The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1898, Page 21

o 20 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S UNDAY, 3 =2 APRIL 4, CHARRCTER TOLD IN- THE SHAPE OF THE HAT (FHAT YO WEAR Here Are the Stories Told of a Number of Well-Known Men by the Little Machine That Reproduces the Shape of the Head Around the Equator of the Cranium. nRLLLLLLLRLLRLRRN NLY four in every one hundred 8 8 heads of men prove to be well- | I S y 2 balanced in form, and these four | At o Py are not perfectly balanced, but | | i il 5 2 lack symmetry in a slight degree, i 2 o g0 that it is fair to state that ninety- b 2 2 nine heads out of every one hundred i i ;g o are out of 3 l‘ i c = This means that just thi ‘prnportlnn H“,“\ i R = of men have some eccentricities cor- I B R e e aiflaent, &8 respo g to that-portion of the brain it B evictely which is defective. ruined by the present war. s We are all endowed with two lobes | ey e usans of brain, the right and left lobes, in- | it l ed by let R and L in the il- ; rally believed that al in size, surface, but such is It is gene nd indentures, AVANA, April 21, 1898.—For nearly two years Cuba has not raised enough tobacco to sup- 1 ply the island. Tobacco planta- not the c Rarely do we find a tions, like the sugar fields, le in head that is balanced and where both i ruins. For want of tobacco the cigar lobes the same. i i factories of Havana are nearly all idle. There is a machine invented for the | i Factories which formerly employed 500 purpc reproducing the shape of the | i il men now employ only fifty. Where r d the equator of the (*rx{nl- i 200 Cuban girls used to make a living the dotted line shows in the first i I at rolling cigars, only twenty are now ation, and w )‘Vv”nLi)\\ s applied the | it at work. The industry is at the point are aston'shing. | H of death. ght dotted line through the | i | Who is responsible? First, Weyler; £ these charts made by the ma- | I I second, the Cubans. The captain-gen- (“1"» \»:\.-mxi‘:'l;;‘tv r("l.;.’“li'l" ((‘-xlt:l;; I | eral d: “Thou shalt not make ci- e the i | ga The insurgents replied: “Then 1[;{1 11}:\; rile the mark “X” shows it we will destroy the (?rnps." e s i e A I From the pal;rel in 1896 came the r i in it el famous decree forbidding the exporiz ce !\fjs the ideas of u|h’»r~ :\nrl lmm»:—t i tion of Havana leaf tobacco. In the 18 Pxternal e 1d f}ffihvtl o field followed the burning of the crops deas R e i and stored tobacco by the Cubans. A 5 b; 2 = ”‘. .; !.\ eyl petition has been recently sent to Cap- < Judeny : decess fnpute o4 Hig tain-General Blanco, asking him te re- ;” b X G ‘1'1,”( R ‘m- [THR 1 voke the decree of his predecessor. His The left lobe of his brain predominates, answer was an emphatic “No. ons ey ] Sl he What actuated Weyler to forbid the conse ¥ he I quicker than he 1 exportation of Havana tobacco? First, can originate. His head is a long one, hat he makes calculations on the captain-general, always ready to resent, adopt stringent measures, believed in s good faith that manufacturers and Spig dealers in the United States would buy r national- 1 United Stat d e S up all the tobacco in Cuba, and conse- invariably rcheads, in- R quently oblige all the factories in Ha- dicating leadership. Mayor Phelan's I head shows this plainly Those of German extraction have a larger posterior brain than forehead. s that they enjoy good food and ind also a trait of generalship. A Jewish head shows a large, round- forehead, well proportioned with the head, straight on the showing their philosophical ten- and their mora back of force. Democratic e well bal- t on the opme tena lov nd wine, fellow n surface nd v DEALS > BRAINS. vana to close. In this his belief proved well founded. American tobacco deal- ers hastened to buy up all the tobacco they could get before the decree tock effect. And, of course, all the factor- ies in Havana put up thelr shutters. Second, Weyler knew that the Cuban cigarmakers in Tampa and Key West each gave $1 a week from their wages for the cause of Cuba Libre. To pro- hibit the export of tobacco, therefore, would throw these Tampa and Key West cigarmakers out of employment and deprive the insurgents of that im- ehead shows his portant source of revenue. Conse- shows his quently, in the Florida cigar towns getting the there were soon hundreds of idle, half- and g 3 | starving Cubans. up his forces. Third, Weyler was a gold grabber. He loved to make money. He made it. He was a millionaire when he left influence, W ? Cuba. I am told that this famous to- ; to hold tc e bacco decree netted him a fortune. e i1 , | Many so-called American tobacco led and | | firms exported several thousand bales crosses of tobacco in spite of General Weyler's prohibitive decree, under the pre that it was the outcome of diplomatic transactions between Washington and s ‘,.:," f rid. But the real secret in the af- JEISAE- | was that Weyler by charging com- tes that = > m on every bale exported gra- and what is =T =7 ciously gave permission for shipments power which is = to be made. Thus Weyler made money posterior brain, as he waged war. B nderful e The province or county of Vuel derful person- Abajo is, or rather was, Cuba's prin e head shows his cipal tobacco center. It might have been called Cuba’s Klondike. But to- | day every tobacco plantation in Vuelta Major Pond of lecture fame relates some of his most interesting experiences with famous people during | Abajo is in ruins, abandoned. The di- \ wing the past twenty years. | Tect cause of this wholesale destruction him to be conscientious, w TR : | was Weyler's tobacco decree. All the sight into hidden motives, SRty T is sometimes better to make | Successes reading from their own) lecturers was the temperance orator, | farmers, farm hands, dealers and per- W. H. Alford of Viss 2 money with other people's brains | DOOKS. And last year I took Ian Mac- | John E. Gough, whom I managed for sons directly or indirectly engaged in - Alford of Visalia, the chair- e : AL Thas . | laren, the famous Scotch writer, on an ten years before his death. His energy lraising or dealing in tobacco had hith- man of t Jemocratic Central than withiyoursown s At loagtathiy tour through the States. was marvelous, and altogether he de. erto been sacred to the insurgents; all Committe as a long head, and the is Major Pond's experience. During racts from his own Kal livered 9600 addresses to an aggregate tobacco property was respected, in di- Jeft lobe the largest, indicating his ¥ the past twenty years the gallant ories in the most delightful audience cf nine million people. rect cortrast to sugar plantations. susceptibility to another's ideas, sl — entrepreneur has been a wholesale it would make you weep to hear| «Tpe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher w DNoisbonermanpVeyioe s dacngs kiown y nothe , whil a n other people’s brains, and the Of course the Rev. John Wat-| the greatest success I have ever tr: |in Vuelta Abajo than the rebels B successes he has met with would make | 507 2§ a Presbyterian minister, iS 8| cloq with, For thirteen years I toc fichangad thele tagtice /Ihe sached plant - % trained speaker, and his Scotch accent et el & Eails i was attacked with fury. Over 400,000 even a returned Klondiker's mouth | jo"varv Sliaht, mot strong enough to be Dim around, and we covered over 300,000 o water, The gifted author, the social r political celebrity, has a marketable Maclaren is great busi- 'y place we had to turn miles in our journe gate sum taken at his lectu ed to a quarter of a mil ngs. The aggre- s amount- on bales of tobacco (approximating 40,000,- dollars value as a lecturer nowadays, and it he cleared is Major Pond's business, by means of the elaborate organization he has at Why, in this city, in 1878, $16,000 for four lectures.” Major Pond is very fond of talking estimate of the worth of 2 based on a simple rule— ! on his or her drawing power as a lec- | the large bump directly back of the left ear shows where his fighting qual ities come in for their maintenance and success. Steve Sanguinetti's head shows at a glance that, as a caterer, he has found the vocation for which nature intended him. His well developed sides of the head indicate his love of good victuals and wine and his desire that others should likewise enjoy the good things of life. Isador N. Choynski is the father of Choynski, of pugilistic fame, and also an editor. His b i is . uncommonly large and well balanced, showing by the large forehead and straight sides the philosophical tendencies of the Jewish race and the force of moral convic- tions. Rabbi M. 8. Levy's diagram is very well proportioned. It shows a bump on the right side, which indicates a tenacity to the policy he once decides upon and a continuity of purpose. The head of Professor Bugene S. Bon- nelf is of the long class, indicating sent- iment, taste and intellectual capacity in keeping with the strains of har- mony which he is so capable of im- parting to vocal aspirants. County Clerk C. F. Curry is also . | | of thought. In Judge Conlan’s diagram the lobes |are almost evenly proportioned. The square forehead marks his Irish de- [ scent. | His colleague, Police Judge James A. | Campbell, has a different class of head, | resembling that of a pear in form. The ides of the back part of the head are |large, indicating athletic tendenci love of sport and “fair play” in an en- counter in the “manly art.” It also indicates love of power and influence and a desire to maintain the good opin- ion of 1 ociates. The head of W. S. Barnes, the Dis- trict Attorney, is likewise a large one, fairly well proportioned, well balanced, philosophical and equal to much men- tal labor. The outlines of the head of W. H. T. Durrant were made in 1895. His head is of the long cl quare forehead, the left lobe is lar, and the large development above the left ear indi- cates wantonness and destructiveness induced by exterior suggestion, not from any premeditation on his part, but capable of such when force of sud- den circumstance makes it imperative. This is so indicated because the right side of the head is nearly straight. E. C. GETSINGER. ———— A little fellow, talking to one of the boys at the Decatur Methodist Or- phans’ Home a short time ago, said: ““You boys seem so happy out here i I'd like to stay with you always, but my folks are so healthy I'm afraid I won't be an orphan for some time yet!” —Atlanta Constitution. troubled with a large left lobe of the brain, indicating a greater receptivity \\)\.\ N O\ his command, to find an outlet for that commodity. “I only travel with big people,” said Major Pond during his recent visit here, “men such as Marion Crawford, i whom I am now running. The small fry of lecturers, of whom we have hun- dreds on our list, are supplied from our bureau at New York. Any country | town which wants to enjoy a lecture can choose whom it will to entertain them, and we will supply the article at a given price, varying, of course, according to quality. “Yes, I consider Marion Crawford to be the biggest lecture success of the | year. You see, he is such a good | speaker, and so many people have read | his books. A man like that don't want any advertising; people just flock to hear him wherever he goes. Yet, strangely enough, Crawford’s first tour in the States four years ago was not a success. He did not lecture then as he does now, but read extracts from his books. Crawford is not a good reader, and the thing did not go.” “Then you find lectures are more successful than readings?” “Not always; it all depends on the person. There was Charles Dickens, the greatest reader we ever had on the platform. Then Mark Twain and James | Whitcomb Riley have both made great MR N \\\ N N\ R RN W\ 0 o NN Y turer. ing famous as a writer, the author must be able to speak or read well. “I have never known but one in- | | stance,” he said, “of a literary celebrity | succeeding on the platform unless he | really could lecture. And that was| Matthew Arnold. No one could hear a | word he spoke, yet the halls were al-i ways full. People just went for the| sake of seeing the great man. And, on| the other hand, it is very difficult for a | celebrity to attract audiences unless he | has already achieved literary fame. Take the case of Peary, for instance. He is a famous Arctic explorer, his name has resounded all over the coun- | try. Also he is a charming speaker; yet he did not draw well, just because | he has not published a book about his | adventures. Nansen, who is not near- | ly so good a speaker as Peary, attract- | ed big audiences; his reputation was | made by his books. | “No, the report that Nansen's tour was a failure was all wrong. His sea- | son was cut short simply because of a disagreement with his managers. If I had been running him I would have brought him to this coast. “My first big success,” went on the major, growing reminiscent, “‘was Ann Eliza Young, the apostate wife of Brigham Young. That was in 1873. [ took her East to Washington, and her lectures created such a furor that in forty-eight hours the anti-polygamy law was passed. But the king of all W | major a sly nudge. D Yet he insists that, besides be-|of Beecher, a fact which is hardly to|during the season of 1890-91. be wondered at when it is remembered | that he has traveled farther with him | than with any living man. One of his stories about the preacher’s caustic wit is good enough to bear repetition. They were traveling once in a railw car, | and by strange contrast Robert Inger- | soll, the famous be among the passengers. | Beecher wrote two words on the edge of a newspaper, and then gave the| “I have written Ingersoll's epitaph, he whispered. “Here it is: ‘Robert| Burns. " Another one of Major Pond's anec- dotes relates to the celebrated actress Charlotte Cushman, whom he met long before the days of managerial success. | The major was but a call boy in a St. Louis theater when Charlotte Cushman was at the zenith of her brilliant career. | Part of his duty was to carry the ac- | tress’ jewels to and from the hotel. | On the last day of the engagement, he fell ill. when Charlotte Cushman, with kind thoughtfulness, hunted him up | and gave him a $20 gold piece, | “It was the first $20 gold piece I ever | earned,” says the major. “Long after- | ward I met Cushman in Boston, and | gave Her $1000 for one entertainment. ‘When I paid her I told her it was the interest on that gold piece.” - Another of the major's favorite lec- turers was Stanley, whom he piloted theist, happened to | s NN “1 gave Stanley $110,000 for 110 lectures, and made nearly as much money as he did. So you can see what a great draw the | great African explorer was. Besides which, he was a good speaker, his lec- tures averaged $2780 each. In this city is first lecture brought in $3400, his nd $6200.™ The major has the monetary value of every famous lecturer figured out almost to a cent. He knows just what it will pay him to give any one for a tour. Beecher he paid $300 to $1000 a lecture, Gough from $250 to $500, and Wendell Phillips about th: same price. Of later celebrities Ian Mac- laren ranks' the . He received a fixed sum of $500 ture, and Major Pond would be guite willing to renew the contract on the same terms. An- thony Hope comes lower at $200 up- ward, and at one time Max O'Rell, the French critic, commanded the same high terms. Latterly there has been a slump in Max O'Rell's value. “You see,” ex- plained the major, “he has been lectur- ing for three years now, and has passed the zenith of his success. 1 would not care to give more than from $100 to $200 for his lectures. In my opinion o - of the most successful of Am ri.an au- thors on the platform would be W. D. Howells, The trouble is that Howells cannot be induced to lecture; he ob- jects to the traveling. 000 pounds) were destroyed in 1898 and 1897 in Vuelta Abajo, and the war on the weed continues to the present day. In 1897 very little tobacco was gath- ered, representing not “ne-tenth of the normal crop. Even this small percent- age was grown in the yards of houses in well fortified v ges, and in the much-talked-about Zonas de Cultivo, which were designed by General Wey- ler for the planting of vegetables for the unfortunate reconcentrados. It will take at least twenty years be- fore Vuelta Abajo can again be in as flourishing condition as in January, 1896. Not even if the war should com to an end could it regain its forme wealth in a shorter period. Whole vil- lages and towns have been destroyed, and 80 per cent of the population has perished. KEven genuine autonomy would not much benefit the tobacco trade of Cuba, since Spain is under so many obligations to the Compania Gen- eral de Tabacos, a monopoly in that country, from which the Government derives an enormous venue. Abso- lute independence alone can help mat- ters. The condition of things in the eclgar factories of Havana could not be more hopeless. Here is a statement made by the head of the leading cigar fac tory one year ago: “In the depar ment devoted to the preparation of raw tobacco we employ 500 men and 200 wo- men. Average daily production 50,000 pounds. In the cigar-making depart- ment we employ 200 men and 100 wo- men. Average daily output 1,000,000 cigars.” All the best Havana cigars are ex- ported. Havana itself must be con- tented with a second-rate smoke at a first-rate price. Half the cigar stands, formerly flourishing, are now hoarded up. Half of the cigar stands still do- ing business are stocked, very meager- ly, with a genuine lot of poor cigars. Moreover, a leading New York cigar manufacturer, now in Havana, tells me that half the cigars sold here and in the States as “clear Havan are made of Virginia tobacco. The raw ma- terial is sent direct from Virginia to Porto Rico. At Porto Rico it is r packed and shipped to Havana as n¢ tive Porto Rico tobacco. In Havana native Porto Rico tobacco from Vir- ginia is made into cigars and sent back to the States as ‘“clear Havanas.” The natives here are unanimous in their opinion that the Cuban cigar in- dustry is doomed. Their opinion is founded on the facts just given. It looks entirely probable that in a few months this city will have on exhibi- tion, draped in moll‘xrmnczi a curiosity labeled “Havana's Last Cigar.” Ausleg s GILSON WILLETS.