The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily snd Sunday CALL, oue year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally snd Sundsy CALL, six months, by mall y and Sundsy CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mal. .85 | Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail. .. 1.50 W AKLY CaLL, One year, by mall. 180 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californt Telephone. E Matn—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. phese.... Matn-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montromery street, corner Clay; open untll 8:80 o'clock. : open until 9:30 o'clock. 1n street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission stre sntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. h strect; open until 9 o'clock. ol street: open until 9:30 o'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 snd 52, 84 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Esstern Manager. opes | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THURSDAY FEBRUARY During the week ending Sat- urday last THE CALL published | 4 SO0O0 inches of advertisements, which is 4.9 inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time. How about our new Postoffice building? There is one consolation get a move on in eight da; Grover must Congress gave us an appropriation for a new Postoffice building many years ago, but where is it? The Legislature promises to force the fighting and try to knock the session out in two rounds of one week each. The agitation for free Cuba has revived in the East with new vigor and now is the time for San Francisco to speak out. According to reports from the East, the | lizzards are over and floods are submerg- ing several districts as harbingers of spring. San Jose will meet the new era with a | new charter and be as proud and lively as a debntante at a frolic with a license to | flirt. The object of the Greeks in invading | Crete seems to be partly to bring about | pan-Hellenism and partly to pot the Turks. Greece does the fightine and England | does the talking, but it is evidently Russia that holds the fort and has the say-so in the crisis. The San Diego carnival committee closed its frolics with all bills paid and money in the treasury. It wasa water carnival, but it wasn’t at all at sea. There would be work for a zood many of the unemployed if the construction of ournew Postoffice building were under way and some effort sbould be made at once to get i1 started. It seems clear that the only way to geta move on the Government officials who are holding bark the work of constructing the new Postoffice bulding in this City is to start an agitation which will shake them up. The situation in the Levant involves a curious contradiction. It is everrwhere said that the existence of the Turkish em- pire is = menace to the peace of Europe, and vet all the great powers are in alliance to keep it in existence. As Senator Sherman says the fake in- terview purporting to come from him which was recntly published in the ‘Eraminer was “sheer idiocy,” it may be taken for granted that it was written in -that office, being in fact another Li Yunz Yuen telegram. If reports from Havana are true it isfull time for & squadron of warships {o be sent by our Government to that portin order to protect our citizens residing there. The vindictive spirit of the Spaniards has been aroused and there may be an outbreak of | violence at any time. 1t Judge McKenna had any doubt of the favor with which his appointment to a position in the Cabinet has been received in this City it must have been fuily al- laved by this time. All classes and par- ties of citizens have unitel in doiug him honor and making a feast of it. He has in fact been so toasted that he need have no fears of ever being roasted. 1t is raid to have taken eight freightears to carry to Washington City the personal belongings of Charles F. Sprague, a mil- lionaire Congressman-elect from Massa- chusetts. Itis safe to say, however, that some poor statesman from the West will | o there with nothing buta hair trunk and a gripsack and cut a bigger swath at the capital and have a larger hearing out- side. As dishonest butter-makers in other States have been shipving butter to Europe under the brand of New York, where the butter is kept up to standard by official inspection, a movement is to | be made to get Congress to authorize the | copyrighting of the New York State brand - for dairy products. If the plan succeeds why should we not have a Siate copyright for California fruit? The New York Congressman who on the floor of the House opposed the Boston drydock bill, but declared his sympathy with the people of that City “iin trying to make Boston s seaport,’’ will find himseit grossly misunderstood by the people with whom he sympathized. They will be sure to regard his speech as inappropriate to the occasion and wonder where he ob- tained his lack of culture. There may yet be formed a great Eu- ropean diplomatic council to sit perm: nently at Constantinople to keep the peace in the Levant, and thjs council of em- bassadors may eventually actin the set- tiement of nearly all international ques- tions, so that in the course of time Con- stantinople may become the diplomatic capital of Europe, Asia and Africa, and eclipse the glory of the days when she was the center of the Roman empire. | Judge McKenna are to a large extent per- | sonal. THE POSTOFFICE BUILDING. According to reports from our correspondent at Washington it is not likely that we shall see the beginning of work on ou unless some means can be devised to induce more speed and promptness than they se tect declares the Government is not yet r new postofiice building for a long time the Government officials to act with much em inclined to do. The supervising archi- satisfied that the site is a safe one for the proposed structure. New tests are to be made, and these have not yet been -begun. The attitude of the irritating and is now of a character for a new Postoffice building in this Ci administration toward this work has long been to arouse indignation. The agitation ity dates back to a time so remote that the memory of the oldest inhabitant hardly runs so far. After years of agitations, requests, arguments and pleadings Congress was induced to vote an appropriation for the work. Still the work was not begun. another it has been delayed year after yecar. ment doubted whether the site selected was Upon one excuse or . Foratime it was said that the Govern- suited for the structure. At another time 1t was reported that the office of the supervising architect was overworked and that plans had not been prepared. public treasury was such that the Govern: Btill later it was declared that the drain upon the ment could undertake no work not abso- lutely necessary or not imperatively required by act of Congress. Each of these excuses served its turn. money appropriated by Congre sit apparently idle st their desks and Sa The demand of the public for the constrac- tion of the work was allayed again and again. So the years have passed and the lies idle in the treasury, the Government officiais n Francisco is seemingly no ‘nearer the aceomplishment of her long desire for the new building than she was when the agita- tion for it first began. When the tests of the site were made by engineers of the War Department fully two years ago it was fondly hoped that we were near the beginning of the work. It | will be & surprise to our people to learn now that this report is considered inadequa It looks, indeed, as if this administration had no intention at any time to carry out the act of Congress providing for the building, and as if its officlals were using any- thing as an excuse for delay. This Lteing the case it is time the agitation. A !arge number of ployment. Private genercsity is provide work for those who need therefore, for the Government to for men it. now ibe people of San Francisco to renew in this City are clamoring for em- being called uvon to subscribe money to It would be a most opportune season, enter upon the task of erecting the proposed building. T'he site has been selected, the money has been appropriated, plans fcr the building have been drawn up, and it would seem that nothing is needea 10 set the work moving except & will to do so on the part of those who have been en- trusted with at. A new administration will soon be in office, and from that we may expect better things than we bave received from this We should begin at once to work administration to undertake the struct efforts all the people of San Francisco to the end of administration of deficiency and debt. inducing the McKinley ure without further delay. In these should unite. Every association repre- senting any department of the industry or the business interests of the City shuld add its influence to the movement and give make it known at Washington that San Fra all the active aid in its power. Let us neisco needs the new building, that her anemployed workingmen need the work which it will require, and that it is the duy of the offictals of the Government to proceed at once in carrying out the act of Con- gress appropriating money for the building. A TRUE OALIFORNIAN. 1 Judge McKenna at any time had any doubt of the popular favor with which his selection for a position in the McKinley Cabinet would be received by the people | of California, it must have been fully and thorough!y dispelled by this time. His appointment was everywhere hailed with gladness. The press throughout the State gave expression to the sentiments of re- joicing which were universally felt. and he has had additional proof of the pleas- ure of the people in the banquets which have been tendered him in this City by men representing all classes and all par- ties. The testimonials of esteem shown to 1t is quite true that the people re- joice in his appointment because it gives a Californian a place in the great execu- tive council of the Nation, but it is equally true that they would not have been so much gratifi d bad not the man chosen been one whom they delight to honor and whom they believe to be worthy of being the first representative of Cali! nia in the Cabinet of the Nation. Judge McKenna may rightly accept a large por- tion of the congratulations given him as being tributes to himself as well as being expressions of gratified State pride. The peopl- rejoice tecause their State has at- tained a high office ahd because the man who will fill it wiil add a new honor to the State by the manner in which he will per- form his duties. In his adaress at the banqueton Tues- day evening Judge McKenna showed how | thoroughly he is in sympathy with the sentiments of his fellow-citizens. After vointing out that a Cabinet officer isnot a representative of a State, he expressed h recognition of the fact that an appoint- ment to such an office is in some sense an bonor to the Staze from which the man who receives it hails, “In thatsense,”” he said, “setting aside my own connection with the matter, I may rejoice that a Cali- fornian is in the Cabinet.” With words of genuine earnestness Judge McKenna declared his devotion to the State and his determination to work with all his energy for its welfare, *I love California,” ha said, ‘‘for its sheer physical beauty and genial climate. I love it in its higher sensibility, in its birth, in its li‘e and its action. I shall go into the Cabinet a Californian, and that shall be my highest title.’” These were right words fitly spoken. They were in harmony with the occasion and touched the sympathies of all who were present. California was doing honor to one of her fortunate sons, and it was most appropri- ate that he should receive the iribute paid him with due recognition of what he owes to his State and with clear expre: sions of his loyalty to it. It is a source of gratification that in the first appointment to the Cabinet from California the selection has been made of a man who carries with him into hisoffice the respect and the esteem of all his fel- low-citizens. 8nch a man in such an office will have great influsnce in promoting that spiritof harmony which is essential to California pawriotism. Having thecon- fidence of all his fellow-citizens, and being recognized by men of all parties asa true and loyal representative of California, he will be able to serve the West in many ways, and we may rightly rejoice in hav- ing such 2 man to stand for our State in the Cabinet. FALSE BRANDS, The injury done to articles of standard merit by the practice of dishonest dealers in putting the brand of these articles upon others of inferior worth has long been known in the United States and has been frequently complained of. Almost every section of the Union suffers in some of its industries from the practice, and reyeated efforts have been made to devise a means of preventing the evil. Itisnow reported thata new effort in the direction of securing the needed pro- tection for standard articles is to be made by the dairymen of New York. Thedairy law of that State provides that the State Agricultural Commissioner shall furnish a brand to butter manufacturers, and the produce under the law is kept up toa certain standard. As a consequence of this butter bearine the New York brand has found a profitable market in Europe. It seems, however, that butter-makers in other States where there is no official in- spection have found out the value of the New York prand and are now shipping butter to Liyerpool under the stamp of that State. The consequence is the repu- tation of the brand is being injured, and the New York butter-makers are losing the trade they have so laboriously built up. To prevent sach shipments in future a bill is to be offered in Congress to author- ize the copyrighting of the New York State brand. Such a law would protect New York dairies and the reputation they have established from being undermined by dishonest dealers. It is not clear whether such special legislation would be favorably regarded in Congress, but the dairy interests of the Empire State are strong enough 10 make a fight for it, and the proposed bill will probably be intro- duced at the next session. The California fruit industry has suf- f-red as much from the practices of dis- honest dealers as has the industry of New York. It has become the custom mn some ol the Eastern cities for dealers in fruit to label inferior fruits with California brands. This evil has been exposed time and again, bot up to this time no adequate remedy has been provided agaiust it. There will be a good deal of sympathy therefore in California with ths New York dairymen. Ifa State brand can be copy- righted for dairy products, there seems no reason why one should not be copyrighted for ruit products, and if so we might de- rive as much benefit from the proposed legislation New York itself. The sub- ject, at any rate, is one deserving consid- eration, and the California delegates in Congre-s should watch the progress ot the New York oill in order to yuard Califor- Dia interests when it comes up. “SHEER IDIOUY.” In an interview with TmE CALL corre- spondent at Washington Senator Sher- man took occasion to express himself very emphatically on the course of the New York Journal and the San Francisco Eraminer in publishing what purported to be a statement from him, but which was in fact not only a fake but a deliber- ate falsehood. The Senstor denounced the statement of Mr. Hearst's papers as a lie and declared that the reports in them were of such a nature as to make it *‘sheer idiocy to print such statements as emanat- ing from me."” It was hardly necessary for Senator Sherman to deny the interview which was published. Tue statements contained in it were,as he says, “sheer idiocy,”” and could have deceived nobody who had any knowledge oft' e Benator’s characier and record as a sfatesman. He did not need therefore to deny them to save his own reputation, but it was nevertheless worth his while to do so, inasmuc as public ut- tention can never be too often called to the faiseness of the so-called news which is printed daily by Mr. Hearst's paper: We have had repeated occasion of late to refer to these ‘'sheer idiocies.” The fakes which emanate from the new jour- nalism have not even the merit of being ciever. Noamount of exposure seems to animate the fakers with a desire to do better next time. The Li Yung Yuen dispatch, which was the object of so much ridicule a short time ago, has been fol- lowed by another dispatch purporting to come from the King oi Greece, and by several others hardly less idiotic. Not the slightest attempt is made by tbe fakers to give even the color of truth to their alleged dispaiches, and they lie with an equal facility about every class of people from statesmen to prize-fighters, from Chinese to Greeks. Senator Sherman, owing to the fact that he is soon to enter upon the office of Sec- retary of State, feels no doub: more than ordinarily sensitive to the misrepresenta- tions which may bs made of tha policy which he will pursus in his new office. It was therefore no doubt extremely irritat- ing to him to find two newspapers pub- lishing in flashy style and with great di: play headlines an idiotic fake purporting to be statements direct from bim and containing & falsehood in every line. He is, therefore, justified in using harsh lan- guage concerning the men who so delib- erately published the falsehoods. To call the interview lie” and to refer to its publication as “sheer idiocy” was none too severe under the circumstance: CLAIMS THE CREul FuRJOHN HAY Kansas City Star. Ex- Attorney - Genersl Williams of Kan: City says he is responsible for John Hay’s start in life. Hay lived in Warsaw, IlL, and Wil- Iiams was studying law at Quincy. Hay wasa country poet in those days—the “Unlettered Bard” he subscribed himself. He wrote a quality of poetry that made Mr. Williams tired, and his rural airs and manners were simply xilling to the practical Quiucy boy. “I'li arive that fellow off the river,” Mr. Wil- liams deciared one day, and so ne did. Mr. Willlams got himseif together one day and wrote the rottenestsort of alleged verses. These ne signed, “The Unbuttered Bard,” and caused them 1o be printed on coarse brown Wrapping paper, such as grocers used in those days. Then he stole up to Warsaw, and in the dead hour of night he posted the “Unbuttered Bard's” verses all over the.town. This took the conceit out of Hay in au hour. A stern resolve came into his face and the next week he leit town, going to Springfield, where Lin- coln took him into his law office, and atter- ward insialled him in the White House as his private secretary. “Whatever Jonn Hay is or will be,”” Mr. Wil- lams once said, “I made him. If1had not caused him to ses himself as others saw him he would never have left Warsaw, and leaving Warsaw was what gave him his st PERSUNAL H. Jackson is registered at the Palace. Robert M. Percival of London is at the Palace. C. R. Gilbert, a mining man of Butte, isat the Palace. C. M. Root, & mining man of Calaveras, isat the Grand. R. J. Lamos of Grants Pass, Or., is & late arrival here. F. A. Boole, s business men o! Red Bluff, is at the Grand. R Schmid, a business man of Yokohams, is at the Occidental. - W. Watts, a business man of Anacortes, Wash,, is in town. A. . Akers, a business man of Cincinnati, Ohio, is at the Russ, J. H. Beach of Boston arrived here yesterday. He is at the Occldental. Dr. W. M. Lawler, the physician at San Quentin prison, is 1n town. J. R. Darwin, a mining superintendent of Grass Valley, is in the City. Ex-Superior Judge A. P. Catlin s on s visit to this City from Sacramento. P. N. Skinner, a business man of Portland, A registered at the Cosmopolitan. James Simpson, the wealthy lumberman of Eureka, Humboldt Bay, is at the Lick. Ex-Minister to Japan Frank L. Coombs, now Speaker of the Assembly, is in the City. George Wadsworth Middleton, an American business man of Yokohama, is in the City. Mrs. Wiley J. Tinnin of Fresno, wife of ex- Burveyor Tinnin of this port, is at the Grand. George A. Legg, & hardware merchant of Nevada City, has arrived here on & business trip. Edward H. Greenleat and Dr. H. Side- botham, of Boston, are smong the arrivals here. G. B. Smith and J. Ernest Smith, leading business men of Wilmington, Del., are at the Palace. H. B. Hobson, a mining and business man of Inesnelle, British Columbia, is,at the Com- mercial. K. Okagaki, a merchani of Tokio, isin the City on his way to New York and other East- ern citles. Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Leeker and Sam Davisof Merced are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. Phil Turner and wife of New York are tour- ing this Statc and have taken apartmentsat the Cosmcpolitan. A. T. Gallagher, one of the early settlers of Alviso and ownerof alarge frult farm there, 1s here on & business trip. George A. Peltier, owner of stores and mining property in Nevads, is in the City, sccompanied by Mrs. Peltier. Charles R. Hamiiton, an attorney of Ross- land, the new and big mining town ot British Columbis, is among the arrivals here. Mr. und Mre. C. G. Howell of Cleveland, Ohio, who have been on a tour of China, Japan and other countries, are at the Palace. G. Yamanougli and K. Takats, Japanese students, and H. Ikuta, a brewer of Yoko- hsma, are at the Occidental. They are en route to Europe. Henry H. Heppner, the ploncer sheep-raiser, store-owner and founder of - the town of Heppner, Or.,is in the City. He has been visiting Southern California. Joha Philip Sousa of Sousa’s band, Mrs. Northrop, Miss Johnstone and Frank Chers- tlaner, members of the band, arrived here yesterday, and are at the Palace. Albert Pederson, s tobacco-grower for many years in Sumatra, was among the arrivals by the China. He says it is very peaceful In Sumatra now and that the tobacco croy is good. He is on his way to Europe. M. R. Jeflerds of New York, who for a time held a franchise for a railroad from Peking to Nankow, a distance of about 900 miles, was one of the passengers of the steamer China yesterday, which for a week past has been in quarantine. Mre. T. R. Jornigan, wife of United States Consul Jernigan of Shanghai, and children, and Mrs. W. C. Hixon, wife of the United States Vice-Consul at Foochow, have arrived here from China and are en route East to their former homes. George McCue of Circle City, an early pio- neer of the Yukon mines, who died at the Commercial on Washington's birthday, wiil bs buried to-day in the Masontc Cemetery. Mc- Cue was widely known among Yukon miners. Atone time he had cousiderable mining prop- erty, but it slipped plece by plece through his hands, so that now nothing is lett. Ben Wehriritz, a wealthy brewer of Kam- loops, B. C., who owns & number of mining properties in Nicaragus, is here on the way to the mines to close a sale of them with a wenlthy syndicate for $150,000. He has already been paid $5000 on the property. Mr. Wehrfritz is an old friend of P. S. Montague of this City, acd formerly owned extensive and rich mining interests at Tombstone and other places in that vicinity. He intsnds leaving for Nicaragua on March 3. THE IRONY OF FATE He had fonght in many a battie and escaped with- out a wound, He had met stampedod cattle and had bravely held his ground: He had hunted in Montans, aod been snowbound ©on ‘he p ain, And be'd sojourned in Havana when the plague was raisiig Cain, He had crossed the stormy ocean many a time without mishap: He'd recovered frou: & potion fixed up by a jeaious ap: He baa been a reckless rover from the moment of Bis birth, And had traveled almost over every portion of the earcn. He'd encountered every davger that you've ever read about: He hsd been a Texas ranger and a reckless army scout, But the moral, If there's any in this humble Httle tale, Is that he died from steppiog on an ancient rusty Dail. —Cleveiaud Leader. Letters From the People. THE UNEMPLOYED. 4 Suggestion That Small Farms Be Upened for Home-Scekers. Editor Call: This, the most glorious coun- try on earth! Thousands ot men and women walking the streets, unable to fnd employ- ment even at a pittance to earn enough to keep body and soul together. Californis, by ature the most lavishly endowed State in this Union, in regard to sofi and climate, where a very few acres will produce sufficient for the subsistence of a family. California, where her surplus products are oiten dumped in the bay in order to keep the wharves clear for con- stantly incoming cargoes of nature’s giits, where often whoie boatioads of toothsome fish are thrown overboard in order to keep up the high price; yes, the for a poor man prohibi- tive price 'of that by nature ireely supplied fooa source. There are millions of acres of Iand in this State to-day,of which one ten thousandth part would produce suffictent grain, fruit, vegetables, etc., to sustain an ordinary family, yet there are thousands of wiiling and able' men and women erying for a chance to work for a living, and instead ot soiiciting subscriptions for the building ‘of boulevard, park drive or something similar why not buy and equip say, & 10, farm and put the u; -m;‘oud to work on it with the understanding that they would finally be- come the owner of each & few acres on which they could by industry and frugality, as prac- ticed inolder and I might say coider countries, become independent, or at least wou.d not need o apply for assistance from the community where they happen to reside atevery recurrent bard year. I ihink that by foll my suggestion a populer subscrip- tion could be more advantageously applied than by bullding boulevards and drives,which would only be of the merest temporary reliet to the unempl: , ana of benefit only to few who can afford horses and who would per- haps be called upon next winter again to sub- scribe for the amelioration of the unemployed. Onlg.- suggestion from one of your-sub- seribers, T. O. BRIER, 550 Clay street. “They say he's one of the most unpopular men in the State.” “Yes; he's always held appointive offices,”— Chicago Journal. The San Framcisco Oratorio Socieiy, con- ducted by James Hamilton Howe, Is having very satisfactory rehearsals of “The Messiab," which will be the leading feature of the grand music festival to be given in this City in the spring, probably in April, The Oakland, Aia- meda and San Jose societies which will lend their assistance are also taking great interest In the work. Musical people are looking for- ward to hearing Mme. Genevra Johnstone Bishop, who has been engaged to come from Chicago as the leading soprano solofst at the festival. Mme. Bishop is acknowledge d to be one of the best exponents of oratorio in Amer- ics. She is a pupil of Mme, Anra de la Grange of Paris, and has sung a good deal with Ade- lina Patt, whois herwarm fricnd and ad- mirer. During the last visit that poor Alex- ander Salvini paid to Patti at Crag-y-Nos, Mme. Bishop was his fellow-guest. Mme. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. o day sur- of luxury and there forgst his evers: roundings. Alas! toforgetour surroundings seems to ce becoming a need of our times. here are two musicians attracting atten- u:n o Paris at present who belong to races not usually assoclated with modern music. One s & young East Indian prima donns named Yumata-Tiero, who is meeting with great success at the Olympia. The other, who devotes himself to serious music, Is an Arme- nian named Vabran Sevadjiam. Helsa grad- uate of the conservatories of Venice and of Vi- enna, and js sud to be s most accomplished pianoforte virtuoso. At a concert recently given in the Salle Erard the first partof his programme consisted of Beethoven, Schumaxn, Chopin and Liszt,and the second part con- sisted of national Armenian airs, transcribed by himself, and an “Armenian Rhapsodie” of MME. GENEVRA JOHNSTONE BISHOP, Who Will Sing in This City at the Oratorio Festival. Bishop’s voice s said to be of great range, power and sweetness. Many of the critics have compared her to Kellogg and Parepa Ross. Singers of moderate ability are allowed to join the festival chorus. No fees are charged. Many anecdotes are being revived of poer Castelmary, who died recently on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera-house during & per- formance of “Martha.” No opera singer was prouder or more self-respecting than “Castle,” as his friends familiarly called him, He had saved nothing for his old rge, and was in con- stant dread of being superseded by some younger singer, but he was too proud to show his fears and 100 seli-respecting to receive favors from any one. Even in little things these traiis showed themselves. Jean de Reszxe, who was his frequent companion, says that he would often offer ““Castle” cigars and other small luxuries. “Thank you,” the basso would reply, “but I haye cigars of my own, snd I never smoke any other brand.” When quite young he married Marie Sasse, a well- known opera singer, and betore lozg she ran away with Victor Maurel. Casteimary never got over the blow, but he did not let it embitter his intercourse with the world; he was & gental, good-hearted fellow, always willing to give advice and help to younger artists, espe- ciaily on the subject of costume, on which he was an acknowledged suthority. It was s fad of his to sing Mephistopheies in black. During the last few days Paris has discoy- ered a composer of great talent. He is named Emmanuel Chabrier and the papers are full of his praises, his musie s being played every- where; indeed it will become the proper thing to play Chabrier, for he has suddenly become the rage. Unfortunately he is dead. I sup- pose you are surprised at his success, for in his lifetime poor Chabrier never had a ‘quar- ter of this applause. It is not loug since he joined ihe greatmajority. Weall knew him, hopeful, brave and aadicted to writing charm- ing things, that no oce took any notice of. His opera “Gwendoline” couid not hold the boards of the Grand Opera, perhaps because Chabrier made the mistake of not dying be- fore the first periormance. But what is the use of pointing this ont? it is the usual thing n Paris. That which happened to Bizet has happened to Chabrier; it will happen to oth- ers. The worst of it {s that this time there are awife and children to whom the posthumous success gives glory, but not money, for Cha- brier left his family in want. Can the state do nothing in such cases? Reparation is made tovictims of judicial errors. Is no reparation due to those who have been negleeted by the world when the world finds out its error too late to do anything but psy them in souvenirs and recrets. the faise money of human ingrati- tude?—Notes d'un Parisisn in Le Figaro. Sousa gives the following wise advice to composers of 1ight over “There is such a thing as overdressing a score, just as & woman is gullty of the same offense to good taste in regard (o her tollet. Every part of her attire may be of the richest material, but the crowding together of incon- gruous colors and uitra effects may spoil the beanty of the subject. “In my exp-rience I have usually found that the man whose education has been fur- thest removed from the knowledge of or- chestral instruments—that is, who has made his compositions through the aid of & piano ororgan, and has not conceived through the chanuel of orchestral effects—tries to keep everybody in the .orchestra busy, from the bass drammer up to the piccolo. He usually succeeds 1n keeping his audience busier than allin trying to decipher what he is getting at. A man not knowing how to create orchestral effects is apt to become imitative and tries to reproduce those orchestral nuances appealing mo-t powerfully to him. This is one of the reasous why we have had an undue quality of Wagnerian orchestration in many of the modern comic operas. Wagner appeals to these musicians on account of the greatness of his orchestration; he strikes these non- creative composers as the proper man fo imi- tate, and the sad spectacle is witnessed of some poor little emaciated soprano’s voice loaded down with an orchestration fitted for 8 Lehman or a Materna, or some little topical song, enunclated by a voiceless comedian, builded on solid brass chords, filagreed wood and arpeggioized strings. The Parisian papers are complaining that the cafe concert is rapidly vitiating the pub- lic taste for anything more refined in the way of music and drama. The cafe concerts are a combination of music hall and restaurant, where the entertainment is very often of an: thing but an clevating character. They are to be found in all quarters of Parisand range {rom costly and luxurious halls to cheap beer saloons, with & rough wooden stage. The tne- aters and opera-houses are compiaining bit- terly of the competition of these rivals, which they say create a taste for what is vulgar and obscene. Speaking editorially on the sub- ject Le Figaro says: People et the cafe-con. cert habli; they go there every night with thelr families. “Poor people and people of moderate means can eujoy warmth and light there, they can smoke and eat and drink, hear ‘vulgar songs, and ses horse play, and women dressed in spangles, all at popular prices. They find 1t less austere than staying at home and less dear. The laborer can get an illusion his own composition. French musicians are very much interested in his work, and they think he may be able to initiate them into tne mysteries of Oriental music. The popular prima donns, Mme. Ada Adini, met with & curious experience the other duy in Bucharest, where she has been creating a big furor. One night the crowd was 80 great that many people were unable 10 obtain entrance to the National Opera-hous Among those turned away were 100 students of the Universiiy of Bucharest. These young men at once assembled in the opera-house | square and made a riotous demonstration, threateniog to break into the theater and carry off the prima donna it they were not at once le: in. A force ot police which was bastily brought on the scene managed to quell the revolutionary project, but the manager of the opera-house, who did not want to antag- onize so many of the students of Roumania, offered to let them into the theater if they could crowd themselves into the aisles. The offer was accepted, and the students showed thelr satisfaction at the end of the perform- ance by taking the horses out of Mme. Adint’s carriage aud drawing her home 1n trinmph. Monte Carlo seems to be havinga feast of opera and concert. Paderewski has appeared | there several times this month, having ap- parentiy quite recovered from_his recent ner- vous illness. In addition to his own Polish “Fant he has played several other concer- tos with Vigna’s orchestra, including Liszt's E flat concerto. At the opera in Monte Carlo Adelina Patti is sppearing in “La Traviats, and the papersspeak of her voice as being fresh and young as ever. The California soprano, Mile. Francescs, continues her sue- cess at Monte Carlo, and the conductor, Arthur Vigna, a young Italian, is another newcomer who is spoken of in terms of enthusiastic praise. Melba is & good pedestrisn and a great club- swinger; Calve punches the bag for all it 1s worth every dey; Eames indulges in general gymnastics, and uses the bike every day when the weather permits: Letvinne uses leather suraps iastened to the wall: Sophia Traub- mann does some hard bowling at tenpins, and little Bauermeister rides a hobby horse in her parlor—one of those equestrian machines so much in vogue in England—and all these methods of exercise sre to ward off too much superfluous flesh. Massenet's opera “Le Cid” has been as much a fatlure at the Metropolitan Opera-house as it was some years ago at La Scalain Milan, Both the De Reszkes, as well s Clementine ae Vere, Lasselie and Pcl Plancon,were in the cast, and to the surprise of these stars the New York pudlic devoted almost its entire stock of en- thusiasm to the ballet and gave very little at- tention to the singers. Irish opera having proved so successful in New York Harry B. Smith and Reginald de Koven ara going to try how Scotch opera will please the public. The scene of thelr work 1 to be laid in Scotland during the period when Edward I of England was trying to gain possession of the reins of government. Robert Bruce will be one of the chief char acters. Miss Valesca Schoocht, a young California violinist who lkas been studying abroad for some years, will make her debut in this City at Golden Gate Hall to-nicht. Miss Carrie Bowes, Lonis Crepaux and Frederick Sehoocht Jr. will assist. Susan Sirong, the Brooklyn soprano who made her American debut with Mapleson’s fll- fated company, has now joined the Damrosch forees, though the eritics do not consider her a successtul interpreter of Wagnerian roles. Melba will leave Paris for New York next Saturday. The talk about her suffering from cancer in the throat seems to be mere idle | rumor. Mile. Antoinette Trebelli wilt be the voeal soloist at the next symphony concert at the Columbia Theater. Sousa’s band opens at the California Theater to-night. PEOPLE ALK:D AtOUT James Payn, the weil-known novelist and magazine contributor of England, is a great devotee of whist, and, while owing to physical infirmities, he Is unable to deal the cards, he plays regularly and is a skiliful opponent to meet. Kniser Wilhelm has designed the tower for the German Protestant Church at Jerusalem, which will be completed by the end of the year. Itwill cost $60,000and fs built ona site granted by the Sultan to King William I in the sixties. It issaid that 1t was in his winter home at Thomasville, Ga., that Mark A. Hanna began tolay his plans, two years ago, for the nomi- nation of McKinley. The President-elect wa: then Governor of Ohio, and was Haon guest at Thomasville. Gount Joseph Zichy ot Vienna snd Buda- Pesth, member of a prominent Hungarian noble family, died recently at the age of 83 years. Heand his wife, who was a dsughter of the famous Austrian Chancellor, Prince Metternich, accompanied the unfortunate Em- peror Maximilian to Mexic the chief officials of the cour They say W. D. Howel!s orders “clippings on phase of iife’” and uses incidents thus op. tained for the foundation of bis story. Here he wolks in the footsteps of Charles Reade, who explained his methods of work in that much abused novel, “‘A Terrible Temptation.” Polly Brannum, the o:dest woman in Tennes. see, died the other night at the age of 100, She was a daughter of a revolutionary sold and in herday was acquainted with S Roan, Carroll, Sam Houston; Andrew Jackson, Polk, Andrew Johnson, and other Tennes seeans of National reputation. NEWSPAPrR PL .ASANTRY Teacher—It is told of Demosthenes that in order (0 improve his enunciation he would go down to the shore and talk with his mouth filled with pebbles. Who was Demosthenes Willie Tell—Please, ma’am, he was the in ventor of the gag. “Thess are not the o pebbles on the beach.”’—Plain Dealer. ‘She is always giving you a piece of her mind in the rudest way. “You can’t wonder. except of the most fragm Journal. «“George Washington,” said the enthusiastic man, ‘‘never uttered anything that was not true.” «Yes,” replied the politician, “but t policy was easier in those days. He never got mixed up in arguments o free silver and aroi- tration and a lot more of things that you have to take so many chances on when it comes toa question of fact.”—Weshingion Star. tary sort.”— A citizens’ committee, appointed to wa upon Diogenes to requestof him thathe shou run for mayor of Athens, was asked by (h philosopher: “And wherefore shouid 1?7 Iu what respect have I shown any special qualifi- cations for the honor of being a cacdidate " “You have a barrel,” remerked the commit- tee, but Diogenes, not being acquainted with the poiltical methods-of the times, failed to see the point and declined to run.—Puck, “Why do you call that dog pursued?” “Because he's always fleaing.”—Philadel phia North American. Yeast—Do you believe thero is such a thing asan hypootist? Crimsonbeak—What's that? Yeast—Why a person who can make you do something which you don’t want to do. Crimsonbeak—Oh, yes; my wife's one. She makes me bring up the coal every night.— Yonkers Statesman. HE REMEMBERED HIM. New York Sun. One evening Senator Vest was stand’ng in the cafe of a Washington hotel, surrounded by & party of friends, when & gentieman came up, shook hands with him and expressed pleasure at seeing him sgsin, The Senator scowled and gave & littie grunt, and the man, becoming a little embarr. “Iam afraid you don’t My name is Knight, G. D. Kn W "“Yes, yes, growied Mr. Vest. “Good-night.”” LOST AN OLu FRIEND. From Up-to-Date. Kansis Farmer—I don’t know how it is, but | I don’t feel comfortable auy more. The old Place ain’t what it used to be. Visitor—What's the trouble Knnsas Farmer—Well, yer sce, my son he come home a few days &0 and he paid off the mortgage. Good Samaritan Mission. Good Samarilan Mission, Second street, near Folsom, Rev. W. L Kip in charge, will open this evening with a reception and | entertainment between 7:30 ana 10:30 o’clock. The public is cordialiy invited. On Sunday at 11 o’clock the new chapel will be dedicated. when the Bishop will be present and offictate. In the atternoon on Sunday Bishop Nichols will open the new Armitago Orphanage and Home tor Boys on the same lot at $:30 o'clock. In the evening at 7:30 there will be a specia! choral service in chapel, pnd during the following week Arch deacon Webber, the celebrated preacher, wil conduct a series of mission services, beginning with Wednesday and closing on the following Sundsy. There will be four or five services each day. —_——— Donahue Estate Litigation. Eleanor Martin, executrix, and J. Downey Harvey, executor, of the will of the late Mrs, Anpie Donahue, have sued L. C. Wittemeyer, gnee of the Union Stock Compauy o Fraicisco, an insolvent debtor, for $5000, money due for rent, and for possession of cer~ tain premises in this City. e e FrEsH Brazil Nut Taffy. Townsend’s. * BN EPECTAL information dally to manufacturary, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * ———— Fifty-six of the seventy-two British army survivors of Balaklava were entertained re cently at the Old Royal Hote), Birmingham. Aprominent feature of the gathering was the head, in a glass case, of Ronaid, the famous charger, upon which Lord Cardigan was mounted in tne daring charge. Excursion Rates to Washington. FOr the benefit of those desiring to witness the tnauguration of the next President of the United States the Baitimore and Ohio Eallrosd will selt excursion tickets at one fare for the round trip from ail points on iis lines in Ohlo, Indlana and Illinols. Tickets will be sold March 1,2 and 3, valid for return untll March 8. Simflar tickets via B. and O. R. R. will be 501d by all the railroads throughout the West. In addition to being the shortest and most direct line to Washington the B. and O. passes through a region of greater soenia magnificence and historic interest than any in all America. Passengers also have the option of trav- eilng via Akron and Pitisburg or via Bellaire sad Grafton elther golng or returning. The through tralns of the B. and O. are vestibuled throughout, equipped with Pullman sleepers and the dining- car service i3 unsurpassed. Information in detall wiil be cheerfully furnished upon application by L S Allen, sasistant general passenger ageat, B, and O. R, R., Grand Central stazion, Chicago. — #The Overland Limited”’—Only Three and a Half Days to Chieago. The Union Pacific s ihe only iine running Puil- man donble drawing-room and tourist sleepers, and dining-cars, San_Francisco to Chicago da! without change. Buffet, smoxing and lfbrary ca: Ogden to Chicago. Tickets and sleeping-car reser. vations st 1 Montgomery st. D. W. Hiichcoex, General Agent, San Francisco. 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