The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1898. HN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . S. LEA Jo Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1865 | EDITORIAL ROOMS...... ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 18M. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFKCE.... ++----908 Broadway [ NEW YORK OFFICE... --Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFKCE.... Marquette Ballding | C.GEORGE KROGNES8S, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—627 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAlilster street, open unti 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o’clock. 2991 Mztl street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'cloek. Hission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Poik street, open untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. One year, by matl, $1.50 AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—*A Stranger in New York: Columbia—*Shore Acres " 0ld Lavender.” ‘The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown.* Morosco's—"Pavements of New York.” Tivoll nbad the Sailor.” Orpheum— Vaudeville. Metropol! Temple—Paloma Schramm, this afternoon. Y. M. C. A. Hall—"The Passion Play. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville. Wallace, “Untamable Lion.” Olymplia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Central Park—Baseball to-day. | California Jockey Clup, Oakland—Races. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park. El Campo—Music. dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. April 16, Turkish Rugs, at 106 HERE seems every likelihood that the Na-’ @ DUTY TOWARDS THE GUA@RD. I tional Guard of California will be called to ac- That they will respond enthu- siastically there can be no doubt. It is unfair that they should be asked to do this at great personal loss and the hardship of losing positions in which they earn their daily bread. They merit the practical good will of tive service. every citizen. \K The men of the National Guard of California are | not idlers. They come from the shop, from the desk, | the counting-room and the counter. They toil in; mills every honest vocation is repre- | sented in their ranks. They are always ready to re- spond to the summons of the State or nation. They | would go to the front as gladly and gallantly as now | they will undertake the work from which the regular soldiers have been ordered. In the East nd factories; some large employers—for in- stance, Wells, Fargo & Co.—have informed their employes that any needed in the contest with | Spain may consider themselves at liberty to go, that | their pay will be continued, at least in part, and that | upon return their old positions will be awaiting them. This is generous, but it is no more than right. It is nothing but a seemly expression of patriotism. Members of the California National Guard should be assured that none by performing the service now made necessary by the exigency of impending war | shall be deprived of the means of livelihood when the emergency shall have passed. The employer who by iamen | from upholding the honor of the land will fall far | short not only of the pattern set by others, but of the performance of a plain and simple duty of citizenship. OREGON REPUBLICANS. threat of discharge seeks to deter the State mil LEAR, forcible and patriotic is the voice of the Republicans of Oregon on the issues of the day. The platiorm adopted by the State con- vention at Astoria is as terse, as vigorous and as em- phatic a declaration of the principles of the party and its policies at this issue as could be desired by even the most aggressive and stalwart Republican of any part of the country. The two issues of supreme importance are the money question and the Spanish crisis, and on both of these the utterances of the platform are notably strong. They will be read all over the Union as evi- dences of the sentiment of the Republicans of the Pa- cific Co: 1d will carry everywhere the assurance that there is to be in the West no further compromis- fng with the silver men, nor any antagonism to the policy of the President in dealing with the Spaniards, whether the issue be peace or war. The declaration in favor of the gold standard is ac- tompanied by the announcement, “We believe the best money in the world is none too good to be assured by the Government to the laborer as the fruit of his toil or the farmer as the price of his crop.” To this §s added a condemnation of the continued agitation for free silver as calculated to jeopardize the prosper- fty of the country, and there is a particular condemna- tion of the unpatriotic efforts of the free silver agi- tators to array class against class and section against section. On the war issue there is a full and patrioti¢c declar- stion of confidence in the administration. This is the keynote of Republican sentiment everywhere on this issue. In a crisis of this kind there ought to be the fullest harmony among all citizens. An opposition to the administration or an effort to destroy confi- dence in the President is at this juncture almost a treason to the nation. The Republicans of, Oregon have done well to speak in no uncertain tones on the issue, and can with reason rely npon the people to sustain them at the polls. P a— By cable from Madrid comes the important infor- mation that over there the people are inclined to view the message of the President “as derogatory to Span- ish dignity.” Perhaps it is all of this. A message which cites the bloody record and the treachery of a nation could hardly have been designed to tickle its venity. HE g One O’Neil who has been arrested for burglary also figures as a bondsman for 2 man named Kellett, who has fled the city. A common sense of gratitude should now impel Kellett to return. Doubtless-he could get accepted as surety for his friend O’Neil. Of course another lot of Chinese have been per- mitted to enter on the plea of desiring to participate in the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, and after having given their promise to go back. Faith is a beautiful thing. B e Now is the time for a graceful backdown on the part of Spain. A little later the operation may be so precipitate as to give the impression of being awk- ward. | General Lee has advised that the blockade stand, that MR. BRYAN APPEARS. R. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN ap- peared in Washington on Thursday to adv9- cate raising the European blockade of Spain which has been created by the President’s policy. there be no recognition of the Junta and no demand for the dismemberment of Spain, her refusal to be the cause of a declaration of war against her. Lee has been mentioned as the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency. He has stood, with bravery and patience, in a position of supreme diffi- culty, and has assisted the administration in preserv- ing the isolation of Spain. He is popular. His re- ception in this country testifies to that. Mr. Bryan | has filed a caveat on the next Democratic nomination. | He sees in Lee a possible competitor who will carry away New York and the Southern delegations. Therefore he must make politics against Lee in his own party, and against the President in the country. To do this he repairs to Washington to advise recog- nition of the Junta, which Lee says should not be done. Mr. Bryan’s reason is stated to be that “it will be the proper political step to take; it will be | popular.” Reading the expressions from Continental Europe uttered at the very time Mr. Bryan was making per- sonal and party politics out of the prospective slaughter of men in war, we see plainly the result that will follow the acceptance of his advice. France, our ancient ally, stands with Spain on the issuc of dis- | memberment. Austria stands with France. From Germany comes no expression except of aversion | and hatred for the United States. Russia, just estab- lishing herself at the end of a march of two centuries in search of an unirozen harbor, as the possessor of | extraterritorial domain, has vital interests against the theory of a right to demand dismemberment. So, from Biscay to the Baltic, lies the possibility and ex- treme probability of a Continental alliance with Spain if Mr. Bryan’s “good politics” prevail in Con- gress. ‘ This nation is formidable. It has 10,000,000 fighting | men, and what credit Mr. Bryan's conspiracy against | its financial soundness leaves to it. ‘ It can make war | against Spain for the destruction of a battle-ship and | the murder of her crew, or it can intervene in Cuba, following a long chapter of precedents established by | all the European powers, and Spain ¢an make this the cause of a declaration of war. As the necessary | result of either course Cuba will be liberated and our loss of life and treasure will be reduced to a | minimum. The people of Cuba will then form a | government to suit themselves, regardless or regard- [ ful of the Junta, as they choose. | Mr. Bryan, however, does not want this plan fol- | lowed. He wants an issue to use in his business of | getting an office. Therefore he desires action hyi Congress that will be, in its final analysis, a 'eclara- | tion of war against Continenta! Europe. His selfish personal interests, as he sees them, require that the | United States assume a right not claimed by any em- pire, principality or power from Babylon to these days. He wants us to demand the dismemberment of Spain, and to fight her if she refuse. He wants to change the issue and shift the ground of contro- versy. He wants to destroy the Monroe doctrine, to abandon the traditional policy of this Government, and to take a position which dissolves every existing rule of international right and responsibility. He is the ambitious youth scratching a match to light a conflagration that will extend no man knows where, and be quenched no man knows when. Can we credit Mr. Bryan with knowing enough to know what he is doing? On him is no official re- sponsibility. That rests with the man who beat him. Is his sense of propriety so bankrupt, so drowned in the great gulf of his consuming vanity, as to cause the belief that he is the leader of the people, that he is the dictator of policy, that he holds the issue of | peace or war, of life or death? If so, he is on the eve of an awakening that will be instructive. Congress is not composed entirely of self-seeking politicians, nor does the country wish to water Mr. Bryar’s wheel with blood. If it is to be shed the red stream will run that honor may live, not that Mr. Bryan may get an office. He has his analogue in Spain. He is the American pretender, the Nebraska Don Carlos, the political Bourbon, who learns nothing and who forgets nothing. His Span- ish counterpart threatens domestic revolution if the Spanish Government go against his ideas, while Mr. Bryan threatens to make an issue at the polls if the man who beat him refuse to accept his leadership. A A NATIONAL LABEL LAW. DDRESSES made on the opening day of the State Fruit-growers’ Association at Riverside clearly reveal the interest taken by our fruit men in the movement toward procuring such legis- | lation as may be required to protect them from the injurious competition of the makers of adulterated fruit foods. The issue is, in fact, one that concerns the general public as well as the fruit men, and it will remain a subject of incessant agitation until it has been settled for all time by being settled right. The enactment of local regulations or State laws against the manufacture or sale of impure foods is not a sufficient remedy for the evil, and cannot be, no | matter how drastic or sweeping such laws may be made. The contest involves something more than the suppression of adulterations that are proved to be harmful and perhaps poisonous. A large number of the manufactured articles put on the market as fruit preserves or olive oils are harmless enough in their nature, but are none the less a fraud on the public and a wrong to the producers of genuine preserves and true olive oil, because they are made of cheap stuff and are not what they pretend to be. Mr. Wardell is reported to have urged upon the fruit-growers the importance of a national law on the subject and to have advocated such legislation . as should require every article offered for sale to be labeled according to its true character. There would be no injustice to any one in such a law. If the “so- phisticated foods,” as they are called by those who deny that they are “adulterations,” are harmless, the manufacturers of them can certainly have no objec- tion to selling them under their rightful names. A man who is willing to consume a preserve made of apple-cores and glucose flavored with orange should be permitted to do so, but he ought not to be made to pay for it under the impression that he is getting genuine orange marmalade. Our Government requires that all imported goods shall be plainly marked “Made in Germany” or France or England, as the case may be, and a simi- lar marking should be required as to what they are made of, whether manufactured at home or abroad. Cotton-seed oil should be sold as the product of cotton-seed and not as the product of an olive. Apple jam and glucose should be sold as the product of corn fields and apple-cores, and not as the product of Californian orange groves. It is time to put an end to this commercial masquerading. Honest label- ing will injure no honest article. 3 THE MAYOR AND HIS POWERS. HE efforts of some of the supporters of the Tpropos:d new charter to conceal the true char- acter of the powers which have been conferred by that instrument upon the Mayor are in the nature of an electoral confidence game. The leading fea- tures of the charter are centralization and individual responsibility. If the principles underlying these are good things, why should anybody attempt to hide them from the public or meet arguments against them with pleas in avoidance or denial? One organ which is engaged in grinding out new charter tunes daily has stated in terms that the Mayor created by the charter will not be a “Lord Mayer’'— meaning by this that he will not under the instru- | ment exercise powers of an extraordinary character. For the purpose of countervailing an article in this journal in which the functions of the Mayor were <learly defined, this organ submits an extended state- ment of the powers which the charter-makers have conferred upon the people. It illustrates the self- sacrificing magnanimity of the Freeholders with the allegation that they have authorized the people tor elect eighteen Supervisors, an Auditor, Treasurer, As- sessor, Tax Collector, Coroner, Recorder, City At- torney, District Attorney, Public Administrator, County Clerk, Sheriff, twelve Superior Judges, five Justices of the Peace and four Police Judges. The publication of this is accompanied by the as- sertion that when it is alleged that the proposed char- ter has created a Mayor with unprecedented powers a supremely ridiculous statement is made. Yet the fact remains that all the patronage controlled by the offi- cials whose creation has thus been generously con- ferred upon the people will not aggregate one-quarter that which the Mayor will directly and indirectly con- trol. With the patronage of the Board of Public Works alone the Mayor under the proposed new charter could | undoubtedly, if so disposed, dictate terms to the en- tire elective portion of the government. Should San Francisco enter upon a system of street and sewer improvements during the next ten years it would ex- pend from $25000,000 to $30,000,000 in new work. Every dollar of this money would literally pass through the hands of the Mayor. A Mayor of this character, as we have previously remarked, may be a good thing. Possibly this town has reached a stage when it is necessary that it should have some such potentate to manage its affairs. But what good is going to be accomplished by concealing the nature of the monarch we are about to create? Is it honest for the Freeholders to smuggle this sort of a Mayor into the City Hall without letting us know what sort of a kinglet he really is? If centralization and individual responsibility are correct in principle, a fight ought to be made upon them openly and above board. That is the honest way to conduct the charter campaign. e —— |AN ART GALLERY FOR SAN JOSE. Y the generous offer of Mrs. M. P. O’Connor B of that city San Jose has an opportunity to ob- tain an art collection valued at about $100,000. | The offer of the donor is subject to the sole condition that the city or its people provide for the collection a | building suitable for the purpose. A site will bci | granted for the edifice in Normal School square, so | | that the city will have no further expense entailed upon it than that required for the construction of the building. The terms and conditions being so favorable and the collection to be gained so valuable, ‘there can be no doubt the San Joseans will be prompt to avail | themselves of the opportunity to enrich their city for | all time with an art gallery which from the start will | be one of the most notable in the State. It is re- { ported that upward of $5000 has been subscribed al- i ready to the building fund, and the movement to ob- tain subscriptions has hardly more than begun. This liberal offer on the part of Mrs. O’Connor is not to be passed over as a comparatively unimportant event in the history of San Jose or even in that of the State. Artistic development has been one of the most salient features of American life .durigg the last quarter of a century, and there is every assurance that in the future art culture and art work will en- gage an increasing amount of the attention and the energy of our people. Those communities that have advantages in the way of such culture will become more and more estcemed as places of residence, and will therefore gain in the contest for pre-eminence with other cities equally favored perhaps in other respects, but lacking in that which is now becoming 5o essential to our intellectual life. It is to be noted, moreover, that even commerce in these days is developing largely along artistic lines. Among articles equally good as to quality and use the preference of customers is always for those which are presented in the most artistic forms. This fact has been strikingly illustrated in the course of the industrial struggle between France, Germany and Great Britain. A generation ago the French held almost a monopoly of certain valuable lines of trade because of the superior beauty and taste of the ar- ticles produced by their workmen. The establishment of art schools in Germany and England has broken !’ down that monopoly, and now the people of those | countries are supplying not only their own markets, but those of the world, with such goods in competi- tion with France. Similar results have been accomplished in the United States, though on a less extensive scale. Enough has been done here, however, to show the commercial and industrial value of fine art. The of- fered gift of Mrs. O'Connor to San Jose is therefore a public benefit of the widest scope and highest char- acter. The effect produced by such an art collection there will be felt as an influence throughout the State, and indirectly all California will be benefited by it. A generous deed has been done by a generous woman, and the San Joseans in providing a building for the collection should bear in mind they are to build for all time and for an institution that will grow with the years, and consequently their edifice should be made spacious, durable and noble. T ————— If the map of the Golden Gate showing the alleged position of alleged guns and torpedoes had been even i a measure correct its publication in the Examiner at this time would have been near treason and ample ground for Government suppression of the paper. Under the circumstances, however, the publication was merely a symptom of paresis. The appointment of Weyler as commander of the Spanish forces would be satisfactory both to the Cubans and to this country. There would be poetic justice in throwing his carcass to the same vultures who have been faring on lean and unnutritious re- concentrados. There seems to have been a lack of stability abeut the rumor that W. K. Vanderbilt intended to present to the Government a warship worth $5,000,000. —_— It seems that the army has been strengthened by the desertion of a few cowards from the Presidio. MUSIC AND At last the matinee girl and the woman hero-worshiper of New York have found an American to burn incense befo . in- stead of seeking out hirsute foreigners for the objects of their adoration. David Bispham, a home product, is the latest cult, and to all appearances he is fuliy filling the aching void left vacant by Paderewski, Jean de Reszke and Max Al- vary. A correspond&nt who attended one of his recent concerts says: “I have heard about the Bispham cult, seen articles in the jocose columns of certain frivolous journals relating to it, but I never real- ized the full extent of the mania until I attended a concert the other afternoon at the Astorla, where the American bary- tone sang. I had a seat that day near the stage—one poor, forlorn man almost buried in a sea of satins and laces and suffocated with a hundred subtle odors. MUSICIANS. of the most envied men in Paris. 24, he is the matinee girl's and the piano girl’'s idol. His dreamy melodies are played on all the boudoir pianos and sung in all the drawing rooms of Paris, and now he has made his debut as an operatic composer at the Opera Comique with a three-act opera, based on Loti's marriage, which has been- generally pronounced “sweetly poetical.” Raynaldo Hahn is a fortunate man. AN A competition has been opened to all composers of Italian nationality for the composition of a mass in the severe style. It is to be_ written for four votces with organ accompaniment and is to follow the rules laid down for masses on July 4, 1894. A prize of 1000 francs will be given to the successful competitor and medals and diplomas of merit will be presented if a gumber of good masses are present- DAVID BISPHAM, THE OBJ. ECT OF THE NEW CULT. Bispham stands up to sing. I af sensible of a fluttering all around me; fronf the corners of my eyes I see beautiful women pinch one another in ecstasy of joy(ui an- ticipation; I hear issue from four-score lovely bosoms long drawn-out sighs of perfect bliss, on the waves of which float such sweet expressions as ‘Oh, isn't he lovely?” ‘Ah, what a man!” ‘Did you know such an artist? ‘What a voi ‘How he does sing!” ‘Isn’t he the sweet- est thing? and, to cap the climax of hys- teria this last, ‘Oh, aren’t you glad you're alive?” There are some good, comnlon, sensible people who will fancy perhaps that I am making these tales out: of whole cloth, but I assure them, and will swear on a stack of Bibles if demanded of me, that I have written not a whit more than the truth in telling what hap- pened at the Astoria.” Jan Blockx and Tiere's successful opera, “The Princess of the Inn,” is to be pro- duced at the Monnaie Theater, Brussels, next season; Berlin has also secured it. The other day it reached its fiftiet® per- formance at Ghent, and, among the mani- festations of which the composer was the object on that occasion was one which | shows how generally librettists are neg- lected. Amid the acclamations of the crowded theater Jan Blockx was called to the box of the Mayor, M. Braun, who, surrounded by his civic officers, solemnly presented the successful composer with a gold medal bearing the inscription: “La Ville de Gand a Jan Blockx—Princess» @’Auberge, 1898"; (The city of Ghent to Jan Blockx, “Princess of the Inn'’—1898). Jan Blockx gracefully expressed his thanks for the tribute, and there was general emotion. At the next session of the Municipal Council several of the Councilors asked the Mayor why the librettist, M. de Tlere, had not been asso- clated in the homage rendered Jan Blockx. M. Braun answered frankly: “We forgot ail about him.” The musician had been the only one remembered; no one had given one thought to the libret- tist. It is the general rule to overlook librettists in this manner, but the Muni- cipal Council of Ghent resolved to do the right thing, so the Councilors at once or- dered a medal to be struck off for M. de Tiere. It was too late, however, to offer it to him publiciy, so it was finally re- solved to send the librettist his medal by post. . The veteran song writer, Henry Rus- sell, although so very popular some years ago, received scarcely any emolument from his compositions; the competence he | realized was made by giving concerts and singing and playing his own songs. Had he written the whole of his works last year he might have been a wealthy man to-day, but there were no ‘‘royalties” in the thirties. Nowadays the composer of a popular song may make thousands of dollars by one eifort, but the songs which rang through England and America years ago brought practically no result, apart from Mr. Russell's singing of them. ‘“‘Cheer, Boys, Cheer” was sold for a sovereign, and ‘ rhe Gambler's Wite “The Maniac” and “TheSlave Ship” vield- | ed a like amount. “Nowadays,” says Mr. Russell, “‘a man receives fourpence for every copy sold of hissong, butl nevecre- celved a single fourpence in royalties. On one occasion thirty-nine presses were i working to supply the demand for| ‘Cheer, Boys, Cheer, yet all I got was a sovereign, though afterward the pub- lisher did give me a ten-pound note. But he made a fortune out of my work.” Jules Schuloff, whose pianoforte com- positions are known to amateurs all over the world, has just died in Berlin at the age of 7. Schuloff was born in Prague, | and completed his musical studies in | Paris under Chopin. of tours as a concert-pianist through | Europe, especially Germany, England, Russia and Spain. For forty years he gave pianoforte lessons in Paris, and later in life settled in Dresden and finally at Berlin. Among his best-known com- positions are “The Shepherd’s Song” (Chant des Bergers), the ‘“Fantasie” on popular Bohemian airs and his *“Concert Waltzes.” The commission that is organizing the coming exposition at Turin has requested Luigi Mancinelli to write an inaugural cantata to words by E. Berta. The com- poser has accepted the offer. Mancinelll is the only Italian whose name figures on the programme of Covent Garden Opera House this season; the singers are Amer- ican, English, Scotch, Polish, French, Scandinavian, Belgian, ete., ete, but Mancinelli, one of the conductors, is the only Italian in the long list of singers, conductors, etc. Raynaldo Hahn, who set to music | of Music. He made numbers | Not yet | ances at the Opera Comique, Paris. After her present engagement she will return to Vienna, where she is a popular favor- ite. Mascagni is vigorously prosecuting for libel II Mattino, an Italian newspaper | which recently published a false account of his suicide. He says he means to show | the editor that he is very much alive. |WHEN THE WAR HORN TOOTS. From the slopes o' | shores of Maine, | From the shadders o level o' the plain, the bank an’ from the workshop, from the office an’ the store, Comes the cry o' loyal legions eager for tae Californy to the rocky the mountain an' the | From fleld o' war. Men of ever: k and station, rich an' poor | an’ high an’ low, Are with feverish impatience waitin’ fur the word to go— | They are eager fur to couple onto anything that shoots— They are ready, Uncle Sammy, when the War Horn Toots. Every loval hand is itchin’ fur to grab a fight- in’ gun, Every patriot is eager fur to dabble in the fun, An’ we'll teach the dons in manner that is purty nearly right That we're peaceable in peace but nasty fellers in a fight. Sound the nofsy bugle, Uncle. let the drums begin to beat, An’ you'll see us hit the landscape mighty sudden with our feet; We will- come as trained militia an’ will come as raw recruits— We are ready, Uncle Sammy, when the War Horn Toots. Every gal in Colorado tells her steady hs must 0, An' must win heroic laurels in the presence o the foe, An’ that when the war is over if he stayed beside the flag, He will find her waltin’ fur him, even if he lost a leg. there's lot o' they're goin’, Not through loyal' fe sons o' their ow Colorado will be with' you, you can bet your rawhide boote— Wo are ready, Uncle Sammy, when the War An’ married fellers intimate ', mebbe, but fur rea- Horn Toots. enver Post. ANS“’EI{S TO .CORRESPONDENTS. THE NAVEL ORANGE—B. E,, City. It is said that what is known as the Wash- ington navel orange was discovered in Bahia, Brazil, whence it was carried to Australia, but it did no. succeed there. The Botanical Department of Washing- ton, D. C., sent for slips, forwarded them to Southern California, and when in due time the trees bore fruit the oranges were named ‘“Washington Navel” in com- pliment to the department at the capital of the nation. THE SALVATION ARMY—J. T., City. Generally speaking the Salvation Army does not distribute its War Cry free, but once a year all copies of the paper that are a year old are gathered and distributed without cost. The Army does not take in at its stations any individual who applies for a bed or food. The rule of the Army is that the individual must work in the wood yard or do some work as an equivalent for what is furnished. Th rmy has a dispensal attached to ation known as the institute. MEN—G. L. K., Potrero, v B. 8. Pinchback of African a member of the Louisiana He was Lieutenant-Gov- ernor of Louisiana, ard was Governor of its s COLORED City. Pinkn descent was Senate i ed. The successful work will be exe- cuted publicly in Turin. Many years ago Mme. Bordas was a favorite at cafe concerts in Paris, on ac- count of the spirited way in which she | sang the popular songs of the period. | This lady, who has not been heard of | for twenty years, has written from Al- giers to L'Echo de Paris, saying that her | volce still retains all its pristine beauty and that she intends to visit Paris in 1900 | and show the world what French popular songs were at the period when she was | in her zenith. According to all accounts a second | Mozart has come to light at Bergamo, in | Italy. The mew aspirant for musical | honors is an infant phenomenon in his eleventh year, who has already mastered | the science of music. The precocious child is completing the orchestration ol; an opera in one act entitled “‘Carmela,” the libretto of which was written by Signor Parmenio Bettoli. The score of Massenet’s “Cinderella’ was played over the other day at the Opera Comique to Albert Carre, in pres- | ence of the librettist, Henri Cain, and of | a number of French musicians of note. | 1t was pronounced to be an exquisite | score and was eagerly accepted for pro- | duction at the Opera Comique. A new operetta has been given at the Alfieri Theater, Turin, entitled ‘“Rafael | and the Fornarina.” The work fell flat | on account of an impossible libretto; possibly the Italians objected to seeing their great painter and his favorite model made the subject of a comic opera. Signora Anna Stolzmann, a prima don- na, was ambitious enough some months ago to become manager on her own ac- | count of the San Carlo Theater, Naples, | the biggest opera house in the world with | the one exception of La Scala, Milan. The lady has just gone into bankruptcy, her chief creditors being the members of the | chorus and the orchestra. | A grand concert was given In Saint | Petersburg lately by the Imperial Society | All the proceeds of this con- | cert are to be devoted to founding a con- servatory of music at Wechwotynez, the place where Anton Rubinstein was born. The new conservatory will bear the name of the celebrated musician. A solemn musical function has been glven at Saint Peter’s, at Rome, to cele- brate the jubllee of the maestro Mustafa, who for fifty years has been the musical director of the Sistine Chapel. A num- ber of musical celebrities were present on the occasion. Fanny Francisca continues her vocal successes at Monte Carlo. It is a pity that this gifted San Francisco prima don- na does not give the public elsewhere a chance of hearing her. Up to the pres- ent her successes have been confined to occasional appearances In corcert at Monte Carlo. Mme. Frances Saville, the California | Governor Warmouth. | Vail that State during the impeachment of He was elected to the United States Senate in 1873, but was not allowed his seat. Blanch K. Bruc another colored man, represented M sippl in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. R. B. Biliot 0 a colored man, represented South Carolina in the United States Congress in the Forty-sec- ond and Forty-third congr. NATIVITYJ. T. tive of the country i There is a difference between nativity and citizenship. - Tf a man and his wife, na- tives of the United States, travel through China for sight seeing and while in the Chinese Empire a son is born to them that son is a Chinaman, but he is an American citizen, or. more properly, a citizen of the United States, A man born in Ireland is an Irishman, but he is a British su *t, unless born to parents traveling through the country or born to arents the father being in the diplomatic ce of a foreign nation. 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