The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1903, Page 22

THE FAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1903. —— GENIUS OF BRITISH PEOPLE | TYPIFIED IN THE FLAWLESS SINGING OF THE CHORISTERS xy RBlanche ?arh'nylon. LOVERS DELIGHT DURING THE PAST WEEK BY SAN flawless finish, the is perhaps as By the grace of God in part these thin vom The boys are sty é r College, an institution without perellel here and like | to those in which Willlam Sterndale Be: nett end Sir their first artl ing from $ o' eyed cher Y Their ages ra college course inc val from the placing of dy of langu 3 choirmaster’s » sald that the s also obtainad of plague of that senseless , is also not unknown ADVERTISEMENTS. n HAS COME AT LAST was impossible. PIAND a| PLAYER at j he price of others of the | same kind and merit at $5 per mont | HEINE PANY, Genry st. | ¥ and manu- exchange last week | Heine, Singer and | uprights_ practically new, 2 Kimball imi- t Walnut cases, celluloid keys.. 5 65 and $119 | H165 and #2005 | 8265 and K3IN0 | P -l Shes 120 almost 117 02 or A 132 Kuabe, rosc, old 118 And many squares from 850 down Why has this company grown faster than any | her company in the United States? Ask competitors During our recent sale we sold over 300 pianos. 1iis I twice the quantity sold by any other piano house during the history of San Fran- cisce. | of the farewell concerts of Mascagni, with es vemarkable as it is beautiful and second tenor, Edward Bri e end George Pownall, and a smooth and adequate bass, Herbert Hiiton, consti- the adult portion of the choir. Hera | are to be heard the exquisitely intonation, the smooth vocal qua In the two were persuaded to in- ir second programme th s were perhaps most favorabl It was like a bit of the biuc like a glimpse of a Botticelli | like an echo from the unsul- | The glees also, “‘Foresters, Bound the Cheerful Horn"” (Bishop), | “Now Is the Month of Maying” (Mor-| ley), “The Bells of St. Michael's Tower tt), <Oh, Hush Thee, My Babie end others su with their | tender humor and fragrance as| y mornings, were given with ex-| ympathy. Some of their numbers | were curlously banal and threw a t light upon the taste of our Cana- 1 cousins, by whom they have been rapturously epplauded. The cholr goes o the Australian colony, and from at 1 can gather of the Australian au- @diences, notably those of Sydney and M bourne, they will have to “scratch” | “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” ani the ltke. For these even we of the woolly West could not say that we were truly thankful. But for the rest, bandsomely, s T b interesting is the music pro- gramme for this week, properly the last of the seasom, for only the De Lussan Carmen remains of the larger attractions. Kocian's single return concert to-morrow evening at the Alhambra will begin the week and the little master will include the Bach “Chaconne” and the Vieux. temps minor concerto on his prd gramme. On Tuesday afternoon comes the first the Beethoven Fifth Symphony. Mas- cagni has not been heard yet in the Jeethoven domain and the opportunity to hear the young maestro in this most beau- tiful of the immortal nine will doubtless be avidly snatched. Then there will be the “» cco” overture, the *‘Prelude,” “Intermezzo” and “Dream” from “Wil- liam Ratcliffe,” and ‘““Wotan's Farewell | end “Magic Fire Scene” from *“Die Wal- kure.” ¥riday's concert will be a testimonial affalr tendered by Manager Greenbaum d the Tivoll management for the Ital- fan maestro, who has made himself so beloved and respected here, with his dis- tinguished musical genius, his downright hard work and genial personality. The programme is a beauty. The symphony will be the Tschaikowsky ‘Pathetique,” with which Mascagni first conquered the local public. Omne ifkes him almost best here, in the brilliant and beautiful read- ing he gave of the symphony. That sec- ond movement! The gods keep the skies clear for me to hear it again! Then there to be the Tschaikowsky “Symphonic rerture 1812, in which the composer de- cribes the French invasion of Russia. nkly programme music, theatrical to the last degree, noisy, brassy, the move- ment is yet tremendously effective and is to be given with all the military blare and excitement that its author intended. A squad of musicians from the Presidio will furnish the faifare, with trombone and trumpet, and the effect will be of the thrilling sort. The rest of the programme will consist of the “Sicilian Vespers"” overture (Verdi), the “Lohengrin” “Vor- #plel” and the “Ride of the Valkyries. Not a bad “Amen” to the season? Fanne Vanzi, the noted Italian novel- | ist, is in California gathering material for a novel dealing with life and social conditions in ihat region. She’'is the wife of one of the most eminent journal- ists in Italy. e Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* ————— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st, Palace Hotel building. * e 2 Sm ;nlormluon supplied dally to U] ouses and blic men by thi Press Clipping Bumuv&nzn'-) ao’cwf fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ® THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY decssn s on MORCH 18 1003 Publication - OB 1k . (he» Fuidoaive s bssnnqetsssn @ ...Third and Market Streets, S. F. HEN first American attention was attracted by the sound of voices in Europe advocat- ing an international commercial treaty for the purpose of protecting European indus- tries against American competition, it was believed that the agitation was nothing more than the calamity howl of men who felt themselves hurt by our invasion of their mar- kets. Since that time, however, the voices have become louder, and among them there have been dis- tinguished utterances of statesmen of high rank. It is therefore no longer possible to regard them as a meaningless clamor. Evidently they are designed to promote # movement of some kind, but as yet its nature is purely a matter of conjecture. Many and various are the theories that have been put forth to explain the movement. Accord- ing to some 1e hereditary landlords of Germany, who fear that t diminish the value of European farms 1eory is that the conservative forces of Europe yciety is to shut out the advance of Ameri- authorities the promoters of the agitation are t 1e import of American agricultural products wil and thus curtail the revenues of the lords. Another t believe that the only way to conserve the existing order of s canisn, @ as a step in that direction they are willing to begin by restricting our trade. A third set of authorities perceive in it the early manifestations of an inevitable conflict between the Old World and the New for the commercial supremacy of the globe. 1 theories are too vague to excite much interest. Mankind is so constituted that it is dif- ficult to get any one interested in a plot unless the plotter is brought to the front of the stage. So long as the talk ran of aristocratic objections to America, or conservative opposition to impending changes, or of irrepressible conflicts between rival hemispheres, there was no great concern among the people. The discussions were purely academic, and the masses gave little heed to them. Under such circumstances it was inevitable that some one should snggest a personal leader for the plot, and, naturally enough, Kaiser William is the leader suggested. Accordingly we are now invited to look »v the Kaiser for the advancement of Ger- upon the proposed American boycott as a scheme devised many and the increase of his power. The story goes that the Kaiser's ambition is to form a “Greater Germany,” extending. from the Baltic to the Adriatic and from the German Ocean to the frontiers of Russia, and in addition to form an alliance with France and Ttaly so as to make a virtually United States of Europe under his presidency. To accomplish that end he is working up a sentiment in favor of a united Europe. The crusade preached against American competition is designed not so much to offend America as to induce the various countries to form an international alliance. Hisfirst step is to bring about an agreement Detween Germany and Austria. It is to that end he is working now, and it is asserted that should he succeed in accomplishing the arrangement of an international tariff for the two empires he would n - a still further bond of union, and in the endl practically merge the two into a com- v as well as commercial union. It presents the v planning a huge combination which if successful would completely change aspect of the world. The union of the German-speaking peoples of the Austrian empire with those of Germany itself, and the consequent absorption of the better part of the Austrian em- pire, would give the Kaiser control of the whole of middle Europe and so overshadow France and Italy that they would be reduced to the condition of second-rate states. It would relieve Germany of al { rivairy on her borders and fit her for playing a great part in world politics against the United States, Russia and Great Bri The proponents of the theory are at no loss for arguments to sustain it. They point out that when first suggested there was but little support given to the proposed tariff alliance, but that of late it has been much heard of and an agitation in its favor is now being vigorously waged. In explana- tion of these facts it is said the Kaiser itated by the interference of the United States in the Venezuelan affair, ing to build up a European combination which will enable him to defy tlf€ Monroe doctrine the next time it comes in | ruler of his d foremost the politi 1 fear of taimn. has heen 1 1d is now s way. A late version of the story the French are convinced that the Kaiser is working the boycott plan for his own benefit, and accc Iv they are by no means willing to support it. The Paris correspondent of the London Times recently wrote: “The idea of forming a central European customs boycott of the United States is once more advocated from a quarter notoriously devoted to the interests of Greater Germany,” and he adds: “It is not unreascnable to suppose the renewed propaganda is really intended asa means of exercising pressure on the Government and the people of the United States with a view to overcoming American, opposition to fhe transoceanic epolicy of one of the great European powers.” While the story as a whole is hardly credible, still it is by no means improbable that there is an element of truth in it. The Kaiser is a statesman of sufficient astuteness to make use oi popular sentiment and bend it to his own designs. That there exists in Furope a widespread hostility to American expansion and aggrandizement is indisputable, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the Kaiser is quite willing to foster it so long as he can turn it to advantage to himself and his empire. That he is reaily plotting to obtain control over all central Europe is not likely, but still he will unquestionably make use of every means offered for establishing such firm alliances at home as will enable him to act with a free hand abroad. ding OLLOWING the rule of Talleyrand, “Call no man wise until you have read his letters,” we should call no people wise until we have read the bills introduced by their representatives in . the Legislature. Judged by that test the people of California are wiser than those of any other State, for there has been less in the way of freak lcgisfation at Sacramento this winter than in any other State capital where the Legislature was in eruption. Recently The Call directed attention to a good many startling bills submitted by legislators in Kansas, Minnesota and Illinois, and now it is but fair to give other States a showing. A New York solon has asked the Legislature of that State to make it lawful for a man to spank his wife or his grown-up daughter if she remain out later than 10 o'clock at night. The bill is the outcome of an incident of life on Long Island. A man told his daughter she should never stay out after 10 p. m. She disobeyed the order, and thereupon he went to a dance where she was tripping the hours away, and, in the presence of the other revelers, gave her a good spanking and then took her home. Naturally there was a good deal of excitement among the neighbors over the matter, and the father was prosecuted. The magistrate upheld the paternal right, but as it is feared another magistrate might reverse the decision, the effort was made to confirm the right by direct legislative enactment. A Pennsylvania legislator proposed a bill “to subsidize Y;rge families and provide gold medals for the mothers of such families.” It provides a payment of $10 to a mother of six children and $20 for a mother of nine children. Such rewards of course are not enough to stimulate ambition and would not be a temptation to overpopulation. Neither would a payment of them bankrupt the State. The bill may be regarded therefore as a recognition of merit rather than a reward, but there is not enough boodle in it to encourage hope that it will be enacted. In Missouri a bill provides that all persons found in Missouri claiming to be noblemen, whether such claims be rightful or fraudulent, shall be branded and made to take out a license. The object of the measure is to protect the heiresses of the State from foreign adventurers. An Indiana bill provides that any woman who refuses offers of marriage from more than three men shall be subject to a fine of $500 and thereafter shall be fined $100 every time she refuses an offer from a new suitor. The object is to encourage the girls to marry and to assure young men a fair chance when they make a proposal. k Such are some of the measures now under consideration by the lawmakers of the Eastern States, and we may draw our own conclusions as to what kind of people elected them to office. The announcement that the Frankfurter Journal has suspended publication is a matter of more than ordinary interest, for with the exception of the Peking Gazette it was the oldest newspaper in the world, having a clear record of publication ever since 1615. As the Peking Gazette can hardly be deemed a newspaper in the usual sense of the word, the Journal virtually held the honor of being the oldest genuine news publishing periodical on the globe) It was a good paper and a great one in its time, but it couldn’t keep up with the pace of to-day and so the end has come. At last there comes a voice of contention in Tuskegee Institute. The professor of music has resigned on the ground that Booker Washington knows nothing about music and yet insists on direct- ing how it shall be taught. He asserts further that Washington has a fondness for “loud music.” It is announced that the voice of the Pope was phonographed as he was pronouncing the Papal benediction during the recent jubilee, and now posterity will be able to hear it repgated for all time, or at least as long as the phonograph continues to be heard in the land. IMAGINARY INTERVIEW WITH l SHERLOCK HOLMES EVOLVES % A TALE UNTIL NOW UNTOLD | By Suisard. SHERLOC AT THE COLUX T confess that it was wit ation I should have gone am Gillette who last T she have accor ! e only Int granted by | him tc a repre It | but I pictured it some- this wise | than half a n d to cut and trim maid that has taken | place at the Palace went to | nd out if the actor were visible. True, Gillette honored me above all re- porters why? With all the ponderous re orial aristocrats of the London 1 = vainly imploring n interview, why fhad 1, even I, been chosen? My v | 1efused to come to the rescue and imag- ination failed to suggest a plausible rea- | did not ¢ oft, b m w “oid Jerry's had po! {scn. Was Gillette p iy an em of some offended player—Elizabeth Ken- nedy. for the argument—with a modern | | editior: of bolling oil prepared for my ben | ¢fit? Or—— But here the maid returned with word that Mr. Gillette was wil | to be seen, and with a do-or-die feeling | 1 stepped into the elevator and made my | way to his room, number 1003. What I first saw was little calculated Though outside it was to reassure me. broad daylight, on entering the room in response to the actor's “Come fn"” one | | was plunged immediately into Cimmerian | darkness, lighted only by the ominous | gleam of an approaching cigar. | “¥ou are Mr. Gillette? I stammered | to the cigar. I shall be when I find this—excuse me pfounded switch,” said the level, cool | | voice that I remembered so well in the | elipped, white-hot phrase of “Secret Ser- | vice."” | A moment more and the room was a | lood of light, the fire blazing and Gil- |lette's six feet ome looking keenly and Kindly—yes, kindly—down at me. He had \is violin under one arm—a Stradivarius, he tells me—and the other was held out in greeting. “You must pardon this odd reception,” ald, seating me comfortably and him- self sinking down, Turk-fashion, into a pilé of Oriental cushions on the hearth- rug. “I was just working out a little problem in international relations and quite forgot the darkmess.” | “You look as if you could see just as| well in'the dark,” I said, looking at the | long. keen eyes, carelessly regarding me. | “I have no doubt that you have me pi- | geon-holed already from A to Z.” “Not quite,” and Mr. Gillette smiled. | “A few small things I have noted. You {live in a flat—top flat, probably; you have | had the grip lately; you don’t use a type- | writer, don’t believe in Chinese labor, play the piano and are fond of the coun- try. The stomach secretions probably show a deficiency of hydrochloric acid, and—" “That's enough,” I gasped. ~how—"" | *Mere A B C, my friend; too simple to | | | | he “But how explain,” laughed Gillette. “For example, only flat dwellers walk with the consclous lightness of your step, and your sensitive- | ress would hardly permit you to live in | other than a top flat. That faint sugges- | tion of eucalyptus gives the grip away; that spot of ink on your second finger the fact that you use a pen. The slight thickening of the skin at the little finger | nail, with the pliancy of your hand, shows the planist; the color of your linen that you patronize white laundries. Then your affectionate glance at those daffo- Gils suggests your love of the country; your slight sallowness some tendency to indigestion, very commonly with nervous and sedentary people taking the form of a deficiency in the hydrochloric acid se- cretions—the solvent of meat foods. Very simple, you see.” “1 see,” I retorted. “And now, what did you wish to know? But first will you join me?’ and_ spring- ing lightly from his cushions Sherlock Gillette charged a deadly little needle :l!lh cocaine and courteously passed it 0_me. T declined, and with his slender artist fingers the famous actor-detective plerced his arm with another needle and sank down again contentedly into the cushions. “1 will tell you what I already know,” 1 said, “and then pernaps you will kindiy supply the blanks in my information. ¥ know that you were born in in Hart- ACTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT | Czar, | pathy for R ford, Conn.; that you are the son of a United States Senator, and related to Henry Ward Beecher and Harrlet Beecher ‘Then history has it that you be- &an your theatrical career a la Wilhelm WHO AYING HOLMES HAS BEEN PI K DURING ation from ¥ graduate. It . who sai adation t} nerican play E « ur boat power and with Or you are dow galow, “The Thousar f the ‘Great Smoky arolina.” “How much people can know and how little,” mused Gillette, lig! g a clgar ette hat is all true so far as it goes, but there is so much more. For example tais for your private ear alone—I[ am rea Sherlock Holmes. Not_on dald Dr Doyle not invent me, but I invented Dr. le, and my stage life is all a useful for my detective operations.” Range’ South 3, I am now hers to Pc*— erious international complications gland and America served that da Did it ever oc revent, if sent here to create Ame an s . to be used to the a gland in case of a war o That, my friend, They wouldn't have him in New York, scenting danger in hi flammatory music. But here, In music-crazy town, he has alfeady d incalculable harm.”. What did he first the town on fire with? The Russi owsky ‘Pathe mpathy {rt‘{n vantage of E the Indian fronties” the_cold_fact. exhibition blaring the Tschalkawsky thunderous triumph over the French of Russian 1812 overture, power i with as plain_as the n on your face, friend. I advised King Edward to sen. along his Coronation Cholir, but whers it against that Itallan tempest, Mas cagni? Well may the Czar r the strong bond of sympathy between Ame: ica and the mother country, but with a few more Mascagnis one would hardlv like to prophesy the result.” Here the telephone rang. “Here is the King now, as I must now call him. to eéxcuse me."” “But I wanted to hear you talk abo: your_art, actors, methods and so onm, pleaded. “Very, very sorry, but I must be ex- cused. Good-by. Yes, your Majesty, this said Holmes - “You will have | 18 Holmes.” Makes Skins Lighter, Clearer, Purer ANTIDOTES BLEMISHES The clear, firm complexion of youth is “coaxed back by Anita Applied at night and removed in thus imparting the full s medicinal nature. 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