The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, CHARLES M. SHURTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. — SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .$0.15 Daily end Sunday CALL, one year, by mail ... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, &1x months, by mail. Daily and Sunday CAL), three months by mail 1.50 Daily snd unday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Eunday CALL, one year, by mail.. W ERKLY CALL, 0ne year, by matl. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Fan Francisco, Californta Telephone ... n-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Ulay Street Telephone . BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clay; open B:30 o'clock. 38 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 8:30 o'clock. 1l wntil 8 o'clock. 518 Mission street, open until § o'clock. 3 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk sireet; open untiil 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open Lill § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 snd 32, 24 Park Row. New York City PAVID M. FOL Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going 1o the country ona vacation? It 10,1t 18 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let 1t miss you for you will miss it. Crders given to the carrier or left at Bustness Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTKA CHAKGE. Fitiy cents per momih for summer months e —— Stick to Calilornia m ing. There are rich placers in the ola land | yet. Home diggings are yielding pay nug- gets. | Some things are slow without being sure, and one of them is the process of making & new charter. Dawson is getting ready to receive all the world. Even Andree is expected to arrive there before long. The economical housewife may save on yeast this year, as all breadstuffs seem to be doing their own rising. Do not let the glare of the far-off Yukon Jead you to overlook the gold strikes re- centiy made in this State. The Alaskan native cannot be referred to hereafier as Lo, the poor Indian. His | name is High, and he is getting rich, Now that the Yukon route is about | closed for the season, every man must be | a Chilcooter before he can become a Klon- diker. e i Talk about the way things ars brighten- | ing up! Say, take a glance at the colors | ot the new styles of dress the girls are | circulating. i Tre CaLn is represented on the Klon- | dike trail by reporters and not by poets or fakers. They give facts and not rhapscd- fes—news and not guff. There 1s to be a good show at the Mechanics' Iustitute this year. That much is assured. Get ready for it and let | us make it a record-breaker. | The Canadian Government would never need a Maxim gun to enforce its regula- | tions among the miners if it would stick | to (he other maxim: “Don’t be & hog.” | As the summer convention cily of | America and the outfitting point for the | Klondike, San Francisco will have a| doubla cinch on Eastern travel next year. : ve all the heip you can to the Citizens’ Colonization Committee. Let ussolve the | problem of the unemployed in this Cty | before the winter sets in and complicates it, 1t is useless in a Californian climate to warn people of the cold of the Yukon. They are so comfortable here they can- | not understand that ‘here is freezing any- where. The Government board of geographical ! nemes, having told us how to spell Klon- dike, should now inform a waiting world | whether the new subport is to be called Dyea or Ty-a. Golli, the anarchist, will receive from the Spaniards what is called a military tria', which being translated means they | will try some of their shooting irons on him at short range. The British papers declare Secretary Sherman is senile, but they admit that | his state papers are among the most vig- orous that ever stirred up diplomacy and made it get a move on. The chance of getting the Grand Army | Convention for this City next year is good | enough to be worth working for, and the | work will not be a loss even if the conven- tion should get away from us. The announcement that a plumber has | X of THz C. facstel gone into insolvency raises the suspicion | COmmends the work of Tue CALL in the tnat some creditor must have gol a gas- vipe cinch on him while he was sitting down waiting for his helper to come. It looks as if the death of Schofield would give Santa Clara another story to add to the list of its mysterions murders, and before long the county will have a bigger record of the kind than Fresno. Secretary Bliss, having come to the conclusion that those who are headed for Maln—-1874 | | | that toil from $5000 to $1C0,000. | | one claim. be relied upon to furnish. as newsgatherers, and THE CALL'S host of and Skagaway. These are the points of to te indescribable. Alaska this summer. freeze over by the miadle of August. probability of a battle for food and life in determination to go forward. *‘The general prospect, as viewed from FROM THE BORDER OF THE NEW EL DORADO. The first genuine news of the actual conditions existing in Dyea and Skagaway, and on the passes and trails leading to tbe Yukon gold field Northwest Territory began, was glven to the world yesterday through the columns of Tne Carr. In the reports of our correspondents, only the solid and substantial facts find place, ana these are what the reading public demands and what THE CALL may s, since the rush to the Our correspondents in the far north have followed out their instructions to the letter. They have not dealt in immaterial gossip, nor have they imagined that popu- lar interest is centered in themselves as indiyiduals. They understand their business readers is therefore receiving the best Alas- kan intelligence in advance of all other newspapers. To-day there is deep anxiety, despite the gilded hopes, in thousands of homes in California and elsewhere, on account of fathers, husbands, or sons who are now about to brave dancers on the long, rough, perilous journey from Dyea to Dawson. Treas- ure-seekers have sailed away from this port to Alaska laughingat the stories of deadly cold and threatened famine told by returning Klondikers, who were suspected of self- ish motives in uttering their warnings to the unheeding gold-seekers. The predictions of old Yukon miners are falling true. Tre CALL, thousands, crazed with the gold fever, now face a serious situation at Dy As related exclusively in debarkation for the mountain trails and passes, over which the Indian ana white carriers and the avaitable horses and burros are incapable of moving the vast quantities of freight which constitute the supplies of the Klondikers. This blockade is daily assuming more formidable proportions. Tons SW. corper Sixicentt aud Mission sireets, open | of provisions aad clothing are piled high on the beaches, and the confusion is declared There 1s & grim warning in these advices to all who still contemplate leaving for None but the hardiest can pack supplies over the trails, and vet Klondike-bound men, as a rule, will be forced to carry their own packs. Indians have doubled the freizht rate over Chilcoot Pass, and to meet the burden of necessary expense requires a well-lined purse to begin with. Delay is inevitable, and disaster may follow on the heels of delay, as the Yukon and Lewis rivers have been known to Experienced Yukon prospectors have turned back from Dyea to wait until spring before attempting to reach the Klondike; but the tenderfoot cannot b2 deterred from pushing on. The latter, knowing nothing of the waste of country before him, of its hardships or its dangers, and without figuring on the dread possibility and even a desert of snow and ice, is fixed in his {he border of the land 'of gold at this time,” | says our Juneau correspondent, “1s that the route to the Yukon will be strewn with human bones as well as blasted hopes.” | situation in Alaska were to be found in THE CALL alone. in fact, outstripped all rivals in ths effort to acqualnt the public with important, in- tructive and thoroughly interesting news from the southern gateway to the Yukon. Among all the newspapers of this City, yesterday the complete details of the Tue CALL expediiion has, Times innumerable has it been said that of the mineral riches of California only the outcroppings have been taken; that greater fortunes will yet be made in her gold mines than were dreamed of in | “the days of '49.” | For weeks the all-absorbing topic on the | streets, and in the hotels and at the fam- | ily t ble, has been the gold placers of the { Klondike. Men of all conditions have | gone thither in the mad race after for- tune, teking the uncertain chances of winter existence in the Arctic region and risking their lives in a journey over a wild country full of pe:ils. The many will come back with less than they went away with. Some may die of cold or fam ine. While all this is going on, here under the glorious skies of California, in the finest climate under the sun, where the fruits of the earth are abundant and all is safety and comfort—here the prospectors are discovering new placer mines as rich as the famous mines of Tuolumne, as rich as the digeings on Klondike Creek. From Trinity County comes a fale, borne out by the evidence of bagsful of shining yellow nuggets, of strikes of such | | great value and importance as to convince a cool-headed person that far better chances of overing bonanzas are enjoyed | in this State to-day than in t .e Northwest | Territory. | We have been miarveling at accounts of | men working all winter and summer and bringing from Dawson as a result of all A few days ago miners fook $42,000 out of Mor- rison Gulch, in Trinity County, and on Monday two nprospectors ditcoverea a mine on Coffee Creek from which they have taken §45,000 in gold dust and nug- gets already and have in sight at least $100,00). Many of the chunks of goid found there are worth over $1000. . From other counties besiaes Trinity comes news of glitterinz gold finds. In El Dorzdo County an eleven hundred dol- lar nugget was part of an outcropping of In Lake County some deer- hunters, traversing an unfrequented re- gion, discovered and staked out a mine of gold. The biggest kind of yields are re- | ported from the vicinity of Sonora and Jackson, while Randsburg is making a splendid showing. In Northern, Central and Southern California the story is the same. We have Klondikes at our very door and no life risks to get to them. The land of gold is here. The gold of Califor- nia is better than the gold of the Yukon; there is more of 1t and it is infinitely more easy to get. SUGGESTING A REMEDY. | The movement against the slave trade of Chinatown grows daily in strength and public interest. The daysof this accursed trafic in buman beings are evidently numbered. Thousands are affixing their signatures to the petition on the subject to ba presented to President McKinley, expect an emancipation of the hond slaves of the Orienta: quarter. | A sugeestion made by Secrstary of State | to suppress the crying evil in questicn is both timely and important. He heartily | premises, Mr. Brown believes that a | remedy would be forthcoming through a | petition to Congress asking that sll dis- reputable Chinese women found in Cali- fornia be deported to China, tl@ cost of deportation, which would be about $75,000, 10 be borne by the Federal Government. The only otheér way to stop the traflic in women is, in Mr. Brown’s opinion, for the local autnorities to close up the Chinese | aens of immorality by stringent legis!a- | tion, the Klondike this winter are not seeking the right bliss nor in the right way, has issued a word of warning to stop th rush. The reports which the special corre- spondents of THE CALL give of the situa- tion at Dyea are the most instructive yet published. They are not intended for poetry or fancy writing, but they give the news. _— Unless the Canadian officials in the Yukon are allowed a large discretion in enforcing the new mining regulations and act on it there i« likely to be trouble 1n thenew land and hot work for the mounted police. The attempt of the bears to depress the price of California products this year will haraly go further than a growl The bull movement has too much of a rush on it for the bear to try to tackle it with a squeeze. 1t will not be the fault of Secrstary Wil- son if the Department of Agriculture does not become the most active partcfthe administration, He is already talking of ablishing an agricultural experiment station in Alaska. 1f, in response to the petition now be- ing circulated, a Congressional eommit- { tee shall visit this City for the purpose of | investigating this Chinese slavery ques- ilinn, the suggestion above made wiil | { doubtless recsive due consideration. Per- haps a mode of treatment for the slave- owners, who use branding-iron and lash and knife to bring their human chattels into subjection, might be also suggested. Ii wiil be of benefit to this City and State 10 have the true condition of affairs in Chinatown officially reported to Congress, as it may result not only in aremedy be- ing applied by the Federal authorities in regard to enforced slavery under the stars and stripes, but also in an amend- ment to the Chinese exclusion act which shall leave no loophole through which Celestials can crawl into a free country, already suffering from the preséence of their kind. As if the opening of Dyea as a sub- portof entry were not enough for the Canadians, Secretary Gage has opened Skagaway also. The Secretary is of course a generous man, bat he seems to be too kind to the foreigner to be the right kind | for Americans, | CALIFORNIA'S NEW GOLD BEDS.‘ and before another year glides by we may | L. H. Brown with reference to the efforts | A FEW MILLIONS SAVED. | For several years past not a few buyers | of dried fruitand raisins have had things pretty much their own way in the mar- | kets of California. By a little trick that | they possibly learned from the wheat- | buyers they have been able to purchase | these two articles at prices which enabled | tbem to turn a pretty penny, but which | were death to the grower. During the period aliuded to it has been the custom at the very beginning of the season to fill the air in the neighborhood of the fruit-growers and the newspapers | with profuse remarks about the immense | size of tha crop and the certainty of low | prices in consequence. Incidentally very | low quotations were named and subse- | quently adhered to with a persistence | that successfully broke down all opposi- tion. In this way the buyers managed to scatter these low quotations throughout the orchard districts, and thus the grower was educated up to bedrock prices before the season opened. It is incredible that such a trick could be played on an intell- genl community, but it was. The news- papers were in some instances made un- willing parties to this business, for as the quotations apparently ruled in the market they were obliged to quote them Tue CALL bas figured out that this scheme has cost the State millions of dol- lars durine the past two or three years. | Take the item of prunes, for instance. If they are intrinsically worth 3 cents per | pound and the buyers, by the method al- luded to, can scatter a 2-cent quotation ali over the State, the loss on a crop of 60,- | 000,000 pounds 1s $600,000. And when we | consider that prunes form only one item | the veriest tyro can see ata glance the | enormous loss suffered by the State. It is | a loss that affects the City as well as the | country; it affects the value of country | real estate, and cuts the year's profits off from many a hard-working grower. Along in the early part of the present season Tue CALL came to the conclusion | that this business had gone about far | enough. 8o when the fruit ‘*spieter” | started out to piay his usnal game, THE | CaLL was on hand to block him, and it | did. It looked carefuily into the state of | the fruit crops bere 2nd in the Last, saw that there was no nced whatever for ruin- ous prices this year, and in its fruit re- ports called attention to this important | fact until the growers in all districts bad | their eyes opened. It also drew attention | to the mischief caused by theece specula- tors, so that when they went into the country with their gloomy reports they found the fruit-growers prepared for them. It was simply done. The fruit-grower is an intelligent man and easily educated. | All he wants is to be shown how the land | 1 He was duly shown, and the result is one of the finest arie.-fruit markets we have had for several years. THE CALL does not claim all the credit for this ine dried-fruit market. The ad- vance agent of prosperity had a good deal to do with it. But it does claim tne credit of having opened the eyes of the grower to his possibilities this year, and of thus | saving hlm and the rest of the State mil- | lions of dollars, And 1f similar conditions | arise next year it will do it again. Of course there was a protest. The buyer was up in arms. He was in a great | state over it. TuE CALL'S q otations were wrong. THE CaLndid not know anything aboutit. THE CALL was misinformed, and so on. But THE CALL went right along on its chosen line of duty to the great fruit- growing public, and saw that the orchard- | ist got hisdue. With the record of mil- lions of doilars saved to the frult interest it can afford to be satisfied. A OHIOAGO PROJEOT. That it is both feasible to connect Chi- cago and the great lakes with the ocesan by an immense deep-water canal and proba- ble that it will be done seems now as- sured. Congress hasappropriated $150,000 | for the survey of a route by expert en- gineers, and President McKinley is said 1o have decided on the Commissioners he was authorized by the act to select for the investigation of the best route. It is cal- culated that the cost will be $190,000,000. The resuit will be to make the West largely independent of Eastern ports. The canal, according to one proposi- tion, is to be international and, Canada bas approved this first move toward the realization of the immense project. It may be that the waterway will be via the St. Lawreuce to the ocean, and that the only part of the works wholly on American possessions will be on the circuit arovnd Niagara Falls. Another route proposed is through the Mohawk Valley and via the Hudson River. An- other, said to be favored by the State of New York, is from the lakes to the St. Lawrence River and thence by Laxke Champiain to the Hudson. In a former preliminary survey for a great waterway counecting the North- west with the ocean, made by Major T. W. Symons of the United States Corps of Engineers, he reported the best route to be by way of Niagara, Lake Ontario, the Oswego River, Oneida Lake and the Mohawk River. He estimated the cost would be $200,000,000, but decided that the same purpose conld be attained by an enlargement of the Erie canal soas to carry ocean fonnage,and that it would cost only one-fourth as much as the new canal. It is stated that the greater part of American tonnage is already floated on the great lakes. The value of the freight passing into and out of Lake Superior in one year is close to two hundred mil- lions. So it will be seen that the vast cost of the canal would be small in pro- portion to the ne:d of it. With sucha canal Chicago would have the advan- tages of an ocean port added to her al- ready wonderful commercial site, and the increase of her business would prob- ably soon make her the greatest com- mercial city of America. Canals are a prominent feature of mod- ern advancement. The digging of the Suez canal was- like changing the map of the physical globe in an important feature. This will soon be equaled by one connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic. The Russians are planning the connection of the Black Bea with the Baltic at a cost of $100,- 000,000. It is proposed to connect Pitts- burg with Lake Erie, and now it is seri- ously purposed to link Chicago with the Atlantic by a waterway for vessels of the largest tonnage. PERSONAL. Dr. C. T. Dickinson of Fresno isat the Grand. J. D. Weems of Now Mexico arrived here yes- terday. County Assessor W, B. McFaul of Ukiah is at the Grand. J. Wells Smith, the mining expert, of Colo- rado, 1s in the City. E. E. Ellenwood, a well-to-do resident of Arizona, is at the Palace. Miss Plankington of the family of the late | proprietor of the Plankington Hotel, Milwau- kee, is at the Palace. J. F. Linthicum of Red Bluff, accompanied by Mrs. Linthicum and Miss Florenee Linthi- cum, arrived here yesterday. County Recorder R. W, Stiller of Trinity, a | banker in Weaverville, 15 one of the arrivals here. Heis at the Golden West. Judge E. A. Belcher of the Superior Court has returned from his vacation and will call his law and motion calendar to-morrow. Hilmar Stephany of Berlin, who occupied an executive position at the Midwinter Fair, ar- rived here last night, He is at the Palace. Ex-Queen Lilliuokalani, who nas been in Boston and Washington for about a year past, is expected to arrive here in about a week. She will spend some time in this City and San Rafael. Mrs. 8. H. fanborn and Miss L. K. 8anborn of Galesburg, IlL, mother and sister of W. D. Sanborn, general passenger agent of the Bur- lington, are visiting him at his home, 1406 Buchanan street. The Rev. J. B. Roberts had Kim Yun Chung, Kim Shang Nu and Kin Yun Ju, three Koreans, who arrived here a day or two ago, out over the City yesterday, trying to find | some one who could interpret for him and tell him who the Koreans were. All he knew was that they had a letter to him and were going to school in Washington, D. C. They speak no English. At present they are staying at the Occidental. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 11.—At the Bt. Cloud, W. H. Peale; Grand Union, F. J. Kelly; Gilsey, F. E. Mazf, Miss E. D. Mason; Colonade, D. X. Greesbaum; California-Westminster, N. M. Moran. D. Ltvingsion and L. Michaels are here buying. NEW STATUE OF LINCOLN. This statue, the work of Signor C. Caceia, was lately exhibited in the Royal Academy, London. The Sketch is pleased 10 say of the figure: It is full of alertness and vitality, rep- resenting Abraham Lincoln under the general Caceia’s Abraham Lincoln. description, ““From the Wood to the Presidency ol U. & A’ Lincoln, & young man in sgricui- tural costume, is seated in an attitude of con- templation, his book resting on his leg and his ax against his knee. The head is finely modelea and the hands are carefully and beautifully executed. The whole suggestion of the figure is one of power and exceilent re- straint, the body seated in a loose aititude of rest, and the expression of the face is quite beautiful. THE FLATTERY OF IMITATION. Kaosas City Star. Ifitis true that imitation is the sincerest flattery the people of this country have a right to be proud. The British Admiralty the other day asked and obtained from Parlia- ment & supplsmentary naval grant for the construction of four naval vesseis which will practicaily be duplicates of the United States armored cruisers New York and Brooklyn. The Brookiyn, which participated in the s jubilee, made such an 1mpression on amen that they at once urged the building of ships on her model and, though ome critic declared she is‘full of Yankee dodges,’”” the sequel shows that they are the sort of dodges that promise good results. WHO'S GOT THE POET? Boston Herald. The New York World and the New York Journal continue to publish Joaquin Miller's special exciusive Klondike correspondence simultaneously, and newspaperdom is puzzied to know which of those rival sheets has really gm the Poet of the Sierras. There’s some funny usiness somewhere, a3 each newspaper swears that Joaquin is its own particular emissary. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “They say you can’'t arrest the flight of time.” “Certainly not.” “Well, this morning when I was coming downtown 1 stopped a minute.”—Ohio Btate Journal. “It seems to be a case of genuine attach- ment,” said the young woman. ‘“‘She hasn’t jilted him yet.” “No,” replied Miss Cayenne. “‘She heartily dislikes the girl he is going to give the en- gagement ring to next.”’—Washington St Of all sad words of tongue Or pen, The saddest are, “It might have been.” But none can cause one 8o much woe As these short words, *I told you so.’" Detroit Free Press. Professor in class ot English literature— ‘What is the meaning of the Shakespearean phrase, “Go t0” ? Bright Boston girl—Ob, that is only the six- teenth century’s expression of the modern “Come off.”—Chautauqua Assembly Herald. “He gives twice that gives quickly,” urged the collector, earnestly. “True,” responded Snagge, calmly, ‘‘but I've often noticed that he that gives slowly very frequently doesn’t have to give at all”’— Harper's Bazar, 1897. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS Augusta Cottlow, who appeared here as a child pianist about four vears ago, now seems to be ackuowledged in Europe as the most re- markable pianoforte player that the United States has yet produced. Although not yet out of her studies she has managed to amaze and delight many of the leaaing musicians of Europe by her superb playing, and the Em- peror of Germany, before whom she gave 8 performance “by imperial request,” is her warm admirer. For the last two years she hes been studying with Herr Tappert and Pro- fessor Busoni. Thelatter, when asked by Miss Cottlow for the amount of his charges, re- plied: “Gussie, there can be no talk of bu; ness between artists. You are an artist. Your music delights me. If I can be of any help to you in your career 1shall doall in my power for you. You may take my aid asa courtesy from an older artist to & younger one.”” Miss Cottlow began her musical studiesat 3 years of age. At 5she made her debut in public, reeds, holding out her arms laden with | flowers. The design for Bizet's monument has not yet been made public. The following is the programme which will be performed to-mOTTOW evening at the Asso- ciation Auditorium by Carlyle Yetersilea, the Boston musician, composer, teacher and author: Grand Sonata, Op. 100 (Beethoven); (a) hunting song, without words, (b) prelude and fugue, Op. 35, (¢) spinning song, without words (Mendelssohn); (a) etude, Op. 25, A\:o. % () grand polonaise, Op. 53, (¢) Nocturne, No. 5, | (d) ballade, Op. 47 (Chopin); (a) Schubert’s ugrl King,” (b) etude, “Forest Murmurs,'” (c) *'Faust Waltz" (Listz, The tenor, Van Dyck, has been the chief favorite among the singers at the Bayreuth | Festival this year. In the “Rheingold,’” con- ducted by Hans Richter, he made a veritable triumph. The machinists achieved wonders of stagecraft in this opera, and for the first = 7 AUGUSTA COTTLOW, THE AMERICAN PIANIST. [From a recen! photograph.] and from that time she was in demand. Lately she has turned her aftention to compo- sition. Her first piece, a *‘Romance,” for vio- lin and piano, has been bought and publishea in Germeny. Itisexpected thatshe will soon return from Europe to her home in Selbyville, 111, but no professional engagements have been announced for her. A book has just been published in Venice which would probably be read with deep in- terest by Americans if translated. It is by Taddeo Wiel, former curator of the musical de- partment of the Library of St. Marc at Venice, and is entitled *'I Teatri Musicall Veneziani del Settocento” (Venetian Musical Theaters | of the Eighteenth Century). The work reads like an Italian romance by Balzac or Georges Sand, but its truth is above suspicion, for it is all founded on documents to b2 found in the archives. The operatic life of Venice during the most brilliant period of its existence s all retraced. One seces, turn by turn, the four- teen opera-houses, all founded by patrician families, most of which bore the names of saints—the Theater San Salvatore, for in- stance (to-day renamed the Goldoni), which was founded by the Vendramins, and the San Giovanni (to-aay the Malibran). In these the- aters, badly lighted by smoky lamps, the author shows us all the high society of Venice—Princes, diplomats, grand masked ladies, gondoliers, abbes, actors, dancers and, above all, the terrible Council of Ten and tne state inquisitors, who did not think it be- neath their dignity to take a personal interest in the smallest detail of the management of the theaters on whose &tages the most bril- Jiant virtuosi flourished. The book is one of the most interesting contributions that has ever been made to the literature of opera. At Clichy-la-Garenne, near Paris, an insti- tution has been opened known as the ‘*Asile Leo Deltbes.” Its objects are best set forth in part of a speech made at the opening by Paul Strauss, president of the Public Charity Com- mission: “Among the suffering poor, always to be found in big cities, there are some who have recourse to suicide rather than see their children suffer the pangs of hunger aud cold. It is true they might desert them, but how many mothers can bring themselves to an sbandonment which they look upon aslittle better than murder? For a ‘long time this commission has dreamed of a refuge where any family, temporarily suffering from sick- ness or want of work, could place its children for three months. In three months a good workman’s circumstances often change en- tirely. We were unable to open such an insti- tution outof the public funds, when the widow of the eminent composer Leo Delibes came to us, offering us her house and her gardens if we would open the refuge. On thatsccount we have given the institution that we inaugurate to-aay the twice glorious name of Leo Delibes.” History records a number of instances of prima donnes and actresses who have taken the veil and retired from the scenes of their triumphs into the seclusion of convents, but itis rare to find a tenor bidding fareweil to the pomps and vanities of this wicked world and forever renouncing the doublet and hose of Romeo, Raoul, etc., for the priest’s frock or the monk’s gown. In a recent issue of the Gazette of Bergamo, Italy, however, one resd: “The celebrated tenor, Gambarelli, intends to devote his life henceforth to the chureh, for which in his early years be was educated. He is the possessor of a fortune, amassed by & brilhant theatrical career in Italy and other countries. His interrupted studies have been med with ardor, and as soon as he is or- dained priest he means to consecrate his life to pastoral work in this, his native city, where, as every one knows, he possesses perb ville, situated on & Ml overlooking the town. At present the ex-tenor is officiating as aeacon at the church of Almenno San Bar- tolomeo.”” The musical festival in connection with the Stockholm exposition has furnished a proof of the remarkable development of music in Scandinavia and Denmark. The three coun- triesfurnished an orchestra of 130 artists and a chorus ef 655 voices, chosen irom the best choral societies in the land. Among the singers there were 456 Swedes, 101 Danes and 98 Norwegians, but this was no doubt largely due to the greater proximity of the Swedish singers. Several of the composers con- ducted in person and the chamoper music of all three countries was found to be the best. In this latter branch the Danes were repre- sented by Carl Nielson and Gade, the Norwe- gians by Sinding, Alnaes, Grieg and Svendsen and the Swedes by Berwald and Louis Nor- man. Several of these composers are aimost unknown out of Scandinavia and their work showea that Grieg is not the only Scandina- vian composer of striking and original merit. A nook of the Parc Mcncean, Paris, will soon be known as Musicians’ Corner, for a magnifi- cent monument to the memory of Charles Gounod is about to be arected there, and Bizet and Ambroise Thomas are 10 have monumen within a stone’s throw of the same spot. The Gounod- design is by the sculptor, Antonin Mercie, and is supposed to represent both the master's sacred and his profane music. Mar- guerite, Juliet and Mirella, Gounod’s chief operatic heroines, stand with arms entwined by & column, surmounted by a bust of the composer, Who appears o listen to taeir song, while an angel accompanies them on a harpsi- chord. The Ambroise Thomas design shows the composer seated on a high rock, while Ophelis, at its base, sings to him from the time in the hisioryof the work acomplete | stage success was made of the bridge formed | by a rainbow, across which the gods enter | Walhalla. More Americans than members of any other nationality were presentat the fes- tival. Meyerbeer is coming into fashion again in | Paris. The other day at the Grand Operaa performance of the “Huguenots” broughtin 22,000 francs, which was considered phenom- enal for the dead season, when no artists of any remarkable popularity were singing. Tenors capable of supporting the Meyerbeer strain on the lungs are scarce, and the opera management is looking out eagerly for good Raouls and Vasco da Gamas. Sir Arthur Sullivan has undertaken to set to music the *‘Recessional,” by Rudyard Kipling, published 1n the London Times the other day. The fine lines of these verses have & music of their own. “Lol All our pomp of yesterday is one with Nineveh and Tyre” and “All valiant dust that builds on dust,” for instance. The Meyerbeer scholarship, open to young German composers who have not passed their twenty-eighth year, has been given to Bernard Koehler, a pupil of the Cologne Coussrvatory. The prize consists of 5000 marks. The Austrian composer, Antonio Smareglt has just completed & new opera entitled * lena,” which is soon to be given in Vienna. I WAS DREAMING OF MAN, I was dreaming of man and his mission His emergence from shad w, bis toil Of bis love and the meaning behind it— The aivinely directed renewing Of the diggers and reapers of earth. 1 observed him, tnrough chi'dhood and youth, Takliog note of his splendid unsolding In the period of woolng and mating. ‘Throogh the years of his prime and decadence He and I were as intimate brothers. Standing holding bis hand on his deathbed, When his lips that were specchiess moved dumbly, And his eyes sought the eyes of his idols With & me-sage of agouized yearning, Back of tears that would come was the question! But 1 prayed to the God of my boyhood— The appre le, lovable Father— For the peace of the soul of the dying. Ia the charcel I paus.d, looking long On the ciay 0 composed and fair-seeming; And ) studied the words of.the preacher, Lest the key be unconsciously spoken. It is true of the word that is spoken That It carries 10 each who may hear it A suggestion unknown to the speaker. But the preacher, despite of his wrestling In the closet with powers supernal, Made 1t p'ain through his eloquent phrases He was walking blind-eyed in the darkness. 1 was close to the grave when the sexton, Unobserving the sobs of the OF the heart-broken cry of the mother, With his spade threw the dirt on the coffin. Long T mused in the evening at home Onm the spiris that was and that vanished. FRANK PUTNAM in Chicago Times-Herald. THE KLONDIKE'S SEAMY SIDE. Go to Alaska, young man. Even if you find no gold you may find out what the Bering Sea dispute is about and thus become Immortal.— Chicago News. If the list of miners to the Klondike gold- flelds who did not make astrike were pub- lished the newspapers would resemble a city directory.—Chicago Journal, Those who have friends going to Klondike may beinterested in knowing that there is ica | enough up there to preserve lifeless bodles & long time.—~Kansas City Journal. There being only forty-two graves at Forty- mile it i3 not unreasonable (o suppose that the other 1958 decedents were not accorded the honor of & Christian burlal.—Detroit Jour- nal. Before sending any troops to Alas| United States should ryeflecl Phlk it is no‘c‘n:};’- try for fuli-dress balls, and that it will require constant effort to keep the post ecanteen thawed out.—Detroit Free Press. Humane people can get ready for “‘an An- | lief expedition” and for half a dozen 0 relieve the starving and freezing mi l:‘hAlul;” along apout Christmas. ere nee« ¢ No hurry about it now.— Inter Ocean, SN An American on the Klondike writes home: “There Is no language strong enough to d scribe the fierceness of the mosquitoes. They ‘would soon kill a person if gloves and veiling were not constantly worn.”” Alaskans will 19;]!:!&1;‘;7‘11011 ::ey hear that the New Jer- sey mosquitoes this year are jus; ous.—St. Louis Giobe- mocnl.’ fattew But as the summer brings warmth - light to Alaska it also bl‘ln:fl \'l'msqllllt‘ble‘:‘.i dA:I'd such mosquitoes! Creatures that buzz and bite in such a way as to make the dresded Jersey variety seem by comparison like the very, angelic, sweetly humming fancies of a peace- ful dream. The travelers who return from the Yukon region tell stories of how bra strong men, courageous enough to \mdort‘l‘;‘: the perils & journey to that country involves, actually break down and sob in utter despera- tion and despair under the torments of these terrible pests.—Chicago Times-Herald, S — RUS:IA AND ENGLAND. The Paris Soleil prints an Intervi tween its St. Petersburg non‘el‘pflndan::n:: prominent Russian statesman which may be interesting just now. Among other things the Czar’s man sai “We not the enemies of England. Wi willingly recognize the grest mf that -h: plays in the world. We sincerely wish her success in her projects of Anglo-Saxon ana colonial federation. But we are suspected of cherishin, desire to conquer Hindoo What nongsen el What absurdity! Eugiand, {riendshi however, refuses our offers of p. Everywhere we find her in the front ranks o our ememies. She will compel us at last to luke sides against her. And for all that she ought to understand that her danger does no: come from our side. Some day she Will bit. terly regret the Franco-Russian alliance, but tnen it will be too late."” 4 2 Speaking of the Eastern question this diplo- mat made the following bo'd statement: +Turkey will yield every point beyond a doubt, Thessaly wiil be completely evacu- ated. The rectification of the frontier will not give Turkey more than a single verst. No town in Thessaly will be given over to the Sultan. As to the internal reforms, rest as- sured that we shall insist that they must be complete and final The correspondent expressed some doupt in regard to the docile resignation of (he Porte, and asked for some further explanations. ‘We not now as we were at the immedi- ate close of the Crimean war,'” said the Rus- sian siatesman. “To-day we are stzong,and the Russian Government can speak like a master. Moreover we are 1n full accord with the ideas of Austria. The resistance of Turkes would bring about a military intervention in which we would play the first part. Turkey does not want to commit suicide. She knows that her life and death are in our hands.” “But,” said the correspondent, “Turkey will not last forever, and & time must come when the Ottoman empire, poorly sustained by Eu- rope, will crumble to dust under its own weight.'” “Agreed,” said the statesman, ‘‘but when thatday (omes we will be in a position to defy all our enemies united. We will take Constantinople snd Gallipolis, and we wiil fight to the last soldier and to the last rub'e to keecp them. The question will be: Con- stantinople for the Suitan or for the Czar? “Mhat will pe the dilemma. Itwill be for Eu- Tope to make the choice.” MEN AND WOMEN. Horace L. Chapman, the Democratic nom- inee for Governor of Ohio, studied law when he wasa young man, but ho has beea so busy making money ever since that he has never practiced. Booker T. Washington, the most eminent man of the colored race, has had much trou- ble in gaining the confidencs and good will of his own people, but it slowly r.sing in favor among them, as they see what great good he 18 doing. Advanced domestic servants who read Car- lyle, Ruskin, Darwin, Huxley sna Herbert Spencer have been discovered by the Daily Telegraph in London. It has also found a ook Who took & prize at the Polytechuic, and a housemaid who passed & university ex- tension geometry examination. Cases against George Washington appear bere and there in the civil docket recently un- earthed in the courthouse at Greensburg, Pa. No less than three claims were entered against him during the year 1787 to compel him to pay taxes. The bumorous clerk, commenting on these actions, remarked: ‘‘George Wash- ington Esq. appeareth not to like taxes.” The new Duchess of Marlborough has e greac fondness for pets. At Blenheim she has setup a menacerie, containing two ostriches, several eagles and vultures and an ibis. But the strangest of the young bride's pets is a garter-snake, which she purchased on the banks of the Nile while on her honeymoon. It i8 80 tame that wher she approaches it crawls toward her. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. THE JEANNE1TE—R. C., City. The Jeannette, which carried G. W.de Long, the Arctic ex- plorer, {0 the north, left San Francisco July 8, 1879. WINE IN A RESTAURANT—J. R. D., Valiejo, Cal. An individual who keeps a restaurant and furnishes wine or beer only to those who take meals is required to take out & revenus license. CusToM-HOUSE—W. L., City. Forinformation about appointments in the Custom-Louse ap- | ply_to the secretary of the Civil Service Di- vision in tuat department. He will give the date of the next examination. KNEIPP'S TREATMENT—P. C., Oskland, Cal This department has not the space to devote to glving ‘‘the tull course of t:eatment of the Father Kneipp treatment.” His book may be hed in the popular and the large edition, the former at a cost of 75 cents and the latter at & cost of F1 50, both exclusive of postage. To THE ASYLUM—S. E, City, A person living in the viciniiy of the entrance to Golden Gate Park, wishing to take the most convententliue of cars to reach Mount St. Joseph Asylum on Silver avenue, South San Fraucisco. should take the cars of the Ellis-street line, ride to Third and Townsend, take a transfer to the Kentucky-street line andiride to Fifteenth ave- nue, and from there walk several blocks west to the asylum. WATER AND ELECTRICITY—P. C., Osakland, Cal. Tne question “Will an electric current kill all germs or living things in water?"’ is too broad to admit of a specific answer, as much wouid depend upon the size of the body of water and the character of the current. The same answer applies to the other question about a live wire falling into a lake or river, Water that “has been shocked by an electric current” is not deleterious. An electric bath is said to be more efficacious than & battery as aremedial agent. RECEPTIONS—A Friend of THE CaLL, City. The matter of the decoration of the picture of one’s self with flowers and ribbons, either at & home or church reception, is a matter of taste. If there are other pictures in the place, and all are not decorated, ounly one being em- bellished with ornsamentations such as named, it would look like unpardonable vanity on the part of the individual so decorating his or her own picture. Asarule pictures should not be adorned except in toe cuse or some prominent irdividual when an event takes place in honor o1 such, as for instance a cele~ bration of the auniversary of the birth of some one connected with the home or with the church in which the event is given. = BTRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b., in elegant fire-ete boxes. Palace Hotel buhumg;‘fl:? Market E‘!.(z e . sncm.hm(ormmun daily to manufacturers, usiness houses and publ Clipping Bureau (ALlen's), 510 Montgemery s —_———— It is announced that Mrs. Ormison Chant has smoked a cigarette. She did so when de- tained within the Turkish lines, to see if it would allay the pangs of hunger; and though she says that she i8 now better able to under- stand the charms of tobacco, she still disap. proves of its use by women. Get Your Tickets to the Klondyke. The Northern Pacific Steamship Company has put the mugnificen: steamer Cliy of Seactle into service tetwe n Tacoma, Seaitle, Juneau and Dyen. Steamer leaves Tacoma and eattle Au- gust 15 and 26, For tickets and information call at the Northern Pacific Ralway Office, 368 Mar- ket streer, 8. F. T. K. Stateler, General Agent. —————— SENSIBLE.—An old sea-captain writes to J, C, Ayer & Co. that he never goes to sea without & supply of Ayer's Pi ls. Richard Sparks of Boston has a “Iour-clasp” medal for service in the Crimean war. This not only certifies that he landed with the first expedition in 1854, and that he fought at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, but that Neisone of the few survivors of the winter of 1854-55. ——————————————————— KEW TO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious, ROYAL BARING Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAXING POWDER €O., NEW YORK.