The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1897. FEBRUARY 11,1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: 3.00 1.50 sy CALL, six months, by thiree months by mail one month, by mal. dsy CALL, one yesr, by ma Bui \ KEXLY CuLy, one year, by mad. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Oalifern: phone........ EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone... ... Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICBS: 627 Bontromery sireet, corner Clay; opem mmtll 9:50 o'clock. o'clock. on streets; open 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until ® o'clocks 1 nth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open untll 8:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Fooms 51 and 92, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. EAKS FOR ALL. THE FAKE AND THE FACT. —THE FAKHE— The Ezaminer published for several da top of its titie page the foliowing fake: THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED 249,757 Inches Of Ads During 1896, 5964 More Than were published by any other San Francisco newspaper. atthe n the publication of this fake the Examiner was probably not aware that a careful record was being kept of the actual amount in inches of Its sdvertising and that in consequence it could be contronted with the following fact. —THE FACT— THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED 236,528 Inches Of Ads During 1896. That is one fact and here is an- other: THE CALL PUBLISHED 239,551 Inches Of Ads During 189%. 3,023 More Inches were published in THE CALL than in the Examiner during 1896. Tt fs 0 be remembered that during 1898 the Ezaminer published approximately 800 inches of illegal lottery advertisements, of waich THE CALL did not and would not publish one. The morarch of the fakers has doubtless suc- ceeded in securing thousands of inches of adver- tising during the past year by duping and decely- ing advertisers through false and arrogant asser- tions of the cbaracter of the foregoing fake It would seem. however, from the facts that the merchants as a rule have not been misled by its fraudulent pretenses. The Ezaminer boasts that its books are open to ection, but we suggest that it inspect its own books before It ventures upon the publication of another fake. We cougratulate the public on the fact that the exrosure of this fake led the Ezaminer to drop it In this the Ezaminer was dist it 1t s wise it will make no more such bold attempts to The prices of water like water itse should flow downward. Nevada looks upon Dan Stuart as the advance agent ot prosperity. The war in Crete is a small thing to star: with, but it is liable to spread lixe a yrairie fire. 1t begins to look as if Greece thought she could settle the Turkish question all by her lonely. To the making of new State commissions there seems to be no end except the end of raking the treasurv. We live and learn. Itis now said there s rightly no hyphen between the Bradley and the Martin 1n the ball-giver’s name. The day passed when “‘Greece her knees in suppliance bent,” and she now pro- ceeds to grease her knees for the warpath. An executive session of the BSenate seems about as leaky as a straw hat. All the talk runs through it as fast asitis talked into it. Oregon will undoubtedly succeed in electing a Senator after awhile. The web- foot creature moves slowly, but it doesn’t often fall down. Between the prize-fight law in Nevada and the Bradiey Martin ball in New York the honors of the game East and West seem to be even Eastern papers denounce Nevada for permitting prize-fighting, but reports show there is a prize-fight almost every day in some Eastern city. The squadron of Admiral Bunce is biockading Charleston as in war days, but the bombardment from the city this time is to be done with champagne corks. In these closing days of Cleveland’s ad- ministration it would be best to leave him in peace, but even now a report has been started that he eats gingerbread for lunch. According to Bryan’s story he did not give up hope of success at the polls until 11 0’clock on the night of the election. After that, of course, it was not necessary for him to give it up; it was gone. The passage of the immigration bill in the House by a vote of 217 to 37 shows it has at last been put into shape which suits almost everybody, and we can count on its enactment into law before the session closes. Tre CaLL was the only paper which published yesterday morning a full report of the imporiant message of Gowernor Buad, vetoing the bill providing an appro- priation to meet the deficiency in the Btate Printing Office. You must read THE CALL w0 get all the news and getit right, l WATER RATES, The investigation begun yesterday into the affairs of the water company by the Board of Supervisors promises to vield results from which the public can form a fair estimate of the rate of charges which should be fixed for the consumers of water during the fiscal year. This promise is gratifying 1o the public, for 1t is exactly what has Jong been desiced. The people have no wish to do injustice to those who have invested their capital in the company, but they are determined that full justice shail be done to themselves and to the municipality. Tue CaLs from the beginning of the controversy has consistently advocated the course which the Bupervisors are now pursuing. It has called for a fuil, thorough and exhaustive investigation of the expenditures and income of the com- pany in order that the people might have oll the facts necessary upon which to base a just judgment of what should be done in the premises. It will require time and careful study to arrive at the cannot be made in a day. facts and to draw rightful conclusions rightly, therefore, in proceeding carefully about the work. The investigation from them. The Supervisors are acting There is no occasion for hurry, and while unnecessary delays should be avoided, ample time should be given to the subject to obtain the fullest information possible concerning 1t. It is gratifying to note that public opinion has made itself so ciearly known on this subject that even those who were at one time demanding arbitrary reductions have been forced to abandon their cry and are now giving at least a seeming consent to the course the Supervisors have taken and which Tue Cavrr has all along sdvocated. The subject is at present the one of greatest municipal interest now before the people. So long as the hearings are cont intelligent citizen. the various hearings reflecting men and women, and as a result public entiment on the question. to give close heed. The people believe they have been com ed they will attract the attention of every It will be no slight and casual notice given to the reports made of Each will be closely studied by thousands of observant and there will be formed a resolute and definite To that sentiment it will be well for the Supervisors pelled to pay higher water rates than justice requires, and if the facts brought out by the investigation prove that belief to be well founded they will expect the Supervisors to provide lower raies for the future. It must not be supposed that oppssition to arbitrary reduction means popular consent to the existing rates. Good citizens ask for justice and are determined to have it. GOOD ROADS. While the people of California are not prejudiced in favor of any particular method of dealing with the tubject of road improvement on the part of the State, they are most earnestly in favor of some law which will promote that much | desired object. Whether the work is to be done by a will be regarded as negligent of its duty 1f it does not provide some means for § shing the people with better highways | than they have at present. Whether the work can be best done by a State commission or Supervisors is ques- tionable. Mr. Ennis of Sacramento stated in a discussion before the Assembly Com- mittee on Roads and Highways on Tues- day that he was opposed to Supervisors building the roads, and cited as an argt ment in favor of his position that the Supervisors spent $50,000 on roads and had nota de- cent highway 1n the county. The repre- sentatives of Santa Ciara County could effectually answer that argument by showing the Legislature what has been done by Supervisors in constructing ana maintaining the highways of Santa Clara. Mr. Price of Sonoma objected to the highway commission on the general ground that the people are tired of creat- ing commissions to dip tbeir hands into the public purse. To this argument a valid answer mignt also be found in the fact that the people are opposed to no commission which by rendering zood work proves itself to be of economic value to the communit TrE CALL takes no sides on the question of county or State supervision. for all in demanding merely that some legislation be devised for the prompt be- ginning of highway improvement. A beginning is all that is necessary. Assoon as the work is begun it will justify itselt and find favor among the people. The truth of this statement is attested by the experience in those States where the work of highway improvement has been most effectively carried on. The ex- ample of Massachusetis has been so often guoted that it is hardly necessary to refer to it again. A new illustration nished by New Jersey, where the work of highway improvement was begun about six years ago, and has since progressed with remarkable success. When the New Jersey commission be- gan its work there was some objection from the farmers on account of increased taxation, but now the roads have proven themeelves of such economic value to farms the people are so eager toobtain good roads that the fear is they will make greater demands upon the State than the State can well afford to support. The experience in New Jersey and Mas- sachusetts would undoubted!ly be repeated in California if the work of highway im- provement were begun here with anything like the vigor with which it has been un- | dertaken in those commonwealths. The main thing is to make a beginning, and it isto be hoped that the Legislature will devise some means of doing that during the preseat session. OHECKING THE BANDITS. The courage of Express Messenger Alex- ander Summers not only prevented the | rothery of the Santa Fe overland train in Arizona on Monday night, but put an end to the life of the leader of the gang. Rarely hasa shot been more effectually tired than that which killed the bandit who carried the dynamite with which it was intended to blow open the safe of the express-car and postoffice-car. If a few moresuch feats are performed the trade of holding up trains will be rendered so haz- ardous that it will cease to attract the minds of adventurous villains. The feat of the express messenger was one of more than ordinary daring. He had to get outof acar in a train which had been held up and make his way toa position where he could get a sure shot at the robber. To effect this he was com- pelled to crawl under the car and geton the brakebeam, and from that piace draw himself up to a place where he could take good aim with his revolver, and after making sure that he had the right man kill him with one shot. Too much praise cannot be given to Messenger Summers for the service which by his valor he has rendered not only to the express company but to the public | generally. He hasdoue much to putan end to train-robbing, and if his example is followed by others the time will not be far distant when travel on the railway trains of the United States will be safe from any aanger of molestation by any gang of bandits however reckless and bold they may be. Commenting on the so-called news re- ports of the New York Journal the Chap Book says it “is always vulgar, trivial, sen- sational and, as a minor detail, false.” 1t seems, therefore, that Hearst varies his New York depravities from his San Fran- cisco indecencies, for with the Eraminer the falseness of the news reports is a major detail, The fact that a Vanderbilt is to spend the winter in Washington has raised a flutter all over the East, and prophecies are freely made that before long Washing- ton will be the social center of the Re- public and New York will bave to cou- tent herself with being a business town. ) & State commission or by | Supervisors it ought certainly to be done | by somebody, and the present Legislature | in Sacramento County had | 1t speaks | | is fur- | PLATT AND THE TARIFFE ! The Democratic organs, in default of ‘ something better to do, have revived their }014 story that Senator Platt of New York will be an antagonist of the McKinley ad- ministration. This time they have com- mitted the blunderofgoing into detail, and the Ezaminer corresporndent from Wash- ington yesterday was foolish enough to y that Mr. Platt and his friends in the enate “will hold up the new tariff bill until McKinley satisties their demands in | the way of patronage.” A sufficient answer to this reckless as- sertior to be found in the address made by Senator Platt at the banquet recently | given to him at Albany. In his speech the Senator-elect referred to the tariff question, and in the course of his remarks said: The people do mot want the Wilson bill | patched up. They want it repealed, and in its place their plain demand, to which the elec- tion of two successive Republican majorities in the House of Representatives sufficiently testifies, is for the enactment of an intelligent and consistent tariff, based in every schedule | upon the principle of preventing the forelgn | producer of goods which compete with Ameri- | can goods from wholesaling his wares in the American merket at prices which compel the American maker of such wares either to go | out of business or to reduce the wages he pays t0 his labor. Several times in the course of his speech the Senator-elect referred to the import- ance of Republican harmony in Congress. He gave distinct pledges that he would ! support the adminisiration and would do all in his power to further the speedy | enactment of a tariff bill thoroughly em- | bodying the system of protection. In express terms he declared that the suc- cess of the McKinley administration will be the success of the Republican party, and that no contribution he can make to that great cause will be wanting, The Senator from New York has his faults, but a lack of loyalty to his party and the welfare of the country is not one of them. Democrats who are hoping to | see divisions, dissensions and antag- | onisms in the Republican ranks will have to look to some one else than Senator Platt to lead in making them. It hardly | needed his declaration of loyalty to as- sure the people that he would be found actively co-operating with the adminis- tration, bt since the Democratic organs have. started these fakes charging him with disloyalty it seems that his speech was timely. BISMAROK'S BLUES. From the report of a fragment of con- versation with the great Bismarck in his retirement we learn that the Iron Chan- cellor is sometimes weary of his life, No longer allowed to play the part of a star performer on the stage of the world's great affairs he says he is tired of being mere spectator. The pathetic plaint will | probably touch a symuathetic chord in the heerts of many strong men who have been 1 away on the shelf as back num- bers. To be deemed useless is bitter to any one, but must be doubly bitter to one conscious of fettered strength. Prome- theus, bound with silken cords of the smoothest courtesy to live in the limits of & palace which is not a seat of power, will have bLis vitals preyed upon by eagles invisible to men who are not Titans, It is a question whether fretting over loss of power is not inconsistent with a character truly great. Ambition, courage and wisdom may all be present in extra- ordinary development, and yet there may be lacking an important complement to the filling out of & well-rounded character. An ideal life for an ideal man would be a passage through three clearly aivided | veriods—a period of youth, with glowing bopes and aspirations; a period of man. hood’s prime, full of strenuous effort, re- warded with accomplished ambition, and then should follow many years of serene anda quiescent contemplation, with rest so absolute as to be unbroken even by a de- sire to again enter the arena of active life. Men who have lived such lives are known to have asserted that the last period contained a happiness far beyond vouth’s glowing hopes, and superior even to that resulting from the triumphs of manhood. Such a life is indeed one to be desired, and that a man who has attained two-thirds of it should by his own restless impatience lose the culminating bliss of a peaceful old age is one of the saddest thwartings of nature’s plans. It should be a source of gratification to | Bismarck that since death is inevitable he is allowed to linger long enough to see that the empire he created can progre: smoothly without his aid. It should be a pleasure to him to watch the anfold- ing of German development even as a spectator, who can no longer participate in the great work of directing it. He should ask bimsell, like Tennyson: Were this not well, to bide mine hour, Tho' watching from a ruined tower How grows the day of human power? The House of Representatives showed itself on Tuesday to be as eagerasthe Senate to knock Cleveland’s vetoes sky high, and it would seem the President mignt as well go fishing and let Congress attend to legislation without obstruction on his part. It was noted in both New York and Chicago that during the cold snap the weather was 80 severe some of the richest and best-housed people in the city could not thaw out enough to subscribe to the relief fund for the poor. THROUGH A GIANT EYE OF SCIENCE The close of the present century bids fair to substantiate the claims which have been put forward by many enthusiaststhat it would mark a great era of discoveries in the field of science. So often are announcements now made of new processes and applications of naturel resources, of better understanding of natursl laws and discoveries of nature's secrets that astonishment is aimost supplanted by bewilderment. Of the discoveries and inventions that have benefited mankind, more than one-half of the | total have been made known to the world auring the past twenty-five years. The marvelous operation of the telephone is Do longer mysterious, and yet its discovery MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, An opera which many people think will | Bourgault Ducondray. The critics say thet mark a new era in lyric drama will receive its | an impression of entire novelty is conveye: first public performance to-morrow night, | by this genre of music, and that the applic February 12, at the Paris urand Opera. It is | tion of modern harmony to antique melody i3 by Zola and Bruneau, the authors of “Le |an idea which will no doubt be more devel- Reve” and “I'Attaque du Moulin,” the latter | oped henceforth, as Aramis has proved how of which tells so realistically of the horrors of | successful such music can be in pleasing the strange, wild people, who existed as the primal residents of California ? Do you know which of the native tribes was tne most curious and interesting, as well as the most advanced in civilization ? Wel THE § admirably written. And there are gnany other excellent things, not to mention the valuable contents of the various carefully edited departments. You should not fail to get THE SUNDAY CALL. It is the very best Sunday newspaper published on this side of the Rocky Mounteins, , THE SUNDAY CALL will enlighten you as to who they were, where they lived, and as to some of the marvelous facts concerning their manner of life and their views of things, NDAY CALL will contain some deiightful stories of California. Man's Luck,” by Olive Heyden, is a novel story of the mines. It is founded on fact, and is only attains its legal majority of twenty-one vears in 1897. In nearly all of the discoveries of the last quarter of a century electricity has played some important part. Next to electricity light forms one of the Pprominent constituents of the new discoveries. | And one of the applications of light, that of | photogravhy, has added to astrouomical | science the most powertul ally it possesses. Very well. You are interested in the latest and not the least remarkable of discoveries in the world of astronomy. Photography has come to man’s aid and proved a veritabie ‘‘eye of science.” In what respect ? THE SUNDAY CALL will inform you. Through the aid of tne new “giant eye” we may soon learn whether or not our earth is the only habited globe. Ah! The noble red man! Does the thought of him awaken faucies in you? Are you stirred by contemplation of these One of them, “A Lazy AROUND THE CORRIDORS George W. McLean of Nevada City, known | Which involved more than $7,000,000. over Californi s one of the best informed of mining men, isone of the conspicuous figures | Island, in the Sacrameuto River, is at the at the Lick House. Mr. McLean has for most | Russ. of his life been engaged in mining, and has | had an extended experience with different |y, proparties. He is one of the owners of the Merland mine, Nevada City, and has interests in & number of other properties. He says that work on the various mines in that part of the country is going along about as usual. A number of Ppropertiss have from bonded, but none of great importance lately. Among the leading properties now being de- veloped it the Champion, of which Mr. Zeltler steady and a large force of men 1s at work. Counsiderable interest is being taken in this | man of Butte, Mout., is in the City, accompan- mine. *‘There has been little snow in the immedi- | his wife. time to time been | | | merchandise dealers of New Almaden, arrived of this City 1s superintendent. The output is | here yesterday. | Chicago to Seattle. During ths past seven years he has consummated realty ‘“deals” W. G. Goodman, & wealthy rancher of Grand | A. Louis, a young business man of New York, as among yesterday’s arrivals at the Cosmo- politan. J. F. Mangins, & manufacturer of Bellefon- taine, Ohio, i3 in the City, accompanied by G. B. MelIntosh of Los Angeles ison & busi mess trip to the City, and is staying at the Cosmopolitan. R. R. Budmore and D. A. Bulmon, general Charles Clark, a wealthy banker and mining | fed by Mrs. Clark. | A distinguished party of Chicago people are | GEORGE W. McLEAN, Ome of the Owners of the Meriland Mine at Nevada City, (Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.| ate vicinity of Nevada City thus far,” said Mr. McLean, “and nome of consequence lately. The rain carried off what there was. “Altogether it has been a rather open and pleasant winter, and mining has gone forward without any interruption.” Mr. McLean says there is a general interest in the mines of Nevada County, as manifested by men from elsewhere who have gone there 10 investigate the mineral resources. He will remain here probably for some little time. PERSONAL W. Davis of Ely, Nev., is in the City. E. A. Evans of Chicago 18 a late arrival here. 8. Hartman, a business man of Merced, is in town. Judge W. D. Long of Nevada City is at the Grand. 8. R. Porter of the Belial mine is at the Oc- cidental. Taomas B. Bard of Lakeport arrived here last night. J. Stoneman of Winons, Minn., is s late ar- rival here, L. T. Hatfleld, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the Lick. F. H. Coyne, a mine-owner of Angels Camp, t the Palace. M. W. Mather of the Plumbago mineis ona visit to this City. E. D. Worley and Robert C. Lund, of Utah, are at the Palace. Dr. R. W. Musgrove of Hanford is among the arrivals at the Russ. Percival Moore, & business man of Louisville, Ky., is at the Palace. George West, owner of large lumber mills at Stockton, is in town. W. H. Tyburn, s business man of Salinas City, is on & visit here. John A. Gill, a business man of Sacramento, and Miss Glil are in town. G. M. Hyems, s mining engineer of New York, arrived here last night. ®J. M. Kirkland, a business man of San Luis Obispo, is among the late arrivals. Sherift W. C. Conroy of Auburn, Placer County, is registered at the Grand. P. Charlebois, one of the old-time merchants of Venturs, arrived here yesterday. J. 8 Orr, & general-store owner of Klamath Falls, Or., is registered at the Russ. Thomas Fitzgerald, s prominent citizen of Los Angeles, is at the Cosmopolitan. V. Henderson, who is engaged in business at Pheenix., Ariz., is a late arrival in the City. J. O'Mars, s prosperous dairyman of Madera, is in the City and a gzuest at the Cosmopolitan. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Drumheller of Spokane are at the Palace. Mr. Drumheller is a real vstate operator, whose iame extends from It | | cattle ranch in the Okanagan country and of a at the Palace, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. George R. Thorne, Miss Thorne, Miss Hitchcock and Mrs. Walker. W. K. Whedlock, who has been interesting | himself in the Corbeut-Fitzsimmons fight in Nevada, hasarnived here from Reno, and s at the Baldwin. E. G. Barton, the widely known raisin- grower of Fresno County, who owns and op- erates one of tie largest vineyards in the State, is at the Occidental, Colonel A. C. Ellis, an attorney of Salt Lake, Who made a number of Bryan speeches in Cali- foruia during the recent campaign, arrived here yesterday and is at the Occidental. William Jonchimsen, owner of an extensive large herd of cattle, is visiting this City. He says that there is agood deal of mining on what a little while ago was the Okanagan or Colville Indian reservation. John P. Wilson, author of “The New Bully,” has been called o Los Angeles to reconstruct 8 play there and will be absent probably about WO weeks, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 10.—At the Plaza— 7. A. Bennett; Park Avenue—W. Matthew; Murray Hill—P. W. Stanford; Astor—B. Miller; Sturtevant—H. Turret, Mrs. E. Buckleton and infant. Mrs. B. M. Malloy left the Plaza to sail on the New York for England. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “I'd like to buy & few cows,” remarked the datryman, whose merchandise has on several occasions been an object of suspicion. “‘Cows!" exclaimed his neighbor. for?” “Well,” was the frank rejoinder, “I've got an idea that the public sort of expects to see cows around & dairy the same as they expect 10 see an Indian in front of & cigar store or a in frontof & barber-shop.”—Washington “What “Ever notice what an even temper Johnson has? No matter how much he is dissgreed with, he never gets angry.” “No; but what a deep pity he has for the other fellow."—Indi; lis Journal. Mrs. Wellment—Poor fellow! friends? Beggar (sobbing)—No, leddy; I hain't got nuthin’ but relatives.—Judge. “Say, pa,"” said Johnny, “I jist hesrd Mrs. Billings tell Mr. Biliings that as the man of our house. What did she mean “Here,” said Johnny's ps, “is & quarter. Never let your mother know about this. It would be a terrible shock to her. Now run Have you no away and play like a nice little boy."—Cleve- | without it ?* war. “Messidor,” the new work, desls with | public, the labor problem. Bruneau always wanted | another libretto from Zola after the success of “I’Attaque du Moulin,” but Zola insisted that | musicians should write their own librettos. | He said “In modern lyric drama the com- | munion must be perfect between words and | v | some of them are of enormous value, such as poem. Brunesu writes well; he has ideas. What more does he want ?"’ But the composer still clamored for a libretto. *I cannot write poetry,” said Zola; “do you think you can do i During the year 1896 the British Museum of London received an addition of 1391 books on music and 4798 scores and manuscript music of different kinds. Many of these books and scores were presented to the museum and somo pencil sketches by Beethoven for his compositions during 1825 and 1526, a book of hymos written in France auring the twelft ALFRED BRUNEAU, Who Has Collaborated With Zola in the Latest Development of Lyric Drama. “Perfectly,” said !Braneau; “I shall be more untrammeled with & libretto in prose.” So that question being resolyed there remained the choice of subject. One day Zola said to Bruneau: “I have an 1dea; it may not be musical, but it is great and can be de- veloped in a thrilling manner. My subject is “Toil.’” “I see & very fertile subjectfin that,” said Bruneau. “Everything depends on the development.” When Zola firstsat down to pen the libretto of the new opers, ‘Messidor,” he took & sheet of paper and noted on it what he considered the absolute essentials of success. He wrote, “The plot must lend 1tself to picturesque stag- ing and fine scenery. The drama must end well, unlike the ordinary operas, which gen- erally terminate with the death of the hero, this shall end in the triumphoflife. There must be choruses, or rather crowds, alive, sgitated crowds, in which each individual plays a part and perticipates in the general action. The drama must be modern, but it must contain also a legendary side, where naivete and faith must be shown.” And then Zols mused: “Who zhall be the characters of this drama? No banal Prince, no faded Queen, no bourgeois—they are so unplctur- esque. Whothen? Workmen,” and thus the horny-handed sons of toil are the heroes of the newest lyric drama. The plot of *Messidor” is something as fol- lows: There is a village whose inhabitants have always lived by collecting gold washed down by the happy waves of the river Ariege. Oue day & villager, more enterprising and in- telligent than the others, constructs & mill on the river bank, and turning the water from its course robs his fellow-townsmen of all the gold. Atome blow the village is ruined and its inhabitants reduced to want. But from the neighboring city comes a native of the village who has learned many things in his travels. Hao tells his friends that they have a right to revolt against the man who has cor- nered all their gold; that it is their duty to do so. The villagers, however, end by realizing that true riches do not lie where they always imagined them to be—in the sterile gold—that it is the Land which gives them the means to live, and they become convinced that their crime is in having neglected the Land so long for this horrible gola, which is always escap- ing them. The mill disappears and the peasants return to the Land with a triumphal ery of delfverance, the immense hosanna of the narvests of the earth. The “Marseiliaise” has already celobrated its centenary, although its periods of service as the French national hymn have never been very long, for Napoleon I, the restoration and the second empire all in turn shelvedit. On the 28th of last month Austria celebrated the centenary of its national hymn, for it was on Janusry 28, 1797, that Emperor Francis de- creed that the hymn written by Joseph Haydn to words by the Jesuit father, Laurent Leopold Haschka, should henceforth be sung 25 the national hymn of the Austrians. Two weeks aiter, February 12, on the Emperor's birtnday, this hymn, which begins “God pre- serve the Emperor Francis,” was sung pub- licly in all the theaters in Vienna, and Joseph Haydn was presented with & fine portrait of the Emperor and a good round sum of money. The autograph copy of his composition is stitl preserved in the Imperial Library at Vienna. Haydn's composition has never cessed to be the Austrian national hymn, though when the Emperor Ferdinand came 1o the throne, on | nccount of the name being two syllables longer than Francis (Franz), ‘‘Our Emperor” was substituted, and fitted the music exactly. The European papers are going into raptures over the singing of Miss Fanny Michelsen (Mllc. Francisca) of this City, who is appearing at Monte Carlo with & grand opera company which includes Adelina Patti among its mem- bers. Le Figaro of Paris says: ‘At the last classical concert at Monte Carlo there was re- vealed a young cantatrice of marvelous voice, Mlle. Francisca, who sang with infinite art and very profound feeling an aria from ‘Hamlet’ which brought her a colossal success. It will be but a short time before this young artiste is counted among our leading canta- trices.” Miss Michelsen 1s fulfilling her first professional engagement at Monte Carlo. She 100k her nom de theatre from her native city. A new musical and dramatic departure has been inaugurated in Paris in the opening of & little theater known as “Les Treteaux de la Basoche,” which is an exact reproduction of medieval theaters, and where plays and music of the middle ages sre given. As its name, “Les Treteavx"” (trestles), implies, the stage is made of boards laid on trestles, and what scenery and properties there are consist of exact reproductions of those which, according to the documents of the times, were used by medieval players. The representations have begun with two semi-mystic works, “The Wed- ding of St. Francis” and “The Other Soul.” Both are accompanied by & chorus which sings ancient music. The Grand Theater atGand recently gave the first performance of & new opera by two Belglan writers, “The Bride of Abydos,” which was enthusiastically received by the public. The libretto was arranged by a Belgian pro- fessor, M. Pleters, and the music was written by a young composer namea Lebrun, who some years ago won the prix de Rome. Anew departure in concert work has been inaugurated by a Greek singer named Aramis, who I8 creating & furor in England. He sings the popular melodtes of the Orient, some of which are of great antiquity. They have been land Leader, | barmonized for modern accompaniments hyA eentury and the only copy known to exist of the second book of madrigals by Paul Isnardi (Venice, 1577). A new idea has been introduced into the theater hat discussion by the supervisors of Brussels. These authorities have passed an ordinance prohibiting the wearing of any but flat hats in the theaters, but they have ex- cepted two theaters—the Alcazar and the Vau- deville, where smoking is allowed. The con- tention of the gallant Belgian supervisors is that where men have & right to aonoy women by smoking, women have & right (0 snnoy men by wearing big theater hats. The sixtieth anniversary of Queen Vie- toria’s accession to the throne has produced a special sort of musical literature. A number of bishops, canons and other dignitaries of the Established Church have written hymna to celebrate tho event and well-known organ- ists, such as Dr. Parratt, Dr. Briage and Dr. Martin, have set them to music. These hymns have all been gathered into one edition and Queen Vicioria has accepted the dedication of the work. It s announced that Grau, who directs the fortunes of the Covent Garden Opera-house, London, as well as the Metropolitan in New York, has decided to give some Wagnerian performances this spring in the German lan- guage in London. He has engaged Anton Seidl to go over and conduct. A German review (Vom Fels zum Meer) an- nounces that it is about to publish some arti- cles left by the late Anton Rubinstetn. 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