The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TflUBSDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1897. PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITOR!AL ROOMS.......... THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers 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 seeseress-...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES. 9:30 o'clock. 3 Larkin street ery street, corner Clay; open until ot; open untl 9:30 o'clock. 615 0 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and 2518 Mission street; open open until 9 Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. ock. Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open 1ill 9 o'clock. WILL THE COOLIES COME FROM HAWAII? N esteemed evening contemporary, for whose character and A opinions we have the highest respect, antagonizes with ardor our contention thatannexation ot Hawaii will bring into the United States the 50,000 coolies now domiciled there under treaties between Hawaii and China and Japan. Our contemporary says: A treaty has been negotiated between the Hawaiian Islands and the United States. In this trealy it is provided that the Mongalians residing in Hawsii shall not emigrate from the isiands to the United States after snnexation is an accomplished fact. The Japanese and Chinese iu Hawaii are there as contract laborers. Thefr presence in the territory of the United States as such contract laborers will be ot ous to the laws of this country, and annexation will justify their deportation; but the treaty stipulation by virtue of which the Hawaiian territory will be annexed to the United States declares that the Asiatics shall not have the rignt to leave the islands for the United States, but they shail remain, with respect to their nght of emigration to the United States, as if they were in China and Japan. It quoies the constitution to the effect that it and Federal laws and treaties shall be the supreme law of the land. All of these quotations are waved in triumpb over us, and we are summoned into court to plead to the charge of insincerity. We will now demonstrate that our contemporary is per- fectly sincere in its ignorance of the annexation treaty and of the methods of legal construction and of public and interna- tional law. The annexation treaty (we quote from official copy) pro- vides 1 ‘“Article IIl. The existing treaties of the Hawaiian Islands with foreign nations shall forthwith cease and deter- mine, being replaced by such treaties as may exist or as may bereafter be concluded between the United States and such for- eign nations.”’ **Article V. There shall be no further immigration of Chi- nese into the Hawaiian Islands, except upon such conditions as are now, or may hereaiter be, ailowed by the laws of the United States, and no Chinese, by reason of anything herein con- tained, shall be allowed to enter the United States from the Hawaiian Islands.” 1248 Mission strees; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Tke treaty, therefore, is precisely the ovposite of our con- | temporary’s statement of it. der It says, in terms, that Chinese ve mo right under the annexation treaty to enter the United States, but it nowhere prohibits such entry nor places them on the same status as it they were in China. In article 110 it expressly substitutes the treaties of the United States with China for the Hawaiian treaties with that nation. This substitutes, installs and puts in full force over the Chinese of our treaty with China, ratified in 1894, which, by its terms, is to continue until the year 1904 This treaty provides: Article IV. It is hereby understcod and agreed that Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, either permanently or tem- vorarily reslding in the United States, shall have for the protection of their persons and property all rights that are given by the laws of the United States to citizens of the most favored nations, excepting the right to become naturalized citiz:ns. And the Government of the United States reaffirms 118 obligation, as stated in article III, to exert allits power to secure protection to the persons and property of all Chinese subjects in the United States. The treaty provides that Chinese laborers having familie: or credits or property amounting to $1000, may leave our terri- tory under proper certificate and return within one year. The reader will observe that this treaty of 1894 is, by the express terms of the annexation treaty, extended over Hawaii, “the most tavored nation” clause and all, and that under it the Chinese of Hawaii enjoy every right and privilege enjoyed by the Chinese of California. Itis for this reason that they did not need to derive any right of transit fror one port of United States territory to another, or transier of domicile, from the annexation treaty. When the sovereignty of the United States is extended over Hawai, the supreme law of the land goes with it, and carries to the Hawaiian coolie the rights bestowed upon the subjects of the most favored nations, excepting alone the right of naturalization. Only a few days since, our contemporary was pointing with alarm to the flood of Chinese laborers into the United States under this treaty of 1894, and declared that their coming cannot be prevented. If it knew what it talked about it will observe that the annexation treaty forbids Chinese immigration to Hawail, except under such conditions as are now or may hereajfter be allowed by the laws of the United States. Therefore the treaty of 1594, being, as it contends, the supreme law of the !and, its extension to Hawaii carries such opening to Chinese immigration as may now be allowed by it and the laws of the United States, and our contemporary re- cently insisted that this opening is wide open. The foregoing analysis of the annexation treaty of 1894 is our authority for affirming that annexation of Hawaii gives the freedom of the United States to the 50,000 coolies domiciled there, and if there be a flaw in our reasoning, we will be glad to have it pointed out. —_— Minook Creek is said to be rich. It is also said not to be rich. However, as both statements are made by people who do not know anyihing about it there is no reason why anybody should decline to entertain the view that may happen best to please him. A contensus of opinion among observant men is that the Hail of Justice will not be completed by November 1 of this year, but that some November 1, say ot 1949, will see the walls as hieh as the fence now inclosing the place they ought to be. To try to induce a suspected murderer like Luetgert to talk intoapbonograph for museum purpose was a stroke of enterprise. It was also an indecency, and a calm assumption thata theory that most people are fools is really well founded. —_— Contractors on the ferry buildings have been notified to hurry. This practice is much in vogue, but the only way it has stirred contractors generally has been to stir them to indig- nation. Spain is not satisfied with ber new Cabinet, but if the gen- tlemen will take a lock about them they can acquire a hearty feeling of dissatisfaction for Spain, and thus get even. Uncle Sam's cut of the wages of revenue-cutter crews may save him a few pennies. Yet the men are quitting, and the in- utility of a crewless cutter is apparent. One recently arrived Guatemalan says that Barrios is a liar; which, by the way, is about the mildest statement any Guate- malan has been heard to make lately. The fact that New York hastaken more than kindly to a San Franciséo play ought to check the tendency of the two cities to accuse each other of being ja: g Talk of & great gas war in the East has nothing to do with the municipal campaign now raging in New York., | Board of Supervisors in place of that removed by Judge Wal- THE NET RESULT NOTHING. HE decision of the Supreme Court in the mandate pro- Tcledings instituted by Auditor Broderick for the purpose of testing the validity of the tax levies, passed by the o!d | and new boards of Supervisors, will not take many of THE CALL’S readers by surprise. To those who listened to or read | the arguments of the attorneys when the matter was before the court, it was apparent that the law was all on the side of | the oid officials. Long before Auditor Broderick began his proceeding the Supreme Court, by denying the various appli- cations for writs in which the case presented by Judge Wal- lace was declared to be criminal in its nature, had practically held that Mr. Fitch’s suit was a civil action, such being the fact, but one point was left for decision, namely, did the filing of a notice of appeal and stay bond in the cause below prevent the execution of the judgment? As well might the attorneys for the new board upon these premises have asked the Supreme Court to declare that a money judgment could be collected pending an appeal. To have decided that an appeal did not stop the appointment of a lace would have meant the complete overturning of the juris prudence of the State. Such a decision would have placed the lives and property of all citizens in the power of the courts of first instance, and have made every litigant his own County Clerk, Sheriff and executioner. It is impossible to conceive of an appellate tribunal thus abdicating its power of reviewing legal disputes, even if there were any doubt of the law of the case. Notwithstanding that it is always important for the courts to sticic to the precedents and adhere to well-settled interpre- tations of the law—for in that way only can the security of life and property be maintained—it is to be regretted that it has been necessary in vindicating the orderly process of the courts to depose the new Supervisors, as is practically done by this decision. In common withs many other citizens we had high hopes of the new Board of Supervisors. It was composed of men of intelligence and character. True, it enacted a silu- rian tax levy, but 1t was misled into doing that by an immature Mayor and a demagogue newspaper. It might next year have redeemed itself. It might have established a policy at the City Hall during the coming fifteen months which would have outlasted the century, for it is difficult to turn down municipal reform when once it is well started. But itis useless to express these regrets now. The new Supervisors were unfortunate in the manner of their creation. Had Mayor Phelan been more of a statesman and less of a politician he would have installed his appointees by regular process of law, instead of adop ing a revolutionary plan which has discredited the entire reform movement. The correct | method would have been to secure an early hearing of the ap peal and by that means settle the law of the case in advance. | It will probably be many months before the Supreme Court | will now reach the appeal, it being extremely unlikely that the | Justices, having been bothered with City Hall politics on a writ of mandate, will consent to advance more of the same kind of politics on the calendar. Only the most powerful reasons will induce them to do so. | No such reasons exist. The city now has a legal Board of Supervisors and there is no occasion for further haste. The sum total of the reform experiment conducted bv Mayor Phelan 1 and the Examiner may therefore be stated thus: A vellow sen- 1 | sation, a month’s stoppage of the public business, several | shattered political reputations and the restoration of the! ““Solid Eight”’ to power, with the laugh on everybody who | hoped for a reform administration at the City Hall, The seals who perch upon the rocks off the cliff near the Golden Gate have reason to be gratefal that nature denied them fur. Being ugly as skinned cats, they can bark in peace and eat their weight in fish daily, with none to molest. If they had coats worth stripping off they would be an international prob- lem and Russia, Japan, Engiand, Canada and most of the rest of the world would be dictating the manner of their treatment, It is sad that at this late day the attorneys for Durrant should be accused of resort to a trick on beusli of their client. After their long effort to expedite justice, their careful avoid- ance of anything having the appearance of techinieality, their desire to have matters rushed 1o a final issue, uprises scmebody to accuse them of a trick. It's too bad. 1 BRITISH SCHEMES IN NICARAGUA. UMORS of efforts on the part of British companies to ob- R tain concessions in Nicaragua which would conflict with the control by this country of the proposed inter- ocean canal bave been confirmed by the recent bulletin of the Bureau of American Republics, giving on what seems to be good authority a definite statement of the extent and degree of the concessions granted. It appears that the Atlas Steamship Company, an English corporation, has obtained {rom the Nicaraguan Government the exclusive right for thirty years to navigate the Silico Lagoon and also for the same period the exclusive right to construct and operate tramways and railways along the banks of the San Juan River. At the same time the Nicaraguan Government bindsitself not to grant subsidies to any other steamship line navigating Lake Nicaragua. Concessions of such a nature affect very materially the pro- ject of the canal company, and it is evident if the British suc- ceed in holding them the prospects of a speedy completion of | the proposed canal will be far from bright. Few capitalists will | care to invest largely in a canal along whose right of way a rival company bolds such important monopolies and privileges. In fact, the route of the proposed canal must be in the hands of one party or another. Either we must have it or the British must have it. There cin be no progress made so lonz as one company holds the right to construct the canal and another the exclusive right to construct a railway along a most important part of its route, Under these circamstances the proposed concessions made to the Atlas Steamship Company bacomes an international issue. The interests of the United States are involved to a vary great degree, and Lhese Interests are too vital to the welfare of the republic to admit of our surrendering them without a pro- test. Secretary Sherman has work befcre him and so has Min- ister Merry. The British need watchiug in all parts of the world, and Central America is one of the points where Uncle Sam must be on guard. When a railroad company in Kansas City (aid tracks Sun- day where it had no right to do so, the Mayor simply waited until Monday and tore the tracks up. An opinion from Mr., Huntineton concerning municipal anarchy so flagrant as this would be interesting. No city would trifle with him in any such wanton manmer. Is treason rampant in the Missouri town? Active pursuit of stage-robbers continues, because the rob- bers selfishly decline {0 supply material for a satisfactory climax. Still the official zeal leading to the arrest as suspects of two young men guilty of nothing but wearing broad-brimmed hats could perhaps have been more happily expended in osher channels. —_— Worden's new lease of life can hardly come to him as a sar- prise. When he has nearly exhausted it he will probably apply for another, and accept it with the calmness of a murderer get- ting what he regards as due him, a view in which some people ineffectually make bold to oppose him. When a man is on trial for a series of crimes it is not gracious of him to permit the presence of his wife and daugh- ter. Sympathy may be excited by them, but sofarasa thcught- ful jury is concerned it will not be of a quality to hover about the prisoner, Yellow journalism has a Klondike correspondent who re- lates that a hat recently purchased by him cost $17. But hs can recoup him-elf svon by taiking through it at space rates. | witness | whole command for parts away from oity PERSONAL. Horace Chesbro of Santa Barbarais at the Russ, E. T. Earl, the Sacramento fruit-packer, is at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs, B. F. Mason of San Leandro are at the Grand. E. R. Gifford, a mining man from Auburn, is at the Baidwin. R. L Peutley, a Sacramento lawyer, is & guest at the Lick, G. A. Gaynor, & business man of Arcats, is & guest at the Russ. V. B. Stevens of Sanger, Fresno County, isat the Cosmopaiitan. John 8. Reed, a rancher of Ukiah, isa recent arrival at the Baldwin, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan are rigistered at the Grand, W. J. Caughey of St. Helena arrived at the Russ yesterday with his bride. A. J. Rhodes, the Sacramento politician, is making a short stay at the Grand. Jamos M. Joyce, a druggist of Sacramento, is making a short stay at the Grand. W. D.Childs, & stock raiser of Maders,is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. Fred Yates, tne artist, will sail for the Orient on the 21st in the steamship China. Dr. D. Smith of the State Insane Asylum at Napa is regisiered at the California. Botsford and J, Laaeu of Plattsburg, are late arrivals at the Palace. E. E Vinceat of Madera, proprietor of the Madera Herald, is a guest at the Lick. Julian Hough of Birds Landing, son of State 8enator Hough, is registered at the Grand. Ex-Superior Judge John M. Fulweiler, a Prominent lawyer oi Auburn, is at the Lick. Colonel John T. Harrington, the Colusa law- yer, isin town. He hes a room &t the Lick. Robert M. Clarke, & Carson lawyer, and late Attorney-General of Nevads, isat the Grand. L. J. Ruth of Salt Lake City, accompanied by Miss Raberia Ruth, arrived at the Grand last night. N. W. Moody, Tax Collector of Fresno County, is up from Fresno and has apart- ments at the Lick. W. Trewartha, a druggist of Angels Camp, accompanied by his wife and child, is staying st the Cosmopolitan, R. B. Wallace, U.S. A., and his brother, William Wallace Jr. of {Helena, Mont., are guests at the Occidental Major and Mrs. J. A. Darling have engaged passage for Japan on the steamship China, leaving here October 21. Pay Inspector Edward Billows, United States navy, arnved at the Culifornia last night, ac- companied by Mrs. Billows. Charles ld. Voigt and Mrs. L. Voigt of Haa- over, Germany, arrived on last night’s Central overland and registered at the Palace. Ex-Jjudge Thomas Carroll, a mining man of Tecoma, arrived at the Palace yesterday, ac- companied by Mrs, Carroll and Miss Maud Carroll. Astronomer W. W. Campbell of Lick Obser- vatory, will depart for Caina on the 21st to make some astronomical observations there. He wiil be accompanied by Mrs. Campbell. J. E. Beale, a very wealthy bachelor of Santa Barbara, who has almost completed a hand- some residence on a prominent knoll over- looking the seaside boulevard, arrived at the Palace last night. Professor O. P. Jenkins of Stanford Univer- sity arrived at the Palace last night from An- tioch, Contra Costa County, whete he lectured yesterday and the day before at a county teachers’ couvention. Caspar Whitney, the sporting authority for Harper's Weekly, who arrived at the Palace Tuesday night with his bride on the way to Siam, departed last night on the Oregon ex- press for Vancouver, B. C. Captai Jenks of the trooper band, who fed his nags on posts and saud, evaded courts and stand, and ieft his home and EPF N. Y. strife to lead a hidden rural life, is down in the county of Stanisiaus digging earth and digging la: CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 6.—F. G. of San Francisco it at the National. ant Frank B. M Lieuten- Kanna, Fifteenth Infautry, | son of Attorney-Geueral McKenna, is visiting bere. Colonel J. F. Evans of S8an Francisco left for New York to-da: LOVE'S BEUGAR. Who is not 'oved lives not at all, And kuows no. either joy or woe: And lest such tate should him befall He came a beggar, louting low. “i berd,” said he, “that | may live; 1 tow hetore the one 1 prize, E he the alms I crave may give, Dra.n fiom the treasnry of h.r eyes® h 4 ‘Who begs for love but wastes his When ‘ar too humuly he implores; He set 100 high abov - his reach ‘The beimg whom he thus ador ADd 0, though courtly were ber way A veil of acorn her visage | ore; Indifferent to bis prayers and pralse, She turned the Leggar irom the door. The beggar was not overshrewd, Ana perfect love had male im blind; Not his 10 se & changing mool, Ot his .0 fa'hom wom n's mind. ¥o- she in mu«ing on his fats Feit piy 1or th- su tor spurned, And pity turned to Jove—100 late— The becgar nevermore recurned, T. D. ENGuisu, in Harper's Magazine for October. NUGGETS OF HUMOR. Master of the Seraglio—Ha, ha, Most Illus- trious, I have had the most dellcious joke. I told your wives that you were dead, and you should have heard them wail. The Sultan—What a harem-scarem {fellow you are, to be sure.—The Yellow Book. “Papa,” she sald, as she put down the morn- ing paper, “let us say no more sbout a college course.” “‘You do not care for one?” he returned, in- quiringly. “I donot,” she replied. *Iam at last satis- fied that co-education is a fatlure. Think of it! Chaperons required st Northwestern Uni- versity! Why, I'd just as soon go to a girlg’ finishing school under such circumstances.” Thus has the cause of higher education of women received a severe blow—Chicago Post. “Great heavens! Here is 8 poor man sent to jail for six months for stealiug a loaf of bread. It mal my blood boil. Aud yet they call this a free conntry,” *Oh, I don’t know. Ifhe had done such a thing on the Klondike trail he would have been lynched.”—Indianapolis Jouraal. This ‘‘compensation™ still is called To ease each earthly grief that waits; The forests and the fielas grow bald, But fcotball hair luxuriates. ‘Washington Star. In haste she trisd todrive a nall, But the Zext time she wiil ling And then perhaps she’ll miss thy That's growing on her fini —Chicago News. At one of our rolice courts last week a woman was charged with driving without a lamp. She stated that she had s lamp, but bad forgotten to put a candle in it. “Ah!" said the magistrate, “you're like the foolish virgin who forgot the oil.” To which the defenaant replied: “Im not a foolish virgiv; I'm married, with four chil. dren.”—Tit-Bits. A maa dropped his wig on the street and a boy, who was following close behind the loser, picked it up aud handed it to him. “Thanks, my boy,” said the owner of the wig. “You are the first genuine hair-restorer I have =ver seen.”—Roxbury Gazetie. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Every married man at this time of the year smells of camphor. Every woman knows a sure remedy for con- fumption Which is made by boiling some weed. You ean see & lot more human nature in the = &mlmm than you can in & Turkish ath. Oi course, there isn’t any marri ::I{murhg‘ in beaven; that’s w. or. The average girl has an idea that a man is made to -p‘(dx feet every time she crooks her litle finger. It will be & terrible thi th gels are anything like roosters aad bave to flop their ‘wings every time before they sing. or giving it heaven MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. The band of the Royal Horse Artillery, Eng- land, is considered to be unsurpassed by any band in the world, and no more eloquent tes- timony than this could be paid o the high | musical attainments of Cavaliere Zavertal, its | talented ccnductor, who has now presided over 1ts destinies for a period of sixteen years. Ledislao Zavertal was born at Milan in 1849 of musical parents. He studied at Naples, where he took a scholarship for violin plaving and when he was 19 he published his first opera, “Tito,”" which was a great success. In 1872 he went to Glasgow, where he acted as | conductor of the Orchestral Socie there he came in contact with Von Bulow, whose | orchestra he conducted for a time. Aiter spending ten years in Glasgow Cavaliere Zaver- tal was, out of eighty candidates, chosen as | conductor of the Royal Artillery string and | military bands. Asa composer he is known for the Opera Comiqua to take the part of Marcelline in the *“Attaque du Moulin” this winter. Mile. Brema was remarkably success- ful in the role at Covent Garden last spring. In spite of the brilliant aavantages which were offered her as an inducement to go to America, Mme. Marches! has decided to de- cline the proposition which was made her. she will remain in Paris and resume her classes. Mme. Nordica sends reports to the Engiish press that she is recovering her health, but does not indicate the ime when she expects to appear in public again. At the performance of the opera “Don Ju_nn“ L in Paris, September 14, his Majesty the King | of Siem assisted at the representation. | The Theatre Philodramatique at Milan, CAVALIERE ZAVERTAL. chiefly by his operzs and symphonies, which have attracted a great deal of attention. | “Una Notte & Firenze,” which is occasionally produced in San Francisco by the Italian so- cieties, and **Mirra,” both of which were proauced in Prague, have been the most suc- cessfui of his operas, while in his symphonies he has shown himself to be a master of crehes- tration and to possess in a pronounced degree the gilt of musical expression. The Cavaliere, or “Zavey,” as he is known among his friends in the regiment, has a reputation for vigorous | conducting, and once in Glasgow succeeded in destroving, at the first atiempt, a baton | which, as he afterward discovered to his re- | gret, had been used by Von Bulow and other eminent personages. From Stockholm, “after thirty years!” The thirtieth anniversary of & Franco-Swedish event has just been celebrated at Stockholm. Thirty-five Swedes met together at a banquet in the capital of Sweden to celebrate the | memory, always radiant with triumph, of the | singing-students of Upsala at the Universal Expo ition of Paris in 1867. Conductea by M. Oscar Arpi, ths students of Upsala carried | off, in a universal competition, the highest distinetions, and all Paris re-echoed with the | enormous success of the compatriots of Jenny | Lind and Nilsson. The tresh splendor of these | young voices and the supreme art with which the choruses were directed by M. Arpi, whose name wili always be a unit in the annals of Swedish song, were a veritable revelation to the foreigners, and brought very br.liant offers—although not accepted—to the student singers. To-day the thirty-five convivialists at the commemorative banquet are meu of note in their own country. Some are in the ad- mionistration and some have distinguished themselves in science and literature, but it was with a quite juvenile ardor ana enthu- siasm that they disinterred those songs, gay, melancholy and patriotic, which thirty years ago for the first time transported a French audience. This geuerous nolice appears in ihe Paris Figaro. Saint-Saens has just returned from a tour in the north of Europe, wiiere he met with the most unqualified success. On learning of his arrival at Copenhagen the Queen of Denmark invited him to spend an evening at the royal chateau, situated about an hour's drive from | the city. He was charmed with the friendly and informal manner of his reception. In reiating the event to the editor of a Paris paper he said: “I was introduced by an in- tendant, who at once retired, and the Queen, herself a distinguished pianist, ceme forward and introduced mg to her family. I was sur- prised that she should present me to the Prin- cess of Wales first and to the Dowager Empress of Russia afterward, but probably she (hinks more of primogeniture than of rank. After- ward the Princess Valdemar entered, and by all I was received in tne most flatiering man- | ner. I was asked toplay several pleces, par- ticularly the ‘Mignon Waltz,' which the Queen graciously informed me she then heard played for the first time proverly, aithough she had repeatedly played it herself and had heard it performed by others.” Nothing is so remarkable and astonishing as the extension of German art and German ari- ists in lands the most separated from the mother country by distance, race, language and the taste of the public. Thus it is that the Deutsche Singakeademie of Buenos Arres has just executed with great success, under the direction of M. L. Muther, Schumann’s “Paradise and the Peri,” one of the most diffi- cult and compiex of classic and romantic com- positions. We would not venture to say that the execution was worthy of the Gewandhaus of Leipzig or of the Gurzenich of Cologne. But it was very brave to undertake such an enterprise and to have brought it to a success- ful finish. M. Alphonse Daudet has just given permis- sion 1o the Bouffes-du-Nord to reproduce “U'Arlesienne.” The maneging directors of this theater have resolved to spare no expense in mounting this piece as gorgeously as possi- ble, as they wish to make it a most sensational event. Bizet's music will be played and sung by & special chorus ana orchestra under M. Jean Brus, and the principal roles will be dis- tributed among the best dramatic artists, Ou the occasion of the inauguration of the statue of Cornic the ‘. retons of Paris” gave & very brilliant entertainment at the thester of Morlais. Les Harmonies of the city lent their assistance, and the patrictic Bretons gave a most eathusiastic reception to the songs and poetry of their native land. Mile. Marie Brema, who had 5o grand a sue- csss In the Kundry of Parsifal at Bayreuth this summer has been engaged by M. Carvalho which before 1797 was a church dedicated to | the suints Come and Damien, will celebrate | shortly the one hundredth anniversary of its foundation. The sum of the subscriptions to the Vaude- | vilie and the Gvmnasium, Paris, already amounts to 120,000 irancs. M. Saint-Saens has written the following let- ter to the Paris Figaro: “Dear Sir: From all sides I am informed by friends and others of my intention to write & lyric drema in four scts. If itisa fear that these people express it is chimerical; there 1s no danger of sucha misfortune, and I snall be much obliged if you will 50 inform your resders.” At Genes the prefecture has forbidden the representation of any gheatrical work in the | Milanese dialect. The Brussels paper says | this is very droll, and it is convinced that if the directors of La Monuaie should take a faucy to give the “Valkyrie” in tne Wallon language the municipality wonld have the | tact to let it go. It 1s a fact little known that the sabers be- longing to the Grand Opera-house, Paris, were | used in the assault on the Bastile, July 14, | 1789, The violin of Antonio Bazzini, the cele- brated violinist, director of the Milan con- servatory, who died recently, has been sold for the sum of 18,000 lires. Itis sald to be a superb Guarnerius. PEOPLE TALK:=D ABOUT. Professor Andree is, or was, nearly 43 years of age, end unmarried. He spent a year in America in 1876 as sweeper and mechanic in | the Swedish department at the Philadelphia centennial, Taxidermy is one of the latest fads of New | York women. 1tissaid that Mrs. John Jacob | Astor started the fashion by learning the art in order that sne could preserve with her own hauds the feathered tropkLiesof her hunting expeditions. Queen Victoria and the Empress of Austria represent the extremes of weight among the royal ladies of Europe. Victoria weighs a plump 234 pounds and the Austrian Empress | 102. Tae difference in tneir height is also ex- tremely marked. Rev. Dr. Parkhurst says, in a recent letter to a friend in New York: “Icannot stand by the Sunday saloon, puse and simple, but I do be- lieve in allowing the sale of beer and light | wines on Sunday, provided they are the ac- | companiment of an honest mesl, honestly | paid for.” Next to having wealthy Amerieans live in Engiand the English people would like to have them dte in that country. It is said that the heirs of Willlam Louis Winans of | Ealtimore, who died recently in England, will | have to payinto the British treasury a probate duty of $961,200. When Admiral Jouett, now on the retired listof the navy, was Acting Secretary of the Navy, the commandant of the academy at Annapolis asked that & cadet be court-mar- | tialed for whipping five toughs and two police- men, aithough it was doue in self-defense. “Court-martial that fellow!” roared Jouett. “The boy ought to have a medal. Do you sup- pose the Government hired you to raise boys to play checkers?” meb e R THERE, SsUCCULENT OYSTER, s | New Yorx Press. | Hail to thee, Oyster, succulent bivalve! Edible moliusk of osireidae! Inequilateral, CONCAVO-CONVEY, MONCMyArian pave-o'-the ses! Long mav thy iat sdductorial charm us muscle of epicures, gristly and sweet; thou hast no gom of the avicutidae, yet aost thow get there with both of thy feet!” “Feet,” diq 1 sar? Ah! these nature dented thee, but thou nast sill & proverbial jog, waich, on thy slippery chute a la gullel, lends thee a pace like a slosh.ng tobog’. Hallto thy ligaments rounded and juicy, guest of the months of the u:rl;;—bkel;ed R ll.ong mayst tiou linger to adden the pa.ate caressing thee I :ver the bar! T oy ——— BEST TEACHER OF ETIQUETTE, Ladles’ Home Journal, The best book of etiquette is that great one, the best society. If you feel awkward or qn. certain watch peoplé whose manners show that they are conversant with all that is best. Ty imitating them you will not be apt to make misiakes. The average American girl is quick 8t recognizing ner mistakes ana seldom re- Ef“' one after she realizes her error. gh is nd of heart and sympathetic, anad because of ber quick witand these two virtues she will 1ways be a gemtl the wore © semtiewoman in the best sonse of | authorize1 by an act of Jun | Home Journal. ARSENITE OF IRON—A. G., Sacramento, Cal. Arsenite of iron has no market value, ., Clty. B, low unless there is a specifi- THE ACE—Q. A. In cutting cards the nco is niway cation otherwise. CLEVELAN H, City. The date of the ma Grover Cieyeland and Miss Frances Fo'som was June 2, 1836. THE OFFICTAL TiME—H. R. S cit)'.d'l"‘he offi- cial time of Joe Wheeler at Wooaiand Septo) ber 4, 1897, was: 2:14 2:093 2:10, PosTAL - CARDS—G. H., City. The posiui-cards issued by the 111:;_1. f cards were issued in May, 18 SANTA RosaLa—L. B., Newkall, Los Ange Cal. santa Kosalia is s pori and 0wn of the State of Mexico, ninety miles sou!hcu&!‘m Chihuahua. The only steamer from San Francisco that touches there is the Orizaba. ToMaToES—E. H. R. W., City. A box, the in- side measurement of which 1s 16x12 by 11:2, holds a bushel. Fill such a box with ](om'n. toes or any other vegetable and weigh, de- ducting the weight of the box, and you wiil ascertain how many pounds of tomatoes or other vegelanles there are to & bushel. BASEBALL—C., City. Itis probable that the first buseball team in the United States was one called “the O'ympic” and organized ai Phniladelphia in 1833. In those days the name of the game piayed was “lownball,” an adaplation of the oid English game of -‘round- ers.” On the 234 September, 1840, tte Kuickerbocker Ciub adopted tue first baseball piaying rules. THE WINNING JOCKEY—Subscriber, City. The records that have been made up for the last season do not show the aggregate of races won by jockeys at Ingleside and at the Oakland track separately, but show the aggregate of won at both. H. Martin won 127 races Jones won 123. if you will procure a of the San Francisco Gurf Guide you can, by reading up cach race, obiain the exact number of races won by Martin at each track. ¢R—B. P. L, Oakland, Cal. ically no difference between aa innkeeper and a hotei-keeper. In law an inn and hotel is “*a public house kept for the lodg- g and entertainment of such as may desire to visit it and providing what is_necessary for their subsistexce for compensation.” A hotel 1s generally distinguishea from an inn by its superior style ana pretecsions, although of Jate yearssome of the most pretentious are termed inu or tavern. The first Federal lot- tery in the United States was to raise funds to buid in Washingion what was then called a tavern, but the commissivners, adopting the new Freunch fasbion, then just in, callediia hotel. EVlDENaE: OF GOOD TIMES. Even Missouri has hit calamity aswipe in the face. The strawberry vines are yield- ing their sccond crop of tne year.—Aurora News. There’s no bluff about the present trend toward prosperity, because, what is very im- ortant. the farmer has a full hand—Rock sland Union. The farm products this year are worth £10,000,000 more than in 1896. This fact must be as gall and wormwood 1o the Pops.— Grand Rapids Herald. i These peovle who do not realize that pros- has come are the kind on whom a al operation is necessary to admit an Indixnapolis Journal. 4 per cent of increase in the bank clearings of St. Louis in the past week does not break the recent record of weekly gains, but it does show that the wave of business im- provement has struck this city hard.—st. L uis G obe-Democrat, Oue Kansas tarmer who bought a _tract of laud last year at $80 an acre has raised enough wheat théreon tuis yvear, sccording to morn- ing dispatehes, to pay jor his purchase six times over. It sale to say that this farmer is not grieving over the iact that bis wheat was paid for in what the garrulous young Mr. Bryan calls “balloon” dollars.—New York Commerciai Advertiser. Every newspaper can add to the prevailing feeling of confidence in the stability of the business outlook by spreading bfore s read- ers the views of those 1o whom_prosperity has already come. Inasmuch as he pubiic to a certain extent obtains its views from the ccn- tents of the newspapers, the dissemination of facts concerning businees copditions adds in promoting confidence 1u the prevailing belief | that the fall months will see the fulfillment of tne general prosperity of which the spring and summer have given ample promise.— Newspaper Maker. OF YOUNG MEN., “A grave fault with a goodly numbor of young wmen is a disposition to quarrel with their surroundings, whereas the real fault is not there,” writes Eaward W. Bok 1r *“Prob- lems of Young Men” in the October Ladies’ “Young men do not seem clearly to reslize that where they are they were intended 1o be, and for scme mighty good purpose, too. The place where a young man finds himself is exactly where his Creator meant that he should be. Therefore he is capable of filling it. God makes no mistakes. But it 1s meant that we should grow of our A FAULIi | own efforts: get strong through the conquer- ing of difficulties. When a young man siarts out with a right determination, an adherence 10 honorable principies, and a faith in God, N0 power on earth can retard him long, seri- ously interrupt his career or eflectively stop him. He is bonnd to win. Our failures are always due to ourselves, never to other people nor o our environments.” GROWTH OF CIITIES. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If the cities of the United States continue their present rate of growth until 1920 they will then contain 10,000,000 more than one- half the population of the country. A writer in one of the magazines says the cities will then control the politics of the nation, and that it is“therefore necessary to take special pains with the political education of city chil- dren. It would be well to include all children in thisscheme. By the year 1920 the cities and the rural regions will be brought much neerer together than now, ana sound ideas of politics should be sown broadcast. TEN BEST SHORT POEMS. The ‘“ten best poems’” discussion resulted in 600 lists being sent to Life. The following was made the prize list: “Elegy in a Country Churchyard.” Gray; “Thenatopsis,” Bryant; ‘A Psaim of L fe,” Longteliow; “The Raven,” Poe; “‘Charge of the Light Brigade,” Tenny- son; “Tne Skylark,” Shelley; ““The Chambered Nautilus,* Houmes: “Maud Sfutler.” Waittier; “The Bridge of Sig! urial of Si John Moore,” Wolf 3 —e CALIFORNIA giace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townssad's® ——— JUDGE MAGUIRE On ‘‘Government by Injune tion™ in this week’s Star. . — e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prest Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * 5 e l}iBERflASD what ‘‘Government by Injunce tion” means by reading what Judge Maguire Wil say in a special article 1n this week’ Star, Ask your newsdealer for it. > e —— LIGHT ON DARKNESS. Kansas City star. If any man in Kunsas City thinks that the negro is becoming extinet, let him offer a Ppriz: watermelon to the colored family certi- | I¥ing to the iurgest number of children, e NEW 7TO-DATY. R Royal makes the food pure, | ‘wholesome and delicious. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4