly stage of intellectual development, When the two Congressmen declared on tire floor of the House with theatrical de- clamation their bravery and their inten- tion to meet one another elsewhere they simply made themselves ridiculous in the mimds of intelligent men. The age of dueling is over. It is well known that loud talk on the floor of the House about meeting elsewhere is meaningless bravado. No courage is required for such declara- tions. All who make them are perfectly safe on the floor of the House of Repre- sentatives, and the veriest coward might there declaim as bravely as Achilies him- self, As for the meetinze elsewhere they are out of date. The man who would now fight a duel would render himself either able to the law or else make himself as ridiculous on the field of honor as he was on the floor of Congress. On the main issue the sympathy of the House showed itself to be unmis- takably on the side of Mr. Johnson, and justifiably so. If there is any- thing which is characteristic of the American people it is that broad and cenerous nature which willingly gives to a man the privilege to redeem himself from any folly or even crime into which he may fall. There is very little among the American people of that tendency to kick a man when be is down whichiscommon among some races. We are & oroader, nobier and juster people. We believe in the words of the dramatist: “There is a fu- ture for every man who has the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.”” Not infrequently in our history have men who went wrong in their youth proven in man- hood that they had this virtue and energy of which the dramatist speaks, and it is to tue credit of our people that when the atonement has been made they have been willing to acceptitin good faith and to accord no little honor to the hero who has risen above bis past toa working manhood and marked out for himself an honorable future. It is the old story of the Prodigal Son, 50 often repeated iu human history. The sympathy of the world is with the re- pentant son and with the generous father who forgives. The American people have never respected those who care to drag up the records of the past to torture those who have repented and atoned. Human virtue should be equal to human error, and whenever 8 man has sinned and has shown that he has within him a virtue capable of atoning for the sin it is noth- ing more than justice that his virtue should receive the recognition which it deserves. It is to be hoped that the whole episode will soon pass away from the memory of men and be forgotten. No Californian, at any rate, will have any desire to per- petuate it. It is oneof those outbreaks which occur in the heat of impassioned debate, and it is more than probable that both men regret it to-day more sincerely than any one else. California will not hold Congressman Johnson responsible for sins for which be has atoned, nor will it hold Congressman Maguire in dis- repute bacause in the heat of passion he has been betrayed into the false position of attempting to dishonor a man because of long-atoned-for deeds. We call atten- tion to the quarrel simply to emphasize the moral of it and to point out to both parties the folly of thefr course lest other Representatives might be tempted to com- mit the same mistakes. FOOLISH SPEECHES. The sincere friends of the Cuban patri- ots have little reason for gratihcation in the speeches made by Senators in suppért of the cause of Cuban independence. Al- most without exception these speeches have been foolish and nct infrequently they Lave been of a character to injure the cause of Cuba rather than to help i The recent speech of Senator Mills is a striking illustration of the injury that may be done to any cause by the foily of its inconsiderate friends. Acting upon a report that Signor Crispi bad declared that Italy would regard American recogni- tion of Cuban independence as a serious complication of foreign affairs the Senator made an address in which he revilea the Italians in a way which was not only un- dignified as a Senator and insuling to the Ttalian people, but positively barmful to the Cubans themselves. The Senator is reported to hava said: Who is Signor Crispi? There was & day when the Roman name was acknowledged throughout the whole earth, but that day bas passed, and the symbol of power of Italy to- day is 8 monkey and an_organ-grinder. Now, 1f Signor Crispi takes cffense at the action of Congress—1t, in conjunction with Spain, he is disposed to make o holy alliance, let them come with their monkeys and organ-grinders and their hot tamales. This Government is 100 great {0 sit under a threat of all the armed powers of the earth. A statement of that kind hurts the re- puteof the United States Senate more than it does the Italian people. It is known to every student of current events that rurely if ever in history has Italian ge- nius shown more brilliantly in all depart- ments of human endeavor than during the present generation. Without count- ing the names of such statesmen and war- riors as Cavour and Garibaldi, and Victor Emmanuel, the kingliest king of his time, there are in the departments of science such men as Galvini, the discoy- erer of galvanism; Volta, the inventor of the voltaic pile, and Schiaparelli, the as- tronomer, with many another scientist hardly less noted, to attest what Italy has done for the advancement of buman knowledge and the improvement of hu- map conditions. In literature, as well as in music and the drama, the names of illustrious Ital- ians are so many that it would be invidi- ous to select a few out of the number for special mention. There iy, in fact, no di- rection in which the human intellect is now exerting itsel’in which the Italians have not taken a leading place, and the world owes as much of its advancement to that people, in proportion to their number, as to any other on the earth. The cause of Cuba cannot be promoted by such speeches. The people of the United States sympatbize with the Cuban patriots, desire to see the independence of the island established, and are glad to know that there many members of the United States Senate who are ready to give recognition to the island. They are not pleased, however, to see these friends of Cuba so inconsiderate as to make speeches unwortby of American states. manship. It is the misfortune of Cuba that so many men of emotional temperament and inconsidérate speech bave espoused ber cause. She has suffered more than she has gained by their advocacy. Fortu- nately for the Cuban patriots the people of the United States do not form their judgment solely upon speeches made in the Senate, for otherwise the cause of Cuba would be regarded as of hardly much more importance than the cause of Coxey. CORPORATION BLACKLISTS. One of the bills now before Congress which is likely to give rise to no littie dis- cussion is that of Congressman Lorimer of [llinois, which defines the act of black- listing men who have'taken part in strikes as ‘'a conspiracy a ainst the United States.” The object of the bill is to pre- vent large corporations, and particularly railroad companies, from putting the names of strikers upon their blacklistsand thus largely depriving them of the chance toearn a living. According to reporis which have come to us tne bill excludes from 1ts benefits all strikers who have engaged in lawless acts in connection with a strike, lockout or other conflict between labor and capital; but it affirms the right of every wage- earner to leave his work whenever he pleases, and to leave it either by and of himself or in company with a multitude of others. There can be no question of the :essen- tial justice of such a measure. A strikeis no doubt frequently an act of folly, which results in damage to the community at large, but that is. no reason why the siriker should thereafter find himself de- barred by corporate influence from obtain- ing work. A combination of large em- ployers to keep industrious men out of work by way of vindictive punishment is as prejudicial to public welfare as any- thing that could be well imagined. The men who are thus shut out from all ave- nues of employment at the trades in which they are skilied are forced to join the already too rapidly increasing army of the unemployed, and add materially to the mass of discontented men. In their dis- content, moreover, there is a sense of in- justica which will add to its aggressive- ness and tend to make it a menace to the general peace and pubiic welfare. A folly is nota crime, and it should not be punished as such. Whenever a striker engages mn a criminal act there are laws sufficient to punish him, and no corpora- tion should presume to take the punish- ment into its own hands. Blacklists no doubt serve a good purpose in some re- spects, but when they are carried to the extent of a combination, on the part of great employers of labor to exclude from employment men who have simply exer- cised the right of quitting work they be- come pernicious, and 1t is time that the strong band of the law should interfere to prevent'such an exercise of irresponsible power, THE NICARAGUA OANAL It is encouraging to learn from the Washington dispatches of yesterday that the House Committee'on Rules has under consideration the Nicaragua canal bill and may arrange to give it an early hearing. The subject is one in which the whole country is interested, and almost any bill providing for a speedy beginning of the great work would be generally approved. From the tone of the discussion before the Committee on Rules it seems the only serious objections to the bill are based upor doubts as to the feasibility of the enterprise. When Mr. Doolittle read the measure proposed by the committee Le was frequently interrupted by questions concerning the engineering difficulties to be enconntered and the vrobable cost of overcoming them. These questions he answered from information gathered by the Commerce Committee, and his ex- planations seem to have been satisfactory to the majority of those who heard him. It is clear that since the Commerce Com- mittee has drawn up a measure providing for the construction of the canal and de- sires to report it the members of tbat body at any rate must be convinced of the prac- ticability of the scheme. The informa- tion which has been sufficient to confirm them in favor of the undertaking will doubtless be equally satisfactory to other members of the House, and there is there- fore good reason for believing that if time can be given for consideration of the bill at this session it will be sustained. It is gratifying to note that Speaker Reed spoke favorably of the measure and seemed inclined to advance it as rapidly as possible. He is reported as saying he has always been satisfied of the feasibility of the enterprise and partial to it because of the advantage it would be to the Pacific Coast. This attitude of the Speaker of the House gives encouragement to the hope that it may be brought up for action at an early day. Mr. Reed knows how to keep business moving when he gets it started, and it is safe to say that if any way can be found to bring the bill into the House before the end of this month the Speaker will find meansof moving it along with sufficient rapidity to be sent to the Senate in time for that slow-acting body to discuss it and vote on it before the ses- sion closes. AN IDLE DISOUSRION. The resolutions now before the Senate favoring the adoption of a constitutional amendment, fixing the Presidential term at six years and prohibiting a re-election, have hardly caused a ripple even in that body which is so easily rippled. The country at large has taken but little note of tnem, and it may be salely said they will serve merely as an occasion for speech making and will never rise to the importance of an issue of practical politics. The lack of public interest in the resolu- tions is not due to any lack of interest in the subject matter itself. It isdue solely to the popular consciousness that the Senators are not in earnest. If the resolu- tions were before the House the people would be wide awake at once, and there would be a rapid alignment on one side or the other of the question, for they would then expect something to be done and the whole subject of Presidential terms would at once become a topic of popular discussion. The constitutional change involved in the proposed amendment has been under discussion in one way or another for a long time. It was favored by many statesmen even before the war, and when the Southern leaders framed the consti- tution of the Confederacy they embodied it in that instrument. It comes up regu- larly after each Presidential election and may at some time be taken up in earnest and adopted. The people are in no humor for it just now, however. Four years was enough of Grover, and in the light of experience O them faw citizens feel like taking a risk of having six years of a similar man. In giving time for long speeches on the issue the Senate 18, therelore, simply put- ting itself on the level of a debating so- ciety, out of whose talk no action is ex- pected to coma. Senator Palmer of Ilinols says: * The re- port that I voted for McKinley is not true. I not only did not vote for McKinley, but Idid not vote for Bryan. Moreover, not feeling like voting for myself, I refrained {rom voting for any Presidential elcctors.” 2 MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. A concert trip to Honolulu is being under- taken by some San Francisco society singers, n conjunction with Mrs. Breitschuck Ma quardt, the well-known harpist. The party will sail for the isiands by the Coptic on Satur- day, and after staying cighteen days in Hono- lulu and giving three performancesat the new opera-house, will probably steam into San Francisco Bay again on Valentine's day. In addition to Mrs. Marquardt the party will con- sist of Donald de V. Graham, Alexander Ham- ilton and H. H. Gillig. Mrs. Gillig will also accompany her son, who is said to have & high and carefully trained bary tone voice. He has not yet been heard in concert, but he will make his debut in Honolulu, where the com- yany will be joined by Oscar Herold and probably by Mme. Anise Montague Turner, an accomplished vocalist, who has made her home in Honolulu. Donaid de V. Grabam and H. M. G1llig are soclal favorites in island soclety and A AN high mass in the village church. She gave several numbers, perticularly an “Agnus Del in a beantiful and powerful contralto voice, which astonished a reporter of a Vienna news- paper whom good fortune had conducted to church at Laxenburg that Sunday morning. It has begn known for some time that the ‘Archduchess has been seriously studying the art of song with a leading professor, althcugh the tragic denth of her husband caused her to give up singing for a time. It is ueedless to say that the priest for Laxenburg offered no opposition to Stephanie appearing in his choir, despite the Papal bull, recently revived at the Vatican, which excludes women from the choirs of all Catholic churches. Rossini, in his time, addressed more than one letter to Pope Pius IX on the subject, and a very curi- ous letter of his has just been published in Germany, in which he begs Meyerbeer to use all the influence he could muster toward in- MRS. BREITSCHUCK-MARQUARDT, Who Will Go With the Society Singers to Honolulu, their friends will no doubt rally round them. Mrs. Marquardt is weli known artistically, as she and her husband gave several cohcerls there to crowded houses on their recent Aus- tralian tour. John Marquardt would have been of the party, but his Emporium concerts, as weil as his classes in the University of the Pacific, make it fmpossible for him to leave home. Frank L. Unger, who sailed for Hono- lulu on the 8thinst., will make the business arrangements for the concert. The whole Gerardi scandal in Vienna has now come out and it appears that the cele- brated interpreter of Strauss’ operas was never for & moment med. The singer’s immense popularity bad given rise to jealousies, and a conspiracy was formed against him by some of his rivals, Gerardi’s own physician enterea into o plot mede to railroad him to a lunatic asylum, and a professor of the University of Vienna, who bad never even seen the unfor- tunate artist, did not hesitate to certify that he was attacked by a mental disease brought on by indulgence in cocaine. Happily Ger- ardi escaped from his home and sought refuge at the house of his lawyer, who is also his In- timate friend, in time to avoid being actuaily taken to the asylum. Owing to the lawyer's eftorts an official inquiry has been instituted and three doctors appointed by the Govern- ment talked for several hours with Gerardi and declared that though he was in a state of nervous excitement there was absolutely nothing to warrant his heing committed to an asylum. No symptoms of the habitual use of cocaine could be discovered and Gerardi was his former self as far as wit was concerned, for he several times convulsed the examining physicians with laughter at the pungency of his remarks. The artist's own wife, who has made his life uniappy for some time past, is supposed to be at the root of the trouble. The Prefect of Police has taken measures, so say the Viennese papers, for quelling further con- spiracies against Gerardi, but the guilty parties have not been punished and the Viennese public is asking what satisfaction the singer is to have from the two doctors whoall but sequestered him in a madhouse, whence in Vienna, as in a good many other places, it 18 very difficult to get out, more particularly it one is sane. In the East a number of newspapers are fighting with tooth and nail the preference for foreign artists, which scems to prevail at the Metropolitan Opera-house. Of course, it is very laudable to encourage home talent, but Dby abusing the management the right result is scarcely likely to be achieved. In the first place it advertises the Do Reszkes, who are already too much ndvertised, and in the sec- ond place the public is quite as much, if not more, toblame than the management. Ameri- can artists have been tried by the Metropolitan management, and, with the exception of Nordica and Eames, they have been scorned by the public. Sibyl Sanderson was a frost, Zelie de Lussin was little better, and last season the public showed no interest in Frances Saville, The American artists are placidly securing the recognition abroad which seems to be denied to them at home. It is almost impossib'e, for instance, to skim through the musical news in any French paper without inding & few lines expressing almost hysterical delight at the continued success in Milan of Sibyl Sanderson, “‘the pensionnaire “of our opera,”’ exactly as if the lady had been bornand bred in Paris. Marie Van Zandt is another singer who is getting the *‘frantic enthusiasm” aoroad which is denied her at home, and Zelie de Lussin is 80 popular with the royal family in England that she is always known facetiousty as ‘‘the Queen’s own.” Ireland, which has been entirely neglected as a field for opera, is at last beginning to have its day with librettists hud composers. “Biian Boru” has just left the Broadway Theater, after a most successful run, and now “Shamus O'Brien”,is repeating in New York the success which it has already made in Eng- land end Ireland. The latter is & romantic opera composed by Dr. Charles Villiers Stan- |fora, professor of music at Cambridge Uni- verslty, Englandg, and the libretto is by George H. Jessup. When the work was produced in London ten months ago it was scarcely hoped that Ireland, its woes and its folksongs would inspire buraing enthuslasm in the British breast, but “Shamus O'Brien’’ was one of the hits of the season. The singers mostly had Irish namos, the two who have made the big- gest hits, both in London and New York, being Dennis O'Sullivan, the California bary- tone, formerly of the Carl Rosa Grand Opera Company, and Joseph O'Mars, a native of Limerick, who studied in Milan and afterward made his name as tenor of the Royal English Opera Company. It is remarkable that Irish composers such as Balte should have turned to other iands for inspiration when such rich rields awaited them at home in their own folk- songs. Flotow, a German composer, made the success of his opera “Martha” by engrafting into it one Irish song, “The Last Rose of Sum- mer,” and yet the rich field continued to lie fallow till Villiars Stanford wrote “Shamus O'Brien.” While not actually engrafting Irish folksongs into his work, the Cambridge doc- tor is said to have given hisopera the true spirit ¢f tbe beautiful Irish folksongs. The villagers of Laxenburg, near Vienna, where s the imperial castle inhabited by the Archduchess Stephanie, widow of the un- foriunate Rudolph, were surprised recently to hear the Archduchess singing the solos at ducing Pius IX to rescind the bull, but Meyer- beer was not able to achieve anything. They are working night and day at the Paris Opera to put on the stage the Zola-Bruneau opers “Messidor” with all the realism de- manded by the libretust. Zola has insisted that the windmills shall be real windmills, turned by real wind, and that the machinery in the factories shall be as genuine as that used in actual factories. The one point on which he has compromised with the manage- ment is in the blue blouses worn by the work- men. It would be contrary to all operatic precedent to push the passion of realism to the extent of dressing the chorus in the un- beautiful blouses, and the sabots worn by French workmen in every-day life, least at that was what the management said, but Zola contended that' he would not submit to his workmen being arrayed in the fantastic style of dress affected by grand opera choruses. A compromise has been effected by arraying the chorus in the picturesque Costume worn in the Basque districts, bordering on the French side of the Pyrenees. Augustus Bungert, who is known in Ger- many as & composer of melodies, has jus ten and set to music a tetralogy entitled Odyssee.” The third part of this tetralogy which bears the title of “‘The Return of Ulys- ses’” has just been given its performance be- fore the two parts which ought to precede it. “The Return of Ulysses” inciudes a prologue and three acts, and its performance at the Royal Theater of Dresden lasted for four hours. The success of the first night was re- markable. There were repeated curtain calls for the poet-composer, and his interpreters, above all for the barylone Scheidmantel who played Ulysses. The crities of the Saxon capi- tal say that Bungert has succeeded in abstain- ing completely from that servile imitation of Wagner which marks so many modern com- posers. Theatrical glory isshort lived and sometimes even contemporaries have very brief memo- ries for amusement-makers. At the death of Sir Augustus Harris, who did so much for the development of opera in England, there was a grand popular movement to erect a monu- ment to the memory of the celebrated mana- ger. The committee having resolved on the construction of a commemorative public foun- tain addressed itself 10 the London City Coun- cil for a site near Trafalgar square. The re- quest was met by 8 point-blank refusal, and no consolation site was offefed, even in the most remote district of the big metropolis. Several municipal orators did not hesitate to express their perfect contempt for theatrical artin generaland for all that Sir Augustus Harris had done for it. The Theater Royal of Hanover recently in- augurated a now drop curtain, representing Apollo and the muses, which was painted by the celebrated artist, Alexander Liezenmayer. The old curtain will be preserved on acconnt of its historic interest; it dates from 1789 and was the work of the painter Ramberg. Napoleon I admired it so much that he caused it to be transported to Paris, but in 1815 the curtggn ok thefrond to Germany again, and has s®ved until the present day at the Royal Theater of Hanover. Koki Hourouya, the head musician of all the military bands in Japan, is at present in Dresden studying the organization of German military musie. This Japanese musician learned music in France, where he studied for seven years: Itis expected that great changes will be insugurated in militery bands on his Teturn to Japan, Mme. Nordica, in the miscellaneous part of the concert on Tuesday evening, will givea selection that is absolutely & novelty. 1t was tanght her by her husband, Zoltan Doeme, who is a Hungarian novleman, and Nordica sings itin the original Hungarian, This aria is from Erkel's Hungarian opera, entitled “Erszebeth,” which was performed for the first time at Pestn, in 1857. It is founded on the story of St. Elizabeth of Hun- gary (1207-1281), who was cauonizea by Gregory IX on account of the miracies whicn she is reported to have performed. The programme has just been published of the third Stlesian festival, which will take place at Goerlitz in 1897; it includes “Chris- tus,” an oratorio by Frederick Kiel, the first act of “Parsifal” the “Triumph Lied,” by Brahms, and one of Beethoven's symphonies, The Emperor and Empress of Russia, and ‘most of the grand dukes and duchesses took partin the officlal ceremonies at the recent opening of the new Conservatory at St. Peters- burg. The whole function was & most solemn and imposing affair. The Heine trio, consisting of Miss Florence Heine violin, Miss Marie L. Heine piano, and Louis Heine violoncello, announce a series of three recitals at Golden Gate Hall on the afternoons of January 28, February 13 and March 13. Mascagni is writing a grand patriotic sym- phony for' the centenary celebratién of the Dirthof tne poet Leopardi, which will take place at Recanati of Ancona in 1898. THE COMING (ENTURY. Globe-Demoaras. Edward Everett Hale said in a recent ad- dress on the coming century that the world is growing better. In his classification the cen- tury of Columbus was marked by discoves the eighteenth by anaivsis and the nineteent’ Dy invention. The victories of the twentieth century, in_his opinion, will be moral and spiritual. His prediction is that it “will be filled with not ony physical comfort, but spiritual ana pnysical forces wiil be trans- muted into moral and spiritual.” Education Will pe general and greatly elevated, and na- tions will be brought into closer interconrse. No one has ventured to prophesy what the next century will bring forth in invention, for scarcely a year passes LOW without some wonderful advance. s PERSONAL. D. P, Farber of Spokane is at the Lick. Dr. Hugh Cross of Marshfield, Or, is in town, Thomas Filben of Marysville is at the Occi- dental. Dr. George W. Dixon of Sacramento is at the Palace. Andrew G. Myers of Fort Jones is at the Oc- cidental. Deputy Sherift J. L. Johnson of Ukiah is in the City. Theodore Allen, 8 mining man of Angels, is at the Grand. Dr. A. C. Jackson of Wadsworth, Nev., is & late arrival here. The Rev. William H, Story of Marysville is here on a brief visit. J. E. Putnam, & mining man of Idaho, ar- rived here yesterday. L. F. Warner Jr., & business man of Vancou- ver, B. C., is in the City. Ex-Senator A. F. Jones of Oroville, Butte County, is a visitor here. B, Clytie, a wine-grower of St. Helens, is in the City on a business trip. P. P. Dandridge, & mining man of Trinity County, is at the Occidental. George P. Messervy, a wealthy business man of New York, is at the Palace. E. M. Hiatt of Yorkville, Supervisor of Men- docino County, is at the Russ. J. Shaw, a druggist of Somors, Tuolumne County, is registered at the Russ. Lieutenant W, L. Fisk of the United States army, Portland, Or., is at the Palace. E. E. Elliott, agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Bakersfield, is at the Grand. Horace L. Smith, an attorney of Hanford, ar- rived here yesterday. He 1s at the Grand. Frank A. Miller, proprietor of the Rowell House, Riverside, arrived here yesterday. James McCovpin, & nephew of Frank Me- Coppin, Is registered at the Cosmopolitan. £. A. Elliot, a fruit-grower of Santa Clara, is among recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. R. 8. Johnston, a mining man of Nevada, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Johnston. T. M. Oyeno, a Japanese business man who has been some time in the East, arrived here last night. 0. B. Randall of Merced has come to the City on business. He is registered at the Cos- mopolitan. 8.F. Capp, wife ana daughter arrived from Oakaale this morning and are staying at the Cosmopolitan. J. M. Gardner, one of the leading ranchers of Wheatland, is here for a stayof a few days, and is at the Russ, &. Summerfleld, an attorney of Reno, and ex-member of the Nevada Senate, was among yesterday’s arrivals. G. Mittkelson and J. M. Brunzell, who own mining property at Silver City, Idaho, are here to remain a few weeks. Fred M. Smith, a business man of Eugene, Or.,came here yesterday with many visitors from various parts of the north. A party of Denver people, consisting of C. E. Baughman, Mrs. Baughman, Bert Baughman and Ira Blizzard, are at the Baldwin Hotel. Lorin Farr, the ex-Mayor of Ogden, president of astake of Mormons and distinguished as a raiiroad builder, has returnea here after some time in Southern California. He 1s at the Occidental, Supervisor A. M. Duncan of Mendocino, who runs a store at Fish Rock and is engaged in other enterprises there, among them the get- ting out of tan bark and certain kinds of | timbers, is 2 late arrival in the City. The last number of tne National Kinder- garten News, published at Springfield, Mass., contains an appreciative biography ot the late Sarah B. Cooper. A high tribute is paid to her worth, and the opinion is expressed that no one in America ever did more for the cause to which so many years of her life were devoted. W. W. McNair, the attorney, has returned from Martinez, where he went some days ago | on important legal business. He says that | & while ago as many as 150 tramps at & time | were kept at work breaking stone at Martinez, | but thatsince the law went into effect the | tramps have dwindled in number uatil now 8 dozen ata time on the rockpile is a great | many. They have heard of the rockpile and | keep awey. | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 18.—At the St. Cloud, J. H. Welch; Metropolitan, J. T. Davis; Albert, G. Seeber. Professor E. M. Pease of Stanford University left the St. Cloud to sail on the steamship Parfs. MIND AND MATTER. #Of all your ills ” the wise man sald "Tis well, my son. to know That none of them i bad, save that Your thinking makes them 30.” And. as he spoke, a cinder fell And struck him in the eye; And, jndging by bis awful yell, 1 thought tkat he would die. 0t all your ills, wise men,” I said, “'Iis well foryou—" Al He interrupted me to say “Young fellow, you're an ass.’ —Cleveland Leader. Letters From the People. * VANDERBLT IN IT. The Defeat of the Huntinglon Funding Bill. To the Editor of the San Francisco Ca'l—SIR: My public opposition torailroad dominance in | Celifornia began with the nomination of New- ton Booth for Governor meny years ago in the | Santa Barbara Press, which I founded and owned and edited until May, 1876. At that time, and until recent y2ars, Santa Barbara had no direct business relations whatever with the railronds of California. Ihave never regretted my early and continuous opposition to the political methods and traffic extortions of the former Central Pacific and iater Southern Pa- cific companies. Iu 1878 I founded the Onk- land Times, and its chlumns bear ample testi- mony to my continued opposition 1o the grow- ing exactions and influenc:s of the Hunting- ton system. When the Coustitutional Conven- | ton met I was elected secretary as an anti- monopoly Republican, beating” Marcus D, Boruck, the candidate and openly avowed champion of the raiiroad and otner monopoiy interests. During the past six years my work a8 8 Popullst hias taken & wider range and has been chicfly concerned with National prob- lems which aim at the desiruction of private monepoly of money, land and transportation. 1f I seem now Jess jubilant over the final de- feat of the Huntingion funding acheme than some who have been conspicuousiy prominent in denouncing it, the unfolding of future wants may afford ample justitication for any lack of enthusiasm. While I rogard the de- feat of the fuuding bill as the emancipation of Califoraia from the continuous oppressions of the Southern Pacific Company, it seems 0 me that a complete release from railroad traffic extortion and political dom ‘nance is not as- sured by any means. Congressman Loud in this bricf telegram tells us more than appears upon the surface: “Ihave uo doubt of the defeat of the funding bill in ihe House. The majority against it was probebly inereased by certain opposing railroad influences.” Just so, Tuere is no doubt of it. Indeed, he might have said ‘‘the m« jority against it wes secured torough the influence of the Vanderbilt sys- tem,” and told the truth, too, if I am correctly informed as (o the true situstion. Mr. Loud's dispaich was sent to the Ex- aminer on January 11, the day of the defeat, On the first vage of the same journal is & Washington dispatch headed “‘Vanderbilts May Buy the Road,” and the item says: it has been reported in Washington for some days pest that the Vanderbilt interests are anxious to ket possession of the roads and are prepared to make & bid that would cozer all the first-mortgage bonds and the liens of the United States.” This is not the first intimation made public that the Vanderbiits desired the defeatof the funding scheme. Observing readers did not fail to note, in the face of reveated diplomatic coast some months since of Mr. Vanderbiltand Mr. Depew. Richelieu saved nis life at a critical moment by noting the fact thathis servant Joseph was a trifie to0 Obsequious. *Methinks he bowed t00 low,” hesaid. There was much journalistic courtesy at that tim over these iwo men, and to a thoughtful o server thé bow appeared to be *too low.” Th gentlemen themselves seemed 00 anxious ! assure the public that it was merely a pleas ure trip. ] Populists are not overmuch enamored witl the beauties of that coy and delusive sys- tem named competition. Pmans were melo- diously lifted up in her praise when Tom ¢ was about to introduce her to the Pecific Const. Then the Atantic and Pacific peopl were equally entrancing, to be foliowed by th Northern Pacific benefactors with stili mc joytul strains, and yet the coy and delusi siren has only lured a contiding people on to their present piuable plight. If the defeat of Huntington, crockcrl; Co. should result in Government ownership and operation of the defaulting roads, which is hardly a possibili then I could rejoice with the most joyful oy the defeat of the refunding scheme. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNsON, Ben Francisco, Jan. 13. 1897. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Tommy, who Was Joan of Arc?” asked (he teacher. A Noah's wife,” said Tommy, who Is great at guessing.—Spare Moments, % Mamma—Well, Johnny, what kept yon aiter school to-night? “I was spellbound,” repli Johnny, who had tripped in his orthograph —Spare Moments, 5 «Why, old man, I didn't know that she utterly refused you.” “It amounted o the seme thing. She eaid she was willing to wait until I could support her.”—Boston Traveler, 5 “What's that noise “That's my latest boy. Just came to town,” «What's he making all that noise for?"” “Why, that’s his jnaugurai bawl.”’—Cleve. land Plain Dealer. Mamma—Now, children, I have been ta to you about cause and effect, and Iam su some of you must fully understand me, Tommy, SUppose you were to eat & g pple, what would be the result? Tommy—I'd 'most likely eat two or thres more if there was any left.—Boston Courier. Y e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE, Dr. Caroline Brown Winslow left a will be. queathing her body to Howard University, to be carefully dissected by a woman medical student for the purpose of advancing her knov/ledge of anatomy. Professor Headland of the Peking Univer- sity is the authority for the statement that the Emperor of Chinais now systematically studying the New Testament, and is et present reading the Gospel ot St. Luke. The Rothschilds of Paris, following their usual custom at the beginning of winter, have sent 100,000 francs to the Prefect of the Seine to be distributed among needy tenants in the twenty arrondisements of Paris. Dr. Conan Doyle sets a good example to ov: worked novelists by refusing to make a con- tract for a book until it is entirely finished. The pressure that would otherwise be put upon him, he rightly says, would tend to injure the quality of his work. The Queen of Roumania Is said to be the only living author who has writen opera ii- brettos in four languages—Spanish, French, German, Swedish and Roumanisn. She has just finisned an opera libretto in French, founded on & Turkish subject, for M. Jules Massenet. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Book—R. H. P., Riverside, Cal. Any first- class book-seller can procure for you the book you desire. GLADSTONE—F. G., City. The full name of Gladstone, the English statesman, is William Ewart Gladstone. CANADA—T. &, 8an Jose, Cal. The Governor- Generai of Canade is the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, G.C.M.G. LILLIAN NORDICA—A. M., Santa Cruz, Cal The home address of Lillian Nordica is Paris, Franee. She will be in this City after the 18t of this month. SCALCHI—S. M. W., City, Scaichi, who is to ) appear at the Baldwin Theater on and aiter the 18th inst., was in this City with Patti in 1888 and appeared at the Grana Opera-house. FRANK WORTHING — C. N., Alameda, Cal. Frank Worthing, the actor, is at present tray- e.ing with the Frawley company und will be in Portland, Or., until the close of the current week. FOURTH CLAsS POSTMASTER—A. C. R., Califor- nia. A postmaster of the fourth eiass who re- celved his aprointment two years ago may be removed at any time by the next administra- tion. If you want a position of that kind, and you are to be the only Republicen candidate Tor the place, the chances are very much in your iavor. To ENLIST For CUBA—A. 8., Sacramento, Cal. If ten men in Sacramento are very anxious to enter the Cuban army as soldlers the best thing for them 10 do is 10 go direct to Cube and offer their services to the Cubaus. 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