The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1897, Page 6

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FASTERN OFFICE: Booms 81 and 52, 54 Park Row. New York Cltge Eastern Manager. PAVID M. FOLT THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL- THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou poing 10 the country ona vacation * It ro, 1t 18 po trout us 10 forward THE: CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will s it. Orders given 10 the carrier or at Eusioess Office will rece attention. N0 EXTRA CHAEGE. Fif:y cemis per mouth for summer months. Tt is to be a tariff for the whole country, and the whole country will be for the tariff. The Sultan continues his solo in Greece, bat the other members of the concert are still there or thereabouts, It is of little use to sing *‘cheer up cher- ries areripe” to men who wish political plums and cannot g For the first time in the history of the country we are to have a tariff containing a duty on cotton. The South has at last caught on. [t is announced from Sonora that the Native Daughters “‘arose with the lark.” The Native Sons of course would have set up with the lark. Patronize the Balboa-avenue benefit and you will not only get good miusic for your money, but prepare a pleasant way for recreation hereafter. It is said that work is to be rushed on 1he ferry building and we now wait with impatience for similar g od tidingsin Te- gard to the new Hall of Justice. It is now believed at Washington that all other persons involved in the sugar scandal will escape like Havemeyer and Searles. Chapman beingin jail is decid- edly out of luck. It William J. Bryan doesn’t exercise great care his incessant lecturing will do him more iarm than good. In this world there is such a thing as a familiarity that breeds contempt. The cap'ure of the zang that has been working spurious §5 pieces on the publc was a neat performance and the detectives who accomplished it deserve something more than a dime novel glory in the way of reward. Now that the Democratic Senators from the South have aske! for a protective dutv on cotton and received it by the votes of Republicans, we may consider the tariff question finally settled by the adoption of universcl protection. requires the con- of ihe new Federal As the Government tractor to clear the building within thirty days after his bond is approved it appears the people will have the satisfaction of seeing the work move lively when it starts. The Democratic Legislature in Tennes- #ee lowered taxes, but as the State has now to borrow money to make up a deficit the cconomy of the business is no better than that of Cleveland, wh the Demo- crats of Tennesses are so loud in de- nouncing. Of ali the conventions which have as- sembled or are to assemble in the country this year the most powerfcl is the conven- tion of the American Association of Mas- ters of Dancing now in session in New York. Whatever it may decide the whole fashionable world wiil have to dance to1t None of our forelzn Ministers will have & more important duty under this admin- istration than the Minister to Spain, and in telecting General Jacob D. Cox for the place the rresident has chosen a man whose efficient fulfilimont of the trust re- posed in him can be relied upon with con- fidence by the people. As the Republican party by its platform and its precedents is pledged to bimeta!- lism, the sc-called “Silver Republican’’ party is as much a contrsdiction of terms as a white bluckbird, but in these days when a man takes to the woods he will call himself almost anything in an effort to convince himself that he isn’t lost. Tt is reported t at two more young men bave started to walk from New York to San Francisco with the intention of spendinz no money on the trip except what they earn by selling their photo- graphs, and we have thu: another proof that tramping has become a fine art and that the common hobo who haunts the back doors in the bope of getiing a hand. out is a fool at the business. It isto be hoped the commiitee to whom the regents of the university referred the proposal to establish a school of commerce will be able to devise ways and means for carrying it out. Similar schools have been very successful in Germany and have materially advanced the commerce of that country. We need well-trained men to expand our trade with South America and the Orient, and the sooner we sei about training them the better. The first installment of the munificent donation of Baroness de Hirsch for the poor of New York has been received by the trustees in that city and will be em- ployed in providing rural homes for many who are now living in the overerwded tenement districts. It is very doubtful, however, if the experiment will prove suc- cessful. People who prefer to live in cities are discontented in the country and it is but seldom that people make good use of advantages when they are not con- tent with them, and do not care for the promises they hold out. rSixtecnts and Mission sireets, open | IN EONOR great heart of the tion and sorrow. sacrifice. No grander tribute than those humble solemzity prevailed. It was an occasion never to be forzotten. that in the breasts of the people glows ever Tue reverence shown to the memory cf ponular heart to respond to the influence of dangerous duties. The occasion was one w { low channels of ordinary life to those higher Whene'er is spoken Whene'er & noble ¢ Our hearts in giad To higher levels r The tidal wave of Out of all meaner OF HEEROES., Yesterday the people of San Francisco beheld a most impressive spectacle. The 55 s bad been stirred with a common feeling of mingled admira- Three men of humtle life and narrow circle—three men of whom the great world had never heard and never thought, had perished on the altar of self- | The thousands—nay, the myriads knew them then. challenged admiration, sna at their bier the mourning world bowed down. : | souls received wae ever paid to monarchs | | at their burial. For hours the great sireet had b2en lined with peovle and general Then came the long procession with its wagon-loads of flowers, its escort of police, its army of firemen, and then the hearse by a triple line of carriages—a line so long that it seemed as if it would never end. Their deeds heroic three abreast, followed It proved, if anght was needed to prove, a spark of hero-icve that awaits but the | deed ard the man to kindle and flash into flame. these firemen attests the readiness of the hero’c deeds done in the performanc» of hich lifted the mindsof men out of the | emotions which ennoble human character and iilumine it with true grandeur of sentiment. & noble thought, teed is wrought, surprise ise. deeper souls Into our inmost being roils, Avd lilis us unawares cares. BALBOA AVENUE. The relief fund for labor on Balboa avenue needs augmenting without delay. | Tuousands of dollars have already been | devoted to the work, and these thousands | have been well oxvended, not only in pro- | viding the City with a matchless dr.ve- | way from our magnificent park down to | the glorious sea, but aiso in sffording | timely employment to hundreds of labor. | ing men who, with their families, might otherwise have suffered want and distress during the early months of the year. Haypily, the summer has brought work | {in tne fields for many of them just as | the avenue is nearly finished. | Some days must elapse before the | avenve can be completed, and a few hun- dred dollars are still needed to finish it ac- | cording to the plans. If the money is not forthcoming a delay wiil be the necessary | consequence, and considering the splendd progress made thus far, it is haraly the time to halt when the goal is only,a few | steps further on. | The people of San Francisco have done | nobly in contributing to the enterprise. | It benefits us all, and has oeen besides s | practical charity. Now let Balboa avenue be finished immediately. The p2ople | should fill the California Theater from pit to dome on the occasion of the relief fund benefit to-morrow night, and enough | money should then be realized to speedily | complete Balboa avenue from park to ocean. | i | { = i THE MIDDLE STATES. | chael G. Mulhall, the famous statisti- cian, in the second article of h's series on the “Progress of the United S'ates,” pub- | lished in the: North American Review for | June, presents facts and figures to prove that the Middie States—New York, New Jersey, Pennsyivania, Delaware, Mary land and the District of Columbia—are pre-eminent, as compared with other sec- | tionsof the Union, in trade, banking, man- ufactures and wealth. Thearticle is valu- able and highly instrucuve. No other part of the New World is so dens:ly popu- lated as the Middle States, the average | being 140 persous to the square mile. “This,” says Mr. Mulhall, *“is a much higher ratio of density than that for the continent of Europe, and falis little below that of France. If the same rate of prog- | ress continue as since 1870 these States will | have at the next census a population of | 17,000,000."" It was 14,000,000 in 1890. While the increase of population in these States since 1850 has teen nearly 150 per cent, or tlmost double the rate of | yrograes recorded in New England, it has been much less than the general average for the Union, which has been 212 percent | in that interval. In the Middle States, lowever, the growth has been almost con- fined to cities, the advance of rural popu- lation being slow. It is shown that in | twenty years, from 1870 to 1890, urban | population rose 91 yer cent and rural only 15 per cent. Thus, the rural popula- tion was in a measure unable to hold its own, since its natural increase (excess of | births over deaths) ought to have been 40 per cent in the interval. Meantime the cities have largely gained by immigration. it is rather a surprise, however, to tind that the American white population in the Middie States has grown five times faster than in New Engiand. The area under farms in that section ex- ceeds by three million acres the total cul | tivated area of Great Britain, and yet | agriculture has been so far unable to keep | pace wi h population that at present the | ratio iz only two and a half acres per in- | babitant as compared with four acres in | 1850. Since the latter year there has been | some increase in the production of grain and potatoes, but the production of meat has declined and Mr. Mulball shows that the actual production of food in those States 1s only one-third of what is re- quired to feed the population. In fact, the Midale States do not raise enouch food for | the single State of Pennsylvania. | The agricuiture of the Middle States is | deficient in every respec:, a'thougn there is an unimproved area of 37,000,000 acres, | much of which ought 1o be available for cultivation. *Doubtless,” says Mr. Mul- hall, *‘the explanation is that manutac- ture and commerce ars more profitable .n these Siates and that farmers have a ten- | dency to go West.”” But then it is only in agriculture that these Btates are below | par. They represent 27 per cent of the wealth, 33 per cent of the mining, 39 per cent of the manufactures, 44 per cent of | the banking and 55 per cent of the foreign trade of the Union. *The average of the forezoing six indusiries is 35 per cent, while the poputation is only 22 ver cent of that of the Union. Hence it may be said | that two yersons of the Middie States exercise the same influence in American progress as three persons of the United States zenerally.” “The European reader,” otserves the statistician in gonclusion, *‘may form &n accurate idea of the Middle States when he iy told that they are equal in area to the United Kingdom, in population to Spain, in manufactures to Germany; that their mineral output more than doubles that of France, and that s regards wealth the singie Siate of New York is equal to Belgium and Hoiland pu: tozether.” —_— The Louisville Courier-Journal still sings occasionally of the star-eved goddess of tariffl reform, but, nevertheless, it bas found one feature of the new bill which it commends as a satisfactory filling of a long-felt want, for it says: ‘‘Ihe stamps to be used by the bottlers of whisky in bond, it seems, must set forth the sworn statement of the distiller as to the amount in the bottle. This isa great step in re- forming the liquor trade. The thirsty millions who have bren compelled to pay for five and six quarts to the callon here. tofore will rise up and bless the Congre that passed that law,” | ington in behalfof his co: | an interesting one. OOLLEGE OF COMMERCE. The idea of establishing in connection with the University of California a Col- lege of Commerce is one that ought to commend itself to general favor. Itwould be an advance step in our educational sys- tem, and the pronounced success of schools of this character in Europe is suf- ficient guarantee of thsir value. San Francisco, for instance, sitting at tne western gateway of the Nation, is destined todraw in a great measure the commerce of the Orient as well as a goodly portion of that of South America, At the present time our trade with Asia, South America and the islands of the Pa- cificis small in comparison with what it should be. Such tiade can bs and should be developed to immense proportions. The trouble is undoubtedly that we do not, as a general thing, fully appreciate our many advantages in a commercial sense. Yet on foreign trade the future greatness and prosperity of this port must largely depend. An every-day business education, such as our schools, public and private, now afford does not vrepare one far purely commercial pursuits, This isa distinct proposition of itself. The study of the | commercial relations of the United States with foreign countries, especially so far a: our Pac fic Coast interests are concerned; the study of questions of trade, com- | merce, manufaciur-s and shipping. wou'd arm young men of requisite ability for ready usefulness and, in fact, for direct embarkation in commercial life. Such a school as that proposed would | teach the methods of trade in the coun- tries with which we deai, and with which we aim to extend continuously our com- mercial dealings. The financial systems of those countries wonld be made clear; the commercial needs of lands across the sea, and of lands bordering on the Pacific south of the equator, would be thoroughiy exploited and explained; the languazes of the people of those countries would b> taught; and, in this manner, the couise of the commercial college would enable its students to undertaks intelligently commercial missions to foreign states and fix them admirable to be agents of local a:grezations of capital, or even Consuls in foreign states. There is much to be said in favor of such a school, and the regents of the State Uni- versity snouid be encouraged to the end | that sucn a depar:ment may be created in connection with that progressive institu- tion of learning of which California jastly proud, SENATOR MA ON's PHANT. Senator Mason of Iilinols has been exceed- ingly active in_runniog to aud fro in Wash- tituenis who are WHITE ELE- office-seekers, says the Washington Star. As | heisa fat man and pnysical exertion tells on him, espec ally in warm weather, his Chicago admirers nave raised a jund and bought for him & handsome lindan and s fine harness and a pair of noble steeds. For the landau, $2200; for the harnes norses—well, no one knows exactly just how much hus been paid for the s.eek, high-step ping auimals that are to escort (he lat and Jolly Senator on his office-seeking rounds, All_this ought to bring joy and delight to the Senator's heart. Alas!’ it does not. It It costs money 10 keep a carriage; it cosis money to care for a valuable harnees, and, ueavens knows, that 1t cosis moncy 10 feed two high-bred 'horses. If heaven does not know, Mason dves. He has made inquiries and the answers pain his soul. To a collsague in the Senate Mr. Mason has toid his tale of woe. He asked advice. “What shall 1 do?* he murx ured in piaintive tones. The replv came prompt and emphatic: “That's easy ewough, Billy,” said the Sen torial adviser. *Teil your constituents to sen yOu & pair of goatsand then you can teed them on public documents.™ THE SMITHS' x0' ATiON IN OFFICE Manchester Unfon. The postoffice situation at Adams, Mass., is Peter Smith, Republican, hias been nominated as Postmaster 1o succeed his brother, Fred Smith, Democrat. During the past four years Peter has been Fred's a sistant, and Peier now very probably appoints Fred as h 8 chief clerk for the next four years. It is a fair arrangement and the patrons of the office are satisfied. MEN ANU WOMEN A German bacterlologist of repute, Pro- fessor vou Leyden, says he has discovered a | bacterium peculiar to mumps. A fine bronze statae of the late Sir Richard Owen has been placed in the Natural History | Museum, fouth Kensington, facing the statue of Darwin. The King and Queen of Greece live in very simple st. When the occasion necessitates a 1rip to the port of Athens they readily travel there by trambar with the humblesi of their subjects. Lientenant Tot‘en says that he predicted the present Gimco-Turkish war some time g0 from datain the Bible, and he adds that the 1wo crucial days of whe conflict will be June 22 and Septemer Some of the English journals report that the Queen has egain offercd a peerage to Mr. Glaastone, which he has again refused, but it is added that the honor may possibly be con- ferred upon his grandson, who is the heir of his Hawarden estate: Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor of Chicego, who has been traveiing in South America, speaks thus of President Crespo, President of Vene. zuela: “He 1s a perfect type of wnat one imagines a South American dictator should bs like. He is more Ixdian than Spanish and has & swarthy complexion and a tall, soldiery ap- pearance.” Blind though ke is there is nothing in the way of current events that escapes the chap- vlain of the United States Eenate. e knows the contents of the morning paper by heart when e comes to adaress the tnrone of grace, and his morning invocation, with which the Seuate is opened, always contaius some refer- ‘ence 10 the latest news. Princess Christiau, (ue third dsughter of Quieen Victoria, is specially interested in the Loudon ragged schoos and their outings. A cotiage bas been erected on the borders of the srent park (Windsor), the Queen glying the $600, and for the | land, whicn s called Princess Christian Holi- day Home for Boys. 1t issurrounded by play- grounds, kitchen, garden and orchard. FPERSUNAL. M. F. Shaw of Raymond is at the Russ. W. D. Keyser of Hopland is & late arrival here. Isane Copland, & mine-owner of Vallectto, is at the Lick. George D. La Vergue of Honolulu is at the Occidental, Samuel Bloch, a merchant of New York, is in this City. J. W. Cowan and Mrs, Cowan of London are at the Palece. James A. Lyman of Portland, Or., arrived here yesterd R. T. Ballard of Kansss City is at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel, A. J. Johuston and wife of Portland, Or., are at the Cosmopolitan. Fred Mason, e fruit-grower of Sacramento, is a 1at2 arrival here. (Georze M. Davidson and Mrs. Dav idson came down from Sucramento yesterdsy. F. A. Hihn, the extensive real estate owner ofSanti Cruz and other cities, is in town. 0. J. Kendall, a prominent business man of Portland, Or., isat the Cosmopolitan Hotel. President Jordan and Professor O. P. Jen- kins, of Stanford Untversity, are at the Palace. U. V. Christle, proprietor of tho Grand Central Hotel, Eureka, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, W. G. Irwin of Honolulu, manager of exten- sive sugar and other interests, is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. Irwin and Miss Irwin. J. A. Hopoer, owner of extensive rice fields and of & ricemill in the Hawaiian Islands, was oue of the arrivals by yesterday's stéamer. A party consisting of Miss Helen E. Frisble of Cleveland and Mrs. P. W. Sarrspsell and Paul W. Sarrspseil of Elyria, Ohio, are at the Occidental. ® Prince Louts of Sevoy, his lieutenauts and Alpine climbers left overland last night for Seattle, where they will take steamers for Alaska to climb Mount St. Elia: R. P. Richet, the millionaire ship-owner of this City and Briush Columbia, returned on yesterday’s steamer from Honolulu, where he has been having a conference with various Sugar plauters G. M. Dare, for forty yoars a resident of Singapore and a great yachtsmen and hunter, is at the Palace. Hesays a railroad is soon to be built across tue peninsula and oa to India. He is going to the jubilee, Thomas Brown, cashier of the Bank of Call- fornia, who went to Hawall some weeks ago for his hea!th, has returned here greatly re- cuperated. Ie was at his desk in the bank yesterday afternoon, and everybody remarked his bronzad complexion and general alertness. He said he had & mos: enjoyable trip. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., June 9.—At the St Cloud—J. J. de Young. Windsor—A. B. Bow ers, Miss J. Fiood. Astor—A. (. Fletcher, Broacway Central—W, Bradford. G. Browne. Graund Union—O. A. Proseel. sey—A. Broomer, Miss A. Mullins. Contine: tai—H. W. Hutton. Imperial—H. E Hall Holland—Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Schupps. Wind sor—J. B. Kelogg. Mr Donnell left the St. Cloud and ssiled on the Paris for Sonthampton. Pro! ogg, Mr. Rutherford, Mrs. J. L. Sanford, Mr. Avery, Miss Berths Berner, Mr. Cestuer and Miss Louise West aiso sailed 1or Europe. Cor A Mullis ailed on the Barbarossa for Bremen. E. E. Maud of Los Aungeles ssiled for South- ampton. Barthol L.FE. Just 3 game of living chances, And th cards sre shufli-d well, Ere the ha «d 0f Fa e advauces Unto us the ones that teil Whether we draw the tose 1, Shail the hazard run In vain: Whetaer ours a nea-t that's broken, W hetber joy be ours to gain. There's a tiny joker biding Somewhere in each pack of Fats, Hiythe message of zood tiding When h- is not deal: 100 lat. Bot 10 thoss who faii to find him et Cupid flings s nd leaves benind him but the futter of bis wiags. New York Tribune. THE LauuR PROBLEM. A CLarx THAT THE ONLY FOLUTION Is BY EOME FORM OF EOCIALISM To the Editor of the San F.ancisco Call—SIR: In & communication in Sunday’'s CALL, & cor- respondent 'We are not able to consume money out of the country to pay for the manu- factured goods of other lands, whereas if this morey were paid to our people for labor they | would be ab.e to buy our good: 1would .ike (0 ask how & great msny of our people can buy any kind of goods, foreign or home manufactured, when men ure being con- | tnually driven from employment by the use of machinery, and those who are stiil em- ployed nave to work about the same pumber of hours as formerly. Tam a printer. Al the | mewspapers iu this City but THE CALL, and | | | | | | { some of the book offices, have the iinotype, by the use of which one man does the work that formerly 1t took four to do. Whatrelfef is there for those who uave been disp.aced un- less the number vf hours' work per day is cut down to meet the introduction of these ma- chines? Wny should 1 discriminate in favor ome-made goods if 1can't get work at my de in wy naiive Siate ? 1t seems i» me that there can be only one solution of toes commonweaith; in oiher words, somej.form.of sociaiism. Let the Government operaie fac- tories 80 that the masses will get the benefit of the use of luborsaving machinery and WOrk 110 moTe than is neCessary (0 supply the ueeds of cousumers. Regurdiug what Mr, Grabo suys about the working ciass buying from big stores, etc., ther dooniy what is naturel uuder tne cow- petitive sysiem—they do what the manuiac- turer does who puts in labor-saving ma- chinery—get their goods where they can get v | them cheapest, as ho gets the cheapest labor and gets macainery that disp aces human lxbor.’ It1s one ui the results ol toe system. For oue workingman I can say L am not pes- simistic over the situation. | wil mukea living i 1 have 1o get out of my trade. 1 be- leve that evetyihiug is good, though some of itis rather unripe. These apparent evils are phases of_evolution 1 palitical and social growth. Now i theers ol trusis and syndi- cates and big depariment stores. Very soon wiil come the era of u higher plane of sslfish- ness, when we will realize that our brothers’ futeresis are our interesis and that we caunot injure anoiher without Laving it react on our- seives. When workingmen get tired of letting otners do their thinking for them, maoke up their minds what they want, unité and vote for it, the politicians will break their necks to give {t 10 tnem. Untii that is done they de- serve only what they have got. Mr. Grabo is somewhat inconsistent. He speaks about the young eagiet being thrust out of the nest to shift for himsell and then makes a special plea for the home manufac- turer workingmen. It he does not sdvertise his £00ds and show he is able (0 legitimately com- pete with the Eastern manufacturer, does he deserve anything olse than failure? Why not apply the éagle philosophy to him? B. VWI.H YWUR (LFFEE Richard—Hear they had & surpriso party up at Wraggles’ last evening. Roberi—So? Wnat was the occasion? Richard—Bill for $10. Wraggles paid it— Boston Transcript. ow, there is something Icould win in a walk,” seid Satan, looking up irom bis read- in What's that?” ssked the chief imp. “A voting contest for the most popular fire- man.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Siranger—Fine lot of children you have. Georgia Cracker (regretfully)—Yes, sah; but 1sholy wish yo' couid hev seen ’em befo’ th’ cholery tuk off nine.—~New York Evening Journal. *‘The new rector’s discourse fairly bristied with quotations.” but do you think he meant them ail 1o be recognized?”—Chicago Journal. “Madam,” said the benign man to the young Woman Whose son was causing her trouble, “why don’t vou make the boy's father take him in hand?” “He has no such relative at present to exer- cise that authority,” repiied the widow, smil. ing sweetly,—Pailadelphis North American, d H. Kruger, Lambert Bottgers aud Miss | questions—a _co-operative | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 10 and Mrs. Hugh Me. | sor Vernon L. | | foreign correspondent: | | { i | our manufactured goods when we send our | Lr4NCO-Prussian | into aespair. hat he does not get the support of | Freneh families haa booked seats for the fes- 1897, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, “A prophet is not without honor, etc.,” has had another illustration in the case of Miss Susan Strong of Brooklyn. Last winter Maple- son announced with a flourish of trumpets that he had discovered a coming soprano in this unknown American giri, but she made her debut at the Academy of Music, under his management, with re-ults that must have been very painful for Miss Strong. Her friends mede a claque and loaded her down with flowers; but the general publie sat in the seat of the scornful, and the critics made pitying comments on the amateurish exhibition— amateurish both with regard to the flowers aud also amateurish (so they said) with re- gard to Miss Strong’s efforis to appesr 2s & real prima donna. A little half-contemptuous praise wes given her, but on the who.e Miss strong was made to feel that she was & rash amateur, trying 1o step into shoes that were 100 big for her. Mapleson felt that he had played onme of his trump cards in vain, and | before the end of the year. were present on the opening day, and the exhibits were generally pronounced 0 be very interesting. Mascagni hopes ‘o have put the finishing toucnes to his new Japanese opera, “Iris,” 1n time for it to be produced in Rome by Rieordi He is also writing & musical descriptive plece, entitled “Seenes from Ialian Masquerades.” Seymour Hicks, the Engiish comedian, whose ability for using American songs is well known, has just copyrigated at Washing- ton his new overa, “Yasmak,” whith he wants to produce in New York with his wife, Ellain Terriss. Mascagni’s “Zanetto” has had such a suc- cessful season at tne Politeama Theater, At Ancons, that & marble teblet praising the composer has been walled intothe theater. Helen Bertram, late prima donna with the SUSAN STRONG, Who Was Not Appreciated at Home. Susan Strong said nothing for publication; | probably she felt that she was young enough 10 bide her timo. Grau engaged her for Covent Garden this summer, and the girl who was treated as & pretentious amateur at home has Jjust made a great hit as Aida in London. Ske is said to porsess a powerful and very extend- ed voice, which she uses with great talent and | skill. Not ouly the London critics but the | speak well of her. The London correspondent of the Paris Figaro, tor instance, says: “When this American singer nas acquired a iittle mors suppleness she will undoubtediy take her place in the first rank of Iyric artists. From a.l over Fravce singing focieties re- cently pilgrimaged to Longjumesu to assist at the inauguraiion of the firststatue evererected | to the famous composer Adolphe Adam, Adam | was born in Paris, livea and died in Paris, and hated the country with a consuming hatred; therefore it cccasioned some astonishment | when the little town of Longjumeau took upon itself to ercct a fine statue to his memory. Adam however conferred lasting fame upon the burg by his opers, the famous Postition of Longjumeau,” and on that ac- count the citizens of Lougjumeau felt that they owed the composer gruteful recognition. “Tne Postilion” had iis first success in Paris, but it was soon transiated into German, snd | the famous tenor Wachtel made it practically hisown by his immitable rendering of the titie role. In 1863 Wachtel played the role of Chapelou in *“The Postilion” for | the thousundth time, and during the | war the Germans had become so endeared to souvenirs of Longjumesu, throngh frequently sceing the | opera, that they took the sigupostof the inn | back to the Fatherland with them. The citi- zens were in such despairat their loss that they reclaimed their tressure, which had bsen {mmortalized in the opera, und it hassince been restored to them. In addition to being a weil-known composer Adam was siso a critic and writer, and an interesting collection or | his writings has been pubished under the | title “Souvenirs d'un Musician.” Ia this work he says: “At 7 years old I could neither read nor write—not even music. My only p.easure Wes to strum on the piano, which I had never | learned, everything being played by ear. My motner was in despair at my backwardness.” | Judging by Adem mothers need not despalr if | their children are “beckwaid” at 7 years of | age, for this lazy seven-yesr-old died at 52 after having written forty operas, fisty ballets, | hundrecs of atrs for vaudevilles, more than 200 planoforte pieces, mauy vocal melodies, choruses, cantatas, hymus, masses and other church music, in addition to numerous eriti- cisme. A curious eftect was produced Iately at a performance of Mascagni's “I Rantzau,” giy- en by a traveiiag opers troupe in Manchester. | When the moment came for distribuiing 10 the artists their costumes for tne opera the stage manager discovered that the trunks con- tainiig the “Rantzau’” part of the theatrica. wardrobe had by some mischance been sent | on to the next town. Everybody was plunged | It was impossibie at thatlate | hour to change the opera, and the only cos- tumes available were those of *Tannhauser,” which were decidedly unsuitable for an opera that oughtto be costumed s good dealas Irving costumes “‘The Deils.” However, this was the only course 10 follow, 8o the good peo- ple of Manchesier were treated to the spectacle of Alsatian citizens dressed up as landgraves, nymphs. bards, ondines and sirens. It seems that the receipts at the Bayreuth festival Will be very seriously affected this year by the mourning among the French aris- tocracy, caused by the disaster at the charity bazadr. Wagnerianism is almost a cult in France at present, and & number of leading tival. The Baroness de Saint-Didier aione had taken nine places, and had enguged a villa at Bayreuth for thic season. Near.y all the book- ings made by French families have now been canceled, and the consequence is that the fes- tival will lose some of its most liberal putrons. The two new Itallan operas, “La Boheme,” are beginning o make the tour of Europe. Puceinl’s ““La Boheme” is to be mounted at the Royal Opera of Berlin shortly, and Leon- cavalio’s “La Boheme” is engaged for next | season at the Imperial Opera of Vienra, The | latter house has also acquired the right | 1o present Pucctoi’s *Boheme,” but since the | great success of Leoncavalio's work, it has | ceded Puceini’s to the Theater an der Wien, A famous Sardinian bandit, Giovanni Tolu— one of those classic bandits of the “‘Fra Dia. volo” type, that exist no longer—belore his recent death recounted his memoirs 10 & Sar- dinfan journalist. This interesting sutobio. grephy bas just been pudlished in Italy by the firm of Dassl. It ought to contain good material for librettists, The critics have been very much shocked at Covent Garden by the substitution of cornets- a-piston for the usual long trumpets in the | triumph scene in “Aida.”* They spoak of the | auschronism as an instance of shockingly bad taste on the part of the management. An exposition has Just been opened in Vienna of autographs and other souvenirs of Donizstt; | collected for the Donizetti Centenary, The Emboassador of Italy aud & number of notable; Bostonians, has made a hit in “Erminie” at the Bijou Theater, New York. A WOMANS wORK The promotion of Zenas R. Bliss to be a major-general on the eve of retirement was one woman’s work, writes & Washington cor- respondent of the 8t Lous Globe-Democrat. It was such an &ct of justice in the face of po- litical and social influences as is not of ten seen in the persoual legisiation perteining to the army. More than tuat, it brought togetner in & cuilous way two men whose lives had come in close, but not agreeable, reiationship thirty years ago, and then drifted far apart. Brigadier - General Brooke was entitled by senority of rank to the promotion. But he was & younger man than bliss, who was with- in & few days of the retiring age. I1f Biooke was appointed it meant that Bliss must g0 on the nol-aclive .ist as a urigadier. Benind Brooke’s c.aims were the poweriul influences of the Pennsyivuuians, always as claunish as 0 many Scots for a Pennsylvaniao. From'n liletime on tue ironter, where his existence had been aimost forgoiten, with a record that was unimpeachable, Geueral Bliss came to Washington ou the foriorn hope of ge.ting his promotion. He had nothing but uis reco:d when he arrived, Some good for- tune procured for the old soidier tho acquaint- auce and sympatoy of Mrs. Richard C. nerens of . Louss. Mr. Kerens was over hesd and ears witn the affalis of the Missourians. He went to the White Hou-e, sud when he came back he said to Mrs, Kerens: “itis of no use. General Brooke s to be ap- pointed.” From a sickroom Mrs. Kerens went to Sen- ator Eikins. The ex-Secreiary of War and Sen- ator from West Virginia looked grim when he heard the p eader 10r justice to Gererni Bilss. He real:zed what it meaut, but he enlisted for the tight. If he had littie hope he did not shew 1i. He saw the President and then he saw Brooke. The lutier meeiing brought back strange recollections to the two men. Do you ren:ember that affair in Santa Fe?” sked the Senator. % “I'should say I did,” the general replied, and he did nol sm:le ai the recoliection. Nearly thirty years ago Mr. Eikins was a young attorney in the ancient eity of New Mexico. Brocke, holding & much lower rank than at present, was attached to the garrison. | One day the stuble-boy took out the officer’s horse for exercise and was tempied to try the animal’s sp-ed. Brooke heara of it and ad- | ministered w harsh puuisnment. The boy went 10 the young lawyer from Missouri. Mr. Elkins prosecuted with such vigor that a ver- dict of thousands of dollars in_damages was returned against tne officer. That judgment hung over Erooke for more than tweuty years. It could not reach his pay, but it could aud staud in the way of business transactions. Fivally an act of Congress was passed 10 i1e- iieve him. Witn such recollections of mutual acquatnt- ance the Senator a:d the brigadizf got down 10 te consideration of the question of pro- mo . ion took more thau oue interview snd more than one visit to the President 10 reacha sniis aciory conciusion. Tuen Seuator Cock- rell, whose policy as the leading Demcerat om the military committee has been opposition to romotions on the eve ol retirement, had to e scen. His careiui considera(ion of the case satistied him that Mrs. Kereus' womsnly sym. pathy had not been misplaced. Tne danger of opposition to confirmuailon was removed. Brooke gave reluctaut consent. B.iss wus nominated and retired. ANSWERS 10 (ORRESPONDENTS. POSTMASTERS APPOINTEES—J. C. S, Clty. At this um. the Posumaster at San Francisco 8Dppoin.s only his assistant and his cashicr, EQuAL—H. M., Alameda, Cal. periectly smooth, the wind calm and the tide alike all over, a ‘iarge object will float eang keep pace with a smailer oue. 1f the water is PINGREE—Subscriber, Vallejo, Cal. Hazen S. Pingree has been designated as Governor. Mayor because while he was Mayor of Dy Mich., he was elected Govornc of zhues‘rr:(‘:. THE ADELAIDE—F. M., big Oak Fiat, Tuol. umne Couty, Cal. ‘The bark Adelaide, one of the early arrivals in the port of San Francisco, reached port on the 18th y ¢) Tesched p day of Sepiember, WILLOW—A. L., City. It is said thatif wil- low is cut two feet below the surface it will notswartagain. Willow when set 1 Le planted so that the slips suna‘i'ékfl'?‘.‘ii inches above the surface, It in moist soil. S POPULATION—W. W., City. There has mot been & census of the State of California since 1890. It was estimated that on the 1st of last Jauuary the population was 1,500,000 was estimated that at the same i?mo'um‘ L Ja‘il“)‘;). of the City of San Francisco ‘was DIVORCE AND PROPERTY—A Subseriber, City. In proceedings for divorce the Judge b whodm the case is tried must make an ora the divis:on of community order the sale of such ;fro'}':rfif"' can be taken in the matter, ties who say as (o the disposi erty bat the court. efore et for and may An appeal It is not the par- tion of the prop- MARRIAGEJ. C.,, City. A person who wishes {0 marry gives the name by which such person is generally known. If, in the case you cite, | the woman mar-ied under the name of her quasi husband, the marriage would be legal if she was kuown by that mame. A o bhe divorce part of the question, it is impossibls 10 answer without ki v by nowing the conaitious of A BRITISH SUBECT—W. AL E., Elmira, Cal. It & British suoject becomes a citizen of the United States under the laws thereof, and at some future time desires to become a British | urer, 'H. F. Pernau; marshai, Romberg subject again, he must, before he ean e e Bave benaia resident of Eg or some of the colonies for five consec, yesrs. Then he must be naturalized | form. The fact that be wrsa citiz:n United States would not militate agai DESERTER—Subseriber, Skipanon, County, Or. The fact that a man from the Union army during the Wa Rebellion would not be & bar 10 taking Government land. = Books—L. K. B., City. Persons who Iive gy side of e State of California esn Leco, members of the Mechanics’ Institute 1 and can borrow books from the There is limit as to territory. The Free Pubiicl Josns books only to residents of ¢ cisco. The quest Minn ” Too INDEFINITE—N. A., City. «“When did the bank in St Paul, is too indefinite to admit of an ar much that between the, years 1863 there were many failures. If the co ent will state which bank informati sired about this department will endeayor obtain it. =5 DESERTION FROM THE NAVY—Constant Rea San Lorenzo, Cal. If a marine des: the service of the United States or a s N from the United Stat: ¢ he may b rested atany time for t e; butifan deserts from either brauch the auth o not make any extraordinary efforts to capiure the deserter. Tue Opp FELLOWS' BANK—O. A. G., City v 0da ows’ Bank (in liquidation) was giv until June 9 this year in which to wind affairs. The officers in charge are “wind up’’ except the dispositicn swamp land and ihey may apply for au ¢ sion of time in which to dispose of that jr When that shall have been dispos the final account will be ready for preccu. tation. To MouxT D1aBLO—C. W., Dwight way, A meda County, Cal. A member of an « club says that an individual can walk Dwight way to Walnut Creek, by following iy eusterly highways, and that irom Wi Creek he can walk to Mount Diablo reach its summit: but he suggesis inx best means for a pedestrian to res mountuins is to ride to Livermore and irom there. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, James A. Garfield Corps No. 21 of the Grand Army of the Republic Gives a Social. Last Tuesday night James A. Garfield Corps . 21 of the Grand Army of the Republi which is noted for its entertainments a cials, had a very pleasant party in Social in the Aleazar building, at which there Dresent many of the friends of the members of James A. Garfield Post. was under the management of Mrs. K. M ard, Mrs, Esther Dunn, Mrs. Mary Fowze; Jones, Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Dibble. T was a fine programme of dances, and during the evening the committee prevailed uy Mrs. Sarah Beversen, the supreme grand ¢ companion of the Grand Circle of the Comy ions of the Forest, 1o sing a Chinese song She did 5o in a style that was inimitable, & drew forth weil-earned pleundits. This corps is already Inaxing arrange for a grand campfire and ent . given in the early part of September. T will be a liberal providing of the kind of tions that were served in the army during War of the Rebellion to soldiers. Tix cups, pie plates, iron spoous, and pipes an bacco_ will form features of the menl served up and entertainmentoi the o'd o diers who will attend. Presidio Parior, N. 8. G. W. Presidio Parlor No. 194 of the Native Sons o | the Golden West hins elected the following ofti- | cers for the ensuing term: President, Jon | fcott; first vice-prestdent, Frank To | secoud vice-president, Pmlip Werner; vice-president. John Wuibern; recording sec retary, Fred H. Wuibern: financial secre | Wilham J. Donlon; treasurer, William Be | ton; marsnal, Ed’ Dought trustees | Moser, George Schmidt. California’s Officers. Californta Parlor No. 1, N. § G. W., elected the following officers: Dr. H. Harrington; president, E. Gauthle Jr.; first vice-presideat, J. F. Bernard; secon | vice-president, E. C. Laws; third vice-pres.- dent, J. O'Gara; recording secre.ary Ryan; financial secretary, B. . Hanl has Past president, sen; surgeons—. F. Morse, D. D. Lustiz. ley ‘Tait, F. H. Stahl-, B. F. Clark, J. . He man, H. Harrington; board of trastees—F Sherman, k. H. Folsom, R. H. Morse; reaait room directors—J. J. Jamison, J. B. S H. Btaniels; collector, Willinm H. Stan THE bARGAIN-GIRL. Perhaps when 1900 comes And makes a brand-new date, She'l. coolly mara it d-wn again To 1898, —Minneapolis News. 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