The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1897, Page 6

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FOLTZ, Fi ager. —_— . —————— THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMEKR MONTHS. Areyon going (0 the country ona vacation * It vo, it I8 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to ¢ let it miss you for you will en 10 the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt sttention. NU EXTKA CHARGE. Fifty cemla per monib for summer months. ——————————————— The Klondyke is a lotte A bird in California is worth two in . Alaska. There is business for San Francisco on the Yukon. You must wait a little if yon would avoid the rush. Don't rush into anything unless you can Bee your way out. The best thing about & mining boom is that it helps to start a boom In everything | else. | fellow who said there | boom on this w hera the i never be anotker is —_————— “ Geod as wheat” is a phrase which can be used this year as a synonym for *‘good old | | \ to cure the sick man of Tur- | ope have caught | In trying key the doctors of the disease themselve San Francisco merchants should get the trade of outfitting the Alaska gold dis- tricts. There’s miilions in it. About the only sound of welcome to be expected in the frozen north is the "wolf’s | long howl on Oonalsska’s shore.” The Christian Endeavor Convertion is a bie thing inits way, but the rush of gold- seekers from the East promises to be big- ger. There is very little profitin earning $15 a day in acountry wherea man has to pay $20 a day for his board ana find his lodg- ing in the snow. The surest way to guard against scurvy | in the gold districts of Alaska is to take along plenty of California preserved fruit with your rations. It may be as well to remind the Sen tors on the Democratic side that we were promised the new tariff on the 1st of last June—not next June. Nearly all the gold of the north will come to California to be minted and put | into circulation, and those who attend to business here will get their share of it. It requires a very tough gall to enable & man to declare now that there are no signs of prosperity in the air, but some of the inveterate calamity-howlers have the gall to do it. The tariff will give to California indus- | tries better protection than they haveever | received before, and still the Democratic | organs in the State denounce it as a pirate's measure. If 8pain had expended in Cuba for re- forms and improvement one-tenth the money she has spent in trying to conquer its people the Cubans would have been pacified long ago. The report of the work of the year on the Valley road shows good progress, rapid progress and progressin the right direction—and what is best of all, the work goes on and the progress continues. The fact that the Government loses $100,000 a day by the debate on the tariff is perhaps the very reason why the Demo- crats insist on discussing it at length. A revenue deficiency would suit them well. Reports from Washington are to the effect that there is an unusually large de- mand at the Treasury for small bills, and this is regarded as a sure proof that retail trade is improving rapidly and business is reviving throughout the country. The burden of the blame for the Trans- vaal raia having been laid on Cecil Rhodes, the Liberalsin Parliament seem determined to make it as heavy tor him as vossible, and to that end are rubbing it in on him and jamming it to him in the neck. The pioneers of Utah have many things to rejoice over in the outcome of fitty years, but the best of all is the fact that by the potent help of Uncle Sam they have succeeded in outgrowing polygamy and establishing something better than a theo- cratic government. Horace Boies, having declared the Chi- cago platform no longer binding on ths conscience of any Democrat, has now de- cided to stand in with the party in Iowa and support it. It is evident there are strings on Horace which bind him more strongly than his conscience. SR g The statement that the British press1s trying to pick a quarrel with the United States wiil not alarm us to any extent. Whenever Great Britain wishes a row with us she can have it. We are quite readv to annex the Kiondyke country and all the Canadian accessories. % The British were profuse in expressions of friendship for America when the arbi- tration treaty was under consideration, but now that we ask them to stick to their agreement for the protection of the seals they talk back aius like a pugilis seeking a reputation. | thousands of farm | last twelvemonth the new line has added | | for export it was represented that the THE. COMMERCIAL OPENING. The gold discoveries in Alaska and Bri; sh Columbia open opportunities for profit to many classes of people, but to none are the opportunities offered more promising { than to the merchants of San Francisco. depot of supplies for the whole of the gold This port should be made the central region of the north. The market wiil be an increasing oue and the prospective profits are not only large, but as safe as any commercial venture can be. The golden fruit hangs temptingly in the northern fields, but is not one that will drop into our mouths if we wait for it. We must enter the contest with every force at will have competitors in the field and we our control if we hope to attain success. San Francisco, as the chief port of this part of the Pacific Ocean, has many advan- tages to aid herin the struggle, but they are not sufficient to make up for any lack of enterpr se and vigor. barvest. That the Alaskan market will be worth competing for is beyond question. If we wait even but a short time, our smaller but more ener- | getic rivals in Portland, Tacoma and Seattle will enter before us and reap the | After every allowance is made for exaggeration in the reports which have come to us of the richness of the go!d fields, enough will remain to make it certain that great wealth will be taken from the mines of those count: there are rich placers there is richer quariz. ries for maay years to come. Wherever Before the placers are exhausted, there will be good transportation facilities to the upper Yukon, and quartz mining will then begin on ascale which will assure the maintenance of a considerable popula- tion if not permanently, at least for so long a period that the trade wlll be one of the most important on the Pacific Coast for the The conditions of life are such in the ne frait. fat and greasy foods for the maintenance of minent. The surest preventive of foods, and California is prepared to furnish quality. In addition to the necessary supplies of rest of this generation. w gold regions as to creats a demand for In cold countries where the people are compelled to consume large quantities of warmth of the bydy scurvy is always im- that disease is the habitual use of fruit them in larga quantities and of the best fruits and other food there will be, of course, a large and increasing demand for mining implements and machinery and for all kinds of miners’ equipments. San Francisco have bezn handling ever since the settlement of tha State. These things the manufacturers and merchants of Our trades- men are familiar with the needs of mining communities, and have all the experience fore, if San Francisco is not made the cen ban supplies. The first need will be th That neea should be provided speedily. forward. | required for the proper management of the business. It will be our own fault, there- tral depot of Alaskan and British Colum- e shipping required to carry on the trade. Spread the sails at once and let our trade go VALLEY ROAD PROGRESS. Without much ado being made over the | fact, the Valley road has been steadily | extending its line and adding new cities and towns to the list ot its beneficiaries. During the year which ended June 30, | 1897, 121.82 miles of track were laid, as ' against 8.3 miles for the year previou=. The company, as shown by the reports | of its engineers, has built more than 3000 | feet of bridging, including several large | and handsome structures across the vari- ous rivers it was necessary to an. In | the year which ended the 30th of last | month two roundhouses and eight| depots were erected and many freight | pla:forms and stock’ corrals constructed. | 1n addition, 116 miles of telegraph line | were built in connection with the Postal 1‘ Telegrapt: Company. The San Joaquin Valley Railroad, which | | in its extreme infancy was alludea to by its opponents as a “‘toy”’ affair, has proved | an immense business proposition, and | and stock-raisers in ate have had reason Dauring the | the interior of the to feel grateful for its advent. to its equipments, among otber things, four freight locomotives, three passenger locomotives, 100 boxcars, 100 stockcars, nine passenger coaches and three combi- nation baggage and passenger coaches. The total equipment of the road is now as follows: Seven freight locomotives of 65 | tons each, three passenger locomotives, 250 flatears, 100 boxcars, 100 stockcars, nine passenger coaches and three combi. nation baggage and passenger coaches. Nobody terms it a *‘toy” affair any more. | | It has grown to bs quite a giant in its| way, and is getting stronger ana bigger | every hour. The line is now being operated between Stockton and a point beyond Hanford, covering a distance of over 200 miles. Reedley now enjoys communication over tte Valley road, and in less than a month from this date Visalia will be celebrating the entry of the line in that city., If right-of-way difficulties could be adjusted 1n time the road might possibly be pushed on to Bakersfield in time to carry a portion of this year’s Kern County crops. Farmers of the San Joaquin Val- ley may well bless the new and popular road for chopping down the high freight tariffs and aiding the productive section | through which it passes 1o realize ths | share of prosperity justly due. UTAB'S SEMI-CENIENNIAL. The celebration of the semi-centennial of the ploneer settlement of Utan has at- tracted thousands of visitors to Salt Lake City this week from all over the Jand. It began Tuesday morning and will continue until Saturday nignt. Among the first | day’s ceremonies was the dedication ofa monument to Brigham Young and the presentation to each of the pilgrims who founded Utah fifty years ago of a gold badge or medal struck in honor of the occasion. Yesterday beheld a splendid pageant of progress, in which the Utah of the past was contrasted with the Utah of to-day. Where the wilderness stretched away in all directions from*the abodes of the ear- liest pioneers there ara now prosperous citiesand towns and farms rich in yields of whea: and corn. The mountains have been exploited and made to give up their treasures of vprecious meral. Namerous other industries have been built up here and there in that commonwealth through | the energy and enterprise of the people, | and the thrifty young State of Utah may well boast of its rapid advancement. Fifty years have brought marvelous | changes there, Steeds of steel are now | flying over the plains, bearing multitudes | to Salt Lake City, whera a haif century | ago the hardy pioneers were urging thei ox-teams forward to what they deemed the promised land. Where in that olden | day the Mormons prayed and sang in | tents or under the arching blue, they now gather for religious services in immense | tabernacles. Religious aiscord is no longer known. Polygamy has been ban- 1shed from the State, and Gentile and | Mormon in perfect barmony now sow and | reap and trade and plan and build to- | gether. | Utah is a fertile country, and while its | vast stores of mineral wealth have known no appreciable diminution its vegetable output is destined to enrich a population many times groater than that which now prospers on its soil. The offer of $6 for an orange by a miner | on the Yukon shows the value which fresh fruits have in digtricts where gold is plentiful and scurvy is imminent. There seems therefore to be a big market for California products in the Alaskan coun- try, and 1t is to be hoped o.r merchants will take advantage of irt. The contrast between the conditions of trade during the first summer of McKin- ley and the first summer of Cleveland are too striking to escape the attention of any one. Prices were falling four years ago and now they are going up. According to Dingley talk on the tariff costs the country about $100,000 a day. Speaker Reed was therefore right in cut- ting it short. | light crops. | indication | resemble an army of traemps. WHEAT IS KING AGAIN. The American farmer is once more happy. Hard times with him are only a memory of days gone by. This season strikes him just right, for the big crops have come alongside of the big prices, ana King Wheat is on his throne again. There is a shortage in the wheat-pro- ducing countries of South America; India is in the same condition, and also from the nations of Europe comes the story of The Australian harvest will not begin until January next and the yield there will be comparatively small. The farmers of this country are obtaining high figures for their grain to-day, and the prospects are that the top-notch price for wheat is yet to be reached. California will be in the market with her wheat earlier than any other part of the country, and she will have a decided advantage next year in meeting the strong demands from lands where crops have been defi- cient. Business in cash wheat for export is | heavy in New York. On Tuesday, for in- stance, 1,500,000 bushels were sold to for- eigu buyers for shipment. In one demand wheat was to be shipped to Mediterranean and Adriatfe ports to which no wheat from this country has gone except for seed since 1880. Among these ports are those of Triest and Venice, which are usually supplied by Russia. The world in fact depends upon the American farmer very largely for its breadstuffs this year, and there is every that the California wheat- growers will have another golden harvest to reap in 1898. The miners in the frozen north are not the only people who find | things coming steadily their way; there are others in luck, and prominent among these others is to be found the American wheat farmer, THE STRUGGLE IN OUBA. The end of Spanish rule in Cuba seems to be near at hand. That bankrupt mon- archy cannot sustain the vain and costly war much longer on the sirength of senti- ment or on promises to pay based on a ruined credit. As evidence of the financial distress of the Spanish Government dispatches from Havana show that $40,000,000 is due to the regular army and §18,000,000 to the navy, Not only is money lacking to pay the sol- | diers, bat also for buving provisions and clothing. While the Spanish troops may obtain food by force, it wiil be very diffi- cuit for them to get clothes. Even now they are said to present pitiable specta- cles, as they are actnally clad in rags and They beg money 1n the streets of Havana and enter houses asking for bread. Thelt is com- mon among them, and there are instances where misery had driven them to deeds of murder. Spanish merchants own the groceries, bakeries and meatshops of Havana, and they are the first victims of the poverty of the army. Being forced to contribute food to the so!diers ruin stares the merchants in the face, and they are closing up busi- ness and emigrating to Spain. The only newspaper in Cuba which sup- ported autonomy is a miserable failure. General Weyler appears to think that Spanish troops can fight without salaries as well as the Cubans. It is just possible, however, that this man, who thoughtto | kill off the rebellion by wholesals butch- eries of men, women and children, will wake up one of these days to find his army in general revolt. Heavy desertions | have already been reported, and many a young man who sailed from Spain to help tamp out the nsurrection’” is now fighting in the Cuban ranks for Cuban liberty and independence. The unseen hand of heaven is dealing mighty strokes in aid of the people who have sworn to rend ‘forever the chains of Spanish tyranny. The Cubans cannot fail in the | war; it is only a matter of months, and probably only weeks, when victory will perch upon their banners. JEAN INGELOW, Jean Ingelow hes written so little of later years that her work in literature wes virtually ended, and English letters have | probably suffered no loss by her death. Nevertheless the passing away of a woman whose writing, both in prose and verse, bas added so much to the joy of all who delight in ‘“noble thoughts wedded to noble words” will be felt as a loss through- out the English-speaking world. Another soul of gerius has passed from the earth and we are deprived of one more of those women who in the present generation have helped to purify the morais of the race by elevating the taste and leading it to find pleasure in ideals of beauty and of worth. With the exception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Jean Ingelow was the foremost singer among the women of her day. It is dountful if anything which she wrote will be immortal, for she lacked that highest gift of genius, the power of creat- 1ng out of airy nothings forms which live forever; but, nevertheless, she has con- tributed much to English literature which will be long remembered and will be cherished in many a home snd beart so long as any of the men and women of her own generation remain on earth. ‘While chiefly noted as a poet, and while her fame will rest mainly on her poetical works, Miss Ingelow in the later years of ber life showed herself to be possessed of a fine talent as a novelist. Her stories, while they lacked artistic finish and dramatic intensity, were always interest- ing. Her descriptions of English home life and the bstier and finer ciass of Eng- lish men and women were among the most charming that havo ever been writ- ten. In fact 3o great is the degree of ex- cellence she attained in character sketch- ing it is probable if she had undertaken the work of novel-writing earlier in life and devoted her whole energies to it she would have attained a rank in prose as near to that of George Eliot as she at- tained in poetry to that of Mrs. Barrett Browning. PERSONAL. Judge L. D. Latimer of Windsor, Cal, is at the Palace. W. A. Howell, County Clerk of Kern County, is at the Lick. Attorney Henry H. Davis has returned from his Eastern trip. Professor W. D. Nicholas of Stanford Uni- versity is at the Lick. J.F. Daly, a merchant of Eureka, Cal., is registered at the Grand. Emory Winship of the United States navy is registered at the Palace. D. R. Oliver, a mine-owner of Sonors, is reg- istered at the Lick House. Dr. J. H. Hassenplug of Philagelphis, Pa., is registered at the Cosmopolitan. W.R. Caruthers, a well-known merchant of Santa Rosa, s registered at the Lick House. Professor E. A. Ross of Stanford University arrived in town yesterday. He isat the Grand. B. H. Upham of Martinez, the proprietor of the Gloriana vineyard, is stopping at the Lick. S. Reed Cohoun, paymaster of the United States battle-ship Oregon, is at the Occidental, J. C. Cramer, a well-known miner of West Point, Calaveras County, is at the Cosmopol- itan. Mrs. Marie A. Dorren of S8t. Louis, Mo., & writer of some reputation, is visiting the City. g H. E. Adams of the Btockton Gas Company s visiting San Francisco. He is stopping at the Grand. Professor Ira G. Hoitt of Burlingame came to town yesterday. He registered at the Occl- dental. J. G. Wines, & prominent business man of Los Angeles, 18 visiting the City. Heis at the Russ House, Colonel Trevelyan, who is largely interested in Fresno vineyaras, is up from Fresno and is stopping at the Palace. Mrs. Frank Cressy, the wife of the Modesto banker, is visiting the City with her two chil- dren. They are at the Lick. Mrs. J. G. F.Moale, daughter of E. Black Ryan, general tax agent of the Southern Pa- cific Company, died at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. Assemblyman E. J. Emmons of Bakersfleld is at the Russ. Alyin Fay, an attorney of the same Cily, is with him. They are hers on legal business. T. E. Atkinson, the expert accountant, who has been away at Los Angeles for a few weeks, returned home yesterday. He was accom- panied by his wife. Joseph F. Faney, accompanied by Miss A. K. Fahey and Miss F. Shine of Sonora, Tuol- umne County, is visiting the City. They are guests at the Cosmopolitan, W. H. McKenzie, a banker of Fresno, ho escorted his familyto the Chautauqua meet- ing at Pacific Grove last week, is at the Lick House. He will return home in a day or two. Miss A. L. Fogle, a guest of the St. Nicholas Hotel, has left for New York ona visit to her sister, Mrs. Woods. From New York she will g0 to St. Louis on a short visit to other re'a- tives. She expects to be gone about three months. G. W. Babcock and wife of Wallar are visiting the City. Mr. Babcock 1 large wheat-grower of Washington. He says that at no previous time were the people of his section so prosperous as now. The wheat crops promise well, and the prices for the cereal are higher than for many years. IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y, July 21.—At the St. Cloud—R. Hogan; Amsterdam—Mr. and Mrs. J. Baer; Grand Uniou—Mrs. W. Knox; Bar- tholdi—Mrs. Ellis; St. Denis—Hd. H. Watson Jr., E. W. Britt, Mrs. R. Cantor; Astor—F. W. Worcester. CALIFORNIANS THE FORGOTTEN EPISTLE. 1 found it agaln—an oid letter, 'Twas written lone, 100g years ago, In my younger d: The heart guidea Nor walted on reason so slow. And each iin emed a magical fetter That linged me anew (o the past. She was there. as of yore, But we breathed them no more— Vows t00 sweet and t0o fragils to last. Yet her voice with I's music came ringing Again fa my wondering ears, And in radlance there Shone the glint ot h_r hair A luster undimmed by the years, And my brain of asuddrn sesmea swinging And my cheek seemed to light Into flame As I eazed at the place Where I'd lingered to trace “Yours Forever,” and then signed my name. There Is 1o one to care for my sighing As I 100k on the paper so woru. And i try to be cold ‘And seem carelass and bold, Yet i shud - er and think of her scorn. For the writing is mine past denying, And 1o my mind’s eye L can see How the jury will grin When the lawyers begin On that letter marced * Kxhibit B.” —Washington Star. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “Isn't it absurd what ideas people in small towns have of large cities “Yen; there's just one thing more absurd.” “What is that?” *The ideas people in large cities have of small towns.”—Chicago Record. It is not necessary to repeat his remarks. When his wife heard them imperfectly, be- ing in the next room, she said: “Oh, do say that over again, dear.” “Look here, woman,” he replied ina con- centrated voice, “when a man gets his finger caught between a sprocket and a chain it is no time for his wife to get funny.” “'Oh,” said she, ““was that it? Ithought you were repeating one of those Christian En- deavor ‘yells.””—Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Kniver—For mercy’s sake, Mary, what are the children quarreling about ? Mary—It's only in fun, mem. They be play- ing they're married.—Boston Transcript. Teacher—How many bones are there in the humen body? Pupil—I don’t know. Ihaven’t learned to ride a wheel yet.—Datroit Free Press. “Here, young fellow, I want you to keep your horse oft my lawn.” ‘:Say; you're & hard-hearted old bloke.” ‘What do you mean ?"’ “Why, dat poor old horse is just & practisin’ de Knelpp cure, dat’s what.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Flush—Sorrow is drowned in the wine cup. Lush—Not a bit of it. That's where it is born.—New York Evening Journal. Wife—John, don’t you think you had better give up trying to shaye yourself and go back o the barber? Husband—Why, of course not. much Isave every month. Wife—Yes, Iknow that, but then Willie is always around when you shave and he is learning so many bad words, —Ohio State Journal. “Why, dear me, thers goes Johnsbury and his wife. Ireally don’t know him since he has got a different cut to his hair.” “‘And hers has a different hue.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “There's no reason why young Jibson should hold his head so high.” “No? Have you noticed his collars?’—Chi- cago Journal, See how | MUSIC AND MUSICIANS A Berlin paper is publishing some unedited letters of celebrated German musicians— Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn, Wagner, etc. One of the most curious is this, which the future author of “‘Parsifal.” then simply kapellmeister to the King of Saxony, addressed to the di- rector of tae Grand Ducal Theater of Hesse- Darmstadt. offering him his first great dra- mstic work, ‘Rienz.”: “To the Iigh Director of the Grand Ducal Theater of the Court: I permit myself to send the inclosed copy of the score of my opera ‘Rienzi,’ with the urgent | prayer that he will let me know, at the very latest In four weeks, whether my opera is ac- cepted by the diractor of the Grand Ducal Thester of Darmstadt. My conditions are twents-five louis d’or, pavable on delivery. With the greatest veneration, I am the devoted which struck the visitors was the preponder ance of Norwegian composers, the works of Grieg, Svendsen, Selmer and Sinding creating the most interest and being the most effzctive. Funds are being raised for statues to Doni- zetti at Bergamo, Wagner in Munich, Mozart at Prague and Mascagni at Ancona. Seven thousand tickets have been sold in London for the Wagner festival at Bayreuth. The noure is sold out for every performance and the list is closed. The Chicago Musical College announces that it is ready ‘o receive applications for the 125 free and partial scholarships which will be awarded at the competitive examination in August. Marcella Sembrich, the brilliant soprano in the company of the late Henry Abbey, pur- SAINT-SAENS, Who Is Writing the Music History of the Nineteenth Century. 1 servant of the high director of the coult thea- | poses to sail for America for a concert tour, ter, Richard Wagner.” Wagner was modest in his demands at that time. Twent, five louis d’or! It was not with that that he was able to supply himself with the sumptu- ous dressing-gowns that he affected and the stuffs of silk, of velvet and of brocade with which he wished to cover himself and his sur- roundings. The Italian papers, copied by several French journals, have bean making quite & noise over the disappeurancs of the Greek composer Spiro Samars, authorof “Flora Mirabilis la Martire,”” and several other operas, who they say set out to take part in the Greco- Turkish war and whom they supposed 10 be dead, or at least wounded and a prisoner. A Miianese paper takes the affalr less tragically and even pushes skepticism to the borders of raillers. “If we can believe,” it says, “the confidences of a friend, Samara has been for some time hidden under the Theater Lyrique of Milan; and while waiting for the resurrec- tion of his ‘Furia Domata’ he may mysteri- ously put to muslc an elegy over the fali of Domoko, with & march in fugue style upon the heroic retreat of Prince Constantine.” At Paris the Opera Comique has closed its door—the annual closing—with an excellent representation of ‘‘Werther,” which had at- tracted to the theater all the admirers of this very admirable score of so exquisite a color and sentiment. M. Carvalho, however, is not therefore free from the cares of his position. Every day he hears unpublished scores. First it was *‘Le Caprice de Roi,” by M. Paul Puget, which is announced for represeniation next winter; then the “Spahi,” by M. Lucien Lam- bert, which will also be on an early pro- gramme; afterward the “‘Louise” of M. Gus- tave Charpentier. M. Catvalho does not only hear scores; he also hears the artists, and among them he sometimes meets with some excellent ones, as Mlle. Suzanne Adams, who passed the opera with success, and will make ber debut at the Opera Comique next October. The French papers are congratulating Mme. Nordica on having made her peace with M. Jean de Reszke. The Menestrel adds: “This little war has just terminated by a telegram which Mme. Nordica has addressed to a large New York joarnal, confessing that she had been misinformed, and that it was not M. de Reszke who had prevented her engagement by M. Grau during the last New York season. In any case Mme. Nordica has gained for herself avery pretty littla advertisement, which, by her ordinary means, of which we have been able to judge lately in Paris, would probably not otherwise have been assured to her.” 2 Mme. Frances Saville was to have sung the part of the Forest Bird in Siegiried with the Covent Garden Opera Company, but she noti- fied the management thatshe did not consider the role suitable and that they had better have a substitute ready. When Conductor Seidl was informed of this, he refused to rehearse the piece with Madame Saville, and some one else sung the part. It appears, however, that she eventuslly took the role and greatly distin- guished herself. MM. Camille 8:int-Saens and Louis Gallet, whose collaboration has already been so fer- tile, are working on a vast lyric composition rewracing the history of the nineteenth cen- tury, and which wiil be executed on the occa- sion of the Universal Exposition in 1900. The Municipal Council of Milan has declded to give this year no subsicy to the Scala Thea- ter. Probably, as a result, the principal opera-house in Italy will remain closed. Hap- pily there remains to the Milanese the thea- ter of M. Sonzogno, the Theater Lyrigue, so brilliant, and with & repertory so varied, one similar to which it would be very desirable to see in Paris. The prize in the competition for medals,com- memorating the Donizetti centenary, has been awarded to G. Chiattone of Bergamo, His design bears on one side the impress of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, where Donizetti lies buried, and on the other side bears a feruale ngure, carrsing s palm, sym- bolical of Bergamo, the composer’s birthplace and of his glory. The estate of the famous impresario, Sir Augustus Hurris, is finally settled, and it is found that when all bills are settied the prop- erty left by the manager amounts to £100,000. Sir Augustus evidently made opera pay better than did the late Henry Abbey. An unpublished oratorio entitled “The Death of Moses,” words and music by an English rabbi, Marc Hast, was lately per- formed at Queen’s Hall, London. Many of the rabbi's congregation were present and ap. planded warmly, but the critics reviewed it less favorably. The suthor of several librettos, which the composer Smetana has put to music, Mme. Klise Pech, who writes under the psendonym of Elise Krasnolwiska, has just been decorated by the Emperor of Austria. It was Mme, Pech who furnished the libretto for Smetana’s opera “Le Baiser,” which is played so frequently in Austria and Germany. The inost ancient theatrical paper in Ger. many, the Neuer Theater-Dienst, which was published at Berlin, has ceased to exist, after a life ot fifty years, The Scandinavian musical festival which has just taken place at Stockholm had a very Breal uccess, arlisiic and material, That | | | l | cestershire, England, has been sent 1o jail for to begin October 27. MEN AND WOMEN. | A 60-year-old widow of Tidenham, in Glou- two months for milking other people’s cows on the town common. Queen Vic.oris, it is calculated, has now spent more time in Scotland than many kings and queens who ruled Scotland alone. 1In fact, her Majesty's spring and summer so journs in the Highlands since 1842 make an aggregat: of about eighteen yoars. President McKinley was honored recently by the millhands in Portsmouth, Ohio, who, when they learned that their factories were to run on full time, bought bouguets and pinned them about a picture of the President | which has been hanging in the mill. | The Rev. Edward Everett Hale ina recent address qn Boston Common spoke of his trip half way across the continent and said: *I traveled by day in order to see the country, and aiter seeing all the beauty you can’t per- suade me that the God who made this beauti- ful world doesn’t like it.” i James Lane of Chicago, who celebrated his one hundredth birthday anniversary last March, is one of the enthusiastic bicycle riders on the North Side. He asserfs he is the oldest wheelman in the world, and every pleasant afternoon, says a correspondent, he can be seen “scorcbing” along the North Side | boulevards. Rudyard Kipling persists in adhering to his opinion of Canada as “Our Lady of the Snows.” Lady Marjorie Gordon, daugbter of | Lord Aberdeen, is the editor of Wee Willle Winkle, & juvenile magazine, and has just re- celved from Mr. Kipling the following kit for her publication: “There was once & small boy of Quebec, Who was buried in snow to the neck, | When asked: ‘Are you frizl’ | | | He replied: ‘Yes, 11s, But we don’t call this cold in Quebee.’ ” A strange newspaper, which many persons will be eager to obtain, had its existence dis- | closed ior the first time at the Von Tausch libel trial in Berlin. It seems that certain aristocrats as Kaiser Wiihelm’s court tura in the gossip they hear to an editor who prints off a 1imited edition of the news thus collected from the contributors and a verv few other persons. To get at this chronique scandaleuse & member of the secret police forged, with full acquiescence from his superiors, the name of a nobleman high in court circles, Thanks to the encouragement which Em- peror Wiliiam has eccorded to the practice of dueling, itis now being adopted by the med- ical profession in Germany. A couple of phy- sicians summoned in consultation became involved at the bedside of a patient in so ve- hement a dispute with regard to the charscter of the malady and of its treatment that they | concluded to fight the matter out. The con- flict took place on the outskirts of Bonn, on | the Rhine, one of the combatants, Dr. Fischer, | receiving a bullet in the chest which killed | him instantly. THE AGE OF CONVENTIONS. Chicago Chronicle. The whist convention has been held. The old sledge convention will next transact its important business, and before frost the mum- ble-the-peg convention will do its rooting. Nothing so distinguishes ours as the greatage | ?x‘ax?:."““ as the multiplication of conven- e ——— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. You never know & man until he knows you. After a woman gets beyond a certain age her skin never fits. | lAflar a woman is 83 the hatred she h always had for deceit is give her geraniume. SN oy Kvery married man practi wasn’t joalous In & Way ther W08 8 it he Wi Wife think Te s, © "7 ‘Bet Will make his A man can always tell whether a gi been kissed much’ by watehing. o sheit os | keeps her eyes open to i they aren’t shut. #00°42 Be Totices that —_— —_——— JUST WHY HE WANTED A PASS. Chicago Times Herald, The general passenger agent of one of the ;}(hlncugo trunk lines received a letter from a ansas man the other day Tequesting a pass for himself to Chicago and return. There was nothing about the letter to indicate that the ;uw‘rdh;d any claim to the courtesy he re- uested, but the railway man though Perhapt the Kansan' had somo gogneotion with the road, iRl b‘g;u::xbly asalocal freightagent. ‘“Please state expliciily on regueu snnlponnpuun.”’ bt A Y Teturn mail came this reply: *I've got to go t Qan’t want o w‘-‘}k.",' Chieago some way, and I —_— N DEMOCRATS AGAINST BRYANISM St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The purpose of the gold Democrats to con- tinue their organization is a fact of great pol- itieal significance. It means that the breach in the Democracy is not going to be narrowed while the silyer issue remains. The only way, of course, that this element, or any other pol- itical faction or party, could maintain isels rganization is by nominating can o cerin Svery canvass in ite locality and by Supporting those candidates vigorously at the poiis. Iowa has already put up a gold Dem- ocratic ticket to be vuted for in November. Kentucky is about to take similar action, while Ohlo, it it undersiood, will move in the same direction. Reporis have been beard of asimilar purpose in other States which have elections this year. Ttis easy to grasp the fmportance of thig purpose of the Clevelands, the Carlisles and the other gold Democratic leaders to continue the fight against the CONSPITAtors who wrecked their party and who atiempted to wreck ibe conntry. The estimate that the gold Demo- crats cast 1,000,000 votes in 1896 seems req. sonable. Palmer received 133,000 of these, and the rest of them were givon to McKinley, To be sure these 1,000,000 votes represent less than a quarter of the Democratic strength of the country after deducting the Populist vot, which went to Bryan last year, but which wili not be cast again for any ticket, tilverite or other, bearing the Democratic label. The goid element’s power, however, 18 greater than its numerical strengih would indicate. It co rises the wealts, brains and character of the Democracy. So long as that element stays apart from the regular organization the Dem. ocracy will be as powerless as it was in 1869 or 1872. That this element will be hostile 1o the Bryan and Tillman branch of the party three years bence, if last vear's issuesare up again, is as certain as any event of the future uot governed by physical laws can be. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Improved Order of Red Men Preparing for the Next Great Council in August. The next session of the Great Council of ths Improved Order of Red Men is to meet on the 3d of next August in Red Men’s Hall, on Post street, In this City. The several tribes of this City have met and appointed the various committees who will look after the comfort of the representatives to the great body, and these will do a!l that can be done to entertain them when they are not engaged in business of the council. The general committee, com- posed of three members from each tribe, is officered as foilows: F. J. Fuller, president; James Hagan, vice-president; F. Roach, sec ond vice-president; Charles Westall, secretary ; ¥. D. Brandon, treasurer. This body has ap- pointea sub-committees on theafer, basil, music, badges and printing, and each has been at work on the different duties assigned. On the evening of the 3d of the month thers will be the rendition of the adoption degres by competing teams; on the evening of the 41h there will be a theater party at the Alca- zar; on the afternoon of the 5th the Great Couneil will proceed to Elmhurst to dedi the new wigwam built by Camanche tribe, and_in the evening there will be a grand ball iz Native Sons’ Hall in this City, in honor of the great chiefs and representatives. The committee on badges has been instructed to procure suitable badges for all the officials and representatives and to have prepared an appropriate souvenir badge. A Maccabee Rose Tea. To-day a rose tea will be given by the ladfes of Modin Hive No. 19 of the ladies of the Maccabee at the residence of the lady com- mander, Mrs. Da Vega, 823 O'Farrell street The tea will be from 2 to 5 o’clock in the after- noon and from 7 till 10 o’clock in the evening. The affair will be in the hands of a committes that will make it a most enjoyable one for all who will attend. Enterprise Circle, 0. 0. F. The social following the installation of the officers of Enterprise Circle. Companions of the Forest, will be given next Saturday even- ing in the'social hall of the Ancient Order of Foresters’ buiidin Artem's Circle, C, O, F. The officers of Artemis Circle, Companiony of the Forest, were installed last week by District Deputy Jennie Siewerd assisted by Mrs, Jennie Goodwin in the capacity of grand hera.d. The following named are the officers who are to serve for the ensuing term: Nellie Casey, past chief companion; Miss K. Portney, chief panion; Mr.. A. Maguire, sub-chief companion; George J. Bergea, financial secre- tary; Mrs. 1da Mecreday, recording secretary : frs. A. Durneal, treasurer; Mrs. R. Garbarino, | right guide: Miss M. A. Bowen, left guide; Mrs. M. Reed, inner guard, and Mrs. Casey, outer guard. At the close of the installation service Mrs. Leona L. Gale, the retiring past chief companion, was made the recipient of & finely engrossed pa-t chief’s companion’s cer- tificate. This event was followed by an im- prompiu entertainment and & dance. MORTON SPECIAL DELIVERY. Baggage transferred to trains, steamers, ato. Also moved in the city. Furniture moved; estimates furnished. Freight transferred and shipped. 408 Taylor street and 650 Market street. Telephone Main 46. B Mrs. Fusanfeather—I understand that Mr Tallman kissed you on the stoop last night. Miss Fusanfeather—Why, yes, mamms, he's 80 tall he had to. onkers Statesman. — TOWNSEND'S California Glace Fruits will keep all winter. Just the thing for miners and irav» elers; 50c1b. 627 Paluce Hotel building, * —————— FPFCTAL information daily to manufaeturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Burean (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, the “father of the British navy,” who has just celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday, still remains on the active list and is eighteen years older than Lord John Hay, who is next in senlority. Sir Henry Keppel has had a brilliant service career, which dates back to the war between the East India Company and the Rejuh of | Nanning, wher he acted as lieutenant of the Magicienne at the blockade of Mooran., 825 Eate to Chicago via the Great tanta Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorsrs will be open to the public as well. An oppori- Dity to Visit the Last never before enjoyed by Cal- ffornlans. Fullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholster tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from ¢ land pler to Chicago. See time-table in advertis ing column. San Francisco ticketofiice 644 Marces street, Chronicle building. ‘lelephone Muini8l Uskland, 1118 Eroadwa; ———— Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstons Park Route. Parties desiring to visit the Yellowstone Park, Or go Fast via the Northern Pacfic Railwas, should call at No. 638 Market street, San Fran- cisco, for their Railrona and Yellowstone Park tickets. We can accommodate all that wish to make the trip regardless of rumors (0 the coutrary. Stop overs given on all Christian Endeavor tick- ets. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st. - ———— Reduced Kates for All To the East via the Kio Grande Western Rallway, passing through Utah and Colorado by daylight. Through cars by all trains. Tickets, sleeping-car reservations and full information furnished at 14 Montgomery sireet. ———————— MANY influences combine to make the hair crisp, lifeless, thin and gray. The best restorativs is PARKER'S HAIR BATSAM. e e e “WoULDN'T be without It for worlds!” was the emphatic declaration of a lady in refeTence to Ayer’s Halr Vigor. e .- Nearly half the passengers upon the trans- Atlantic steamers these days carry bicycles as baggage. They land at South Kensington and there take their wheels, doing the Isle of Wight and the seaside resorts in Southern England before going to London. Oae family on boerd the City of Paris had six bicycles —_—_—m— NEW TYO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, ‘wholesome and delicious. Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.