The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1898, Page 6

i G THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1898 Opera Comique have made her a favorite FEBRUARY 10, 1808 JOHN D. SPRE&KELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ‘PiJBLICATI()I\ OFFICE.....,..Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 217 to 221 Stevenson street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is gerved by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year. per month €5 cents. 3 THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE ... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. s NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building .:Ona year, by mail, $1.5) 908 Broadway WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE ............. .. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, eorner Clav epen until 9:30 a'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 930 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open untll Co'clock. 9518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.; open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk slrzg; cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-secon and Kentucky streets: open until 9 o'cleck. AMUSEMENTS. Baldw rom Paris.” Callfornia The: Black Patti’s Tr Columbia—* What Happenel to Jones, Alcazar—"Char Morosco’s— @NY EXCUSE WILL DO. an idea that an gets into his 1e knows it, is not worth loss as to the ult inner d oes not suit him. Possibly ch fails to he has been presented with a nec win the approval of his artistic eye. But fantastic as some of the pretexts seem, they must all give way to that chosen by a pessimist in Vermont. He killed im a chap- ulars are himseli because his wife refused to read ter from the Bible. Unfortunately the part withheld. Tt is not even stated why he did not read the chapter himself, nor why she ed. there is no need for the widow to spend her decli ever, If she is a person of ordinary attrac- time in regrets. tion she will doubtless be able to secure a husband with more sense than the chump for whom it is now y to wear mourr She is in no way to . All he wanted was an excuse, and he would Per ve struck some p: rks of Job, for instance, based s than he knew what straightway essayed the climb of the Then she would have felt herseli I t 1 ited to read have found it. she would h ge of a melancholy tinge, the somber rem cn the pos to do with, sion of more bc golden stair. culpable as she does now. THE WEATHER OF THE WINTER. 5 the winter, OME experts 3 some say it was the hedgehog, but all agree a hoodoo has been upon the weather all through M In no part of the world has the winter been normal. In some places it has been better than in others, but newhere has it been just what was expected. In California we have had one of the coldest sea sons on record, and the cold spells have been of un- lly long duration. The beautiful snow has more an once flirted with the ripening or: the sun spots, and over, the records bear them out. and through the interior peared every morn: larity of one who feels at home and never intends to leave Over the wide, high plateaus of the Rocky Mouvn- tain States, where severe storms are expected in win- ter, the weather has been of moderate mildness nearly all the time. There have been comparatively few blizzards, and almost no intense cold. Along the Atlantic coast the season was so mild up to a short time ago that the people were complaining of lack of snow for sleigh riding and ice for the summer's sup- ply. These complaints were hushed last week by the blast from Boreas that nearly swept Boston into the ocean and made all New England shiver, but with valley P that single exception there has been hardly a storm | of note during the whole winter in that section. It seems this year that the farther east you the milder the winter is, when compared with the normal temperature. In England there has been al- most no snow and ice at all. Even the frost has been very light. Flowers have been blooming in the open air all through the season. Very much the same con- dition is reported from Continental Europe. In fact the winter has been one of remarkable mildness throughout the Northern Hemisphere generally. California in this as in all things else stands alone, an exception to the rule. Her golden climate has coppered the sun spot and bluffed the hedgehog. Worden's confession of the guilt of several other men will be interesting reading to these men. -useless to deny that there has been an impression that Worden was no worse than others. That they escaped may be no reason fer permitting him to do so, but it is a circumstance bound to stir human sym- pathy. It is a pleasant relief to learn that the Senators who have been at San Quentin were there on official busi- ness and were permitted to depart when they got ready. If all goes well there will be some other serv- ants of the public there before long, and they will have to stay until their sentences have expired. —— After a murderer has confessed it is of course proper to show that he did not know what he was | talking about. To impugn his veracity is the bounden duty of any lawyer who sees a fee in the task. If Mr. Waller is really glad that the charges against him have been brought to the attention of the Grand Jury he is getting in line with the general consensus | of opinion. The public is glad, too. Sending soldiers to the Klondike will be a severe test of their patriotism. If they do not desert they will prove that they have good material in them. From all that can be learned there will be plenty of men in the Klondike without sending any Japan- ese there. How- | as anges of the | for a long time with the regu- | go | It is | THE JAPANESE RACE. HE potency of the recent agreement made by Mr. Dole between the United Sbatcs_and Japan does not depend entirely upon the right of the Japanese to naturalization in the United States. Its essence is their unrestricted right to enter our juris- | diction, and this was granted primarily to quiet the island planters who may have grown cool toward annexation in the fear that it would subject them to our labor laws and thercfore obsolete their industry by cutting off a supply of the only form of labor whiclh it is profitable for them to employ. Naturalization is | merely a collateral issue, but is not without impor- | tance. The right to it is held to turn on the race to which the Japanese belong. We do not permit naturalization to Mongols, and some annexationists have dismissed the subject by dumping the Japan- ese into the Mongol race. For this, however, there is no ethnological authority. While ethnologists dif- fer as to the racial rank of the Japauese, none of the disputants assigns them definitely to the Mongols. | There are two races and their congeners in Japan. The aboriginal race showsevidenceof Malayan origin, modified by change of habitat.. The “Conquering Race,” as they call themselves, have preserved traces | of Aryan origin. Their language has in it features, indeed, that reveal a primitive farther back than thc‘; Aryan tongue, being probably from one of the re- | mote sources from which that tongue was derived. | In their color, stature and _charactenstics the con-| | quering race has marked features in common with | the ropean races and the Brahmins who represent in' India the survival of Aryan blood. | | In this country we are commonly familiar with the ed by mixture with the aboriginal | Japanese. or Ainos. The coolies from Japan who are on the Hawaiian plantations are of that type. But the examples of pure blood in that empire, the conquering race unmixed with the Ainos, show a| stature, facial features and mental merhod closely al- lied to the European descendants of the far away Aryans. Again, in their cult and philosophy the Japanese have absolutely nothing in common with the Chinese. philosophy, Shintoism, mistaken | type that is modifi | genous gion, and perhaps serving a religious pur- | pose prior to the importation of Buddhism; has no | akin to Confucianism. Its gorgeous and | abundant thology is in parts as dignified as that | of the Greeks, and has certain charms of treatment of the things of common life unknown to the Saxon features. and Scandinavian myths. I the Dole agreement be made of burning inter- | est tc by annexation of Haw there is abundant | evidence that then Hawaii will be the open door | through which the least desirable element in Japan | will enter upon American citizenship. But, granting that our courts will sit as tribunals in ethnology and | decide the Japanese to be Mongols, the more serious ature of the triple alliance will stand, to-our af- fliction and injury. The Mikado’s coolies will be free to come and go, panoplied with all the privi- leges meant by “the most favored nation” clause in the treaty. | When Burlingame came home in shining feather as the Embassador of the Emperor of China and in- duced this country into thetreaty whichopened our la- bor field to Chinese coolies and prostrated white labor on this coast, a great deal of pseudo Americanism was exploded among the popping corks which sa- | luted his presence in his native land. Anson Burling | ame was hailed as an American who had found | honors abroad and brought to us benefits from far | | Cathay. His exploits were extolled as exceeding | those of Clive and Hastings in India or of Sir Harry | Parks in the Daimio rebellion in Japan, and Yankee | | pride swelled to bursting over his superiority to these | Englishmen. In a few years, however, this bright | vision passed away and Burlingame cursed louder than he had been praised. His policy put the coolie siphan into us to drain off the wages of labor, | was the profits of trade, the gold of our mountains, lnri the benefit of China. It endowed us with a laboring | population that fattened where white labor starved, | that brought no support to an American school, or | church, or institution; that introduced new vices and | made old ones leprous in their bestiality. | | Now another American, Oligarch Dole, is at Oll\': doors appealing to patriotic pyrotechnics, asking us to annex a country where half the local tax goes to 1 | taking care of lepers, bringing us a gift, as Bur- | lingame did. Let us beware of him and of what he | brings. Human patience here cannot stand another | thirty vears’ fight against a new coolie experiment. | Rut it is to such a warfare that Mr. Dole’s triple al- liance and annexation of Hawa: GOLD LOANS @BROAD. OR years the American people have been bor- rowers of European money. The great wealth of the capitalists of the OIld World enabled | them to lend it at rates lower than it could be ob- tained here, and as a consequence it was to London, | Paris and Hamburg we turned for the funds neces- | sary to accomplish our enterprises. By reason of this condition of affairs the industries and not infrequently the soil of the United States were heavily mortgaged to Europe. The amount of our foreign indebtedness long since became’so" large that accurate computation was impossible. Accord- | ing to some estimates it amounts to more than | $1,000,000,000, and there are not lacking authorities | who declare it cannot be™far short of $2,000,000,000. This condition of affairs furnished one of the most fruitful themes of the calamity howler. Every por- | tion of the vast concave of the sky that bends above the United States has been made to reverberate again | | and again with the loud voice of the calamity orator | rolling out his tale of woe over our debt to Europe | in cadences as lugubrious and direful as those of the | wolf's long howl on Unalaska's shore. Recently the tide has turned, and there has been | accomplished something like a revolution in the financial world. So far from borrowing from Europe, | the United States has begun lending money to that | continent. When the first loans of this kind were | made they were regarded as but evidences of a tem- | porary disturbance of the money market, and few ex- pected to see them continue. They have gone on, however, until they amount in the aggregate to about $00,000,000, and now the experts in financial affairs; cite them as proofs that our long subordination to | European money lenders is over. American wealth | is at last equal to its needs, and New York has be- gun to rival London as a money center, even as the United States is beginning to rival Great Britain as a commercial nation. The calamity howler who was so indignant over our indebtedness to Europe in the past is now ?ndig— | nant the other way. The Post of this city, which manages to play the part of a railroad organ and blew the trumpet of the calamity band at the same time, is.one of this class. In a screaming edi- torial on Tuesday it declared the loans of gold to Europe were proofs of anything rather than pros- perity. It asserted them to be evidences that our business is dull, our industries unprofitable, our en-' nvite us. In | | | outbreak of the war, that difficulty has been found in | Great Britain and Ireland are to be proposed at this | speech were not satisfactory to the opposition. | my Government and the | concerned with a view to a conference on the sub- | it will be interesting to watch the proceedings of |.jail, where he belongs, nor made to disgorge his | | loot. | done this. | tion. It is the minister who still clings to the pul- | taken for an allegorical figure representing Virtue. terprises languishing and our opportunities for in- vestment less promising than those of the Old World. $ It is becoming every day more evident that we shall have the calamity howler always with-us. The habit acquired during the four years of Grover has | clearly become chronic. To such men everything is | wrong. If we borrow money we are mortgaging the country. If we lend it we are ruining the coun- try. If we should neither borrow nor lend the Post would still be indignant, for it would declare that to be stagnation and cite it as an evidence- that the country is in a condition of total collapse, United States advances with rapid strides to the fore- front of the nations. We shall soon have the finan- manufacturing supremacy of the world. THE QUEEN’'S SPEECH. V concerning the affairs of the British empire or the policy of the Ministers is ever given to the | of Parliament, and the address read on Tuesday was no exception to the rule. It was about as color- of a great nation has submitted to the legislative body in a long time. 3 tions with other powers continue friendly, that Turkey and Greece have arranged a treaty of peace In the meantime business goes ahead and the cial and commercial as well as the agricultural and 'ERY little in the way of definite information public in the speech from the throne at the opening | less an official communication as the chief executive Her Majesty informed Parliament that her rela- leaving territorial boundaries where they were at the providing for the government of Crete, that disturb- ances exist in the Soudan and in India, that the in- dustries of the Briti§h West Indian Islands are suffer- ing, that several reforms of local administration in session of Parliament, and, finally, that while esti- mates of expenditures have been framed with the ut- most desire for economy, “the duty of providing for the defense of the empire involves an expenditure be- vond former precedent.” It is scarcely necessary to say the statements of the In- deed they can hardly have been satisfactory to any- body. An address which begins by declaring peace prevails and all is well and ends with a request for military expenditures beyond all precedent certainly requires explanation. Sir William Harcourt very justly asked for more definite information, on the ground that so long as the empire has 100,000 men fighting in various parts of the globe, Parliament could not congratulate itself on “Pax Britannia.” While the proposed local reforms will probably oc- cupy most of the attention of Parliament and the British public, the most interesting portion of the speech from a foreign point of view is that dealing with the situation of the industries of the West In- dies. The planters in those islands have suffered from the fall in the price of sugar, and the speech de- clares that the fall “has been artificially stimulated by the system of bounties to manufacturers and pro- ducers of beet sugar maintained by European states.” To counteract this her Majesty announces that communications “are now in progress between Governments principally ject, which I trust may result in the abolition of bounties.” This is a new step in diplomacy. Of late years there have been international conferences on all sorts of subjects from the settlement of boundaries to dis- cussions on monetary systems, but this is the first time a nation has asked a conference to arrange a means by which it can save one of its own industries, without expense, by getting other nations to cease promoting theirs. Germany and France have derived wonderful profits in many ways from the develop- nient of the sugar industry among their people, and British diplomacy and see what success it has in per- suading them to make a change for the benefit of the | British planters in Jamaica Once the Spanish Minister felt called upon to an- nounce that American officials were scoundrels and thieves. However much basis may exist for this opinion, it is almost certain that Spanish officials are not models of virtue, excepting, for the sake of cour- tesy, the Minister himself. Weyler was kept in au- thority after it was plain that he was not simply a butcher, but a vulgar thief, and had been permitted to steal himself rich. He has not yet been put in | There seems to be no doubt that the wife of Drey- fus was subjected to infamous treatment, and the world would like to hear about it, not from idle _curiosity, but with a view to learning the truth as to | the sort of justice Dreyfus.got. Zola has many ene- | miies, but he would materially lessen the number by exposing the corruption which has sent a soldier to a fate so much worse than death that there is no comparison, provided, of course, that corruption has e One important thing to be considered in connec- tion with the De Lome letter is whether it was writ- ten by himself or somebody else. If he were a dip- lomat of ordinary ability he would never be sus- pected, in spite of the apparent evidence. But in this emergency it is remembered that De Lome has seized several opportunities to put himself on display as a wild and untamable ass. A Rev. Mr. Harris of California announces that he is going on the vaudeville stage. Al right: go ahead. If a minister desires to desert the pulpit for | the footlights congratulations are due his congrega- pit and make a vaudeville out of it who becomes ob- jectionable. Russia will not permit England to make a loan to China, and neither will England permit Russia to | do so. It would appear from this that the game of | dog in the manger is sometimes played on a gigantic scale. —_— When a letter is of such character that the writer feels bound to add as a postscript “Destroy this” he would be wise to himseli work the destruction and do it without having mailed the letter. Even the friends of Captain Delany must admit that in the glare of publicity he would never be mis- | { { | | Sam Waller is likely to gather from his experience as a member of the Board of Education quite a lib- eral education in the matter of morals. Probably the report that warships are moving mys- teriously means that the Texas is taking another jaunt across lots. % The Rey. Mr. Rader, in attacking the poolrooms, has set an_excellent example for the police to fol- The Emperor of Austria and | King of Hungary will celebrate in ; December, 1895, the fiftieth anni- | versary of his reign. On this occa-| | ographers of Napoleon have often re- | MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. The young French violinist, Henri Mar- teau, s to be heard for the first time in this ‘city on March 10, when he will ap- pear as soloist with the Symphony So- clety. He is only 22 years of age and has already made an international reputa- tion. Some years ago Marteau appeared in New York and made a remarkable success. Like all French youths, how- ever, he had to do military service and the feted artist was recalled from his Amerfcan triumphs to don the soldier's uniform and live the rough life of a bar- racks. He bore the discipline well, prac- ticed the violin in his leisure moments and a few months ago appeared again in public in Paris with all his former success. The only change noted by his admirers was that his locks had been clipped during his military service, and that his bearing had become soidierly. Marteau’s first New York appearance this season was with the Philharmonic Society, and he played so brilliantly that he was promptly forgiven for looking more like a soldier than an artist. His success was ‘enormous. When he finally retired from the stage and was receiv- at Milan has from time immemorial been subsidized by the city. This season the City Fathers have astonished and dis- gusted the whole community by refusing to sanction the usual grant, and the dis- gruntled Milanese have made the City Fathers the butt of endless ridicule in consequence. Il Guerino Meschino, a pa- per published in the Milanese dialect, prints the following sarcastic plece(of news: ‘“‘We have reliable information that the City Fathers have given orders for a large number of posters which will bear in large type theinformation: ‘Thea- ter of the Scala, This Evening Closed.” These posters will be placarded about the town daily so that the frequenters of the Scala can still see the name of their be- loved opera-house on the bill boards and can thus deceive themselves into the be- lief that things are going along as usual. It is hoped that by this means popular indignation will be allayed.” An Ttalian writer, Rafaello Barbiera, publishes in II Mondo Artistico some in- teresting souvenirs of Mme. Verdi (nee Strepponi), who died recently. One story HENRI MARTEAU, WITH HIS HAIR CUT. [From his latest photograph.] ing the congratulations of a fow friends there arose a noise as of an aporoaching | tornado in the stone corridors leading to the greenroom, and in a second or tw there dashed in those two monumentai artists, Ysaye and Pugno, followed by | the youthful and slimmer Gerardy. Tha | next thing seen was the enveloping of Marteau in three successive pairs of arms and the imprinting of three chaste | kisses on his rosy cheeks. Great was the emotion disple and _the crowd satellites which | of swarmed into the room in_ their wak All talked at once, endearing terms were | tossed about with surprising freedom and the triumphant violinist having been duly feted waneral attention was ben: up- on the violin upon which M-rteau had | played his encore, the Saint-Saens’ “Ron- do Capriccioso.” It was Ysaye's own be- loved Guarnerius, lent for the occasion. sion several expositions will be opened at | Vienna in the course of the year. A cul- inary exhibitlon will open tne series, and has already been inaugurated. But the | dramatic art would not have been spe- cially represented auring these jubilee | fetes had not a committee taken the mat- ter up with a view to arrange some pop- ular per.ormances. For this purpose a provisionary theater will be constructed at the top of the Kahlenberg, a moun- tain sufficiently elevated above the banks of the Danube, and otherwise more im- posing than the little hill which bears the theater. of Bayreuth and is reflected in the yellow waters of the Mein. In this theater 3000 persons can be seated in | the open air, and the prices will be much reduced. As to the artists, they will be drawn from all classes of the Viennese | population, and more than three hundred dilettanti, actors and singers of both sexes, as well as the orchestral musicians, have already offered their gratuitous as- sistance. The theater will be inaugurated by an _apropos performance, entitled “Fifty Years,” and will pass in review all the memora..e events of the reign of the Emperor rrancis Joseph. The mu- sic naturally will play an important role, and two Viennese composers have taken charge of it. The work of a popular the- dter under these conditions will assurea- ly be very interesting. The little town of Urbania, in the Ital- fan Marches, has awakened to the fact that it was the birthplace of the cele- brated singer, Crescentini, who was known in his day as the reviver of the art of Italian singing. By a decision of the Municipal Council it has been de- cided to call the street where he was born | ““Via Crescentini” (Crescentini street). Bi- called the proiound impression that this admirable singer produced when he ap- peared before the imperial court at the Tuileries in 1808 in Zingarelli's *‘Romeo and Juliet.” ‘“Never,” say these biogra- phers, “were the arts of acting and sing- ing pushed so far.” The entry of Romeo in the third act, his prayer, his cries of | despair, his aria. “Ombra Odorata As-| petta,” had such an effect upon Napoleon and his court that thev all burst into tears. The Emperor afterward showed that he was not ashamed of the weak- ness into which he aad been betrayed, for he bestowed upon Crescentini the or- der of the Iron Crown. The singer was born at Urbania in 1766, and died at Na- ples in 1846 low. The historic opera-house of La Scala in particular illustrates the affection that existed between the aged composer and his wife. Giuseppe Verdi and Mme. Verdi were entertaining a few friends, includ- ing the writer of the anecdote, at their villa of Sant’ Agata, when it was decided to take a row upon the lake that Verdl had had dug in a part of the grounds. In stepping into the boat Mme. Verd! slipped and fell into the water, overturning the boat above her head. In the twinkling of an eye the old master dashed into the water and swam ashore with her. Every one present was touched by the remark- | able energy and tenderness shown by the old composer. No one outside the villa heard of the accident at the time, for Verdi, who has a horror of publicity, begged his guests to say nothing about | the involuntary ducking. On the occasion of the new year M. Gallo, the new Minister of Public Instruec- tion in the kingdom of Italy, sent a tele- gram to Verdi, in which he expressed his | congratulations and a hope that he might still offer to his country another work of his genius. To this telegram Verdi re- plied in a dispatch couched in these terms: ‘The courteous words of your Excellency awake in my soul a sentiment of profound gratitude. I only wish I still had the power to fulfill the hope they express, but my 84 years do not consent. I send him back, on whom youth still smiles, the most fervent feli- citations.” Ysayve and Pugno, at present in . the | East, always go about in pairs with ac- companiment of Jean Gerardy. Both are weird in the matter of shirt fronts, and both leave the bounds of reason far be- hind when it comes to waistcoats and neckties. Their white dress ties are things fearful and wonderful to be- hold—constructions of linen more or less mussed, four inches broad and tied in huge flaunting bows at the joining of their low-necked collars. Music in Australia is a curious thing, according to the Sydney Bulletin. That newspaper gravely announces: “The other night at Sydney they gave, in the vice-regal presence, a cantata. There was | a chorus and orchestra of 300 performers and a descriptive chorus, ‘Australia,’ in which the howl of the dingo, the scream of the cockatoo, the kookaburra's laugh, the hop of the kangaroo and a native corroboree were introduced. During thi: performance Sam Poole, the well-know! comedian, cleverly disguised in red shirt, white ducks, a woolly wig and blackened face, introduced a weird native dance.” Verdi, who has been for several days in Milan, is said to be seriously occupy- ing himself with the publication of dif- ferent religious compositions which he has left hitherto unedited. Among these compositions are found several psalms, and even, it is belleved, a grand ora- torio. The publication will be at an early date. In spite of his recent be- reavement and the sorrow which he has evidently greatly felt, the old master is n good health. On Tuesday evening, the 15th inst., an attractive concert will be given by Mrs. Carmichael Carr at Shérman & Clay's Hall, Sutter street, for the benefit of the Seamen's Institute, especially to procure money to buy & piano. Mrs. McGavin, Miss Hulda Anderson, Signor Michelena and several others will assist, and a double quartet from the Loring Club will render some part songs. Emma Nevada, Ko‘u successes at the with the Parisians, has just returned to France after a brilliant season of opers at the Mercadante Theater, Naples. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Dr. J. Lobe of Chicago is registered at the Grand. A. B. Jackson of Salinas is to be seen at the Occidental. W. S. George, a lawyer of Sacramento, is at the Grand. T. F. Morrison, a San Jose capitalist, is at the California. i J. H. Ansell, a rancher of Santa Cruz, is at the California. S. W. De Witt of Washington, D. C,, is a guest at the Baldwin. W. M. S. Moore of Santa Barbara is registered at the Palace. John F. Carrere of Los Angeles is stay- ing at the California for a few days. H. C. Corson, a manufacturer of Ak- ron, is at the California with his wife. George Blake, a mining man of Tuo- lomne County, is registered at the Lick. W. W. McMillian and F. A. Fairchild, two merchants of Winnipeg, are regis- tered at the Palace. F. Toepper, who owns a large the vicinity of Mountain View, Occidental for the present. J. A. McLean, a big contractor of Port- land, is at the Lick with Mrs. McLean on a pleasure trip to the city. néh the 0000®QOO0O0O0O J W. Dorsey, a o ¥ O gentleman who [} E RT o has recently re- returned from © TESTIMONY O\Vlnnemucca, Ne- O IN NEVADA. © vada, and who is & O at the California, ©000000O0O0 O s the following story of a bit of expert testimony that he listened to while there. Some dispute had arisen between two prominent citi- zens of that metropolis over a horse trade and, as neither of them happened to be armed at the time of the quarrel, the matter was taken into court instead of being settled in the manner that such occurrences are generally wound up, in the State of sage brush and six-shooters. As one of the principal points in the case hinged on the value of the animal an expert was called in to give his opin- fon on the subject. When he took the stand he proved to be a long slab-sided fellow, half cow-puncher and half YanKee farmer, with a great idea of his own im- portance and so circumspect in what ha said that it would have been impossible to have made him give answer as to'the color of a white mule without some res- ervation of his own. The attorney for the defense had been at him for nearly half an hour without getting any satisfactory answer, when the Judge decided to take a hand himself. ‘“You saw the horse, did you not?” inquired that dignitary. “Yes, I think I did,” answered the expert. “Think!” echoed the Judge. “Don’t you know you saw him?” “Waal, I were a gazing at ’im fer nigh onto a haf hour.” “Well, will you now tell this court what you think he should be valued at?’ “You see, Jedge, it air like this. There is hosses an’ hosses, some is good an’ most is no good, an’ th’ value of a animal de- pen’s considerable on how bad a feller needs him. I knew a feller once who had a hoss that I took ter be a mighty likely lookin’ critter. He brought him down to th’ races an’ when he got back he wanted to pay some one ter take him offen his hans; then, er speaking on th’ other side of th’ question, my boy t’hum read ter me th’' other night of a feller called Richard who was er King an’ who wanted a hoss so ali”fired bad that he were willin’ ter give up th’ whole uve his ranch ter git one.” “Gentlemen, I think we may excuse the witness,” said the Judge as soon as order had been restored, “and if you will take my testimony as that of a man who knows something of horses, I will swear that the plug is dear at ten dollars.” George Brandt, a large vinevardist of Pacific Grove, is at the Lick on a vaca- tion which he intends spending in the city. O. A. Brown, general agent of the Col- orado and Midland Railroad at Salt Lake, is at the Palace on a short visit to the city. J. Parker Whitney, a retired business | man and millionaire of Newcastle, Cal., is one of the arrivals yesterday at the Palace. | F. A. Hihn, the Santa Cruz capitalist, | has come up from his home on a busi- ness trip to the city, and is staying at the Occidental. Lieutenant Lucien Young, U. 8. N, s | & guest at the Palace, as is also F. A. Bartlett, the well-known Port Townsend | mining man. | Frank G. Ives, the famous billiardist, is at the Baldwin, where he arrived yes- | terday from New York in company with | several other sporting men of that city. | Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® Sl Genuine eyeglasses. specs, 15c up.33 4th.® e | Guillet's potato, filbert cake. %5 Larkin, o R R s Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1043, | ————— Miss Hostess—How did you ever guess that I wear bloomers? Miss Guest—Because your balusters shine so nice.—Cincinnati Enquirer. AR e T Time Reduced to Chicago. Via Rio Grande Western, Denver and Rio { Grande and Burlington railways. 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