The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, THURSDAY. -SEPTEMBER 23, 1897 CKI‘iLS, i’mérictor. JOHN D. SPRE Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE 3 g 10 Market street, 8an Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS vevss D17 Clay street Telephone Main 1574. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by | carr in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week, By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL...... ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. 908 Broadway .Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. street, corner Clay; open until | NEW YORK OFFICE. ........ . BRANCH OFFICES—5 Montgome 9:30 o’clock. 339 Hayes sireet; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; opan until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untii o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until9 o’clock. 1 Polk street; open u and Kenty open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second | THE EXTENSION OE GOOD ROADS. UTSIDE the great issues involved in party volitics there 1s been no subject more generally discussed throughout the United States for several years past than that of good roads. There has been, ip fact, a veritable campaien of educa- tion for improved highways, and in all progressive communi- ties public sentiment is now ready to favo: any well-devised movement to that end. To the people of California the subject is one of peculiar inter- est. With the exception of a few counties the State has not ad- vanced in road work as rapidly as in other lines of improvement, Our highways, as a rule, are below the general level of our civil- ization and, in contrast with the excellence of the orchards, farms and general aspects of our rural districts, they are not in- frequently a disgrace to the communities through which they run. The State Department of Highways has done much to pro- cton of better roads, and in mary localities mote the constr the county Supervisors and the more enterprising element of the people have cordially co-operated with it. ¥ We are in a po ~ sition, therefore, to substitute work for discussion. There is needed very liitie further argumenton the general advantages of better roads, and it is time to direct attention to definite plans for making the required improvements. In this connection attention 1s called to the act of the last g the width of tires of wagons to be used ays of the State. Tune act does not zo into | y 1, 1900; but the benefits to accrue from the | oad tires required by the actare so great that it | Legislature regula on the public hichw effect until Ja: use of the b would be profitable to adopt them generally by voluntary act on tae part of the people without waiting for the law to be en- forced and its violation punishec as a m emeanor. Among the mauy propositions associated with the general subject of good roads there is none of more importance to this | section of the State than that of the suggested bounlevard from San Francisco to San Jos:. San Mateo and Santa Clara coun- ties can be counted on to do their share in this work after Francisco has opeuned a boulevard to the San Mateo line. initiative in the e San The rprise is, therefore, to be made by this | county, and the cost, in comparison to the advantages to accrue from the grand thoroughfare, will b2 so small that there should be no delay in undertaking i Califorunia is, of all lands on earth, the one most fitted to | out-of-door life. The climate entices to the open air at all sea- Whezher we walk, or bike ride, or drive good roads. as well ous | rural traflic, call for better highways than we have, ana every i movement that tends to procure them foc us is deserving of | our support. Let us counstruct the grand boulevards that have been planned for the public zood. Let us adopt the tires that will save the roadbeds from being cut up by heavy wagons. Let us make our road system equal to the restof our civilization and a matter of pride as well f convenience to our people. sons of however, year. we need Our pieasures, as Captain Jenks shows n unwarrantable tendency to appeal from any sentence the court may impose upon him for his vice of starving worthy horses. Yet any sentence less severe than one requiring him to be tethered in a barn four days with nothing to eat but raw planks will strike everybody but the captain as undaly merciful. An agent of the Southern Pacific lately remarked that an advance of nearly 300 per cent in freight rates “‘was not a matter of news.” Probably a footpad, having sandbagged and looted a belated wayfarer, would take & similar view of the operation. Yet the world does not view things from the jootpad stand- point. A PUBLIC DISAPPOINTMENT, TOR ELKINS expressed what is undoub‘edly the pre- ng opinion of the American pecple when he declared the construction given to section 22 of the Dingley tariff by Attorney-General McKenna “is a disappointment.” If the construction of the Attorney-General is right then the se€tion will afford to American transcontinental railways and to American ships none of the protection which according to Senator Elkins it was the intention of Congress to grant. The language of the section is: “That a discriminating duty of 10 per centum ad valofem in addition to the duties imposed by law shall be levied, collected and paid on all goods, wares and merchandise which shall be imported in | vessels not of the United States, or whica being the produc- tion or manufacture of any foreign country not contiguous to the United Stiates, shall come into the United States from | such contiguous country.” The discrimin:.ting duties thus imposed are made subject to the exception that the discrimination shall no: apply “to goods, wares or merchandise which shall be imported in ves- sels not of the United States, entitled at the time of such importation by treaty or convention to be entered in ihe ports of the United States on the payment of the same duties as shall then be payable on goods, wares and merchandise im- ported in vessels of the United States; nor to such foreign products or manufactures as shall be imported from such con- tiguous countries in the usual course of retail trade.” In the discussion of the subject by the press it was taken for granted that the discriminating duty .would be imposed en foreign gcods carried across the continent by the Canadian Pacific road to some point in the United States, and also upon goods cf a foreign country brought to the United States in British ships, as we have no treaty or convention with Great Britain proviaing otherwise. It was with that understanding of the section that public approval was given. It wasregarded as at least a partial ful- fillment of the pledge in the Republican platform to restore “the early American policy of diseriminating duties for the up- { of court stenographers they have appropriated $35,000. buildine of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign cerrying trade”; and being so regarded was esteemed as one of the best features of the new tariff. There can be no question that some such protection is needed by our transcontinental railways and by our ocean ship- ping. Our rzilroads, handicapped by the long and short haul clause of the interstate commerce act, are exposed to the com- petition of a heavily subsidized line through Canada, and, as a consequence, thousands of tons of freight from the Orient that would otherwise pass through San Francisco on its way East now go to Vancouver. In a similar way our merchant ma- rine has to compete with subsidized ships of foreign nations and is handicapped in the struggle for trade. It is no slight disappointment to learn that in the opinion of the Attorney-General the section does not confer protection to either ourshipping or our railway lines. The language, it seems, does not express clearly the intention of Congress in regerd to cither of these much-desired measures, That being so0 an amendment of the law should be made as soon as Con- WHO IS TO BLAME? HE more the tax levy passed on Monday by the new TBoard of Supervisors is examined and criticized, the more apparent it becomes that many serious mistakes have been made in the distribution of its favors. One of these errors is not found in the total amount which it will take from the tax- payers. The levy itself is as near the dollar limit pledge accepted by the new Supervisors upon their entry into office as practicable. That limit is exceeded by a few cents, but the excess is caused by the necessities of the city and the tax- paying classes will not quarrel over it. The mistakes to which we refer are found in the apportionment of the money among the various departments of the municipal government. From this time on the new Supervisors will probably strain every nerve to curtail expenses. Wherever they can do so they will undoubtedly lop off useless employes, endeavor to place every office upon a strictly business basis, and, so far as possible, prevr’nt the wasteful disbursement of the public money. But in all those departments in which the expenditures are fixed by law they will have no power to interfere. Take the County Clerk’s office for an instance. They have appro- priated for his deputies the sum of $85,825. The law author- izes him to expend $140,000. This will create in the County Clerk’s appropriation alone a deficit of §55,000. For the fees The law authorizes these officials to draw whatever they please. As a general thing they draw about $50,000 a year. There is here a deficit of $15,000. For printing and stationery the new board has appropriated $15,0co. This material usually costs from $25,000 to $30,000. There is here a deficit of aboug $15,000. Notwithstanding the new board will have the entire City Hall upon its hands before the expiration of its term of office, it has appropriated for lights, furniture, repairs and fuel some $20,000 less than the amount that has been heretofore deemed necessary. There is here an unknown deficit. The $100,000 cut off the park improvement fund can be saved, but how can the Assessor make the next assessment on $97,c00, when last year he expended $125,000? These are only a few of the instances in which the new board has made mistakes which is now too late to repair. It is quite evident that even with the cessation of work upon the public streets and sewers, and the postponement for one year of the improvements planned in the Fire Department, the new board will not complete the fiscal year of 1897-98 without a deficit. The levy has been made entirely in the interest of the taxpaving classes. The welfare of the great public, which has a right to demand well-paved, wel!l-lighted and well-cleaned treets, green and healthful parks, and clean, efficient sewers, has not been consulted. The parks, the schools, the public | buildings, streets, sewers and other municipal institutions in which the people are interested have been brushed aside in order that a taxation limit to which the new board was not pledged, and to which 1t had never given its adherence, might be maintained. Perhaps it is a work of supererogation at this time to dis- cuss the mistakes of the de facto tax levy. But it cannot be said to be idle to attempt to fix the responsibility for those mis- takes. The new Supzrvisors entered upon their duties in a hurry. They were called suddenly from their places of busi- ness to assume the responsibility of conducting a disordered and chaotic government. To a great extent they were com- pelled to pass such a tax levy as was laid b:fore them. They had no time to investigate or to make the inquiries necessary | to ascertain and determine the necessities of the city, or for giving them judicial consideration. They can, therefore, hardly be held responsible for the financial condition into which their levy has thrown the municipality. Mayor Phelan, however, is in no such situation. He has been in office for seven months, and is familiar with the de- mands of the government. He knows, or ought to know, that deficits are created wh:n inadequate appropriations are made for offices in which the expenditures are fixed by law. He knows that Market street needs paving, and that unless money is expended upon th: sewers the coming winter rains will de- stroy many of them. He knows, or ought to know, the neces- sities of the Fire Department, and whether or not economy can be enforced in the School Department. He is chairman of the new Board of Supervisors, and he was expected to lead it with wisdom and discretion. When the financial troubles that are now imminent begin to appear, and when, at the end of the year, a balance is struck showing that public improvement has ceased, that the Fire De- partment has stood still, and that the parks and schools have barely existed, he will be called upon to render an accounting. What, then, will be his answer to the charge that he has sacri- ficed the real interests of the city in order to further his own political ambition ? A NEW ERA AT BERKELEY. THE action of the Board of Regents of the State University n adopting a resolution vesting the executive admin- stration wholly in the president ls a reform that ought to mark the beginning of a new era ia the history of the institution. The only way to have effective work donein any kind of business is to intrust some one with the power to per- form it, and hold him responsible for the manner of its per. formanc:. Nearly all of the leading universities of the country are administered through the authority ot a president clothed with power to act. Wherever great results have been accomplished in our universities 1t will be lound that some such system of responsible and efficient government exists. Itis through the power granted them that Eliot of Harvard, Harper of Chicago, Gilman of Johns Hopking, Low of Columbia, Andrews of Brown and Jordan of Stanford have done zo much to advance the cause of higher education, to win fame for themselves and make their colleges renowned in every section of the Union. The success achieved by administration through a strong executive has been so marked in comparizon wita work done by other systems of collegiate government that several of the in- stitutions that in the past have not had a president clothed with full power are about to make a change in order to get the benefits of the approved system. The movement at Berkeley is in line with the trend of university administration through- out the Unicn, and those who favored and promoted it have reason to be sanguine of good results from the reform. It is a glorious future that awaits Berkeley. Her prospects at this time are brighter than those of any university in America. Her plans of future work have been laid on broad lines, and her energies seem equal to the task of attaining ail she aims at. Certezinly she will not lack for support from the State or its generous people. All that she needs is a strong, resourceinl president; one who is capable of rousing enthu. siasm for the cause of education, and that we may hope for, now that the regents have emancipated the otfice from its old trammels, made the man who holds it something more than a figurehead and intrusted him with the responsibility of direct- ing the destinies of the institution. The cruiser San Francisco will be likely to inspire repect from the Moors. Sheisa good ship, bearing an excellent name and some fine guns. The day when Uncle Sam’s officisl repre- sentatives have to muke their calls in 8 wooden tub are thoroughly past. Itis true and beautiful that charity covers a multitude of sins, but yellow journalism has used charity so much for this purpose that the cloak is getting frayed at the edges, rotten in spots and thin all over. Itis to be boped that Prolessor kolden is not so attached to Mount Hamilton that he will insist on taking it away with gress meets this winter. As Senator Elkins says, “The end is not yet.”” This is one of the 1ssues that will never be settled untit it is settled right. him. People are hearing so much of the Mad Muilah that they are beginning to wonder what he is mad about. PERSONAL. Dr. W. N. Sherman of Merced is at the Lick. Dz. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Grand. Lieutenant F. W. Kellogg, U. 8. N, 1s at the Palace. Harris Laning, U. 8. N,, is registered at the Palace. Dr. Fred B, Bond has returned from Lake County. i Lyman Green, a merchant of Petalums, is at the Grand. Judge E. W. Holland of Tulare is registered at the Grand. Paul Clagston, a New York broker, is a guest at the Palace. Ben M. Maddox, the Visaiia journalist, is at the California. Thomas R. Minturn of Minturn is a guest at the Occidental. F. H. Hull, a mining man of Mokelumne Hill, is at the Lick. 8. 0. Elliott of Madera is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, J. 8. Schiiler, & merchant of San Diego, is Tegistered at the Lick. Mrs. E. Atkins of Santa Cruz is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, W. C. Wright and wife of Oak Park, I, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. George O. Smitn, an orchardist and f{armer of Fruitland, is at the Grand, L. A. Spitzer of San Jose, Assessor of Sapta Clara County, is at the Grand, Laurence . Moses, a member of the United States Marine Corps, is at the Occidental, J. L. Read, editor of the Middletown Inde- pendent, is spending a few days in this cily. Dr. T. E. Taggart of Bakersticld is a guest at the Baldwin and is accompanied by his wife J. D. Morton of Sacramento is down on busi- ness, and is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. H. J. Small of Sacramento, master mechanic in the Southern Pacific’s carshops, is at the Grand. W. F. Fray, a merchant of New York, accom- panied by Miss Fray, is registered &t the Palace. Lewis T. Wright, from the English syndicate lead mines at Keswick, Shesta County, isat the Palace. John Raggio of San Andress, owner of Amador und Calaveras county stage lines, is atthe Grand. J. B. Wright of Sacramenlo, superintendent of “The Hill division” of the Southern Pacific Railway, is at the Palace. F. C. Savage of Poriland, Or., in the office there of the Chicsgo and Northwestern Rail- way, isamong the lute arrivais at the Grand. E. 8. Benson, general auditor at Portland, Or., of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, is in town, sccompunied by his wife. Dr. Fitzsimmons, U. 8 N., accompanied by Mrs. Fuzsimmons and child, arzived y day te Occidental. He came from Yoko- hama, Japan, tn the City of Peking. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani returned last night to her mpariments in the Californis, after spending a day and a half at Del Monte, ac- compaunied by her two bedy servants and General Warfleld. Dr. 8. D. Brooke of Boston, Mase,, accom- panied by Mrs. Brooke, is at the California. Mr. and Mrs. Brooke were passengers in the City of Peking just arrived from the Orient. They are on their way home. Colonel D. B. Mertin, manager of the pas- senger traflic of the Baltimore aud Ohio Rail- roac, is soon to issue monthly a free railroad advertising novelty, to bs calied “The Book of the Royal Blue,” containing names and ad- dresses of all passenger aud freight agents, A. L Anhlo of Honoluiu arrived here late Tuesaay night in the City of Peking and is at the Caitfornia. He ison his way to Uambridge University in England, where he will spend two yvears, and later will r:turn for two years' study at some American university. Hlk father is a wealthy Chinese planter on the islands: his mother is a native Hawailan. His early cducation was recefved in China. Receutly he was graduated from the ccllege iu Honoluiu, and when he left there several dnys ago the natives loaded lhim down wiih floral wreaths. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 22.—At the St Cloud, C. Hirsh; Imperial, E. Godfrey; Meiro- poie, I Rose, C. H. Zacharias; Metropolitan, M. Cleve; Astor, C. R. Eager, L. M. Farish, T. J. Gatlagaer; Holland, 0. T. Small, Mrs. J. M Ward. THE MAN wHO LAUGHS. “‘Last night.” said Mr. Booce, *I think I made a remark (o the effect that I had one of the greatest heads in the ward.” Something of the sort,” said his wife. “Weli, this morning I feel fully prepared to say tnat I was right.”’—Cincinnati Enquirer. “You are charging me most horrible price: compluined the prospective Klondiker. “Itis justthis way,” said the Seattle mer- chant. “You either strike it rich or freeze to so, either way, you won’t miss the you are leaving behind.’—Pittsburg Chronicie. “Why don’t you go to work?’ asked the housewife. “It all comes 0’ bein’ too well educated,’” re- piied Meandering Mike. A proper education does not encourage a man to despise houest toil."! 1 don't despise it. I've made up my mind dozens o' times 10 go to work. But, widout fail, jes’ ez I'a got it all settled dat I was goin’ to ask somebody fur a job in a week er two, 1'd run acrost one o’ dese articles datsaysde sun or one o’ de planets 1s goin’ to let loose an’ smash de eart’ into a bunch o’ sizzlin’ de- bris, an’ den I'd hafter jes lay down an’say, ‘Whav's de use?” "—Washington Star. Visltor—What are you crying about, my lit- tle man? Little Willfe—All my brothers hez got a holi- duy, and I hain’t got none. itor—Why, that's 100 bad! How is that? Little Willie (between sobs)—I—don’t go—to school yet.—Collier’s Weekly. “You must feel very happy in this lovely cottuge you cail your own 2" **How can I when 1 think of my family thay owned an estate 01 thousands of acres witha castle and a whole regiment of soldiers?” “Why, when did they lose it 2" “During the eleventh century.”—Brooklyn Life. “Your husband seems to be a pretty easy going sort, ¢h 7’ “Don’t you believe nothin’ of the kind. It is the hardest work in the worid to start him goin’ at alll”—Cincinnati Enquirer. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR New York Press. Noman has been properiy tempted till he falls. Every man thinks that he is all right at heart. A msn never knows & woman until he doesn’t marry her. . A man feels kind of mean and low when he introduces his wifeto a girl who once proposed to him. The averaze woman asks her husband if he loves her ia the same tone that she asks the grocer if his eggs are nice this morning. A girl's idea ot a compliment to a marrfed man ie to tell him lnurl she were & inanshe :;mw:lsne couldn’t help failing in love with s wile. E —_— THE SCHEME NOr CHIMERICAL. Oakland Tribane. Those who thought the Salvation Army colony scheme chimerical are now real:zing ihat like everything else undertaken by that organization. it 1s to be carried ouion 4 com- plete und systematic plan. The announce- ments regarding it by Commander Booth- Tucker, who has just reached the coa: that he kuows what ne is ebout, and to predict the most complete success f0r the project. 111s a laudable one in every way, for o addition to providing good homes for wor- th{' und needy famil.es, it will bring under cultivation in California a large section of what is now unprofitable land. WASTING TIME. Pittsburg Times. It is hardly recessary for eminent Republi- cans to waste time replying to Bryan when every iactory whistle in the couniry and every nere of farm land has already had a conyincing say in the matter, . | ceive §60,000 for a sojourn of eight months in | 1897 MUSIC AND Mme. Marchesi, the Delphic oracie ot most American students, is on tho eve of descena- ing from her pedestal in order to make a barrel of money. “L'Echo Musical” an- nounces that by the terms of her contract with Johnstone, her impreserio, she will re- this country. New York will be her head- quarters, but Marchest will also undertake a “tournee pedagogique” to other citles, in- cluding San Franciseo. She is to give lectures on singing, an art which she knows cannot be taught by lectures, and she also hopes to capture weaithy vocalists willing to take a “course”” of a few lessons at fancy prices. Johnstone will pay her expenses, in aadition to the $60,000 agreed upon, and will make what profit he can out of the harvest of dol- lars it is expected that the magic name of Marchesi will reap. Madame's friends still hope that her good angel will intervene at the last moment to prevent her from taking so | At prcin MUSICIANS, to the front in Souih Ameriea. An opera o his, entitled ‘‘Pampa,” has obtained a most fiattering success at Buenos Ayres. Beruttl, who is a native of the Argentine, is spoken of as a serious composer of great promise. His work was interpreted by Mme. Bonaplata-Bau, Mme. Berlendi and Mariacher, Samarco and Giulio Rossi. S 5 The Government of Venezuela has decided to grant a subsidy to a conservatory of music that several amateurs are ousy founding at Caracas, the capital. The Polish colony at New York intends to have & theater for the performance of oper- etta in Polish. Rehearsals of Massenet's new opera, “Sapho,” have commenced at the Opera Comiaue, under the personal supervision of the conductor. Richard Strauss, one of Germany’s rising composers, has resigned the post of chef d’or- MME, MARCHESI, Who Wants to Make a Barrel of Money. [From a recent photograph.] mistaken o step. At her beautiful home in | Paris, qufetly filling out a ocareer that is re- plete with houors and dignities, Mme. Mar- chesi commands respeet; but Mme. Marchesi making an exhibition of herself for the sake of filthy lucre would be & pitiful exhibition. If she comes she will be abie to proclaim her- selfthe highest-priced teacher known to his- tory, with the exception of Rossini. When the composer of “The Barber of Seville” was | in London, in 1823.24, a noble lord begged | the master to give him singing lessous. In | order to get rid of his pleadings Rossini said | he charged £100 ($500) an hour. To his | stupefaction the offsr wasat once accepted— | but astory does ot tell how many lessons bis | lordship took. | One way of achieving Burns' wish *‘To see | ourselves as others see us” {s to read the American “'news” n foreign papers and the accompanying comments. The foliowing 18 from Lo Menesirel: “However eccentric Americans are, it would uot perhaps be fair to them to accept the following piece of news without a grain of salt. The scene is a town in Pennsylvania, where, under the name of the Western Peoitentiary, exists a prison where the inmates aro ireated 1o an entirely original punishment. Esch inmate, con- demned by the rigor of justice 10 pass & more or less long term within the walls of this establisnment, Teceives on entering sume musical ins:rument, be it a trombone, a flute, a clarfonet, & violoncello, eic. The prisoners are allowed to follow tneir parsonal inclina- tions in the selection of instruments. If no special leaning is shown the newcomer is simply given s hand-organ, out of which he 1s compelled to grind at certain fixed hours of | the day & given number of selections, The | Western Penitentiary se'dom counts less than | 300 prisoners, xnd often more, and they are | all martyred at «he same nour by being com- pelied to perform upon their chosen instru- ments. One can easily imagine the results of such & coneert. It is sald that five of the guards in this original conservators have al- ready become insane and that the governor | himself is beginning to show signs of mensal | aberration.” s | i The theatrophone has become quite an insti- | tution in Paris, but it is found not togive | overmuch satisfaction to amateurs who do not kuow enough of the opera or drama to fol- low the action in their minds from only hear- , ing the music and words. It is now an- nounced that Edison has perfected an instru- ment bearing the complicated name of thé “phonecinematograph,” which combines the qualities of the phonosraph and the cinemato- graph, and which co:sequently makes 1t pos- sible to follow the action of the opera while hearing words and music. If the machine does all that is predicted for it the nextgenera- tion will be able to see and hear our artists preserved, 80 to speak, for eternity. One cannot | help wondering what will become of the un- fortunate managers of theaters. 1f people will be abie henceforth to see aud hear operatic performances without moving from their own firesides, why need they trouble themselves to 80 to the opera? A perfect avalanche of new operas threatens italy durinig the coming s.ason. The Rossini | Theater of Venice has acceptea an opera by | Smareglia, entitied “Falena”; the Feuice Theater of Trieste will viay a new work, en- titled “Dramma,” by Zernitz: C. Ferry’s | “Maledeita” is to be sung at the Politeama at | Genoa; the Social Taeater at Varese w Priamo Gallisay’s “Rosella” ; ter at Naples is to mount C “Rolando,” Luigi Sanaran’s Cantici” and Giaunetti's *Milena.” These are only a few of the many works billed for a firs production during the coming winter. It is | 1o be hoped tuat out of the multitude at least ill duplicate the success of “La Caval- or ‘1 Pagliacei.” In & church at Polmont in Scotiand a curi- ous question has been raised about the intro- ducuion of music into divine service. One of the elders of the church raised the old-fasn- ioned objections to organs in divine service being unscriptural. He said the profane Sun- | day music was responsible for ail the short- comings of the youth of the place, This ora- cle, however, was less listened to than anotber deacon, a true Scotchman, who remarked sim- ply thatan organ in the church necessitated an outlsy of money to securs an prganist, but toat there was no harm in church music if an organist could be found williag to play for nothing. This reasoninz was considered conclusive, but according to latest ad- vices a volunteer organist bad not been se- cured and the church of Polmont was without music. Henry Lehmann, proprietor of the Golden Sun Hotel at Bayreuih, has gone into bank- ruptey. L:hmann holds tne coucession for the restaurant connected with the Wagner Theater, and his failure either indicates that the pilgrimsto the famous festival have drunk | less beer than usual this year, or else that Lehmann nas been indulging in outside ex- travagance. The probability is that Richard ‘Wagner is not responsible for his ruin. News comes from Bayreuth that Emma Eames- Story has been engaged by Frau Cosima Wagner for the role of Eva in the “Meistersingers,” and Steglinda in the “Val- kyrie,” during the testivil of '99. Mme. Eames has been working industriously at Ge. man for some years, and it is said that she sings it with a total absence of accent. She has besides two years before her for study. Arturo Berutti, a new composer, has come | Proud! | Swan-like and sweet, 1 m; | daugh.er. chesire at the Munich Opera-house and has accepled a similar position at Hamburg MOTHER AND CHILD. ‘What 1s that, mother? & The Lark, my child— The morn has but just looked cut, and smiled, ‘When he starts from h's humble, grassy nest, And fx up and away with the dew on Lis breast, And a hymn in his heart, toyon pure, bright sphere, rb.e it out in his Maker's ear. er, my chiid, b# thy morn’s first lay: Tuned, like ihe lark’s, to thy Maker’s s praise. What is that. mother? The Dove. my son— And the low, sweet veice, | ke a widow's moan, 1s flowiug out from her gentl- breast, Corstant and pure by (has lonely nest, As the wave 18 pours d from some crystal urn, For the dis.ant dear one’s auick return, Cver, my son. be thou like the dove— In friendsh.p as faithful, as cons:ant in love. What is that, motner? e ugle, boy— areer:ng his course of foy, Firm i his own mountain vigor relying, Breasting the dark storm, tne rea boit defying; His wing on the wini. his eye on the sun, He swerves not a bair, but. bears onwar., right on, | Boy. may the eagie’s flignt ever Le thine, Ouward and upward, true to the lne. What Is that, mother? The Swan, my love— He is floating down from his native grove, Noloved one now. no nest ing nigh, He is floating down by himself to dle; Deaih darkens his eye, it uaplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest 800g 18 the iast he sings. Live s0, my son, that when death shull come, waft thee hom BiSHOP UONNE. PEOPLE OF NOTE. Miss Loudie Steele of Barbourville, Ky., has been appointed a member of the Kentucky tate Board of School Examiners. She is the first woman in the State to occupy sucha place. Miss Steele is only 22 years old. Tristan d’Acunha, the lonely island in the South Atlantic, will soon contain a framed portrait of Queen Victoria, sent by her to the head man, Perer Green, “in recognition of his efforts in saving life from shipwreck during the last sixty years.” Mathilde von Humboldt, the last surviving niece of Alexander von Humboldt, died a few weeks go in Rome, She was born in 1830, but lived since 1881 in Rome, where she was the soul cf the German colony. She was in comfortable circumstances and used her sur- plus wealth to help along her countrymen, es- pecially struggling artists. The Marquis of Bute, who is, next to the Duke of Norfolk, the weulthiest Romen Catho- lic in the British Islands, has jnst bought Pluscardeén Priory from the Duke of Fife. He wiil spend £100,000 in restoring the ruins, which are vety beautiful, and he is expected to re-establish a community to occupy the renovated convent. Pluscarden is six miles from Elgin, and has fine grounds. The house of Dr. Slemens, the Berlin eleetri- cian, is known throughout Germany as “the ‘Wonder of Wansee.”, It is fitted from roof to cellar with electricity. The dining-room, kitchen and wine celiar are ail counected by means of a miniature electric raliway. In order to convey things from one room to an- other thearticle required has oniy to be placed on a littie car, a bution pressed and the car is almost instantly where it ought to be, Toe Inverary (Scotland) Pipe band, the dis- tinguished combination of bLagpipes which created a sensation by promenading Gleneoe in charge of Lord Archiba!d Campbell, walked abroad in Iaverary the other day, headed by a young laay, who blew the piob mohr with all the dexterity and successof a prize bagpiper at Oban Highland games. This was Lady Els- petn Campbell, Lord srchibald’s handsome She is an expert player, and has dove a good deal to niake the dreaded instru- ment popular in fashionable circles. FIRST ADVANCE IN WAGES. Bustoa Post. A dispatch from Woonsocket, R. L, states that the employes of the worsted-miils in that city have received an advance of 7!, par cent in their wages, and that there has been a re- | turn to the scale 1 force in 1893, when the reduction was made. The increase was made without salicitation or demand on the part of the operatives, but _volnatarily by tne mfll- owners. Tais is the first authenticated in- stauce of an increase in wages under the in fluence of returning profperity, It will be most gratifying if 1t is mai..tained, for it ind}. cates that the flood of prosperity that is sweeping over the Western farms has beguu to percolate through the manulacturing in- dustries of the East and to send some small driblets into the pockets of our working peopie. THE COMPETING RAILROAD, 8aa Jose News. The bonds of the San Joaquin Valley Rail- road Company have all been taken by San Francisco capitalists. This is a most satisiac. tory aud encouraging feature of that great eq- terprise. That road is built with California capital as a business proposition by cool- headed business men, and they have so far managed it that it pays aud farnished good 3 liion-dollar Joan to get money with which 0 complete it 1o San Fran- cisco. The circumstanice tbat this undertas. ing has ben pushed ahead so rapidly daring & period of depression is a fact tuat should in- spire every Californian with enthusiasm, for 1t is a mighty factor in the development of the resources of the State. There is room through the Santa Clera Valley for & branch of (hat system, and when the proper time comes it will be built to connect with an over.and line ;:a ‘fiva all California healthy railroad com- u. ANSWERS TO COSRESPONDENTS. MousT £1. HELENA—M. Me., City. The height of Mount St. Helena, Napa County, Cal, is 4329 feet. 3 i3l A FIve-DoLLAR Prece—R. £, City. A five- dollar picce of 1836 does not command & premium., GEORGE Drxux‘—&onslant Reader, City. George Dixon, the pueilist. was born in Huli fex, l'\' 8.. July 29,);87 . His height is 5 fezt 3¢ inches. OLD SILVER Corxs—H. L. M., Oakdale, Cal, and E. A. B, City. A dollar of the United States minted in 1300 commands a preminm of from 20 to 50 cents. A quarter of 1833 doés not command a premium. GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA—A. C., City. The late P. H. Burnett. who was the first Governor of California elected under American role, elected November 13, 1849, inaugurated De- cember 20, 1849, resignea January 8.1851, end died in tau Francisco May 17, 1893, wes & Catholic. CusToM-HoUsE INsPECTORS—Subseriber, Santa Clara, Cal. When the question in relation to those who were examined for the Custom- house service last April was asked the reply was given: *‘lheapplicants must be patient. As soon as the papers are received each appli- cant will be notitied, the notice being seut to the address given at the tme of -examina- tion.”’ HOMES FOR OLD LADIES—J. §., Napa, Cal. The information desired can be obtained by writ- ing to the superintendent of each of the fol- lowing-named places, in which old ladies are received: Old Ladies’ Home at Fruitvale con- ducted by the Sisters of Mercy; the Altenheim Home tor Old People, aiso at Fruitvale, con- ducted by German association; the Crocker Old People’s Home at Pierce and Pine streets, in San Francisco; the Lick Oid Ladies’ Home on the Universily Mound Tract, San Fran- cisco; the Hebrew Home for Aved and Dis- abled Hebrews, at 507 Lombard street, San Francisco, and the Homre for Aged and Infirm Females, at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco COLD STORAGE—W . Eureka, Cal. Cold storage in general comprises the preservation of perishabie articies by means of low tem- perature and is one of the principal cases to which artificial refrigeration is applied. Cold-storage rooms and cars are built to be as perfectly insulated snd protected as possible against the egress of cold and the ingress of heat. They are kept cold by a system of pipe lines through which circulates reirigerated ammonia (direct expansion) or cooled brine (brine sysiem). Tne size of a cold-storage bouse depends on the storage requirement and it should be built as neariy square as pos- sible, be properly ventilated, uave double doors and windows and all other protection that would insure the bestinsulation possible. The 8122 of & cold-storage room varies from a small ice-box ot a few feet of capacity to that of the gigantic storehouse ot several million cubic feet of space. For further information on this subject you should read books on cold storage and refrigeration. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS—A. L. L., Soquel, Cal. The counties of Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoe, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Sierra, Mendocino, Sonoma and Marin comprise the First Congressional District. The counties of Butte, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Mono, Inyo, Alpine, Tuolumne, Maripesa, San Joa- quin and Sacramento the Second. The counties of Colusa (Glenn), Yolo, Lake, Solano, Contra. Costa and Alameda comprise the Third. A portion of San Francisco comprises the Fourth. All that portion of San Francisco not in- cluded in the Fourth District, with the Faral- ion Isiands, together with the counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara, comprise the Fiftn, The countiesof sania Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, 8anta Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles comprise the Sixth. The counties of Sianisiaus (Madera), Merced, San Benito, Fresno, Tulare (Kings), Kern, San Bernardino (Riverside), Orange and San Diego comprise the Seventh. The representatives are in numerical order. J. A. Barham, Souoma; de Vries, Stockton; 8. G. Hilborn, Oakland; J. G. Maguire, San Francisco; E. F. Loud. San Francisco; C. A. Bndrluv,. San Miguel, and G. H. Castle, Mer- ced. BIRDS THAT NEVER RETURNED, Dr. J. W, Gregory of the Natural History Museum, London, says that the non-appear- ance of Ardree’s pigeons is unnecessarily in- creasing the anxiety as to the explorer’s safety, and he refers 1olast year's experiments i1 confirmation of his statement, Herr Andreo then took seventy pigeons to Spitzbergen and released several at intervals during \he sum- mer. Being interesiea in the question, Dr. Gregory asked, bothin the northern ports of Norway and 111 Stockholm, if auy of the pigeons had been heard of. but none had then arrived. If tho pigeons could not find their way down the west coast of Spitzbergen, and_thence via Bear Island to Norway, it is hardly to be ex- pected that they could return from much farx iher north, CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's* Lo FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15c up. 33 Fourth st* —— “Isn't she a beautiful singer 2" “Yes; it's a pity she doesn’t sing beautis fully.”—Chicago Tribune. - EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, ‘business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * ————— Recently when Ada Rehan was playing in “As You Like It” at Stratford, England, Mrs. Navarro (Mary Andersom) occupied a box. Ten years ago, before she was married, Mrs. Navarro had appeared as Rosalind on the same stage. She was enthusiastic over tha performance and invited Mr. Daly and all the company to alittle informal dinner she had arranged expressly for them. Mrs. Navarro still bas her lovely rosebud complexion and looks siim and girlish: I NEW TO-DAY! MECHANICS’ FAIR PURE FOOD Demonstrator and Lectarer Com. mends Royal Baking Powder in Preference to All Others, Miss Suzy Tracy, the cooking demonstrator in the Model Kitchen at tha Mechanics' Fair, says :— T ®Inthe practice of my pro- fession as a teacher of cooke ery I have tried the different brands of baking powder, and I find that Royal Bak- ing Powder gives the best satisfaction.” I can accom- plish the best results with a smaller quantity of Royal Baking Powder than of 'any other kind, and I find i always to be perfectly unie form in its action.”