The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1897, Page 6

1 i i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL S, 1897 CHARLES "M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Pro —Postage Free: week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CaLL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall. 3.00 Datly and Su three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaL1, one month, by mall.. .65 Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail. 1.50 W EXKLY CALL, oz year, by 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. Telephone ... .Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone -Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clay; open until 8:30 o'clock. 0 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Stxteents aud Mission sireets, open 8 Miss 5 street, open until 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polic open until 9:30 o'clock- NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky strests; open Lill § o'clock OAKLAND OFFICB: 98 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 snd 53, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —— The only harmonious concert on the Cretan question is that ot public opinion. Itis an off vear in nearly every city election this time, but in Chicago it was a way off. You can stop the Democratic crow over the result in Chicago by calling atten- tion to St. Lou Senator Chandler scems to be a New Enciand man with Kansas ideas and that makes him picture: The European concert would be better if the Russian bear would dance to the tune it plays; but he won't. 1f the Cuban debates in the Senate be- come much hotter the war may be fought out there instead of in the island, Carter Harrison says zold and silver men voted for him, and perhapssa good many fellows voted for him because of his gold and silver. Senator Morgan’s proposal to send a warship instead of a Commissioner to Cuba is decidedly undiplomatic. There is 100 much virtue in it. The Republican leaders of Chicago, having split the party in that city by their wrangling, deserve the licking they received, and will behave better next time. The story that Gladstone has learned to rige the bicycie has been denied, but the denial comes on no hetter authority than the original tale. Mr. Giadstone owes it tothe world to rise and explain. The Republican National platform for which the people voted declares *the country demands & right settlement of the tariff question, and then it wants rest.” The Senate should take notice and act accordin The statement of Evangelist Moody in Chicago that “Christ did not tell his con- gregations they would be saved in return for building fine churches or endowing colleges” must have been intended as a hint for Rockefeller. The successes of the Democrats in the Eastern city elections will have the good effect of putting Repnblicans on guard against dissensions in the party and there- fore will help to assure Republican victo- ries in the Congressional elections mext year. The president of a whist clubin Boston says playing for prizes at whist is not gambling any more than is struggling for prizes at college. In each case he says the prize is an inceniive to higher culture and that, of course, is elways permitted in Boston. As Bailey of Texas objects to wearing a dress suit it is evident he concerns himself with small things and magnifies molehills into mountains. Such a man is sure to be cranky about unessential details in large matters, and the Democrats in Congress had better begin to hunt for 8 new leader. Interior papers which complain that the Ban Francisco Carnival gives them no ad- vertising should remember how much epace San Francisco papers give to the fairs, fetes and festivals of interior towns without advertising. Reciprocity is a good thing to practice when it helps every- body. King George's relations among the crowned heads of Europe are not half as useful to him as his relations with the liberal sentiment of the world. Public opinion is doing more to sustain him than either queen or kaiser, and if he wins he will owe it to sympathy openly expressed by the people and not to the secret in- trigues of prince One set of Democrats declare the Ding- ley tariff will not yield a revenue equal to the needs of the Government, while an- other set asserts it will create a surplus and overbarden the people with taxation. The average Democratic editor seems to belong by turns to each of these sets and not infrequently makes both assertions in consecutive sentences. Greater New York is so proud of itself that it wishes to be transformed into a Btate, and a movement has been started to that end, but it will not go far before it is headed off. If we make New York a Btate with a right to elect two Senators Chicago will demand the same proud po- sition and the Senate would soon be over- crowded with Aldermen. The tariff which is to give work to wage- earners and a revenge to the Government is denounced in large general terms by the free-trade press, but it will be noticed that the denourcers are careful not to specify the particular features to which they object. Each schedule assures pro- tection to some industry, and the free- traders cannot pick out the particular one which they wish to destroy. The Ezaminer says of the Dingley bill: “The most reactionary, most barbarous, the most stupidly, wantonly and meddle- momely oppressive in the whole history of American legislation.” Tb% is the way the free-trader raves at a bill which is to put an end to the Democratic deficit, pro- tect American industry and add $300,000,- 000 annually to American wages. Truly among the wicked there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, THE CITY ELEQTIONS. Mr. Bryan has telegraphed to Carter Harrison, the successful Democratic can- didate for Mayor uf Chicago ccept congratulations upon your magnificent victory. The elections in Chicago, Cin- cinnati, Detroit and other cities indicate a decided change in public sentiment since November.” It will be seen from this telegram that Bryan is laying to his soul the flattering unction that the vote in Chicago means ihat a large number of citizens have be- come dissatisfied with the vites they cast in November, and that if they bad the chance again they would now vote for him instead of McKinley. This opinion is confined to Mr. Bryan himself. It is certainly not shared by Carter Harrison, who in an interview stated that his vic- tory was the result of a united and nota divided Democracy. ‘‘Gold as well as sil- ver men,” he raid, *‘cast their ballots for me.” There is no comfort in that state- ment for Mr. Bryan, for if Bryan repre- sents anything at all he representsa di- vided and not the united Democracy which was successful at Chicago. Nothing is more futile und foolish than this effort of the discredited leader of the Democratic and Populist fusion to misrep- resent the result of the elections in East- | ern cities so as to make them show a change in public sentiment on the issues which were submitied to the people in November. City electiors are aiways de- termined by local issues. The Republi- can party in Chicago was hopslessly di- vided. The divisions, however, were | occasioned wholly on matters of local politics. National affairs had nothing whatever to do with them. There was no contest concerning the tariff, the money question or any other great National pol- icy. The fight was & purely local one and the Democratic candidate succeeded sim- ply because his opponents were divided while his own supporters were thoroughly united, eggressive and determined to win. Whatever comfort the old Democratic party may draw from the result in some of the cities where elections have been held the Popocratic fusion party cen find none. The only city in which an effort was made to continue their fasion in the local elections in St. Louis, and there it resulted in a ais- astrous failure. St. Louis is normally a strongly Democratic community. In the recent election an attempt was made to bring the gold wing of Democracy into harmony with the silver and the Populist wing, but the result was that the nearer they ‘‘got together” the more antagonistic they became. Harmony was impossibie. Thbe fusion went to pieces and the party went to defeat. Even the most casual study of the re- turns from the various cities will show that the Bryan movement had nothing what. ever to do with the tenuporary Democratic successes. Mr. an may flatter himself that his prospects have been brightened by the vote, but he will find himself mis- taken. There has been no change in pub- lic sentiment since November. WE ARE NOT PROVINCIAL ‘We observe with considerable astonish- ment t.at some of the interior newspapers of the State are seriously indisposed toward printing anything cheerful about the Carnival of the Golden Gate. They was | | | | | | appear to be gathering the folds of their | kirtles about them preparatory to a grim withdrawal from the scene of festivities. And, glancing back over their shoulders as they slowly recede, they display a countenance more in sorrow than in anger—an expression of revrosch blended with renunciation. They would bave en- joyed remuining and mingling happy talk which must surely precede and follow the gala occasion that awaits us; but they feel that they have been wronged, that distinctions have been practiced to their disadvantage, and that they must out of pure self-respect resent the slight and assert their independence. Tne whole difficulty seems to lie in the circumstance that paid advertisements of | the carnival have not been sent out to them, whereas tbe San Francisco papers have received advertisements of carnivals that have been held in the interior. In this arrangement these interior journals fail to discern that spirit of reciprocity which unites all good brotherhood and in- spires fraternal endeavor for a common cause. They contend that they have done enough free talking for San Francisco, while the San Francisco papers have been in & measure recom pensed for their outlay of space, time and talents by patronage for their advertising columns. They pro- pose, regretfully but firmly, to do no more of it. THE CALL trusts that these of itsinterior contemporaries will accord it the creditat | least of sincerity in this matter when it ventures to remonstrate with them. Wedo not believe that they are taking a broad view of thesituation. It seems exceed ingly vrovincial. The San Francisco morning papers are national publications —they are not got up to cover merely the events of a single city, or single neigh- borhooa. They cater to all sections and correspondingly draw upon all sections for support. Probably it requires as much money to run one of them a month as it requires to run for a like period all the interior papers in the State combined, barring a few in some of the larger cities. It would be impractical fora paper like Tue CALL to depend entirely upon San Francisco for its support, although San Francisco furnishes more patronage in proportion to its readers than the interior does. No interior carnival can possibly do bet- ter than to advertise in the metropolitan press, from a simple business point of view. In noother way can so many read- ers be reached, and particularly those leis- urely readers who are the most likely to flit away into the country for a few days of carnival. The press of this City goes all over the country and is read all over the country. Why should not the inte- rior carnival committees embrace so supe- rior a service as a cool, practical proposi- tion? It costs less to advertise in a few big journals than to advertise in a thou- sand smaller ones. Buppose the Golden Gate Carnival committee should under- take to advertise in the interior press. Where would it get off? How maay ad- vertisements would it have to issue? Could it discriminate and advertise in only the Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Jose and Stockton papers? Manifestly not, since the papers of other cities, and the papers of every remote corner and dis- tant mountain pocket in the whole State would have just as good a cause for com- plaint in that event as they have in the present one and just as good cause as the papers of Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Jose and Btockton have in the present also. The whole truth is that there is no thought of making distinctions—no con- sciousness of slighting any one or favor- ing any set of papers—in the bestowal of advertising. It is, we repeat, a business proposition. Aad the big metropolitan dailies are as much California dailies as they are San Francisco dailies. They are the only dailies, in fact, which cover the whole State and are recognized as the in the | mouthpieces of entire California at home and abroad. THE CaLL hopes that its interior friends will not permit their hasty resolution to last in view of this dispassionate presen- tation of common-sense considerations. They must not regard us as provincially San Franciscan—we speak for the State, the country, the world. And San Fran- cisco’s carnival is California’s carnival also. There should be no jealousies in this beautiful State, which is our common heritage and the very best heritage that any people ever were blest with. The Golden Gate Carnival will be in honor of and a tribute to the Golden State, and we should all work to make it worthy of that object. DREARY IMBECILITY. +*‘The Damocratic criticisms of the new tariff,”’ says the Inter Ocean, “‘are drearily imbecile.” The language is strong, but what else can be said of criticisms that are essentially imbecile in argument and most vapidly dreary in ianguage. No other phrase can so accurately present the exsct nature of the attacks which the tree-trade orators and organs are now making upon the bill which is designed to provide protection for our industries and an adequate revenue for our Government. The Ezaminer of yesterday furnished an example of these criticisms. It declared tbe Dingley tariff to be ‘‘the most reac- tionary, the most barbarous, the most stupidly, wantonly and meddlesomely op- pressive in the whole history of American fiscal legislation.” These statements made in the face of facts so well known to the people are certainly to be character- ized by no other phrase than that used by the Inter Ocean. Had the language of the Fzaminer been applied to the Wilson tariff, the people would have recognized it as a fairly ac- curate statement of the truth. That tariff nearly bankrupted the Government, com- pelled four bond issues to raise mouey, and imposed upon the people a burden of principal and interest which, betore it is paid off, will cost the Government over $500,000,000. The Dingley tariff. on the contrary, provides a revenue sufficient to meet the needs of the Government and to pay off the debt imposed by the Demo- cratic tariff. It will open a way, more- over, for the annual payment of $300,000,000 in wages to American labor. Tbhe New York Sun has said: *The tariff reformers made such a fist of it with their lying and disastrous Wilson tariff, that for very shame they now should cease from boring the public with their dreary preaching.”” This statement of the Sun we recommend to the Ezaminer and all other free-trade organs in the country. P-ople heve grown weary of the cry that a tariff isa tax and that protec- tion fosiers trusts. Tuey have had ex- perience with both kinds of tariffs, and they desire a return to the protection is embodied 1n the Dingley bill. Repubiican National platform v expressed public sentiment on this subject in saying, “The country demands a right settlement and then it wants rest.”” The right settlement is furnished The | by the Dingley tanft, which was supporiea in the House not only by all Repubiican members but by several of the most pro- gressive Democrats from the South. The next thing demanded is rest. Above all the people desire rest from dreary imbe- cility of criticism. SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES. While the revival ef industry from the depression caused by the Democratic tariff is slow, as was foreseen by all in- telligent men, it is, nevertheless, progress- ing steadily, and in no part of the Union are signs lacking that the hard times are passing away. and better conditions re- turning to all classes of trade and in- dustry. We called attention a short time ago to the statement of Factory Inspector Camp- bell of Pennsylvania that 100,000 more persons are at work in that State now than there were six months ago. This in itself shows a notable improvement in in- dustrial conditions, since it is clear that if there has been such a laree increase in employment in one State of the Union, there must be a similar improvement in other communities. Reports from the Southern States an- nounce the erection there of a large pum- ber of new cotton-mills and the enlarge- ment of those already in operation. Along the lake States there are developments in the construction of commercial buildings of all sorts, and some of them are of quite a notable character. One of these is the beginning of the erection at Buffalo of a steel elevator with a capacity of 3,000,000 busheis. An elevator of steel is some- thing in the way of an experiment, and it it proves successful will lead to the erec- tion of & large number of others of the same kind, so that the time may not be far distant when the old-fashioned wooden elevator will cease to exist. The large orders which have been given for steel rails assure an immediate con- struction of a large number of new rail- roads or the repair of old ones. Itis said that the orders sent in for rails during the first two months of this year exceeded the total amount of orders given during the whole twelve months 0£1896. The outlook for the steel and iron industry, therefore, is better than it has been since the Wilson tariff was enacted, and as the iron and steel industry has ever been regaraed as a safe standard for measuring the business prosperity of the country, it becomes evi- dent that the revival is going on much faster than some pessimists would have us believe. —_— MEN AN) WOMEN The life of Tennyson on which his son, the present Lord, has been for some nime at work, is to be published in two good-sized volumes in the autumn. An English provizcial paper recently printed 8 sketeh of Chauncey D'Epew, and lald espe- cial emphasis on the ract that his Gallic wit was in keeping with his Gallic neme, Mrs. Margaret E. Hood of Frederick, Md., has given $20,000 to endow & professorship in the woman’s college of that town. Some time ago she gave $15,000 to found the Daniel Scholl observatory in Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Penn. John Nicholas Brown, who has just given 200,000 1o the Providence Public Library Association for anew building, is the eldest son of thelate John Carter Brown, who g to Brown University its new libraty building snd the land upon which it stands. He is 33 years old, lives in Newport ahd isan earnest student of social and political questions. Alfred Quantin Mary, who died recently in Paris, was serving as a lieutenant of the National Guard at the Chamber of Deputies 1n 1848 when it was invaded by the uprising of the people. The Duke of Chartres and the Countof Paris, both children at that time, were present at the siiting. Lieutenant Mary seized the Count of Paris in his arms, jumped out of the window with him and hid him at the Invalides. e AN EMBASSADOR'> HOUSE RENT. Providence Journal. The rent of thu house which Embassador Hay will occupy in London will be just equal to his salary. That doesn’t mean that Mr. Hay is an improvident man, but it means that the United States Government is a niggardiy employer. MUSIC AND Especial attention is called this week to two | Vicona masters of very different kinds of music—Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss. While the Waltz King has been triumphing at | the Theater an der Wien, in the seventy-third vear of his age, with a new operetta, as bril- ant as anything he ever wrote, Johannes Brahms, aged 64, has ended his musical labors after a long and painful illness. Brahms worked in every important style of composi- tion excepting the operatic. Opera and matri- mony he evolded with equal persistency. He shared with Beethoven the degree of M. B., Bachelor of Music. *With marriage,” he onca said, “it is as with opers. If I had already | composed an opera and, for a 11 care, seen it | fail, Iwould certainly write another. But I can’t make up my mind to & first marriage or a firstopera.’’ The theater simply had no at- | traction for him. Not infrequently he would rise to leave after the first act of an opera, with the remark | to his companion: ‘You kuow 1 understand | nothing about the theater.” Brahms thought in the recognized classic musical forms of MUSICIANS, stanger gave him a card, telling him to call the nextdsy. It bore the name of Costa, and that was the origin of his engagement in Sir Michael Costa’s orchestra at Covent Garden. The paper Von Fels zum Meer recently pub- lished some of Rubinsiein’s private memoirs, which the master kept locked in his cesk dur- ing lus lifetime, because he did not want to engage in any controversy by letting his friends see them. Here are some of his opin- ions: “When musical thoughts are lacking then the lietmotiv comes in handy.” “There used 10 be little concert hells and great artis there are great concert halls, but—." “An artist who gives a concert wishes o learn the gment of the pub.ic on his performance. he easiest way would be, instead of charging the public for admission, to ask them at the end for such contributions as they thought he deserved. This would be a test of the ap- plause, and would check the flood of concerts.” Emile Zola has heralded the libretto of the new Zola-Bruneau opera “Messedor” to the world as “the first book of the futurelyric JOHANNES BRAHMS, Who Avoided Operas and Matrimony. which he wasnot aslave but a master. He | gave modern significance to classical form It was Schumann who first enthusiastically re- cognized his genius, acd it was to Schun that he wrote in 1855 saying how distasteful itwas to him to e dragged into the war against Wagner. Brabms' music unjosily because of hissup- posed opposition tothe Bayreuth master, but Haoslick says that no one was more familiar | with Wagner's scores than Brahms, and that | he often heacd Brahms defend Wagner against hostile criticism. Wegnerians, however, were never able to forget that caustlc saying of | Wagner'’s, “Brahms is a composer whose importance lies in not wishing to create any | startling effects.” | The first production of “The Goddess of Reason,” Johann Strauss’ new operetts, created quite a sensation in Vienns, for on the banks of the Danube ail the compositions of the popular master pass for chefs d’ceuvre. Without going quite 50 far as to balieve that, there seems no resson to doubt that Strauss’ new operatta, which s running at the Theater an der Wien, is worthy of most of the flattering things (hat the Vienna press says about it. Strauss was struck with a strange idea, though, | when he sought the motive for gay waltzes in the most somber period of the French Revolu- tion. The action passes in the year 1793, partiy in the camp at Chalons, and partly in a pensionnat. The music from one end to the other of ‘The Goddess of Reason'’ is as full of melody as if Birauss was in the vigor of his days, instead of having passel his seventy- second birthday. There was only one shadow on the brightness of the first night’s success— Strauss was prevented by illness from attend- ing the performance. Apropos of to-morrow night's first perform- ance of Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” in this City one may tell a story, which M. G. Bourdon has been relating in the Paris Figaro: One day, in the month of October, 1867, Ambroise Thomas was walking slowly and pensively down the Rue Vivienne. Editor Heugel, from the back part of his store, saw him pass and calied out,'‘En bien! what's the news?” “Hut! a big machine that I have just finished in the country.” “Show it me.”” = Ambroise Thomas, whose memory was prodiglous, went to the plano in the music publisher’s study and for two hours played his big machine. It was the score of “Hamlet” that for eight montns he bad petted, caressed and coaxed. It marked a stage in his artisuc Iffe. For the first time he was trying to escape from the tender graces of ‘‘Songe d'une Nuit d’ete” of *“Psyche” and of “Mignon,” and was trying to get to the heights of grand music. ‘It for the Grand Opera, hein, ana right away,” said Heugel. ““Oh, no! no!” re- plied Thomas. “Give me first an Ophelis, and then we shall see.” At this moment a pretty blonde girl showed her head, which looked like & pastel painting through the half-open aoor, exclaiming “Bonjour!” *Nilsson I said Heugel. *Butla volla! your Ophelia.” And, in effect, it was the Swedish cantatrice who triumphantly created the role. As for Ham- let, it is not generally known that the role was first written for a tenor, but that it was decided to give it to the incomparable bary tone Faure. This necessitated the rewriting of ail the score in the version which Was per- formed and published. At Genoa, Italy, the other aay a grand con- cert was given for the benefitof the Cretan insurgents. After many contretemps and obstacles ratsed by the authorities the concert finally took place in the Politeama Genovese, which was crowded. The principal atiraction was the Tzigane Rigo, who executed several violin solos, among others a piece entitled “Viennese Follies” and a “Hungarian Rhap- sody.” In spite of the rumors that Rigo and the Princess de Caraman-Chimay never speak as they pass by the Princess was in the first row of the audience elegantly dressed in pink. Auguste Van Blene, the actor 'cellist, who has been giving himself such airs in New York, professes to have undergone terrible privations in his early days. Atonetime he was alone, friendless and penniless, in London and only & feeling of ambition kept him from despair. “One day, when I was both hungry and sad,” he says, “I heard a man singing 1n the street. At the same instant, owing to a rush of warm air from the window, I smelt the odor of a dinner cooking. Suddenly I | formed & resolution. I borrowed a siool from my landlagy and, with my violoncello under my arm, I went into the sireet.” Van Biene played all that day, and on several succeeding ones, for coppers on the street and his takings averaged from 5 shillings to 20 shillings a day (81 to $4). One dsy he was addressed by a gentleman who asked why he was playing on | same opin Many people have judged | | turn its back on musical art because it comes | rapin ana the soles. drama of France.” The critics are notof the They say that Bruneau has | written u score of aliuring power, but that it is to be regretted that he scored the trivial | realism of the language used by Zola’s peas- | e setting to music suca words as fend, is it forbidden to have more ace and activity than the others? scem as if excessive realism were | cr than the books of the old Italian | inteilig It doe: much operas. The Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin, con- ducted by Arthur Nikisch, late of Boston, 1s go- ing to try its fortune in Paris next month at the Cirque d’hiver. No doubt the favorable reception given to Felix Mottl of Carlsbad and to Mrs. Mottl bas shown that Paris will not from the other side of the bine. Huberman, the boy violinist, was recently interviewed for a musical paper. When | asked how he liked New York he answered in distinct English, “Very nice,” and smiled as though much pleased. “I like much the oyster,” he added, voluntarily, “and the ter- We have not oysters at my home. They are very good.”” And this is the boy who plays 400 different concertos and sonatas and individual compositions from memory. At Bayreuth a memorial monument to Richard Wagner will soon be begun. It is to take the form of & large, round temple, with an imposing dome, supported by columns. Several years will be needed to complete the temple, which wili_probably be dedicated in 1901, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bay- reuth festivais. Last season Mancinelli conducted sll the ras at Covent Garden, but this coming seeson it hus been decided that he will only conduct the French and Italian operas. Anton S21d1 hias been engaged to conduct the German operas. The Daily News announces that on the ocea- sion of the jubilee of Queen Victoria, the In- corporated Socfety of Musicians proposes to found a grand institute as a home of poor and aged musicians. Augusta Cottlow, who sppeared here some years ago as a child pianist, has been playing with success in Berlin The French press hatls a coming composer in Gabriel Pierne, whose new lyric drama, “Vendee,” has created quite a sensation at Lyons. Leonora Jackson, a young American violin- 1st, is meeting with striking favor in Beriin, where she is considered a masterly player. Gillet (composer of “The Mill,” “Loin du Bai,” etc.) 1s making a furor in Athens with a new comic opers, entitled “The Isle of Crate.” Humperdinek has composed an orchestral work for the coming Leeds festival Sir Arthur Sullivan will receive $10,000 for hisnew Victorian ballet. ENGLAND'S SHAME. Where now is proud o'd England’s vaunted might To guard the weak and stand up for the righi Though loath 10 S0il her hauds with craven deeds, Conient 10 lie supine while Heilas bieeds; Too timid 10 0ppose the devil's work, Half spurred to act, yet all disposed {0 shirk. Aroused to shame by Gladstone’s statesman call, Yet bound by chaing selt-wrought in Satan's thrati; Fearing to risk a blow for Freedom's Yet periling her soul for doubtful pel Alike reserved 10 blame or 10 commend, Half Turiey’s foe and haif (0 Greece a friend. elt, The Powers she gives assent with civil leer, And without sneerlng, teaches (hem to sneer; By acquiescen ce hopes (o serve her Queen, Yet by inaction keep her 'scutcheon clean; Herself at fault, she hesitates dis ke, Willing to wourd and yet araid to strike! w York Evening Sun. *“LOG ROLLING” * ‘Washington Post. Judge Holman says that ex-Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin inventea “Jog rolling” in legisla- tion and that he is responsible for the waste of more public money than any living man in the United States. “Sawyer is to blawe for these outrageous river and harbor bills,” ex- clatmed the venerable economist from India; “He was chairman of the Commiitse on Com. merce in the House 0f Representatives thirty- five years ago, and in order to get money for rivers and harbors and harbors in Wisconsin he divided the pie all round. Before Sawye: time appropriations for river and harbor im- rovements were made in individual bills, Justax publtc butidings are nthoriged now, INVENTED the street. “For bread,” he repiied. The and whena bill for improving a harbor at Oshkosh came up all the Southern and Easte | annually, ern people would vote against 1t because that town was not in their district, and vice verss. So Sawyer conceived the idea of pooling issues, and he used to make up bills containing thirty or forty appropriations for different places in various parts of the country so as to get votes enough to pass them and neutralize the oppo- sition. I have often toid Sawyer that he cost this Government more money than any other liviog many PERSONAL. E. M. Barnes of Reno is on a visit here. Francis A. Fee of Madera 15 on a visit bere. Samuel Armstrong of Victoris, B. C., s in town. T. H. 0. Child of England arrived here yes- terd: George H. Corey of San Diego ison a visit here. W. H. Loomis of Brooklyn, N. City. A. W. Young of Amador City is at the Cos- mopolitan. F. P. Mills and Mrs. Mills of Coulterville are at the Occidental H. F. Geer, & mining man of Turlock, is reg- istered at the Lick. Fred Gerstley, a business man of Los Ange- les, is & recent arrival here. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan are at the Grand. Captain W. Colm of Queensland, New Zea- 1and, is on a visit here. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Washington of Nashville, Tenn., are at the Palace. J. V. A. Smith, a business man of Seattle, is here, accompanied by his wife, C. R. Gilbert, a mining man of Butte, Mon- tana, is at the Palace. O. H. P. Noves, a wealthy tea importer of Yokohama, is at the Palace. G. F. Janny, a business man of Salt Lake City, is at the Cosmopolifan. Mrs. L. E. Sage, proprietress of Congiess springs, is & recent arrival at the Lick. E. Parsons of Sonora, formerty Treasurer of Tuolumne County, is 1n the City. William Knabe, a weslthy resident of Balti- more, Md., errived here yesterday. B. F. Shepherd, a real-estate dealer and in- surance agent of Fresno, is at the Grand. H. V. Vaughn, a cattle-grower of Winne- mucca, Nev., is among the arrivalsat the Russ. A. Pugh, one of the best-known mining ex- perts in the State, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Mme. Camilla Urso has returned here after a visit to San Jose, Monterey and other near-by points. W. P. Edwards, one of the directors of the Home for the Feeble-minded at Eldridge, is in the City. Police Judge Conlan ts yet ill. He will Frob- ably not be able to resume his judicial duties for some time. 1 L. B. Mott, a wealthy business man of New York; Mrs. Mott, Miss Mott and Miss Redding- ton, arrived here yesterday. J. C. Cramer and Oscar Nelson of the Slerra Blanco mine, West Point, Calaveras County, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Superior Judge Carroll Cook will lesve for Fresno County to-day to take the place on the bench ot Judge Webb, with whom he is to ex- change places for a short time. Major McLaughlin, chairman of the Repub- lican State Central Committee, has retarned here after some weeks at Washington, D. Quring which he attended the 1nauguration. Brevet Brigadier-General John S. Witcher, major and paymaster United States army, and Mrs. Witcher, have returned from the retent inauguration ceremonies at Washington, tnd are now domiciled at the Hotel Wenban. Z. 5. Spaulding of Honolulu, who has a fran- chise from the Hawsailan Government for a cable which he proposes to extend to the United States or sell the franchise to this Gov- ernment, hes returned from Washington, D. C. Hesays there is nothing doing about the cable enterprise that is new. T. J. Slaughter, a leading and wealthy florist of Madison, N. J., who is an extensive propa- gator of the American Beauty rose and who furnishes New York City with 500,000 roses is among the arrivals here. Mr. Slaughter has sixty acres, much of which is under glass, which is devoied to varlous flowers. Clarence King, formerly of California, now of New York, who has been here for some months past looking up mines for a large syn- dicate, returned from the mountains yester- Y., is 1o the | day and is at the Palace. Though a mining engineer, Mz. King sometimes does specia! journalistic work, and he is one of the greatest admirers of newspaper men in the country. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 7.—At the St. Cloud, F. E. Cuens and M. A. Irons: Astor, C. Muse; Broadway Central, J. L. Russell; Mor- ton, J. H. Simpson. Wild YOUR COFFEE. Ethel—Oh, dear me! Idon’t know whatto think! Algy asked me last night if I wouldn't ltke to have something around the house that Icould love and that would love me. fth—Well? el—Well, Tdon’t know whether he means himself, or whether he is thinking of buying me a dog!—Puck. Grace—How I do envy Mrs. Fitzsimmons! Carmelita—Why, how dreadiul Grace—I don’t care! Just think of havinga $15,000 Easter bonnet!—New York Press. Adam-—What are you saying, Eve? Eve—That it was rather queer Ido not re- member ever hearlng your last name. Twinkles. Algy—And what did she say when you pro- posed! Reggy—Well, first she said that I had nonme of those stable qualities which a woman re- quires in a husband; then she said that I should have something more than a meager salary to offer & woman before I proposed mar- riage; she mext said thatshe considered me the most fickle, improvident, unreliable and vacillating of my sex. Algy—The deuce? That wasan awful falling- down to give a man before refusing him. Reggy—But she didn’t—she accepted me.— Judge. ‘What ardent friends were you and Gray! You wore each other’s collars. Bat you lost him when, ore luckless day, You lent him £40. —Chicago Tribune, FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, The Veterans of Geuveral Meade Post, G. A. R., Entertained by the Meade Reifef Gorps. It was remarked at an assemblage of mem. bers of General Meade Post, G. A. R., and ladies of General Meade Relief Corps that while all the younger people and orders were being rushed to the front, the old veterans who fought to save the Union are almost for- gotten and scarcely thought of; but that the time will come, in future generations, when the people will look back and trace the family tree for the honor of being called & descend- ant of a Union soldier of the War of the Re- bellion. ' This is true of many who clatm to be filed With patriotism, but there is one organc ization that does not forget the old soldiers of General Meade Post, and that one is Gen. eral Meade Relief Corps, which was organized eight years ago to work in conjunction with the post. Ouce a year the ladies of this corps visit the veterans and entertain them with music, song and & banquet. This was done last Tuesday night in Foresters' Hall, on the occasion of the corps’ anniversary, and. the men who carried the muskets to preserve the couniry as one were sensibly affected by the kindness of the one body that never forgets them. ‘Ihe officers of the corps, Mrs. Mary A, Sweet. president; Mrs. M. Bosil. senior vicw; Mes. ot A. Logan, junior vice; Mrs. Josephiue Coles, chaplain; Miss Helen H. Biack, secretary; Hattie M. Baldwin, treasurer; and Mrs, Cath: rine Shatman, guard, got up the followin; programme: Address Past Department Senior Vice-Commander Maydwell; vocal trio, “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground” and *‘The Old Osken Bucket,” Mrs. F. E. Bowley. Mra. Annie Levitt and Hatti Jdwin; address by Past Commander Gi ecliation “Lin- coln,” Miss Pnebe Atkins; recitation, “Caii- fornia,” Miss Hoffrichter. 7hen there n adjournment to the upper hall, where & ban- quet prepared by the ladies awaited all. Thers Were reminiscences aud short addresses spiced ‘with patriotic flavor. Garfleld Rellef Corps. The ladies of the James A. Gatfield Relief Corps, G. A. R., gave & pleasant soclal in So- cial Hall, Alcazar building, last Tuesday night. While the ball was not crowded to ex cess, there were many couples who enjoyed the fine programme of dances that was pre- sented, ana there was regret that the affair terminated as soon asitdid. The event was under the direction of Mrs. Nellie Lusselle, as- sisted by Mrs. Esther Dunn, Mrs. K. Howard, Mrs, Jennie Witham, Mrs. Burgman and Mrs, Short. Mrs. May Souders wus the fioor man sger. The officers of this corps ar Margaret Jones, president; Mre. May zer, senior_vice; Mrs. Lizzie Zeigler, junior vice; Mrs. Gilberts, chaplain; Mrs. Kate How- ard, secretary; Mrs. Dora Wilkins, treasurer; Mrs, Dibble, conductor, and Mrs. Rosa Burg- man, guard. The New Commander. S, W. Hall, recently elected State Commander ot the Knights of the Maccabees of this State,is quits a young man, but he has had & broad experience in fraternal work. As deputy smpreme comman- der he hus had under his direction tne northern section of California. A review of the work done under his direction is a recommendation that he will make a good officer in his new position. He is & fluent talker anda is alao entertaining. He Propeses to advance the order during his term. Niantic Parlor, N. 5. G. W. F. Mordecal, J. R. Hay, F. Kaufman, F. Drury, M. Claraty, G. F. Euler, William Car- roll and T.E.McQuaid have been appointed the committee of arrangements to prepare an entertainment and dance for the tenth anni- versary ot Niantic Parlor, to be given in Na- tive Sons’ Hall on the evening of the 27th inst. The committee will strive nard to make this = most enjoy able event. THE PASSING SHOW. The Mississipp! is still making bad breaks.— Baltimore American. The julep season approaches and the mints will be opened up with a little liquor on the inside.—Chieago Dispatch. All encouragement snould be given to the growing beet-sugar industry. There is reason 10 believe it may be developed until this coun- try is able to produce all the sugar it needs.— New York Tribune. Would that Greece had an army and a navy that could defy the powers and make both might ana right 40 battle in & nob:e cause.— Baltimore American. Mrs. Christopher Bettarle has sustained the reputation of her sex for markwomanship, She aimed a revolver at a Qog and shot her husband.—Chicago Journal. Mr. Bayerd has secured the return of the Mayflower’s logbook to the United States. Ar. Baysrd is coming back, t0o, 80 the country will have two interesting relics on its hands. Minneapolis Times. The great powers of Europe are such terrible fillows that they were going to eat up the Greeks without stopping to butter them, but naw the Greeks say they feel like dining them- sélves.—Chicago Rec @reece made & mistake. If King George had sert his soldiers to some defenseless provinee and allowed them to slaughter women and chidren the great powers would have bowed reccgnition of the greatnessof Greece.—Chi- cage Journal. l CaL glace fruit 50c per Ib., at Townsend's, * _— GEITUINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ to 40c; Sun- days 740 Market, Kast shoestore; weekdays 85 Fourth street, next bakery. - —— o SPEQAL information daily to manufacturers, busines houses and public men by the Prass Clippuig Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * f FirstThespian—At our last stand the thea- ter tool fire in the middie of the third act. Seconl Thespian—\Was there a panic in the eudiene ? First Thespian—Oh, no. The usher woke him up tnd told him it was iime to go home, —Yale Record. s l Santa ¥y Limited From San Francisco Three and a Half Days to Chicago Via Santa Fe Route. To acconmodate our Northern Californis pa- trons, on Mondays and Thursdays the first- class Pullpan sleeping-car leaving San Frao. cisco at | P. M wil connecy at Barstow with the Santa Fe vestibule train, carrying dining-car. luftet, smoking-car =nd Puilmsn pal- ace drawingroom sleeping-cars for both St. Loats and Chicagcvia Kausas Clty. This shortens the running time twelve hours. Send for literature descriptive > our route. San Francisco tickes office, 644 Mirket street, Chronicle bullding; tele- phone main|531. Oakland, 1118 Broadway. e Railroad lickets to the East via Rio Grande Western and Denver and Rb Grande Railways, At _lowest pasible rates, with through Pullman Duffet and towrist sleeping car service every d Personally coructed excursions leaving Tuesa: Wednesday aul Thursday. Only line permitting stop-over at Sdt Lake Clty on ail classes of tickets Detalled Infornation and tickets furnished a: 14 Montgomery stieet, or 314 Callfor: ———— (hange of Time. Taklog effect March 28, the Northern Paclfic overland train Wil leave Portland at 11 A. i in- stead of 1 P. &, ins making connection at Spo- kane for all poiits In the new Kootenal mining district. Tickets at lowdst rates to Rossiand, Northport and Tall T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market ytreet, San Francisco. A SLIGHT COLD, 1¥ NEGLECTED, OFTEN AT TACKS THE LUNGS. “ Brown's Bronchial Troches" give immediate and Wrectual reliet, streec. ) St CoLDs, caused by Lle sudden changes of tamper- ature at this season of the year, make Ayers Cherry Pectoral indisiensable, Aunt Maria—I thilk you and Mr. Mann ought to g2t along niely together. You know you both Iike the sami peopjo. Matilda—Yes, and vhat is better, we hate the same peoplé. Just think what nice long talks we shall have togither.—Tit Bits. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavenity serg h and healthfalness. 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