The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1897, Page 6

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OFPICE: rk Row, New Yorw Olty. Eastern Manager. EASTERN Rooms 81 and 52, 54 Ps DAVID M. FOLT — THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS, Areyon going to the country ona vacatlon * It vo. 11 18 1O troutie for us 1o forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it for you will Iniss 1. Orders given (0 the carrier or left ab iness Office will receive prompt aiteution. NO EXTKA CHARGE. Fit:y conis per month for summer months. I'here will be very little ginger in the tariff debate the sugar schedule comes up, and then we may look for hot stuff. until appointments are always He never fails to pick a fill the office and pubiic ex- t the same time. McKinley's satisfactory. man who ¢ pectation We Gorman that law by Ju are assured by both Aldrich and the tariff bill will become v1, and we can therefore pre- pare to celebrate it on the glorious Fourth, A number of Kansas s sald who will agree not the idea that the Kaneas man is not fasci- nating to the female mind is not well founded. hool districts are schoolmarms o be advertising for There is a v to guard counterfeit lottery tickets, and that is to i buy no lottery tickets at all. The differ- | ence between the genuine and the bogus | does not amount (o acent’sworth 1n value #0 far as the buyer is concerned. against | The elass honors at Annanolis this year went to Georgis, North Carolina, Ohio and Massachusetts, so that every section of the Union had a share in them except | the mighty West. This is one of the things at the Naval Academy that requires reform. 1t tu; out that the newly elected Sen- ator from Kentucky, Mr. Deboe, hashever tasted whisky in his life, and from this fact we can perceive how completely con- fused the Legisiature was before it got through with that famous Senatorial scrimma ge. Tbe promoters of the plan for a Mission park and those who are trying to bring about the establishment of a zoological | garden will do well to work in harmony, for there is & long pull before them, and the quickest way to make it is to pull to- gether. One of the notatle features of this ses- sicn of Congress is the silence of Senator Teller. He has said almost nothing since the session began, and is probably waiting for a chance to get back into the Repub- he lican party before &peech, makes another As the old comparison to *'a tempest in a teapot”’ does not do justice to the raging of Jerry Simpson, Congressman Hender- son has charged him with *‘raising bell in a teapot,” thus adling a new phrase to literature and giving the Kansas man a description which wilt stick to him. According to the latest report of the Weather Bureau, the conditions are un- favorable to crops everywhere east of the Rockies. Ttistoocool in the north, too dry in the south and too wet in New Eng- land. They have all kinds of weather over there, but they never have it right. Senator Tillman lost his hold on South Carolina politics by insisting upon the to marry, so it seems | IN THE LEVANT. The situation in the Levant, as Dre- sented to the public eye, undergoes trans- | formations about as rapidly and as radi cally as scenes in a series of dissolving views. That which appeared yesterday disappears to-day and wilt not reappear to-morrow. One day the Emperor of Germany is seen lording it over Europe and on the next the powers are going ahead without Lim. At one time it seemed evident the Suitan was taking his orders from the Czar, bat now he is mani- festly disposed to defy not only the Czar, but all his allies. Not long ago there was ashow of British influence determining the policy to be adopted by the concert, bnt at present it looks as if Great Britain bad been completely isolated. In all these variations there is but one thing which remains constant, and that is the inability of the powers to agree | among themselves. The obstinacy of the Turk is founded less upon confidence in his own strength than upon a rooted be- lief that the nations will never be able to act harmoniously in thwarting his will. Not long ago an eminent Turkish offici declared that if ever a ceneral European coalition were formed against Turkey the Sultan would shatter it at one blow by simply withdrawing his sentinels from | the gates of Jerusalem. Palestine and the highway to Syria, he argued, being thus left open to the first comer, the allies would at once abandon their scheme against Turkey and begin to fight for the spoil. In the advance and recoil of conflicting interests where everything changes so rapidly it is difficuit to decide direction the current is moving. It may be an alliancs will be formed which will completely isolate Great Britain from ropean diplomacy and compel her either to retire into comparative impotence or single-handed espouse the cause of Greece and drive the Turks from Thessaly by force of arms. On the other hand, Salis- bury may arrange an alliance w and Italy which will be strong enough to make the banded emperors te in their course, and decide to coerce Turkey rather than confront the liberalism of E th Francs hes rove. Almost any kind of eventuality see possible. Prospects of peace may be swittly transformed into prospects of war, and on the conirary the dangerous issues which at other times would almost surely tead to battle may now pass harmlessly away. the forces which m tend steadily to war. an ve men and nations T. e situation holds irrepressible conflict and unless di- plomacy caninduce the o!d order to peace- ably make way for the new the contest must sooner or later be one of arms. MISSION PARX AND Z00. The property-owners of the Mission are moving with an enthusiastic energy that means nothing short of ultimate success in their praiseworthy plan for a park and zoologieal garden. The march of improvement is evers- where apparent throughout that health- ful and beautiful district. New paved streets and handsome residences and busi ness blocks are among the evidences of its prosperity, There is no standstill for the Mission folk. They appreciate the fact that it is only through constant agitation that beneficial projects are developed, and they are leaving no stone unturned to achieve success in the current endeavor. An immense petition has been pre- sented to the Board of Supervisors, pra inz that the City set apart a portion of land sufficient for the desired purpose, and appropriate a sum of money in order that | the design may be properly carried out. It is suggested that the Supervisors maka this park matter an item of consideration in the next tax-levy. As to the location of the Mission park and zoological garden, nothing definite has been determined on, | although some talk has been indulged in regarding the availability of the old City and County Hospital tract, situated at the southern edge of the Mission district. But a location will soon be fixed upon witbout any shadow of doubt, for these property-owners, whose name is legion or thereabouts, are going to secure for their portion of the City the benefit of a new park with the additional attraction of a Zoo, and they will not stop until they get what they want in that respect. There is a whole lot of commendable vim and vigor and grit about these Mis- sion people. Other districts mignt profit by taking & few lessons from them. WEATHER FORECASTS, Among the people who rejoiced most over the pleasant conditions under which Washingzton monument was recently dedi- cated in Philadelphia were the officials of the Weather Bureau. They did not in- deed furnish to order the showers which | cooled the city before the celebration took place, nor did they arrange for the sun. shine to follow in Gue time to make the day delightful, but they aid predict these things, and in the falfiliment of their pre- | which | The statesmen desire peace, but | the eacerness with which the officials have prosecuted the kite expsriments all 1 the way from San Francisco (o New York, taken in conmnection with the brilliant success just achievea, gives rea<on to believe that it will yet make weather pre- diction a feature of governmental work which neither the farmer nor the citizen will ignore or speak of with derision. It is a source of pride to San Franciscans to call to mind that the first successful kite experiments in connection with the bureaa servics were made in this City by Mr. W. . Hammon, the local forecast officiall OUR DIPLOMATIC STAFF. The Sultan has witharawn his objection to receiving Mr. Angell as Minister from the United States, and our Nation is as- sured of a most able and efficient repre- sentative at Constantinople. Itisrather amusing, by the way, that the complaint {of the Turkish raler should have been based upon the fact of Mr. Angell’s mem- bership in the Congregational church, of which religious body the successor of Mohammea had conceived the erroneous idea thet i1t had something to do with politics and might have designs on the Oitoman empire. The Suitan has been st perfectly at ease on this point, and he will now rest secure in the confidence that Mr. Angell is not going to Constantinopls for the purpose of inaugurating a crusade for the downfall of the crescent. The selection of President Angell of the University of Michigan for that import- | ant station addel another britliant name to the splendid list of distinguished men who have been chosen, with such rare | and laudable wisdom, by President Mc- Kinley for the diplomatic service. His appointments, it may be observed, are in | direct contrast with those of Mr. Clove- | land. | With Hay in London, Porter in Paris, | | | White in Berlin, Draper in Rome, Tower in Vienna and Angell in Constantinople, the present chief magistrate has given the United States the best and eblest diplo- matic staff that has represented this coun- try in many years. 1t is particularly noteworthy that, having a wealth of fine material 10 choose from, the President has, in every appointment, taken unques- tionably the best | TUNDER THE SEARCHLIGHT The most recent revelations in the lot- tery frauds of this City should have the effect of putting a stop 1o the outrageous swindles for all ime to come. Itisto be hoped that credulous people have had their eyes opened at last as to the real “chances of fortune” in these lottery games, It need hardly be urged that the lottery | swindlers subsist and grow fat largely by | reason of the extensive advertising which {is civen them in tue daily prints whose | managers implicitly upnold the nelarious | businesssolongasthe unscrupulous lottery cumbine keeps up its pay ments for space. }inithis manner has the robbery of work- | ingmen, servants and factory girls by | knaves been encouraged. Through the columns of TuE Cavi alone, among the newspapers of San Francisco, have these schemes—these bunko games—been ex- posed and condemned in the interests of honesty and common decency. The posi- tion of THE CALL from the very beginning has been steadfastly opposed toall schemes which are calculated to enrich rascals by | mulcting the people. The truth concerning these iniguitous lottery operations has only half been told. More iight on the subject was afforded in | vesterday’s issue of this paper with re- gard to the fact that the 500 capital prize ickets presented at the first May draw- ing, and the fifty or more tickets bearing | the winning number presented at the second, are said by the lottery-dealers to have been ‘“counterfeited.” It is cer- tainly passing strange that a counter- feiter, in the range of 80,000 numbers, | should for one drawing print a big batch of uckets containing exactly the same numerals, and for the following drawing | another big batch ali bearing one set of figures, and that in each instance he should hit upon the capital prize num- ber. nd of it. The abstruso hemakes plain and simole. Thus he opehs his paper: *‘No subject is of greater importance than that which considers the nataral history ‘of lile. The question in some sense underles the philosophy of our age and constitutes the most essential theme. HIs first work is to extricate evolution from its {alse environment of error, in which he showed that the fact of life and not its begin- ng or it end is the sole concern of evoiu- tion, and the ape pervision aisappears precipi- tately. Iwantthe men who preach *“‘the old avs” and fear the world will return to chaos and old night if evolution should become the creed of all men to put aside fear for one-half hour and read what this man has said. Once such men feared ail was lost i1 all sbould come to think the sun did not rise and sei. These men are dead and have been long in tbeir graves, but truth livesand the world has not yet come to an end. 1 may not here try to tell what Ridpath has d. Know that he is strong and broad, since he is true and brave, With a firm and large grasp he takes up as a child picks up an oid toy the whole great tneme and names the parts and shows their p'ace and use in the great scheme of things. If you wish to learn that which all men need much to know, here is one who can teacn and use the speech of plain men. His one alm is to let the fact speak and give back sight to those who have been made blind by fs light. Read and you will catch the gieam of the new day. Man &rows and the light dawns. A few men have been great and good. He shows how man shall be great and good, not in a land of dreams, but in this old gray world in which we now but half live. JOSEPH_ASBURY JOHNSON. 855 Market street, June 2, 1897 CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. H. Bayre; Cosmopolitan, C. A. Hitchcock; New Amsterdam, Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Morse, Miss C. E. Wall; Broadway Central, W. Bradford, E. Allen; Netherland, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Franklin, Miss M. Polhemus; Sturtevant, Mr. H. B. Rasmone; Windsor, A. B. H. Miller; California Cosmopolitan, C. H. Sherman; Brosdway Central, F. Chev- eriel. Right Rev. F. C. Dillon and Mrs. Dillon left the Plaza and sailed on the St. Louis for South- ampton. Miss Eimer Taylor and Miss Emma Owles siso sailed for Europe. Rev. Lucien H. Fragy and Mrs. Fragy of Pomous, Cal, sailed for Southampton. —At the Plaza, E.J L. Taber of Eiko, Nev., is at the Lick. G. D. Plato, merchant of Modesto, 1s in the City. F.A.J. Diss of Los Angeles is dental. F. A. Smith of Centerville {s at the Cosmo- politan. M. Goldsmith, & merchant of Stockton, is in the City. W. I Hatton, the attorney, of Modesto, is in the City. 0. Benson, & mining man of the Russ. Charles W. Prange of St. Louis yesterday. John Curtis Wasson of Fiagstaf, Ariz, is at the Grand. C. P. Stevens, an attorney of Benicia, is at the Grand. P. A. Neilson of Draper, Utah, 1s at the Cos- mopolitan. C. B. Bignal ot Knoxville, Tenn., is here on A business trip. ¥. F. Carndufr, editor of the Biggs Notes, Biggs, is in the City. Dr. J. D. Hill and Mrs. Hill, of Walnut Creek, are among the arrivals here. Frederick Frater, lighthouse-keeper at Mon- terey, is at the Cosmopolitan. J. Jeans, an extensive cattie grower and dealer of Winters, is at the Russ. Sherift N.S. Gregory of Amador County is intown. He is staying at the Grand. M.T. and E. Howitz, en route to Temple, Tex., are staying st the Cosmopolitan. Lieutenant 0. F. Long of the United States navy and Mrs. Long are among recemt ar- rivals. F. A. Hian, millionaire banker and real estate owner of Santa Cruz, is at the Occi dental. J. Jay Sullivan, a business man of Genesee, New York, arrivea here yesterday. He is at the Russ Dr. George Chismore returned to the City yesterday after an outing of six weeks in New York, Ohio and Virginia. W. M. Simms of Winters and E. Fedlock of Madison, extensive land-owners and cattle- growers, are at the Russ A party consisting of the Rev. George F. Nelison, Ralph McNeill and Mrs. Henry Orr, of ew York, ar2 at the Occidental. Dr. H. Muller and R.de Hayn, tourists of Hanover, Germany, rrived here yesierdsy, after a visit to Southern California. J. G. Day, one of the contractors for the Government work at Cascades, Or., which has been going on for several years, is at the at the Occl- Nevads, is at arrived here | | Palace. | An explanation which seems reason- | sble has been advanced ns follows: Of |, pior* L™ PU7a s, wealns tatmer of Her the 80000 Mexican tickets only &bous | George F. Burns, 000 numbers are printed, thus giving the schemers a leverage of 78,000 numbers on which they will not have to pay any prizes. These 2000 numbers, duplicated and reduplicated to fit the demand, are divided among the numerous peddlers of tickets so that no one of them will have | | a duplicate. Thus each peddler counld be given 2000 tickets, each ticket with a dif- ferent number, and yet these would be all the numbers represented out of the whole 80,000. Only the winning tickets would come to light, and suspicion could be al- | layed by cashing a few of the smaller prizes. Any duplicate numbers brought in for the same prizes could be stamped counterfeit” and laid to tne credit of the imaginary *forger.” A study of the tickets of the local lot- also of Herkimer, arrived here yesterday. Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the Home for the Feeble-minaed at Eldridge, and William P, Edwaras, secretary of the institu- tion, arrived here yesterday. CUBA MUST BE FREE Warships t0 Cuba will dono harm and at the same time will clear the alr mightily.— | Peoria Journal. Weyler talks about recognition like a man who s not afraid of & live wire.—Buffalo Courfer-Record. General Weyler's only hope new seems to be | to kill off all the Cubans before Uncle Sam in- terferes.—St. Louis Star. Spain will not sell Cuba. It 1s possible that she may not have Cuba to sell or to keep much MUSIC AND Mme. Thea Dorre, the Chieazo prima donns who sang over a year ago at the Baldwin, is aceredited with making & great success at the Alhsmbra at Marseilles. She is singiog with a company of good Italian artists who are per- forming the works of Verd!l in their nati tongue, but the French papers speak more ad- miringly of Dorre than of any other member of the company. . Speaking of ““Il Trovatore, | one of the leading critics of Marseilles say: “Played in 1ts original language, Verdi's most popular work receives & new interest. The Italian tempos, given by M. Guerrera, the well-known chef d’orchestra, are quite differ- | ent from those to which we are accustomed, and they give the work a dash which it does not always possess on the French stage. The interpretation was perfect. First and fore- most was Mme. Thea Dorre, who s the gypsy Azucena showed herself to be an accomplished MUSICIANS liantly rendered us the works of their regular repertory. Francs, perhaps the leading country of the world 10-day in the arts, is also the favored home of the woman composer. To s long list of woman composers. headed by Mlle. Chami- nade and Mlle. Holmes, must now be addzd Mme. Granval, whose musical setting of *Ma- has wor what the eritiescall “Un vif at the Grand Theater at Marseilics. Mme. Frances Saville, the California prima donns, has made her first appearance this sea- son at Covent Garden as Juliet in Gounod's “Romeo and Juliet.” “Her suceess was com- plete,” say the French papars. London corre- spondents speak differently. The orchestra at the Gaiety Theater, Chica- g0, recently went on a strike in the middle of MME. THEA DORRE, Who Has Astonished the French. artist and singer. Her dramatic and sincere | interpretation of the gypsy’s role was hotly | avplauded.” | All Americans ought to feel apersonal in- | terest in the statue to Beaumarchais which | has justbeon unveiled in Paris. The Parisians honored Besumearchais as a dramatist, but Americans will remember him as one of the warmest friends of American independence. From his youth the playwright was a petof court on accountof his wit and | ments. | Beau marchals’ “Barber of Seville’” first | introduced to the stage the famous character | of Figaro, later on immortalized by Mozart | {And Rossini. He produced the work firstin | | 1772 as an opera comique, but it was o coldly received that he withdrew it and in 1776 | reproduced it successfully as a comedy. Dar. ing the years he was retouching the “‘Barber Beaumarchais was giviog most of his time and energies o lurthering the interesis of the | American “insurgents,” as they were called in [ France. He pressed both Louis XVI and Verennes to grant at least secret support to the “insurgents,” and by dint of passionate | eloquence at lasi made the King and the | minister share his enth:.siasm. It was agreed | the dramatist should open & pretended house | of commerce, the real object of which should | be to furnish the Americans with warlike | supplies. The King gave him 1,000,000 irancs, | and in 1777 he sent over 200 cannons together with complete arms and equipment for 25,000 men. Other supplies followed. | The first performance of Leoncavailo’s “La | Boheme” at the Teuice Thester in Venice has | been a veritable triumph. This is the second time within & short period that Henrl Mur- | ger'sstory has tempted an Italian maestro, for Puccini’s “Boheme™ is only a tew months | old, Leoncavallo is said to have conceived | the idea of a “Bohemia” soon after he had | finished ‘I Pagliacci,” in 1892, when he was | putting the finishing touches to “I Medici” | One night after the theater Leoncavallo and | Puceini were drinking some beer with s few friends in the bdirreria Trenk in Milan. The | conversation turned on music and each maestro announced, to the astonishment of | the other, that he was working on s “Bo- | hemia.” Leorcavallo had aiready sketched | out his libreito, which he &lways writes him- self, while Iliica and Giacosa were breparing one for Puceini. The first two acts of “Bo- hemia” are said to be the best thing Leonca- vallo has yet done. The following nationalities are represented | among the artists at Covent Garden this s2a- | son: Sopranos—Calve aud Pacary (French), | Saviile, Eames, Reid, Eagle, Palliser ar Susan | Strong (American), Van Coutersn (German), Macintire (English). Contraltos—Brazzi, de | Lussin (American), Brema (English), Schu- masn, Heink ana Meisslinger (German), D2 | quest had come from the home office, as the { you stand up for me and I'lI'stana up for the the performance. A piano-player was used to finish tne entertainment. M. F. Charley is still in New York endesvor- ing to secure the Metropolitan Opers-house for a season of French opers. | HOW A SENATOR WAS INTER.| VIEWED Washington Post. The Iate ex-Senator Coke of Texss, although | asarule a taciturn and reserved man, had a sense of humor and was something of & diplo- | mat. Shortly after his appearance in the Senate nere, years ago, he was approached by a newspaper correspondent for. an interview | ona leading question of that day. The re- correspondent explatned. | “8it down, my young friend,” said Mr. Coke, “and tell me, the first thing, if I can trust you.” The correspondent said pleasantly that he regarded himself fe risk. “Why I ask that,” continued the Senator, with a smile, “Is because I have a confession to make. about the question you mention, but I can’t efford to admit that to your newspaper. 1 take this request {or my views &s a compli-| ment. I'manew man on the scene,and an | interview!in as prominent a paper as yours will belp to introduce me. 1 ought to have som views. What do you know about the ques- tion 2" The correspondent replied that he had read the bilis recently introduced bearing on the subject, had listened to speeches in advocacy of them, and so forth. | ‘The Senstor's face lighted up. ‘‘My young | | | friend, do you want ihis interview right It goes by mail. To-morrow will ““Then you go and get coples of soms of those bilis and & few of those speeches and bring them here and we'il have a conversa- tion.” The correspondent agreed to thisand left the Senator. It was an amusing e but an agreeable one, because of ti ness of the Senator and his cordia. The correspoudent returned in an hour with a bundle of papers, and he and the Senator | weut over them together. The Senstor would put in a word, and then the correspondent would put in & word. Einaiy, the Senator saia: “Now you go home ana write out tne inter- | view and bring the copy here.” | This aiso the correspondent did, and upon | his return his greeiing was a cordial one. | Sanator Coke read the story twice over, Te- | peating portions of it sloud, and then hand- | ingit back, said: i “My young friend, we work in double h ness” together admirably. That is all rignt, and you can send it on 10 your paper. Now interview.” Tae story was well displayed in print and it | established a {riendsbip between the Senator | and the correspondent which continued to | the erd. | each year to of the fact that she had given up some of 1y, follies of femininity. Pight lacing,” she said, oracularly, s by form. «I suppose s0,” hereturned, in a depracat; way; “that is, I’ve always supposed thatyg form is good enough without tight lacing Chicago Evening Post. WOMEN. MEN AND Mrs. Sarah J. Brown, who died in B burg, Pa., recently, left all her forty $60,000 0 Methodist institutions. The one hundredth auniversary of the con. secration of Dr. Edward Bass, the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusc::y, will be observed on May Mr. Escomb, the new Premier of Natal, is 5 London Jew, who started as a ready-mue. clothing denler. Afier going into bankrupicy be concluded that he would be more success. ful as & lawyer. Miss Lizzie Rugh, a teacher in Greensburg, Pa., hes, besides the necessary school app. ratus, a full kit of dentist’s ‘008, which s uses almost daily in extracting teeth for t pupils who are troubled with aching molars Miss Mary French Field says that her fatne didu’t make a cent out of his popular poen “A Little Peach in au O:chara Grew,” Her , the man who set it to music, real. tle the publishers of the so ),000. Gaudens monument, erected The St. Boston in memory of Colonel R obert G, Sha. who commanded the First Massachuseis Colored Regiment, and fell while leading t charge on Fort Wagner, was dedicated oa Decoration day The diary of Mrs. John Hays Hammond, wita of the American engineer who was im oned, sentenced to death and finally relesse! upon the paymentof a heavy fineasam ber of the Johannesburg reform commitiee, 13 now in the hands of London printers. Right Rev. Alphonse Joosten,Viear Apostoic] and Bishop of the Dutch West Indies, first clergyman of episcopal rank 1o suc to leprosy, with which he became i while administering religious instruction a consolation to leprous adults and childreu a: Curacoa. -1 Mary Anderson de Navarro, the former acts ress, has sold her house at 31 WestT eighth street, New York City. The cc tion was $45,000. Excepting a small plece of vnimproved property, which she owis:'a Long Branch, Mme. de Navarro has disposed of the last of her possessions in this country. The Kunights of Honor, The twenty-fourth annual session of ihg Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor Will open in St. Louis, Mo., at 2 o'clock on the afts ernoon of next Tuesday. The Kuights of Honor Reporter says: The action taken at this session will determing the fu-ure of the Knivhts of Honor. A year sgo the sys'em upon which the order had been con- ducted for the past twenty-three years was. found wanting, and the closer it was examined the moco apparent it became that it lacked the elements .of perpetuity. The increasing age of the me: ship was evidently not taken Into cousideration by the projectors of fraternal insurance, and tha ciaim that euough young men would be adied ep the average age from increasi froven false. lhe mea who composed t Iast supreme Lodze were thoroughly convince! that a change would have to be made, and afier.a thorough investigation sdopted the natural pri mium plan, which they belisved would piace the order upon'a firm basis aud insure iis perpetui Notwithstanding drawbacks the order, whl numbered 110,000 at the last session, shows s membership. May 1, of 95,063—82,801 1n c ass A and 2 1 class B—thus'eonfusing the wise men who prophesied that_twenty-five, thirts and even forty thousand would leave the oraer duringihe pist vear. 1t is adding more members each month than 1 bas for the corresponding time dur ing the last ten yeass, these mem bers being you. men and a source of strength, and in every the new pian has proved a success. The supreme lodge will be calied upon, howev todeal with several important matters In 4 first place, the deficlency in ciass B will have to be provided for, and this will prove the mos im- POr ant matter tha: will come before the bod. Whether ihose who joined the order since October 1. 1896, should be exempt from contributiog to the payment of this debt; whether the fuil amoubt shall be calied in oue assessment or scat ered over numberof months: whether it shall be a lével essment 0n all members alike or whethef it shall be called accordiug to the table of rates in class A, are questions that will demand most earnest’ consld ration. Secondly, the readjust ment of rates as applied to the younger mem re- Quires the attention of our lawmakers: the siatis- I don't know much of anything |tV f the past year will 00 doutt prove. whetner our tabie s correct or whether those members ars right who clalm that noL enough money-is taken from the young'r men. And last, but mot léas, the question of providing oF the reliefof memibers wheu ihey get beyond iheir earning period in. life, will undoubiedly take up & portionof the time the sessi Mission Chapter, O. E, 8, The entertainment that is to be given to- morrow evening under the auspices of the wide-awake organization Mission Chapter U. D., Order of the Eastern Star, promises to be one that will equal any of the several agree. abie tunctions that this young chapter has al- ready given. A very eniertaining programme has been prepared. James A. Garfield Corp: James A. Garfield Corps No. 21 has made arrangements to give a grand social evening in Social Hall in the Alcazar building on the evening of Tussday next. The committes that has charge of this sffair has announced toat this will be one of the mosi pleasan socials ever given by this corps. sEms b CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50 Ib. Townsend'ss e FrrCTAL Information daily to manufacturert, business houses and public men by the Prais ping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomers. * £ S ——— M. Balsegur, who cooked for George Ban and Alired de Musset when they were living t Venice, died recently in the Taras: (France) Workhouse, eged 80 years. Hs left no memotrs. ——————— The Great Santa Fo System Leaves daliy at 5 ». M. Through cars to Chicago, with Pullma palsce, drawing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleepers now daily. Tickets also soid via Portland, Ogden, L teries shows that the so-called ‘‘counter- | 'O"er.—Scrauton Truth v Tenors—Van Dyck, Simon, | | : i ssaanty les, Deming or El Pasoto all points in the United enforcoment of the dispensary law, and | dictions were justly proud. s drtench) e : i 0 3 g Swi £50 446 s Ha BWEE Hadtind: by 06 | 3 3 Scaramberg and Lictan (German), J. de < 3 = States, Canada, Mexico, and siesmahip tickeis to stroved there 1s nothing left him but & | cigm of ail kinds from flippancy to se- | *1° oL | fsn officer and twelve saet capturiog siety | and Bonnara (French), Ceppl ¢Italisn). Bary- —————— tislog colomn. San Francisco ticket ofhe, 844 seat in the Senate, a pitchfork and a [ verity whenever it makes a mistake that | COP2ittencies are demonstrated to exist st Darathg W :;er:e}‘lunle?‘ ‘c'-.t;u-:: "01_:;'-!‘ tone:—Renaud, Note, Meux, Dufriche, Gillibert | A friend in need ls-llrlendh‘de-‘l- Marke: sireet. Chronicle buliding, telephone NMain vague regret that he ever monkeyed with | it is only fair to give it due credit when it | & e.T OWA Jasues of tickets which place | 1% TETAIRE TAO o Wesler victory.—Louiaville | 834 Bars (Ffench), Bispham (American) hsdroLitplomtsane ooy et et aliquor law, An East Indian prophet has issued a prediction that Great Britain will have a new Prime Minister next vear, the Prince of Wales will die in 1908 and the Queen will live until 1911. The predic:ion will probably rank as the Jeast valuable con- tribntion to the literature of the jubllee until the poet laureate issues his ode. The Queen is expecied to grace the cele- bration of her jubilee by granting pardon to many prisoners, and it in said that among them will be some who were con- victed of complicity in the Pncenix Park murders. They have been imprisoned for fourteen years, and it is believed that royalclemency on their behalf will be well received by the people of the whole king- dom. A French chef issaid to have inventea something new in the way of icecream, which he calls Mme. Sans-Gene. It takes the form of the shako which French sol- diers wear and contamns, it is said, the most heavenly compound ever congealed 10 ice. The novelty was designed at a panquet in honor o Ellen Terry, and ai though the thing was frozen it wes not intended to symbolize a frost. Among the mighty dignitaries who will throng Victoria’s palace halls and add the glow of genius and the light of virtne to the pomp and splendor of her jubilee will be two ex-reporters—John Hay, Emba sador Plenipotentiary of tnhe United States, and Whitelaw Reid, special en- voy to convey to her royal and imperial Majesty the congratulations and distin- guished considerations of the American people. The high honors attained by 1hese once arduous workers of the press are enough to stimulate the spirit of even the most weary of newspaper mea by the 1hought that there isa bright and glorious fu-ure for every journalist who will qait the profession and marry an heiress, achieves a genuine triumph, and this, sc- cording to the press of Philadelphia, i what it did on Washington a It seems that for two days before celebration the weather had been of a stormy charac- ter, and even at midnight of the previous day the rain was falling heavily. There were no prospects in sight of fair weather, and yet on that rainy and stormy eve of the festal day the burean promised sun- shine for the occasion, and next morning when the people arose behold the sunshine was there. The means by which the bureau gath- | ered the information on which the predic- tion was made is interesting. A large linen kite to which meteorological instru- ments were attached was seat up from !1lls in Virginia and exposed for an hour. ‘When 1t was hauled down evidence was found to show that the air at a distance of a mile above the earth was much cooler than at the surface, that the wind at that same height was blowing in a different di. rection from that at the surface, and that the kite passed through a region of calm before reaching currents of air that were swift. It was safe, therefors, to predict cool and clear weather. This is accounted one of the best resuits attained so far from the kite experiments, and the officials of the bureau are much encouraged. Itisnow propo«ed to make similar experiments on a much larger scale by establishing from twenty 1o thirty stations equidistant between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies, and making daily resdings of conditions atan elevation of one mile by means of | kites. Itis belleved that by these means the Government will be able after a time to give warning of the approach of tor- nados and blizzards, and thus pat on their guard the people of the region where such winds blow, There is much fun made of the barean, but very little of 1t is well founded. It dvances in efficiency as rapidly asany 1 otner department of the Government, ana the ticket parchaser completely at the mercy of the lottery sharper. If the holder of a ticket fails 10 find his number | in the winning list he is given “hope for the future” by the shrewd peddler; if his number chance to be a winning one the lottery agent pronounces the ticket “counterfeit.” The peddlers of lottery tickets make a cons.derable margin on every sale, and a small army of these peddlers is supported by the swindle. These ticket venders can be made 10 se-k honest means of employ- ment if people will refrain from purcha; ing their tickets. As has been frequently pointed out, there is no redress for the defrauded buyer. Let the masses of the people second, as they should, the efforts of THe CArL, and the lottery frauds will be doomed to sure and swift destruction. EVOLUTION FOR PLAIN IEOPLE. To the Editor of the San Francises Call—Srr: When the plain peopie named Lincoln *Hon- est Old Abe” before he was 40, it was their homely way of saying he would not cheat them by a false Word or a wrongact. They understood and trusted his rugged sineerity before they recogaized his mastery of the great issues which invoived tne life of the Na- | tion. New issues have now arisen which | again involve the whole structore of civilize tion. Are we in the line of growth, oris political chaos about to confront us? Ism | not alone in ssking this persistent question. | One of the most helpful answers I have found |1s in the June Arens, designated “The True | Evolution.” | Plain people may take fright at the word | evolution, and no wander. Itiwill not be s a day longer with the man or woman who reads { Jonn Clark Ridpath's survey of the whole field | of evolution or growth, showing what it is not and mu‘;-n.m is. His mastery of the ques- tion and his rugged honea: Droad Yiew and his simple. So10tion Torelbly remind me of Lincotn aud his method of deal ing with the problems which chailenged his iniclligence aod the tribute of his loyalty 10 country and maakind. How shail I tell thosa Wwho yet do not know Ridpath how he writes? Tcan say one thing that il should know: he makes you feel the heart-beat and th lite of Lis o sbout it theme, while others write sboutit Times. Weyler declares that the distribution of food fostarving Americans in Cuba is “uniustified interference.” Since the United States sup- PO him in torture, ra; murder and arso: he does not see why a littie thing like starv {lon should be interfered with.—Washington m Diain-General Weyler says America’s policy, as mapped out by the United States senate, will engender sympathy for Spain and mske this Government appear ridiculous to the Dations of Earope. This ix better than that of the powers which are not respected | but ridiculed at home.—Memphis Herald. The butchery of women and children; the starvation of non-combatantsand the fact that officialaof this Government stationed 1n Cuba are (n fear of assassination, is & matter of no concern 10 the measly souls who weigh filthy lucre as of greater concern than human life. It 1s the influence of these people which has prevented the Government from putting a stop to the atrocities in Cubs.—Saginaw Courler. AN EPISODE L She pours the tea and ss her hand Above the dalaty chius lingers, 1raise mv own righi hand alof And selze upon the joweied fingers. 1 “You'll break the tescup, Jack!” sbe cries, And on the floor [ hear. 1t clatter; “Oh. what care 1 or cups,” 1 say, “While you bave got a hear: o sbatter " L dear," she says, and then, with lavghter, 1 tell her it 18 not her cup, But heart, ber humbe servant’ atter. V. “You've broken that long since,” she sighs, +I never can forgive you, never Apd—well, she did, a5d now she's come To make and pour my tes forever. E. G R., in What to Eat. 1HE PRIZE FOR A RUN Chicazo Times- Herald. It issaid that the Greek private soldier re- ceives only 4 a month. It will be seen at once thal at that rate Greec: has had a good run for ber mouey, Ancona (Italian). Bassos—Plancon, Lempriere | (French), Journet (B:igian) and E. de Reszke | (Polish). From this it will be seen ihat most | of the leading singers of the day heil from | America and France, American women and | | French men predominating. Poor Nordiea has fallen upon evil days. Ba- | fore her engagement at the Paris Opera she | said that nothing could induce her to siug at | Covent Garden unless Jean de Reszke gave her a written apology for wrongs which Monsieur | Jean says are imaginury. After her comnvlete | Iailure in Paris Nordica is less than ever in & condition to dictate terms to De Reszke. Her Elsa in “Lohengrin” was severely criticized by the French papers, and she was witharawn | without singing the role of Valentine in *Les Huguenots,” for which she was engaged. Nordica has been to London apnd seen the | management of Covent Garden, but nothing has come of ix. Menelik means to prove to the world thathe does ot intend to be out of fashion in any accomplishment of eivilization. He is at| Ppresent working out & project for endowing military bands, and has cnarged a Russian | conductor, one Miliowsky, with the duty of instructing the Abystinians in the new art. | 1t 13 Menelik’s inteation to send to Paris dur- | ing the exposition in 1900 an Absssinisn | band, which he intends saall fill the Trocadero | ana the Champ de Mars with the sirains of | the most modern musicel repertory. Massenet has telegraphed to a friend in Paris to deny the rumor that he is working on a new opera whose name is not announced. The composer of “Manon,” etc., says that he is putting the finishing touches 1o the orches- | tration of “Sappho,” the Iyric drama which he has written to a libretto prepared by Henri Cain from Alphonse Daudet's novel. “Sappho’’ will be played for the first ime on any stage a1 the Opera Comique next season, and Emma | Calve has been engaged to play the role of the herolne. Paderewski-like scenes of enthusiasm have marked the close of the Berlin Pnilharmonic Society’s engagement in Paris. Nikisch, the conductor, was called on for & speech, which he made in a voice broken by emotion. The Beriin musicians piayed a number of works by French composers in honor of the audience, alihough the critics say they were Dot 50 brile | | in the jury-box, gentlemen.’—Grapbic. | done gone did, stead 0’ de work dat's waitin' | | Evening Post. But there’s doubt when it's turned about And the friend’s the one that’s needy. —Philadelphia Record. | Hoax—You say the unexpected never hap- pens to you. Joax—No; I've gotten so used to it that Iex- | pect it now.. iladelphia Record. [ “Gentlemen of the jurs,” said & lawyer the | other day, “there were thirty-six hogs. Re- member the fact—just three times as many as Do you think this Government is going to | recognize Cuba? “No,”” replied the man of cynical tendencies. “All we can do now is to recoguize what's left | of it."—Washington Star. “De danger 'bout complimentin’ er hired aia Uncle Eben, “is dat it’s lisble ter | git’im ter puttin’’is mind on de work he’s | ter be 'tended to."—W ingten Star. “Here's a good story of adventure,” assistant editor. “All rignt,” replied the editor-in-chief *If you can make it all happen to a man on a bicycle we'll take it, of course."—Chicago id the “Miss Pidgie has a new spring outfit—red hat, red gown, red gloves, red shoes and rea | parasol; did you see her?” “See her? Isaw her with my eyes shut.” Chicago Recora. “So you say,” began the moderately new boarder, “‘that he speculated on a large scale exclusively. Mar Iinquire what was the use | of the large scale?" “Glad to answer you,” replied the Cheerful | 8 Idiot. “He had to have it for weighing the consequences.”—Indian apolis Journal, See the girl! i The girl is falling upon the neck of the man. | Does the girl {all upon the neck of the man | because they are alone in the gioaming ? Partly. Chiefly, however, the girl falls upon the meck of the man because she is learning to ride ¢he wheel, aud the man is her instructor, and she chooses to fall on any old neck rather than | her own.—Detroit Journal. She had just been converted to the common- sense dress scheme, and she was rather proud — - Greatly Reduced Kates to Spokane, Helens, Butte and St. Paul. Tickets both first and s€cond class sold. to thé above-mentioned points at a great redgction. These rates may oniv be in effect for & limited. pe- 101, 50 buy your tickeis ai ouce. NOw is yopr time fothe Kootenal mining districi on these low rates. Call on or eddress T. K. 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