The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 1897 g THURSDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, | Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Dally and Sunday CaLx, one week, by carrier. Carx, one year, by mall Datly end Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3. Dally and Sunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.60 | Daily and Sunday CaLy, one month, by mail. .65 .18 00 | Sunday CaLx, one year, by mal.. 150 W XKXLY CaLL, One year, by mail. 1.0 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Ean’Francisco, California. Telephone, B .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telepbone. . -Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montromery street, corner Clay: open natil 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until :30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open &atil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 1 nth strect; open uniil 9 o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 89, #4 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Esstern Manager. e == THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. | e e | Itis a bad year for einch bil Just one month more of Grover. | the charges for water or for gas; THE REAL ISSUE. The managers of the Eraminer hdving been exposed in their attempt to levy blackmail on the water and the gas companies, as they did at one time on the South- and gas. | ern Pacific, have resorted to a bold ruse to escape public indignation. They now assert .FEBRUARY 4, 1897 | that they attack these and other corporations in the interest of the public and that | their sole object at present is to obtain for the people lower rates for the use of water As a means of carrying this ruse to a successful conclusion the Eraminer charges Tue CALL with antagonism to popular interests. alleging that THE CALL is as abandoned as itself. It tries to hide its own depravity by It seeks to evade the real issue by raising a false one and hopes by vicious attacks upon honesty to deprive THE CALLO! | that public confidence which is necessary to enable it to overcome the banded powers of blackmail journalists and cinch bill lobbyists. The readers of THE CALL are well aware that it has never opposed a reduction in from corporations by cinch bil same that is taken on this subject by every duty of the Supervisors to carefully und t has simply opposed an attempt to extort money and blackmail. The position of TrE CALL is the honest man in San Francisco. Itisthe exhaustively examine the accounts of the water and gas companies and determine what rate of charges will enable taem to earn a fair and legitimate profit on the investment. That duty every hosest Supervisor will conscientiously endeavor to perform, and he can count upon THE CALL and all | honest men to support him in doing it. The real issue between THE CAvLz and the managers of the Ezaminer is not whether gas and water rates shall be reduced, but w hether they shall be reduced in accordance with law and justice, or whether a threat of arbitrary and spoliating reduction enall be held over the corporations in order to agitation stopped. force them to pay big money to have the The present controversy is simply a repetition of the contest against the funding bill maintained by enforcing the law. TrE CALL made that fight solely for the purpose of having the public interests The Ezaminer entered the fieht solely to extort money from the railroad company. When the subsidy of $1000 a month was paid the Ezamner had no further fight to make. When the subsidy was cut off the Ezaminer immediately began to get up a petition just as it is doing now. Had the Southern Pacific renewed the subsidy the Eraminer’s petition against the funding bill would have been dropped in the wastebasket. 1f the water and the gas companies should put up the price “‘Long Green” Lawrence demands, the petition he s now ostensibly getting up would be torn into strips and thrown into the kennel to make beds for the pu The rain threatens to be too much of a good thing. Wh come a vegins to come it will | -bummin, Every new appointment to the Cabinet | adds to 1ts strength. | American seamen have rights which | Congress must respect. A month from to-day we inaugurate the | administration of prosperity. Willie Hearst will have to digup the stuff in New York. Long Green is non- plused. Which will be the next corporation to follow the example of the Southern Pacific and expose the blackmailers? Here lies the body of Ambrose Blerce; , nOW gone, was always scarce. iy on him, earth, for he | Did long and meanly lie on thee, Itisin vain the Eraminer tries to hide | itself from public scorn bebind the coats of honest men. The foxy efluvia betrays its presence. The arm of our law is as strong and as Jong as that of Australia when it comes to arresting criminals, but there are aiffer- ences later on. Itis hard to tell from the debates in the Senate on the Nicaragua canal bill whether | the Senators think they ara holding a consultation or an inquest. “The funds of Wastetul Willte T squander not,” S0 Long Green said. “All squandering 1s rot. *Tis true I strip him, but no waste is shown; His purse I empty but 10 fill my own.” Governor Pingree of Michigan insists upon his right 1o serve also as Mayor of Detroit, and for the firsy time in his life has become a questionable official. The Ezaminer continues to support| cinch bill legislators, but we notice that in trying to escape the lash of THE CALL itisalways careful to dodge behind honest men. By compelling the lampooners and Iibelers of George K. Fitch to publicly acknowledge his honesty THE CALL has won the vraise of every honorable man in California. The long-protracted discussion s to whether Pennsylvania should have a new Etate Capitol is no longer a burning issue, She will either have one or legis- late in ashes. The Kansas legislator who has intro- duced a bill making it a misdemeanor to swear has probably just enough sense to know that he is one of the cranks Kansas is swearing at. Harvard students are complaining that the faculty has begun to treat them like little boys, when, really, the action of the | faculty seems directed to bad boys, with- | out regard to size, The assertion of the Ezaminer that Tue | CaLy is “ringing the fire alarm” is an- other attempt to delude the people. Itis ‘ not the firemen but the police that are wanted for blackmailers. ‘ | | One of the encouraging signs of the Eituation is the presence of the Republican State Central Committee at Sacramento, | The members of that body can be counted | on to promote good legislation and fight | cinch bills. | The biil now before the Legislature de- claring it unfawful to make a contract in this State “providing for payment in any particular or specific kind of money issued by the United States” furnishes a very good piece of paper with which to line & wastebasket. e o i “I1 reputable citizens are to be induced | 1o take part in the City government they | must be assured of immunity from abuse when they try to do their duty to the public.” This sneer of the Eraminer we repeat with earnestness. Ask the Park Commissioners. The defense made by the Sacramento Typographical Union No. 46 of the women employed in the State Printing Office against the attacks “of a sensational press evidently inspired from interested sources” was timely, manly and vigorous. The working people of California are | rapidly learning to understand the | ZEzaminer and to know what its motives are. The mass-meeting in this City to pro- mote the passage of the bill securing better treatment fo our seamen revived the sentiment of the days when the American people went to war with Eng- Jand to protect sailors’ rights, If we were willing to fight to save our own sea- men from imprisonment undera foreign flag we should at least secure them liberty under our own, P In republishing yesterday an editorial from THE CaLL of May, 1895, commending ‘Willie Hearst the Ezaminer recalled what was seemingly a great offense on our part. The offense, however, was not so bad as it looks. It must be remembered that up to that time Hearst had not been ex- posed as a subsidized agent of the South- ern Pacific nor had he given any signs of turning Long-Green Lawrence loose to Joot the town, | rascals, or to buy their silence. | tral | result. | mittee form an excellent corps of super- | carried out as was the victorious cam- | seen now that Mr. Cleveland was fortun- The whole issue in the controversy is the simple one of law against blackmail. { The people are concorned in it, because they can mever have good government, either State or municipal, as long as invested capital is compelled to pay blackmail or subsidies of any kind to corruy officials and horseleech journaii ‘When such offenders are permitted o go unwhipped of public justice large corporations are com- pelled to expend great sums of money to defend themselves against the predatory This condition of affairs disturbs legitimate enter- prise, imperils capital and corrupts politics. The evil has grown from bad to worse and has now become intolerable. It is time to crush it out. Every intelligent man in San Francisco knows that under its Dpresent management the subsidies from corporations. raminer has been exposed and convicted of extorting Why then should any man permit himself to be de- ceived by its professions of regard -for public interests? Why shouid any man hesi- tate to exclude the paper from his housenold and to refuse to give even an indirect support to the gang of blackmailers who control it and profit by it? THE PUBLIC GOOD. The action of the Republican State Cen- Committee in establishing head- | quarters at Sacramento, to be maintained | during the continuance of the legislative | session, is decidediy 2 good innovation in politics, No men are better fitted to sist in shaping and directing lecislation than the men who represent the Republi- can orgenization of the State. and who are charged with the responsibility of | guiding tbe party in the conduct of pub- lic affairs, so that its prestige with the vpeople will be increased and its hold upon public confidence retained. The headquarters will serve asa general gathering place for Kepublicans of all sec- tions of the State, and in the informal discussions held there men can learn what is needed for the State as a whole, as well as for their own counties, and what is expected by the people at large as well as by their local constituencies. From these discussions much good will | The representatives of the party | in the Legislature will be brought into | harmony with one another and enabled | to act unitedly for the best interests of the ommonwealth, One of the chief dnties of the committee | will be todefeat the schemes and machi- | nations of cinch bill legisiators. Some of | the tricks of these men are so cunningly | concealed that a new leg unversed | in the intrigues of politics, may readily be deceived by them, and, with the best intentions in the world, be deluded into supporting them. i The members of the State Central Com- | | | I | vision over legislation generally, and can | be counted on to assist in exposing and | defeating the schemes of nefarious lob- | byists, blackmail journalists and what fow allies they may have either in the Assembly or the Senate. Major Frank McLaughlin, chairman of | the committee, is to be congratulated | upon the move which has been made | under his direction. He won high honors | by the ekill and energy with which he conducted the Republican party to suc- cess in California during the campaign, and proved himself to be the ideal man for that position. Not coatent with sery- e already rendered, he now goes for- ward to undertake ‘urther duties to the varty and to the people. What he has undertaken is an innovation in politics, but it will be approved by all who have | the welfare of the State at heart. | The chairman is fortunately supported | by strong and able members of the com- | mittee, and there can be no question but what his new work will be as successfuily paign of last fall. 1t is one of the good signs of the situatign that Major Me- Laughlin and his colleagues have had the public spirit to give their attention to the legislation which is now proposed, and the innovation thus begun will no doubt | prove so satisfactory to the peovle that it | will be continued as a permanent part of | our politics. THE TREATY SIGNED. The long dispute over the Venczuelan boundary and over the right of the United States to interfere 1n all controversies of a similar nature between an American country and a foreign power has been virtually settied. The treaty of arbitra- tion arranged under the direction of the Secretary of State of our Government has been signed by the representatives of England end Venezuela, and what is left | to be done is a matter of detail, involving no principle of importance between the two countries or between them and our own. The fortunate issue of this controversy will constitute one redeeming feature of the Cleveland administration. It can be ate in selecting the successor to Secretary Gresham, If Mr. Olney has not played his part with tact, he bas certainly done 80 with firmness. The results prove the wisdom of his course. He may be accused by future muzwumps as he bas been by those mow living of being too rude and too little diplomatic in the famous letrer to Congress on the Venezuelan question, but t.ir criticisms cannot affect the fact that he succeeded where milder-mannered men have failed. It isevident that a little “jingoism'’ now and then is by no means barm!ul to diplomacy. The amount of territory involved in the dispute, while of great value perhaps to Venezuela, was of no importance to us, Our interest in the affair has been se- cured by compelling or winning British recognition of our right to practically ap- | Toe doctrine. | In the coasting trade. P!y the principles enunciated in the Mon- What Great Britain ha conceded no other nation is likely to seri- ously dispute. Any question hereafter between an American state and a Euro- pean nation involving a claim against the territory of the American state will be submitted to our interference as a matter ol course, This does not mean war on our part, but { it does mean arbitration. It means that no European state, however powerful, shall wrongfully despoil an American country however weak. It means that the United States is to stand as the de- fender of the independence of American soil. It1sno slight thing to have gained a recognition of this right on our part, and the American people will regard Sec- retary Olney as one of those who has served his country well and illustrated in au otherwise weak Cabinet the dignity of American statecraft and the honor of the American Rgpublie. AMERIOAN SEAMEN. The mass-meeting held in this City to urge the enactment by Congress of a bill providing better security in the law for the rights of American seamen gave utterance to what is undoubtedly the sentiment of a great majority of the American people. It is difficult to see why there should be any opposition to the proposed bill. It pussea by the House of Representa- tives after full discussion, and has thus received the indorsement of that portion of Congress which nrost directly repre- sents the people and is in closest sym- pathy with their aims and desires. The opposition made to it in the Benate is somewhat extraordinary, and the people have acted rightly in urging its passage and expressing indignation against those who obstruet it The American people in years past en- tered upon a war with Great Britain to maintain the rights of American sailors, Atthat time our fathers wers willlng to fight in order to secure.our seamen from impressment under a foreign flaz. We would be unworthy of such sires if we were not willing now to secure our sailors by law of nghttul liberty and a just pro- tection under our own flag. The United States of right should be the greatest maritime power on the globe. Our commerce, if not our navy, should ex- ceed that of any other country. Our ships should be in every sea ana the men who man them and defend the flag that floats over them should be Americans. It is in vain, however, that we hope to gather the youth of our seacoast States into our com- mercial marine if we subject them as sail- ors to a condition which is so near abso- lute servitude as to almost merit the name of slavery. There is no reason why the Americaan seaman should not enjoy the same rights and privileges as the American worker on land. Itissomethingof a National dis- grace that he doesnotalready enjoy them, and it is the duty of Congress to right his wrongs as speedily as possible. The bill whose passage the seamen ad- vocate is not revolutionary in its nature, nor even radical. It hardly goes further than to extend to seamen engaged in for- eign commerce the sume rights which have been already given to those engaged It aims to put an end to certain practices which are well recognized as evils. It is thoroughly American in meaning and intent and is designed solely to guarantee to Americans who work on the deep sens the same per- sonal rights which are enjoved by Ameri- cans &t home. The pa of the bill will have a tendency to encourage young men along our seacoasts to enter our commer- cial service, and will bea benefit to the ship-owners as well as {0 the seamen. PARAGRAPHS ABOUY PEOPLE Maurice Jokai, the Hungarian writer, has been made & life member of the House of Mag. nates. The London papers ssy that Marshal Yama- gata of Japan will probably visit England in June to represent the Mikado at the celebra- tion in honor of the Queen's long reign. Cyrus Cobl’s marble bust of Dr. 8. F. Smith, suthor of “America,” which was ordered by the State of Massachusetts, is finished and will be placed in the new Memorial Hall when it is completed. Mrs. Harriet Worrell, Brooklyn’s strongest woman chess player, has commenced a course of training for the chess tournament which 1s being arranged in London by the British Le- dies’ Chess Crub, The fountain presenied to West Point by Mrs. James Marshland Lawion as & memorial to her husband snd to her father, Major Rob- ert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, was made irom her own desiga. AN AGE OF GIGANTIC ENTERPRISES. That s the style of the age in which we live. Measures which a few years g0 would have challenged and received the contumely of the ‘What is this wonderful source? All California is eager to learn. incredulous are (o-day generally investigated before the seal of approval s affixed. The “impossible” is stricken from the lexi- con, you might say, and only the “improoa- ble” remaius, with very uncertain tenure. The needs of the world have stimulated genius into the production of resuits which, had they occurred a hundred years ago, would have condemned their creators to the fate of the witch. We are nolonger syrprised at what happens. The capital stock of a telephone line to the moon could be successiully floated in any city, were it positively known that there was somebody at the distant end of the line to answer to our “hello.” The great problem of big cities lixe San Francisco Is “power” production. California has not the immense torrent of Niagara, nor has she, so far as known, the immense reservoirs of hydrogen gases which have made famous certain regions of New York and Pennsylvania, But California possesses a source of power Desides which the water and gases of the East- ern natural power-fields sink into pigmy in- significance. The question will be fully answered in THE SUNDAY CALL. It will be a revelation to you. Everybody whose interests lie with the interests of the Golden State must necessarily be deepiy concerned. THE SUNDAY CaLL will open your eyes to onme of the most magnificent prospects of this lorious State, We will leave that matter for the present. Between ourselves, now, “What is your hobby?” 1s it animal pets, collections of shells or mineral specimens, or do you 'go very much” on the bicycle? But there are men who take up hobbies, little fads to indulge thelr pastime, and push them away into domains of great studies and success, leaving tneir genuine profession dwarfed by the splendid heighit to which they have raised their fad. You are acquainted with lots of these men. Many of them live right here in San Francisco, and next Sunday you can read all about these remarkable faddists in THE CALL. It is an interesting and curious article about men who lead, you may say, double lives, With two professions, in one of which they grade with the dead level of their fellows, while in the other they scale away up to aititudes limited only by the strength of their desires. THE SUNDAY CALL will tell you who these people are. And it will tell you a multitude of other things that you ill be gratified to know. Do you want scientific information that you can rely upon? Do you want stories full of merit? Do you wantto know the true value of the latest books turned out by the press of the country? Do you want all the news “dished up” fairly and squarely? Do you want the cleanest and best all-rouna paper published west of the Sierras? Then get THE SUNDAY CALL. PERSONAL. H. F. Lilly of Honolulu is here. J. J. Hill of Nevada is a late arrival here. Dr. C. Kellogg of Lakeport is at the Grand. Dr. D. M. Livingstone of San Jose is in town. A. M. Burans of Seattle isat the Baldwin. W. D. Roagers of Watsonville is in the City. J. W. Maulsby of Sacramento is at the Grand. James R. Ryland of San Jose is at the Palace. H. C. Milligan of New York has arrived here. rnest Graves of San Luis Obisvo is in the City W. City. H. J. Delamer of San Diego, Tex., is in the City. here. Dr. David Starr Jordan of Palo Alto is at the Occidental. . J. L. Whitney, a merchant of Jamestown, is in tne City. R. 8. Taylor, & mining man of Yreks, ison a visit here. Pearson Halstead of New York is a recent rival here. Robert McPherson of McPherson is hers on & business tri General T. W. Sheehan of Sacramento is at the Occidental. Ex-Judge §. F. Gell of Salinas is & late ar- rival in the City. H. C. Fritz, a business man of Evanston, Wyo., is at the Lick. George P. Moore, 8 well-to-do business man of Omaha, is at tne Palace. G. B. Wilcox, a resident of Red Bluff, is reg- istered at the Cosmopolitan. Collin Kemper of the Lous James Company is among those at the Baldwin. Dr. J. E Brouse of Vancouver, B. C., and Mrs. Brouse are at the Occidental. R. Haskinson, a mining man of Quincy, s at the Russ, accompanied by his wife. J. M. Themandez, & business man of Las Vegas, N. M., arrived here yesterday. R. Knoli, a business man of Portland, is here, accompanied by his wife and child. S. E. Day, a prominent merchant of Cinin- natl, is a late arrival at the Cosmopolitan. F. H. Hopklns, a business man of Portland, is at the Palace accompanied by Mrs. Hopkins. M. Phillips and A. H. Wagner, young busi- ness men of Chicago, are staying at the Cos- mopolit H. B. Smith, owner of & general store at Everett, Wash., is here on & business trip, companied by his wife. August Wessel, a commercial traveler from this City, was thrown from a buggy near Vol- cano a few days ago by a runaway team, two of his ribs being broken. D. J. Kenny, who for several years past has been counected with Frank Leslie's Weekly and who was at one time connected with San Francisco journalism, is recent arrival here, and s at the Palac W. H. Hammon, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau here, has gone to Riverside and other places to make & general inspection of the weather stations. He will deliver sey- eral lectures on weather topics while absent. Forecaster McAdie will have charge of tbe office in his absence. OPTIMISM. Life bolds no woe for me. I know full well, However eyil thiogs may seem to-day, Soma future joy is certain to dispel The clouds that lower dark.y 0'er the way. night e're was whose darkness did not fade, Nor storm e're was whose COurse Was Dot 80on ran; Azd 50 my soul, by troubles undismayed, Doth simply wait the coming of the sun. HARRY CBAGIN WALKXE in Boston Transeripr. NEW SPAPER PLEASANIRY. “Darling,” said she much as ever?” “Yes, doarie,” said he, with his nose buried 1n his newsoaper. That ougiit 1o have t0 ask “Why?" “Oh, I dunno, Habit, T guess.”—Cincinnati Enquirer, “It has come at last,” sobbed tne lovely bride of & month; *the first quarrel. “What, with your husband?’ inquired her pitying {riend. “N—n0,” she faltered, lifting her tear- steeped ‘much worse—with the cook !’ — New Orleans Times-Democrat. “do you love me as tisfied her, but she had “I wonder what she'd say if she found one in the house?” ““Idon’t know, but I have an idea sne’d ask him how he dared come in the house without wiping his shoes on the mat.”—Washington Star, “Did you know thatall of Queen Victoria's children were compelled to Jearn some useful occcupation? Wales, for instance, was taught the shoemaking trade.” “And still he cannot foot & bill, cheerful 1diot.—Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Lightfist—The waiter appeared to be very much offended when you gave him that tip. Mr. Lightfist (in surprise)—Why, he couldn’t be very much offended; I only gave him 5 centsl—Puack. First spiritualist—How’'s business? Second spiritualist—Medium.—Twinkles. Stranger—You have cut my chin & second time! 1fyou can’t shave better than thatyou will lose all your customers pretty quick. Barber’s apprentice—Not at all, sir. I am not allowed toshave the regular customers id the A. McKay, a mining man of Angels, is | | | United States. 1 Lennon of Port Townsend is in the Letters From the People. THE “BUG BIBLE” Many Copies of It Said to Be in Exist- ence in This Country. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Ihave seen in the papers repeated sccounts of the “Bug Bible” and its rarity. The writers of these paragraphs seem to have but an in- suflicient knowledge of their subject. There are probably scores of “Bug Bibles” in the yself brought one to this country more than twenty years ago (I used 10 have several), which I gave to & friend, and which I suppose is still in existence some- where. 1 believe it will be found that ail the Dibles printed by Barker, whether in black- letter or in plain Roma , contain this syno- m for the word “terror,” and it is also found in other versions. The word occurs often in seventeenth century literature, a well-known exemple being in Shakespear ‘‘Hamlet,” and remains in use in our words “bogey” and bugbear,”” and “bug,” ss applied by Ameri- €ans to any unplessant animal of the worm, grub or insect kind. It is more difficult to understand how the English came to confine it entirely to insects of the family of cimicidz, the members of which are always {li-smelling but often gasly colored, and in other 1espects less offensive than most of the insect tribe. CHARLES J. GEDGE. BERKELEY, February 1, 1897. ANSWERS T0 (ORRESPONDENTS. To DYE EGGs—F., City. Any aruggist will furnish you dyes that will color eggs black or brown. MINES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA—A. ., City. The wages pald to miners in the minesof British Columoia is from $2 to $3 per day. THE CONSTITUTH . P. F., Shandop, San Luis Obispo, Cal. You can obtain & copy of the constitution of the State of California by addressing a communication to the Secretary of State at Sacramento. MINIXG PROPERTY—A. 8, Angels Camp, Cala- veras County, Cal. The question you ask is one that this department cannot answer for the reason that it involves questions of proof and law which only a court can pass upon. To SAN Jose—A. C., City. This department has been unable to ascertain the “best pedes- trian record between the City Hall, cisco, and the electric tower, San J distance by the county road 'is about miles. SELLING CRABS—C. C., City. If you wish to engage in the business of selling crabs you will have to procure a license. 1f you will call at the license office in the City Hall you will be informed as to the amount of license vou will have to pa; 3 SERVICE STRIPES—A. A. B., City. A member ©f the National Guard who has served a term of enlistment and re-enlists is entitled to wear & service stripe. He is entitled to & stripe for every enlistment that he has com. eted. JService in a cadet company counts Just thefsame as in any other branch. Two ISLANDS—-N. ity. Aleatraz Island in the bay of San Francisco measures about 1800 feet extreme length and 260 at its widest pari. The southern island of the group known s the Farallones de los Frayles, 243; miles from a line drawn across the Golden Gate, is ihe largest. It measures 5930 feet in length by 1048 in width. The north and middie Farallones are mere rocks. THE DEVIL'S AucTioN—J. B. M., City. “The Devil's Auction” was produced at the Bush- street Theater in this City on the 27th of June, 1887, and was on the boards for two weeks. 1t was then produced for six nights at the Grand Opera-house_under the title of “The Devil's Auction, or The Goldeu Brauch,” commencing July 11, 1887. It was next produced at the California Theater, commgucing Decem) 25, 1891. A S AN ENGINEER—N. N., City. An individual serving in an engine-room of s steamship must serve a year before he can obtain third assistant engineer papers, and one T befors ho can be entltled to sccond sariiions pepers and one vear more bfore entitled to st assistant papers. The law does ot re- quire that a person should be a mechanic, but Be should know sometning of the duties of & machinist. “SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT'—Reader, City, The following quotation is from the “Theologian’s Tale,” Ehzabeth, Canto 5, in “Tales of a Wayside Inu,” by Henry W, Long- fellow, finished January 29, 1873: Ehips that pass in the night and speak each other in passing Oniy a signal darkness; 8o on the ocean of life we pass and speak one anoter, Only look 6r a voice, then darkness again and a silence. wn, and a distant voice in the HoMESTEAD ENTRY—Lucine Craft, Ballards, Sania Barbara County, Cal. There are condi. tions under which “:s married wolan, hus. band living,” can take up United States land, A deserted wife may make an entry. ‘A mar- ried woman, deseried by her husband, made a homestead entry and provided means for im- proving and cultivating the land embracad therein. Notwithstanding her husband’s turn, she wili, upon making satisfactory final proof, receive'the patent in her own name.’ (Anna Oleson, Copp’s Land Laws, p. 488)) An doned wite is regarded a5 the. fend of n famiiy and her rights will receive due consid. ration. 1f & man and woman marry after each has made an eatry one entry must be sur- rendered. THE YEAR 1900—E. A. §,, Alameda, Cal. The best authorities do not agree with you In re- gard to the year 1899 closing the nineteenth century. In the Century Dictionary is the following: tory began with 1800, year pariod In each 1 the century. Thus the nineteenth century began with 1801 and will close with 1900, and the year 1901 will be the beginning of the twentle: century and not the nineteenth century, announced in this department through 'an year compieting the 100 nice giving name to the et. 1shave only strangers—Dublin World. | error of ranscription o few days since. ¢ Messrs. Friedlander, Gottlob & Co. announce that they have almost completed arrange- ments for the appearance of Bronislaw Huber- man at the Caifornia Theater. The child prodigy has been very much overdone of late years, but this boy violinist seems to be the most remarksble child wonder since the appearance years ago of little Joseph Hoffman, Before Huberman came to this country he was announced as “Nota prodigy but an arust,” and his concerts have proved that the statoment was no exaggeration. He came to New York with very little prelim- inary puffing, and made his American debut at Carnegie Hall on November 19 with the Seldl Orcnestra. Since then the boy has been the sensation of the concert season, '96 and Doth in New York and Boston. All the vio- linists snd pianists who have come this season In search of American dollars, and have been photographed and paragraphed and had weird stories told of their doings to excite public curiosity, have not risen to the top crest of popularity, as little Huberman nhas done. The boy is described as possessing MUSIC AND MUSICIANS the British garrison, and at her request agreed to give the Zulus an ope ir concert. The) warriors came in thousands to the appointed spot outside the fort, and squatting on the | Bround, with their black faces upturned, ex- | Pressed their approbation of Mlle. Trebelli’s g by deep guf I grunts. On another oceasion the young vocalist sang “Home, Sweet Home” to a th and Cornish miners in Australia six hundred feet below the sur- ridicuious devices for catch- coins of a confiding public is found in an adve ement to be seen in seve eral E h papers. The advertiser is & tea merchaut, aud Le cffers togive away with every pound o Y uitous lesson on th limit of the les- son bet ninutes. The price of the pound of tes wo shillings (balf & dollar), and one na Y asks what 1t can really be worth if the deal to give away & mu it. next thing will probably be piano aud singing lessong violin or mando Will Probably Be Heard BRONISLAW HUBERMAN, the Child Wonder Violinist, Who at the California Theater. way. To converse with him is to converse with a full-fledged adult of remarkable mentality, ana then to glance at his young face, {ramed in its mass of black curls, is almost a shock. A few years ago the poetess queen, Carmen Silva, painted Huberman’s portrait as an angel. Those who have seen him recently say that there are flashes of demoniacal power and passion in the boy's expression now that would ill become an angel. After his American tour, which wiil end in May, Huberman pere will send his son to school in Vienna in order that he may enjoy the com- panionship of children of his own age, a thing he has hitherto never done. Miss Sibyl Sanderson is going down to pos- terity in a unique and interesting way as the personification of vne of the three most suc- cessful French operas of modern times. The city of Paris is building imelf a magnificent new Opera Comique (or Salle Favart, as it is often called, after the founder of the Prench | opera comique). The edifice is now nearing | completion, and the frescoing of the greatdome has been intrusted to tne celebratad painter, Benjamin Constant. A representative of Le Matin interviewed the painter the other day re- | specting his work, and this is what he said: | “The base of the design will cousist of the | three most celebrated operas comigues of the | French contemporary school. In the center will be Mignon, Goethe's heroine, who has be- come that of Ambroise Thomas; she will be standing uprignt, with Lothario at her feet | and Wilhelm Meister at her right. To the | spectator’s right will be seen the three chief charactersin Bizet’s ‘Carmen,’ and to the lett will be Massenet's Manon, aiighting fram her sedan chair while the Chevalier des Grisux gallantly kisses her hand.” i “Shall you give your figures the traits of the artists who have created or given the best in- terprotation of the leading roles?” asked the representative of Le Matin and Constant re- plied: “‘Assuredly. Thus you will see Miss Sibyl Sanderson as Manon, for I consider that the revival of Massenet’s opers by that artist can be looked upon as a very remarkable one. Carmen will be Emma Calve, who has tri- umphed most in the role, and Mignon will be Galli-Marle, who created the part, and who | has never been approached in it. When one considers that the Salle Favart is | national building and that the artistic deco- tions of such buildings have an almost sacred significance in France, it is quite a remarkable fact that a singer from far-away California shouid be placed there with two of the greatest French artists of modern times. Melba has gone back to Europe an invalid, butit is halt believed that she will return before the end of the grand opera season. There are various reasons assigned for her 1 Qisposition. New York papers have been air- ing the statement that she caught cold at the draughty Academy of Music while lying in her tomb in “Romeo and Juliet.” Melba's failure in the role of Brunhilde is also given asa reason for her temporary withdrawal, as Jean ge Reszke persuaded her to sing the part, assuring her thatshe could do as well as or better than Nordica. De Reszke is now accused of having done this in order to all the slory for the part of Siegfried instead of sharing_the applause with Nordica’s Brun- hilde. If this is true, Melba must feel that she has been made s tool of. A newspaper corre- spondent has calculated that on the evenings when Melba appears in opera in New York, she is paid at the rate of $70 a minute. “At thatcalculation at a recent performance she received over $1 a second. But meanwhile, the tenor had something to do, and by exact computation Melba sang only ten minutes, so she earned $150 for each minute ot actual work. Continuing this investigation furiher, we find that every time the diva exhaled her breath she made $50. Yet she began her musical career at Peuny Readings in Australia for a compensation of 62 cents, or two and six- L She was visiting the wie of the commander of pence a night. No romance by Stanley Wey- man or Anthony Hope can equal the astonish- ment of grand oper A colossal fiasco has marked the opening of the Ecala season at Milan with “The Dusk of the Gods.” A Milanese newspaper, speaking of Wagner and his musicin Italy, says: “How many of us are believers? The coming performances will no doubt tell us. Of the gay, glittering, multl-colored crowd whieh filled the theator and listencd very at- tentively on the first night, certainly nine- | tenths were abominably bored, and snowed once again by their silence to whatextent Wagner s accepted in Milan. ‘The Dusk of the Gods’ may bs a masterpiece, and may pre- sent a veritable intellectual delight for those who are versed in the musicof the German master, and who are seekers after philosophy. For the moment though the music seemed very wearisome to our pubilc, and the man- agers had botter not abuse its patience, if they do not want to see a repetition of the memor- able excess which marked the performances of ‘The Walkyrie’ a few years ago Mlle. Antoinette Trebelli has had some rather unique exveriences during her world's tour, On one occasion she visited the interior of Zu. luland, and the Zulus hearing of her fame came in thousands to see if she would sing for them, as they had never heard a white singer. I an extraordinarily precocious mind in every | given away with bars of soap and bottles of | shoe blacking. One of the artists who will come to America this year is Sims Reeves, the veteran Enghsh tenor. Reeves won renown in Italian opera & generation or more ago, and has made and lost a fortune since then. About two years 8go he took a second wife in the person of a | young pupil of his, who had been named | Maud 1n ber infancy by her parents on me- count of their admiration for the way in which &ims Reeves sang the ballad “Cowe Into the Garden, Maud.” Reeves will make his first bow to an American audience &t the age of 78, | Nikisch, formerly of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, later of Buda-Pesth and now of Berlin and Leipsic. has been sucd for $20,000 damages by the Royal Opera-house of Buda- Pesth for having given up his position as its conductor before the time specified in his con- tract. Notoniy has the Court of Appeak o' Austria refused o allow the theater anyglam ages, but it hes condemned it to pay all th costs. Decidedly Germany is the country of jubi- lees. In a little Saxon town they have just celebrated the jubilee of an honest tailor, Frederick Augustus Schetelig, who for the last sixty years Las formed part of the village choir and has never missed a single Sunday, though his services received no remuneration. The King of Saxony conferred a decoration upon this worthy singer on the day of his jubi- lee. Emperor William seems to be very well pleased with Count von Hochberg, general su- perintendent of the imperial theaters. for he has just conferred upon him the hereditary title of member of the Chamber of Peers of Prussia. The new peer will continue to fulfill his functions as superintendent of the Em- peror’s theate A grand concert will be given by Court Maz- zini No. 7809, A, 0. F., next Sunday evening In Washington-square flail. A feature of the performance wiil be a new orchestrs con- ducted by F. Franzoni. The vocalists will be Miss Casati, Signor Georgi, A. Daniele and Signor G. Almagia. Professor Schultheis will | play & clarionet solo. Itis now announced that Wolfson will not attempt to keep any of Rosenthals con- cert dates this sesson. The pianist is con- valescent and hopes to move to Asheville, N. C,, early this month, but he is not in a con- dition to appear on the concert platform. Sousa and his grand concert band are near- ing the constand will appear both in San Fran- cisco and Oakland this month. Mlle. Cecile Chaminade, the pianist and pop- ular ¥rench composer, will make an American tour next season in conjunction with Henri Marteau, the French violinist, Heary Wolfson will be their msnage LARGEST varlety chocolate creams. Townsend’s, -——— SpepcrAL information daily to manufactursry, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. - —_—————— Blynkins—That fellow De Soaque says some, very dry things, doesu’t he? 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