The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1897, Page 6

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1897 MARCH 29, 1897 "CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Pruprle‘ur.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free CALL, obe week, by carrier. .$0.15 CALE, one s x months, by mail.. W EEKLY CALL OFFICE: BUSIN 710 M reet, san Francisco, California. Telephone...... 5 .. Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Ulay Sureet. Telephoge........ ..Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 7 Montgomery sireet, porner Cla; 30 o'cloc] Hay 615 Larkin sire SW. corner Sixi until 9 o'clock. 8 Mission street, open until er Tw streets; open till 9 o'cloc OAKLAND OF 9.8 Broadw Rooms 31 and DAVID M. Allthe country asks of Congress is to rush the bill to start the mulls. While the diplomatists are talking the Greeks are acting, and as usual action will win. Cleveland seems to have dropped out of bt without even a_thud to attract at- tention. “Choose your partners,’ says King George to the powers, “the dance 1s about 10 begin."” Salisbury is a wise man in one respect. He has made no auiempt to answer Glad stone’s letter. The pure food law was intended for the prosecation of rogues and mnot for the persecution of innocent dealers. The attitude of Kaiser William on the Cretan question is a good deal like that of an irritated child who won’t pl The surest way to get the best bargains of the spring trade is to read THE CALL advertisements and find out where they are. Chicago leads the East in spring move- ments :his year. The papers of that city are already complaining that mad dogs are rushing the season. This week will see the Dingley bill sent to the Senate, and it will not be long be. fore we know whether we may expect its enaciment by May 1 or not until some time next fail. It is already noted in Washington that whereas Cleveland was a maker of strife, MecKinley is a peacemaker. The one in- terfered with legislation, but the other will promote 1t will be noticed there is peace in Crete everywhere except at the ports where the powers are disturbing the situation by trying to impose a sort ol peace 1o which the people object. The longest word in the English lan- guage is disproportionableness and yet it bardly serves to express the relation of Democratic talk against the tariff bill and the amount of sense they utter. The country could well afford to have the new tariff rushed through by May 1. Tt would be better to losea great deal of Congressional oratory than to lose the revenues for two or three months. The proceedings of the Democrats in Congress are more like talking against time than fighting the tariff bill. Asa matter of fact they have killed a good deal of time, but they have not hurt the bill The rush to get imported goods into the country will sweli the revenues this month and for the month to come and then. we shall hear the free-traders de- clars the Wilson tanff has been vindi- cated. It i4 now said that within two years through trains will be running on the Siberian raiiway, and alter that the man who takes eighty days to go round the world will be regarded as & passenger in a slow coach. In all the States where the Legisiatures are siill 1 session attempts are being made to prevent kinetoscope exhibitions of the Carson prizefight, and the Nevada industry may yet lose & good deal of the advertising it expected. The crisis in the Levant has hastened the coming of the inevitable conflict be- tween liberalism and conservatism in Eu- rope, and every nation will find it an internal as well as an international dis- torbance before it is over. The Mississippt seems determined to sweep the whole country this year from 8t. Paul to New Orleans, and if the Mis- souri should take a notion to riseat the same time the cbances for a universal regatta would be exceptionally good. The statement of Congressman Siayden of Texas, “The tariff is a business matter; and I can see no reason why the people o! my district should not share in its add vantages,” is so sensible tbat there it good reason for wondering how he can be a Democrat. The Commercial Advertiser of New York has obisined the opinions of the presi- dents of the principal universities and colleges in the East on ‘“yeliow journal- ism,” and the vigor of their denunciations encourages the hope that the evil wili soon be suppressed by the force of public opinion. Up to date not a single one of the great powers that has a warship at Crete has expressed satisfaction with what has been done there. Each nation is trying to throw the blame on the others, and if the situation continues much longer the con- cert will end in something like a Demo- cratic ward meeting. As Mr. Huntington expects the gap ia the coast road to be closed this year, it will not be long before the grest tide of travel to San Francisco from the south will enter the City at the depot at Fourth street. Itis time, therefore, to begin the work of improving that street to Market, £0 that the entrance to the City will not make & bad impression upon visitors. ing of 1896 passed lution express- s R b e e el e 1f there be any more Representatives in | adds, can therefore be entertained that the House who come a5 near to knowing | the Government and the great majority what they are there for as Mr. Dalzell of | of the French Parliament are in favor of Pennsylvania does, they have at least | bimeraliism. afforded that gentleman pienty of time in | Otto Arendt says that by the resolu- which to beat them in affirming it. Only | tions of the German Parliament, and the last week Mr. Dalzell was inspired to get | Prussian State Council, and the Prussian upon his feet and declare his conversion | Diet, the @erman Government isbound to to the belief that “The country does not | use all its means to contribute to an inter- want declamation; it wants action. Words | national settlement of the currency ques- are poor substitutes for men who want | tion, and will not, as was the case in 1892, work. Oratory will not open a single mill | be represented by fanatic gold men. Ger- or kindle a single furnace fire.” man sentiment is in favor of bimetallism, That glistening truth should fail upon | and only awaits the action of England in Mr. Dalzeli’s associates like a white light. | that way. Should a conference take placé We certainly have bad enough tariff | the German Parliament can be relied discussion to last us to the end of our [upon as a strong supporter. days. The whole ground has been worked | Aldenham, the President of -the British over and overand over again. Tte Nation | Bimetallic League, states that a resolu- itself has waded through so contusing a |tion passed last year by the House of mass of it that it has twice reversed its | Commons without amendment or division verdict upon it at the polls. convinces him that the alleged decline of It is oniy & question of time, if the end- | interest in bimetallism is a vain imagina- less controvery goes on, when not a man- | tion, and that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, jack of us will know even what *“tariff” | the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the means. full assént of the House of Commons, wilt The decision at the last election was |doall that can be done 10 promote a unmistakably for a protective tariff. | monetary agreement between the great That ought to be clear enough for even | commercial natious. the most conventional Congressman to | It js evident from these statements that discern, even through the obscuration of | the cause of bimetallism has strong sup- an enveloping fog-like self-esteem accen- | port in Europe as well as in this country. tuated by the bells and whistles of his | The defeat of Bryanism has strengthened own oratory sounding through the mist. |the movement for international agree- Happily, bowever, a preseriptive limit of | ment, and Senator Chandler was right time looms before us as a relief from him, | in urging upon the Senate the importance whether he sees rightly or not. The 3lst | of immediate action on our part to lead instant will end the period originally set | the way. apart for “discussion,” and while even the R R DAl AL utmos: minute will doubtless be utilized There was a good deal of sanguineness in chinning away as far from a conclusion s ever by some irrelevant idiot, there is | e cheer in the knowledge that it will end |in the country twelve years ago. The there. The Senate will then take up the | bright, healthy peovle of the West were bill and let us devoutly hope pass it fortn- | Tendy to pin their exuberant faith to any with. It has been carefully and abiy pre- | Prospect that struck them as desirable. pared in the original and in that form | What they wanted they believed, with in- embraces exactly the views upon Wwhich | 8enuous gptlmifim. 'lxm'!{ would "anm;l{y . 5t N = attain, eSpecially if it were proposed in the Nation wolohilastlovember due authoritative form by their official representatives. It is not too much to THE PLIGHT OF THE POWERS. say—for we are confident that the older Popular sentiment in Germany as well | residents of San Francisco will bear us out as in France and in England is beginning | 1n it—that not longer ago than twelve or to laugh at the national suthorities for | fifteen years it was complacently assumed their comically austere treatment of little | by half the people of the State that some Greece in the face of the fact that little | bright day the gods would look down and Greece is not at all profoundly impressed | behold a completed *“new” City Hall in by the austerity, but is rather inclined to [ San Francisco or some other wonder of treat it with contempt. equal magnitude, and the same hopeful The thing which most amuses the gen- | Spirits, with a lot of others, were quite as eral public is the painful difficulty exper:- | firmly persuaded that within a few years enced by the great “powers” to realyze |they ¥ould witness the opening of the just how much little Greece hes humili- | Nicaragua canal. ated them. Theycannot help feeling that | In 1885 a majority of American Senators, they have fallen down ignominiously to [ moved partly by impatience and partly some extent, but they are somewhat cun- | by unbroken faith in the future, at- fused as to the precise magritude of their | tempted to force things in the direction disgrace. Unquestionably they feel guilty. | of a canal by voting in favor of a treaty They would back out now if they only | With Nicaragua, whereby our Govern- knew exactlv where they are at and how | ment was to enjoy an exclusive right-of- to retire with some pretension to dignity. | Way across that country on a strip two The National Zeitung, published in Ber- |and a half miles wide, and in return lin, openly sneers at the Kaiser's mad [ thereior was to loan Nicaragua $4,000,000, break in causing bis warship to bombard | %0 be expended in public improvements, the Cretan insurgents while the latter | and give hera specified share of the net were fighting the Turks last Thursday. | earnings from the canal, together with a All this heavy superconsciousness of their | gusrantee to protect her territory thereto lofty positions which the “powers’” have | 8djacent. displayed in their stuffed attitude toward | President Arthur, alter securing the little Greece bas been prunounced im. | ratification of this treaty by Nicaragua, vertinent and ridiculous. Visions of one | Presented the document to the American lone settler on the frontier being ap- | Senate for indorsement. The vote stood proached by six or seven strutting troopers |32 to 23, but more than a third voted with bright tin swords and toy carbines | 8gainst it, thus defeating it fora time. anse before the ordinary observer and | Then a move for reconsideration was nearly convulse him with mixea amuse- [ made. While this was pending in stepped ment and disgust. Mr. Grover Cleveland as President, and It is high time that the newspapers over | into the capacious pocket of that great the way hammer a realization of this state | m2Nn’s Waistcoat went the ill-fatea treaty. ©f affairs into the heads of the authorities | He blandly intimated that his careful and convince them that there are mo- | €Xamination of the paper might visibly ments when other people’s business might | improve the whole situation; but it may reasonably want to be alone. as well be remarked here that in this he erred, since he has been “examining” it POINTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA. for twelve years, more or less, and the situation has improved weither itself The 110- nniversary of-the Western | nor him. University of Pennsylvania was celebrated | Now, however, the treaty of twelve last week. A feature of the occasion was astreet parade through Pittsburg. This was composed mainly of students of the university, and those precious limbs of learning varied the tedium of mere marching with some of the most remark- able exhibitions that were ever invented by the ingenuity of reck! nd irrespon- sible youth. Add to the natural failings of youth in these respects some sort of a collegiate connection &nd yeu have a com« bination that cannot be equaled for devil- try in the entire animal kingdom. The Pennsylvania students had a float representing a dissecting room.in their parade. Skulls and skeletons dangled promiscuously about at every corner and in the center stood a dissecting table con- taining what looked to be a human corpse. years ago has been recurred to by Senator Sherman, upon the suggestion of Minister Rodriguez of Nicaragua, and the Senate has been considering it anew. It is not at all likely that it will pass now, nor would it be advieable to have it passed at this late date, when conditions are all changed from what they were twelve years ago. There have been wars in and about Nicaragus, and the Iat- ter bas become a part of the Central American Republic, thereby in all prebability precluding any arrange- ments for United States proteciion to her territory as was formerly proposed. Be- sides, the construction of a canal has act- ually been commenced by private ar- rangements with aragua, ' and the projectors thereof would require reim- bursing by whoever took the job off thelr Surrounding this grewsome object were | hands, medical students, arrayed in white aprons | But something on the vrimary lines of and armed with scalpels, and here apd |the original treaty might be passed. Such there every few moments one of them | treaty would undoubtedly conflict with weuld cut a chunk of meat from the pre- | the Clayron-Bulwer treaty now existing tended cadaver and throw itout tothe | between ns and Great Britain, but Sen- crowds, ‘‘as a souvenir of the occasion,” | ator Morgan boldly proposes that this lat- they ingenuously explained. ter be abrogated. Considerable discussion We are giad that thisdid not occur in | must necessarily follow so important a the wild and woolly West. Had it done | Proposition, and the Senate is likely to de- 50 we dhould probably have afforded the | Vote & large amount of its spare time respectable and eminently proper gentle- [ upon it while the House is loitering over folk of Pennsylvania and New York an | the tariff bill. indefensibie point for that style of attack which 8o warms the cockles of their unctu- ous throats as they utter it forth upon us. What a sad thing it would be, by the way, if civilization were confessediy rep- resented by the budding brains which bloom through its highest institutions of learning! If our students were criterions of what we are coming lo intellectually, we should soon find ourselves praying for surcease of lmdx throughout the world. PROGRESS OF BIMETALLISM. That the cause of Zimetallism is making rapid progress in Edrope seems clear from some arguments putlisued in the National Review last month from the pens of three COAST EX.HANGES. The Newcastle News is vigorously putting forth the advantages Newcastle offers as a site for a cannery. The Willows Journal continues to lend its influence toward the movement that has been inauguratea for the esiablishment of a cream- ery there. The Biggs Argus is anxious.that a grist-mill shouid be established immediately in that town. “No place offers better inducement for the establishment of a grist-mill,” the Argus declares. The last issue of the Santa Ana Bigde con- tains an enthusiastic and most interesiing a: ticle setting forth the many advantages of the : bustling town of Orange. “It is & neighbor of well-poste] men representing the bimetal- | \iion Santa Ana is justly proud,” says the lic leagues of. France, Germany "and | piaqe. Bagisna. Theis were Hdmosd d'Astois |\ 54, 00000 ews B & new bidder for assistant eeneral secretary of the French | Tt FOResels s ts & new bidder for league, Otto Arendt, who is & member of | journals, Fred C. Rassman and C. A, Ding. the Prussian Diet and bonorary secretary | more are the proprietors of the infant. They of the Germen league, and Aldenham of | claim to have no politics and promise to han- thé British league. The papers werg |die all subjects deserving heroic treatment presented to the United States Senate by | Witbout gloves. Senator Chandler upon the occasion of his | With a commendable exHibition of unselt- recent elaborate speech on bimetallism. | ishness the Lancaster Gazette advises the D’ Artois states that the great deprecia- | northern countles of the State to spend money tion of silver in terms of gold which took |4 exploiting their attractions abroad, in or- place in June, 1893, after the closing of the | 9€F “’:x‘ they g share :“ ‘the {nflux of im- Indisn mints 1o the free coinage of silver, | Ettion snd e‘,‘",:"":.‘?' ¥, such as Southern drew at Iast the attenlion of several French economists to the consequences of the new | Editor Rob V. Robertson of the Placerville state of things, and that the principle of :ve‘;’l’;l‘:a :::;!:," "d""t;rh:;e“{vp;mr‘n;-:‘l < I bimetallis de hen e, e o §:::;n.g'il::: s(ri::u“m Tr,.’::,_ ,: 18;;: tiord a special springtime edition of the Nugget ; : which shail shine like burnished gold. 1he Ribot, wno was then Prime Minister and | paperis to be resplendent with nalf-tone cuts, Minister of Finance, gave it as his opinion | and, like s placer pocket, full of good things, thist- iy upanfodmint 6f WEDStRlt |y ) o G N dard AN tnat Tcanerits coinciding with other causes precipitated | Cou T L 3 prising men of business who will the crisis of agricultural depression which [ egtablish & woolen-mill, & paper-mil or any was then weighing heavily on France, other manufscturing establishment in that D'Artois further informs us that at |lively iown. The Standard says that there is least two-thirds of the French Senate are | an opening there, above ail things, for « paper- ot opinion that the establishment of in- [ mill, and by the citation of facts and figures ternatiomal Sinstaliiam would. ba: ta th 1 hows bow the establishment of such an in- weliare of their country, and about two- | 4UstrY would prove profitable to the investors. thirds of the Chamberof Deputies in the | The Nevada State Herald is the nsme of & mew weekly journal that has made its salutatory W to the people of Wells, Ney. George A. erguson_and George R. Vardy aro the man- agers and editors of the paper. In introduc- ing the Herald to the public these gentlemen deciare that it is their intention 0 giveits subscribers “a bright, newsy, up-to-date news paper devoted to the welfare of our town, Ccounty and State.” In politics it will be for iree silver. The business and eaitorisl management of the Pesadena Daily News has passed from the control of J. E. O.mstead to that of Theodore Coleman. Mr. Oimstead will continue to write for the paper. In his salutatory the new manager promises that the energies of the News shall be largely devoted to advancing Pasadena’s best ingerests, Mr, Coleman is a newspaper man of pronounced ability. He was at ono time ediior of the Sants Clara Journal. NEWS OF FORE.GN NAVIES. The sritish battle-ship Jupiter, 14,900 tons, on her trial trip March 9 averaged 18.4 knots for four hours. The contract speed was 17.5 knots. One miliion dollars will probably be ex- pended by Great Britain in improvemenis and extension of the Hongkong dockyard. A large drydock is one of the pressing needs. Tne Hart and Hardy, torpedo-boat destroy- ers of 295 tons displacement, have arrived safely at Hongkong where they will be at- tached to the British China squadron. Their Ppassage up from Singapore in tlie teoth Of the northeast monsoon was very trying to the small crafts, but the officers speak in the highest terms of their seaworthiness through their long voyage from England. Foreign navies are rapidly adopting petro- leum as fuel, and France, Germany and Italy are going in for using it on an extensive scale. It is claimed for it that by 1is use the speed of a vessel can be increased from eight to thir- teon knots in from seven to fifteen minutes. In addition the boilers suffer less from using this fuel than with coal. *As. yet it is only in- tended to use it auxiliary, buta French engi- neer has designed a boiler for the sole use of this particular fuel. Forforeizn service the German Admiralty has designed an entirely new type of cruiser. The dimensions are 328 feet length, 38 feet 9 inches beam and 15 feet 9 inches mean draught. Dispiacement only 2600 tons,which indicates very sharp lines, and ijsures speed of 1914 knots with 6000 horsepower. The coal capacity is 500.tons snd_the comple- moent 190 men. The battery will consist of ten 6l4-inch quick-firing guns snd fourteen machine guns. -Each of these cruisers will cost sbout $1,000,000. The Prince Albert, the third oldest ironclad in the British navy, is at last to be removed from the list of effective ships and be cori- demned. She 13 of 3800 tons displacement and was built in 1866 st a cost of $1,140,235, and has cost in repairs up to the present time $318,870. Her speed never exceeded 10 kuots nd her commissions extend only over seven years six mouths, the last service being in the naval maneuvers ten years ago. The fact that the ship was named after the Queen’s husband has alone saved her from the scrap-heap for many years. The Nlobe, first-class cruiser of 11,000 tons displacement, sheathed with wood and cop- pered, was launched February 20 from the yard of the Naval Consiruction ana Arm: ment Company at Barrow-in-Furness. She is one of eight ships on the same design, six of which are building by contract and two at the Pembroke yard, The Niobe is 435 feet in length, G9 feot beam end has a mean draught of 25 feet 3 inches. The horsepower under natural draught is to ba 16,500, with which a speed of twenty and & half knots is antici- pated. The coal capacity is 1000 tons at load draught and bunker space for 2000 tons, and the armament consists of sixteen 6-inch and seventeen smaller guns, all of them quick- ficers. Sir Willilam White, who designea the vesscl, expects great results from this class, which is designed for long-aistance cruising, and, while they are only protected cruisers, the protection afforded is greater than in pre- vious designs of that class. Thus the armored deck is 4 inches thick and the conning tower 12 incnes. The total complement will be 718 officers and men, The total estimated cost, exclusive of guns and ordnance stores, is $2,723,680. PERSONAL. J. D. Carr of Salinas is a guest at the Oceci- deatal. General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico is at the Grand. R. H. Wallace Fraser of Melbourne is a guest at the Palace. P. Durkin of Seattle, Wash., is at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. T. Green and wife of Ukish are st the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. R. A. Thompson of the Santa Rosa Democrat 15 at the Ocoidental. W. A. See, a business man ot Bay City, Mich,, is at the Cosmopolitan. A. C. Kistler, a merchant of Cedarville, late arrival at the Lick. J. Moore, an extensive farmer of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. P. A. Buell, a lumber dealer of Stockton, is registered at the Grand. A.J. Hinds, a Santa 1s visiting at the Grand. John Koch of Hamburg arrived here yester- day and is staying at the Palace. E. Farrell, a contractor of Santa Cruz, is making a brief visit at the Lick. C. J. Goodnow, a Los Angeles lumber mer- chant, is registered at the Baldwin. . Dr. Maurice F. Pilgrim, a physician of Port- land, Or., is a guest at the Baldwin. Henry Atwood, & mining man of San An- dreas, is among the guests at the Grand. Louis Hirsch of Castlc Brothers returned yesterday from Central American coffee fincas, P. 1. Bowlin of St. Paul, accompanied by Miss Nennie Bowlin, John Foley and Mra. M. Kamsay, are guests at the Palace. Dr.David Starr Jordan returned last night from a trip to au interior town, where he de- livered a lecture. He stopped at the Ocei- ‘dental preparatory to going down to Palo Alto this morning. Harrle B. Collier and E. R. Wheeler of Chi- cago arrived here yesterday in the Colon from Central America. They are registered at the California and on their way home, having completed a tour of the world. “I1 TOLD YOU SO!” The saddest words of tongre of pen, T'o come right dowa to easas, Are neither "I guess I'll piay these,” Nor “Thiuk I've go: four sces. Tuz real estate dealer, “It might have been’” once had the call And ‘Too Iate”— «ood-by" —No Bat those tat weep through every age Are these, I told yon so." —New York Press. WI.H YOUR (OFFEE. “Why does Mrs. Van Meter hate Mrs. M- Masters so cordially?” “Somebody told "her they. looked enough alike to be sisters"—Detroit News. ~ ¢ “How did you happen to become such a pronounced vegetarian ?” asked the oldest in- habitant. - “All my subscribers paid thatway,” replied the country editor.—Yonkers Stajesms Girl—His spine is hurt, Another girl—Then I suppose his football Qays are over. Girl—Oh, no. He can still play half back or quarter back, anyway —Detrolt Journsl. Nurse (confidentially)—Lor’/ mem, master’s getting on. 1Isee his name in the papers. “Indeed, nvrsel” cries Mrs. Penstock, plens anily excited. “What do they ssy about him 2" *’'Twasin the Sunday Scorcher, mem. Ah, it: ‘Mr. Penstock’s book ain’t wuth “It was 50 friendly and resssuring,” com- mented the enthusiast, “to read the signs and see that word ‘Welcome' every now and then.” “Oh, I don’t know,” teplied the man who wants the earth. “It's mice at first glance. But you invariably find it simply means you are welcome to what you can pay for.”’—Wash- ington Stur. T * AROUND THE CORRIDORS. The question of Hamlevs real or feigned in- sanity has been for more than & century the wonder and_despair of poets, actors, madical experts and philosophers, despite the vast literature tnat has poured forth on the sub- ject. The master mind in English dramatic literature is undoubtedly seen at its best in this his master-plece, and among the thinking people, both students and theater-goers, this play has not yet ceased to hold its universal power and fascination, even though its mys- tery baffles discovery and tho riddie remains the riddie still. For the most part the discus- sion of this play has been confined principally to two classes of contestants—those who main- tain that Hamlet was s madman,and those Who insist that he but fefgned inssnity. Mar- tin W. Cooke, in his work callea “The Human Mystery. of Hamlet,” declares that both of these theories are erroneous, and that neither can ever be fully established. Mr. Cooke pre- sents an able and original solution of the prob- lem. Excluding the idea that Hamlet is in- tended to present any single individual or character he belfeves that the office of the character is to exhibit typical, mental strug- gles; that Hamlet is not a person, but a type. In Hamlet is shown the concéntration of all tragedies. With him every passion 1ssn active one, 8 powerful rebel against the will and forces which determine action, cripple and counteract each other. His wiil is op- posed by the powers within him. In the old Greek plays men hopelessly struggled against fate, and it is in this light that Mr. Cooke sces in Hamlet o' being commanded by a power or will thet s supernatural, s will that is not of this world. “He is & player,” says Cooke, “acting the part that typifies humanity and in a play that sets forth man’s spiriwual life in worldly conditions under pressuro of the law of the supernatural” This antagonism be- tween man’s will, influenced Dy his passions and the all-controlling will above him, is the MAKING MONEY 0T OF COFFEE Americans in Nicaragua Who Have Planted Large Fincas. Indians Cultivate the Tree With the Machete for Fifty Cents a Day. Alexis Sullivan and His Expariences Near Matagalpa—No Work What. ever on the Cama'. Alexis Sullivan, manager of an impor- tant coffee company owning fincas twenty miles northeast of Matagalpa, in Niear- agua, is among the arrivals at the Grand. The owners in the company are nearly all San Francisco men. Mr. Sullivan himself used to live here. He went down there about four years ago and began in the cof- ALEXIS SULLIVAN, One of the Coffec-Growers Who Is on a Visit Here. |Sketehed from life by a *“Call” artist.] theme of some of the great poems of antiquity, and Mr, Caoke has shown there are some very striking parallelisms ot thought and phras ology between these and (he play of ‘Hamlet, quoting from the “Electra” of Sophocles and the “ZEneld” of Virgil toshow that Shakespeare may have found in them the suggestions of his own plays, disregarding the accepted theory that the great English playwright took most of his stories from a German translation of his time, and as Orestes was driven by the Fates and /Eneas governed by the gods so Shakespeare constructed Hamlet to illustrate “the irresistible power” of the supernatural upon men. This theory Mr. Cooke who, by the way, i OTIS SKINNER. prominent lawyer, has elaborated with s skill which shows great familiarity with the sub- ject, and while it s not “accepted as conclu- sjve by the eritical gtudentsof tne Shakes- pearana, is deserving of interest and attention by those who find pleasure in studying and comparing the various impersonutions of the character of the melancboly Dane who have from tim to time essayed this trying role. Personally I think 1t the one character in the whole range of the drama tbat js thor- oughly human, and that erhaps is the reason Icennot think of him asa philosopher. Ham- let never reasons until he has to; he jumps st conclusions, and it isioply when he finds the premises through- which he reached those conclusions wrong that he begins to reason. OTI8 SKINNER. Richmond’s Workmen. 5 Richmond’s new lodge of A. 0. U. W. No. 291, of which George W.Johnson is master workman, will give ifs first public entertain- ment Wednesday night st Hamilton Hall, Geary and Steiner streets. An address by W. H. Barnes and selections from the humorout 8i lan will features of fee business in a rather modest way and to-day the company owns about 900 man- zanas or 1800 acres of good coffee land. Of this 250 acres are planted with 100,000 trees. Itisthe idea of the company to keep on planting till there are 500,000 or more trees. Coffee-growing is profitable and Mr. Sullivan and his associates seem to have been fortunate in beginning at just the right time. They got their land at an av- erage price of about $1 an acre. Now all the good coffee land is practically occu- pied and bas risen in price. The best cof- fee land is in the mountains, or at least in the foothills, so .Mr. Sullivan says. The flat land, odd as it may at first seem, is not good for coffee, for in Nicaragna it bolds weter and that is bad for the tree. Sloping land is needed, so that in the rains that fall lorngood portion of the year the water may drain away. Mr. Sullivan brought up some of the coffes produced from the company’s lands. The grain is superior and it is said to be in all respects an excellent grade of cof- fee. It is worth in this market from 1815 to 22 cents a pound. I am entirely satisfied with the results of our coffes enterprise in Nicarazua,” said Mr. Sullivan, “and so are all the members of the company. Some of them are desirous of secu.ing additional stock. The country about Matagalpa, where we are, is excellent for the business. Mata- galpa is a pretty little town of apout 5000 people, 110 miles from Momotombo, which is the end of the 70-mile Goverrwment railroad running out from Corinto. * Quite a number of American, G an and English people reside in Mata, slpa. Mangv Americans, including some .rom the State of Washington, are engay: in the coffee business near Matagali§ and their families reside in that place. “Among the American compani® en- gaged in coffee-growing there are fov) that are managed by the Manning Br%s. of Tacoma. Thess four companiesfhave about 300,000 trees. The Matagalpa foffee Compauny of Chicago has 100,000, thé; Min- neapolis Company 125,000, a Gomp#uy of 8t. Paul, Minn., 70,000 and & coo§pany composed of Los Angeles men 75,000° Ail these companies are doing well. iTheir trees are flourishing and a good doal of money will, from present indications, be made by the men who are growing ihem. abor costs from 50 to 60 cents & day in sitver, without board. With boar it is lenuld'{ku It 1s Indian labor en. tirely. The Indians cultivate the toffee with a machete, the same weapon that the Cubans fight witn. With this thay do al- most all the digging. I took down apad there and other implements, but the In- diansdidn’t take to them much, and I finally 16t them go ahead in their own way. I thougnt it was sbout the best thing for them." - Mr. Sullivan will be herg.a week or more, and will then go overiand "to New York, stopping en route tovisitfriends. He says work has entirely stopped on the Nica- ragua Canal. In fact no work has been done for four years. The people of Corinto and througnout Nicaragua want to see it goon. — MEN AND WOMEN. The oldest person in Alleghany County, Pennsylvanis, snd for that matter in the State, is Mrs. Mary Malle, who will celebrate | her one hundred and seventh birthday this month. * Smith College girls and their friends con. tinue to puzzle over the advice written ina student’s album by J. M. Barrfe on his visit to the college last year: ““Beware of a pale woman with a large appetite.” = Mme. Sarah Hernhardt has just informed the committee of dramatic artisis formed 1n London to organize performances next Juno in honor of the Queen’s jubilee that they can count upon her participation. Mrs Yetta Gerber, 106 years old, died in New York the other day. She and her hus- band kept a tavern in Poland, where they sold food to Napoleon’s soldiers when they wera on their way back from Moscow. Mrs. N. Lehman and daughter of Jackson- ville, Fls., driving in a buggy with a single horse, started to cross railroad tracks, when an engine under high speed tore the horse from the wagon and killed it, leaviug the women sested in the buggy uninjured. The Grand Duke Paul of Russia is so tall that no hotel bed is iong enough for his com- fort, and he has one built in sections which he carries with his luggage everywhere. The bea is put up by & speclal mechanic, under the superintendence of the royal valet, wher- ever the Grand Duke goes. THE -“REGULARS"” WIN. Annual Meeting of the Astranomical So= ciety and the Election of New Ofcers. At the annual meeting of the Astro- nomical Society of the Pacific held Sat- urday at the Academy of Sciences a new board of directors was elected and new of- ficers for the ensuing year. The attend- ance was small because of the storm. Two tickets were presentea, one by the com- mittee selected for the purpose and the other by members who were ogpuled o the continuance in office of, the present secretaries—which the election of the “regular’’ ticket would ensure. The “reg- ular” ticket was elected by a good major- ity. Itis asfollows: For board of directors—William Alvord, Ed- ward 8. Ho.den, E. J. Molera, Fremout Morse, Miss R. O’Halloran, C. D. Perrine, Wiliiam M Pierson, Frederick 'H. Seares, Chauncey M. St. John, O. von Geldern, F. R. Ziel. For publication commitiee—E. 8. Holden, A. H. Babeock, R. G. Aitken. The directors met after the society meeting adjonrned and William Alvord was elected president of the society and F. R. Ziel and C. D. Perrine were elected secretaries. Professor Hussey, the retiring pre . dent, delivered an address on ‘‘Astronomy and_Astronomers in Their Relations to the Public,” in the course of which he said: The work of the astronomer, like that of othier scientists, is only a little understood by the general puolic. Nevertheless, ihe rela- tions between the fwo are always most cor- dial; while the astronomer may oiten be ques- tioned as to tne utility of his labors, he can never complain of lack of appreciation. On the contrary, the interest that attaches to u working observatory, especially one that is readily uc le, is always 50 great that reg- ulations governing the sdmittance of visitors are indispensabie, 1n order that any time may be reserved for seientific work. s a result of this interest great advantages accrue to the scieuce. It hes given the world mauy of its observatories, those of the Univer- skty of Chicagoand the University of Calitor- nia standing pre-emineut in tns power of their telescopes. S0 great, indeed, has become the generosily of those who &Te not astrono- mers that it would almost seem that astrono- mers bave only 0 ask for instruments and ob- servatories to find appreciative persons ready to supply their needs. This responsiveness is all the more remarkable when we consider that the results of the astrouomer’s labor are, iu geueral, far removed from commodities having a commercisl value, New comels, new planets, new sateliites, new siars; worlds and tems of worlds may b2 discovered and their Listories may be long and interesting, but not oue of tkem can be exchanged for real or per- sonal property. e e————— TowNSEND'S California glace fruits, 50 cents a pound in fire-etched boxes. 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