The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1898, Page 6

THE SA FRAN’CISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1898 .MARCH 24, 1898 THURSDAY.. | r. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pro prietos fons to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. Address All Communicat THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. _One year, by mall, $1.50 ..908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o‘clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o’clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. . Bugle.” Baldwin— Columbia—*1492 " Aleaz: ne.e Dudley.” Morosco's—“The Upper Hand." Tivoli—* The Widow O'Brien.” Tivoli—Concert this afternoon, Orpheum—Vaudeville. Metropolitan Temple—Marteau Violin Reoltal, Friday even , (g and Saturday afternoon. The Chutes— The Zoo, Vaudeville and Lion Hunt. ipia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. n Jose and the Santa Clara Valley Mysterious ) Club, Ingleside Track—Races, AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, March %, Furniture, at 19 Stockton streat, at 11 0'eloc By Sullivan & Doyl Miss N FRANCISCO is called upon to-day to mourn the loss of a brave man who died in her service for the protection of her people. The death of Police Licutenant Burke in the effort to arrest a man armed with a revolver and animated | by a murderous mania was in the fullest sense the | death of a hero in the performance of duty. He knew the danger that confronted him, yet he did not shrink. He went manfully to face the peril and save others from the rage of the maniac. His courage and fidelity displayed in the supreme hour grace his death and give to it an impressiveness which will not be overlooked by the people whom he so loyally | served. Under any circumstances the death of suah a man | would be an occ Lieuten- ant Burke was one of the most popular as well as one | of the most honored members of our police.” Uni. wi upright in all his alings with every class of the community, he was d law that the people | He was never smirched by scandal. | 3 sion for general sorrow. formly courteous H as strict] dea the type of the delight to honor. n of the His honesty, like his courage, was undoubted. His career was honorable to himseli and will remain a | proud memory to his relatives, his friends and his | comrades of the force. It is sad indeed that such a man should be lost to | the community in the very prime of his life by reason of the freak of an infuriated madman. San Fran- cisco can ill afford such losses. Nevertheless a con- solation is to be found in the fact that the memory of the hero will remain as a tradition to incite the emulation of brave men hereafter. The hero died in the faithful performance of a dangerous duty, and no man can hope to find a nobler or worthier death than that. TO TRAIN OR NOT TO TRAIN. EVERAL lessons may be drawn from the careers of prize-fighters who do us the honor of being in our midst. Here is Peter Jackson, only a few years ago a powerful man, knocked out of time and pugilism by a few thumps. It is said of Peter that he neglected himself, that he drank whisky, that he lived high, the inference being that had he not done these things he would still be fit to enter the ring. On the other hand, the case of Choynski leads to a different conclusion. Much younger than Jackson, he seems to be a more complete wreck, and yet he has for years kept himself in the state known as “being in condition.” It appears to have exhausted his vital forces as effectively as a diet of pie washed down with alcoholic drenches. It may be noticed that most men who make fight- ing their business die at an early age. No system of self_preservation can be devised which can offset the unnatural strain placed on ‘the body by the training itseli. Added to this is the receipt of blows designed to jar loose the kidney, paralyze the heart or batter the solar plexus into a concave wreck. Amateurs who confine themselves to the modest punching of a bag which does not hit back very hard may suffer nothing by indulging in the exercise, although they are apt to do themselves more harm than good. Vet there is no occasion to repine that the average prize-fighter dies young. He does not do this be- cause he is good. When not in the ring he is so apt to be a nuisance with a leaning toward vagrancy that he can be called hence without causing any wide- spread pang. It is a circumstance not to be marveled at that the guilty pool-sellers should be excited over the con- viction of one of their number.- Such a conviction was violation of a precedent which seemed to have the respect of any jury to be gathe:ed about a Police Court. There has never appeared any good reason why the law and the evidence should be ignored for a lot of chronic criminals. A writer of paragraphs has troubles of his own, and the worst of it is that he cannot look to the public for sympathy. This was illustrated in a few lines meant to call attention to what an evening paper had termed “a flatt failure.” Of course the intelligent machine, knowing how to spell “flat,” did so, and then and there a bit of harmless jocosity died. There is no justice in the accusation from Madrid that the United States has practically strangled autonomy at its birth. Pre-natal influences were such that there was no sign of life when the precious in- fant was first supposed to see the light of day. It was, in fact, born very dead. There is something cheering in the promptness with which Murderers Flannelly and Clark have been found guilty. That their guilt was known in advance of the trial was no indication that a verdict would be returned against them. / | The old hulk could withstand nothing. | opened to the waves, her rotten timbers broke to THE WRECK OF THE ALMY. Y the wreck of the Helen W. Almy the people B of San Francisco have received an impressive lesson on the imperative need of a strict watch upon the quality and condition of vessels that are sent to sea laden with valuable property and precious lives. It is so common a thing to patch up old hulks and start them forth on voyages across the ocean that sailors have adopted a name for that kind of craft. They call them “coffin ships,” and in every sea of the four quarters of the globe there are evidences that give grim and ghastly testimony to the justice of the title. Nothing can guard against the coffin ship but the Government, and that only by the most stringent laws and the most careful watchfulness. There are big profits in sending such ships to sea, and the number of men who in their greed to gain the profits are will- ing to expose the lives of crews and passengers to death is always larger than humanity dreams of. Laws stringent and severe are necessary to prevent such men from the commission of such deeds, and un- fortunately it appears we have no laws at all either to prevent the sailing of the coffin ship or to punish the men who calked up her old hulk, painted her over, gave her the gloss of a seeming strength and started her forth on her voyage to death. At one time the practice of sending unseaworthy ships to sea was so common in. Great Britain that it became a national scandal. Then Mr. Plimsoll took up the cause of sailors and of humanity and began that long agitation and crusade on the subject which after many years resulted in the enactment of statutes which have since guarded British seamen from that peril. It is to the credit of the United States that in our early history we needed no such laws. There was a time when our ship-owners were a class of men whose personal integrity was a sufficient guarantee that no coffin ships would ever be sent forth under our flag. That time has passed. New conditions have brought a new class of men into the shipping trade, and among them are many who for the sake of gain would send sailors and passengers to sea in a literal coffin if they could find any who through their poverty, their ignorance or their folly could be induced to go. In this way the wreck of the Almy was as startling and as shocking as the destruction of the Maine. | There is no international issue involved in the loss | of the bark to arouse patriotism to indignation, but there was enough of treachery and horror in it to arouse humanity to the bitterest wrath. The Almy, from all reports, seems to have been an utterly worth- less hulk. No local insurance could be obtained on her, not even upon an offer of 10 per cent for sixty days. Her passengers were given tickets marked with the warning “If possible.” Every circumstance of her outfitting tends to the conclusion that to all who knew anything about her at ail it was known that she was a coffin ship of the worst kind. She sailed away from this city designed for a long and stormy voyage, but went to wreck almost as soon as she got out of the bay. From the position in which her shattered hulk lay when discovered it is | evident her captain found her unseaworthy and had It was too late. Her seams started to return to the harbor. pieces, she heeled over into the waters and all her and passengers were lost. our law stands to-day this catastrophe was an ent and not a crime, and yet in all except the malignant intent it was as bad as murder. There is no excuse, no palliation for stich deeds as this. Out of the horror of the disaster there should come stern resolve to provide sure penalties for the com- mission of such wrongs in future. Let us sce to it that no other coffin ship sails out to carry to death sailors and passengers from the Golden Gate. T sh designs in the report accompanying the joint resolution to annex Hawaii was “ill consid- ered,” but asserts that England abstains only while annexation to the United States is pending. The ar- cre acci a ENGLAND @ND HAWAIL HE Chronicle admits that the reference to Brit- gument is then made that if we fail to annex the | islands we lose our right of protest against their transfer to any other power, and if England take them we cannot take issue with her. The cause must be desperate that requires such co- quetting with misrepresentation. England and France have a treaty standing since November 28, 1843, recognizing the independence of Hawaii and engaging “never to take possession, either directly or under the title of a protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of Hawaiian territory.” If the United States were off the map England would have to answer to France, and, under the Franco-Russian alliance, to Russia also, for any at- tempt to violate that treaty. The Chronicle seems to know what “the respon- sible citizens of Hawaii” are after, and declares that it is stable government. Inasmuch as these same re- sponsible citizens, by the help of our warship Boston, rebelled against and overthrew a stable government under a form that gave to the islands their highest prosperity, their present longings must be taken as a confession that they have proved incapable of restor- ing the stability which they destroyed. Their organ also says that they want some strong power to pro- tect them against native emeutes, because now, to protect themselves, they must stay under arms at great expense, which is “a condition that does not make for business, commerce and island develop- ment.” Indecd! This, then, is the republic of which we have heard so much. The Chronicle should know that when a minority of 2 per cent of a people by force overthrow a government and establish on its ruins the rule of a minority, that minority can only maintain itself by staying under arms. To make its own crimes and mistakes, its tyranny, disfranchise- ment of electors and rank misgovernment the reasons for a pitiful appeal to some strong nation to come to its help is as ridiculous as the plea of the man who had murdered his parents when he asked the court to be merciful to him, for he was an orphan. Suppose that the Dole oligarchy try the experiment of restoring to the people their stolen franchise and the citizenship it took away, and, abandoning minority government, submit itself to the pop- ular will and see how that will work. Let us put justice in the place of force and arms and threats, and let the qualified electors, whom it found free men and voters and reduced to serfdom on their own soil. have a voice in the government set over them, and if then they menace life and property it will be time to call for the interference of a strong Government. Annexation is not even on its last legs. Tt is off its feet entirely, and the exhibition of a straw-stuffed British lion in the act of swallowing the sandwich which we reject will not bring it back within the focus of possibilities. Doubtless the three wise men of Gotham who went to sea in a bowl if here now would be starting for the Klondike in the identical craft. THE CAMPAIGN IN SAN JOSE. MONG the fcatures of the campaign in San Jose which may be reasonably accounted as harbingers of victory for the people and good government one of the most salient is the fact that the gang men have been forced to conceal themselves as much as possible during the contest and put in the forefront of the battle a set of respectable-faced dum- mies to win favor for them under the title of a “Busi- ness Men's Ticket.” It is a clever ruse and the name selected for the masquerade is a good one. Fortnnately it will de- ceive no intelligent voter in San Jose. Behind the figureheads displayed to the public the presence of 'the gang bosses is evident to everybody, for that par- ticular gang could not make a still hunt if it tried. It could not even go snipe-hunting without taking a brass band along. Their presence being known, the title at the head of the procession will not delude any one. Everybody in Santa Clara County understands what is meant when the gang announces that it is out for “business.” Another good sign of the approaching emancipa- | tion of the Garden City is the bitterness displayed by the slander mongers of the gang. Ordinarily these slanders are by no means bitter. The gang uses | strong words and coarse words, but generally the tone shows no offense is meant and that the talk is for wind and not for blood. In this campaign, how- | ever, the slanderers are rabid. Their splutter of venom is thrown right and left about the city like froth from the mouth of a mad dog. It is evident they are cornered and that there is nothing left for them but a resort to tactics which their opponents will scorn to follow, and in which, therefore, they will have a seeming success, or at least a gratification of their malice. The best harbingers of success for the supporters of good government and local improvement, however, are the cause they have adopted and the ticket they have nominated. These are worth more to them than all the offenses their opponents have ever com- mitted. If the gang were more respectable than it is, if it had with more cunning sent its brass band out of town during the campaign, if it had concealed with more skill its manipulation of the dummies, if it had | talked with less winking about “business,” if it had made a cleaner and abler fight, it would still have litfle chance of success against a combination like that which is now working for the complete over- | throw of boss rule in the city and the establishment of the municipal government upon a basis of honesty, progress and improvement. Victory may be expected for the taxpayers of San Jose because it has been de- | served. THE WILL-MAKING POWER. | NLESS the Legislature soon interferes with the U tendency of trial juries to set aside wills it | cannot in the nature of things be very long be- fore it will be a vain act to make a testamentary dis- | position of property in California. At present 'the | law says that any man or woman mature age, sound mind and free from duress may make a will. The statute proceeds on the theory that whoever by | toil and self-denial accumulates anything ought to | have a right to dispose of it after death in such a manner as will best conduce to the rest and comfort But the right to make of | of his or her declining years. son that men in disposing of their property fre- quently perpetuate their meannesses and enmities beyond the grave, juries do not look with favor upon last wills and testaments. The other day a jury in Judge Coffey’s court set aside the will of a man named Brown for apparently no other reason than that the testator had not in'its opinion made an equitable distribution of his estate. Brown left $10,000. Probably half of this sum will be consumed before the lawyers get the case through the Supreme Court, and it is doubtful whether, even if the will is finally broken, the legal heirs will ever get anything. Yet it appears that Mr. Brown was of sound mind and distributed his property to his entire satisfaction. No doubt he would be considerably surprised were he to revisit the earth and discover that a jury had solemnly declared him incompetent to make a will. : During several years the Supreme Court has been engaged in a fruitless attempt to correct the verdicts of juries in will contests. In a recent decision Justice McFarland deplored at length the disposition of these bodies to remake the wills of dead men. said it was wrong for the living to amend the testa- ments of persons who had attempted to reward with legacies those who had been kind to them in their last days, and always upon evidence which proved nothing except that the testator had possessed an irascible stomach or a bad liver. Evidently the other Judges concurred with Justice McFarland in these views, for last year the court reversed the verdicts of no less than five juries who had dissented from last wills and testaments. % The practical effect of the statute on wills as it at present exists is not to give force to the laws of suc- cession, which come in when wills are broken, but to enable disinherited relatives to blackmail testa- mentary legatees. It is now the fashion in California upon the demise of a rich man who held his legal heirs in disesteem for his relations to take up their residence in San Francisco and lay siege to his prop- erty. To avoid scandal and trouble the legatees of the deceased usually “settle,” and = the disinherited heirs return to their Eastern homes in triumph. This is bad for two reasons—one is that it discourages an immigration that would be permanent if the contests were prolonged, and another is that it establishes blackmail as a conspicuous legal industry. What the Legislature should do at its very next session is to strengthen the will-making privileges of the possessors of property or abolish them altogether. If the practice of breaking every will which is not made to suit a jury continues to prevail it cannot be long, as we have previously remarked, before the privilege of disposing of property in this State will become a hollow mockery. Nor will the Supreme Court be able to sustain the statute, for most estates will be lorted by the disinherited before they ever emerge from the Probate Court. e e Some one learned in the law should be called upon to define the difference between murder and the send- ing to sea of a hulk laden with men ticketed for the Klondike, but destined assuredly for the bottom of the ocean. — Judge Campbell in giving a pawnbroker title to stolen goods the thieves chanced to leave with him has established a somewhat questionable industry on a firm footing. Reference is made to the vocation of burglary. Moral support is promised to Spain by some of the powers. It takes something more than this to batter down walls. Moral support is a little less effective than blank cartridge. . — Bryan denies that he has said anything to inter- viewers on the Cuban question, and a careful reading of his remarks seems fully to bear him out in this position. a will is a statutory privilege only, and for the rea- | A strong effort is being made to bring Josef Hofmann to San Francisco this season and musical people are hoping that the arrangements will not fall through at the last minute, as arrange- ments with other artists have so often done. Had Sherman & Clay's Hall been large enough Hofmann would have playved there, but the young man's man- agers waat a theater, as they.expect to draw regular Paderewski houses. He has already called forth more hysterical demonstrations in New York than the in- terical demonstrations, however annoying at the time, portend big houses. When Josef Hofmann was a little boy he was asked whether he liked being: an infant phenomenon and answered childishly: “T like playing very much, but I wish all MUSIC AND teresting Paderewski aroused, and hys- | the ladies would not want to kiss me.” Josef may think differently now. Some MUSICIANS. before being sung in German, and all the contracts for its production are already signed with the publisher, Ricordi. Musicians are very rare who follow with equal success the double career of’ composer and of orchestra conductor. In France Paul Vidal, conductor of the Grand Opera, and Andre Messager,” in Ttaly Mancinelli, and in Germany Richard Strauss and Fellx Weingartner, all write operas, symphonies, etc., and at the same time do not disdain to employ their ex- ceptional gifts in wielding the baton in interpreting the works of other musicians. One of these is now going to secede from the ranks of conductors, for Felix Wein- gartner, although wielding with equal ease the pen and the baton, has decided to devote himself henceforth entirely to writing music. At present he is putting to music an operatic trilogy entitled of his success with the critics is no | doubt due to the fact that many of | | them can say: ““We told you so! When | he was a little boy in knee breeches we | | said he would be a great artist.” Most | of the critics’ predictions on Josef Hof- | mann are really fulfilled, however, and | his personal magnetism is something re- | markable. ; | S | To judge from the Italian papers peo- | | ple who buy a ticket for the opera just at present are as likely as not to get| something for their money to%which a | prizefight would seem tame and unexcit- | ing. The following are a few recent in- cidents which have not been down In the | programmes. At Azarro a Trivalry has Dbeen established between two prima don- nas, and the partisans of each singer have been disturbing the performances | with clamorous manifestations. At the | 1ast performance of ““La Gioconda,” sung | | by Signora Pizzagalli, the partisans of | | Signora Antinori dectded not to let her | | sing, and such a riot ensued that quiet | could only be restored by arresting a number of the spectators. At the Pagli- ano Theater in Florence a number of the spectators who were hostile to the | | management decided not to allow the | chorus blessing - the poignards in the | “Huguenots” to be encored. The rest of | the public wanted an encore, but they | only got it after a number of arrests had | | been made. At the Piccinni Theater in | Bari there was a veritable insurrection | the other day against the management, | which, it appears, had not kept its prom- ises to the public. The fracas made by | the audience was so infernal that a de- | | tachment ot carabineers had to be called | | in. Instead of calming the riot, however, | the presence of the soldiers only exas- perated the people more. As there seemed no means of peaceably continuing the performance one of the chief magistrates, wearing his scarf of office, commanded every one to go home in the name of the law and after he had shouted himself hoarse the theater was finally evacuated by the riotous audience. When American audiences are discontented with the man- agement they show their disapproval by quietly staying away from the theater, which on the whole is more effective and less troublesome. People little skilled in the knowledge of instruments are fond of talking about “priceless Cremona violins,” under the impression that all the instruments that | come from Cremona are of very superior make. The fact is that the town is now living on its name. It was formerly the home of the great makers who made Cremona famous, the Amati, the Stradi- variug, the Guarnerius, whose instru- ments are worth thelr weight in gold. Nothing is now left of them at Cremona but their memory, however, and though the city continues to be the center of what is left of the Italian violin industry its' violins and violoncellos have nothing special to recommend them. Cremona has a very.active rival in the little town of Schoenbach, in Bohemia, Which is rap- idly dcquiring a name, not through the artistic value of its products, but because of the enormous quantity of violins and violoncellos it puts upon the market. Ex- perts say that the violin was first per- fected at Schoenbach, about the middle of the sixteenth century, or at least about the time of Gaspar de Salo and the first Amati. However that may be the violin making industry is the bonanza of Schoenbach to-day, for almost all of its 8700 male inhabitants are engaged in making instruments. The art of violin making is now practiced in many coun- tries. Mirecourt, in France, does one of the largest trades in the world in the making of flddles. Giacoma Puccini, composer of “La Vie de Boheme,” etc., went a few days ago to Paris, where he sought out Sardou and played him all the first act of his opera “La Tosca.” Sardou was charmed, in- deed he went so far as to say that he was “ravished” with the young Italian master’s music. What made the deepest impression on him was the finale with the majestic pomp of the “Te Deum” in the great cathedral, the clashing of the bells and the thundering of the cannon. The recital over Puccini returned at once to Milan to commence the second act, into which the librettist has condensed the two torture scenes and the death of Scarpla. The opera of “La Tosca” will be produced next winter in Italy, and Victorien Sardou will attend the first per- formance. Puccini is at work also on another opera, ' cast in a more heroic mold than any he has yet attempted. It is a grand lyric tragedy in five acts, entitled ‘“Marie Antoinette,” and ifie ac- tion begins at the palace of the Trianon and follows the unhappy Queen to the scaffold. The opera has twenty-three roles and requires a mammoth amount of staging. It is to be created in French | famous Bungert | class “Orestes,” for which he himself has writ- ten the libretto. His story is borrowed from the “Orestes” by Eschylus. It is feared that this cycle will be even more ponderous and monumental than the now “Odyssey” trilogy. Wein- gartner will be succeeded by Felix Mottl as conductor of the Berlin Opera-house. Count A. D. Cheremetief, a member of a family whose wealth has passed into a proverb in Russia, has this winter or- ganized popular concerts at extremely re- duced prices in order that the laboring s may become acquainted with good music. The orchestra is sometimes conducted by the Count in person, and sometimes by the popular Russian leader, Vladimirof, and a very judiciously chosen programme. is always excellently ren- dered. The works of Russian composers are naturally favored. The first five con- certs have been so besieged with appli- cants for admission that a very much larger building has had to be found. The Count's philanthropic departure might well find imitators in other coun- tries. News {s sometimes garbled by the time it reaches Europe. For instance the French papers make the remarkable statement that ‘“the violinist, Henri Mar- tean, whose success at the Colonne can- certs in Paris was so great In the inter- pretation of Theodore Dubois’ concerto, is at present touring all over America with this remarkable composition, which is everywhere arousing enthusiasm with the assistance of the excellent Thomas Marteau is a very gifted young man, but he has not yet arrived at the stage of taking the Thomas or- chestra in tour with him. The Russifh Government has just abol- ished the anclent law prohibiting all theatrical performances during the Or- thodox Lent. According to the new regu- lations operetta is still prohibited during Lent, but lyric and dramatic per- formances of a higher order are allowed, provided that the municipal council gives its consent. St. Petersburg and Kief have already authorized opera dur- ing the present Lent. Autographs of celebrated musicians are bringing to-day prices that twenty years ago would have seemed simply impossi- ble. Recently at a sale of autographs in Vienna, two letters written by Beethoven to his famous nephew brought $160 each, twolittle letters written by Joseph Haydn brought over $140 each and two letters by Richard Wagner $50 each. At. this sale a minilature portrait of Robert Schu- mann, painted on ivory, only brought $160. Henry Albers, who will be remembered as the star of the French opera season at the California Theater, is now singing in Bordeaux. The other day he appeared for the first time in the role of Athanael in Massenet's “Thais” and seems to have made the hit of his career in the part. The Paris Figaro in commenting on his success says: ‘‘He was always a re- markable singer and a faultless actor.” The De Reszke brothers and Mme. Lit- vinne, who were the cause of so much jealousy and wrangling in New York last winter, are now singing with remarkable success in German opera in St. Peters- burg. The Haydn Society of Vienna, com- posed of amateurs, recently executed an unknown symphony (in D Major) by Michel Haydn, brother of the composer of “The Creation.” It is now formally announced that the Richard Wagner Theater at Bayreuth will play next year “Parsifal, ‘he Ring of the Nibelung” and “The Master Sing- ers.” Musical circles in Paris have had quite a wave of enthusiasm over,the fact that the Thomas orchestra tendered a concert recently in New York to Guilmant and Pugno. Only the works of French com- posers were played. Max Bruch has just completed a grand choral work, which he has called “Gus- tavus Adolphus.” This composition will be heard for the first time In May at Bre- men. The composer, Franz Behr, has just died at Dresden. His fame rests on a number of pianoforte compositions dear to drawing-room amateur: “THE RIDDLE OF THINGS THAT ARE.” We walk in a world where no man reads re, To the light of the largest star,— Yet we know that the pressure of Life is hard And the silence of Death is deep, That leads to the gate of Sleep. We know that the problems of Sin and Pain, And the passions that lead to crime. Are the mysteries locked from age to ass In the awful vault of Timei— Yet we lift our weary feet and strive Through the mire and mist to grope And fird a ledge on the mount of Faith ¢ hope. 1n the morning land of hope. | (o STANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL. Instruction Will Only Be Given at Pala @ito and In Hopkins Laboratory. To the Editor of The Call—Sir: Thera is no foundation for the report that the Stanford summer school has removed to Pacific Grove. The university gives no instruction except at Palo Alto and in the Hopkins Laboratory. Aside from a small registration fee ail instruction in Stanford University is free. DAVID STARR JORDAN. Stanford University, March 23, 1868 —_——————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, NAVAL STRENGTH—H. 8., City. The strength of the principal navies of the world was given in this department on March 10. Cal. BRONZE — Lucius, Oxidization takes place in the melting process of making bronze, the amount being from three to four parts of copper to one of tin. ADVICE—S. S., California. Neither a Justice of the Peace nor an attorney need give advice on points of law with- out charging for it, unless he chooses to do so. There is no law that declares that “g Justice of the Peace who is mot a qualified attorney may or may not charge for advice.” PAWNBROKER—J. C., City. The law of this State says “Every pawnbroker who charges or receives interest at a rate of more than 2 per cent per month, or who, by charging commission, discount, storage or other charges, or by com- pounding increases or attempts to in- crease such interest, is guilty of a mis- demeanor. RELIGIONS—M. R. M., City. It is es- timated that there are one khml“nn_‘l forms of religions inl the world. There is no work on statistics that gives the ex- act number nor the number of followers, nor is there a work that gives a complete list of religions. There is nothing about which statistics are 8o incomplete as about religion. HIGHEST IN CRIBBAGE—H., Eureka, Cal. The highest that can be made in cribbage is twenty-nine, and that is with four fives and the jack. If in a game of cribbage you held two elghts, « seven, one nine and an eight turned the count was twenty-one. The count was 15-6; three eights—six; three runs of three—nine; therefore, six, six and nine make twenty-one. HIGH AND LOW NOTES-M. C. M, City. Russian peasants are credited with being able to sing from a quarter to one- half a note lower than C. The highest tenor note reached without the use of falsetto registers is the high C, which has been reached by a number of singers. The greatest range or compass of the male voice ever noted in an individual without the use of falsetto was two one-half Octaves, by Lablache, a Fren man. N..-IONAL GUARD UNIFORMS—E. S., City. The uniforms for the National Guard of California are being manuf: tured in Cincinnati, Ohio. The variou orders are being filled as rapidly as po: sible and the garments will be shipped as soon as made. The contractors will not wait for the entire lot to be finished. The furnishing of uniforms to the cadet company of the First Regiment has been under consideration for some time, but no conclusion has yet been reached, but it is probable that the State will allow it uniforms the same as to other companies. —_——————————— BOUND TO LEAD THE WORLD. Cleveland Plaindealer. A French statesman has recently com- piled some figures which are iInteresting as showing two things—that the world is getting more commercial every day, and that the United States is rapidly forging to the head of the column of commercial nations. Since 1850 the exports of the ten leading nations of the world, according to this statistican, have increased from $1,618,000,000 to $6,465,000,000. The exports of this nation have increased so rapidly that if they continue to enjoy the same ratio of increase the day is not distant, it is claimed, when they will nearly equal England’s. 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