The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1897, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, THUR Y, SEPTEMBER 30 1897 @all f SEPTEMBER 30, THURSDAY : JOHN D. SPRE Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, CKELS, Proprictor. e Manager. n Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE 710 Market street, Be EDITORIAL ROOMS... 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this ci towns for 16 cents a week. By wmall $6 p THE WEI .One year, by mall, $1.50 LY CALL.... OAKLAND OFFICE...... .908 Broadwey NEW YORK OFFICE. Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 27 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 615 | BRANCH OFFICES. $:30 o'clock. Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. i Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untii 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open | 19 o’clock. 1243 Misston street; open untii 9 o’cloc 1505 ock. NW. corner Twenty-second | clock. | © 19 k stree! Kentvek open uniti 9 sireets; ope CARLISLE ON ERYANISM. 1 at of office, but he is not out of pol- party leadership, but he has lost force and vigor. His review of the! tion, published in THE CaLL on Sunday, was in both words | and tone the utterance of a fighter. He showed no toleration of Bryanism ana offered no terms of compromise to the Bryan- ites. From beginning to end it was to the upholders of the Chicago platform a declaration of war to the knifeand the kui OHN G. CARLISLE is ¢ s. He has lost none of his person to the hilt. {r. Cariisle dismisses the free-silver issue as a minor matter the contest. *“While the adoption of such a policv,”” he says, “would have destroyed at once more than half the exchange- ble value of our carrency, it was by no means the oniy objec- tionabie feature of the new declaration of principles.” He then £oes on to point out that the whole tone of the platform and of the oratory that supported it were revolutionary in their ten- dencies and dangerous to the peace and good order of s)ciety. The indictment drawn against the leaders of the Bryauite movement by the conservative leader is that of “‘hostility to the ordinary exercise of public authority, disregard for the vested hts of property, a deliberate purpose to excite the animosi- | ties of one class of our fe!low-citizens against another, and a | determination to make a general and indiscriminate assault npon every institution of government or society that was sap- | posed to stand in the way of their success.” This indictment is strong, but it exageerates nothing. The Bryanite movement was the most revolutionary and dangerous in our history since that of the Southern slaveholders, which ended in secession and war. Taking advantage of the distress of the people, caused by the hard times brought on by Demo- cratic free trade, the unscrupulous men who captured the con- vention at Chicago endeavored to make thatdistress a means of arousing among the people oi this country those class an- tagonisms which 1nvariably lead to civil disturbances, and not infrequently to disastrou: Between the Bryanites and the Democrats of the school of Mr. Carlisie there can be no probable basis of agreement. Even if the silver issue is removed from politics the two factions will be as far from each other as before. Law-abiding men cannot h the Altgelds and others who dominated the Chicago | convention and dictated both its platform aad its nominees. | As Carlisle puts it: *No Democrat who acknowledges the re- | sponsibility of American ci ship can ever give his counte- nance or support to a movement which so plainly threatens of the law and the honest accumulations of | wars. sct w the supremacy labor.” 1 surprising that a man who can see so clearly the evils of Bryanism should be able to persuade himself thatsucha | dangerous movement can be effectually combated by tue dis- credited fragment of a party which is known ss the Gold De- mocracy. The plain people, as Mr. Lincoln called them, see the issue much better than the great Kentucky statesman. | They showed that on election day when they turned away from | the con-ervative Democratic ticket to vote for McKiniey. There | are but two great parties in this country, and one of them must win. Itiseither Bryanism and anarchy or Republicanism and | vrosperily maintained by law. Mexican authorities show a wiliingness to ship to this coun- try & cerigin anarchist whose coat tail usually bulges with bombs, ane whose mouth when in action emits fire and swora, g0 tospeak. This is not the best way of disposing of him. The peonle of the United States don’t want him. The police ought 1o handle .he fellow =0 roughly as ;to make him explode. Such a course would ba effective, and would eliminate the chance of international complications. Later accounts of the episode in which the Kaiser received & black eye do no throw much credit upon the war-lord. From ail the light that bas been received it would appear that the young gestleman who peinted the royal optic was ju-tifiable in everything he did except the attack of remorse which led to su cide. However, 1f this was due to his having let the other eye escape, no sreat blame will attach to bis memory. Fears that so much gold wiil be found in Alaska as to im- per:l the monetary standard are not yet widespread, Indeed, the fear that somebody el-e wili find the gold is the chiei one disturbing the breast of the Klondiker, even the fear of freezing or starvation being comparatively mild. People who are returning from Skaguay penniless and dis- couraged are not so badly off as they might be. Let them thank their lucky stars they are not among the number who .are penniless and can’t get back. One remarkable feature in connection with the return of a Police Commissioner from Europe is that very few have taken the trouble to remark, “Mose Gunst has came.” Peary is the one Arctic explorer who makes the other fellow feel the need of relief. THE SWITZERIAND OF THE SEAS. SENSATIONAL cry rises and runs that Japan is about {0 seize Hawaii, or that Germany has designs that way, or that England hasa pocket for the islands. Suppose any of these were true, what would be the duty of the United States? There is an example in classic history. The little Piatan republic, a neighbor of Greece, was beset and taken by the Persians, Greece delivered her and immediately decreed and gnaranteed her independenc>, That was a vort of Monroe doc- trine long before Macedonia and Alexander. Hawaii is in the Monroe hemisphere. Let us imitate that act of the Greek commonwealth, which furnishes one of the highest inspirations in history, and refusing to bully the weak because we are big, or to rob the lowly becanse we are greedy, say to the worla, *‘Little nations have the same right to live as big ones, and Hawaii shall remain independent and neutral- ized—the Switzerland of the seas.” The denial that Rockefelier has gained control of all the woodpulp paper-mills for the sake of being in a position to dic- tate to the journals of tte land is not necessary. Even had he gained the control in question it would not have been for a pur- pose so unhely. Mr. Rockefeller is known asa good man. He debbles in business only as a concession to his conscience, and that other men of less lofty principle may be crowded out and their methods discouraged. Not mueh fault will be found with the foreign coal-miners of Pennsylvania for fighting among themselves. There is such a manifest tendency for them to fight somebody that matters are much simplified when they furnish material for both sides of the affair, ple One reason that plots against the Czar are seldom dangerous is that most of them get their explosive guality from favorite tipple of a correspondent. l | schoolhouses in which to educate the children and a sewer sys- | discredit it, kept the pledges and created a deficit of about half | dollar limit was ruining the city, and yet, without making the DOLLAR-LIMIT “ECONOMY.” HISTORY of what is known in San Francisco as the A dollar limit on taxation, were one to be written, would show that such a limit never was and n2ver can be a ra- tional device for promoting what we call *‘ good government.” If the phrase *“ good government” means anything it means that the city shall have clean, well-paved, well-lighted streets, adequate fire and police protection. improved parks, enough tenr sufficient for present and prospective sanitary needs. The dollar limit has never promoted that kind of government in this city. On the contrary, it bas always distinctly discour- aged it. Political pledgss in a general way were originated during the days of the People’s party, which ruled San Francisco con- tinuously from 1856 to 18¢6. They began to be applied to tax- ation about 1878. The first two Boards of Supervisors pledged to the dollar limit, finding that they cculd not observe it and conduct the government decently, violated it and retired to private life. One board along in the early ’80’s, in order to a million doliars. It was not until 1883, however, that the idea began to be seriously censidered. In that year a Board of Supervisors took office which earnestly entered upon the work of demonstrating that a limit on taxation, adopted by a politi- cal convention a year before the necessities of the city could be known or understood, might be successfully enforced. This board found the city in very good condition. It looked over the field and discovered that public property could generally be neglec for a year without much permanent| damage, and it decided to neglect it. It enforced ‘‘ecenomy” everywhere, and at the end of its first fiscal year exhibited a | balance sheet, which showed that a dollar tax on the entire assessment roll had yielded a surplus of atout $70,000. This whs ali the silurians wanted. The surplus was a physical demonstration of their contention that to establish the dollar | limit on taxation as a psrmanent feature of the government it was onlv necessary to shut down on the tax-eaters and make them live on the money such a limit would produce. Out of the financial confusion incident to enforcing a pledge which calls for “economy’” without reference to the public needs there have emerged the decisions of the Supreme Court holding that the funds of one year cannot be expended paying the demands of another, and establishing the doctrine that where an expenditure is fixed by an act of the Legislature, as in the case of salaries and certain other regular municipal charges, the Supervisors must make provision for it. These decisions have thrown the burden of dollar-limit “‘economy” upon the streets, sewers, schools and parks. The money to be ed from year to year upon In other expended upon them is approp! the theory that their wants will be provided for. words, their demands are not fixed by law. Years ago the silurians must have perceived that the slightest effort to change the system by placing the power to | regulate all expenditures in the Board of Supervisors, they have continued to how! about doliar limits and *“economy ” at th= City Hall. The demagogues have seized the slogan as a | me2ans of getting the offi-es, and so the thoughtless people | have year after year been inducsd to vote for dilnpidnted% streets, foul-smelling sewers, a silurian and cheap School | Department and inadequate fire ani poli-e protection, under | e mistaken notion that they we: me'hing. | As a matter of fact the policy has cost them millions of | dollars. Ten years of adequate appropriations will not suffice to repair the damage that has been inflicted upon San Fran- cisco by letting its public w: fall into decay. If it be true that cities exist for the health and comfort of their inhab- itants, and that every dollar honestly expended upon them by the taxpayers is money invested in paying enterprise, nothing that can be accomplishel hereafter in the way of public improvements will make amends for the record of the past fifteen years. Money cannot purchase depart:d health | and comfort. For the rest there is but one philosophic reflac- | tion to be made, now that a year of dollar-limit *‘economy” isi before us, and that is this: Many of the people who have lived under the silurians are dead. If we should change our policy next year. they can never experience the dzlights of a modarn | and progressive government. To that extent silurianism will never te able to repair the damage i has done. saving s In an evening pape:’s account of a Supreme Court pre- ceeding remark is mede that one of the Justices took a chew of fine cut. Such details add much to the picturesaueness ol a narration. Perhaps to take a chew of fine cut is not the most dignified of acts, but still how much better than had the jurist pulled out a plug of tecbacco and hacked off a corner thereof with his knife. No widespread sorrow will be felt because the Turkish Min- ister has leit the country in a huff. His little huff won’t hurt anybody but himself. Its worst effect will b» upon his own a seeting frame of mind that’s his affair. Meanwhile, de- spite his absence the United States will remain on the map. A MIRROR OF CRIME. HE Fresno Erpositor says of last Sunday’s Ezaminer that its contents catered to the low and immoral, and that taken all in all it was scarcely a journal to be admitted the streets of Fresno, and the criticism was well morited.” Itisa criticism which applies to every issue of that yellow journal. The only difference between the weekday and Sun- illustrate the nasty text. The libelous attacks on citizens, to the damage of the 1in- terest and wage paying industries they promote and represent, things vicious in themselves, but after all they are quite harm- less when compared with the damage done by the daily pres- ence of the Ezaminer in homes and among the young. It does in the school of the thief, the guide of the murderer, the in- spiration of the ravisher. There is no social offense that it does not promote; no crime that it does not suggest. it is a becomes an interesting study as an abnormal man, a recidivist who forever repeats the offenses against decency which have caused the expulsion of his paper from libraries, clubs and digestion, and if ne chooses to risk dyspepsia by indulging in into any decent home. Such was the universal expression on | day 1ssues seems to be that on Sunday colored filthy pictures made at the instigation of the chronic absentee, Hearst, are efficient!y the work of the cully and procuress. Itis a textbook reflection of the tastes, morals and ideas of its owner, and he reading-rooms all over the countr: Another man has been detected in theact of starvinga horse to aeath. This makes three recent instances of a pecu- liarly unattractive crime, and nobody in jail yet. There seems to be a Society for thie Prevention of Cruelty to People Guilty of Cruelty to Animals. This is s long title, but evidently the organization is a strong one and deserves a sounding name. —_— Southern Calijornia is struggling nobly after the higher education, but in a recent class rush there only one broken nose was recorded ; not a single jawbdone, not a tooth kicked out nor abroken leg. It must be admitted that minor institutions have not yet struck the real university gait. Months ago announcement was made that Kansas was to have a great carnival, with Mrs. Lease the queen of it. Now the carnival ison, and some woman who never made a political speech is wearing the crown. Siates are just as ungrateful as republics. The man sent from Coiusa for forty years for having at- tempted the murder of a little girl owes to soctety to serve the entire time. For him to die before expiration of the term would be unjust and inconsiderate, Spanish stocks are said to bave taken a drop, and some of the Spanish statesmen talk very like they had taken the same thing, PERSONAL. Dr. J. L Steven of Petaluma is at the Lick. W. H. McKenzie, a Fresno banker, is at the Li H. M. Dombaugh, U. S. N., is at tne Occi- dental, Henry Fuhrman, a capitalist of Seattle, s at the Lick. W. R. Crothers, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. Frank Bartiett, a surveyor of Livermore, is &t the Grand. J. H. Tibbits, a mining man of Redding, is at the Grand. John M. Mitchell, a farmer of Salinas Valley, !is at the Russ. Henry Wolff, a New York merchant, s at the California. Lieutenant Robert Abernesthy, U. 8. A, is at the California. Lieutenant C. A. Sarratt, U.S. A, 18 & guest at the California. C. H. Reed, a merchant of San Luis Obispo, is visiting at the Lick. W. B. Tebbetts, & mining man of Denver, is registered at the Palace. C. A. Matthews of New York is stayiig at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. C. C. Hansen Jr. of Kedire, Java, is & late arrival at the Occidental, . B. Treadwell, a mining man of Amador s at the Occidental. Ex-Judge R. B. Saffold is in town from Trubody. Heis at the Lick. Brad Barnar, a London mining man, re- turned yesterdsy to the Grand. 2. Davis and family of New Orleans, La., are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Staff Surgeon 8. Keays, British navy, arrived here yesterday from the Orient. George C. Goodman Jr., a banker of Napa, 1s at the Palsce with Mrs. Goodman. T. W. Gorden, County Clerk at Seattle, Wash., is rezisterea at the Baldwin. Wiiliam Marshall of Washington, D. C., is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. end Mrs, Eugene Goodwin of Washing- ton, D. C., are guests at the California. John W. Howell, adjuster at Merced of the Gerwan Bank, is registered at the Lick. B. Willis of the Sacramento Record-Union is at the Russ, accompanizd by his wife. Dr. George M. Robinson of Los Angeles is among the late arrivais at the California. G. C. B. Rica of San Miguel arrived at the Grand yesterday, accompanied by his bride. Sir Theodore Fry ot Engiand has returned td the Palace after spendiug a jew days at Del Monte. C. Cronin, U. §. N., Mare Island Nevy-yard, isat the Baldwin in company with his wife and son. J. 0. Ayers, U.S. N, was a passenger here yesterdey in the Doric. He has apartments at the Palnce, A.B. Smith, manager at Fresno for Wellman, Peck & Co., wholesale grocers, is a 1ate arrival at the Grand. S Grable and wife and George Grable and wife of Ilwaco, Wash., are among the arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Mrs. L. L. Reamy, wite of Commander Reamy, arrived here yesterday in the Doric. She isatthe Palnce. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hopkins came up from their Menlo Park residence last night and took rooms at the Palace. Professor Oliver Peebles Jenkins, head of | the depertment of physiology in Stanford, is | making a short stay at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Wold, father and mother of the first white child born in the Klondike country, leit last evening for Norwsa Commander Richardson Clover, U. Wasatngton, D. C., arr.ved here evening, accompanied by Mrs. Clo: family. They have rooms at the Palace. sh tourist just from Occidental, aceompanied by daughter. Mr. and Miss Kay were pas- seugerson the Australia, which arrived here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Low of Yokohama are at | the Occidental. They arrived here in the Doric yesterdny. Mr. Low is the head of the tea exporting firm of C. P. Low & Co. and has come Liere on business. C. H. Blake, who has been at Singapore dur- ing the last four years as the Standard Oil Company’s agent, arrived here yesterday in the Doric, accompanied by Mrs. Blake and iild. The Blakes are staying at the Occi- dental J. C. Siegfreid of the tea-imporiing ard gen- eral co n firm of J. C. Siegireid & Co New York and Chicago, arrived yestercay from Japan, where his company has agencies in Kobs and Yokohama. Mr. Siegireid is the Pelace. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Currier of Boston, who pass:d through here several months ago on the way to Hawaii, returned yesterday in the Australia from Honolulu, end will shortly re- sume their homeward journey. They are guests at the Grand Lieutenant Papa-Fedoroff of his Imperial Russian Majesty's nayy came hero yesterday in the Doric from the Orient. He is accompa- nied by Arthur Wilm of St. Petersburg ana Walter Davidson of Siberin. The licutenant is | on his way home to St. Petersburg. The party is staying at the Palace. George H. Heafford, general passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaul:eo and St. Pau_ Rail- way, has just issucd and sent from the Eastan artistically arranged greeting toall the offi- ctals and agents under his control. The souve- nir marks the completion by Mr. Heafford o: thirty-two years of railway service, and con- tains photograyure pictures of all the compa- ny’s passenger agents, whom he affectionately styles “my people.”” Among the passengers that arrived here yes terdny in the Australia from Honolulu were: Congressman A.S. Berry and Miss Berry of Newport, Ky.; Congressman and Mrs. H. C. Loudenslager of New Jersey, Congressman J. . Cannon of Tlinois snd Mrs. B. B. Dovener of Wheeling, W. Va., wife of Congressmau Doy- cner, who was at the head of tae Wheeling gunboat party that came here several months ago and practically disbanded after the cere- mony of presenting the Wheeling with a table service. Congressman Berry and ail those that accompanied him to Hawail return charmed with the natural beauty, productive ness and ciimate of the islands and are con- verted to annexation. Yesterday afternoon tbe three Congressmen went down to Salinas as the guests of Claus Spreckeis. Friday even- ing (h= party, now at the Oce denial, will de- part for the East by way of the Canadian Pa- cific. Cengressman and Miss Berry will stop over for a few days at Portiand CALIFORNLasS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 29.—At the Plaza— T. Davies; Cadillac—L. H. Bonestell; Hol- land—F. M. Marshall, Miss A. Murohy, Miss Frier, €. Hotbrook, O. M. Holbrook, Miss Hop- kins; Marlborough —S. S. Scheuer; Park- avenue —T. E. Hunter; Bartholdi, W. Leahy; Grand Union — C. Payne, W Scott; Grand—E. K. Stoke: erett—Kg, D'Oyle; Broadway Centra.—T. H. O'Brien. L. | H. Omaha World-Herald. Once upon a time sickness came to the fam- ily of & poorly paid pastor of & country church. It wes winter and the pastor was in financial straits. A number of his flock decided to meet at nis house and offor prayers for the speedy recovery of tue sick ones and for materia blessings upon the pastor's fam:ly. While one of the deacons was offering a fervent prayer for blessings upon the pasior's household there was a loud knock at the door. When the door was opened & stout farmer boy was secen, wra Red up comtonnbl{b “Whatdo you want, boy?” asked one of the elders?” “I've brought pa’s prayers,” replied the boy. Br:’mgm pa’s prayers? What do you mean?”’ “Yep, brought his pravers, an’ they're out in the wagon. Just help me an’ we'll get ’em in.” Investigation disclosed the fect that “pa’s pr_yers” consisted of potatoes, flour, bacon, cornmenl, turnips, apples, warm c.othing and a lot of jel ies for the sick ones. The prayer- meeting adjourned in short orde NO NOOSE. Mil waukee Sentinel. An anti-lynching convention will certainly be a novelty. Hitherto all conventions dea- nng“.wim this subject have omitted the word an MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. One of the most celebrated artists announced } | for an American tour during the coming sea- son is Racul Pugno, a French pianist, who has no flowing mane nor freuky mAUners 1o attract public ettention. He is a grave learded man who sits calmly at his instru- ment and leaves the music to teil its own tale. He made his debut as a solo pianist at the age ot G, and while siill in his teens was a profes- sorat the Paris Conservatory. Pugno isex- tremely strong in chu:mber music, of:en play- ing with Ysaye and other celcbrated artists. As a s0lo pianist he is the greatest in France and one of the greatest in Europe. To the of herself at so much y which is beginning to gainst artists who to make an exhibition an hour. The hostility be manifested in the Easte 1 double ana treble their nriv{cs é" ):\amhe‘l;l:;. | w made Mme. Marchesi’s pat | would have sis p | anything but pleasant if she had | News comes from ckau, Sf‘_l\ummlr;‘s natal town, that the sams collected up 10 (: | present to erect & monument o his compose i of “Paradise and the Peri” and ] uc‘ L:‘!.l ’(:(x’ n Rose"” reach the sum of 32,000 marks (¥8000)- he Parisian “Werther.” Mlle. Wyns has quite changed t [ optnion of Charlotte in Masscuet's RAOUL PUGNO, THE UNAS! SUMING FRENCH PIANIST. | ish of the Parisian school he | extreme fir unites a breadth and passion rare in Gallic pianists. He piays all the modern repertors, | and his performavce of the Grieg conc won from tne composer the statement an ideal rendering.” ! ot i val of the comedy “La Vte | the Theatre Francais, a gentle estra chairs was remar paving great atteution (0 the costum:s of the actors and actresses. He took voluminous | notes, and supplemented them by sketches. It was soon spread throughous the theater that | he was a great Viennese dressmaker, come to | get the fashions of “La Vie Boheme ' | period, with a view to starting a dress revival | in the high life of Vienna Le Figaro an-| nounced this news the nextgday, and gay On the recent rev de Boheme' at man in the or: de Parisicnnes paused to see whal would come of | it before getting their winter toileites. The | bubble was pricked vy Le Menesirel, one of | whose contributors happened to know the | mysterious gentieman. He was simply the | costumer of the Imperial Opera-hous: of Vi- enna, who had gone to Paris v the | Comedie se’s dressing of “La Vie de | Boheme,” in order to mount Leoucavallo’s | opers, “La Boheme,” correctiy. There is not | the least danger that the fashicnable ladiea | i Vienna will be seen this winter arrayed a Ia | 1 Pinson, nor that the men of the Aus- | trian 400 wil' wear the accouterments of Schaunard. Puccini’s “La Foheme” will be seen in November at the California Theater, and if the work is costumed correctly San Francisco will see how much cause for thank- fulness there Is that *La Boheme” costumes are not to become the fashion. A wily Berlin impre-ario has made & new departure in the shape of mock musicians. Ladies’ orchestras are very popuiar in Ger- mauy, especially in Berlin, and the im- presario, finding it difficult to find skilled women orchestral players, was seized with the luminous idea of engaging half a dozen beautiful young girls, to whom he geve violins with strings so prepared that they gave out no sound. These ided performers were in- structed to play with great apparent passion, and to turn the leaves of their scores when they saw the veriable musicians doing the same. The good public. suspecting no \ntk-‘ ery, was delighted to see 50 many young and | veautiful women who weregood enough musi- | cians to form partof a reaily fine orchestra. It is almost needless to say that the im- presario’s ruse was soon found out, and now he has to compete with other impresarios who have borrowed his idea. Sn | Monsienr Charley, the impresario who gave | French opera at the California Theater last | spring and failed to send any remittances for authors’ and composers’ rights to his native | 1and, has just been made muanager of the | Grand Theater at Marseilles, so that America | will not know him this season. This is the | send-off that the wily Monsier Charley re- | ceives from L» Menestrel : “He is an impresario who has promenaded his talents in America | for many yeurs, carrying with him the works | of our leading French composers. This would | give no cause for complaint if he had looked | outa little for the composers’ interests or the | interests of their heirs; but Monsieur Charley | hasalways had the iden that composers | and libreitists can live on air and| thet there was no need to worry about their rights. We shall sce now what the Soclety of | Authors has to say to him.” The horn player, Henri Sievers, who died recently at Cincinnati, during & tour of the United States, was quite’ a nistorical person- | age. He was a trumpeter in the German army, and on one occasion, when he was in the cui- rassiers, under Bedow’s command, he con- tinued tosound the charge when the Fr had practically routed his troop at M. Tour. Although seriously wounded, he clung to his horse, was saved from the melce and, | a'most by n miracle, efterward recovered. The poet Freiligratn hes celebrated his glory in verses which are much recited in Germany. Agrand gala periormance was announced | atthe Paris Grand Opera in honor of the K ng | of Siam’s visit. At ihe last moment the bill was changed and a very ordinary performance | was given. Explanations are given by a Paris newspaper iu the following words: “An ordi- nary performance was quite good enough ior | an exoiic monarch who has not always been very tender toward France. If extra violins have to be played fn his honor it would be more according to the eternal fitness of taings hat our neighbors the English should pay for them.” C. C. Corrl, the musical director of the Win- ter Gardens, Blackpool, a popular English watering-pluce, rejuices in the Christian name of Clarence Collingwood. fers from insomnia, takes camel exercise on the sands every morning. This fact is so well known that it has given rise to a local catch. Directly you arrive in Blackpool you are re- quesied to say six times quickly: “If Clarence Collingwood Corri cxntered on a camel, where is the camel on which Clarence Collingwood Corri cantered?” The councils of Mme. Marchesi’s friends have prevailed, and the celebrated singing- teacher now snnounces that she will not come 10 America, but will go on quietly teaching at her home in Paris. There is great rejoicing | ing is. 1 { tion of her share in Coutt's banking-house. | the Towe S ldiers’ | drawing $75 per month for his services, Mr. Corri, who suf- ) Hitherto the part has been played as thatof a coarse, ponderous woman. Miss V/yns has made Charlotte & charming girl, full of emo- tion, united to simplicity. Her intelligent interpretation has quite charmed Paris. Three women want to join the Musical Union, says tne New York Evening Sun, but that organization will neither aliow them to o so nor, on the other hand, allow them to earn & living otherwise. Talk about trusts! this isn't a case of full-grown octopus noth- David Henderson, manager of “Aladdin,” “Sinbad,” etc,, has engaged a New Yorker, Sylvester Krouse, as conductor for the coming | seasou. Krouse has began rehearsal with an | orchestra of thirty-five and is composing a new score for “The Crystal Siipper. The well-known composer, Henri Zoellner, has written a new opers, “The Wooden Sword,” which will soon be produced at the Royal Opera of Berlin. The Niclsen-Nentwig divorce is to come up next month in Kansas City. Deila Fox denies the rumor that she goes with De Wolf Hopper. THE BEAUTIFUL. Beautiful faces are those tha: wear— It mateers little if dark or fair— Whoie-souled honesty printed thers, Beautiful eves are those that show Like crvstal panes, where heartfires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful l1ps are those whose words Leap from the heart like yongs of birds, Yet w.ose utterance piudence girds. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is earnest ani brave and trne Moment by moment the long day through. Beautitul shoulders are those that bear Censeless burdens of homely care With patieat grace and daily prayer. Beauiiful lives are those that bless, Eilent rivers of happiness. Wnose hidden fountuios but few may guess. Beautiful twilight at set of sun, Besotiful goal with race we.l run, Beautiful rest with work well done. Beautiful grave where grasies creep, Whera br wn leaves fali. where dritis lie deep. Over worn-out hauds—O beautiful sicep! FEOPLE OF NOTE. George Moredith has written a long poem on the French Revolution, which wiil probably be publisned very s00n in & volume by itself. The Baroness Bourdeit-Coutts has the abso- lute disposal of her property, with the excep- This large slice of her fortune will ultimately pass to her nephew, Mr. Money. Leon Gautier, professor of palcography at the Paris Ecole des Charics, is dead at the age of 65 years. His edilion of the “Chanson de Roland” was adopied by the French scnools and served to popularize the study of old French literature in France. Mrs. Lucia O. Cnse of the Topeka bar, the only Kansas woman in the active practice of law, has announced her candidacy for Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court on the Democratic-Populist ticket. Chief Justice Dos- ter is said to be friendly to her candidacy. A number of Russian Iady admirersof Dr. Nansen are, it is said, preparing for the Arctic explorer a somewhat unique git, consisting of a carpet with a map of the north pole regions embroidered in silks. The piaces visited by him in his famous voyage will be worked in silver and gold thread, D. N. Richardson of Davenport has made a handsome present to the State of Iowa. For fifty-seven months he has been secretary of Monument Association, Mr. Richardson has given the total amount, 275, as his contribution to the monument fund. Wiiliam Turner, the champion chicken- picker of the world, lives in the village of Lyn- brook, L. L, aud s a test of his skill plucked | the featbers from s large hen in eleven and wo-fifth seconds. A challenge will be issuea by his admiring friends tor & match for $1000, and anybody who ean pick chickens is in- vited to meet the champion. In 1844 the remains of Daniel Boone were removed from Missouri, where he diea, to the State cemeiery at Frankfort, Ky. Now a State I’ flicer of Missouri who has visited the grave at Frankfort reports that it is shamefully neg- | lected, the monument chipped away by relic | hunters, ete.. and Missourians are talking about demanding that the remains be re- turned to their State. Ernest Hargrove, the English barrister who came over to this country a yesr and a half ago to take the presidency of the Theosophical Soclety after the desth of Willinm @ Judge, is golug back 10 Evgland in consequence of the an English Squire, but will devote himsolf to the iurtherance of theosophical principles, | and the failing health of his fatber, and will become [ His suce ssor will be August Nereheimer, the among Ler followers that she has decided not vice-president. THE LARGEST AND SMALLEgy NEWSPA FERS. There is an opinion so zeneral ns to 1 almost universal that the inerease in the sig of a mewspaper or, more properly, in wumber of pages of a newspaper is due p marily to the cheapening oi the paper which ynpers are printed, but the § the maiter, according to the New I (Conn.) der, is that a potent ageney in reduction in th e of pa crease in number is not the cost of the pa provement in printing m ¢ er necessary Lo i primitive nethod of printing & newsp Originally newspavers regularly publisie appeared in the form of small sheets, s what on the stvle of popular songs, & ally, f the printing mschixe eTe came into vogue 1 blanket she which i be printed, one side comix the press Lefore the other was put The cost of uewsSparer paper has decres in y-five years fron 8 than cents & pou ut great as Seuctic een 1t1S proportionately much loss | mportn: than the advance which hons been made in re- spect to pri foldin now as ea! b a pipe pages as & few years ago it was 1oy of four pages. Incident to these changes the papers has, in the United States a pretty generally equalized, thoug ut-tanding “blanket sheets hioned afternoon and trade 2t he lar; 2WSPADET ever i Iliustrated Quadruple Constella the size of a pilliard table. The this journal w 4x6 feet, and have been & fact and sccepted as s demand for the continuous apy journal was not so great as (0 req manent publication. The smailest newspaper 1n th El Telegramo, bearing the motto, b e Froth,” and pubtished at Guu Mexico. It is Bx234 incaes. This ) journa. has not adopted, put 1t n wdont, as its motto “Multum in Parv It is said that the highest priced ne in the world is the Mashonaiand Hera is published at Fort Salisbury, M. and the price 1s 1 shilling—25 cent:—a In France, for some reason, the f journal seems, to a considerable exte: based on its smaliness in size, und a i Paris paper of 20x21 inches sells reac 3 cents, while a smaller paper sells for 4 At Prince Albert, u remote village in tk Canadian Northwest, 8 unique weekly pay is published in the handwriting of i prietor, who acts as_editor, Teporter, ady ing agent and printer. This paper appears in purple ink from a gelatine copying process. in England, espe- c:ally in the provincial aistricts, papers ars larger and cost less thau is the rule in Fra English papers, 100, are printed on_heavi peper, and with what ought to be, if it is cheaper ink. ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS, e of tnig 118 per L CARL ScHURZ~—A. D. G., Soldiers’ Home, Cal A letter addressed to Carl Schurs, New York City, N. Y., will reach him. THE PENSION OFFICE—L. B. The pension office in San Francisco is located at the north- west corner of Bush and Sansome streets, kvice—L A. H, La formation about the reve- dress a communication to San Francisco. In the State of Wisconsin o party desiring to bring an action for divorce must have been a resi- dent of the Sta‘e one year before commencing the action. INGROWING N. J. B, City. A news- paper canuot advise an individuel as to what ought to be done in the case of an ingrowing nail, except to advise the parly to consult a competent chiropodist. FITZSIMMONS-CHOYNSKI—A. C. 8, Oakland Cal. On the 17th of June, 1894, Bob Fitzsim- mons and Jos Choynski met in Boston, and after five rounds the police interfered and the fight was deciared a draw EARTHQUAKES—J. H. S. ocks of earthquake i , City. ‘1he heaviest San Francisco since California béc a State were tne ones of October 8, 1865, which d ten seconds, of October 21, 1868, wuich lasted forty-two seconds. BOOKKEEP ity. There is no means of ascertaining what percentage of pupils who graduate from the schools of this are better fitted for bookkeepers or sten- ographers than the graduates of the Comme:- eiul digh Sehool There are no stalistics as (o the other questions asked A SEQUENCE—Subscriber, City. In the game of cribbage the cards do net have to follow in numerical order to claim a run. If in a game the cards came out in the following order: 4,9,2,1,5, 3,4, the player who played the last4 could ciaim a run of 5, as there isa sequence of 5 after the play of 9. FERRY STEAN , City. The steamers that ply between this city and Oakland sre the Oakland, Piedmont and Encinal on the broad- gauge line; the Garden City. El Capitan and Emma by the creek route; the Bay City and the Newark belween this city and Alameda mole, narrow gauge; the Hope between this city and Berkeley. ihe Trausitand the Thor- oughiare carry freight between this city and Oakland mole. CuLrure—C. H. L., City. The use of the word culture in connection with the soil is perfectly proper. The first definition of the word is: “The act of tilling and preparing the enrth for crops; tillage, cultivation.” Bacon a Sylvarum says: *So that these three were slower than the ordinary wheat of itself, and this culture did ratherretara their ad- yance.” Pove in his “Essay on Man” say “In vain our toil. we ought to blame the cul- ture noi the soil.” AT SEA—G. A., City. This depart- ment has on several occasions stated thatno ° one has yet been able to discover any law that authorized the master of a vessel to solemnize marriage at sea. It 1S very probable thata court, upon & presentation uf thé facts, would declare a so-ca led marriage null and void. 1f & party is divorced in California neither party can marry again in the State until after the expiration of une year. If a divorcee should, within a year after the divorce, go out to sea and be murried, there is no doubt vhat such a marriage would be declared illegal. LICENSE—An Old Reader, Grass Valley, Cal The law regulating municipal licenses in San Francisco says: *It shall be unlawiul for any PeTson to engage in or carry on any busines trade, profession or calling for the transa tion oi which a license is required, with- out first taking out or procuring the license required for such business, trade, profession cr calling.” The law further says that “Every person who, at a fixed place of vusiness, sells any goods. ware or merchar dise, on commission Or otherwise, except agri- cultural or visicultural productions, of auy stuck,dairy or poultry farm of the State, when s0ld by the producer thereof,and except such aa are soid by the auctioneers at public sale under license), shall pay a license.” Then fol- lows & schedule setting fortn that the parties linble to such licen e shall puy license aceord- ing to theamonnt of businessdone, the lica: ranging from o 2 per quarter. A mer- chant tailor comes within that class. CALIFORNIA xince iruics, 50¢ b, Townsend'ss e SPECTAL information duily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prest Clipping bureau (Alien’s), 510 Moutgomery. * e e e The death is recorded in England of Samuel Harraden, father of Beatrice Harraden, who wrote “Ships That Pass in the Night” and “Hilda Strefford.” NEW 7T0-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, whiclesome and delicious. POWDER Absolytely Puro ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. *