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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1897. E .ALKED AEOUT. | THE APPEAL OF THE HAWAUANS e MUSIC AND MUSICIAN e b om0 e R F. M. Symonds, U. 8. N., is at the Occidental. Ji : TS e O saElcl v ) c HE memorial of the native Hawaiians, published in THE :et Samuel Hirst of Valiejo is at the Grund. A aaeste s e ‘;:LI}.",E:{H :::,f";::::, £ £ o i - Lomer, & merchant of Alturas, is at the | Among the many musical tr ised t highly pai d th tracti : = = = CALL yesterday, addresses the American pzople and their | . = 3 foF {h18, S6AOR Yehys S{SBOE oMt pisr e e e R el Benjamin Bisseil, who lives near Baliston THURSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. bass 10 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1863, EDITORIAL ROOMS....... Tel 14022517 Clay street ephone Main 1874, 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 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL... ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. . Roois 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. Montgomery street, corner Cla; 9 Haves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 613 n until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and 19 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; ith street; open until 9 o'clock. 0 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty ; open 1ill 9 o'clock. open until A DEPARTMENT OF MINES, EPORTS made to the Miners’ Convention justify the belief that most of the legislative work asked for by the miners is in a fair way to be accomplished. Members of Congress and State officials have spoken encouragingly of the outlook. 'The mineral lands bill, it is said, will surely be en- acted this winter, and promises hardly less definite are given oi a speedy solution of the problem of rehabilitating hydraulic mining so far as that can be done by legisiative act. The one feature of the programme of work undertaken by | the Miners’ As:ociation that is still in doubt is that of procur- ing the creation of a Department of Mines, to be presided over by a member of the national Cabinet. Senator Perkins aavises that this demaxnd be lowered to a request for the establisbment of a Bureau of Mines, under the control of a commissioner subordinate to the Secretary of the Interior. That much he thinks can be obtained at the coming session of Congress, but the creation of a new Cabinet oflicial he declares to be at this time impracticable. It is not probable that the miners of the nation would be satisfied with the commissioner suggested by Senator Perkins, even if the California association indorsed the proposal. The mining industry of the United Stales is too vast, too varied, too complex and too important to be adequately provided for by a subordinate bureau of a department so overcharged with work as that of the Interior. To rizhtly supervise the interests of mines and mining will require all the tiae and energies of & Cabinet Minister, aideu by thestaff of a well-equipped depart- ment equal to any other in the administration. It was pointed out to the convention by John P. Irish, *‘under no other flag is there so great an amount of useful and precious minerals—greater than in any similar area on the face of the earth. Yet we have done the least to promote their pro- ducticn and the prosperity of the men producing them. Under any other Government the Unitea States would bs the metal- lurgical center of the world.” In that statement there is no exageeration. With a mining industry greater than that of any other nation we have done i less for it than any first-class nation on the globe. Our mines yield anunally an output worth upward of $1,000,000,000. The | industry is one that involves a large amount of scientific learn- ing and mechanical skill. Improvements in mining methods and mechanism are going on continually in nearly all parts of the world. Other nations collect information bearing on the industry for the benefit of their miners, and provide for its dissemination among them. We scatter the supervision of diiferent phases of the industry through a half-dozen bureaus, so that a miner knows not to whom to apply for information, even as to the meaning of some of the mining laws. The claim for the establishment ot a department is good, and now is the time to urge it upon Congress. The gold excite- ment in Alaska will incline the country to consider the claims of mining men with more interest than in vears when mining is comparatively dull. Moreover, the tariff being out of the | way and the financial is«ne in a fair process of being soived, Congress at this session will have time to consider propositions of a general and non-partisan nature. It is cpportune, there- fore, to make a plea for the Department of Mines st once. Let the fight be made on that line, and if it fails we may adopt the compromise proposed by Senator Perkins and accept for a time a Commissioner of Mines under the control of the Depariment of the Interior. At least one branch cf the Social Democracy founded by Debs seems to be in a bad way. Mrs. Kavanagh, president ol the branch, was subjected to the inconvenience of being hors: whipped by another lady during a recent session. Whnether legislative representatives in a manner which cannot fail to make a deep impression. Read in the light of the events which have preceded its appearance, it makes clear the fact that, at bottom, the proposition to annex the Hawaiian Islands is a proposition to steal them—to steal them, not by the ordi- nary methods which prevail among persons who make a prac- tice of appropriating the property of others, but to steal them by force and against the protestof the helpless people to whom they beiong. What could be more pathetic than this meniorial? Who can peruse it without feeling that, should the annexationists succeed in securing the ratification of the McKiniey treaty, a! great historical crime will be committed? Every word of it| breathes of the helplessness of a forlorn and deserted peopls; | every line appeals to the magnanimity of a nation which every | last one of the memorialists has probably heard heralded as the | land of the free and the home of the brave; every paragraph |is wet with the tears of a declining race, who still love their country and in whom the expiring embers of an exalted patriot- ism have not yet been extinguished. Could any printed werds strike deeper into the American heart than these : “That your memorialists humbly but fervently protest against the consummation of this invasion of their political rights ; and they earnestly appeal to the President, the Con- | gress and the people of the United States to refrain from fur- | ther participating in the wrong' so proposed ; and they invoke in support of this memorial the spirit of that immortal instru- ment, the Declaration of American Independence; and es- pecially the truth therein expressed, that Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed—and here repeat, that the consent of the people of the Hawaiian Islands to the form of government imposed by the so-called Republic of Hawaii, and to said proposed treaty of annexation, has never | been asked by and is not accorded either to said government | or to said project of annexation.” This memorial settles one thing beyond the possibility of a doubt, namely : Annexation can never take place with the | consent of the Hawaiians. The question, then, stripped of all | its perplexing difficulties, not the least of which is the question | whether the Chinese coolies at the islands can enter the United treaty and annex the islands against the wishes of the native Hawalians? We have thus presented a most momentous subject for discussion, involving at once the national honor, the integ- rity of history and the merciful precepts of the Almighty him- self. How can the United States annex the islands in opposi tion tothe protests of the natives without committing the awfu crime of national grand larceny? | It may be said that the interests of the Hawaiians will | be best subserved by making them American citizéns; but | that argument can scarcely be advanced as a defense to the | charge that the Unit:d States has taken advantage of the | weakness of a declining race to steal their country. Nor is it | any more to the point to urge that as Americans their rights; will be maintained by the Government of the great republic. | Undoubtedly the slaves liberated in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln ! were better off in American bondage than in African freedom ; but was that ever urged as a reason for keeping them in chains? We do not think the most enthusiastic of the annexationists wiil advance the probable improvement in the condition of the natives under Am rican rule as a reason for taking the islands from them by force. The American republic, as the Hawailan memorialists well say, exists by and through the consent of the governed. States, resolves itself down to this: Will the Senate ratify this | | i people. It is their duty to obey the popular will, not to control | and direct it. What could be more frightful from an historical standpoint than for such a nation, whose starry emblem throughout the world is the luminous beacon toward which the weary eyes of the bondsmen of every clime turn with sup pliant tears and heartfelt longings, and in whose generous soili‘ liberty, equality and justice flourish with a magnificence un- known to any civilization that has ever existed—what could | be more terrible, we repeat, than for such a nation to take | by torce for commercial purposes the loved country of a weak and protesting people? The act would deserve and would : probably receive the execration of mankind to the end of time. 1t is to be hoped that the rumor that the family of the late Bill Nyeisin financial distress is incorrect. Certainly it is hard to understand how the accumulated thousands, the result of Nye's diligent application, could so quickly have been swept away. The humorist was not only a hard-working man, com- the second lady did this in parliamentary style, tirst rising to a question of privilege, does not appear from the telegraphed account. But as the affair took place in Chicago it is safs to assume that it was conducted on the lines of a regular “scrap,” and without regard to precedenis. Mr. Debs, unfortunately, Wwas not present to umpire the episode. From the first examination of the moon made through the Yerkes telescope it would appear that there is no life on thatorb. Such had been the conciusion arriv d at by science many years ago. Ifthe Yerkes glass is ambitious to do some- thing practical it might endeavor to throw a little light on the mooted question as to whether the lunar body is composed of green cheese. This question, we believe, is one that has never been definitely settled. P The marriage of Sir Edwin Arnold to a Japanese is only surprising in baving been so long delayed. Sir Edwin has given so many indications of being in love with the entire race that the difficuity of making a definite selection probably ac- counts for his tardiness. We extend congratulations to him, but feel a little diffident yet as to extending them to the iady, 1f Lord Salisbury reaily wishes to resigh there does not seem to be anything to prevent bis taking this course. Noboay would object particularly. But if the correspondent who sends the rumor feels an impulse to resign, not only would there be no objection, but he could feel certain of absolute encourage- ment, All efforts to reform the yellow journal that gives itself daily a new coat of its favorite color are vain. If a sense of shame could be aroused within it the emotion would be a puz- zle, and the sheet go throughk some new and distressing con- tortion, thinking itself to once more have achieved something. The latest picture of the Cisneros woman is totally aiffer- ent from any hereto‘ore presented. While variety is the spice of life there isno doubt but life that is all spice is too hignly seasoned. Some of the artists who have been ‘‘on the spot” evidently struck the wrong spot. That Judge in Southern California who has cited the War- den of San Quentin for contempt in refusing to hang a man as directed by the court must entertain some queer notions. Up this way nobody-expects a Warden to do anything of the sort. The curtailing of the powers of Marshal Creed of Sausalito comes as a surprise; the intimation that the gentieman pos- sessed any powers causes the surprise. Nothing he has done to the gamblers there has indicated anything of the kind. Speaking of police pulis and such mysterious things ;the woman who has been arrested tweaty times and never con- victed, although in all probability guilty in each instance, manding a large income during his luter years, but was exceed. | ingly thrifty. It was his habit to reproach Eugene Field for | not saving money—and Field never did save any—yet there i no hint that any alms are to be asked in behalf of the F.elds. Probably the rumor concerning the Nyes is wrong, for if it is not, the efforts of the humorist represent a wasted life, as noth- | ing he wrote was of value beyond the price it brought and the moment it was read. PUNISHMENT AND REFORM. LD convicts, convicts with experience, when they are to be sentenced anew for some misdecd 1n this State almost invariably ask the Judge to send them to Sin Quentin rather than to Folsom. Tais is especially true of city convicts. The criminal of San Francisco regards imprisonment as a spe- | cies of medicine he must take for the sin of permitting himself to be caught, and he looks upon San Quentin as a pleasant place in which to take it. Our convicts have not built up this good opinfon of San Quentin upon a mere superstition. The prison has many ad- vantages for a criminal who prefers reform to punishment, and who desires to be in close communication with his pals at all times, so that when reform ideas become monotonous he can talk of old crimes with the old gang and concoct conspiracies for new ones. Sentimentalists who hold to the oreed that imbrisonment should be for reform and not for punishment would account San Quentin the ideal prison of the world if there could be found any trace of reform among its prisoners. Certainly there is no punishment there for the average offender. The in- mates are better fed than a large number of honest working- men, they have reception days at which their friends congre- gate, they manage to get opium in guantities to suit, they bave | leisure to indulgein personal quarrels, and occasionally a suffi- | cient freedon: to get upa fight with almost any kind of w apons they may choose. Not infrequently, by way of making life more thrilling still, they organize a revolt and threaten to es- tablish a small-sized anarchy in the reform institution, Affairs at Foltom are much better managed. At that prison the city convict is too far away for his pal to visit him with condolences ard opium. He has more work to do and less time to meditate new crimes. As a result he is more obedient to discipline and actually a better man than his San Quentin contemporary. His punishment has re ly sometbing of a reformatory influence. It may not stay with him and keep him straight when he regains his liberiy, but 1t hasa good effect as long as he is within the prison walls. We do not hear of assaults of one convict on another or of open revolts at Foisom. It is high time for the prison authorities to revise the man- ner in which our penitentiaries are being conducted, or at least that at San Quentin. Prison life should not be made easy to the criminal. It should be a punishment which he will feel as could tell an interesting story. But she won't, Mrs. Tangtry’s statement that she has made her husband an allowance for years may be true. But think of the ailow- ances he was forced to make for her! Iustead of retiring upon the arrival of Milan the Servian Cabinet would have been mors wmanly to have clutched their vockets and yelled “Yolice!” l long as he staysin the pricon and remember when he leaves it. He should not be permitted to hold weekly receptions for his pals. He should be allowed to see only his near relatives, and those but once a month. He should be made to work. He should be kept from the use of opium and yellow literature. Itsnould be studiously impressed upon him that society has come to the conclusion that the best way to reform a criminal is to fit the punishment to the crime and apply it with a Roman firmness. | here last { Here Presidents, Senators and Governors are servants of the | { Railroad James Topley, a druggist of Vallejo, isat the Grand. D. Sulliven of Dyes, Alasks, is at the Cosmo- volitan. M. Lauer, a werchant of Alturas, is regis- tered at the Grand. J. M. Witman, a mining man of Newman, is staying at the Lick. E. J. Musto, a merchant of Stockton, arrived yesterday at the Grand. W. A. Graham, a wholesale grocer of Carson City, Nev., isat the Russ, Jesse D, Carr, the capitalist from Salinas, is & guest at the Occidental. Sheriff U. 8. Giregory of Amador County isa late arrival at the Grand. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Pace, H. B. Fife, n merchant of Sanger, Fresno Couuty, isat the Cosmopolitan. Judge E. W, Hunter is here from Eureks. He arrived yesterday at the Grand, Arthur L. Pearse, the mining operator from London, returned yesterday to the Palace. W. H. Hatton, a lawyer of Modesto, arrived here yesterday. He has a room at the Lick. E. J. Cote, a manufacturer of vinegar at St Louis, Mo., arrived yesterday at the Palace. V. J. Pearse, an insurance man of Everett, Wash., isat the Occidental with Mrs. Pearse. William Sims, who 1s extensively engaged in farming near Winters, is registered at the Russ. S. A. Gray of Sacramento, formerly colonel of te Eighth Regiment, N. G.C., i Russ. Samuel McMurtrie, the contractor, is in town from San Luis Obispo. His beadquarters are at the Palace. Mrs. E. B. Willis of Sacremento, wife of the editor of the tacramento Record-Union,is siaying at the Russ, H. H. Davies and family of EI Pasode Robles left here last night on their way to London to be goue scveral months. F. V. T. Lee left here yesterday evening to attend the State e'ectrical conference in Sac- ramento lust night and to-day. John F. Evans, chief clerk at Salt Lake City in the auditor’s oftice of the Rio Grande West- ern Reiiway, arrivea at the Oceidentas yester- day with Mrs, Evans. Mr. and Mrs. True and Miss True of Dunse muir, are guests at the Russ. Mr., True 18 engaged in business and mining. Shertff D. B. Getchell of Nevada County, who has been in the city several days, a guest at the Russ, departed last night for home. Csptain W. Mattson, who, before he left the sea, used to be in command of a vessel trading with Hawall, arrived yesterday at the Grand, companied by Mrs. Mattson. Rev. W. L. Githers, who recently arrived Rere on his way home to South Carolina from the Oriental missiouary field, returned yes- terday 10 the Grand aiter & few days spent out of town, Senator John T. Morgan and the Misses Mor- gan of Alabams, who arrived here Tuesday from Honolulu, went down yesterday to Del Monte for & two days’ rest before resuming their homeward journey. Mrs. Rebert Louis Stevenson, widow of the noted novelist, will arrive here t stesmship Alameda from Apis, will reside in Berkcley for a time with her son, Lioyd Osborne, a studeat in the uni- versity. Mr. and Mrs. Lioya Osborne, baby and nurse came over from Berkeley last night and took epartments at the Occidental to await the expected arrival here to-day of Mrs. Rob- ert Louis Stevenson from Apia. Mr. Osborne was Robert Louis Stevenson’s stepson and collaborator. Eugene Oppenheimer, Ernest Oppenheimer, Irs. Anna Br:ns and Miss Muria Luebben left night on their way to New York, whence they will sail on the 26th on the Ksiser Wilhelm der Grosse for Bremen. They wiil spend several months in sightseeing oan the continent of Europe. Frank E. Simpson, a capitalist of ‘Boston, accompanied by John H. Hooper of Bostom, rrived at the Palace Jast night, prepared to depart to-day for the Orient in th> steamship China on a vpleasure tour of the world. Mr. Simpson says that John L Sullivan will be defeated 5 10 1 in the contest for Mayor ; tha, the genersl populace of Boston wouid not tol- erate a prize-fighter for hesd of the city. Among the arrivals at the Grand yesterday Wes Joseph Spinney, the Fresno City Trustee from the district “south of the raiiroad track,” wher: he is known asthe “King of the Border.”” it was he who about & year sgo was made Mayor of Fresno for fifteen minutes, and | then resigned 1mmediately upon the comple- tion of the particular work desired by his fol low trustees, who had elevated him to the ex: alted position. Dr. L. C. Warner, 8 corset manufacturer of New York and chairman of the international commitiee of the Y.M.C.A., arrived here yesterdey, one day ia e, sccompanied by Mrs, arner and Miss Warner. Toey are at the Occidental, and wilt depart to day on the teamship China for the Oiieut, where it 1s the purpose of Dr. Warner, during his present pleasure tour of the world, to visit the Y. M, C. A. secretaries of the more important cities. He says that the committee, of which be has been chairman for the past two yea:s, spends annualy $75,000 in the United States and $25,000 abroad in its work, which has to do largely with selecting secretaries. Dr, Warner was first in this city about ten years ago, at the time of the international convention of the Y. M. €. A, and mgain four years ago in the interest of the asscciation. Had he arrived here as expected, Tuesday night, a banquet was to have been given by the Y. M. C. A. at the Occidental in his honor. Dr. Warner is the | father-in- of Seabury C. Mastick, formerly of this cits, who married Miss Warner last year, and is now living in New York City. W. & McCuen, city passenger agent at Oil City, Pa, of the Lake Fhore and Michigan Ssuthern Railway, of the Allegheny Valley d of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway, arrived here yester- day from a business visit of several wecks to Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia snd Poriland. He is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Mc- Cuen, and will remain in tnis eity and vicin- ity a week. He came West to perfeci arrange- ments for the transportation next spring of Easterners bound for the Klondike. He says that the prospects are that over the Lake Shore road aione 10,000 persons will travel during the three spring months on their way west to the Klond ke, and he believes that in all fully 200,000 persons may visit the Klon- aike and adjacent Alaskan gold flelds during next March, April and May. Of the great Lake Shore road from Buftalo to Chicago he said: “It is the finest picce of railroad construction in the world, a level track 540 miles in length, prectically straight, without curvesor steel bridges, but straightened and furnished with stone viaducts, and stands tc-day as the life work of the former president of the company, whose ideal it was to make it as it {s.” CALIFORNIAN . IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—At the Plaza—J. Leonard; Grand Union—A. C. Ciark, A. Koe- nig; Metropolitan—T. A. Corbett; Vendome— A. M. Boyd; Morton—W. R. Bovd; Marlbor- ough—S. K. Kickstone. Mr.and Mrs. A. Bogart and Miss Adaline Bogart left the Plazaand sailed on the Paris for Southaw pton. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—L. E. Thompson of Los Angeles, R. B. Howe of Oakland, Thomas R. Baird of 3an Francisco are in Washington. THE MONEY ORDER SYSTEM. Philadelphia Record. The postal money order service now brings to the Government a net yearly revenue of almost $1,000,000. A system which is thus 10Wa to be more than self-supporting, while sffording s great convenience to the people, ceriaivly deserves a chance to develop its fullest powers of usefnlness, ana the more so since its growtn would mean little increased expenditure by the Gevernment and certafoly & material growth in receipts. For tbis rea- sou the policy of gencral extension announced by the Postoffice Dzpartment will meet witn general appraval, cven though it should an- ticipate the public needs in some localities, nently. Every one remembers Ysaye, his famous Alpine hat, his shaggy hair, his leonine head and broad shoulders. Ysaye is | a violinist among violinists. He is a tre- | mendous personality, and, although he never condescends to trickery, yet his music is so warm, so human, that it appeals to the gen- eral public as well as to the cultured musi- cian. He is the ideal of the broad, \'lrile‘ school which Withe.mj inculcated. Ysave | has much work to do before he will reach San | Francisco. He is engaged to play with the | New York Philharmonic, the New York Sym- | phony, the Symphony Society of Cincinnatl aund many other aseociations, as well as in This afternoon at 3 o’clock in Metropolitan Hall Fritz Scheel and his fine orchestra will make virtually their first appearsnce this season. No one can forget the enthusiam cre- ated by this clever conductor during his last visit 1o the coast, and that his baton has iost none of its cunning will be fully demonstrated | te-day 10 the large attendance which will doubtiess greet his reappearance. Mme. Emily Lassaugue has issued cards of invitation to a song matinee 1o take place at the Y. M. C. A. on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Mme. Lassaugue is comparatively a new-comer, but she has gathered laureis in Y SAYE, the Great Belgian Violinist, Who Will Shortly Visit America. nearly every large city coming West, and north as far as Seattle. When Ysaye was here betore he played to crowded houses every time. | The ballet of Sardanapalus at the Olympia, | Paris, is making & grand success. The music | 1s=ald to surpass anything M. Edouard Diet | has written before. The innovetion of aance- songs is much appreciated, for the ears are charmed at the same time as the eves, and as | to the scenery—it is enough to make all Paris | Tun to the Oiympia. The first scene is somber, calm—in fact, relig‘ous—since the audience is | called upon o assistat a fete given in honor or the god, Baal. The sccond represents an orgy oi Sardanapalus, and the last is a veri- |table orgy of women. Women are every- where. It is the prettiest scene of all, and | was inspired by the marvelous picture of | Rochegrosse, “The End of Babylon.” The end | of Sardanapalus is grand, magnificent. Trans- { forming his throne into an immense fuaeral pyre he gives the order to throw all his wives | into it, and wutle he mounts it nimselt in | order toset it on fire the rebels penetrate into the palace with threais of death to every one. { A new theater, destined to make known the | work of a single musician, is in course of erec- tion in Germany. It is M. August Bungert, he author of =a tetralogy entitled the | “Odysse,” who will be the patron of this theater. The composer finds that he needs for his tetralogy & spccial scene like that of R ch- ard Wagner, and he has succeeded in finding his Bayreuth. The pretty little town of | Godesberg, beautifuliy situated on the banks | of the Ruine, offers 10 M. Bungerta fine spot | with a view of the river, aud he has met with | certain number of friends who heve sub- | seribed 500 marks each for the construction | f the theater. Itis the system ot “patronage’ which served Wagnerso well. Itissald that | the fate of the enterprise is already assured. | 1f the tetralogy of M. Bungert is as valuable as | | that of Wagner this enterprise will not be | bad, for Godesberg is only a few hours from | | London and Paris, and the country is quite as | pretty as that on the banks ot the Mein at | Bayreuth. The Dresden Opera has aiready | acquired the right of representation of Bun- | | gert’s tetralogy. The third part, entitled the | return of Ulysses, has already been played | with much succeds; the first part, named | “Circe,” will be played next season; the other | two will follow in 1899. M. Bunger: must | hasten the construction of his special theater, | or otherwise one will have seen the entire | ietralogy at Dresden before he can produce it on the banks of the Rhine. Henry Muller of Hamburg has invented a bowless violin, of which he gave an exhibi- | tion in Berlin. On the table lay two violins | and a’celloo The necks of the instruments ended in a wooden box, and the bridge wes | concealed by & desk. The inventor played one violin and his assistanis the second violin and "cello. The tone was good, but in- ferior in wermth and fullness to that pro- duced by the hand. The players used only the {left hand for fingering. A quivering of the | drapery of the teble created a suspicion that | the feet of the performers were at work on some mechanism, but at the end of the per- | formance the covering was raised showing | that there was nothing of the kind below the table. Whatever the secret may be the enter- tainmeut was highly interesting. rrobably | the mechanism disappeared before the | drapery was raised. Ii there was notning to bide where was the need of drapery? 1 [ Mme. Blanche Marchesi and her husbana, | the Bazon Auzon Caccemisi, were recently the | guests of the Duke axd Duchess of Connaught | at Abergeidie Cestle. As the Queen was also | at Balmoral her Majesty expressed a desire to | hear the eminent &rtistin an informel man- ner. Mme. Marchesi sang quite a serics of | songs by Gouuod, Massenet, ete., and on the | | next Wednesday, October 27, madame and her | | husband had the honor to be invited to a re. {ception at court, and tne next Saturday the | | Queen wished sgalu to heer the charming vocalist. On this occasion the sovereign, | after having expressed all the pleasure she | had experienced, presented Marchesi with a| commemorative medal of the jubilee, 4 | cheap wiy of haviag two evenings’ entertain. | ment out of a high-priced sougbird, but no doubt it Was & quid pro quo, the stamp of royalty. At the Opera of Berlin, which has just re- opened iis doors, an important modification has been introauced during the vacation. A few years ago, to please the Wagnerians, the orchestra was considerabiy lowered, although the musicians still @mained visible. Now it has been discovered that the stringed instru- | ments have lost their tone and color, while the brass instruments are too much heard. This state of things has bzen allowed for sey- | eral years, but it was found necassary to re- turn to the former level for the orchestra. The Opeta of Berlin is preparing a model rap- resentation of the “Anneau du Niblung.” | | i | Yvette Guilbert has an engagement with the Paris Scala till 1900, under a contract stiy- ulating for an increase of salary of from 4000 to 5000 irancs esch season. Last week sne made her reappearance, and was rapturcusly received. To say that after each soag Yvette was applauded anud recailed azain and again is ancient history. The enthusiasm for her songs, far from cooling, increases day by day. She showed herself by turns tender, resigned, touching and terrible. In fact, Xvette is the i | Alike my fears ible in metal mines. | trical Engineer, most of the large European cities, and now presents herself before a San Francisco audi- ence, hoping (o add another leaf to her wreaths. Figaro says: America is robbing us of an- olner of our most marvelous artists. Raoul Pugno has allowed hims:l( to be tempted and wili embark on the 30th of October for the land of dollars. The editor of a Russian paper asked Count Tolstoi his opinion about Wagner. “Wagner,” Toistol replied, “is & decadent who replaces imaginaiion and inspiration with scientific tricks. For my part I prefer a simple, popular air to Wagnerian music.” FLASHES OF FUN. Biggs—That man Mixer reminds me of a horse. Diges—In what respect ? Biggs—You can lead him to drink but you can’t make him (ake water.—Chicago News. “Mabel, is it & fact that you serve refresh- | ments to all tho young men who call on you 7" “Well. you must think I have money to burn, feeding flames that way.” —DetroitJour- nal. ot He—The scientists now claim that kissing will cure dyspepsia. She—Well, here’s health to you. And the sound could have been heard a square away.—Cleveland Leader. Found in an album: give pleasure— when they leave. “Visitors invariably “Have you read ‘The Choir Invisible ' “No; what I want ‘o learn about is ‘The Choir Inaudible.’ ”—Chicago Record. Snodgrass—The wor!d has a place for every- body. Micawber—Yes; the only trouble is there’s generally somebody else in it.—Boston Travel- ler. “Dia you hear what Whipton’s little boy said whea they showed him the twins 7" “No; what was it?"” “He said, ‘There! ba Bishop Gullem—TYes, it is a good work, and Itrust you believe in maintaining foreign missions. “Indeed I do. Why every day about one. Mamma’s been gettin’ ains agaln.’ "—Pittsburg Bulletin. papa sees Mr. McKinley —Harlem Life. THE TRYST. Here is the wonder of moonhght slanted Adown the enchanied wooawavs, here The strange and sibllsnt song of sedges On wind-swept edges of stream and mere; And the roses swing in the burgeoned hedges, | Leaning their lips ancar for pledges Ut atr t new found and u life made dear. new found! In our daysasunder, The skies under, ab, Sweet, my own, If 1 nad but known in Iy far sojourniug Of ihis returning, the hobe aione Had woo my heart fiom its hapless yearning; 1d my doubiings spuruing —if Laad but known! For, wheresoever my feet went roam ng, Al every g vamiuz my Lieart would fly, Hithervard drawn and hither wingi; Persistent clinging 1o trysis gone by, See~ing the hours of the hight-hird's singing, Hours of the stars iu the far skies swinglng, Of dusk and the roses and you and 11 Yet, if in days of dread d saster, When. Love wxs master, his gifis were slow, £hal! 1 now compialu that be meant (0 chent me, When roses grect me wizh scents I kuow, When liquid notes of the thrush en reat me, And when through the dusk you come to meet me Even as then, In the loug ago At our tryst agaln, under my. Of stendfast starlight ana iisi Ihave come 10 the end o dou And dieams d-ceivin Wooed uin.0 peace pist 1 had been coat And all my sorrowful quest retrieving, 1 shail tuch the 1ips of my rose of June! —Harper's Bazar, SALVATION. Moments. “An’ hoo’s the d wife, Sandy!” said one farmer to anoiher, as they met in the market place and exchanged snuffboxes. “Did yeno hear thatshe's derd and buned?” said Sandy, solemniy. “Denr me!” exclaimed his friend sympa- thetically ureiy it must have been very sudden?” “Aye, it was sudden,” returned Sandy. “Ye see, when she turned ill we hadpa time 1o send for the doctor, sae I gied hera bit pouther that I haa lying in my drawer for a year or twa, an’ that L had got frae the doctor myself, but’ hedna ta’en. What the pouther was | ! d:npa verra weel keu, but she died soon after. It's & sair ioss to me, I can assure ye, but it's something 10 be thankfu’ for 1 didna 'tak’ the pouther mysel’.” ———eeteee— ODD FACTS. The average price of a cashmere goat of sheep is about $1000. About five poundsof Wool are necded 1or an eniire Cashmere shawl. Corrosive water is a common source of trou. Its effect ou trom, curiously enough, is greater when it simply drips on tha metal than when the iron is im- mersed in it. A 12-pound iron rail has been cutintwoiu a lew weeks by drops of water falli.g on it. The latest charge against electric raflroads is that in many paces where tley run near the coast they disturb the working of sub- mariue electric cables. The electrie street railway in Cape Town, Africa s the Elec- has affected seriously tne elflc}ennv g{elhlc l(pélm; recorder of the sub- Marine cable of the Eastern and £o Telegraph Company, fliin o i + tover | thereto, excepting streetcar: | and eles Spa, N. Y, says he has voted 1r3r eighteen Presidential candidates, not one of whom was elected. 2 The Germans seem to be losing respect for their Emperor. Last year there were 33 per cent more imprisonments for lese mujesty than eleven years ago, During the youthful days of Zola and the lat: Henri Meilbac, when they were both as- sistants to Messrs. Hachetie & Co., the work of Meilhac was to reach gdown tne volumes from the shelves for Zola to make into parcels, Mark Twain’s trip on the glacier has been beaten by five Swiss tourists, who recently went down the Gwachton, in the Dammastock district, on an avalanche. They got to the foot of the mountain alive, but counsiderably bruised. A recent writer on the Baconian theory says the disappearance of Sbakespeare’s manu- scripts proves nothing. Only two or three signatures and a four-line receipt of Moliere ere in existence, and he was born after Shakespeare’s deatb. Dr. Marpillero, an eminent Italian sciontist, who has for a number of years been making experiments and observations relating to children’s ideas of life and death, has pub- lished his experiences. He found that in an- swering quest.ons about life the poorer chil- dren almost invariably took a brighter view than the children of the rich. In a recent number oi the Medicintsche Wochenschrift, Professor Mikullez describi his success in aseptic surgery as due to the fact that he always wore gloves sterilized in steam, thereby diminishing tne probability of infection of the wounds. In long operations he repeatedly changed gloves, which can be cleaned and used several times. ANSWERS TO LOhRESkONDENTS.\ BILL OF SALE—L F., City. A bill of sale does not have to be veritied bafore a notary public. ALicE RIX , City. Alice Rix (nee Bal- lard) was divorced from McDonald, her first husband, and then from Rix, her second. Draw PEDRO—O. 8., City. In draw pedro a player is not allowed 1o bid more than once. The tenspot of trumps 1s the only one that counts as game. COPYRIGHT—G. 8, City. To secure a copy- right for a print or engraving follow the rules given in “‘Drematic Copyright” that appeared in Answers to Correspondents in ths1ssue of the 19th inst. WINZLER'S CASE—H. W., City. The case of Officer Winzler, who some time since shot a boy, is still before the Commissioners, for the reuson that the wounded Loy has not yet been able to appear beiore the Commissioners (o make his siatement of the affair that led up to the shooting. FATHER AND £0N — L F., City. There is nothing illegal in a son purchasing a place of business from his father, providing the son has attained the age that enables him to make acontract. As to whether a son would be re- sponsible for the debis of the father con- tracted in the business would depend alto- gether upon the terms of sale, A MURDER OF LoNG AGo—W. H. 8, City. On July 9, 1864, Thomas Briggs, chief clerk in the banking-house of Robert Curtis & Co., was murdered in a carriage of the Nortk London Raiiroad while on his way to his residence in Hnckney, Engiand. One Franz Miller was sr- rested for the crime, tried in October of the same year and executed November 14 follow- ing. DrAW-POKER—Sub-criber, City. In draw- poker a straight may be composed of the five of hearts, six of diamonds, seven of clubs, eight of spedes and nine of hearts. The ace, king, queen, jick ana ten, irrespective of suit, is a straight. The ace in a straight may change in value, for it may be taken as ihe begin.uing of the streight. Taus, an ace, deuce, three, four and five is a straight, but it is the lowest one; it would be beaten by a two, turee, four, five and six. HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAw—J. J., City. Graduates of accredited high schools and pri- vate schools of this State, who are eligible for admission to the University of the State of California upon certificates, and whose cert cates cover the requirements for admission to the College of Law, are admitted to the Has- tings College of Law without examination. An npplicant for admission to the juuior.class must be at least 18 years of age; must apply 1or admission not later than thirty days sfi the beginning of the college vear; must de- posit with the registrar a certificate of good moral character, and unless he presents a cer- titicate as aliuded to must pass an examina- tion in certain siudies named. The classes me:t daily at 8:15 A. . and P M. RIGHT OF WaY—J. 8. M., City. In San Frane cisco, in case ot a fire, the apparatus of the Fire Department has the paramouunt right of way, as you will see by the following from the fire ordinarce of the Board of Supervisors: All steam engines and other movab'e apparatus belonging to the Fire Department, kire Marshal and Fire Patroi shall have the paramount right of way (hrougl all streets, lanes. alleys, places and ourts of the city and county of san Frapcisco WieD running or going 10 a fire, anu such arpi ratus, together with al other vehicles contiguuns s, shull take and kesp the rignt siae of the street unless the same be ob- s.ructed: and all streetcars iu the vicluiiy of any such apparatus going to a fire shali jetard or nc. celerate their speed, as occasion mav require, in order:o give the ayparatus of the Fire Depari- meat, the Fire Macshal and the Fire Pacrol the unobstructed use of the street fur the time beiig, Generally speaking, a streetcsr carrying the Unitea States m=il has the right of way, put fire apparatus moving ia response to an alarm i3 on its way to save prop- erty und possibly life, and for that reason has tne paramount right of way for the time being, and & mail sireetear would come to a hali {0 lei the apparatus pas: \ CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's,* e 2) EPECIAL information daiiy to manufactarars, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Moxntgomery, * S “Partitions as thin as ever in your flat A “Girl still thumping pranoforte Nop. Worse than that” “What 7 “Talking wheel. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. California Limited on the Santa Fe route TaE wili besin lis third annual season on Monday, Uc- ¥6 ‘lhe time of depariure is 4:30 P. i from Market-street ferry. Equ pmest consis.s of siandard Puliman seepers, buffet smoking-car dining-car, mavaged by Mr. frea Harvey, a1d will have ali the mo.ern comf making it the most juxurious service ev between California avd the Easi. Reservations on this magnificent traln made at 643 Market street, Chronicle buildins. ‘‘Yesterday,” said Javson, “I refused a sup- plicant woman a request for a small sum of money, and in consequence of my act I passed asleerless night. Tue tones of her voice were ringing ia my ears the whole time.”’ Your sofiness of heart does you credit,” sa1d Mabso! Who was the woman ?* “My wife. Detroit Free Pres: XEW TO-D. Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious, Absoiutely Pure