The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16 1897. all .DECEMBER 16 THURSDAY "~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. l&oz Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ~Market and Third stree e Main 1568. 1, Ban Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE. . Telephon EDITORIAL ROOMS... vieeees D17 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by ers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. 1 §6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WE .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. ...008 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE .Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTO) Riggs House . Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES— 30 o’cloc) kin str 7 Montgomery street, corner Clay: Hayes stree open open until 9:30 o’ clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 corner Sixteeuth and SV on streets; open until 9 o'cl 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth str open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Yolk street; open unt o'clock. NW. corner Iwenty-second and Kentuc reets 1119 o’clock. THE FREEHOLDER ELECTION. 3 practical question 10 be presented to tha voters at the T« harter election on December 27 will be whether they w anew organic law for this city or not. Stripved of the politics, demagogy, misrepresentation and clap-trap with which the contest has been invested by the persons who are strugzling to foist a ready-made charter upon the people, the probiem is one of factionai politics, Three times now political uarrels ve defeated the adoption of a charter in San Fran- Nothing is more certain than that if allowed to enter this contest they will repeat that result, Therefore, if the peo- ple do not want a charter the best thing they can do is to elect a Board of Freeholders who will present to them an organic law which represents thesentiments of only a portion of the community. It isnot that the freeholders nominated by the Charter Convention of One Hundred are not good men and reputable citizens. No one hasa word to say against their character. Probably, if elected, they will try to frame a charter acceptable to all classes. Dut can they do it? They are the creation, it is true, of an organization which is non-partisan in sentiment, but thev are being supported by a blackmailing newspaper and rrogant Democratic faction. They are the subjects of demagogy and buncombe. They are proclalmed to be the s of the bosses, vet the Democratic faction which sup- ports them is the most conspicuons exhibit of bossism in the te, while their newspaper organ is a boss more contemptible 1 more corrupt thun any in the country co. an enemi these men, when electad, rise superior to their sur- ? Can they frame a charter irse from the influence of boodie journalism and demagogue politics? They will have to be exiraordinary men to do sc. We know enough about polities and humsn nature toknow that they will substantially indorse the charter thiat has been made for them. It is filled with fads It pretends to inaugurate reform when as a matter defeats reform. It puts the School Department back into politics, it opens tie road for producing constunt political turmoil, it creates an autocratic Mayor and gives him the rower to practically subvert the politics of the town, it is largely theoretical and is full of anta:onisms. The history of San Francisco proves that no such scheme of government as 1t sets up can ever be adopted. The assertion that the charter convention Freeholiders are not pledged 10 adopt this trument, in the event of their election, is a mere evasion. They helped to make it; they will indorse it and ask the peo- ple to vote for its adoption. Tne Cavyis not particular as to ths means that shall be empioyed in gett'ng « new charter. If it thought the nominees of the Committee of One Hundred would fill the bill it wouid not object to their election. Butitis convincad that the only result likely to flow from voting for them will be the failure of any charter and the waste of a great deal of time and money. If the candidates of the regular organizations, on the other hand, nre chosen there iz a m» better prospect of a new or ganic law. They are non-partisan; they are not pledged to any poliey; they are all men of character, standing and politi- cal experience. 1f they cannot frame a charter acceptable to all classes then nobody can. The work of no Board of Free- holders is binding. Any organic act must be submittel to a vote of the people. The ery of “Losses’ and ‘‘corporations’’ raised on behalf of the charter convention nominees is, there fore, political buncombe and designed to dupe the people. The object toward which every good citizen should now bend his energies is to get a new charter plain, simpie organic law— iree from fads, theories and antagonisms. If it becomes neces- sary to amend and perfect such an instrument, by and by that may be done. The thing is to make a start. No start can ever be made in the manner proposed by the Committee of One Hundred. F atives on Tuesday it is evident no appropriation will be made for 1he maintenance of the Civil Service Commis- sion until the whole subject of civil service has been thoroughly reconsidered, and probably not until reforms are gusranteed in the present methods of regulating the service. The issue arose during the debate on the legislative, execu- tive and judicial approp:iation bill, and by general agreement it was decided to postpone coasideration of the item providing for the Civil Bervice Commission until after all other features of the bill had been settled, in order that the scope of the work and the usefulness of the commission might be exhaustively debated. The action of the House is not unexpected. There has been dissatisfaction for a long time with the present system of regu- lating appoiniments and Gismissals from the service. The famous order by which Cleveland undertook to secure bis mugwump appointees in office for life by plac ng their offices in the ciassified list just before his Presidency expired aroused yublic attention to the evils of the system, and since that time it has been a foregone conciusion that something would be done by the present Congress to apply a remedy, It is not likely that any radical changes in the new law will be attempted or that any alterations will be made in those portions which experience has shown to be beneficial 1o the service. The objections made to the system during the brief cebate on Tuesday were based upon specific abuses of the law rather than upon the law itself. Thus Cannon of Illinois and Bingham of Pennsylvania protested against that feature of the system which permits the extension of the classified list so as to bring within its scope as many as 87,000 Government em- yloyes by a simple executive order. The President referring to the civil service in his mes age to Congress said: *‘Much of course remains to be accom plished before the system can be made reasonably perfect for our needs. There are places now in the classified service which ought to be exempted, and others unclassified may be properly included. Ishall not hesitate to exempt cases which I think have been improperly included in the classified service, or include those which in my judgment will best promote the public service.” That the President is right in this view is beyond question. Not long ago THE OALL bad occasion to direct attention to the evilof a sysiem of public service which makes a chief of a bureau or office and his bondsmen responsible for defalcations by an employe of the office, end yet deprives the responsible chief of the right either to appoint or remove the subordinate, The regulation of the civil service by an executive commis- sion has been a fad with a large numbe:r of our people, and like all fads has peen carried too far, and carried unwisely, It is time to reconsider the tubject, and Congress will serve the people well in doing so. That charter can never be adopted. and of face ie I L CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. ROM the tone of the ciscussion in the House of Represent LAEOR AGAINST ANNEXATION, HE annexationists were severely set back by the action Tof the American Federation of Labor at Nashville. THE CALL has secured a wide understanding of this very grave issue, and the facts we have submitted have made a deeper impression as their investigation has proceeded. When it is fairly understood that the tropical productions of Hawaii require a form of labor and at a wage widely differ- ing from the same in the United States it is at once seen that | if our labor system is extended there by extension of the laws | which safeguard it the agricultural industries of the islands | must cease entirely and their commercial importance will end. If those industries are to continue it must be by setting | up one law for the islands and another for the rest of the | Union. The planters expect this latter policy, and if they have the craft to entrap us into annexation they expect with | confidence that our commercial classes rather than see produc- | tion and the profits of trade die out will be their allies in such legislation as will give the plantations the benefit of the cheapest labor, paid on a scale that goes with the lowest standard of living possible to the tropics. The way to prevent this is to meet the emergency at once by defeating annexation. This is entirely understood by the intelligent laboring people of the country, whose will is just expressed by their representatives at Nashville. A scarcely less important action was that taken at the same time by the Federated Trades of Sacramento, denying that Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald represents the labor of this State in his lobbying mission to Washington. These expressions are timely and as one is national, for the Nashville convention is a national body representing all parts of the Union, the press and politicians must consid r the weight added by these declarations to the previously recorded expressions of many granges and many respectable commercial bodies. Eastern sentiment is well crystallized around the deter- mination that this country must not turn against its individual policy and traditions, and that our interests, no less than those of Hawaii, require the separate political autonomy of each, France and England are already, and for many years have been, bound by a treaty guaranteeing, as far as they are con- cerned, independence of Hawaii. Our attitude heretofore has practically made us a party to that convention. The way is open and easy to a general agreement of the great powers that will leave the Hawaiians to work out their own destiny. THE DYEA FORT OF ENTRY. ISPATCHES from Washington announce that protests have so far had such an effzct upon the mind of Secretary Gage nt from San Francisco and other points on the Pacific Coast against the establishment of a port of entry at Dyea | that he has promised to review the whole subject and reconsiaer | the decision making a port of entry at that point. In addition to reviewing the case himself the Secretary wil] ask the Commerce Committee of the Senate to investigate the | subject and assist him in reaching a conclusion just to all s and beneficial to American industries. It is altogether act in accordance with its conclusions, and itis to that com- | mittee, therefore, we should send our arguments to sustain the protest submitied to the Secretery. As a general rule every seaport town in the United States has a right to port of entry privileges. Our Government does not favor one locality at the expense of another, or deprive of | the advantages nature has given it one port in order to bestow special privileges upon people residing at some other port. The case of Dyea, however, is 5o exceptional in its geographi. cal situation and its commercial possibiliiies as to make it ex- ceptional also to the general law. The only region back of Dyea at which much business will be done in the near future is that of the Klondike, and that American goods carried into the Kion, dike country must pay Canadian duties, and therefore will be bandicapped in competition with Canadian gocds if the latter | are permitted 10 enter ithe port at Dvea and pass through to the Kiondike country in bond. To place the products of the United States on an equal footing with those of Canada in the whole of the Upper Yukon Valley is the obj:ct of the protest against the established port of entry at Dyea. The argument is strengthened by the fact that the greater number of people now in the Klondike, or likely to go there | next spring, are citizens of the United States. It is American | energy and American enterprise and capital that will be mainly instrumental in developing the Canadian as well as the Ameri- can portion of the new goldfields. It is but right, therefore, that Americans should have an equal chance with Canadians in profiting by the rich trade to be carried on there. Under existing circumstances Dyea, if given port of entry privileges, will be virtually a Canadian rather than an Ameri- can port. It will be the gate through which British products will be carried free of duty to compete on the Klondike with American goods subject to duty. This view of the case wil, certainly present itself to Secretary Gage and the Commerce Committee when they investigate tbe subject, and we may confidently expect the port to be closed. region is in Canada. It's a pretty mean man who will shoot game in Golden -Gate Park where the quail are as tame asthe domestic hen and the rabbits stare with casual interest at the passer-by. The persons arrested for the offense ought to be so heawily fined | that they will be obliged to sell their guns to keep out of jail. It is not related that there was any hesitancy about accept- ing the resignation of Dr. O’Brien from the Preston school. But when he goes it is hoped that he will take his paddles with nim. Thescheme of thumping morality into a lot of boys has never been notably successful. Lily Langtry and the Prince of Wales have been censure d. However, it can be recalled that both of them have come through the process before and given no sign either of reform or blush. An Eastern divine is making converts to a theory that no man with whiskers can go to heaven. And as whiskers won't stand the climate of the other place the bearded seem to be in afix. Among the industries that no depression can affect and that require no artificial booming, perhaps that of lynching negroes 1n the South must be given the most prominent place. Perhaps the Bay Conference is right in giving Rev. C. O, Brown another chance, but he has long had a chauce to eep out of sight and hearing, and has fa'led to grasp it. AIREAES Hearing one’s own death sentence pronounced must be far from agreeable, and everybody will hope that Durrant has gone through the ordeal for the last time. - Of course the people of this country oppcse the annexation of Hawaii. All that was necessary to make them do this was to tell the truth about the scheme. ‘What a comfort it would be to a starving Klondiker to gat hold of a yellow journal and read the informaiion that there is no famine on the Yukon. _— According to a Tennessee law, fl rting is a crime, but as the offense is not rated as capital the law is naturally inef. fective. If the Ezaminer would proclaim its own guilt of anything, people might begin to suspect it of beinz innocent occasion- ally. —_— There is no need of gettinz excited over pyrotechnics taking place in the sun. Perhaps it's Fourth of July up there. “Red tape clogs law's wheels'’ is the head over a telegraph item. Of course. This is what red tape is for. he will defer to the reyort of the Senate committee and | | PERSONAL. T. 8. Bpalding of New York is at the Palace. J. H. de Bolt of Eureks is at the Cosmopoli- tan, J. P. Meux, a Fresno attorney, is in this city. W. Helm is at the Occidental from Canton, China. J. F. Peck, a Merced attorney, is at the Lick House, J. A. Kelting, a business man of Ukiah, isin the clty. James R. Meek, a Marysville merchant, isat the Russ. Dr. A. C. Winn of California is registered at the Baldwin, R E. Jack, a capitalist of San Luis Obispo, is at the Palace. Ex-Sanator Marion Biggs Jr. is in the clty from Oroville. T. Tryor, a general merchant of Rutherford, 1s at the Russ, | A N. Butts, a mining man of Angels, is at the Occidental. Dr. P. B. Fagan of Santa Cruz is stopping at the Lick House. C. G. H. MacBride, a capitalist of Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. Hi Rapelji, ex-Deputy Sheriff ot Fresno, is at the Cosmopolita . 8. Ward and wife of San Jose are guests at the Cosmopolitan, Thomss Longmore, & capitalist of Hopland, isat the Baldwin. Lorenzo Jacobs, a business man of Dutch Flat, is ia the eity. 8. McCraney ana wife of Stockton are gnests at the Cosmopolitan. E. H. Dunn of the United States navyis a guest at the Baldwin. John M. Vance, & capitalist of Eureka, is at the Grand with his wife. James W. Rea, a politician of San Jose, is registered at the Baldwin. 8. N. Griflith, an attorney of Fresno, regis- tered atthe Grand yesterday. D. R. Cameron, a real estate man of Han- ford, is registered at the Lt C. E. Tinkham, manager of the Slerra Mill Company, is here from Chico. Major C. Bryant of the United States navy is at the California with his wife. R. Lauxen, a merchant of Stockton, regls- tered at the Baldwin last night. Leopold Myer, 8 mining men of Angels, is at the Oceidental Hotel with his wite. Thomas A. Hendry,a Supervisor from Tu~ olumne County, is at the Lick House. A. J. Kirk, military instructor at San Mateo College, was at the Occidentel yesterday. W. H. McMinn, a retired army officer, was here from the Mission San Jose yesterday. F. N. Wensing, a dairyman of Freestone, is at the Occidenial accompanied by his wife. Mark L. McDoneld came down from Santa Rosa last night and registered &t the Occis dental. Colonel James Jackson of the United States | army registered at the Occidental yesterday from Portland, F. Pattersim, & prominent resident of Paso Robles, is in this city on & visit to Lis folks at 31 Larkin street, John H. Millzner of the Grant Powder Works came here from Tucson yesterday and registered at the Grand. CALIF(;RNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—At the Great Northern— | H. J. Pfluger, Los Angeles; Leland—Charies W. Pike, Joun J. Wirtner, San Francisco; Auditorium Annex—Henry Pierce, Mrs. P. A. Hearst, meid and man servant, San Francisco. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Raleigh—W. Orr, Santa Monica; Normandie—A. Crutche, San | Francisco; Lawrence—G. S. Clarke, San Fran- | clsco. i | THE SWEETEST Gir iS OF LOVE. What shall T glve her—my iittie girl With the 80t dark eyes and the siken net | Of tresses, with many a sun-bright curl? | Whet suall I give er—my ove, my pet? | What shali I give her of beauty and bliss | To match the bright curis that she gives me to | | My love! Ihavegiven her tnat! ‘tis cld. gh her 1ace fs young: I bave given my darling my heart to hold. With the sw st SOngs that my sung! There i3 nothing 10 give her save only this— ‘1he kiss on the curls that she gives me to kiss! She Is climbing up to my arms—1 see ‘e light of heaven iu her love'y eyes; Over Lie face and the life of me Curl on carl in its splendor lies! Nothing to give her save only this— The kiss on the curls that she «ive FRANK L. STANTON In Ladies' Journal. me to kiss! hristmas Home —_— NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. Mr. Gladstone’ umes. library conteins 20,000 vol- The poet Burns spelled his name Burness (bis family name) until the publication of his poems 1n 1786. Henry Labouchere always dictates his work to & shorthand secretary. Although he has to a great extent given up the active editorial work in connection with Truth, he makesa point of passing all the proofs each week. Alexander McDoneld, the former Minister to Persia, like all bis predecessors at the Shah’s court, is a bachelor. The United States, he says, does not send married men {o the court of Teheran because the journey is almost too rough for a woman. W. F. Draper, United States Embassador to Italy, writes to Postmaster Thomas of Boston about the very pleasant life of foreign Embas. sadors in Rome. Heremarks: “We have, as the Scripture says, “bigh places ia the syna- gogues and principal seats at feasts.” Henry Stacy Marks, “the artist-bird fancier,” s he hasbeen cailed, first became an Academy student in 1851, and in the following year he went to Paris, where he remained five months. He always made birds a separate study, and even now he spends a good deal of his spare time studying the feathered bipeds at the zoo. Monsignor Gasparri, professor of canon law in the Catholic Institute of Paris, has been ap- pointed Apostolic Delegate in Peru, Bolivia. and the Equatorial Republics, in place of Mon- signor Macchi, who goes to Brazll. He will re- celve his titular archbishopric at the next consistory, which will not in all probability be held before February. Lady Henry Somerset has given the town of Reigate, England, sufficient land for the erec- tion of ten almshouses. This giit is in connec- tion with the scheme for the erection of aims- houses at Reigate in commemoration ot the dinmond jubilee, One of the conditions of the gift is that on the governing body of the almshouses there shall be not less thau three women. A orize of virtue has been conferred by the French Academy on Mlle. Bonnefois, who has devoted her life to the education of the chil- dren of the forains, the nomad population of the booth and the caravan. She goes the round of all the great fairs and sets up her tent school among the shows and circuses, do- iog an immenss amount of good, and she is highly popular among her rough clients, young and old. CHAMPION FOR THE SPARROW. New York Tribune. The sparrow has found an unexpected champion in the Prime Minister ot France. The farmers have recently been agitauing in favor of the extermination of the little bird, and succeeded 80 far that a decree was sub- mitted to Premier Meline for signature, giving orders for the destructiou of the bird througn- cut the country by all available means. Be- fore giving his sanction to the measure the Prime Minister determined to make an in- vestigation, in the course of which he has re- ceived 8, much informaiion in faver of the birds, especially irom the forestry depariment, that ‘he has not only refused o sign tne decree, but bas announced that he is about to take sieps to promote the increase oi the spe- cies in consequence of its usefuldess. It seems that the narm that it does to the crops is more than counterbaianced by the benefits which it cdnfers in destroying the caterpii- lars. worms and other insects that are so detri- mental to irees, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, Nothing like the enthusiasm over the Sun. day night popular concerts has been witnessed in New York for a long time. The New York Times thus describes it: Is there in all the world of music anything funuier than one of our Sunday night concerts? And funny as they have buen, it was reserved for ‘a party named Johnson' 1o make them funnier. John- son has invented the mammoth, all-star, Sun- day uight concert. Maurice Grau invented the tar cast in opers, and now Johnson has a Sunday-might combination of Ysaye, Pugno, Plancon end Seid!, any one of whom would fill the house. You enter the opera house at 8:10 amid & panting, pushing, strug- | gling crowd. You fight one brief and furious round at the programme table and join the | other fellows in breaking through the oppos- ing line, You find yourself in a human whirl Ppool, where men and women are standing six rows deep behind the brass rail. You force your way through, amid a heavy fire of haughty and indignant stares. You sit and wait, while all around you ere the rustie of programmes and subdued voices constantly | murmuring, “Plancon,” * *Pugno,” ete. Noonesays “Meundelssohn,” *Goumod,” | or “Rosstni.” They were only tailors who cut garments of glory to fit the great men of the | evening. The orchestra appears, and the lights grow bright. A slde-door opens and a man with smooth face and bushy black hair comes | out. Thatis Seidl. Every one applauds, and | Seidl plays on the orchestra with a little stick. The programme says it is Beethoven's “Eg- mont” overture. That makes no difference. You are there to hear Seidl, and it is Seidl you applaud. He bows as if he aid not think either you or your applause was equal to the | occasion, and goes off the stage. The door The director of the theater insists on the de- Iivery of the opera at the time appointed. In & moment of irritation he dismisses Haydn, who, notwithstanding, comes to the rescue. Permeated by the spirit of Porpora’s music,he has dreamed Armida’s air, has written it down on awakening, and sings it, to the amazement and delight of the old composer and the di- rector. This is the whole story, not particu- larly effective, but it serves as a vehicle for the music. The opera was composed by Stznor Gaetano Cipollini, to the libretto of Signor Antonio Cipollini, and contains some pretty music. A tuneful gavot, heard in the prelude, is somewhat excessively pressed into service, aminuetin A flat with the trio in D flat is taking, and there 1s much vigor in a guarte- tino, in which Porpora is furiously angry with little Haydn and Anzoletta, who, with Hayan’s mother, plead for pardon. It appears that the authorities off the parish of Saint-Severin have just named Saint-Saens honorary organist of that church, Le Debats says: *Itisno secret that the great composer { often came to Saint-Severin to take the place ot his pupil, Perilhou, and performed on the organ the most learned and brilliant impro- visations. He also toock pleasure in accom- panying the singing, being himself a master of liturgic music, and having composed last year for ihe diocese of Las Palmas ihe music for an office to Sain t Therese. At the begin- ning of his career M. Saint-Saens wes organist at Saint-Merri” In the Theater of La Scala, at Milan, a series of six concerts are being given directed by M, Leandro Campanari. The first took place on Sunday, November 14, and the others fol- lowed until December 12, The orchestra ) opens again and Seidl reappears, followed by | & fat men, with a heavy black beard, short | arms aud eyeglasses. That is Pugno. The | orchestra begins, and then, with a series of metllic crashes, Pugno attacks the piano. | Your pragramme tells you he is playing Men. delssohn’s D minor concerto. That is not the point, Pugno 1is playing. That is the point. He is running scales, playing trills, bitting outr successions of chords, rushiug up and down the keyboard in volleys of arpeggios, all very fast. You are as- tonished. Good. That is what you are there for. You appiaud, so does every one else. After an encore he is ailowed to depart. A few seconds and there enters a tall man with birck pointed musiache and beard ana the most tmmaculate evening dress you ever saw. Plancon. The whole audience shouts ah-h-h! Seidl plays the accompaniment on the orches. tra with his little stiek. Plancon’s chest henves and he makes a big sound. The people gomad with joy. He comes back four times and then retires. Another biz man with bushy hair comes out, carrying a fiddle. i Ysaye plays. Your programme tells you it Ysaye. Seidl comes too. Frantic applause. something by Vieuxtemps. Vieuxtemps was & fiddler. That does not count. He's dead and Ysave is playing ont of tune sometimes, but no matter. He makes the fiddle growl down in the low register and squeak away up in the high one. He wiuds up in asortof whirligig of bowing, and again the audience cheers and pounds for five minutes, calling for more, more! That is the cry of this Sun- day night audience with a voracious appetite for feats of musical skill. And amid all this enthusiastic admiration one must needs think of and pity the poor g1rl who was hissed, laughed at—and ruined. Surely that Sunday-night mammoth crowd must not be accepted as a representative New York avdience. 1f it was them is New York ages behind San Francisco, where so brutal a demonstration would be impossible. Miss Luta Van Cortland was extremely nervous. and although she had sung in nearty 100 con- certs in London and elsewhere with unvary- ing success, on that occasion she fell below the expectations of her audience, and that im- mense concoutse of people by way of giving her courage began to talk aioud, laugh de- sively, and finally drove her from the stage. She retirea amid the storm, overwhelmed with the sense of disgrace. She was taken very ill and now lies in delirium. The doctors say she will recover but will never sing again. Twenty years of hard work and study thus rendered useless in one minute! A similur episode has never happened in America be- fore. The whole city of New York is talking about it. ~ Grieg, the N orwegian pianist and composer, Who is highly esteemed in England, although he has not appeared there for several years, took the ieading part in a concert at St. James’ Hall, London, lately. It was his first appear- ance since his recovery from a severe 1liness with which he was attacked on his way to London. The house was packed and the pro- gramme was composed entirely of music of his own composition. He led off with the genial and thoroughly fresh sonata in E mizor, op. 7, justly « favorite work with mod- erately advaunced stndents. In thia, in the characieristic suite “From Holoerg's Time,’ op. 40, Grieg’s singularly pure and musical touch encheined the attention of the audi- ence. He played three new minor pleces in- cluding “Wedding Day at Troldaugen,” the composer’s country home in Norway. “Il Piecolo Haydn,” which is to be produced by the Italian Opera Company for the first time in America next Saturday, is one o: the numerous works which were presumably calied into existence some years ago af ter the success of “Cavalleria Rusticuna,” though it has not the clement of powerful interest which was generally sought by the followers of Mascagn!. Haydn,a boy of 15, earnestly desires to acquire musical knowiedge from the macestro, Porpora, and, in order to be near him, does duty asaservant in the house, aided and abetted by Porpora’s favorite pupil, Anzo- letta. The great musician is composing an opera which he is under bonds to deliver by & certain date. The time approaches and he is 1u despair for an air to suit the grand scene where Armida, tne herolne, laments the faith- lessness of Ler lover will not come to bim Comprises seventy members. gramme was as follows: ka,” by Cherubini; The first pro- Overture to ““Fanis Symphony in C Minor, by Dvorak; “Elegy and Waliz,” by Tschai- kowsky; selections from the “Rustic Wed- ding,’ by Goldmarx. Italian, Bonemian, Rus- sian and Hungarian music—one could not be more eclectic. A modest contemporary or J. §. Bach, the cantor of Saint Thomas' Church, Leipsic, Johron Hermann Schein, born in 1586, at Grunhain, Saxony, has just been rescued from oblivion. Hisauthentic portrait has just been placed with & solemn service in the church of Grunhain, with a commemorative plaque. The Roya! Philharmonic Academy of Rome, charged with the exceution of the mass which celebrates each year at the Parthenon, the an- niversary of the acath of King Victor Em- manucl, has chosen for the next ceremony an unpublished muss and requiem, for chorus and orchestra, by the composer Achille Lu- cidi. According to the New York Journal, Pugno is & “noted French barytone,’ and Ysaye 1s the ‘‘famous Beigian violinist and pianist” Better hire & music critic, Mr. Hearst! The most famous guitar player in the world, Antonio Cano, died lately ai Madrid, aged 86 years, in the deepest poverty. He was un- rivaled in his mastery of hisunthankful and difficult instrument, which in his hands be- came an orehestra. —-—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WRITE WIiTH EAsE—Subscriber, City. “The mob of gentlemen who write with case” is from Pope’s “Epistle to Dr. Arburthnot, Pro- logue to ine Satires, first epistle o1 ihe sec- ond book of Horace, line 10 CITY OF EVERETT—G. E. 8, Decoto, Cal. The steamer City of Everelt is on her way irom Cal. cutta to New York. There are no advices that she will return 10 S8an Francisco. Her owners are the American S:eel Barge Company. THE DURRANT Casi—K. T. M., Oakland, Cal, It has heen preity clearly shown that Bian- ther was not in San Francisco at the time that Blanche Lamont and Miunie Willinms were murdered, cousequently it is needless to form any theory on that subj “‘GRANGERS”—J. A. N., S8anJose, Cal. At the Stock Exchange the term ‘‘granger’’ is applied to Western railroads that handle wheat. When an individual is dealing in siock of such com- panies he 1s said to be dealing in ‘‘grangers.” HELIGOLAND—F., J., Angels Camp, Cal. Eng- land ceded the island ot Heligoland to Ger- many in compensation for territorial conces. sions in Africa. By reason of this, Britisn protectorate was extenied over the dominion of the Sultan of Zauzibar within the British costal zone and over the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. BLoop—W. Philo, Cal. The temperature of the biood does not vary in the human body so long as the body is properly nourished with food that produces animal heat. The normal temperature is 95.4. A man may work in a furnace-room wnere the heat is over 300, and the temperature ol the biood isalways the same. AREA AND POPULATIO N—Subscriber, Decoto, Cal, Now that Brookiyn isa part of Greater New York, the following ten cities rank ac- cording to population : NewYork area in square miles 339.75, population, 2,9 85,492; Chicazo 189 miles, 1.750,000: 'Philudelpiia 129015 miles, 1,360,000; 'S:. Louis 6115 miles, 650 000; Baitimore 42 miles, 600,000; Bostor 43 miles, 520,000; Buffalo 42 ‘miies, 375,000: Cleveland 31.314 miies, 370,000; Cincianati 85 miles, 265,000; San Frantisco 42 1-5 miles, 335,000 HENRY GEORGE—H. A. C, Centerville, Cal. Tne principles of Henry George were enunci- ated by the single-tax societies of which he ‘was the chairman. Generally his scheme was to substitute a common ownership of land in place of individual ownersbip by levying taxa- tion on land to the full amount of the rent, and in no other way. His idea was that “/and- owners would be put on the same level as other people, and that the state woula virtu- ally be the sole landlord; that wages would rise and that the distribution of wealth would be so iar equauzed as to raise the poorest above the abject poverty which de. stroys all interest in pubiic affairs.” The ob- ject of his party in nominating him for Mayor | of Greater New York was to have hiw elected, —— if possible, and to make & moye, 1t i carryiug out his principies_ " " -t Possible, in FLASHES OF FUN. Mike—What Is the difference between you and the load of dirtyou are carting? Pat—1 don’t know; what is? Mike—You're & son of toil and it's a ton ot soil,—Harlem Life. Grandma—What are you doing in the pnv)h try, Tommy? Tommy—Oh, I'm just putting a few thiugs away, gran’mea.—Ram’s Horn, «I know one man,” said the quiet young woman, “who 1s listened to with respe by both sides when he speaks in Co gress.” “He must bave a lot of influencel” “I hope he has. He's the chaplain,”—Wg ington Star. “What's all the Austrian trouble about eny- way?”’ “Its all over & question of national lan- guage.” “Oh, I see; that accounts for the war of words.”—Phiiadelphia North American. She—A man playing a penny slot machine looks so ehildish. He—Childish? Why, it takes all the cents aman has to beat it.—Indianapolis Journal. Fox—People are talking all the time about elevating the stage and about organizing so- cieties for that purpose, and yet, when you come to think of it, the stage ought to be able to do that for itself. Knox—Poon, pooh! Now you're talking nonsense. Iguess you forget that the stage has wings and flies.—Boston Courier. PRESENTs FOR MEN. ‘When you are about to purchase a Christmas present for brother or husband get something that wiil be of personal benefit to him, and do not get “something for the house,”” or soma nondescript articie that he cannct possiflly make use of. The following list may Hi some sister, wife or fiancee to a satisfac, conclusio A blanket bathrobe, amply large for com- fort. A'large, roomy traveling satchel. A wallet of the new German hand-carved leather An outfit for his desk in dark-green leather. A fieldglass, A set of well-bound books by some favorite author. Some wall decorations for his own particu- larden. A handsome cane of penang or partridge, with carved ivory or tortoise-shell head, A black satin shield to wear with dress suit. A four-in-hand, dark and rich, or a han some tie for evening wear. A table arranged for a smoking-room, with all the necessary ariicies, as woll as a musical atiacnment. A leather box for collars and cuffs, A dress-suit case, with a plainly marked tag. A cigar-cuse and silver maichbox. A comfortable chair, well supplied with pil- lows. A reaaing-lamp. A meerschaum pipe, & pipe-cleaner, or & chamois bag for tobacco. A handsome carving set, A shaving cup and brush. A hat brush, pocketknife or scarfpln, A set of buttons aund studs, A scari-retainer or scarfpin. A traveline-rug. Bright smiles and happy faces when he comes home at night, which are worth more to nim than anything that can be bought. ALASKAN NAMES. Chicago Tribune The Boerd of Geographic Names in Wash. ington has at last issued a bulletin giving the correct orthography of places in A_iska which have recently become familiar almost as household words. ing region is now to be knc dike,” and 1ot as “Clondyke,” asit has appeared tn some of the officinl charts. The lake on the Chilkoot Pass 10 the Upper Yukon is “Lindeman,” and not “Lindemann’’ or “Linderman,” and another lake in the same region 1s “:Lebarge,” and not “Labarge,”’ as it 18 usually speiled. Similarly the ” River should be the “Lewes’ River. “Dyes,” at the head of the Lynn Caual, where the start is made for Chilkoot Pass, has been transformed ints “Taiya” by the board but in this case the original word has got suc & start that it will probably stick, incorrect it is. In this matter thefe may not be muc in a name, but it is as well to have the namg correct, afier a DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS. Phi adelphia Calt Pillage—The art of manufacturing pills. Windmill—A handorgan for grinding popu- lar airs. A fluid used by the few to enlighten cret—Something & woman gets some one help her keep. A wig sometimes used to cover the baldness of character. Scalper—A ticket broker who lowers iare or tan who raises hair, Almanac—The cemetery in which the aged joke is finally interred. 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