The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1897. — THURSDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE 200042517 Clay street EDITORIAL ROOMS... Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANGCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents s week. per month 63 cents. By mail $6 per yeal THE WEEKLY CALL........ ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE........ +..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE... BRANCH OFFICE -Rooms 31 end 32, 34 Park Row. 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 9 Hayes street; open unul 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin stree until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open uniil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open uutii 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open till 9 o’clock. A PARAGRAPH OF WARNING. HE charge that a conspiracy is on foot among the practi- cal politicians of this city by which they hope to capture the Board of Freeholders to be elected on December 27 i ridiculously transparent from more view points than one. In the first place the bossesare pot such fools as to think that any conspiracy of the kind described could succeed. If the politi- cians were able to elect a Board of Freeholders equal to the task of framing a charter to suit them they know very well that theinstrument would be certain to be defeated at the poils. It is safe to say that any charter drawn to please the political bosses would more than probably displease the peo The dificulty with all the charters which, since tbe adop- tion of the new constitution, have been submitted to the voters of San Francisco has been that they were class charters. The first one created an autocratic Mayor and provided for the re- moval of the cemeteries—thus at one blow antagonizing the church authorities and all conservative people. The second one created a ressonable Mayor, but reduced the salaries of the office-holders. That charter was defeated by the “‘push.” The third one returned to the Lord Mayor idea and set up an obso- lete and explcded system of improving the streets and sewers. It was a contractors’ charter and was knocked in the head by alarge mujority. These mistakes bave been repeated in vari- ous forms in the other charters submitted. The lesson to be derived from the experience of the city with these instruments is simply thi Until a Board of Free. holders 1s chosen which can frame a charter acceptable to all classes it is useless to spend time a2nd money in such work. Unquestionably a charter concocted by the practical peliti- cians would beffurtber away from what the people want than any heretofore framed, It is the common praciice of rascals who £nd thneir profit in cduping the public to create an irrevelant commotion in the civic field whenever they are ready to play their tricks. In this way they distract attention from themselves. Such was the plan adopted by the young pickpockets who chased Oliver Twist and yelled op thief.’” The idea is derived from a species of cuttlefish, which, on being attacked, fills the water with an inky fluid and escapes in the confusion. In view of the attempts of a certain unmentionable news- paper to create the impression in this city that a conspiracy is being hatched among the bosses to capture the next Board of Freeholders, the question becomes pertinent, What objact has the sheet in misrepresenting so ortant a matter? Members of the Citizens’ Committee of One Hundred repudiate all con- nection with it, and deny that it has been asked to aid in the adoption of their charter. Indeed, some of the ccmmitteemen make no concezlment of the belief that if their charter is so unfortunate as to be favored by the newspaper drab referred to it isas good as defeated already. What, then, is the object of tLe saeet in lying about the political bosses? It cannot yearn for eternal punishment hereafter. It was assured of that long ago. In fact, Tom Perper, who was kicked out of the infernal regions for being an abler prevaricator than Satan himself, was not better qualified for a place beside the burning lake than the sheet in question. We confess we ure at a loss to divine tbe purpose of the journalistic jellyfish in this instance. Beyona doubt it hason hand a purpose of some kind. We are positively assured by members of the Citizens’ Committee that the job will not be found in their charter. Our advice to them, however, is 10 look sharp. There is an old Spanish proverb to the effect that he who lies down with dogs will get up covered with fleas. The Citizens' Committee cannot afliiiate with tbis journalistic dog without getting fleas, for, as the members of their body must know, it is utterly unprincipled. The history of that railroad contract shows that it will not even stay bought. Perhaps the Attorney-General wculdn’t bave acted so if he had not missed his veller journal. Somebody may have wanted it to startthe morning fire. Being left without in- structions, of course Mr. McKenna may have done something rash; for the Attorney-General is understood 1o be merely human. Yeller journalism is now describing McKinley 2s a weather- vane, blown by every breath of wind. Then ali the wind the yellers have Lbeen trying to give him has failed to reach the mark, for it hasnot veered him a bit. C. 0. Brown seems firmly convinced that the people who assisted in exposing him are very wicked indeed, but he has an apparent difficuity in launching the theory that they are the ones on trial. A DISSOLVING FUSION. LL tbe signs disclosed in the elections now going on A in the East portend ihe dis:olution of the Bryan party. of last yeur. In New York the element that consti tuted the force and vigor of the fusion movement in that city has oroken away from Tammany to follow Henry George, and in Ohio Coxey leads the stalwart Populists away from the Democratic camp into which they were enticed during the Presidential campaign. It is the same in other States. Gorman's masterly skill has done much to reorganize his party in Maryland, but even there evidences of weakness are abundant. He trimmed the money plank of his plaiform to catch the gold men without alienating the silver men of the oid-time Democratic party, but has not wholly succeeded, and to-day sees the Populists who helped Bryan refusing to help him, while the Baitimore Sun, representing the conservative wing of the party, continues deat to his enticings and aveise to his pleadings. The fusion of last year was one of the kind that could be formed only in the heat of a Presidential campaign, and held together only by the pressure of hard times. With the ending of the excitement of the canvass and the return of prosperity the inharmonious elements of the fusion having no affinity - for one another fall apart and go each its own way. There will of course be an opposition party o face the Re- publican administration whenever its policies are submitied to the people. There will be opposing candidates at every elec- tion, but that opposition wili not come from the combination that made the fight last year. Tammany is clearly trying to lead the Democratic hosts back to conservatism, and Gorman is giving his aid. Meantime George and the fighting element refuse to return. Bryan is rushing from State to State like a ben striving to recall a scattered brood, but finds nowhere a platform on which he can rest his foot. The new era is bringing new issues, and new combinations of men will form to meet them. The party of prosperity seems entrenched in power and safe for years tocome, The people can go forward with their industries in the assurance that they will not be disturbed by adverse or foolish legislation. Capital will be eafe in its investments, laborin its wages. The old fusion which threatened the coantry with the menace of the Chicago platform has gone to pieces, and it will be long before another 80 dangerous arises 1o disturb prosperity again. | 11 OUR WEAKNESS AT WASHINGTON. OVERNMENTAL neglect of the interests of California has been the theme of many a complaint on the part of our people. Nor have these complaints been withput foundation. Hundreds of instances of neglect could be cited to justify them. California has received nothing like her fair share of appropriations for public improvements. The revenue she has paid into the national treasury far exceeds the amounts expended on her rivers and harbors and other works of a national character. It is worth while to seck out the cause of this neglect in order that we may devise some means of removing it, for we shall never cease to suffer the effects as long as the cause re mains. The search will not be a long one. In fact, to those who are acquainted with the manner in which appropriation bills are made up at Washington, the cause of our failure to receive a due share of them is as plain as a pikestaff. We have failed simply because we have not given our representa-. tives in Congress a sufficient length of service to enable them to acquire a potent influence with their fellow-members. It is not the delegations from the greater States that direct affairs in Congress, but the delegations that have been longest in service. Maine is more potent than New York because hef representatives have virtually a life tenure of the office. Men who are returned to Congress term after term make friends among men of both parties, and friendship gives power. The delegate who has rendered a service to the Ohio delegation at one time, the New Yorkers at another, and in turn those of many other States, can hardly be refused by those he has served when he goes some day to ask them to vote for an appropriation for his own State. In politics, as in business and society, reciprocity is the fundamental principle of the mutual relationships of iaen. Our Congressmen receive help exactly in proportion as they have given help. The new man at Washington, who has assisted no one, 1s handicapped in competition with a man of perhaps less ability, but more experience, who asks support for his bills, not from strangers, but from men with whom he has co-operated in the past to enact their bils. California will never have her rightful and due prestige at ‘Washington until her people cease to be fickle and changeable in political action. So long as we change our Congressmen with every succeeding term, so long will we lack the power to compel governmental attention to our interests. The cause of our failure to obtain the appropriations we merit is with our- selves, and not with the officials at the national capital. The remedy also is with ourselves. If we can eliminate from our poli- tics the mean local jealousies which seek to drag down a man as soon as he begins to rise and acquire influence at Washing- ton, we shali soon have no more reason to complain of gov- ernmental neglect. The issue is a most important one to the State. Our in- terests affected by legislation at Washington are very great. Either directly or indirectly they concern the progress of every community and the business of every citizen. Itisa gross folly to leave the choice of our delegates to Congress to the chance and hazard of the strife of spoilsmen and local boss: The representatives of the business and the industries of the State should take care to see that good men are elected to Washington and kept there when they have proven their worthiness. Let us rid California of the absurdity of having districts that need protection represented by casual free-traders; or sound money districts by unsound theorists ; and then having elected a satisfactory delegation to look after the interests of the State, let us keep it at Washington to grow and increase in strength from term to term. ‘While Mr. Gunst 1s protecting the public against the nickel. in-the-slot form of imposition he should not show any bias in favor of a particular machine, especially the machine in which many people believe him to have an interest. Observing such a course on his part there are people so unreasoning as to ascribe bis action to something besides the desire to promote public morals. These people may be mistaken, however. Perhaps it is a little too much to say that San Quentinisa | ilure. It all depends on the point of view. Considered asa prison it is doubtless not a success, but as a resort for the fat- tening and delectation of criminals it can haraly be surpassed. THE CURRENCY PROBLEM. ISPATCHES from Washington announce that in his forthcoming report to Congress Secretary Gage will un- dertake to settle all phases of the money question by one omnibus measure, dealing with issues of banking and currency as well as with the problem involved in the standard of value. It 1s stated that his report has been already drawn up and has been read at a meeting of the Cabinet and is now under con- sideration by that body. TUntil the report has been made public and the plan can be studied comprehensively it will not be worth while to under- take criticism of it. The digest that has been given outin the dispatches may be accurate, but even so it is not sufficiently full to afford a fair basis for decision upon the merits of the proposed plan. It suffices to say the main features of the scheme as reported are a reduction of the interest rate on the national debt by the substitution of gold bonds bearing 21§ per cent interest in place of the present coin bonds bearing from 4 to 5 per cent; the withdrawal of ihe Government from the banking business by the retirement of greenbacks and the sub- stitution in the place of greenbacks of national bank notes and silver coined from the bullion now in the treasury. There is just enough in this outline to awaken curiosity in the subject, and the public will wait with some impatience the official publication of the report. It is quite likely that in some respects the plan wil! be aitered atter consultation in the Cabi- net, for the money question is one of the great issues in our poli- tics, and it will be the administration asa whoie and not the Secretary of the Treasury alone that will make the recommen- dations concerning it to Congress, It will be gratifying to the business and industrial interests of the country to note that the administration intends 1o deal with this issue firmly and decisively without further delay. It 1s time that our financial affairs were taken out of the arena of politics. We have been discussing banking systems and stan- dards of value for years, and the country needs a rest on this issue, as well as that of the tariff. ‘Whatever plan is proposed either by the administration, or by the House Committee on Banks and Banking will meet with violent opposition as a matter ol course, but we believe it to be equally a matter of course that whatever well-devised system is finally adopted will be accepted in a short time with- out further opvosition as a relief from the disturbing agitation on the subject. The country will give to the report of Secretary Gage an impartial consideration, and will be well pleased if Congress, during the coming session, deals with it as promptiy as during the last session it dealt with the tariff. The Yountville gentleman who on a wager drank six gellons of wine at a sitting not only had the pleasure of per- forming an extraordinary feat, but rounded out the episode nicely by dying just as the last pint went down. There coull not well have been a more fitting climax. The only regret wiil be that the deceased has not the opportunity of coming back long enough to listen to a few congratulations, But it was a shameful waste of wine. The presentation to dhlnl Lees of a floral star tacked only one element to have been a happy event. The fact was ob- served with palned surprise that Mr. Gunst was not among the contributors. It is impossible to wholly stifle a wicked feeling ot regret that the people who wanted to lynch the man who killed his tather at Redwood City were not permitted to follow out the impalse. The donkey who is being ridden across the country on a wager made by the rider does not have the distinction of being the only donkey iu the party. 1 PERSONAL. F. Barson, a merchant of Merced, is at the Lick. B. C. West of Richmond, Ky., is at the Cos mopolitan. Ex-Mayor Sam V. Rucker of San Jose is at the Palace. G. S. Bloss, a lawyer of Atwater, is regis tered 4t the Lick. N. Cross and family of Fargo, N. D., are at the Cosmopolitan, Ex-judge John M. Fulweiler of Auburnisa Ruest at the Lick. George Beake, a big mining man of Little town, is at the Lick. A. M. Chilas of Spokane, Wash., is registered at the Cesmopolitan. S. H. Davis, a Sacramento lawyer, is reg- istered et the Grand. J. A. Cooper, an attorney of Ukish, is a late arrival at the Grand. Fred Erickson, the railroad contractor, of Jemestown, is staying at the Grand. _State Senator B. F. Langford is in town from Stocktou. He is stayiug at the Palace. Professor O. P. Jenkins isin town from Stan- ford University. He hasa room at the Palace. C. A. Barlow of 8an Luis Obispo arrived at the Grand yesterday on a short visit to this city. Frank Mattison, Assessor of Santa Cruz fouuty, is at the Grand registered from Santa ruz. Mr. and Mrs. N, H. Wulff of Napa have apartments at the Lick. Mr. Wulff isa mer- chant, Thomas E. Hughes, proprietor of the Hughes Ho el. ¥resno, is making a short stay at the Grand. P. A. Buel!, the Stockton lumber merchant and member of the Board of Trade, is at the Grand. C. B. §hlver of Fresno, president of the Fresno Flume and Canal Company, 1s a guest at the Grand. F. W. Arnold of Chicago and W.T. Irwin. clty attorney of Peoris, Iil., arrived yesterday at the Grand. Walter Hobart’s condition last night was re- ported to be better than at any previous timse since the operation. - H. E. Adams, vice-president of the Stockton Gas Company, arrived here last night from Stockton. He is at the Grand. Louis L. James, secretary of the Mill Valley and Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway, is in town {from Mill Valley and js staying at the Lick. Among the arrivals yesterday at the Palace were Mr. and Mrs. L N. Drysdale, Miss Drys- dale and H. H, Drysdale of Buenos Ayres, Ar- gentine Republic, South America. O.E Gyane, a capltalist from New York, arrived here yesterdsy, accompanied by his \_vHe and family, to spend the winter. The Gyune’s have apartments at the Baldwin, F. P. Plagemann, & Redding ho'el proprietor, accompanied by H. Clineschnidt and P. John- son, hotel proprietors of the Sacramento Vi ley, will leave here next Tuesday for Honolulu, _Fred C. Siebe, brother of Asscssor Siebe, ar- rived in New York yesterday afternoon in the steamship Saale from Breme He is 6n his way home to this eity aiter an absence of about three months. Ho Yow, brother-in-law of the Chinese Minister at Washington, and late secretary of the legation there, will probably arrive here to-morrow evening from tue East. He comes to be Vice-Consul. George Eade of New York, American man- eger of Thomas Cook & Sons, world tour ex- cursion agents, will arrive here to-morrow, traveling in the interest and for the improve- ment of the service, M:s. B. F. Dillingham, wife of the Honolulu raliroad magnate, her son, W. F. Dillingham, and George C. Potter, also of the Honolulu colony that has sp=nt some time here, leave { Tuesday for their isiand homes. Ballington Booth, head of the American Volunteers, left San Jose Tuesday evening for bis headquarters in New York City, after hay- ing inspected the work of the divislons of the gospel army in and near San Francisco. Miss Rosecrans of Wrshington, D. C., daugh- ter of the aged and well-known General Rose- craus, arrived from the East last nightand registered at the Occidental. She is on her wi to visit her father, who is at Santa Monica, W. M. Blakey, a lawyer of Ey ille, Ind., arrived at the Lick yesterday on a visit to his uncle, George McLean of Grass Valley, the wealthy mining magnate, who has been dan- gerously ill for several weeks in his apart. ments at the Lick, Among the Esstern track and racehorse men that arrived here last night was E. P. Enrman, a Chicago bookmaker. He was {ll when he arrived and went to the Occldental, He said that more horsemen are coming to San Francisco this winter than in any former seasou. George D. Moore of San Antonio, Tex., ar- rived in this city yesterday from Australia, but will return in the stexmer Alameda when she leaves here on November 11. Mr, Moore is temporarily a guest at the Grand. He wili visit his oid Texas home before returning to Australia. Professor Clay MacCaulay, formerly chap- Iain in the United States navy, arrived here last night from Minneapolls, and primarily from Boston, where he has been visiting for several months. Mr. cCaulay 1s a guest at the Occidentnl. He will leave here Saturday on the Doric for Japan and his home in Tokio. Thomas Costigan, the New York bookmaker, John H. Quinn, the Kentucky bookmaker, and Thomas H. Shannon of Lexiugton, Ky., horsc-owner, arrived at the Baldwin last night, having come directly through frem the East to attend the winter raciug here with J. B. Coleman of New York, who arrived at the Baldwin several days ago. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—At the 8t. Cloud—Mrs. J. T. Boyson. Hoffman—D. Allen, M. A. Rothsehild. Belvedere—F. Hubner. Imperial— T. B. Pierce, H. Heyman. St. Denis—Miss Coleman. Metropolitan—W. H. Moner. Park Avenue—W. F. Southard. Gilsey—Mrs. Kim- ball. Bartholdi—H. C. Larthrop. Netherland— Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Mason. Jules Le Gras left the 8t. Cioud and sailed on the St. Paul for Southampton, NUGGETS OF HUMOR. Sister—Why don’t you marry her? Brother—I'd like to, but, unfortunately, she has an impediment in her speech. Sister—What is it? Brother—She can't say “Yes.”—Boston Trav- eler. Brownell—It isn't the bieycle which costs the money. Itis the bicycle attachments. Harkness (admonishingly)—True; but then you should not form one ior every pretty bi- cycle girl you meet.—Puck. Mrs. Newlywed—I'm going to sprink! tle poison on this plece of angel cak it where the mice can getit. I think it will kill them, Mr. Newly wed—Why, of course it willl But why do you put the poison on it ?—Puck. *‘Mr, Highmore, bave I ever given you any reason for your persistently asking me to marry you?” “Great Cemsar, yes, Miss Julia! You've re- fused me five or six times.”—Chicago Tribune. “You can tell how old a tree is by its rings.” “Yesy and that's the way you can tell how old & young girl is, too.”’—Chicago Record. Optim—You are always predicting disaster for everybody and everything. Doesn’t the plan of creation suit you? Waat would you doif you had the power to make mankind hap- pier? Pessim—Well, I'd have about nineteen-twen- tieths of the human family made of asbestos. ~Cnicago Tribuue. “Chicago yoliceman has just been left a big fortune in England, but he’s decided to re- main on the force.” ~Why?" ‘‘Because he'd have power to boss only about 200 people on his English property.”’—Cincin- nati Commercial Tribune. *1f 8 man should attempt to kiss you what would you do?” he asked. She held a pretty littie arm out toward him, “Look,” she said, “I have no muscle at all.” Immediately thereaf er s man tried to kiss her,—Boston Herald, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. In Italy every town and village has its band and so proud are the inhabitants of the efficiency of their own particular band that they cheerfully subscribe sufficient money to maintain it. Sometimes it is a municipal grant and sometimes a private subscription. Mascagni wes the leader of 8 municipal band in & small town at the time he wrote the Cavelleria. When any band especially dis- vinguishes itself, its fame spreads, sometimes even beyond the border of itsown couatry. This has been the case with the Banda Ros: of San Severo, which has lately arrived in New York. It has become by degrees to be considered the best band in Italy, and after visiting various cities in Europe it has landed in America sixty strong, dressed in dark uni- forms with bright red stripes and facing, under its leader, Eugenio Sorrentino, who has brought it to its presentstate of perfection. This band has created a great deal of interest and curiosity, and at the first performance was greatly applauded, and received un- stiuted praise from the critics. Margaret von Vahsel is the soprano soloist with the Banda Rossa, and it is also assisted by & child violin- ist, Carlotta Stubenrauch, “who played in- telligently with a real simplicity of manner rare among prodigies,” says oneoi the New York papers. The Hungarians possess an ancient wind in- strument sul generis, which is called & taro- gato0, and which they formerly used instead of the clarion. The sound of this instrument is rather melancholy, sweet and appealing. The tarogaio has been neglecied for & long time but the Hungarians remembered it on the oc- | casion of the visit of William II to Budapest, and a military band during the court dinner played several pieces for the tarogato, with orchestral accompaniments. This resurrec- tion grestly interested the company,and it appears that in Hungary this instrument is going again to be fashionable. A professor of Budapest has brought it to perfection so that itcan be used in modern orchestration, and we shall perhaps sooa sce in the scores of the young Huogarian composers a part spe- cially destined for the tarogato. While waiting amateurs are buying in Hungary all the ancient instruments they can find. Col- lectors should muke & note. The membersof the Manhattan Union com- plained lately to the proprietor of Clarendon Hall that he was employing musicians who were not members of the union, stating that he must either dismiss them or they must join the union. These players turned out to be ladies, and some ot the other musicians ob- jecied to thelr peing admitted to the union. The other trades declared the position to be untenable, and said that anyhow they had heard too much ebout musical matters lately and were tired of it, and that if the Mankat. tan Union tried to prevent these respectable wonten musicians from earning a liviag there would be a big row in the Central Labor Uuajon. The Manhattan Union then withdrew its objection, and, on applying sgein, the ledies were made tull-fledged members of the society. Alively dispute is at this moment being carried on among the Bavarian journals apre- pos of the engagement a. the Theater Royal, Munich, of a singer, Mlle. Ternina, on the very exceptional conditions which have been made for her by the intendant of the theater, While the Aligemein Zeitung sings heroically the praises oi this young artist another paper, the Augsburger Post Zeitung, is indignant and afirms thatthe question ought to be taken before the Chamber so that this extraordinary engagement may be dis- cussed, as well as the sum of 50,000 marks un- lawfully demanded, according to it, for the recent repairs to the two royal theaters. The theatrical world of Munich is much exercised over the matter and awaits with much curi- | osity the denouement of this great quarrel. Here is a letter from Schubert which was a dressed by this great but poverty-stricken artist, who, as every one knows, was always miseratle, to his friend Bauernfeld: Vienna, July 10, 1826. “It is impossible for me to come {0 Gmunden or anywhere else; I have nota sou and in general my situation is very sad. Come then thyself to Vienna as soon as possible, for Duport desires me to write an opera for him aud as the libretios which I have examined are far from pleasing me it wonld be & good thing if thy poem could be | favorably received. In default wouid atleast be a littie money. When he wrote_thus, exposing his misery to his friend, the unfortunate Schubert had only W0 more years to liveand he had already pub- lished more than sixty works containing several hundred picces. of glory it Audran’s new operetta, “La Poubee,” after having created uncommon interest in Paris and London, Is coming to New York. Audran is the composer of “Olivette” and the *Mas- cot,” also **Miss Helyett,” but “La Poupee” is | said to surpass them ail. The libreito is the storyof a young monk who, in his novitiate, falls heir to a large property, on condition that he marries. In his perplexity he deter- mines to go through a mock marriage with a doll, and orders one to be made life size. The toymaker, however, instead of a doll, sends his own daughter to the wedding, & meaneuver which gives rise to all the Interest in the plece. The Paris Figaro states that it hears from Vienna that the celebrated American humor- | ist, Mark Twain, has recently arrived there, and that the author is the father of two beau- tiful girls of whom he intends to make musi- cians, and it is in the Inter«st of their musical education that he is spending & year on the banks of the Danube. The older daughter is & youug ladf of 18, and endowed with a voice which will win for her as much fame as her father has gained in the literary world. Anew prima donna, Mile. Afno Ackte, has just made a great success in Paris in the role of Margaret. Miss Ackteis 20 years old, tall and bionde, and a native of Finland. Her father is leader of the orchestra at Helsingfors | and her mother was a celebrated Swedisn | dramatic soprano. Pearl Ladd of this city, who 1s not yet 14 years old, is giving two concerts at San Jose this week, oue on Friday evening end the other on Saturday aiternoon, at both of which fuil houses are assured. The programmes have been compiled entirely by herself, M. Cavalho has just engaged for a series of performances in February at the Opera Comique, Paris, an artist whose success has been great in Loudon and New York, Mlle. Zeilie de Lussan, who is of French origin, but who was born and raised in New York. Both the Reszke brothers have been deco- | ratel by the Czar of Russ After having literaliy circumnavigated the globe Ovide Musin, the violinist, has arrived atlast at his old home in Liege, Belgium. Mlle. Simonuet, the charming interpreter of Manon at the Opera Comique. will haye her bust in the nextsalon executed by the sculp- tor Ernest Jetot. THE MIRTH CURE. New York Sun. Some French science men have been discuss- ing and endeavoring to dispose of the ques- tion of mirth as an sgent for the cure of disease or of states of mind which favor the progress of certain diseascs. At the conven- tion of tne French schientific press, as repro- duced in the Journal d'Hygiene, it appears that some very novel views were advanced on the subject of mirth as a therapeutic, and the case was recalled of Lord Lanesborough, a vie- tim of gout, who, on the aporoach o! an at- tack began dancing, notas if from the spasm of pain, but with tne lightness of joy, execut- ing, so to speak, a pas seul that might be ap- piauded in the academy. Lord Lanesborough, according to the state- ment of the Frenchmen who spoke in praise of his action, was 8o steadfast ifever In the merit of mirth as a cure for iiis that at the death of the Priffice of Deumark, the husband | of Queen Anne, he requested a special andi. ence of her M jesty in order that he 1410 to her the sCvantage of ‘“‘ordering t ddlers to tune up,” that her erief at the loss of her consort might be by his method as- suaged und U she might wou gracious for- 1fainess ai & time 0f sore personal trial by ancing, 5o tie French also deseribe 1it, the reel of Virginin, vr. Deuis Prudent-Roy, another Parisian, commended mirth as a ‘cure for broncigal eatarrh. He averred that laughter was a o- ficial alveolar stimulus, giving useful shocks to the chest, and it was u wise, cheap and sat- isiactory substitute for creosote and other drugs. Unfortunately there are in every com- Schubert.” | munity some persons unable to avail them- sa.vnyol the pndvlntlges of medication liodr illness; but as Dr. Denis Prudent-Roy poin eo out thére are no persons in any community & poor in means, if not in temper and mmni] e, that they cunnolluugn,hig b’yl l::x.;hmg they can proiote a cure of their ailm Another learned man told of a historical incident in which laughter had figured as & cure. When the Duke of Angouleme was in service in the army of Henri IV he wu(l stricken with llness in the camp, and his life was despaired of. The surgeon Of the army corps, to whom appeel was made, recom: mended (the medicine chest was probebly empiy), laughter. Hesecured the co-operation of the Duke's bail.ff, his secretary and the captaic of the Roval Guards. These men came to the bedside of the Duke dressed in white and wearing, each of them, red hats with cock’s feathers. All three were men of demure ur =1l three were between 60 and 70 years of age. P Each one endeavored, in the Duke's pres- ence, 10 knock off the hat of ane of the otller!d and the Duke of Angouieme was sO convuise with laugater at ine antics of his visitors that the tever which had beset him for more than three wecks diminished. He recovered his health; he was restored, and he resumed command of a portion of the King’s army. In cases of intermitient fever, too, accord- ing to seme of the French experts, unre- strained and unrestrainable mirih produced Dby the perusal of an almanac or joke book in 2’ language which the {)flllenl anderstands wiil restore where medicine has failed to. An instance is told cf a patient who was cured by attending the Theatre Fraucais and enjoying a periormance of “Le Mariage de Figaro,” presented with much animation. In fact, the instances of recovery caused by the magical inflvence of mirth poured in. The non-doctors in the congress were eager to add to their number, whereas the medical men seemed loath to admit that llughu‘r——el'lher unbridied mirth or *‘the guarded laugh,’” as it is now sometimes called—c.uld be accepted as primary hygienic ageut rather than &s an aid to convalescence. “Laugh and grow iat” has long been & homely adage, the merit of which has not | been disputed seriously evem by scientific minds or by the uninitiated in the myvsteries of hygiene.” But *laugh and grow well” is a new version of the ancient admonition, and it will require, prooably, much more than the assurance of any Fremch lights of science, nowever accomplished professionally and however desirous of promoting hilarity and good cheer, to establish the principle that any serious bodily ailment may be cured radi- cally by a simple prescription of laughter. For such asimple matter as toothache, the policy of “laughing it off” has frequently been iried” without success; it is b2lieved in by every one but the man with the toothache. But there is noveity on the side of the Paris scientists—novelty and originality, t00. Good cheer aideth medicine. Might it replace and abol:sh it? OCTOBER PASSES BY. The wood seems for a pageant dressed. What-mean these banners 'gainst the 8y, In gold aud red blown eastand west ? Tne world receives a royal guest: Behold ! Uctober passes by ! The splendid heathen princess, bold In consclous beauy, through the world Makes gracious progress, be it toid. Fiiug for her feet a cloth of gold; Be criuson bauners wide unfuried. Down with the churl whose graceless tongue Is slow the royal guest to greec: For sighing. here green banners hung When April pa-sed, and upward spruzg Anemoues beneath her feet ! What though the banners once were green, That once another's feet did press With lizhter step the meacow’s sheen? Prociaim the glurious hesthen queen, Acknowledging her graciousness. Huzza ! Longlive our royal guest ! u tonzued-tied fool, repeat the cry ! 1 tell thee too hid on my breast A pale snemone is pressed.) Behold ! Uctober passes by Harper's Bazar. SPANisH PRIVATEERS. Editor San Francisco Call: In your excellent | telegraphic news service appears this morn- ing the following report: LONDON, Oct. 25.—The Times’ Madrid corre- spondent telegraphs: “On the whole, the pros- pects of General Woodford ob ainlng any satisrac- tory arrangements are not bright. Furthermore, 1t would be & dangerous error to {magine that the Spaniards are playinz @ game of bluff. They know they would be beaten, but Castilian pride is willing 10 accep. the consequences.’ This s the burden of official talk bere. with this addition: “We never signed tne deciarauon | of Paris aguinist privateering, and we ough: to be able to deairoy American commerce all over the Wwe world, Let the aAmericeus do their worst. are ready toaccept the consequences.” This rather audacious threat, to the reflec- tive American mind recognizing the wel known fact that since 1860, the beginning of the era of steel, tne tonnage of the United States registered for foreign trade has shrunk to barely one-fourth of its proportions before the War of the Rebellion, looks altogether quixotic. Looking for the American flag in transoceanic or deep-sea navigation between | the United States and the continents of Eu- | rope, Asis, Africa, Australia and South Amer- | ica would' be like looking for & needic in a | | haystack. The tonnage of American vessels entered in this trade during the fiscal year | 1896 was only 726,354 tons,while th t nnage of foreign vessels amounted to 10,775,253 tons. Therefore, to get alL American trans- oceanic commerce 10 any considerable extent the proposed Spanish privateers wouid have 10 antagonize the flags of Great Britaiu, Ger- many, France and other Eurojean powers that | have ‘supplanted us in the interoceanic navi- getion of the world. But we have a considerable coasting trade exc.usively under the American flag both on the Atlantic and Pacific. The Atlantic coast- | wise trade we are amply able to protect, while the Pacific, it may be hoped at least, istoo far away to be reached effectively by any force the limited power of Spain could put against it. Lamentable or pleasing s the facts may ap- pear to the Knights of Don Quixote in Spai or ourselves, the American flag, which prior to 1860 floated over Amerieau merchant ships in every port in the world, has disappeared and is ro longer a ‘familiar sight on the highways of interoceanic commerce. THOMAS L. THOMPSON. COL. JACKSON AND SINGLE TAX. Ciry, Oct. 27, 1897. To the Editor of “The Call’—SIR: In an inter- view in to-day’s CALL Colonel John P. Jack- | son in giving his ideas concerning Judge Ma- | guire’s chauces for the Governorship makes | an erroncous stetement regarding the single | tax, which, in my opinion, should not be per- mittel 10 pass uncorrected. Jackson states that Judge Maguire's single-tax convictions wiil make him popular in efties but will work against him in tue country, As reason for this, Colonel Jackson staies that “the farmers wili not be willing to have all the taxes needed by the Government placed upon their farms, ranches, orchards and vineyards.” The onerous duties devolving on a Collector of tne Port have probably kept Colonel Juck- son from learning anything about the singie trX (which he says is an important reform) | except by hearsay. Were he better informed on the subjact he'would know that under it the farmers wiil receive better treatment than | they do at present. Then lsnd values only will be taxed, irre- spective of all lmsrovemenu, which will be exempt. The burden of taxation will, there- fore, ot fall on the agriculturist, but will be aivided proportionately between' him and his { city brother. land speculator is the one who wiil be cinched. The colonel should join the Single Tax Society. Yours truly, HOWARD V. SUTHERLAND. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. An old married men is an old man mired, A homely girl always admires a man who says nice things about @ homely woman. Woman is supccior to men. Two women | can talk toeach other at the same time. The woman that wins a men has to work; the woman that keeps a man has to wateh. | Probably Eve invented the way to preserve autumn leaves, as soon as the frost louched the first fig-tree. All men have times when they would like to | be better than they ate and women have times when they ‘would like to be wickeder than they are. MONEY IN CIRCULATION, Philadeiphis Press. The prosperity of the country isshown in the increase in the amount of money in circu- lation. Under President Cleveland the smount | percapita fell o 21 10. It had increased un- der President McKinley to $22 89 per capita | o1 Oc ober 1. When business is depressed | there is le«s use for money, and it goes out of circulation. The return of prosperity fn. creases the demand for mouey. *The increase in the use of substitutes, such as bank checks, drafts, etc., is proportionaiely greater than | the increase in actual money. Good times are at hand again. —_— T When V. dm! Miot of the French navy was presented to the King of Siam re- cently, he found himself in an embarrassing position, for it was he who commanded the Freuch flotilla which bombarde | the Siamee forts wnen France was at war with Siam. It issaid that he was presented a second time, and that, nettled by th Withbeld his hand, '°¢ SIDE'S coldness, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, TERRITORIES—C. K., City. For United Stat.s Torritories see amswer to anotber correspon ég;rm THE CALL of Monday, October 25. pIsNEr—M. E., City. As far back as 1584 the meal aiter breakfast, or the second L of the day, was called dinner. In the “Haven of Health,” published in that year by D Thomas Cogan, there appeared the followin V] ur houres bee past after breakfuste, & e pely tako I dinmer, and the mos Convenient time for diuneris about eleven of the Clocne before uoone. The usuail time for dinner ke universities is at eleven, or else where abou: e incipal ! of the day, ner is the principal meal o day, lalk’;?‘ at midday or later, even in the even- fig In medicval and modern Europe the comimon practice down to the middle of ighteenth century was to take this u about midday, or in_more primitive tim earlyas9 or 10 A.M. In France, unde old regime, the dinner hour was 2 or 3 o'cl fn the afternoon; but wheu the Conustituent ssembly moved to Paris, as it sai until 4 or 5 o'cleek, the hour for dining was postpoued. The custom of diniug at6 or later has becon common, : Xcept 1n_the country, where car; dinner 1s in general practice. 4 Ttie Queen, & London newspaper, says: ) gn of George 111 The cou:t dinner hour in the re\,,yv .n e was at the Hanoverian heur of 4 o’cloc.. Daurt the reizn of George LV it gradually crept up w & o'clock, and finally becam - ste ady at the Indian four of 7 o’clock, and so remained until the reign of her Majesty, wieu the formul cour. dinuer hour be ame 8 o’clock. Thi]“ lnhn\'at::fl»» on ona! hour for meals did not meet the ap- g Gl alty, and i1 consequen. e as prescribe This ha: ; eal, b ing 1 ver since been the :avorite court meal :ealily asubs aniial hot repast, which h ploded the old-fashioned luncheon of cold A lunch is a siight repast or meal belwee breafast and dinner, or as formeriy, between dinner and supper, of between dinner or sup- er and bedtime. L Supper is the evening meal, the last repa: of the day. Specifically a meal taken ait dinner, whether dinner is served Compars- lively early or in the evening. land GOOD RULES. Marriage being the most important earthly concern of man or woman, and as young peg- ple grow up to be men and women, this papdy copies the following very excellent *rules fo marriage” from the Somerville Journsd Young married people who observe them faith« tully will have a good guerantee against s rious disagreements Tet her meet him with a kiss—not a frown. Let the husband frequent his home—not the O Rli anais: [ler Dt Toantiiy ing thobume. § Lot her not narrate Mrs. Next Door’s gossip. Let her not worry him with petiy troubles. Lot her moake home pleasanter then tho club. e Let her sympathize with him in business cares. . Let nim be as courteous after marriage as before. Let her dress as tastefully for him as for strangers. Let him confide in his wife; their interests are equal Let her not fret because Mrs, rich dress. Let her home mean love and rest—not strife and noise. McKINLEY DESERVED PREOMO- ‘TION. Neighbor hasa One of the Government officials in Chicago received his appointment from President Mc- Kinley through the influence of Senator Wil- liam E. Mason. The cfficial and the Senator had been friends and neighbors for years, says the Record. A ge and lifelike picture of the S2nator hangs in the official’s parlor. In the din room there is a picture of President Mc- Kinley. Soon the o ke fter the appointment was aunounced clal’s little girl came to him =and Paps, were you elected to be sowmc- 0, not elected; I was appointed.” “‘Appointed?* “Yes; the President said I was to have the position, and there didn’t have to be auy elec- tion.” “I think it was real good of him to do it.” “It was.” “That’s President McKinley up there, isn’s it?” pointing to the piciure. “Yes, dear.” “Well, if he’s as nice as all that, why don’t you put him in the parlor with Mr. Mason?” PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Jean Ingelow’s personal estate amounted t. only $30,000 at her death. James Tissot, the famous French artist, will probably finish this month his much-talked-of picture of Christ. The medical department of Queen Victoria’s household costs $12,000 yearly,and comprises twenty-four persons. Mrs. Mary Jane Gailor, who died in Cleve- 1and receantly, was a direct descendant of the famous Revolutionary hero, General Gates. I Mrs. Sally Betsy Jennings of Fairfiels, Conn., who has just celebrated her hundredth birthe day, isa granddaughter [of Orpna Hamilton, who was a sister of Alexander Hamilton. Count Aifred von Waidersee, the most em:- nent military authority in Germany, is said to owe most of his success to his American wife, formerly Miss Mary Esther Lee of New York. It was Pat Foley when he worked at his trade as a carpenter. It is Signor Foli now that he is on a visit to his old home in Hart. ford, Conn., with & record as “the world-re- nowned basso” back of him, Miss Lizzie 0. Thomas, 8 prominent young Florida woman, has gone to Miroshima, Japan, to take charge of a school there, under the direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Miss Thomas will probably stay five years. Mre. Anna Eichburg King, who is remem- bered as the writer of the charming Kitwyk stories pubiished in the leading magazines, is soon to be married to John Lane, the British publisher who gets out the Yellow Book. Isaac Newton, in his salad days, fell in love with a Miss Storey while studying at Grant- ham. Poverty, however, prevented the matcl He remained faithful, and was ever her true {rieng, but, womanlike, she was not inconsol able, and married twice. The Emperor of Japan has done a great deal for the advancement of women in Japan, Stained teeth and shaved eyebrows are to be abolished. The Empress Fusaka, his wife, not only shares his throne, but is consuited by bim on matters of international importance Moreover, she has a place at his table, an honor accorded to none of her predecessors. She has shown herself worthy of tnese addi- tional privileges. e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend’s.* ‘ —————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Prosi Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— W. S, Gilbert announces to an Edinburgh in- terviewer that he will write no more playse He_llY! he is disheartened by the crroneous point of view from which criticism 1s written, adding: *London critics attsck an author as if he were a scoundrel of the worst type, and 1do not seel disposed to put myseif forward as & cockshy for these gentlemen.” EXEW TO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, ‘wholesome and delicious. Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.