The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO ~ ALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 17 s . . - -+ JHE FARTRANCISN0 OALE, FHEBERAN AEee s 2, . 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.18 unday CALL, one year,by mall.... 6.00 day CALL, six months, by mail.. .00 CALi, three months by mail 1.50 CaLL, one month, by mail r, by mal Dally and &v Daily and Sund: ¥ 8nd Sund 65 1.50 150 OFFICE: 710 Markes Street, Fan ¥rancisco, Californta. Telephone ... Maln~1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 51 Clay Street Telephone 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clar; open untll 8:80 0'clock. 839 Hayes sreet; open until § 615 Lark! . open unti EW. corner Sixieenta and Miss until 9 o'cloc 2518 Mission street, open untll 8 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open unti 1506 Polk street: open uniil 9: NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky streets: open 1l § o'clock 30 o'clock. 3:30 0'clock. 0 sireeis, open OAKLAND OFFICB 908 Broa EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park How. New York Cltfe DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. = THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL THE SUMMER MONIHS. Areyou going 1o the country ona_vacation * #0,1t 18 no trouble for us 1o f0 I THE CALL t0 syour eddress. Do not let it miss you for you Imiss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attentio: N0 EXTHA CHARGE. Fifiy cems per u for summer months. Remember Bunk Set all your starry ba should Every patriot show forth his patriotism. You have to-dav a good opportunity to practice for the glorious Fourth, The tariff bill is not being rushed, but every day sees some progress made. Good times are not only on the way, but are coming this way and coming at loco- motive speed. Southern protectionists still call them- selves Democrats, but the bourbons have ceased to count on them. City extension in Oakland grows by what it feeds on and is now reaching out 10 Berkeley for more sustenance. But a we were complaining of and now they are having su ummer snowstorms, strokes. Now that the free market experiment is be tried let t will be grented ove every ndvanta e needed to schieve suc- cess. We need the market and a gooa start is the best way to reachthe desi end. Milwaukee ¢ to have the finest barytone singer in the world, but as she employs him as a waiter in a restaurant itis evident her taste in music is not high enough to give us confidence in her jud, ment. ms In ths prevailing splutter, fuss and worry over the campaign for the election of the Mayor of Greater New York the tired people of that city have one consola- n—Dr. Parkhurst has gone to Europe for a rest. Subscribe liberally to the fund for the en- fertainment of the Christian Endeavorers. The convention will bring the largest number of visitors ever received in this City, and it will require the fnllest extent of our hospitality to do justice to our guests. “Kill the Dam Snake” is the title of an editorial in the Philadelphia Inguirer, but as they never swear in that city the phrase is well understood to mean only that the Legislature should reject a bill granting to a private corporation the right to con- struct a dam across the Delaware River. Boston having rejected the “Dancing Bacenante” New York accepted it with thanks, and now New York having re- jected a statue of Pun Boston will take it and be proud of it, probably i ecause her people have an idea that the Pan is some- thing which will hold beans for the multi- tude. 2 Professor Langley, baving solved the tcientific problems involved in the con struction of an airship, it remains for some one to make the invention commer- cially useful, and, ss it is suid, “it isalways the first step that costs,” it is likely the next step will be made in a comparatively short time. British capitalists are sai putting millions of dollars into manufac- turing and mining enterprises in various parts of the country, so it is evident if we are (o get a due share of the trade of that region we must prepare to meet this com- mercial aggression d fight it with vigor. An agitation has been started in New York for the enactment of an ordinance making it a misdemeauor for any one to geton a streetcar when all the seats are occupied. The argument is that whena person has paid for a ride he 1s entitled to make tve trip in comfort and no one has a right to crowd him or stand up in front of him. Among the thousand suggestions made to the British Government apropos of the jubilee is one to change the national ndard so as to place upon it some em- blem representing Wales. For years the banner has borne the crosses of St. George, Bt. Ancrew and St. Patrick, but 8t. David has been leit out and at last the Welsh have begun to kick. Official reports from Washington an- nounce that the fruit crops of Central and Western Europe have been largely dam- aged by frosts, and it is scarcely necessary to say that America will have sufficient sympathy for the people over thers to fur- nish them at. fair prices with all the fruit they need to make up the loss. as we have the fruit and they have the money they shan’t saffer. The promoters of a movement to pur- chase Elmwood, the homestead of James Russell Lowell, and set it aside as a part of the park system of Boston and Cam- bridge, have set up the claim tbat the movement is one of National interest and therefore feel justified in asking subscrip- tions from all partsof the country to make tne purcnase. The idea is so good that it might be adopted by us. Why not get up a National sub:cription for the zoological garden and Mission Pask? to be con- | structing five new railroads in Mex ¢o and | As long | |1y to be used by the producer BUNKER HILL ANNIVERSARY. To-day throughout the length and breadth of the Republic will rise in unison the gladsome voices of the patriotic hosts in recognition of the glories that belong to the immortal heroes of the battle of Bunker Hill. It is a curious historical fact that this battle was fought—not on Bunker Hill at all—but on Breeds Hill, owing 10 a mistake made by the Colonial warriors in the darkness of the night. Nevertheless, the world has accepted the designation of Bunker Hill for the scene of the memorable conflict, and so it will remain forever. Here, then, was fought the first battle of the Revolution. The firs¢ American gun—*the shot heard round the world”’—firea at Concord, had roused up all the land. many, heard that snot. rode all the way The American blood boiled; the American spirit took fire. From farm and workshop hurried the volunteers. Old Isrsel Putnam, one of the He left bis plow in the field at his Connecticut home and sixty-eight miles —to Boston in a single day. And the Starks from New Hampshire and the Greenes from Rhode Island arrived there as spee dily. The time to strike for liberty had come, and the men *“‘to do and dare” had come with it. The odds against them seemed tremendous. Their enemies were ths best- trained soldiers of England; but the Warrens and Putnams, the Starks and the Greenes, and tbeir brave comrades, on June 17, 1775, taught the British regulars what *‘proper stuff’’ the colonists were made of. That battle of Bunker Hill gave confi- dence to the raw soldiery encamped about Boston and engaged in the investment of that city. It did more than any other conflict to inspire the colonists with faith in their own military prowess and with hope of ultimate triumph in the war against the mother country. There is little doubt Lut that the brave stand made at Bunker Hill by Warren and his associates sugges:ed to Washington the military manenvers which led directly to the British evacuat:on of Boston; for it was the success of the commander of the Colonial forces in fortifying Dorcnester Heights that practically drove the Englisb general, Gage, from the city. 1t is eminently fi ng that Bunker Hill should be surmounted by a lasting monu- ment and that Bunker Hill anniversary should have become a day of joyiul celebra- tion all the way from Maine to California, and from the Canadian boundary down to Mexico. Bunker Hill represen been termed “‘the cradle.” ascend Bunker Hill the spirit of liberty, of which Boston has not inaptly No American with a spark of patriotism in his breast can monument without feeling a new tbrill of ardor in the presence of the pbysical reminders, in bill and city, of the first battle of the Revo- lution. Mothers will still sing to their children *The Sword of Bunker Hill nd school- boys will still proudly recite **Warren’s Address,” and the true American will ever read with emotion Webster’s sublime Bunker Hill oration. should be generally celebrated wherever float the stars and stripes. The anniversary of this battle There cannot fail to be inspiration for an American when to bis mind’s eye rises the piciure of the battle of Bunxer H.IL THE FREE MARKET EXPERIMENT. The decision of the Harbor Commis- sioners to set aside the Pucific-street wharf for an experiment in carrying out the act pro: m ding for the establishment of a free t for peri-hable products in this ity offers an immediate opportunity for testing tbe value of such a market and determining the extent to which it is like- of the State in selling their goods to San Fran- cisco consumers. Tne location of the wharf is not an ideal one for such a market, and that fact will to some extent handicap the experisient. It seems, however, to be the best that can | be provided at this time, and must be ac- cepted 1f we are to have an experiment ut all during the present season. In other respects the wharl is well fitted for the proposed uses and is emply large enough ago the people of the Fast | 1oF the purpose of making the test which the Commissioners very properly desire before entering upon the expenditure of money on an enterprise of 50 great a scope and such great cost. The amount of perishable products sent this City from the farms, orchards, yards and market garlens of the State is enormous. Statistics gathered by the Farmers’ Cluband by the State Board of Trade make it evident that a single market capable of handling speedily and economically all the gools of this kind would be one of the largest market struc- tures in the world. It wiil require a large amount of space and will entail aifficult problems of transportation and handlin facilities in its construction. Clearly, therefore, it is wise to look before we leap, and to make an experiment be‘ore any- thing costly is undertakea in the enter- prise. The experiment having been decided upon, the project should be given every advantage possible under the circum- stances. If there 1s any way by which success can be atiained that way sbouid be adopted. The test oughbt to be made largely under the control, or at least ac- cording to the ideas, of its promoters and advocates, so that the failure, if it comes, may not be attributed to any lack of sup- port or perseverance on the part of those having the experiment in charge. There can be no question that a free market is nceded. The perishable prod- ucts of the State, which make so large a part of the food supply of the people of San Francisco, are now handled and brought to consumers under conditions which energy. Municipal evolution should be accompanied by municipal improvement in all matters of this kind. In the eco- nomical handline and distribution of prod- uce lies often all toe profit which is neces- sary for the maintenance of industry. As McKinley said at Philadelphia, “the maker must find the taker.'”” The proposea market will help the California producer to | to find tne consumer of his goods without are wasteful of time, money and | expending to pay the cost of delivering | them all that he receives. The experiment at the foot of Pacificstreet will be watched with interest, and it is to be hoped 1t will amply demonstrate the possibility of pro- viding in the near future a market which will be all that is desired. A COMPETITION OF NATIONE, The Paris Exposit on of 1900 bids fair to eclipse all previous attempts of the nd in history. Itis even po sibie that may so far surpass its predecessors that comparison will be Tendered awkward, Americe wiil doubtless hold an exposition during the next quarter of a century that will dwarf even this magnitudinous affair o' Gallia’s sons; but it behooves us to fully realize that the Parisians are going to be world-beaters in this respect at the dawn ol the twentieth century. America doesn’t want to be left in the sbade there either, and it is time some steps were taken to the end that indus- tries and resources may be amply repre- | sented at the grand French show. The nations of Europe all have made great strides of progress during the last decade or two, ana the majority of the powers Lively interest in the premises. Itisnot 100 early to begin. This Paris Exposition will bea competition of nations without a paraliel in its scope and vastness, but California should strive to be one of the strongest factors in whatever measure of success this country mav there attain. GEORGE EUSTACE BARNES. One of the Iast of the old school of Cali- fornia journalists passed out of the world with the kind soul of George Eustace Baraes. Few writers on the Pacific Slope were better known than he, and few, if any, in his day maintained themselves in closer touch with Western men of distin- guished character and commanding in- fluence. He was one of the founders of T CaLy and its primal editor-in-chiel. Mark Twain, some thirty-oid years ago, was one of his reporters. His mind was rich in reminiscences of pioneer times, and when he wrote of the vigorous spirits of atehood bhis vivid pictures rendered fa- miliar the famous people of the past, bring:ng them, as it were, with the wand of aconjurerinto the iving and moving present. He possessed & wonderfal store of in- formation, and rare was the thems upon which he could not descant with intelli- gence. As a writer he was both ready and graceful. He had a faculty of ciothing dryest subjects in garbs that made them attractive. In the latter part of his caraer he was best known, perhaps, as a critic of the drama, and by actors and managers his decrees were invariably respected as thor- oughly conscientious and just. Booth, Barrett, McCullough had been among his friends and admirers; and h's anecdotes of those luminaries of the stage of a by- goue period would have made ayvolume raplete with interest. His friends were myriad. was foreign to his nature, and he was lib- eral toa fault. His honor and integrity wers unimpeachable. he was still active in the field of his choice, when death suddenly called him. 1t might be said that 1f for every generous act of his a rose were laid upon his bier would be his ashes flowers. THE DAWNING PROSPERITY. Substantial indications of the dawn of prosperity are to be observed in every part of the country to-day. The press is continuoasly drawing attention to the welcome facts of new enterprises spring. ing up and of fresh industrial activity. For example, in yesterdsy’s issue of Tue CALL appeared dispatches and in- terviews which show plainly that the gen- vuried deep in eral- business situation throughout the United States is steadily improving. Vice-President James Gannon of the Fourth National Bank of New York Cizy, returning from the convention at Kansas City of the National Association of Credit | Men, brought home with him the most encouraging reports. He had been in sessicn with the representatives of every large jobbing center in the Nation, and a careful canvass of ihe delegates shewed exceptionally bright prospects on every hand. clares Mr. Gannon, “is upon a firmer bas Farmers are receiving a betier price for cattie, and if the price of corn and wheet can be maintained merchants look for a verv prosperous conaition throughout the West this iall,” Vice-President E. St. Joln of the Sea- board Air Line Raitroad, Portsmouth, Va., told of the material progress being made in the States of Virginia, the Carolinas and Ceorgia. “From twenty to thirty new cotton- mills have been started in different places along our line in the last two years,” said Mr. St John, “and they are all big ones, too. The tendency now is to bring the | factory to the place where the product is | grown. It is the right principle, too.” have requested allotments of space of such | an area that the idea almost staggers one. Here are the comparative figures of the pace allotted in the Paris Exposition of 1889 and of that requested for the one three years hence: 1889. 1900 fquare &quare Teet. Tee Aus'ris-Hungary. <ueee 36388 840 200 Belgium 2 25964 Germany ... 396,000 Ttaty ... 121,000 Sapan. 107.00u Kussta . 528,000 Great Britain has expressed the desirs that as much space be allotted 10 her as 1o any other nation. In 1889 the exnib:t of Victoria’s reaim covered 230.000 :quare feet. All exceptthree of the Governments invited by France to participate in the exposition have officially communicated their acceptance, It is time to begin making prepara- tions in this important matter, This ra- tion ought to be among the foremost at the exposition. Our indusirial and scien- tific progress hus been swifter and higher than that of any other country on the From Shasta, in our own Siate, comes information of the reopening of the great mills of the Shasta Lumber Company in the Round Mountain district. The plant is 10 be employed and operated on & more extensive scale than ever before. The old logging camps are filling up with men again, ail of them hailing with joy th assurance of the return of flourishing times for that extensive timber region. The new company which recently acquired the entire property of the oid Ehasta Luam- ber Compuny will employ several hundred me ‘The items above noted were culled from the news of a day. One can bardly scan the columns of a reliable daily paper with- out discoverine testimony of a nature practicaily similar, showing the trend oi the times toward a grand revival of busi- ness all over the country. AERIAL FLIGHT. A ‘fiying-machine,’ so long a fype for ridicule, ba« really flown; it has demon- strated its practicavility in the only satis- clobe. Californians ougnt to be taking 8| factory way—by actually flying, and by se exciting early days of California's | Seifishness | At 70 years of age | “The prics of merchandise,” de- | | doing this again and again, under condi- tions which leave no doubt.” Such is the deciaration of Professor S. P. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. He is tne inventor of an aerodrome, or ‘““flying-machine,” which made successful flights more than a year ago on the Potomac River. His descrip- tion of this remarkable invention, togetber | with details of his experiments, and Te- productions of instantaneous photographs of the merosrome obtained during its flight, is contained in the current number of McClure’s Magazine. Professor Langley has discovered and applied the principle upon which rests navization of the air. There is nothing of the balloon principle about the aero- drome. The balloon floats on account of its lightness, but by the *flying machine” is meant a mechanical bird, something much heavier than the air its bulk dis- places. The aerodrome is built aimost en- tirely of metal, and driven by a steam- engine. The absolute weight of the machine, including that of the engine and all appurtenances, is less than thirty pounds, and the distance from tiv to tip | of the supporting surfaces is about tweive or fourteen feet. The methoi of propul- sion is by aerial screw propellers, and there isno gas or other aid for lifting it into the air, this being done simply by its own internal energy. The scientist has spent three vears at his task, and he now opines tuat we may live to see flying-machines quite common. That they are destined to cnange the whole conditions of warfare admits of no doubt. Professor Langley’s work ceases with the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight. He says that the worla must look to others for the naxt stage, which is the commercial and practical development of the idea. ‘“The world, indeed, will be supine,” says be, “if it does not realiz: that a new possibility has come to it. and that the great tuiversal highway overhead is now s00n 1o be opened.” PERSON 4L, A. Harris of Carson, Nev., is in town, F. A. Haworth of England s in town. H. B. French of San Diego Is in the City. J. A. Veatch of Nelson, B. C., s at the Russ. W. N. Moore of Ukish is registered at the Russ. Alired Musto, a merchant of Stockton, is on & Visit Lere. 0. McHenry, a business man of Modesto, is a late arrival. Francisco Lindus of Syaney, the Occidental, James F. Rolls, amining man of Rossland, B. C., is at the Lick. L. B. Maxwell and Mrs. Maxwell of Tahiti | ere at the Occideutal. | George R. Andrews and wife ot Fresno are guesis at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. R. T. Desmond, an extensive land-owner of Pescadero, reached here yesterday. W. H. Miller and wife, of Sonors, Cal., are | among recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. | E. A. Harrington, general manager of the | Colusa and Lake Raiirosd, is here from Colusa. | Henry Spring. a dry-goods merchant of S Jose, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Palace. Lieutenant-Governor Jeter came up from his home at Santa Cruz yesterday and is at the Palace. | H. Robinson, & wealthy merchant and iron manufacturer of Pitisburg, Pa., is at the Palace. | Pedro Sauchez Urrnells, a wealthy coffee- grower of Guatema s, has arrived here ona short stay. | J. C. Robinet, a prominent business man of | Medford, Or., accompanied by his wife, is stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. | C. W. Bunn of St. Paul, general attorney of | the Great Northern Railroad, isat the Palsce. | He is here largeiy on & pleasure trip. | Mrs. Everhard of Sonora, accompanied by | her daughter, Mrs. George Trask of Columbia, | Tuolumne Couaty,are guests at the Cosmo- politan Hotel, Cal Byrnes, formerly of this City and now of Los Angeles, is in the City. He will shortly leave in company with hismother and brother ou & trip to Europe. They will sail on the Majestic. Willirm P. Edwards, secretary of the Home for the Feeble Minded st Glen Ellen; Dr. A. E. Osborae, superintenden: of the home, and Judge A. P. Overton, one of the directors, are amoag the arrivals at the Grand. S.W., 15 at | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | NEW YORK, N. Y., June 16.—At the S, | Cloud—T. G. Hunt Imperial—A. Roullier. St. Donis—J. F. Eaglish. Thomas J. Sharkey left the loud. and sailed on the St. Paul for Southampton. Albert Thofehrn and Miss Clara Edwond als> sailed for Europe. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “Not every man is made a fool of,” remarked the observer of men and things, “but every man has the raw materis: in him."—Detroit Journal. “Where's that sen of yours, Mrs. Mulrany, thut went to London?" -‘Well, sir, they tell | me as 'e’s carrying all before him.” “Indeed What is his profession?’ “’'E's & waiter, | sir.”"—Tit-Bits. | Wifs—Henry, I think you were intoxicated lostnight. You spoke to me asthough there were two of me. i Husband—That's because I am always | doubly happy to see you, dear.—Boston Trans- eript. One recommendation—Fair Young Creature | (atter some recitations)—Do you think I would do for a Juliet Manager (anxious mot to hurt feelings)— | Um—er—well, you'd look very pretty in the tomb.—New York Weekly. Mrs. Blinkly—John, dear, won't you dis- charge Mary? You kuow how airaid I am of ner. Mr. Blinkly—Certainly. No servant can ever scare me. (A little while after)—Mary, ahem! Mrs. Blinkly has ssked me 10 tell you thatshe wants to see you aiter I nave gone to the ofice.—Brcokiyn Life. “WEERE 1. OUGH Youth's Companion. The late Cardinal Manuing would occasion- t the house of an intimate friend, throw “the care of all the churches” for an hour and indulge in early reminiscences. One story hie used 1o tell. though he himsell | was the butt of its humor, was of a scuiptor | who had stlempted the Cardinal’s bust at Rome. During oneof the siitings the sculptor dis- | coursed on phrenology, and Manning made him pointout on the fead he was modeling | the supposed seat of the various organs or | “bumps.” Atlast Manning asked: “Where is the organ of conscientiovsness 2" The sculpior walked across the room to where Muuning w, sitting, and touching a art of the Cardinal's cranium, saig: s where it ought to b .»* F.UGHT O. .0.H SIDES, New Orleans Times-Democrat. “I met a number of queer characters while in North Carolina & few years since,” re- marked a lady who had traveled, the other day, “but I think of them all, an aged woman, possibly eighty winters, who lived in the countey byways, exceeded the restin point of interest. I was asking her one day about the war, and during the conversation inquired as 10 the side her sympatby had led her to sup- port “* “Wall, now,’ she said, ‘there’s my son, Reilly. He was ’bout like 11 the balance. He went into the war and fit end fituntilhs clothes wus all worn out; he starved most of the tm: and when he got paid It wuzin mouey tiat wouldn't buy nothin’, So R-iily o tired of that, and »0 he jined the other party, and, whei he got pienty to d wear and 17 a month in money thatwuz good anywhar, he kinder concluded to_stay thar, and thar he stayed until the fighting T0. EE” n | repertory, | it 1823, hes been sung ai | ever, wuz all over.'” MUSIC AND MUSICIANS Arrangements are going rapidly forwar: the German season of grand opers, Which will open at the Tivoli carly in August. The en- gagement is just announced of Selma Koert- Kronold, the well-known Wagnerian prima donna, who will come here direct from Frank- fort, where she has conciuded a very success- ful season of German opera under the manage- ment of Angelo Neuman. Frau Kronold is an Amerfcan, but has studied and made a large part of her successes in Germany, though she has frequently sung in the East with Walter, Damrosch, Hinrichs ana Seidl. In addition 10 possessing a fine voice Kronold is said to be a highly dramatic and essentially modern prima donna. The Wagnerian works, such as “The Flying Dutchman,” “Lohengrin,” etc., which will be produced during the Tivoli sea- son, are to be sung in German. It is also pro- posed to produce modern works of the Italian for | old pianist. She gave a concert notlong ago and the adult artists who supported her were quite put in the shade by the child’s remark- able piaying. Another Russian pianist, a boy 6 years old, has created great astonishment 1n Paiis at the Sallo Pleyel. This child, who is named Henri Karton, played Bach, Hayan, Chopin and Beethoven unsimpi.fied. When Meyerbeer wrote “L’Africaine” probably little thought that his opera would ever be used to the glorification of Vasca de Gams. Meny German theaters, however, have used the work this year 10 commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Gama's dis covery of the sea route to indla. Atthelm- periai Opera of Vienna “L’Atricaine’” has been given under the auspices of the Imperial Geo- graphical Society. A new “Stabat Mater,” by George Henschel, SELMA KRONOLD KOERT, Who Will ng Wagner at the Tivoli. Ponchielli’ scheduled for an ea Hinricks will cond s “La Gloconda” presentation. @ t the performances. Denis Solomos, born at Zante in 1790 and buried at Corfu in 1857, was one of the first to celebrate in song the liberty of modern Greece. “His Ode 1o Liberty,” whicn appeared 1 over Greece during the last few months. A few of the verses read as follows: *“I know thee by the power of thy sword; I know thee by thy glance, whicn traverses the earth iike lightning. The l=na of Washington trembles at thy being | was appearance, remembering the chains which | she herseif once wore, *“The Spanish lion shakes his mane on the ramparts and hails thee wiih a welcoming roar. “All those whom the Ottoman sword has un- justly murdered rise in crowds from the ear “The wraiths of old men and maidens, young men and chiidren. “They appronch the Greeks, they touch their swords with their icy hands. “This touch peneirates the Greek heart and banishes from it all pity.” The statements with regard to Ottoman cru- eliy are as true to-duy, alas! as they 1823. were in Verdi has announced the spot tha chosen for his Inst resting-place. It is in the pesceful garden of his villa of Sant’ Agata that he desires to be interred and his wite wishes to be buried there beside him nt her death. Interment inany but public burying grounds is against the la Italy, but after much red tapeism & special exception has been made to the law in Verdls favor. The enthusiestic sdmiration which fs felt for Verdl in Italy has made this avthori- zation & very populsr measure on the part of the authorities. The Prefect of Placenc.a has formally granted the required permission for the erection of two modest tombs in the garden of the villa, and Verdi is having them built at once. It is filty years since the lilustrious composer burled his first wife and The second wile is still living. s of At Vienna a society has been foundcd with the object of familiarizing the public with the works of Hugo Wolt. A Hugo Wolf socety exists already in Berlin, and it seems that the partisaus of the ccmposer intend to found like societies all over Germany. movement of this nature commenced in favor of Richard Wagner, even outside German- speaking countries. It is scarcely likely, how- that the Hugo Wolf societies will achieve the work done by the Wagner so- cieties. Wolf, who is neerly 40 years of age, has composed up to the presenta number of interesting songs and choruses. He has also produced ove opers, which has had a fair | measure of success, but which any provincial theater can mount without difficulty. hard, therefore, 10 see ihe necessity tecting Wolf's works as Wagner's were pro- tected, for “Parsifal,” etc., demand a special theater and cosily mountiugs. Itis for pro- It is difficult for an American to realize the In 18614a | he has | | | are foolcd 81l tne time™ on this subject. utter contempt with which the humble banjo | is regarded by the nations of continental Europe. The following trom Le Menestrel | gives some idea of Freuch opinion on the sub- | ject: A Londoa newspaper informs us thata ““banjo college”—ihat is o sy & conservatory devoted to the instrument of American ne- groes, called minstrels—is about 1o be opened at Bournemouth, a well-known waterin place. The banjo, an instrument of no artistic vslue whaiever, has become very popular in English high fife, even among ladies. Tne conservatory in question 1s not for minstrels, but for fashionsble amateurs, who desire to perfect themselves on this savage instrument,” At Milan, where most operatic impresarios meet to engage ar! and make itineraries, the autnorities have believed it to be their Quty to put singers on their guard against ac- cepting engagements in Greoce and have caused the following rotices to be inserted in all the newspapers: “To artists who think of going to Greece. Tne authorities warn Itallan Iyric and dramatic companies not to go to Greece, even 1f they have contracted regular engagements, for in the present state of the country all the theaters that are nt alread closed may close from one moment to another, and this would leave the artists strauded.’” It seems that in Hungary the municipal authorities take & paternal interest in the vocket-books of the Yoters. An operatic man- ager who receutly demanded the required per- mission of the City Fathers to give a series of performances at Kecskemet was answered by s firm refusal. The Burgmasters and the members of the municipaiily gave as their reason that the population has bren very much tried by & long winter and that the hard times would not justily them in having an operatic season. The volers might have been of a different opinion if they had been consulted. News comes from Dvinsk, Russia, of the brillignt debut of Sina Altschuler, s four-year- | | service. recently given Church in Dresden. The composer and his wife, who are bo h disiinguished singers, both took part in the performance. which was a complete success. Mrs. Henschel, who Is an American, is coming with her husband to make a concert tour in the United States next fa! At Buenos Ayres res & “Pampa,” by a Brazilian new opera entitled composer, is ubout to be produced. Brazilian composers are rare enough to make the fact memorable, though one of the best-known compcsers Wwho ever went from the New Worid, Gomez, was & Bra- zildan, Johannes Brahms left a larger tortune than was at first belleved, for hi $70,000. On the other hand very few manu- scripts bave been found among his pupers. The letter only included a few songs and some Hturgieal choruses for the Lutheran service. | These compositions are in a finished condi- 2, and will scon be publish d At the International Exposition in Stock- holm there is to be a grand Scandinavian ic festival, at which the two composers, Edward Grieg and johan Svendsen, will con duct tneir own works. At the Seala, Milan, Franchetti’s new opera, ““Pourceaugnac,” has nov made a very briliiant success. At the Royal Opera of Berlin & new opera, “Enoch Arden,” founded on Tennyson's poem, has just been produced with success. OP1iCAL :LLUSIONS. I've al us not ssed. fellers, Hit's & risky thing to do To kaikalate accordiu’ To how things 100ks to you. The man ’at talks the nice Don’t nelp you up the b The one ‘a: prays the loudest Lon’t allus pay his bill. Sometimes the biggest fishes EBites the smaliest kinds o’ bates, And migh y ugly wimmin Can make the best o' mates. The smartest-looking felier May bea reg’lar fool: You're alius Kicked tha bighest By the meexest-looking mule. —Atlanta Constitution. STILL COUN {ING .. E LOST MONEY To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—S1r. Counting lost money by the thousands as still in one’s possession would be the act of & luna- tic if done by an individual, but this is just what our treasury officials at Washington have been doing by the millions for years, as | the most obdurate reader wiil presently ad. | mit; and this matter seriously affects every one of us, though so few know an about it that one might say “‘All the people s well might ship-owners count all thelr lost vessels as still sailing the seas and doing good Why this has been done by the treas- ury oflicials will be made clear enough as we proceed. Tam well aware this will scem incredible to most readers, for most readers know so little of this subject that their “Impressions” are illusive. They could notcredit the fact simply because they do not know that our Nutional Treasury Department has for many years been counting $600,000,000 in treasury certificates as so much money, when in fact they are (ke | bank checks) merely orders on the ireasury dor coiu or greenbacks, audG even shrewd bus - ness men apparently do not see it, although he thing is so simple. They may well believe thateounling money not in exisience because long ago lost and desiroyed is also done by our treasury officials and the fact never sus. pected by tue general public. It can be made ciear to men of ordinary fn- telligence that our Treasury Department does count millions of lo<t and worn-out money as still “in the coun and “in circuiation, With exact offic:al fizures and dates glven, the information will be strictly reliable and nence some deails are unavoidable. In a formes 12ference to the $45,912,008 34 fa fractional currency issued ih War (imes, it was shown by act of Congress June 1, 1879, hat 8,375 934 of 1t was declared lost or destroyed atter being in eirculation only sixteen years, a loss of 15 Fercentor more than 1 per centh year. ~But ihe story is only hali toid, and the whole of 1t is still more instructive. The treasury reports show years 1876, 1877 and 1978, m. ihis fractioual currency, of it, had been bro: that during the ore than haif of uamely, $25,581,635 ught to the treasury for re- dempiion ana cancellation because it was no longer to e u-ed as currency, but in 1879 only $705.159 was brougu. in, and next year but $251,717, less thau_halt as much, un ! in 1887 ouly $7123 wns presented, while in 1893 it hud 1a len 10 $2398. During the fourieen Jears, 1879 t0 1893, the whole amount brought in tor redewpiion ‘and cancellition was only $1,270.986. showlng, as Secretary Sherman BAs -wid, tuat the balance Is undoubtediy 10st and gone forever. slthough ihe last treasury report, Maich, 1897, (paee 1596) still claims that the inrge'sum of §6,869, 241 15 now vam standing”—icst money stil counted by our officia’s us in exisience. }o“.tn order to find the true amount of this fractional currency that disappesred for. ever during the sixteen yenrs it was in use among the people we must #dd the $6,889,- . he | at the Martin Luther | estate exceeds | thing | 241 an still_reported as “onistand 934 co' ceaed te_be 1ost prior to 1876 nave $15.265,179, which is one-third, 45 912,008 ever 2 per cent de tails now in hand we aave.n besis for rational estimates of w or 33 per cent, of {he entire sued, showing au actual los ear. With these facts a; past thirty-taree yesrs and ascertain tne certage of it which must be lost and g al time. ButImust eave that in abey at present. JOSEPH_ASBURY JOHNSON, 850 Market street, Junc 16 1897 | | the actual percentage of paper mone losg | and destroved year by year, and are now ;.. | pated to consider the voiume of ercenbaciy | and other paper currency in use during tha | 3 MEN ad. ubeN Patrick Donahoe, the owner of the | Pilot, who has just celebrated his eight | bir:hday, is in good health and attends regu. larly to his business. The Duke of Connaught, third son of t Queen, has been officialiy appointed by British Government to ta command of the troops assembied in London on caston of the celebration of the Queen’s Gerome intends to prese bourg Museum his fine uew chromatic maible of Mme. L Be The likeness 1s sa1d to be marvelous, and hetghtened py the touches of color on the £ and nair. to the L bust i The engagement is of Consuelo de Lesseps, Count Ferdinand de Bar Lagrange. *“The bride woman, ‘18 a most charming young girl, s thoss who agreat fayorite amc mained attached to Francais.” x-S:nator Pugh attemoted to enter House of Representatives last week doorkeeper refused to let wim do mauch as the House recenily adopted a rulc de barring ex-Senators from tne privileges floor. Mr. Pugh went sadly away, ic for the moment that he sentative, and is, therefore, en he sought. is also an e ANSWERS 10 CUnRE.FON SHANISTAN—R. P. B,, City, A | Afghauistan is5 cents per h e | is no United States Consul to A! MARTIAL Law—Subscriber, City. is that military rule which, in tir conferred by the laws of war in persons and things within the scope c military operations, and which suspends civil rights and founded on m so far as sary (o the accomplishme; tae war. Morst HANDs—Subscriber, City. Mo indicate an anmmic state of the s yste want of normal circulation, the for which are nourishing food, a tonic cold batns. It is said thata littie powde alum in the water used to wash the Lands wi tend to check ihe moisture. To siop moisture ltcgether weuld be impossible ur by means of & good t0aic and careful diet whole system rega PONS ASINORUM —D That is the name Chat was given by dents at Cambrrdge 1o tae fifth | { book ome, of Euciid, also callcd the Pytl gorean theorem—viz, that the squere c | Bypotenuse of u r 0 the sum of the +q is the first aifficult prop stumblivg block aud a difficult | stupld tocross. 1tis asserted ih { self, exa-perated at a student Wwho was u | to waster the problem, said “This | thatany one but an ass can cro he asses’ b nquiry are correc “Let me make the songs of a count: Will make its laws. couniry and I w Fleicher of Saltou politician, who lived from 1633 t writings, originally in the form of s were coliccted and printed in & letterto the Marquis of Mc Rothes, eic., wrote as fo/low. se man who believed t he ne e who should make the laws of & narion It is not known who *(he very wise man’ w but it is the opinion of those who trace th origin of old sayings thatin theletier Fleicher | referred to himselr, me the $o ts laws onyx Earl of knew a very 1 man were 10 make all the ball CIVIL AND M1 isno confl ct of mutk and tary au California in r —Subscriber, C ty between horitles in the crimes committed or | United States reservation. 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