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FOLTZ, Special Agent. THURSDAY OCTOBI 31, 1895 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Get in your subscriptions early and avoid the rash at the mass-meeting. should see the $100,000 in sight before the end of the week sees ns. If the Cubans hold their own they will be satisfied for their own is all Cuba.

The National Convention movement should find everybody responsive to its touch. In the role of his own lawyer Holmes is liatle to play the part of his own executioner. The subscription to the National Convention fund rises high, but there is no bluff about it. It is not yet certain whether Hill's visit to Ohio will assist Brice to stay in, or only help him out. No doubt Van Alen wishes he had held on to that foreign appointment and got out of this country in time.

The Reynolds confession is a mystery story that should not be left open very long for a guessing contest. Perhaps Cleveland has kept Olney's vigorous foreign policy at home to sit down on when he writes his message. It is fortunate for Kaiser William that he will never be called on to defend his speeches in a campaign of education. Victory in the Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight will rest on the shoulders of the man who first issues an ultimatum and shuts up. The bloomer costume may not have come in to stay, but so far as the restaurants are concerned it has evidently come to wait a while.

The Western Addition improvement clubs should remember there never was anything improving to the public in a squabble. The prospective sale of the Glenn ranch is one of the prospects of Glenn County that is bright enough to attract the attention of the whole State. Whether it is the effect of the title or not. it seems to be admitted that Lady Sholto Douglas is acting much better than she did before her marriaze. As it is reported in England that Salisbury thinks of resigning, it is possible that Bayard's talk may have made him tired, but certainly it never scared him.

While we regard it as a National Convention movement, the East sees it as a San Francisco movement, and we must make it lively from their point of view. It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that when the battle over the Lieutenant-Govership really begins the Senate will know how to pick its flint and put it in the right place. On Monday Senator Chandler prophesied a war with England, and on Tuesday the British Government ordered half the garrisons and warships in Canada to come home. Platt is quoted as saying that he does not expect to have time to read Sherman's book, but that if he ever has the time he will write a book of his own and give trie Ohio man a notice. At the present time we are supplying Russia with locomotives for her railroads and armor plate for her warships, and if there is anything more she wants she has only to ask for it.

A controversy in the Board of Education of Philadelphia has disclosed the sad fact that the young ladies of the High School of that city are in the habit of lunching on bananas and pretzels. It is now asserted that England is seeking a war with China simply to put herself in a position where she can protect China from Russia. Such are the complications of oriental diplomacy as seen from the outside. When the South African mining boom collapses the Paciiic Coast will be ready to show the speculators several holes in the ground, they can crawl into for consolation and come out with big profits if they understand business. The new schedule of trains on the Santa Fe road by which the time of travel from Chicago to San Francisco has been reduced fcalf a day goes far toward removing one of the Eastern objections to holding National conventions in this City.

This is an era of peace, and industrial expositions are designed to promote the arts of peace, but all the same it is noted that one of the lirst applicants to whom space has been awarded at the Mexican exposition was Krupp, the cannon-maker. According to the official reports 27.8G1 pensioners died during the past year. Thus rapidly does death work along with Cleveland and his pension-haters in reducing the payments the Nation makes to the men who fought its battles and saved it from death. There is a striking oddity in the fact that the main objection to holding the National Convention in this City is the alleged inadequacy of the telegraph system. It would appear from this that the age is too speedy for electricity, that everything has got ahead of it and that lightning cannot keep up with the procession, TEE CONVENTION OUTLOOK.

Even the least sanguine citizen of Pan Francisco can hardly give a serious consideration to the movement for bringing the Republican National Convention here without seeing that the prospects are decidedly encouraging to our hopes and bright enough to be stimulating to our Against Chicago and Pittsburg, the two cities considered to be our strongest rivals, the objections made are more serious than any that have been urged against San Francisco. The experiences of the Republicans in ISBB and of the Democrats in 139:2 show that Chicago is not a good city for Presidential conventions. Pittsburg has not the hotel accommodation necessary for the fit entertainment of delegates and visitors. In both cities the summer climate is oppressive and exhausting. These objections are not to be easily overcome or explained away, and as a consequence members of the National Committee who are opposed to those cities now may be expected to remain in opposition to the end.

The objections made to Fan Francisco are of aimtLer character altogether. They are simply on the length of the transcontinental trip and the alleged inadequacy of the telegraph service. Such objections can be met and mastered readily. The transcontinental trip will be really a pleasure and not a fatigue to the delegates. By a little combination among leading newspapers the telegraph can be made ample for need of the public by the press.

We may expect, therefore, to be able to win over many members of the committee who are now apparently averse to as, and our chances for doing this are "the more favorable because we have so many cf the ablest members of the committee working for us. From present appearances the contest will result in our favor if we only show sufficient energy and promptness in making the light. "What has thus far been done in the City is certainly creditable to our enterprise. The $100,000 needed to launch the movement is almost in sight. It ought to be subscribed before the close of the week, or at least before the close of the mass-meeting on Monday night.

Now is the time for action. A great triumph for the City is apparently at hand and a strong pull all together will probably make it a certainty. A DANGEBOUS POWER. It is not until Buch a condition arises that which ha? been recently presented in the action of the North Pacific Coast Railroad that we begin to realize the dangerous power which public carriers are permitted to exercise in this country. That company has withdrawn one of the two boats which for so many years it has kept plying between San Francisco and Sausalito, with the result that the people of the densely populated region which the railroad traverses are put to great inconvenience.

In other words a certain set of conditions had existed for a long time and were found to be favorable to the idea of buying and improving property and establishing residences and business along the line. Of a sudden these conditions are so greatly modified as seriously to impair their character, and the probability is that nmch material damage has ensued from the change. The company possibly had excellent business reasons for making the change. Assuming, however, that it could not profitably maintain two boats, or that by reducing the service it can make a larger profit than formerly, is it right tbat its interests should be the only interests to De regarded? It is here that the whole question of the relation between a common carrier and the public which it serves is raised. In this case the communities served have a much larger population in summer than in winter, and the assurance is given that with the return of summer the other boat will be again put in commission.

The presumption, therefore, is that the winter service bears the same relation to the volume of business that the summer service bore. That seems plausible on its face, for it is the universal and bnquestioued custom everywhere for a temporary summer service to be established between cities and suburban settlements and resorts and for the service to be abandoned or reduced at the close of the season. Hence it is assumed that this custom is fair notice to all who may contemplate a permanent residence or business in these communities that they will have a reduced service or no service at all during the winter months. The situation becomes modified by the extent of the permanent settlement and the relation of the volume of trafSc during one part of the year to that during another part, but under ths prevalent custom it is left almost entirely with the transportation companies to determine the extent of the service to be furnished. The question of the right to exercise this power arbitrarily has been raised in the courts of a few States, and to a certain extent it has been laid down as a fixed proposition that a carrier must furnish an adequate service without regard to its own preferences, whims or profits.

Still it is a proposition that has worked itself out slowly and somewhat indefinitely, and the ground principles determining exactly the relation between a public demand and the extent of the service have not been fixed with sufficient clearness, and have hardly been touched upon at all, except in interstate matters. It is time that the people should give the subject more careful attention than it has received in the past. Had this been done long ago the prospprity of California would not have been governed so inexorably by the arbitrary exercise of power assumed by its one great railway monopoly. As for the people along the line of the North Pacific Coast road, they are furnished with an oDject lesson of great value concerning the need of better governmental regulation of railway companies. AEE THE PEOPLE INJUEED? Commenting upon the charge that much of the money borrowed by the Cleveland administration, ostensibly for the purpose of maintaining the cold reserve, has really been used to make up the deficiency in the revenue caused by the Democratic tariff, the Philadelphia Record asks, "What then? Are the people of the United States any worse off?" The question involves a curious method of evading the vital point of the controversy.

Tiie issue is not so much whether the people are worse off as whether the adrmuistration has not been guilty of violating the law and borrowing money unaer false pretenses. The Secretary of the Treasury has a right to borrow money to maintain the gold reserve when necessary to protect the credit of our currency, but it is more than questionable whether he has any right to obtain money in that way to pay current expenses. If a Congressional investigation this winter should disclose a use of the borrowed money for current expenses, the Cleveland administration would be placed in a very awkward position. Over and over again it has been officially asserted that the issue of bonds was rendered necessary by the export of gold and not by the deliciency in THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1895. the revenues.

If these assertions are proven to be false, the President and his Secretary of the Treasury will have but little credit left among any class of the American people, and may account themselves fortunate if they escape Impeachment proceedings. F.ven in the view the Record takes of the matter the answer must tie against the claim that the use of the borrowed money to pay current expenses makes no difference to the people. The borrowing of the money entailed the bestowal of a large bonus on the gold syndicate, and has burdened the country with a great interest charge on the money borrowed. These are serious items to people who have to pay taxes, and few are iikely to agree with the Record that they are of no consequence. Finally there is the matter of deception to be considered.

Are not the people injured whensver high officials deceive them by juggling with financial statements instead of telling the truth? GROSS CARELESSNESS. It seems incredible that the account" of the treasurer of the State insane asylum at Stockton were permitted to run thirteen years without the slightest overhauliug. By the merest accident it was discovered that the funds had been "misappropriated 1 The thousands of dollars taken from patients and held in trust for them were finally deemed available for improvements, and when a demand was made on the treasurer for the money he could not produce it. An investigation of his accounts was then made by an expert appointed by the Governor and a most disgraceful condition of affairs was discovered. The directors at once deposed the treasurer and turned over the om'ce to another person.

Manifestly the culpable officers are primarily the directors of the institution and secondarily the State Board of Examiners. The Governor is also responsible to the extent of beinv: charged with a general over- sight of the affairs of the State. Why there is no plan for an annual or semi-annual experting of such accounts surpasses the comprehension of ordinary persons. The case illustrates once again the old fact that many of the men who assume official duties are not inclined to give to their discharge the same fidelity and intelligence that they would give to their private concerns. The directors of the Stockton institution are now on trial before the public.

If they have any defense it is impossible now to imagine what it is. Unless they can clear themselves of the appearance of gross and inexcusable negligence it is difficult to see how they can have the assurance to remain in office or how the Governor can conscientiously permit them to remain. PERSONAL. Dr. J.

S. Sargent of Ferndalc is a guest at the Lick. AVilliara Yanderhurst of Salinas is at the California. B. K.

Upham, a vineyardist of Martinez, is at the Lick. John J. Seymour, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. J. Gulp of San Felipe registered at the Lick yesterday.

Loute Kahn, a grain-dealer of Oakdale, is at the Palace. Dr. George 11. Field of Suisun is staying at the Palace. 1..

Abrainofsky, a merchant of Jackson, is at the Grand. R. M. Sha'kleford, a capitalist of Paso Robles, is at the Occidental. James A.

LouUit, a lending attorney of Stockton, is staring at the Lick. W. Murray, a horseman of Sacramento, registered at the Grand yesterday. H. J.

Barling, a leading salmon canner of Alaska, registered at the Palace yesterday. Attorney J. K. Aitknn ieavts for San Luis Obispo to-day on law business, to return Sunday. Several big bicyclers arrived from the East yesterday and pat Dp at the Baldwin Hotel.

They were: E. C. Bald of the Columbia team, his trainer indie; Tom W. Cooper and his trainer, James Temple, of the Monarch team; Charles M. Murphy and trainer.

W. B. Young, of the Humber team; E. S. Kiser and trainer, 11.

B. Gleezen, of the Steams team; Charles S. Wells and A. Terrill of the California Giants, and F. Ed.

Spooner, cycling correspondent for a numbf-r of Eastern papers. WONDERFUL MINES. Jackson Ledger. The systematic manner in which The Call is making an expert inspection of California mines and its published descriptions of their character and working has developed many extraordinary facts and has informed the world of -the astonishing activity and profits connected with the industry. A specimen of the articles in this line appeared in Monday's issue concerning the Mokelumne region, and it serves to demonstrate the fact that mining is really in its infancy and that dazzling possibilities reside in the future.

INDORSING "THE CALL." Alameda The stand taken by the tfan Francisco Call in exposing the gross violations of the fish and game laws of this Slate has received the indorsement of all true sportsmen hereabouts, many of whom are fully conversant with the facts, having seen undoubted evidence in their journeys afield and their tramps through the tule basins. MR. HEARST WILL STAY EAST. New York Fourth Estate, 20. M.

11. de Young, Charles M. Shortridge and William K. Hearst, ihe three great San Fran- Cisco newspaper proprietors, were in New York last week. De Youns: has started home.

Shortridge will follow soon and Heam is hero to stay. NOT BY COUPONS. Woodland Mall. Charles M. Shortridge of the Pan Francisco Call was recently interviewed in New York and struck a keynote when he said that up-todate papers were made by brains and not by coupon fakes.

BEST FOR THE FAMILY. Willai-a (Wasli.) Pilot. The San Francisco Call under its new management is easily the best newspaper published in that city, as it gives the best news and its literary excellence renders it the best for the family circle. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. the Good Work Spread.

Fresno Republican. It might not be a bad thing If the crusade against impure milk in Han Francisco were extended to other foods and also to other localities. Producers and dealers In pure goods will not object to inspection. The evil of food Adulteration is more common than is generally supposed. An Off Year in Oregon.

Fendleton East Oregonian. The people ol the Willamette Valley are praying for rain. Xever before at this time of Uie year was the valley short of rain. Usually there is more than is needed and prayers are sent up for one or two days of sunshine, but this year the tale of woe is for rain and lots of It. Delayed by an Extra Issue.

Capay Valley News. We are later than usual this week from two our attendance at the trial Thursday, look in the birtli column. Ere the Funeral Flowers Had Withered. Los Angeles Times. Mr.

Jeter has been formally inducted into the office of Lieutenant-Governor of California. "Indeed, it followed hard upon." AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel A. T. YogHsaug, the attorney, Is regarded as one of the best raconteurs of the legal profession.

In the Palace grillroom yestenluy he lei out a strinfr of excellent bar anecdotes. He said a few ago that Dennis Bpeneer, tbeNapa luminary, was called upon by a Chinaman one evening, when the following dialogue ensued Chinaman kill another Chinaman with ahau-het; how much you charge make Lim clear." take the paid Mr. Srcncer, 'for 91000. 1 said the Chinaman, I be back after In about a week he returned to Mr. Spencer's ATTORNEY VOGELSANG REVERTS TO THE MUSTY PAST.

from life for -The. Call" by office and laid down rIOOO in gold coin on his table. Mr. Dennis swept the money into the drawer. 'Well, the Chinaman, he 'Who killed him?" 'I 'WhendM yotrtrill him? 1 'Last night.

1 There was some curiosity on the part of the audience for further light on the disposition of the $1000, but Mr. Vogelsang immediately spun off onto anothi "There was a man arrested for assault and battery. He said he could prove an alibi if he could only get a certain witness. Well, he finally secured the witness and put him on the stand. The accused he would ask the questions, which he did as follows: 'Tim, tell the court v.

here I was when I hit that man in the nose in front of the City 'You was down in Mill said the witness, 'iishing with "L'p in Nevada," continued Mr. Vogelsang, 'a queer thing happened in a Justices' Court at Pizen Switch. When the jury came in the winner of the case was notified by the court that before a verdict was rendered he would have to pay the jury fees. said the plaintiff. 'How often does the jury want money? I paid them $150 this "Some V'-ars ago when Judge Beatty was a Judge In Nevada an uttorney a case attempted to get in some evidence which was promptly ruled out.

He boon lagged it in in another form, Beatty again sat down on him. When lie dressed it up in another guise and attempted to palm it off on the court Beatty became neitled am 1 read him a lecture, saying that no amount of masonerading on the part of the attorney would evei result in that evidence getting in. 'Isn't that rough on said the client, leaning over to the attorney. The attorney leaned lack his head and in a hoarse whisper, that could be heard all over the room, replied 'Yes, but it's good law." THE SHERMAN BOOK. New York Sun.

John writes a booklet, Arid a thousand people rise To slug him in the necklit, And to su.asti him in the eyes, John Sherman writes a booklet, Ami ihoiisaud people say He doesn't know a trullilet When he meets it in the way. Jobn Shf-nnan writes a booklet Which is Lournl to pive us light; And lie doesn't a nlet; For lie knows when lie is right. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE BOOKS NEEDED. An appi.tca.tion Pboh the Rfno rrnuc Lierary That Deserves Attention. Ui.no, Oct.

28, 1895. To the Editor nf tht San Francisco 1 am endeavoring to resuscitate our public reading-room and library, which latter at present contains only 250 volumes. You, as a literary man, I ask if outof the klndnessof your heart can yon not procure for us some of the books sent you for review and from others. Your State owes no small debt to Nevada, in that most of the money gotten here has gone to build ud California. Our university students, numbering 300, are compelled to stand about the streets these cold nights, having no place oi resort save the clubrooms and other questionable places.

Any donations in the shape of Ixjoks or periodical literature would be most welcome. Such could either be sent in care ot Mr. or direct to me. Confiding in your appreciation of cur needs, believe me, very sincerely yours, t. F.

Hood, Librarian Reno Public Library. RUSSIAN FRIENDLINESS. To the Editor of the San Francisco You note a remark oi the Russian Prince bidding farewell to our Socretary of State concerning the presence of a Russian fleet in New York harbor during the war and their friendly intentions then and now toward us. I find in my diary of September 13, on board one oi our men-of-war at Buyukderah, in the Bosphorus, the following: None show us the consideration that the Russians show us. Not a boat's crew can board one of their ships, cither her or at Athens, but that anything they Lave is lityt-tM before us, ami they vie with each other we meet ashore In offering all the attention In their power to grant.

They remember and always speak of the attention their ships' crews received while wintering In our ports. We should never need help when Kussian sailors or their officers were within call. We may be sure they will defend our title to the land they sold us. Naval Veteran. Auburn, Oct.

28, 1895. FOR PURE WINE, TOO. To the Editor of the San Sir: Please help enforce the pure-wine law. This is more important than pure milk, as the State interests are at stake. Yours truly.

r. W. HaYNE. can Francisco, Oct. 29, 226 Market street.

MRS. FINNEGASS OBJECTS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Sir; I see by to-day's Call that some one has connected my name with that of Walter 8. Brown as assisting him. in his light with Secret Service Agent Harris.

I most emphatically deny that such is the casp, or that Mr. Brown has even asked my assistance; and, furthermore, I do not know nor have I ever seen or knew that there was such a person as Walter S. Brown. Anything I have against Mr. Harris is my own personal affair, and Hazen of Washington, D.

knows my opinion of Mr. Harris. Respectfully, Mks. Henry Kinxkuass. 620 Eddy "street, October 30.

OUT OF THE WORLD AT CORINTO. Btebaxd Harding Davis, in Harper's Magazine. Richard Harding Davis, in the November Harper's, tells the humorous story of an enforced stay at a Nicaraguan port, where killing time is the principal occupation of the residents. Every afternoon all tramped a mile or two op the beach in the hot sun for the sake of a quarter of an hour of surf-bathhip, which was deiightful In itself, and which was rendered especially interesting by our having to share the surf with large man-eating sharks. When they came, which they were sure to do ten minutes after we had arrived, we generally gave them our share.

The phonograph men and our party did not believe in Eharks, so we would venture out some distance, leaving the Englishmen and the Germans standing like sandpipers where the water was hardly up to their ankles, and keeping an anxious lookout for us and themselves. Had tbe sharks attempted to attack us from the land they would have afforded excellent protection. When they all yelled at once and ran back up the beach into the bushes we knew that they thought we had been in long enough, and wecame out and made as much noise as we could while doing so. But there would be invariably one man left one man who had walked out farther than the others, and who, owing to the roar of the surf, could Dot Hear our of terror. It was interesting to watch him from the beach, diving and splashing happily by himself, and shaking the water out of hii ears arid hair, blissfully unconscious of tbe deserted waste of waters abouti him and of the sharp black fin that shot like a torpedo from wave to wave.

We would watch him as he turned to speak to the man who the moment before had been splashing and diving on his right, and, mitsing him, turn to the other side, ana then whirl about see us all dancing frantically up and down in a row along the beach, beckoning- and screaming and waving our arms. We could observe even at that distance his damp hair rising on his head and his eyes starting out of their sockets as he dug his toes into the sand and pushed back the water with his arms, and worked his head and shoulders and every muscle in his whole body, as though he were lighting his way through a mob of men. The water seemed very opaque at such times, and the current appeared to have turned seaward, and the distance from shore looked as though it were increasing at every step. When night came to orinto we would sit out on the wharf in front of the hotel and watch the tith darting through the phosphorescent waters and marking their passage with a trail of fire, or we would heave a log into it and see the sparks fly just as though we had thrown it upon a smoldering fire. One night one of the was obliging enough to go into it for our benefit, and swam under water, sweeping great circtM with arms and legs.

He wes outlined as clearly in the inky depths below as though he wore a suit of spangles. Sometimes a shark or some other big fish drove a shoal of little fish toward the shore, aiid they would turn the whole surface of the water Into half-jircles of fire as they took leap after leap for safety. ABOUT THE NEW WOMAN. Philadelphia Ledger. The West is ahead of the East in extending the voting right to women, and in conservative England there is a strong woman suffrage sentiment which crops out in Parliament.

Propertv-owniriK widows ami unmarried women vote at the local elections, and in 1893 a bill conferring on women the right to vote for members of Parliament was defeated in that body by only 25 votes in a poll of 175 to 152, its defeat "being due mainly to the hostile efforts of Mr. (iladstone, who, among other reason? for his action, was moved to opposition because of the indifference of the women, and because the movement would eventually introduce women into Parliament and other offices. Philadelphia Inquirer. There must be something radically wrong with the Woman's Committee of the Atlanta Exposition. Its preliminary organization was easily effected and in the course of several of later existence It has not had a serious row.

This nil! never do. In the same length of time the Woman's Committee of the World's Fair had, figuratively speaking, knocked lUeli down and dragged itself out five or six times at least. It had likewise called itself hard names and several times looked apprehensively for the police. The Southern women are evidently not up to the Chicago standard of refinement and spirit. New York Tribune.

The new woman appears to have no show in China. The Governor of Kwang-Shau-Fu has lately issued an edict prohibiting women's clubs in his province on the ground that they "break up homes" and constitute "a danger to matrimony." He declares that, owing to the existence of these clubs, men are frequently deprived of the society of their wives. The proclamation concludes as follows: "1 therelore order that these clubs be closed, and that the married woman go back to her husband v. ithin the space of one month. Contumacious wives will be taken back to their husbands by the police." Philadelphia Times.

Massachusetts is one of the States in which the female population is in the majority. According to the suffragists themselves there are 624,995 possible women votera in the State. The registered male vote in 1894 was 459,307. The registration for this year is not complete except in the cities, which contain more than half of the entire population. In these cities, which had a registered male vote last year of 255,750, the whole number of women who have qualified themselves to vote either way upon the referendum is 20,072.

New Bedford Standard. Mrs. Ballington Booth has stopped her Salvation Army work for a minute to talk about the New that sort of New Woman which is indicated by capital letters and of whom we read on the jolte pages of tne magazines. Mrs. Booth condemns this New Woman.

She should rather condemn the paragraphed who have created her. We have very serious doubts as to whether there is any such woman. Boston Herald. Mrs. Howe hopes the men remonstrants will marry the women remonstrants and that they will live happily ever afterward.

It would seem to be in order for the other side to reciprocate this graceful sentiment and express the hone that the men who favor woman suffrage will marry the women in favor of woman suffrage, and that they will live as happily ever afterward as possible with so much politics ia the family. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Waterproof L. Sacramento, Cal. The followiug is given as a receipe for making paper waterproof: Take 20 ounces of alum ann 4 ounces of white soap and dissolve them in a quart of water; into another vessel dissolve 2 ounces of gum arabic and 1 ounce of glue in the came quantity of water and mix the two solutions together, which is to be kept warm and the paper intended to be made waterproof dipped into it, passed between rollers and dried; or, without the use of rollers the paper may be suspended until it has Deen periectly dripped anil then dried.

The alum, soap, glue and gum form a kind of artificial leather, which protects the surface of the paper from the action of water. The Subscriber, Oakland. Previous to the Revolution each colony had its own postal service, the first Postoffice being established in Boston in 1039. In 1710 an act of Parliament established a uniform system for all the colonies. On July 26, 1775, Congress adopted William Goddard's plan for a constitutional Postofhce, with Ben Franklin as Postmaster-General.

Congress continued the Postoffics Department by several enactments and on May 8, 1794, gave it a permanent establishment." The Postmaster-General was not a member of the President's Cabinet until the Jackson a iininiatration in 1829. Right to Subscriber, Oakland. A son of Chinese parents born in the United States has the right to vote when he attains his majority, by reason of the fact that he is a native of the United States, and is a citizen just the same as is the son of parents of other foreigners who was born while his parents were in the United States and who had never been naturalized. Parliamentary Ukiah, Mendocino County, Cal. The rules prepared by ex- Speaker Keed are those which now govern in Congress, ana by many are considered the beet parliamentary law.

Any bookseller can procure a copy for you. Thomas Bailey G. City. Thomas Bailey Aldrieh resides at Cambridge. Mass.

He was editor of the Atlantic up to 1891. No ll. City. The Board of Health has not appointed a steward lor the quarantine boat. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

These Items are Taken From the Latjwt English, French, German and Italian Papers. It is again Mascagni who Is triumphing in Berlin under the direction of Sonzogno at the Neves Theater. His opera, "Silvano," has Just received its first German production; the composer directed the opening performance, and it cannot be said that he received much of a welcome. The glacial silence which characterizes Berlin audiences was not broken when Mascagnl stepped on the conductor's but after the first act the began ana continued to grow pore enthusiastic all through the evening till reached a full-blown crescendo on the final fall of the curtain, when the whole audier.ee got up and gave Mascagni an ovation. The success of "Silrano" In Berlin does not appear to be inferior to that of "Cavalleria Rusticana," and that will reualn traditional.

The libretto of "Silvano" resembles the Sicilian piece and contains several strong dramatic scenes, which Mascagni has treated with greet talent. This, at least, is the general verdict of the Berlin critics, and it is the more remark- a photograph by Zaccaria, able, as "Silvano" only had a success of esteem when it was produced at the Scala last winter for the first time on any stage. Another feature of Sonzogno's season in Berlin has been the singing of Miss Delma, a young and pretty American who has passed through the Italian school. She sings equally well in English, German and Italian. The critics state that this young polyglot artist will carry irom Berlin a well-merited success.

Fairy operas are the craze of the hour in Europe, and the most advanced and Wagnerian opera-houses are the very ones that are welcoming them the mosi warmly. It is certainly something novel to see such titles as "Lohengrin" and "Tristan aud Isolde" sandwiched with "Princess Sunbeam," "Cinderella" and other names familiar to nursery tales, but Humperdinck's "Wagner Made Easy" in his "Hansel and Gretel" pleased the musical masses as well as the classes, and composers great and small seem anxious to follow in his footsteps. "Princess Sunbeam" is by Peter Benoit, principal of the Royal Conservatory of It will shortly go into rehearsal at the Royal Theater in Antwerp. Gunzbourg, the director of the Casino, has engaged Adelina Patti for four concerts at Monte Carlo. The last day ehe will play "Mirka the Enchantress," the fairy opera in two acts by Boyer and Andre Pollonis, which she produced during the summer at her castle of Craig Nos.

Massenet's "Cinderella" will probably be brought out in Paris. Humperdinck, the composer of "Hansel and Gretel," has just produced with great success a new fairy opera at the Royal Theater, Cassel. The work is called the "Bronze Horse," but beyond its title it has nothing in common with AuDer's opera. Several of the leading German opera-houses are preparing to mount Ilumperdinck's "Bronze Horse." think it rather hard on music," writes a reviewer in the St. James Gazette, "that it should be made responsible for much madness in modern fiction." In the novel under discussion the heroine is a musical genius, at least so the author assures ua.

As to her insanity there can be no doubt whatever. She declares in her diary that music is untranslatable into any imagery but its own, but unfortunately lapses from this admirably sound one in Her case and takes to explaining musical Illustrations by trees, stars, flowers, etc. Finally she produces a wonderful "opera without words," which wins her immediate renown and admission into a lunatic asylum. 'What a pity it is, in the interest of the public, that authors of this sort cannot invent some means of writing "books without words." It bad that music should be so constantly made the stalkinghorse of the decadent novelist. Some of the most lurid novels of this "The Kreutzer Sonata, and "Discords I have all been given musical names.

Is there no means by which music can be legitimately avenged on its traducers? There is great feeliug among the Czech population in Bohemia over the refusal of the Austrian Governor to allow a street iv Prague to be called after the famous Bohemian composer, Smetana. The municipal council recently decided to rename He street in Prague Smetana street, but the Governor denied his sanction, and now people are asking whether he intended gratuitous insult to the Czech population, for Pmetana, whose operas are winning their way on all the lyric stages of Austria and Germany, thoroughly merited the honor of giving his name to a street in the capital of his country. Smetana's posthumous opera, the "Bartered Bride," has reached its threehundredth representation at the National Theater of Prague. This fact is without precedent in the national art of the Czechs. A bust of the defunct master was placed on the stage before the commencement of this memorable performance, ana groups representing the characters from Smetana's principal operas entered and placed flowers and wreaths before the bust.

One of the singers, M. Moschna. who had taken part in all the performances of the "Bartered Bride" at Prague except one, was the object of ovations from the public. Smetana's family gave him a superb present. Virtuosi who are rich enough to spend a small fortune on the acquisition of a single instrument belong to the fortunate few.

Among them must be classed Eugene Ysaye, the Belgian violinist, who has just bought one of the most Celebrated Stradivariua the viol known to musical history under the name of "Hercules." It is a beautifully formi-d instrument, dated 1732; the varnish is an ambered red and the preservation is so perfect that the "Hercules" figures among the most admirable products of the old Cremona master. It has belonged to several distinguished artiste, the last of whom ceded it to Ysaye for tno trifle of 20,000 francs. It goes without saying that when the Belgian violinist purchased his fiddle he received at the same time documents which established its authenticity, for instruments of Its class and price have their civil standing established by legal documents just as if they were human beings. A highly gifted pupil of the Liege Conservatory, Sisrnor Ipolito Ragghianti, who had obtained the first prize for composition and who recently died at the age of 27 at Nice, has left the nearly finished score oi an opera in one act, "Jean Marie," founded upon Andre Theuriet's drama, in which Sarah Bernhardt appeared with so much success. The 6core, which was found to be of considerable merit, has been completed, chiefly in its orchestration by Paul Gilson and the work will shortly' be brought out at the Teatre de la Monnaie, in Brussels.

The chief attraction for the coming season at the Royal Opera, Copenhagen, will be the production of a new opera by Augustus Euna a young comDOser who has already proauced fc it The new jviilUi If reach plot, 13 nhinn't after gm oi worka, "A ucasain hud The to bo reorganized according the l-Hnu Of the Emprew, who uken a in music end the drama, film women to appear on thefitasre, wUteU until now nun been forbidden. The limyrtms aUo causing to be into Japanese. Theodore DutKiis, the Mrcltknown French organist, is giving all nU thu composition of an opera will thortlf bo produced at the Opera The work will be entitled "Xavlere." J'nTfRK cards. I Bacon Printing CUy California Glare 00c lb, The American thus of Philadelphia's coming season of grand opera: Besides Jlrae. Emma Nevada, who, as a matter of course, will be the real prima donna, Gustav Hinrichs has secured Mile.

Amelia Loventz, a lyric soprano, who has been singing at the Paris Grand Opera; Mile a soprano of the dramatic type; Minnie Tracer, a young American, whose name Ss already favorably known among Pamlan critics Signer P.aonl Viola, a tenor of the florid style and a son of the artist Viola Signor Brazlo Piroia, an Italian, whose tenor notes have for some time been charming the habitues of the Paris Grand Opera, and M. Jules Cogny. to whom either heroic or lyric roles are acceptable, as before singing at Grand Opera he appeared on the stage of the Opera Comiqne. The honor of directing the orchestra Mr. Hinrichs will share with an Italian composer and pianist, Signor Algier, whose coming will surely be none the less welcome to the musical public of Philadelphia because of his being a friend both of and Leoncavallo.

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