The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1897, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler. .0.15 Dally and Sun BUSINESS OFFICE: 0 Marke: Streot, San ¥Francisco, Californfs. Telephone............. = .Maln—1868 =3 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.. ...Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE eet, coraer Clay ; open until open untl §:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets, open until 9 o'clock. £518 Mission street, open until 8 o'clock. inth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street: open until 9:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweaty-second and Kentucky strects; open ill 9 0'ciock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 34 Park Row, DAVID M. FOL' FOR ALL. ;IHE CALL SPEAKS THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon oing to the country ona vacadon? Tt +0.1t §s 1o troubie for us to forward THE CALL to vour address. Do not iet & miss you for you will miss ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt sattention. N0 EXTRA CHARGE, for summer months Fifty cenis per month The Canadian tax on the Kiondyke is l:kaly to be felt about as severely as the weather, Siberia as well as Alaska is coming to the front, and the course of empire seems to be headed west by north. With business rushing at this rate in midsummer there is hardly any doubt the fail trade will be something like a boom. *San Francisco, the summer conven- tion city of the United States.” Thatisa good phrase, and the East must be made to recognize it From the way food shipments are being rushed to Alaska there is a chance the Juneau people may have provisions to burn this winter. Alaska and British Columisa together will have to hump themselves if they expect to turn out next year half as much gold as California. Weyler would be forgotten in the rush of new things if he were not so often re- called to the public mind by announce- ments that he is to be recalled to Spain. The prairie States have more wheat this | vear than the railroads can haul, but the | farmers are no likely to los2 anything by the delay in geiting the crop to market, for the price is rising steadily. Circle City will soon be setting up as a metropolis, and the next thing we know a prospectus will be issued announcing a grand exposition there offering to all comers the best show on earth, The tinker and tailor, the soldier and the sailor, the live country editor who cannot get his pay, bank clerks and tell- ers, the women and their “fellers going to Klondyke for $100 a day. Somejof the claims for indemnity filed with the State Department by American residents in Cuba are <o large that we may yet have to take the island and hold itasa guarantee for the recovery of the camages, | The bulletin of the Weather Burean at Washington reports that climatic condi- tions on tbe Pacific Coast have been fav- orable to all crops during the past week, but elsewhere they have not been so good. We are always a litile better off than the East. The San Diegans who are reported to be arranging to make the trip to the gold fields 1n a balloon are the most logical of all the adventurers of the season. When one is seeking a castle in the air the bal- loon metnod is the only rational way of making the exploration. 1t is quite within the limits of possi- bility that in turning over the soil of Alaska to find gold the miners may de- velop resources richer than the placers and lay the foundation of a civilization there which will be an important factor in Pacific coast commerce for all time to come. The speech of Secretary Gage at Boston wal a right word spoken in season. It confirms pubiic confidence in the ability of tke adminisiration to settle toe finan- | cial question as wisely as that of the tanff, and eives assurance to business men that the era of prosperity is at hand and will be permanent. It is surprising to lsarn that some mem- bers of the California delegation to the Trans-Mississippi Cungress were opposed to making an effort to devise means for preventing the shipment of conviot- made goods from other States to Califor- nia. A movement in thatdirection would be 50 good that everybody should be will- ing to push it along. An American firm hasobtained the con- tract for furnishing the engines and dy- namos of the London Central Railway, and the Britisk manufacturers of electric plants are indignant. For an American to capture a prize like that is even more barrowing to John Bull than for an American oarsman to carry oif the dia- mond =calls at Henley. The New York Zribune recently quoted “‘the president of one of the anthracite coal companies” as saying the supply of coal on hand is now so large ‘“‘there is more to be zained by reducing stocks than by increasing the output.” Thestatement may have been made as a bluff to sca: the strikers, but it does not sound well, Things are not altogether right with a community when mine-owners can make more money by stopping work than by keeping it going. DRI The occupation of Palmyra Island by the British is probably intended to bro- vide a half-way station for a telegraph cable from British Columbia to Australia, Efforts have been made to obtain conces- sions from Hawaii for that purpose, but have failed, and Palmyra offers a substi- tute which can be made available. Itis the evident intention of the British to bind the parts of their scattered empire as closely together as possible, and a tele- graph cable across the Pacific will make a preity strong factor in the binding. | of the United States at this time. | business in ali lines of indastry. | were mtended to inspire. | with crop prospects most promising and a | mineral resources coming into view, | present population many times mul | There 18 in fact no reasou whatever for accomplished is sufficient for the needs of Commerce and manufacture have now without fear of disturbance. so long been hoped for, ard to attain THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. The speech made by Secretary Gage at the Boston banquet on Tuesday will go far to coufirm the sanguine expectations of the people in the near approach of pros- perity. It gives assurance to business men that they can enter upon their enterprises without fear of any disaster or disturbance resulting from the financial conditions of the country. It is, therefore, a speech which wiil have a strong influence for good, and may be counted among the factors now tending toward the improvement of | The only issue on which any uncertainty exists at this time is that involved in | what is known as the money question, and it was toward this feeling the Secretary rightly devoted the greater portion of his address. | even in the minds of those who have been most doubtful, for, as he said, there is on is issue no pressing need for haste, no occasion for immediate anxiety. | The words of the Secretary carry an argumeni to support the confidence they “With ample reserves,”” he said, “in the public treasury, with financiel centers in a full supply of loanable funds, with interest invitingly low, His words will go far to ullay it good market favorably assured, with new with a territorial area suflicient to carry its linhcd, with a people advancing in the elements of intelligence and character, who dare indulge in doleful forecasts?” any doubt concerning the financial outlook The party which has so promptly fulfilled its pledges in regard to the toriff can be relied upon to settle the financial issue long before any of the problems concerned in it reach a critical stage. through a period of depression, we bave removed the deficit 1ariff and replaced it with one which will yield an ample revenue for the Government, and that much ‘We have passed the day. a clear knowledge of the conditions under which the business of the future is to be conducted and can go forward with industry ‘We are within reach of the better times which have them nothing more is needed than that energy and enterprise which never fails the American people except when Democratic bungling and blundering inflict upon the country legislation pernicious to business and destructive to indnstry. BONANZA WHEAT CROP3. In this year of shortage in the foreign wheat crop, and the consequent heavy demand from abroad, with the resultant high prices, the United States is blessed with a harvest so abundant that there are not railroads enough to handle the yield. Not only do all the big States of Europe want American wheat this year, but Aus- tralia and South Africa and India are call- ing for shipments. A most important fact in tkis connec- tion is that the farmers themselves will this year aerive the benefits of the steadily climbing grain rates. During several sea- sons past scarcity of money due to uncer- tainty in affairs of trade and finance un- loaded the wheat of the country at low figures into the hands of middlemen, who reaped the profits of any advances in price. Now, however, the feeling of con- fidence is universal in America; money is lowing freely through the channels of trade, and the farmers have been fully prepared for the present strong market. They have studied the newspapersand bave héld their wheat, to the utter dis- comfiture of the middlemen, who for- merly made money on wheat where the farmer lost. The tiller of the soil knows the conditions of the crops of foreign lands, and he knows that the buyers must the rates, and that he runs no risk in holdinz until ths rates are hizh enough to suit him. America is to-day the supply-house of the world for grain. The increase in the wheat and barley prices has brougnt pros- perity to the farming industry of Caliior- nia, and now there is nothing lacking in the general conditions that make good times on every hand. In tie mid-West there is actnally a car famine. The situation i3 unparalleled. When corn took a drop a year ago the farmers held much of it over to the cur- rent season, and now this old corn crop is being shipped along with the wheat, which at many stations is piled moun- tracks. Where the California farmer received time last year, he is to-day getting $1 45. Indications are that he will get a stiil higher rate. The sun of happiness and plenty is shining gloriously down on the American farmer, whose Klondyke is found in golden grain. FUTURE OF ALASEA. Co; Commenting on the future of Alaska | and the Northwest Territory, W. H. Mills is reported as saying Lhat “the industries of a country are discovered only by in- habiting it.” iron will be found in the Yukon basin, and in that case that they will be worked more advantageously than in a warm cli- mate. Insupportof the proposition above stated siands the early history of the great West. People who had lived on the At- lantic seaboard declared the prairies little better than waste land, and thought they would never maintain a large population. To-day we are reading of wheat and bar- ley and corn crops so enormous in the prairie States that the railroads cannot furnish trains enough to transport the products. Less than fifty years ago California like- wise was represented in the Midale and New England States 10 be good for little, if anything, in an agriculiural sense. To- day the Golden State leads all her Eastern sisters in agricultural and horticultural productivity. world. tues of a land are brought to light. The plow of civilization must furrow the new soil before its possibilities of fruitfulness can be determined. It is not altogether improbable that before another fifty years have passed our Territory of Alaska will have a population that wiil entitle it to statehood; that its sol will have been found to be peculiarly adapted to many forms of vegetation as yet untested and undreamed of there; that it will have manufacturing industries running with native coal, and working native iron and copper; and that Alaska will be & most valuabie possession after its placers have been picked clean, and when capital has begun sinking shafts in quest of the quartz. Glave, the expicrer, copper in the heart of Alaska. Who knows but that bigger fortunes may yet be realized from the copper deposits of what we were wont to call “the northern fcy wastg” than from the Yukon gold diggings? CONVICT-MADE GOODS, It is passing strange that an members of the California delegation to the Trans- Mississippi Congress, which convened re- cently at Sait Lake, should have disre- garded their instructions with regard to the subject of convict-made goods. They were sent there to act in the interests of this State, and that opposition shouid have sprung up in the delegation on this proposition to protect honest home labor from the ruinous competition of the pris- ons of the East is a regrettable matter that is hard to explain. For years the Pacific Coast has been a dumping ground lor convict-made goods from Eastern States and manufactures on this slope have sufferea greatly in conse- quence. We decry slave labor and pass laws protecting our industries from the competition of countries where pauper wages prevail )nd yet we tind opposition come to him, that there can be no fall in | his grain for the present and | tains high along the sides of tke raiiroad | less than $1 percental for his wheat at this | He opines that coal ana | Thisis the garden of the | It1s only with settlement that the wvir- | asserted that there wers mountains of | among our own citizens in our effort to secure protection for Pacific Coast manu- factures from the ruinous onslaught made on our local trade by the dealers in East- ern prison-made goods. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation, through its president, had enumerated articles brought here in this | way and had given fisures to show that inearly all of the prisons and peni- tentiaries of the Eastern States are pour- ing goods in upon us at prices that make legitimate competition out of the gues- tion. Qur State deiegates to the conven- tion at Balt Lake were supplied with this information, butall to no avail, it appears. Ifit be to our common interests to see manufactures flourishing on this slope it behooves our people without exception to take a far deeper interest in the cause | of protection to home labor and home manufacture than was the case with the | derelict representatives at the lrans- Mississippi Congress. SUMMER CONVENTIONS. Association to make San Francisco the | recognized summer convention city of the | United States is one of such excellence in ! its nature and has such prospects of suc- | cess before it that it can be cordially and warmly supported by the people of every part of California. Whiie the primary object of the pro- | moters of the plan is to procure for San | Francisco some of the more important | National conventions which sre held in | this country every year, the movement does not confine itself solely to the ad- | vanc ment of this City, but aims to accompiish much for the weliare of every section of the State. The success attained in the entertain- mentof the Christian Endeavor convention renders it certain that San Francisco is capable of receiving and entertaining the largest crowds that are likely to attend any great National gatlering. On tuat point there can be no longer any dispute, | nor can it be questioned that the ad- vantages of climate render it the pleas- antest of all cities for large public assem- blies during the summer season. Thesso facts, which havoe lorg been known to us, we must make known throughout the | East, and it is for the purpose of entering | upon such a campaign of education that | the new movement Las been begun. | When large conventions assemble in | San Francisco the delegates and the vis- itors never fail to make tours more or less | extensive to other portions of California. Tiie promoters of the plan for bringing these conventions he~e will be active in encouraging visits to other parts of the State. No move will b: made which will tend to set one portion of the common- wealth against another, but every effort will be put forth to induce visitors to see Northern and Central as well as Southern California, and to visit not merely the more noted points of interest to touriss, but the various centers of industry in the interior. [t will be seen then that the objectis one of gepersl benefit and well aeserves the support of all Californians. THE LATE JUDGE DOOLITTLE. The dispatches bring news of the death, at Edgewood, R. I, at the ripe old age of 82 years, of Hon. James Rood Doolittle. He was a born orator, and before the War of the Rebeilion gave promise of becoming one of the great men of the Nation. He was conspicuons among Western leade: then, having joined the Republican party, whose birih had found him oune of the ris- ing young Democrats of Wisconsin. Politica! fortune smiled upon his path- | way. | went to the Senate of the United States | from Wisconsin and lowa, respectively, | those two States were ranged in the Demo- cratic column. When the two Dodges cast their influence and support with Douglass for the Kansas-Nebraska bill Wisconsin and Iowa broke away from the Democratic ranks and marched beneath | the newly raised banner of Republican- ism. It was the wpolitical deathknell of both Senators, and Doolittle succeeded to the toga of the elder Dodge, resigning a district judgeship to take his place in the halls of National legislation. As Senator, Doolittle's ability, forceful- ness and spiendid character were recog- nized promptly. His constituents loved | him, and the statesmen at Washington valued his counsel. The future seemed to hold great things in store for bim. Then, like many another on the thres- hold of fame, he blundered. While no one charged him with insincerity, while it was even admitted that he acted ac- cording to his own convictions of duty, nevertheless he worked his own political undoing by aligning himseif with those who favored Johnson’s plan of recon- struction. Judze Doolittle was wrong and his party was right. His error was very costly. From the days of Johnsor up to the time of his demise he had practiced law, but the rare promise of his young manhood, by reason of that serious mis- take of juagment, was not realized. NATIONAL BANKING. Editor of the Cali: Tne long felt scarcity of money among the pecple, and the unjustand oppresive bankiug with which the country is cursed, calls loudly for an increase of money and a change in our banking system. The United States Constitution confers upon Congress the right to coin money and regu- late the value thereof. For Congress to fail in the execution of tnis trust would be a derelic- tion of duty; and to confer the power on an association of individuals would certainly be very unjust, as it would creat¢ an enormous The movement begun by the Hotel | When the Dodges, father and son, | | and silver coin and furuish each State this power, as it has, to coerce and oppress the people, well as to control our elections, and dictate the financial policy of the Govern- ment as was evidenced iu the late Presiden: tiul election. “If bryan is elected, we want our money.” Isuggest the foliowing asan improvement on our national banking system: Precedent to the establishment of a national banking system should bs the tree and unlimited coin- age of silver at the present ratio of16101, and it mude a legal tender for ail purposes, both public and private. Then let the Federal Goyernment issue iegal tender notes of various denomiuations above ten dollars sufficient for the wants of the country. say, to the extent of twenty dollars Pper capita. To this add as fast as the Goveru- ment can provide it, an equal amount of gold money fora banking capital in proportion to Popuiition, as ascertained by the latest Fed- €rul C2usus, Al 2 per cent per annum, oayable the Siate to deposit with the Fed- cral Government its bonds, binding the State {0 pay into the nationai treasury the stipu- 1sted interest and to strictly comply with the laws of Congress in regard to banking, and not to loan this money or permit it to be loancd ata greater interest than four per cent per annum, The State shall by proper legislation pro- ceed 10 the establishing of brauch banks in the various counties ior the loan of this money to the people, the counties to deposit their bonds with the State Tressurer, piedg- ing the counties to the fulfillment of the con- diiions the State had assumed in 1ts bond to the F.deral Government, and to strictly com- Piy with all the laws, both State and Federal, concerniug this system of banking, and 1o pay into the Siate treasury quartezly or semi- ANNUALY one-half of the net earnings of the branch banks, Any State fuiling to comply with the re- quirements of the %ederll andstate laws shall forfeit its banking capital and the same re- vert to ihe National treasury. Any branch bank failing to obey the requirements of any Federal or State law shall forfeit its banking capital, and have its capital and assets taken from it and returned to the State treasury. Any bank under this system of banking that should refuse to réceive or yedeem & note or other issue of any otner bank at its full face value, shall for so doing forfeit its banking capital and haye the same and other assels taken away and turned over to the State treas- ury. Any State that should unfavorably legislate against any of the coins or paper carrency of this sysiem, by the passage of any special con- tract or other law, calculaied to distvrb the parity of any of the coins or paper issue of this system, shall forfeit its banking canital to the national treasury. W. P. KIRKLAND. —_— PERSONAL. Dr. Burdell of Marin is at the Lick. Judge John F. Davis of Jackson isin town. T. C. White, a fruit-grower of Fresno, is in town. E. H. Winship, a merchant of Napa, is in tow! Dr.'J. W. Thayer of Sydney is on a visit to the City. John Bent, a mining man of San Diego, is in the City. General T. B, Rickey of Carson, Nev., {s at the Palace. George A. Nourse, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. Mayor W. T. Ellis of Marysville is a recent arrival here. John F. Pryor, City Clerk of Hanford, is a re- cent arrival here. . William Niles, the politician, of Los Angeles, is on a visit here. E. T. St. George Cary of London, England, is a late arrivai here. E. E. Selph, an attorney of Tillamook, Or., is ot the Lick House. Rev. William J. McChure of New York ity arrived here yesterday. Among the arrivalsat th W. Martin of Littie Rock, At Assessor W. P. McFaul of Mendocino County isar centarrival at the Grand. " E. Reinhart, a gencral-store owner of Elko, ev., is here ou a business trip. John E. McIntyre, & mining man of Sacra- mento, is one of the arrivals here. Dr. Henrs C. Pryor of the United States navy, Nasnville, Tenn,, isin the City. Dr. A. E. Osborne of the tHome for the Feeble\ minded at Glen Ellen is at the Grand. H. M. La Rue, State Railway Commissioner, isin the City. He is at the Occidental. Captain Hansen of the steamer North Fork and Mrs. Hansen are on a visit to Eureka. D. K. Clink, secretary of the Northwest Traveling Mens’ Association, isat the Palace. A party consisting of J. Q. A. Holloway of Baltimore, Miss Holloway and E. L. Holloway, are at the Palace. Mary Clay Knapp of Chicago, a correspond- entof the New York Herald, {s among the ar- rivals at the Palace. The Viscount de Heursel of Paris, and Gaston Haranz of Caen, France, are among the ar- rivals at the Baldwin. Professor Robert Lewers, a member of the faculty of the Nevada State University, is visiting friends in this City. Ex-Sheriff D. I. Arnold of Celusa, who for some years has been engaged in the banking busivess, arrived here yesterday. Clerk Farish of the Unitea States Marshal’s Office returned yesterday from a week’s vaca- tion with a new budget of fish stories. Mrs. W. C. Bompas, a missionarv of Alaska, was one of those who left yesterday on the Ex- celstor for the Yukon. She has been on & visit East. C. P. Viceni, a prominent attorney of Sutter Creek,and V. J. Brignole, & merchant of the same place, are among the recent arrivals in the City. William Benedict, a pioneer of Milk River, Colorado, and who has for meny years been engaged in mining and cattle raising there, is in the City. D. 8. Young, right-of-way agent of the Val- ley railroad, is in the City. He Isexpected to leave in a few days for New York and wiil probably be absent for several weeks. State Senator Mahoney, who has been seri- ously i1l for some time with cancer, is reported to be considerably improved. Dr. Morse and Dr. Noble think he will not again be troubled with the cancer. Hon. Frank Dillingham, the newly appointed United States Consul to Auckland, N.Z, ar- rived in this Uity yesterday with his family, who have been in Vermont during the past year. Theyare staying at the Occidental. William Moore, superintendent of the Insane Asylum at Ukiah; Mrs. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. T. J.Weldon of the same place, where Mr. Weldon owns a general store, have re- turned from a visit to Victoria and the Sound towns. They are at the Russ. F.W. Bradley, superintendent of the Bunker | Hill and Sullivan siiver and lead mines, one of the largest in the country, is in town. He is at the Palace. Mr. Bradley has been in charge ot the mine ever since V. M. Clement resigned his place to go to South Africa to take n position as manager of one of Baruey Barnato’s great mines. The Bunker Hill and Bullivan are enor mous producers of lend. Palace is Joseph CALIFORNIANS IN NE:N YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 28.—At the St. Cloud, D. N. Rees; Grand, Dr. L. Dunbar, 8. Dunbar; Mannattan, W. B. Peck, Z. 8. Spald- ing; Gilsey, F. E. Palmer. M. Brienssel, Mr. Stewart and W. F. Sargent leit the St. Cloud sna sailed on the Paris for Southampton. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Lawyer—If you and your husband can’t agreee, why don’tyou agree to disagree? Fair Client (firmiy)—Never! 1f I'd sgree to disagree he'd think 1'd weakened.—New York Weekly, “And what did papa say?"’ “‘He referred me 10 your mamme."® “And what did mamm: i “Bhe referred me to you. dealer. Teacher—Tommy, can you more fully ex- plain the adage *“Old men for counsel and young men for war”? Tommy—It meens that the old men do the quarreiing and then let the young men do the fighting.—Indianapolis Journal. “Do you mean to tell me that you have found & large nunmer of men who are willing to put all they possess into & common stock and share atike?” ¢ “Certainly,” replied the socialist. ‘“Wny not? There isn’t one of them who has a cent to his name.”—Washington Star. “Papa, what is deduction?” «It's that form of mathemaiics; my boy, which takes nothing from nothing and ob- tains a stupendous resuli.”—Judge. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, During her visit in the East ex-Queen Liliu- okalani has been & constant attendant at con- certs and operas, so ;much so in fact thatshe has attracted tne attention of the musical papers, which are berinning to devote con- siderable space to describing ths ex-Queen's devotion to the art that soothes the savage breast. The current number of the Musieal Courier publishes an interview with Liliuoka- lani, in which it seys that without desiring to touch upon the much discussed political con- dition the Courler recognizes the fact that its readers cannot but feel an interest in the in ieresting and characteristic national musi of the Hawaiians. The ex-Queen, it seems, is not oniy a constant student of music, but isa composer of considerable ability herse.f. She has written over # hundred sketches, vocal and instrumental, some of whica she has pub- lished only for her personal circulation. In her interview with a member of the Courier’s staff she said: “Music in our country is, much as in your own, taught in all schools and col- Grand Opera last year when the great chen- | delier fell with fatal results. A certain Mile, Chaumeil brovght an action for damages :or the loss of her mother, and by a final decision | of the First Chamber of the Civil Tribunal, she | hesbeen awarded 5000 francs damages. It is not the management of the opers, however, which is condemned to pay the money and costs, but the electric company. Two years ago Paris was proud of mainiain- ing five grand orchestral concerts, those of the Conservatory. the Chatelet, the Cirque d’Hiver, the Opera, and the Concerts d’Harcourt. At resent it looks as if the number would be | reduced to those of the Conservatory and the | Chatelet. The Opera has announced its inteu- 1ion of giviug no concerts next season, and to the great regret of musical peovle, Lamoureux has paid off his musicians, and announced his intention of conducting no more for the present. Poor Mme. Rose Caron, the famous singer of - - EX-QUE & N LILIUOKALANI, VLA MR COMPOSER. leges where the higher branches, arts and sciences, are taught. In our pubiic schools also it has its place.” Speaking of the grade of music used she said: “Yes, Beethoven and Wagner have their worshipers the further you getinto the realm of culture. No more than your street urchins whistle and sing selec- tions from ‘Lohengrin’ and ‘fannhsuser’ do ours, but in a manner corresponding with other conditions of advance are they musical, popular music being of course for the masses.” Liliuokalani was the organizer of the Royal Hawaiian band, which is well known in this City. A singular Jawsuit is agitating musical cir- cles iz Germany. In consequenceof & polemic in several of the pepers two musical critics, Tappert and Lackowitz, were almost forced to commence libel suits aguinst the charges made in the polemics of having accepted bribes from artists for write-ups. Several witnesses and experts have testified, and it has been proved that Tappert, who is one of the most famous of Wagnerian writers, has received from time to time considerabie sums of mouney from musicians. Tappert has aflirmed that he received this money to cover expenses in- curred in the exercise of his profession, such as carriage hire, dinners at restaurants, when the concert ciashed with his dinuer hour at home, fees for lessons and’ advice given to artists before their concerts, ete. Several artists and other witnesses have re- fused to testify, while others have struggled to evade the questions of the presiding judge. A few witnesses have squarely declared that they strongly disapproved of Teppert's atti- tude. The case has been adjourned, but the public hss aiready judged Tsppert, who will not come out of the tria! unsmirched. As for Lackowitz, the other critic accused of black- mail, he is not of sufficient prominence to interest any one. It was Tappert who, a few years ago, opened a regular campaign to prove that Rouget de Lisle, the composer of +La Marseillaise,” stole the tune from a mass composed by a German composer of the last century named Holzbauer. Tappert mever proved his assertion, and ended by owning that he was mistaken. It is this same writer who is the author of the yolume bearing the somewhat elongated title of ““Wagnerian Lexi- con, dictionary of incivility, containing the coarse, contemptuous, vindictive and calum- nious expressions which have been employed against the master Richard Wagner, his works and his partizans by his eneinies and insult- ers, collected in hours of idleness.” The Residenz Theater of Munich has just given a moael performance of ““Cosi fan tutte” according to the original score of Mozart. The success of the enterprise was considerable, and the artists, as well as the chef d’orchestre, were recalled many times. This work of Mozart, which is in the old Italian style to which the composer inclined at one period, did not seem at all wearisome or out of date, in spite of several imperfections in the execu- tion, for *Cosi fan tutte” demands a much greater perfection of vocal virtuosity than singers to-day are capable of. The orchestra was reduced to the number of executants who took partin the original production in Vienna in 1790. The numbers which produced the greatest effect were the canon of the second finale, the quartet of “Adieu,” and the trio which follows. The Emperor of Russia has given his official approval of a reorganization of the court or- chestra, which will henceforth have an of- ficial standing. The orchestra will take part in all the jormal fnnctions of the court,and oa such occasions {ts members must wear a spe- cial uniform. All the musicians must be Rus- sian subjects, the conductor will be named by decree of the chief minister of the court, sub- ject to the approval of the Emperor. This con- ductor will choose his own musiciaus, if nis choice is approved of by the minister. After an uninterrupted service of ten years the ar- tists will be able to retire on a pension, with the right of preserving the title of court musi- cian. The pension is fixed at 1200 roubles for soloists and 750 roubles for the rank and file of the orchestra. Mme. Nordica is so much out of health that her friends in London, where she is stopping at present, feel grave disquietude on her ac- count. During the last nine months she has Had considerable wotry and vexation of spirit, for the utter failure of her campaign against the De Reszkes, hef non-success in Paris, and the indifference of Grau to secure her services have all no doubt preyed on her mina and chafed her proud spirit. Added to this, her youthful husband has proved an utter fiasco as a tenor, and Nordica forfeited her first hus- band'’s fortune o marry her Hungarian nobie- man. The French Minister of Commerce recently visited the White Fathers (Les Peres Blaucs), who have & monastery at ancient Carthage. Among other Punic antiquities which they showed him wus a remarkabie fragmont of antique sculpture, representing & man seated before » pipe organ. This curious vestige of & bygone civilization proves beyond a doubt the existence of organs at that remote period. As will be remembered it was 449 years be- fore Christ that the Romans finally devastated Carthage and reduced the city to ruins. The French courts have at last decided who ‘was responsible for the disaster at the Paris | | which she has been working for some time, the Paris Grand Opera, has been obliged to obtain an indefinite leave of absence irom her post. She is suffering cruelly from rheuma- | tism and mey never be able 10 eppear on the stage again. In some statistics published by a German | newspaper concerning the seating capacity | of Prussian theaters it appears that the big- | gest opera-house in Emperor William’s domin- | fons 13 that of Frankiort, which can seat 1900 people. Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, has completed an oratorio on The work will be executed early next year, but its title is not yet decided upon. The management of the Alhambra, London, which has reaped a golden harvest with Sir Arthur Sullivan’s jubllee ballet, “Victoria and Merrie Englana,” has ordered another ballet cf the same composer for next season. A commemorative plaque has just been | placed on No. 12 Vendome street, Paris. Itis to signify the fact that Chopin once dwelt there. YANKEE LADS AND LASSES. When foreign hos:s defiled our coasts And threatened to enslave us, Theu patriot hands gresped flushing brands Kight wiliingly to save us: When Bri ain's flag and British brag Our Na jon sought to sever, Our fath-rs broke the tyr: 's yoke And made us free forever. There was 1o cry of classes, Of clasnes or of masses But hand ia nand for native land Stood Yankee lads and lasses. When treason rose, and angry foes, Wiihin our country’s border, The unton .ife assailed with strife, With bloodshed und disorder; And when appalied, brave Lincoln called For hely, 10 save che Nation. There wa3 no c.ass, men flocked en masse To stop the devastation. There was uo cry of classes, Of classes or of ruasses: But hand in hand for this dear land Stood patriot lads and lasses. And though we hear the thoughtless sneer, And say we are divide The flag we love still floats above And cannot be derided; Should any foe o'er strike a blow. Or dara 0 come between u s He'll quickly feel that Y ankee steel Still owns its old-time keenness. There'd Le no cry of classes, O clas-es or of ma«ses: But haud n haid for (his dear land Would stand our iads and lasses. —Scranton Truth. KLONDYKE WAS ORIGINALLY “THRONDINK. Inotice in an article published recently in the Sun concerning the newly discovered gold fields in British America that the manner of spelling the neme of the new district isin some doubt, writes Haroid B. Goodrich to the New York Sun. Tne rame Klondyke is & min- | er’s corruption of the Indian “Throndink,” which means “water full of fish.” The little river bearing the name has from time imme- | morial been u favorite fishing ground for the gens des bois, who meet at its mouth and wait for the saimon to ascend every June. The oia name, Reindeer River, was given by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka in 1883, and on all the United Stales Coast Survey chagts sinee then that have appeered. Last summer a party consisting of Messrs. Spurr, Schrader and myself was sent by tue United S:ates Geological Sun‘cf 1o investigaie | the American gold fields of Alaska. We | stopped o few hours at tne lutle Indisn vil- | lage where Dawson City is uow iocated, but | | | then passed_on into American territory. This | was on the 5th of July and at thattime ull | wus quiet along the Kunondyke. however, jusias we were going oui of the country and were within 500 miles of the mouth of the Yukon, we learned from miners | who had been there that there was a great stampede to the new discoveries. Even then no hint was given of its great richness, al- though zood prospects had been found ana as high as $1 to the pan was reported. We oh- tained full particulars from those who had been there, and a good part of the information thus received we embodied in the report writlen this winier aud which is now in the hands of the editor in the United States Geo- logical Survey in Washington. The maps pub- lished with this report will show Klunxyke River spelled Clondike, and while the infor- mation coucerning Clondike wiil not be com- prehensive, that is maiuly, as I have said. be- cause at the time of our visitit had not ween developed. GENERAL SHERMAN JUST AFTER BULL RUN. Utica Observer, July 21. “Thirty-six years ago tic-day occurred the firss batte of Bull Run,a battle which, like those at Lexington and Bunker Hill, was small in itself, but tremendous in its results,” said the veteran this morning. “If the Confeder- ates had lost at Bull Run, I think, perhaps, it would nave vindicated the wisdom of Mr. Lincoln’s course in calling for only 75,000 men for three months, o crush the rebellion, Bat the Confederates didn’t lose, and it took the North four yearsinstead of three months tosuppress secession. Atthe first Bull Run a number of general officers, wao were then only colonels, were engaged. Among these General William Tecumseh Sherman eud Gen- eral Henry W. Siocum afterward became the most promiuent. After the battle one of the colonels had heard that several of them were to be promoted to brigadiers. ‘What do you thiuk of that? inquired one of them of Sher- Later on, | n. ‘Thinkl answered Tecumseh, ‘I thi 1%V ercape reduction to the ranks for con’ | structive cowardice it is all we can.ask or expoctPil oo Lk MEN AN WOWwEN. Since be entered hird year James Martineau has publicly stated that his favorite recreations are “‘rowing and waiking.” 5 Miss Helen Gladstone will undertake:the ovening ceremony in connection with.the Hotel for Women Students, whict liss ‘beeit crected at Bangor, near Belfast, Ireland.’ Dr. Johnson once sajd: *“Money atud time are the heaviest burdens of lite and’the’ in- happiest of all mortals are those Who' linve: - more of either than they kuow how Lo use: Mary Bsker, of Cass Connty, Virgini brated her ninety-seventh birthday b, into the wheat field and binding sheaves to furnish souvenirs to herre Professor Emma Maud Perkins. of ¥ e Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, higs -just given a paper belore the State 'l'euchefsf “ASSOa clation, at Toledo, on “Women in.Ouip Col- leges.” e After filling the pulpit of the First'Presbyte- rian Church at Buffalo for sixteen years.the Rev. Dr. S. 8. Mitchell has just been_instaliéd as its regular postor. The congregation ought to know by this time whetber it likes hint or not. The Rey. John Sinclair, for seversl:years past in charge of & Presbyterian churel st Redwood, Minn., has been found to be.ihe sixteenth Earl of Caithness and heir to.sn estate which yields an anpual revenue:of $80,000. Mrs. May Wright Sewall and the Attorne General of Nova Scotia had a public debate oni- woman suffrage when Mrs. Sewail was in Half- fax as a fraternal delegate to the recent an’ nual meeting of the National Woman’s Coun- cil of Canaaa. Queen Victoria during the jubilee made ari exception regarding the acceptance of gilts from private persons. Mr. Villters, the “doyen” of the House of Commons, now in his - ninety-sixth year, received permission to send a gift to her Majesty. 1t wasa beautiful para- sol. Ben Butler, in a case in the Massachusetts Supreme Court involving damages for fatal injury—Senator Hoar being on the other side— quoted Job: “All that a man hath will he give for his life.” “That,” said Mr. Hoar, ‘‘was & plea of the devil in a motion for a new tria and I don’t think the court will be more jm- pressed by it on accountot its modern indorse- ment.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE NEwW RarLroap—F. J. B, City. No time has yet been set for commencing work on the proposed railroad to San Mateo. MexicaN BuiLping—X. Y. Z., City, For in- formation in regard 1o the new Congressional building to be erected by the Government of Mexico you should either call upon or address a communication to A. K. Couey, Consul tor Mexico for this City. A PITCHER OF MILE—G. E. C, City. The roposition contained in your communication s 80 involved that it is impossibie to give an answer to it. li the proposition is correctly. stated no one could answer it without having been present at the time of the occurrence. DixoN's DEFEaTs—T. B., City. The recora of George Dixon, the pugilist, from 1886 to September 25, 1896, shows that he was de- feated June 3, 1889, by Can Parnell n & twelve-round fight in Boston and Angust 22, 1893, in a four-round gojwith Billy Plimmer of Engiand, in New York City. WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS—F. G. M., Oak- land, Cal. A very full answ.T to the require- menis for admission into the United States Military Academy at West Point appeared in | Answers to Correspondents in THE CALL of July 2, and a full answer as to the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis appeared in the same de- partment of THE LL of July 18. QUEEN VICTORIA’S NaME—S., City. Royal families drop their family name and canno: in reality bz said to bave any. Queen Victoria belongs to the Hanover family, and her name, if she can basaid to have any aside from her title, is Guelph. Princes of the royal blood are christened and married by thefr titles oaly, and their family names become. by inter- marriage extinet CALIFORNIA'S PoPuLATION—J. W. K., City. It is im possible to zive accurate figures in answer to the fotlowing question, “What is the popu- lation of Califoruia atthe present time?’ for the reason that there has not been a census. since 1890, but an estimate made by the Gov- ernorof the State by fizures obtained from school censuses is that at the beginning of the current vear the population of the Siaie was 1,500,000, TouRrIsTs—Califoraia glace fruiis, 50¢1b., in el egant fire-eiched bxs. Just what you want for Eastern friends. Townsend's, Palace Hotel Bldg - Frrerar information daily to manufacturasy, business houses and public men by tha Prasu Cupping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ST g Cogswell Polytechnieal College. 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