The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, I897. THURSDAY... _DECEMBER 23, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEA };E; Manager. PUBLICATION OFFIKCE........ Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 2I7 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone 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 €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE... Room 188, World Building One year, by mail, $1.50 .......908 Broadway ‘WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untli 9o'clock. 2518 Mlission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street: open untii9 o’clock, 1505 PolkK street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Girl T Left Behind Me.” Orpheum Bush—Opera Olymp ies' Military Band. hestra. “lub—Racing to-day at Oakland. Baker and Fell streets, Ladies’ Football Second Regiment Band, this evening, wtertainment and dance. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. Butterfield—This dav. Di Sutter st 11 o'clo ember 23, Furniture at 116 By Wm. G. Layng & Co—This evening, December 2, Horses, at 721 Howard st., at 7:30 o'clock. THE MATINEE IDOL. HERE has always been something; exceedingly T hard to understand in the devotion of the mat- inee girl to the actor. In many instances for the actor to successfully pretend to be somebody else is a distinct elevation, regardless of who the imagin- ary person may be. The actor off the stage is an ordinary mortal, or a little less. In any instances he knows nothing but his role, a few doubtful stories and how to appreciate his own worth—some- thing it is the endeavor of his life to impress upon others, notably the manager, incidentally the matinee girl. In the latter effort he is apt to succeed. The nager is obdurate. Actor Ratcliffe has been wor- shiped at a distance by many a matinee girl and de- tested at short range by the one who had the mis- fortune to be won by him. From sworn testimony it would appear that he had a habit of threatening her life, that he assaulted her brutally and in such ways as might suggest themselves to a hero of the made her life miserable. Of course actors in not to be judged by this specimen. He to show that a man on the stage and the same man off can be very different. So plain t needs no stating to anybody of more intelli- gence than the matinee girl, and as she won't believe it perhaps is wasted after all Ta simply servi a fa CALIFORNId CHRISTMAS GOODS. ARGE and varied as is the assortment of L(.'hn\ mas novelties produced by Californian talent out of home material, it is insignificant in comparison to what it should be. No land is richer in raw material out of which beautiful things be made, and yet hardly any land whose people have an artistic development produces so few. A_search of the shops for Californian novelties to send East will show how far short we fall of the full measure of our possibilities in this regard. A few brands of delicate fruit conserves; some dainty ar- ticles made of olive, orange or redwood; a small variety of shells polished with more or less skill; a varied asscrtment of photographs and an inconsid- erable number of booklets descriptive of Californian wild flow sea mosses or old missions, comprise nearly the whole stock of our production of this char- acter. We have made a beginning of the work of adding our quota to the holiday goods of the world, but the movement is far from being in full swing. This is with us a genuine infant industry and requires the fostering care of an appreciative public. Like every other newly awakened enterprise, it depends upon a patronage supported by public sentiment to acquire the means of growth and development. It cannot as yet compete with the rich array of holiday goods im- ported from foreign lands, but if rightly aided the time will soon come when it will be able to make its way in the gencral market and ask special favors of no onc. Our people cannot better sérve California during the holiday season than by giving their patronage as far as possible to novelties of home manufacture. It is true the list of such articles is not wide, but it is sufficient to afford something that will prove attrac- tive to some of the friends who are to be remembered on Christmas day. A liberal patronage now will lead to a larger output next year, and if the support is kept up from season to season the growth of the in- dustry will be surprisingly rapid. California has drawn her population from all parts of the world, and among them are representatives of the most artistic races on earth. We have workmen skilled in the decorative art of Germany, France, Italy and Spain. We have in abundance the material out of which these artists and artisans can make as beautiful objects as they could fashion out of any- thing produced in their own lands. We have the cul- ture required to appreciate such work and the wealth necessary to patronize it by liberal purchases. It will, therefore, be our own fault if California does not rapidly develop an artistic industry of large pro- portions and become a prolific producer as well as a prodigal consumer of holiday noveltics and Christ- mas luxuries. Girls who intend to play football should be stopped by an injunction. The feminine form is not sc constituted that it can withstand being manled and trampled on. The prettiest of the sex would be a iright to look at after emerging from a scrimmage. if these misguided females feel that they must place themselves on exhibition they should go into the ballet. The determination of Hoff to pray both to God and the devil may serve to ease his mind a little, but otherwise no definite result may be expected. If he is innocent the fact will be shown. If he is guilty it is sacrilegious to think that the author of all good will save him. And, anyhow, the devil seems to be out of the question, as he apparently has Hoff just where he wants him. ISSUES OF THE CHARTER ELECTION. OWEVER strenuously the Democratic organ H which is running the charter campaign of the Committee of One Hundred may endeavor to conceal it, the plain issue of the Freeholder election Monday next will be between centralizationand decen- tralization. The committee’s Freeholders are prac- tically pledged to the charter framed by the commit- tee’s convention, which sets up one man power as an instrument for procuring good government. In other words, having assisted in making that charter and having approved it, they are now bound to com- mend their work to the people. The committee’s charter has not been published. Nothing is known concerning it save that it confers the power upon the Mayor to make himself an irre- ible political boss. It is said to abolish the civil service rules which now prevail in the Fire, Police and School departments and substitute for them rules framed by a Civil Service Commission to be ap- pointed by the Mayor. Everybody understands what this means. It is said to provide for the election of a School Board, thus keeping the schools in politics, and it is believed to authorize the Mayor to appoint and remove the Board of Health, the Board of Pub- lic Works and the Police and Fire commissions, under which there is expended four of the five millions dis- bursed annually by the city. This is practically all we know about the charter framed by the Committee of One Hundred. On Monday next the people will be compelled to choose between this cut and dried programme—the full significance of which can be understood only by considering the influences which are promoting it— and the Freeholder nominees of the regular political organizations; between a closet made charter contain- ing machinery for creating a powerful political boss and a set of candidates who are unpledged and who may be trusted to frame a businesslike charter; be- tween the rule of a disreputable newspaper, whose libels and slanders are a reproach to the city which supports it, and a combination of respectabie people who desire to see a charter adopted free from fads and antagonisms and who care nothing for the in- terests of machine politicians or boodle journalism. These are the issues pure and simple. The ticket of the combined political parties, who oppose the cut and dried Czar charter, with the bal- lot number of each candidate, is as follows: REPUBLICANS. 13. GEORGE E. DOW, proprietor Steam Pump Works. 17. JOSEPH D. GRANT, merchant. 24. REUBEN H. LLOYD, attorney. 33. GEORGE M. PERINE, contractor. 39. A. W. SCOTT, hay and grain dealer. 42. GEORGE D. SQUIRES, attorney. DEMOCRATS. 25. W. E. LUTZ, secretary Building and Association. 26. JOHN McCARTHY, merchant, 35. W. M. PIERSON, attorney. 36. JOSEPH ROSENTHAL, attorney. 43. C. B. STONE, manager breweries, 44. PATRICK SWIFT, capitalist. POPULISTS. 7. THOMAS V. CATOR, attorney. 18. W. N. GRISWOLD, physician. 22. THEODORE H. HATCH, merchant. If there is any person in th ing these names will credit the statement of the Phelan organ that they had been selected by the political bosses to frame a corporation charter he ought to be placed in a padded cell at once. The truth is, these gentlemen represent the honest con- servatism of the masses. They are all representa- tive men and each one has a record for public useful- ness. Their election will mean the rejection of the Czar charter framed by the Phelan convention and the presentation to the people of an instrument which will stand some chance of adoption. Loan city who after read- SHALL WE CHANGE OUR NATIONAL POLICY ? N a very interesting review of the history of the l revolution of the Spanish colonies in South America, under the leadership of San Martin and Simon Bolivar, Senor Romero, Mexican Minister at Washington, gives some historical facts which bear upon the annexation of Hawaii by revealing the policy of this Government in such matters. In 1822 the people of Cuba sent a secret agent to President Monroe offering, if the United States would guarantee them protection and admission into the Union, a revolution would be orgamized in the island to expel therefrom the Spanish Govern- ment. Monroe responded that our friendly relations with the Spanish Government in power in Cuba would not permit us to countenance such a revolution with a view to annex the'island, but that we would resent and resist any attempt upon Cuba by France or Eng- land. At the same time our Minister to Great Britain was ordered to notify Mr. Canning that our Govern- ment would not see with indifference the attempt of any other country to supplant the existing sover- eignty in Cuba. England responded that she could not with indifference permit the occupation of Cuba by France or the United States. So that out of the Cuban embassy and its offer there arose a practical concert between the United States, France and Eng- land as to the sovereignty of the island. How exact is the analogy and how plain the change of policy in Hawaii. An examination of the correspondence between the State Department and Stevens, our Minister to Hawaii, shows that he had been for months in active conspiracy with the sugar planters to bring about the revolution of 1893 with the promise of ad- mission of the country into the Union. The evi- dence is not lacking that this proposition had been made to our Government as direct as was the Cuban proposition to Monroe in 1822, and that al- though it was against the constitutional Govern- ment of Hawaii, with which we were in peaceful diplomatic relations and to which we were under treaty obligations, Minister Stevens was permitted to continue his conspiracy with the planters. In one of his letters he discusses the sugar bounty paid to producers in the United States under the McKinley bill. That bounty was 2 cents a pound, and Stevens, admitting that our home producers might object to being put upon terms of equality with the Hawaiian planters, says that he had discussed this matter fully with the planters several months before the revolu- tion and they had consented to take less than 2 cents. In his letter to the Secretary of State, February 1, 1893, Stevens said: “As to terms of annexation, I still adhere firmly 1o the opinion that the sugar bounty to be paid to the Hawaiian planters should be limited to 6 mills per pound, or $12 per ton.” He still adhered to an opinion expressed before he helped the planters overthrow. a government with which we were at peace. The stake played for was $12 a ton on 300,000 tons of sugar produced by the planters, or $3,600,000 per year. Now the stake is larger. It is the protection of $19 a ton given by the Dingley bill, or a total of $5,700,000 & year profit to the planters. It is true that they have free access to our markets under the reciprocity treaty, which is under such sus- picion of being non-reciprocal that it may be abro- gated at the demand of our sugar beet growers. But if the islands are annexed the profit goes on forever and is enhanced by the “peculiar conditions and the needs of labor” in Hawaii, requiring the cheap labor of Asiatic coolies in competition with the well paid white labor in Califorpia. 3 What is required is the sense of justice in our traditional policy which inspired the answer of Mon- roe to the seductions of the Cuban offer in 1822, A A SIN OF OMISSION. NDER the title “California, the Land of U Promise,” the State Board of Trade has issued a volume of 167 pages, handsomely printed, well written and attractively illustrated. It purports to contain a description of the State with a general account of its resources, industries and advantages of climate, soil and geographical situation. It gives with considerable fullness a record of the develop- ment of California enterprise, but it omits the con- struction of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Val- ley Railroad. The omission seems to have been intentionally made. The work contains a chapter on “Transpor- tation in California,” written by W. G. Curtis, who certainly is aware of the existence of the Valley Road, but whose article ignores it. This chapter occupies five pages. It is illustrated with a picture and a full page diagram. It is devoted, however, almost exclusively to the Southern Pacific system. The only reference to other roads is a brief para- graph to the effect that California has twenty-nine ‘operating railway companies, and that the aggregate mileage of railways operated independently of or in competition with the Southern Pacific Company was on June 30, 1896, 1959 miles. The reason why the construction and operation of the Valley Road was omitted from the article is made clear by the article itself. The people of Cali- fornia will be surprised to learn that the chapter on transportation in this pamphlet, issued in the name of the State Board of Trade, was not written to show the transportation facilities of the State or to record what has been done in the way of improving them, or to point out the opportunities for investment in California railway enterprises, but to prove, as the author says in conclusion, that the transportation facilities of the State “are not only adequate to but are in excess of the commercial and industrial neces- sities of the people.” An argument designed to prove that the Southern Pacific Company furnishes railway facilities to the people of California in excess of their needs could not admit a record of the fact that the people of California have found it necessary to construct a competing railroad in the San Joaquin and are now extending it to San Francisco. Hence we infer that the omission of any mention of the Valley Road was intentionally done. The right of the Southern Pacific Company or of a private citizen to issue a pamphlet designed to spread throughout the country the idea that transportation facilities in California are in excess of the mneeds of the - State and that no additicnal railways are required cannot be disputed. This is a free country, and a man may speak or write the thing he will. The State Board of Trade, however, has no right to do this thing. The board is supposed to represent the busi- ness interests of the State. Its officials violate public confidence when they send forth a pamphlet which gravely misrepresents the conditions of business and is calculated to seriously injure a great enterprise. Fortunately, the bonds of the Valley Road and the stock of the company have been all taken by home people who know the truth, and cansequently no im- mediate harm will be done by the circulation of this peculiar document of the State Board of Trade. If, however, it had been necessary to place the bonds in the East or in Europe, the circulation of such a pamphlet by such authority would have been a great damage to the Valley Road and to the State. It is time for the officials of the State Board of Trade to remember that there is something in Cali- fornia besides the Southern Pacific Company. The board cannot afford to ignore great enterprises in ofder that some individual may advance an argu- ment which the very existence of those enter- prises refutes. The Valley Road is here, and the State Board of Trade must do justice to it or lose the confidence of the public. RIVER IMPR'quMENT. IVER improvement is undeniably one of the R imperative needs of California. The subject has been long discussed, is fairly well under- stood by all concerned, and provisions have been made by the State for beginning the enterprise. Nevertheless, the work lags and comparatively little has been accomplished. The discussion at the River Convention in Sacra- mento on Tuesday disclosed the fact that consider- able indignation exists against the Auditing Board for neglecting to purchase a dredger to carry on the work of removing the debris. The State has appro- priated money for the dredger and the members of the convention very justly desired to know why the will of the Legislature in this respect had not been acted upon. It is true that a resolution of censure directed against the board was voted down and a mild substitute adopted, but, none the less, the pre- vailing tone of the discussion showed that the con- vention was strongly in favor of immediate action. Public opinion in the State is in sympathy with that of the convention. The sum of $300,000 appro- priated for river work and the purchase of a dredger lies idle in the treasury. The river requires dredging, the people need work and business demands that idle money be put into circulation. Every day of de- lay is costly to the commonwealth, and there will be no lack of approval of the resolution of the conven- tion calling upon the Auditing Board to buy or build a dredger of the largest capacity required by the act, and to do so at once. River improvement, however, must not be imposed wholly upon the State. California has a right to ask assistance from Congress for the work, and the as- sistance should be liberal. Congressman De Vries suggests an appropriation from the National Gov- ernment of $500,000 for the improvement, and that sum is certainly none too much to ask for so im- portant an enterprise. The State delegation in Con- gress should unite in striving to obtain it at this session. A strong support at home will be given to every efi&n made in the fight at Washington. It is a“pleasure to learn that Delmas & Shor- tridge parted company bearing toward each other a feeling of esteem. It was known that there was much esteem in the firm, but the popular view of it was that each partner lavished his own share upon him- self. - -and an excellent English bassp named One of the cablegrams to the Herald on Sunday, December 5, was as follows: Coming upon the enormous success of his opera “Sapho,” which was produced at the Opera Comique last week, Jules Mas- senet’s determination to give up writing for the theater has caused much sur- prise. The admirers of this composer, however, have two other works of his to look forward to—*Cendrillon” and “Griseldis,” both of which are com- pleted. The opera of “Sapho” has been eagerly anticipated for a long time for various reasous. One, the prospect of seeing Calve in a new role, admirably suited to her by all accounts, her own and Massenet’s among them; and one because this composer’'s works are so uneven that it was a problem whether it would be good or bad. Judging from the criticisms it must be classed with his better works. The libretto was found- ed on the “Sapho” of Alphonse Daudet, who died suddenly last week, and who was probably the most admired of French prose writers. Twelve years ago, encouraged by the enormous success of M. JULES MASSENET. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. gerald, appears and says she has se- cured his pardon, which will arrive on the next coach, or at any rate, in time to save his head. In the second act there are the forest, the coach, and the chorus, and besides these, Lady Sinclair, who has put on blue tights and a red mask with the intention of holding up the coach in order to obtain the pardon. In the last act Dick Fitzgerald acts as a sort of general distributor of happi- ness and secures his own share by ob- taining the hand of Lady Sinclair and the pardon of his king. “The Highway- man” is splendidly staged, and the ac- tion of the piece is so brisk, the group- ings of the principals and chorus people so picturesquely effective, and the en- sembles so well rendered, that the faults and weaknesses of the book—which are many and grievous—are thereby effectu- | ally concealed. In Ttaly musical journals frequently take the titles of well-kpown opeéras. | Thus there are I'’Amico Fritz, le Fra Diavolo, 1l Trovatore, 11 Pirata (a too l his novel, he conceived the idea of dramatizing it, and wrote a play in five acts, of which the first representation took place in 1885, with Mme. Jane Had- ing as Sapho. It met with great suc- cess, and later MM. Henri Cain and Ber- nede determined to transform it into an opera, which they found no easy work. Jules Emilie Frederic Massenet was born at Montaud, Loire, May 12, 1342. From his mother, who was both a musi- clan and an artist, he inherited his mu- sical taste. She was a daughter of the Marquis de Nonancourt, and she was brought up and educated by the Duch- esse d’Angouleme. Massenet's work fis entirely of a French type, embodying charm, grace, melody and brightness. His “Manon” and “Werther” are con- sidered among his best productions, but his “Cid” and “Mage” and “La Navar- raise” are sad examples of hasty work and a determination to keep himself be- fore the public, written without inspira- tion, and in their nature forced and un- finished. Massenet is a man of indom- itable energy and industry. Up at break ot day, he works the whole morning through, and in the afternoon resorts to his editor’s office, receives visitors, gives rehearsals and has a kind word for every one. In the evening, as a man of the world, he frequents the fashionable draw- ing-rooms. He is a man of medium height, and impresses one as being of a highly nervous temperament. His head is particularly worth study, and his eyes are wonderful in their constantly changing expression. He is considered to share with Saint-Saens the foremost place among modern French composers. The London Telegraph's eriticism on the playing of Grieg, the Norwegian pi- anist, may be a useful hint to those Titans of the instrument who appear to think noise and brilliancy the great desiderata, and to whom no one would | think of offering the old Irish salutation, “More power to your elbow.” Grleg is a delightful exponent of his own works; exaggeration of tone and expression have no allurements for him. But though his style is vMlently opposed to that of some of the glants of the planoforte | who flourish to-day, he leaves nothing undone that ought to be done. As a pi- anist Edvard Grieg shines by his quiet insistence upon the more delicate points of the matter in hand. When he attacks a strenuous passage he does so with firmness, but with no intention to let | mere force play an important part. In the crispness of his touch lies this pian- ist's chief strength, but this quality is almost equaled by’ his rare command over all the more delicate gradations of tone. After the peaceful simplicity of the earlier movements, the finale of E minor Sonata ran a course as exhilarat- ing as a carriole drive through a keen and frosty atmosphere. In Praeludium, Sarabande, avote, Air and Rigaudon the Norwegian master has his say after the manner of a bygone genera- tion. All were played with rare minute- ness and point, the dainty gavotte and the exquisite gir making perhaps the deepest impression. Finally he played his Sonata in C minor for violin and piano with Johannes Wolff in a manner that worthily crowned the afternoon's music. Another California prima donna bids fair to make her mark in opera. Maude Berry of this city and of Fresno has made a very successful debut with the Madison-Square Opera Company at the Garden Theater, New York, under the management of Charles Frohman. Un- like most other California prima donnas, Miss Berry does not base her claims for recognition on phenomenal notes in alt. She is a mezzo soprano, and her debut ‘was made as Siebel in Gounod's “Faust.” It was hard to believe that she had had little or no stage experience, for she act- ed with perfect ease and expression and sang the “Flower Song” brilliantly. Miss Berry is a handsome, imposing-looking young woman of the ash-blonde type, and the dashing boy’s dress of Siebel suited her to perfection. Nearly all the soloists in the Madison-Square company were unknown to New Yorkers. The only people who made much impression on the opening night were Miss Berry Celli. A comic opera of the well-known Smith and De Koven brand was put on at the Broadway (New York) Theater last week, and was greeted by an audience which crowned the house from door to dome (there is a fine box-office allitera- tion in that phrase), and met with a good reception, although some of the scenes are disappointing, and in no par- ticular was it up to the Gilbert & Sulli- van standard. ‘“The Highwayman' deals with the preposterous adventures of one Dick Fitzgerald, an Irish soldier of for- tune, who has taken te the road after being ruined at cards. In the first scene be appears as a peddler in the inn yard of the Cat and Fiddle and sings an ex- cellent song. Lady Constance Sinclair, & court belle, who 1s in love with Fitz- | Transcript. : fve obtained on application to the suggestive title), Rigoletto, I1 Piccolo Faust, Carmen, Falstaff, la Mascotte, Mefistofele, la Boheme, and now they have just started le Zanetto, after Mas- cagni's new opera. At Nuremberg, the Council of Magis- trates has voted for the Carl orchestra a subvention ‘of 12,500 francs in order that this institution may organize a series of popular concerts at a reduced price. The programme must comprise only classical works and good modern music. The Menestrel draws a striking parallel between the democratic sentiments of the Nuremberg Magistrates and those of the socialistic municipal council of Mar: seilles in suppressing the subventio granted to the theater in spite of the furious protestations of the inhabitants. —_———————— EMPTY STOCKINGS. When we were little children And played with doll and ball Our little Christmas stockings ‘We hung upon the wall. We knelt beside the trundle-bed And prayed so trustingly, And we knew that what we prayed for We would surely, surely see. Ah me, the white hopes banished! Now, in our hearts so chilled, Still hang, with all our stockings That the years have never filled. The faith, the truth, the innocence, The prayers we cherished then, So empty, oh, £0 empty Now we are all grown men; And those little empty stockings Hung on our memory’s wall, Those little, empty stockings, Are the emptiest of all. Post Wheeler in New York Press. —_———————— FLASHES__O_F FUN. If Arthur Pue Gorman had the legs of a centipede and the feet of an Alexan- drian verse he could not provide shoes enough for all the candidates in Mary- land that stand ready to step into them. Buffalo Enquirer. The Optimist—Any man can make a Hving if he will only try. Why, I read this morning of a man who cleared over 3400 on an acre of horseradish alone. The Pessimist—I'll bet it wasn’t horse- radish alone. I'll bet 4 to 1 that it was half turnips.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Mrs. Prye—Folks are saying that you don't get along well with your neighbors. Mrs. Hitt—That's very true; but I get along admirably without them.—Boston Fuddy—There is one thing that can be said of Mercer; he lives up to the injunc- tion of the golden rule. Duddy—In what manner, pray? Fuddy—When he tells Groper a good story Groper never laughs at it, but when, a few days later, Groper tells the same story to Mercer Mercer laughs as though he would split.—Boston Transcript. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS DIMES OF 1829—S. H., City. There is no premium on United States dimes of 1829. No premium is offered for dimes c{fin’ed from 1829 to 1845, both dates in- clusive. BERKELEY—Subscriber, City. Docu- ments concerning the studies at the Upi- versity of California, at Berkeley, may regis- rar. A DIME—A. S. A dime of 1884 is worth | Jjust 10 cents if it is in good condition and was coined in a United States mint out- side of the San Francisco Mint. If coined in the last-named place it commands a premium. THE CENTURY—J. A. B, City. The year 1900 closes the nineteenth century, and the twentieth commences with Janu- ary 1, 1801. The first century commenced with the year 1 and closed with the year 100, for it takes 100 years to complete a century. —————— NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. The Duke of Norfolk is said to have spent more money on buildings than any Englishman now alive. The Marchioness of Granby, who is a fine sculptress, has lately completed a beautiful statue of her little son, the late Lord Haddon. Professor E. W. Hyde of the Univer- sity of Cincinnati has been made dean of the university, to succeed Dr. P. V. N. Myers, resigned. The Pope does his private writing with a gold pen, but his pontifical signature is ays made with a white feathered quill, which has been in use for more than forty years. A transposed figure has drawn Prince Bismarck into a lawsuit. He says he promised a man a pension of 4500 marks, while the claimant asserts that the ex- Chancellor said 5400 marks. It is a dif- ference betyeen vier und fuenfzig and fuenf und vierzig. ——— For throat and lung troubles use Low’s Horehound Cough Syrup; price . | balls. | lie PERSONAL. Dr. W. §. Taylor of Livermore is at the Palace. Dr. J. D. Davidson of Fresno is at the Palace. Colonel C. C. Ross of Chico is a guest at the California. G. M. Francis, the Napa journalist, is at the Occidental. Dr. Agnes Winzell of Altruria is a late arrival at the Russ. Louis Dean, a cattle man from Reno; Nev., is at the Russ. Dr. 8. N. Cross of Stockton is regis- tered at the Occidental. J. M. C. Jasper, a wool-grower ‘Wheatland, is at the Grand. State Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding is a late arrival at the Grand. 2 ‘Warren Sexton, a lawyer of Oroville, is making a short stay at the Grand. General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico is making a short stay at the Grand. Dr. D. J. Willlams and Mrs. Williams of Livermore are guests at the Grand. F. Erickson, a railroad contractor of Jamestown, is registered at the Grand. Thomas Wormer, a mining man from Butte, Mont., is staying at the Palace. T. L. Mylet, an extensive rancher of Platte Centre, Nebr., is at the Cosmopoli- tan. T. B. Van Alstyne, an officlal of the Whittier Reform School, arrived at the Grand yesterday. W. B. McDougall, a mining man of Placerville, is- among the later arrivals at the California. Mr. and Mrs. J. Jerome Smith of Stock- ton are at the Lick. Mr. Smith is in the machinery business. George R. Stewart and B. T. McCul- lough, cattlemen from Crow's Landing, are guests at the Grand. W. A. G. McKenzie of Santa Maria, agent there of the narrow-gauge rail- road, is registered at the Grand. S. C. Willmans of Sonora and J. l’k Willmans of Newman, brothers and min- ing men, are late arrivals at the Lick. V. S. McClatchy of Sacramento, editor and one of the prpprietors of the Sacra- mento Bee, is visiting at the California. of John L. Koster returned yesterday from Watsonvil accompanied by M Koster, and took apartments at Grand. Thomas Ewing, formerly a Congress- man from Missouri and now a resident of Arizona, arrived at the Palace yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Ewing. Steuart W. Cotton, the Stanford foot- ball captain, arrived here yesterday, and will espend the Christmas holidays with his parents at the Cotton residence on Jackson street. Harry K. Benham, U. 8. N., stationed aboard the Marietta, just arrived from the Orient, is a guest at the Palace. Ha is the son of Admiral Benham, formerly stationed at Mare Island. B. M. Steinman, late Mayor of Sacra- mento and now proprietor of & hotel In the capital city, arrived at the Palace vesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Stein- man and Miss Etta Steinman. George S. Stearns, a merchant of Oak- land, Or., arrived here yesterday with several earloads of Christmas turkeys. He made a similar trip just before Thanksgiving. Mr. Stearns is registered at the Lick. 0. A. Foster of Santa Cruz arrived at the California yesterday. He purposes to engage in the transportation business next spring on the Yukon, and has come here to make arrangements for his out- it. He is the son of a well-known black- smith of Santa Cruz. Rev. and Mrs. H. Judd of Los Angeles, en route home from the Hawaiian Isl- ands, arrived here yesterday on the steamship Australia, which brought only ten other passengers from Australia and Hawaii together. Rev. and Mrs. Judd are staying at the Occidental while ip the city. R. P. Schwerin, president of the Pacific } Mail Stea: > any and managey of the purchasi s ment of the Southern Pacific Company, will arrive here Sunday in the steamship China from Japan, whither he went a number of weeks ago on a visit of in- spection, accompanied by Mrs. Schwerin and family, Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—L. M. Morris, San Francisco, Normandie; J. W. Allyne, San Francisco, Raleigh. Representative Loud, wife and daughter left Washing- ton to-day to spend the Christmas holi- days with his mother in Massachusetts. Benjamin T. Moore, Alaska, is registered at the Arlington. Miss Loughborough of San Francisco and C. Hedermann of Honolulu are at the Arlington. Senor Saraste has given to his native town, Pampeluna, all the jewels present- ed to him by royal and distinguished persons in the course of his career. The articles, which will be placed in a mu- seum, include a set of pearls given by Queen Victoria, three rings by Wilhelm I, and a watch in blue enamel by Napo- leon IIL e Best Xmas plum pudding. Townsend's.* B Guillet’s potato, filbert cake. 905 Larkin. x ey corn—loose, on_ strings, and in Townsend’s, 627 Market, Palace. * —_———————— A handsome Christmas gift,a basket of Townsend's Cal. glace fruits; 50c Ib. e o ~ No waiting at Townsend’s. 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