The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 9 1899, The SUNDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communications to W. S LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts, S\ F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Tel Main 1574 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (inclnding Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 8 monthi 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month 85¢ BUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL One Year.. . 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE......0............ weveees...908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forcign Advertising, Marguetto Bul Chicago. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Premont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS dJR. .29 Tribune Buliding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldorf-Astor Hotel; A. Brentano, $i Union Square; urray Hiil Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Welilngton Hotel .C. €. CARLTON. Correspondent. ing, BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1981 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25i8 Mission street. open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open uptll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMfi'SEMENTS. Columbla—‘"Tord and Lady Algy,” to-morrow night. California—''A Midnight Bell.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—*‘Shamus O'Brien.” Alcazar—'"Don Caesar de Bazan” and ‘‘Only the Master a House—"The Begsar Student.” 00 and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon son and Eilis streets—Spectalties. . Market street, near hth—Bat- Sutro Bath: g Races, etc. Glen Park—Grand performance to-day. Union Coursing Park—Cou “ing to-day. Recreation Park—Daseball To- Mechanics' Pavilion—Cake Wal July 15. urday, AUCTION SALES. at 11 o'clock— 10, ¥, July 11, at 12 o'clock th and Bryant streets, UNIVERSITY FEES. | s to the fee question. While T it is true that a felt as a burden by many parents who are sceking higher education for their children, it is also true that there are other bur- imposed by life at 4 university which are less tol- HER I are two e he more difficult to deal with because tions and the expense of student whose finances make the fee | portant ways subjected i the student to whom the fee is social e imitation. a consideration is in more i to the compefition son or daughte: cf no importance The rich n rental affectic in a style tha fills the colle: cause they b followed by pa- supported there marks a class distinction, and very often content be- yle. Though they cannot hope to reach the state of their » the university, e days of others with ve not the means to live in equal rich com to do so adds numerous | ceds, and in the course 1e fees. avely idered at those old colleges there have end, and sperit students were the re- had thousands to s; stude e poorer hospitality and shared the. pleasures only to pa for pa ion of feeling that they | ion they had ac expensive habits s to support. t. The remedy is tt cepted, of | ng appare It is not every boy i nptation and good | ¢ in the plain way of his fathers. | mbitious parents great and heart- | disappointments. Hopes invested in the edu-! 1s are brought to naught by the habits | llege, and the loss of the hard-earned | t of the misfortunes which fall as | itacts with the lavish expenditure of | f it has been proposed to bring | down to one scale, laid along the average financial ability of the people ranks the student .material drawn. | . perhaps, is all that the governors of any univer- that has the v to apply. 1 cour: fellowship 2 So there co! trying cation ¢ money the result of cor the all liv the line of from w Thit sity with the people th do in the matter. An efficient reform ves. A rich girl was to gradu- ate from Vassar in a class that had many students who were poor and could afford no display. Moved by the highest refinement of good taste and good sense, the rich girl dressed for graduation in the plest and least expensive of costumes, so that none of her companions need be tempted to do what they eould not afford, and none might have to flinch at a contrast to their disadvantage. After all, the spirit of that ri univers can y life from one of the greatest burdens it puts upon the poo Believers in the doctrine of heredity will find much to comfort them in a study of the genealogical tree 2 Brooklyn namesake of the new pugilistic champion has prepared for Jim Jeffries. It proves, if it proves anything, that the boilermaker comes rightly by his fistic honors. One of his ancestors with William ‘the Conqueror undoubtedly whipped one of Fitz's fore- fathers at the battle of Hastings. Boss Buckley is desirous of having an organization in this city similar to Tammany. As there is only one tiger, Buckley will be forced to use such- of his lieu- tenants as are accustomed to wearing stripes as the emblems of the machine. e It is reported that the floods in Texas have de- stroyed the big cotton crop of that State. All-wool clothing will be higher next season. “Fighting” Joe Wheeler will be in San Francisco before the end of a week. It is needless to say he will get a real California welcome. It is safe to say that the advocates of anti-kissing are in an overwhelming majority when the kissing bug is around. . | the Phelan auxiliary W h girl must be looked to for the relief of | ENCOURAGEMENT FOR REPUBLICANS l publican organization in San Francisco wil T seems-almost certain that the attempt of the Huntington-Herrin-Burns-Kelly-Crimmins com- bination to spread a wet blanket over the Re- fail. ‘that involved more supreme rascality. = San Fran cisco, owing to the power and dichonesty of the Hu tington monopoly, has been noted for unique poli Republican | J!he regular County Committee of the and | party, to ratify and confirm all the treacheries | frauds for which the Kentucky corporation has stood as the sponsor during the past year easily transcends all former experiences. | The conditions that force a great American com- munity almost to remain sleepless in order to save its own life have become virtually intolerable. No matter what the fundamental political ,differences ‘in the | United States may be, it will be generally admitted | that the Republican party originated in brains, in | character and in independence. The men who founded { the party were Americans, and, rather than sacrifice | | a principle, they would have blown an organization | into splinters. They did not belong to the class oij stereotyped partisans who could be forced through! | the grooves of a machine and labeled with some dis- | gusting mark of surrender to corruption. Abraham | Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin, Salmon P. Chase, Wil-| | liam H. Seward, and their great contemporaries, were | | unprepared for the genuflections and the adulation | { that could alone have produced the literary efflores- | | cence of the Colton letters, in which Collis P. Hun- | tington signally illustrated his grammatical insuffi- ciency and his rude conception of a dictatorship. | Republican independence, which has been a steady element in party history, survives to-day and proposes to become regnant in San Francisco and to defeat | the Huntington trade with the fusion Democracy. It y doubtful whether the blanket ticket does not | violate both the letter and the spirit of the primary clection Jaw. Upon that point some premonitory { observations have been made by the City and County | Attorney and by others that are full of peint and im- | pressive in their application. But, independently of ithc purely legal aspects of the case, which may prob- | | ably dispose of the whole matter, the Republicans who | control the results of elections are displaying an or- ‘ganized activity of which the Huntington-Herrin- Burns-Kelly-Crimmins combination had better take notice. Of course, in view of the representative principle that has been dogmatically violated by the | Republican County Committee, the best thing that { can happen is a ruling against the right to present a | Huntington placard of 306 dclegates to a municipal | convention from eighteen Assembly districts. But whether this ruling can be obtained or not, the Re- | publican voters of San Francisco have evidenced their | | intention to control their own party. There are two organizations, fully described in our local columns, | which, though operating on different lines, concur in If a blanket ticket is tolerated—in other | words, if the primary election is construed by monop- olistic interpreters—they will face the corporat with tickets of their own, and it is by no means im- possible that the blanketed underbreds may be beaten at their own game. All that is needed to overcome | to the traitors to Republican principles and to Republican integrity is a represen- tative convention. their objects. The present indications are that | such an aggregation of intelligence, of conservatism and of American manhood may be secured. One thing is certain: No railroad ticket can be elected. For that proposition The Call and some of its contemporaries will be responsible. With no un- dercurrent of sclfishness, with no personal objects to be subserved, with a fixed purpose to combine the decent political elements of this community in a tri- | umphant vindication of principle and *of character, The Call feels assured that failure is impossible. This is an American city and it is to be governed by Amer- icans, and not by imperialistic method s. THE ELDER BROTHERHOOD. HEN euphemistic sentiments in favor of the British influence in the incidents in Samoa were floating through the American press The Call, while not ignoring any rational cause for re- | ciprocal aid arising from the facts coexisting in the United States and in Great Britain, nevertheless re- peated the wagning of Washington against “entan- gling alliances,” and urged the retention American policy, based upon our own constitutional system of government. Among other things it directed popular attention to the fact that there might be two sides to the Samoan events, and it failed to accept the description of those events so industriously cir- culated by the Associated Press. Our precautions have been more than justified by the light that from many quarters has recently | streamed upon Samoa, and not only upon Samoa but upon other regions of the earth where Great Britain has sought to obliterate the results of our Revolu- tionary War. The detailed reports that have lately appeared in our columns have done much to correct the errors of the earlier accounts of the Sa- moan controversy and to confirm the views of Mr.1 Lloyd Osborne, who was so long the representative | of the United States in those islands. The design of | Great Britain to establish an elder brotherhood, that | would have the effect of swamping the fundamental | ideas of our national system and of reducing us to a | subordinate position in an imperialistic association, has been most thoroughly exposed. | Our, interests in Samoa were small. British fluence endeavored to control us and temporarily suc- | ceeded, but, when the protectorate over the Tonga| | Islands was offered, the United States were not in-| cluded in that deal. This, however, is comparatively | a small matter. The larger proposition is,the effort | | to seduce or to entice us into the imperialistic policy | | of Great Britain, of which our own unpatriotic press | | is furnishing evidences day by day. It is only a short/| time ago since the London School of -Tropical | | Medicine had its annual convocation in the British | | metropolis, which no less a man than Mr. Chamber- lain referred to as one of the modes of promoting an{ | imperialistic_policy, in which the trans-Atlantic | ‘,hrclhrcn of the British people were expected to join. | | Among other facts prominently mentioned in t]mt} ;convocalion was the inclusion of three hundred mil-‘ | lions of “colored people” within the British empire. | This is the imperial combination of which the United | States is to form a part, and it is this domination of | the inferior races of the world in which our republic, | with its elaborate protection of individual rights and | of the sovereignty of man, is expected to participate. | Amicable relations with Great Britain, the closest| association and co-operation not only with that em-‘} pire, but with Germany, so deeply represented in our | population, with the French republic associated with | us by hereditary ties, and with every aspiring :sggm-.s gation of human beings to be found upon the earth, | are fundamental ideas in American civilization. But | to be absorbed by the nation from which we wn‘:s(ed} our independence, to be drawn into a govemmental‘ doctrine from which we extricated ourselves by force, to be induced to abandon a political system that we ‘havc presented to the world as realizing the most | of an ! n- | advanced ideas of the human race, after its inherent supremacy has been established by a hundred and twenfy-three years of history, is not within the com- The late celebration of our national anniversary, however marred by occa- sional appeals to the imperial instinct, conclusively Vever has there been an effort to destroy a great party | answered the assumptions of our retrogression and pass of American intention. the intolerable pretensions lators. In a recent number of the Preussische Jahrbucher of expatriated specu- cal phenomena. But the deliberate proposal, through ' Professor Delbruck based a calculation on our finan- cial propensities: “The present imperialistic craze need not deceive us. The Americans have to pay three, six, even ten, dollars for what we get for one. Wait until they have to foot the bill.” In this propositioh there is an element of truth. But it is very slight and grossly underestimates the Ameri- can people. The higher ground upon which all im- perialistic alliances will be rejected and the nation swung back to its constitutional moorings is the foundation upon which our Government rests and our saturated belief and confidence in the principles of the Declaration of Independence, which are coinci- dent with the sovereignty of man and intolerably re- pugnant to monarchy and to every form of despotism. THE EPWORTH LEAGUE CONVENTION. VE of the most hotable gatherings to assemble O in the year 1901 will be the great international convention of the Epworth League. The place at which the convention is to be called has not yet been determined, and some of the more active members in California have already arranged to make a strong effort to induce the league to select + San Francisco as the site for the assembly. The enterprise is one to which all citizens of in- fluence ought to give cordial assistance and help. The Epworth League is among the foremost of the many organizations which have been recently formed among young men and women to aid -in church work. Its members are to be found in every land under the sun, and in our own country constitute a rowerful as well as a numetrous and rapidly increasing body. The international gathering of the league will bring together thousands of delegates and visitors, and to the city where the convention is held the en- tertainment of so notable and so large an assemblage of earnest young men and women from all parts of the world will be most profitable in every respect. To those who take no thought of to-morrow 1901 seems far distant. Intelligent people, however, well understand the value of assuring future as well present good. The selection of the place for the league convention is to be made within a time com- paratively short. The committee that will present the claims of San Francisco will leave for Indianapolis | on the 12th, so that it will be seen there is no time to lose in providing the members with whatever aid is possible in the work that lies before them. While San Francisco is remote from the great cen- ters of population, and to that extent is handicapped in its efforts to become a convention city, it has many advantages to counterbalance the disadvantage of situation. Conventions are held in the summer time, and this city has the pleasantest summer climate America, if not in the world. halls with us are never sweltering with heat; there is no debilitation, no danger of prostration from ex- haustion caused by work in overheated rooms. That in Crowded convention fact alone counts much in our favor, and would be in | itself almost sufficient to make thi convention city in the Union, if stood by the people of the East. The attendance at the convention sure to be large, but we have ample accommodation for all who may come. No city in the world knows better how to entertain visitors than San Francisco, and none is more hospitable in doing it. The attractiveness . of the surroundings make the city, moreover, one of the best pleasure resorts on the continent, and the dele- gates who come here to attend to convention business will find it a place for a delightiul holiday after the work is over. the most frequent it were better under- is presented to the league in favor of this city as the site for its international gathering, and it is to be hoped the committee that goes to present our claims will have ample backing in their undertaking. 5! firms have been able to obtain contracts to supply locomotives for British railways and steel bridges for roads in Egypt and in India. Evidently something of alarm is felt by the manufacturers of the old country. The industries fostered by protection in the United States have become formidable competitors for the in- dustries of free trade even in the home of free trade. The alarm is not confined to the manufacturing class only. British merchants have long since per- ceived that their commerce is losing ground under the stress of German activity in commercial ventures, and British ship-builders are noting with something of ungasiness that German ships are now being con structed in German shipyards instead of in those of Great Britain. Thus with American industrial com- RITISH manufacturers have sent to this coun- try a representative to study our industrial con- petition on the one hand and German commercial competition on the other, the outlook does not prom- ise any long continuance of the present supremacy of Great Britain in the commerce of the world. There is another phase of the subject that causes despondency in the United Kingdom. The amount of coal and iron available for industrial use is rapidly diminishing. and experts are predicting that within a time comparatively short Great Britain will be de- pendent upon the United States for her supply of those articles. That will imply a complete industrial and commercial dependence upon this country. Nor does there appear any means by which the coming dependence can be averted. Indeed, if a prolonged war against powerful foes should come upon her Great Britain might be compeiled to become some- thing like a political dependency, as without our aid she could not obtain the coal-and the iron necessary for her fleets. e —— The United Christian Party of America intends to enter the national political campaign with a Presiden- tial candidate, and a platform reading, “What Would Jesus Do?” There are some questions that involve the paradox of a self-evident but unexpected answer. Perhaps the United Christian Party of America wouldn’t like to hear the answer of most Americans to the query of the new platform. X _ There seems to be a disposition in the Fourth of July Committee to “whitewash” T. P. Robinson, the discredited and expelled graiter of the committee. Whitewash will accomplish little more than to make more prominent the black spots on Robinson’s hide. The leading characters in the local domestic com- edy, which seems to have been inspired by the Botkin tragedy, demonstrate that the race of fools is not by any means becoming extinct. EET A The Spanish have just acquitted Admiral Cervera. Americans, quicker to appreciate worth, even in an enemy, did that long ago. as | Strong arguments, therefore, can be | ditions and to find out how it is that American | OROROHORGH So thoroughly has Kipling impressed himself upon the popular mind that critics of all cizes have begun to use | him as a convenient standard by which to measure every new aspirant or ama- tew in the field of letters. Some critics use Rudyard as a model of excellence, and when they desire to praise an au- | thor they say his style is suggestive of | Kipling’s. Others take him as a warn- ing of the depravity to which litera- | ture can sink, and when in their turn | they seek to praise a writer they hold him vp as a contrast to that creature of abomination. As a result of this condition of the | casual criticism of our day, the reader must know what a critic thinks of Kip- ling before he can derive any satisfac- tion from his criticisms. For example, an Eastern critic in reviewing that most delightful little Californian book, “Sugar Pine Murmurings,” compared the style to that of Kipling, and proba- bly intended it as a recommendation to the public; but it is by no means cer< | tain it will be so regarded. | George Moore, a critic of repute in | London town, is one who would got | read “‘Sugar Pine Murmurings,” if he | believed the critic who said it suggests | Kipling, for Moore looks upon the | rough and ready Rudyard as the liter- 1ary offspring of all the coarseness of | British insolence flushed by the lust of empire. He js quoted by the London | Chronicle as having said recently: “Mr. Kipling, the poet that England was now celebrating, would not havs written the most hideous verses ever written in a beautiful language if he had not lived in a specially hideous mo- | ment, the moment of the African mil- | lionaire, when England, gorged with | wealth, lusted for more, when thou- | sands of Arabs were shot in the desert | with machine guns—and the general | who commanded in these shambles was greeted as a hero. In no other circum- | stances but the present would Mr. Kip- { ling have been a disgraceful blot on | the most beautiful poetic record in the world.” | . . “Sugar Pine Murmurings,” being a | product of the native wit of Califor- nia, | | evolved, and not be mixed up with ths disputations of British fog land. I have lugged it in only to show just how far and how foolishly | these Kipling comparisons are car- ried. The speech of Mr. Mpore fis | the point I am leading up to lazily, as | befits a day of rest, for that doughty pen fighter did not denounce Kipling for the mere fun of denouncing him, | but for the purpose of lauding another | man—a genius of whom we know little, | but of whom, according to Mr. Moore, | we ought to know much; of whom we | will know much when a literary sanity returns to us, and “‘the Rudyards cease from Kipling and the Haggards ride no more.” In Dublin, “the finest city upon the say,” a number of patriots of light and leading have established a “literary | theater” for the encouragement of Irish genius, and the genius has come. The | dramatic work of a certain Mr. Yeats, | produced at the theater, has causeg something of a sensation in the United | Kingdom, pride in Ireland and enthu- | siasm in the mind of Mr. Moore. At a banquet given a short time ago to cele- | brate the success of the theater, Moore | and Max Beerbohm were distinguished | guests, and Moore made an address, in | the course of which he said the works | of Mr. Yeats were not as yet, and prob- ably never would be, as voluminous as | those of either Shakespeare or Victor | Hugo, but he cpuld not admit that they | 'were less perfect. In the art of writing a blank verse play none except Shake- speare and Mr. Yeats had succeeded. We must not be afraid of praising Mr. Yeats‘ poetry too much; we must not | hesitate to say that there were lyrics in the collected poems as beautiful as any in the world. | Here, then, on the authority of a critic of high repute, we have the state. ment that a dramatic writer of trans- cendent genius has arisen in Ireland. | Which of our managers of theaters will | be first to reproduce one of his plays in | San Francisco and give us an oppor-~ tunity to learn what Dublin is doing for the elevation of the stage and the redemption of literature? siiie s What we need in this country is not | so much a redemption of literature as | a wholesale damnation of all eritics | ontside of California. There be not so | many as ten worthy fellows in the | whole Eastern lot, and they that be worthy have not virtue enough to | leaven the lump. The quality of the | stuff which under the title and in the form of criticism is poured forth from the pets of publishers into the long ears of the Eastern public may be | judged from ‘the statement of Charles Johnson, a ecritic plenipotentiary of New England, that Mark Twain is “the greatest writer the New World has yet | seen.” : | Such a statement expressed as seri- ous criticism is offensive to patriotism, and moreover is a wholly unnecessary offense. It implies that while the New ‘World has seen no greater writer than the author of “Tom Sawyer,” the Old World has seen greater, and carries with it the inference that the Old World has seen more fine sights than ours has seen. Now, as a matter of fact, it Mark Twain be greater than Haw- thorne and Poe and Emerson, then also is he by an equal ease of assertion greater than Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante, the man who wrote the book of Job and the woman who compiled the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Mr. Johnson should have said Mark Twain is_the greatest writer the whole world has yet seen, and then it would not have been put upon anybody to take the trouble to write him down an ass. kel ‘When Sarah Bernhardt undertook to play “Hamlet,” it was a foregone con- clusion we were to have a new Hamlet, | but no one expected it to be “fresh.” | Hence there has been more of a sensa- tion in London over the Bernhardt Hamlet than ever there was over the theory of a Baconian Shakespeare. If there be anything on which all Pritish and all American critics agree, it is that we understand everything about Hamlet, except the one point whether or no he were mad. There is a dispute concerning the matness, but on_all else there is such harmony as reigns in heaven. By critics, commen- tators and actors all, it has been treated as a self-evident fact that Hamlet was of a reflective disposition, a doubtful, hesitating youth; one who did not know whether he loved Ophe- M"“QfiMMOMQ*M*M*M“*MMO”W° EDITORIAL VARIATIONS, 'BY JOHN McNAUGHT. ! 0*0*0*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*NQNM*OH”*0*0*@*@*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*@ i | nounces everything in order to gain his | should be studied in the atmos- | | phere of the sunny land in which it was | ‘a shoulder to the wheel of the vehicle, FOROXGAPROR lia or did not love her; who was not sure whether he ought to kill himself or somebody else; one whose native hue of resolution was always sicklied o'er by a pale cast of thought, and whose enterprises of great pith and moment turned awry and lost the name of ac- tion. % Sarah says Hamlet was not that kind of man at all. She insists he was a | crafty, resolute, determined schemer like Richard III; hesitating at noth- ing, but sacrificing everything to the | one object he had in view—that of re- venge for his father’s death. v So peculiar does the Bernhardt pres sentation of the melancholy Dane ap- pear to the London critics that one among them declares it to be an origi- nal creation, born not of Shakespeare's brain, but of Bernhardt's nerve; and | he suggests that the new thing on the stage be advertised as “The Princess of Denmark.” For all that Sarah Bernhardt is a great genius and a new Hamlet, she is | none the less a woman and has a wo- man’s ways. She insists on the last word, and he who would deprive her of it must talk long and talk fast. She has replied to her critics and showr herself to be a commentator as well as an uncommon actor. At any rate, she | is not a ‘“‘crushed ‘tragedian” by any | means. Her letter on the subject of Hamlet's character is too long to be quoted in full, but it is only fair to give at least something of what the creator | of a resolute Hamlet has to say for herself and her latest new thing in the drama. After reviewing the incidents of the | play and explaining how they reveal | the true nature of Hamlet, she says: | “‘As soon as he gathers what is in his | father’s mind and learns of his mur- der, he forms the resolution to avenge | him; but as he is the opposite of| Othello—who acts first and thinks afterward—Hamlet thinks before hs | acts, which Is proof of great strength | and great pawer of mind. “Hamlet loves Ophelia! He renounces his love! He renounces study! | He re. | object. And he attains it. He Kkills ths King while in the blackest and most mortal sin; but he kills him only when | he is absolutely sure. ““When he is sent to England he takes the first opportunity of leaping alone | into an enemy's vessel, and announces his fame that he may be made pris- oner, certain that he will be brought | back. He calmly sends Rosencrantz | and Guildenstern to death. All this be- speaks a young, strong and determined character. ‘“When he dreams, it is of his plan—of his vengeance. If God had not forbid- den suicide he would have killed him- | self in disgust of the world. But since ! he cannot kill himself, he will kill!” If that be not Shakespeare’s Hamlet, so much the worse for Shakespeare. Bernhardt will steal the character from him and make it anew even as he stole it from some forgotten playwright and made it to suit his own notion. It is clear the divine Sarah is every inch a | woman. She will have nothing to do | with hesitating men; or if she becomes | interested in one who has been doubtful and irresolute, she will instill resolu-‘ tion into him. Whatever be the char- | acter she plays, or the man she plays | with, there is sure to be some snap to him before she gets through with him. | For the rest—there is no reason why we should complain of her attempt to | overthrow the conventional Hamlet. Sarah will soon pass and there will! never be another, but the old Hamlet | will live like the chestnut tree for a thousand years. e To the Association of American Ag- ricultural Colleges - and Experiment Stations in convention assembled in | this city, there came on the day of the opening session this telegram: S TRAER, Iowa, July 5, 1839. Dr. A. C. True, San Francisco, Cal.: To | the Assoclation of Colleges and Stations, greetings. From sea to sea we hail the | workers of every land as brothers and put our sghoulders under their yokes, that knowledge may incréase and plenty rule in all our bdrders. JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture. The beauties of the sentiment ex- | pressed in that telegram are many, and | it may be added they are mysterious. | The ‘“we” "who from sea to sea| hail the workers of every land as brothers are doubtless the agricultur- ists, byt just why a farmer should talk of increasing knowledge and es- tablishing the rule of plenty by put- ting his shoulder to the yoke of his brother is not clear, for the average | farmer knows that to get a move on a | stalled wagon the proper way is to put and not to the yoke of the beast that draws it. It is possible that Secretary Wilson in becoming a Cabinet officer laid aside i his bucolic ox sense when he picked up | the language of official station, but the | chances are the explanation of the mysterfousness of the telegram is to be | found in the date. When a thing is | written on the day after the Glorious Fourth, it is not to be critized too close- | ly. On that day anything goes so long as it means well. . From the revelers who in these happy summer days, straying from the busy haunts of care and strife where men earn money, have gone to the romantic regions where one can do nothing but | spend it and time, there come strange | stories. One of these wanderers claims | to have discovered a sort of earthly | Nirvana, a town where the weary cease | from troubling and even the wicked take a rest—a place where the balm of Gilead is infused in the very atmos. phere. The wanderer from the metro- polis, and perhaps from the truth, de- scribes the place as— | —a dim city lying alone Far downhln thedd :xn:ef;., J W hex:or!"eagdouthe B e bad and the‘ Have gone to their eternal rest. The discoverer avers with much as- severation the place is not a,graveyard nor a crematory, but a city where peo. ple are alive enough to breathe and have thirsts enough te cause a demand for drinks. Saloons exist in the com- munity, but they are not hilarious. The explorer says: “I was in a saloon last night in which a big phonograph ren- dered ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ and ‘Where Is My Wandering Boy To- Night?' " ‘- There may be people who doubt the existence in California of a town where ! amusing character. | and walk around the | —poetic. | “that remote and stagnant town’ i programme to-day: derer who tells the story is indifferent to truth. The names of the city and of the county could be given as an evi- dence of good faith, but that would be advertising. The story is big enougnh to stand alone, and it will have to do so. WOW! HERE'S A MASCOT. Read Warden Aguirre’sRecord Martin Aguirre is having some ctlnl'\tn- versy as to his duties as W arden ufis;xn Quentin, but he will come out all right He is a veritable political mascot. His luck even extends to those who work for him. Almost all the men who were in the eriff’s office under him ten years ago 2re mow well provided for guhm-uu) jiThe following list will be found of interest: 1889, 899, Martin G. Aguirre, Henry T. Gage, Gov- ernor. H?l‘:;:'"’% Gage, at- M. G. Aguirre, War- ¢ for Sheriff. den San Quentin. Cline, dep- J. A. Aguirre, deputy uty sheriff. warden San Quen- > Wray, dep- _ tin. Jonn et " Henry MecClure, Will A. Hammel, -gatckeeper San deputy sheriff. Quentin. John C. Cline, Col- lector Port Los An- geles, John C. Wray, Col- J. A. Agulrre, book- keeper for Sheriff. Henry McClure, keeper for g}ol(;rlfl. i lector Internal Captain _Thornton, Revenue, 7th div., 1st district. Wil A. Hammel, Sheriff Los Ange= aptain ihder sheriff L. A. County. J. Murietta, cashier ‘aptain Chaj glerk, San Quend tin. —Los Angeles Herald “A MIDNIGHT BELL “ AT THE CALIFORNIA IS a good thing to be givenabad dinner once in a while. It rather makes us appreciate our ordinary living. If all plays were well presented we should never know the joy of leaving in the middle of the last act and getting out under the stars, Sir Walter Scott confessed that he never could r(‘ptu& a story without giving it & new hat and cane. 7 The perpetrators of “A Midnight Bell have been still more liberal. In thelr hands it has become the medium for reci- tation and coon specialties and is less at- tractive than filled cheese. The New Eng- land atmosphere that is the play makes a half-hearted effort to be present, finds nothing to stand upon and falls, like Nineveh, never to rise again. I once had a liberal faith in the play. It had stood the test of friendship. But last night I° had an awakening and my thoughts took shape in this wise: “Time does many things—it ripens green fruit. It also makes it rotten.” With the exception of Mr. Stockwell there is not a Yankee on the stage. He, as Deacon Tedd, is a most There is a mystery in his expressions that does not admit of interpretation by any ordinary standards. If 1 had time I could write a book about them and his bo No one who has not seen him knows the beauty and ampli- tude of which the bow is capable. He gives us a little too much busine: much butter on the bread, but it butter. The other men, the the lawyer, the bank pi the cashier, the docto under sheriff. J. Murietta, cashier for Sheriff. Captain Chappelear, deputy sheriff. 9 grace that is ten times worse th tural awkwardness—forlorn Ody: all of them, in fruitle: rch for pitable shore. Theoretically a clergyman is a man of exaited ethics, who never tires of good wor! Mr. ott Sea will certainly never tire of good works for he will never do anything to fatigue himself. He walks through his part w. a most exasperating air of conscious vir- tue. In the matter of prayer he gives ‘one the impression that he might at a pinch go through some mechanical sup- plication in a selected Delsarte poise war- ranted not to ruffie the sublimity of his self-esteem or the puffs in hi He has many an unpreten they are swamped in_his air of compla- cency. A vear ago I had the pleasure of Yale as Lorenzo in the He was spirituel As Ned Alcott he seems an- other Sisyphus, fallen from the heights he had reached to the humble commence- ment of a new road. He may be making a fortune this way, but he is also making a reputation as a bad actor. I hope he does not mean to continue in this line of work. 'Tis a pity to waste good material. Miss Pearl Landers, though missing the spirit and dash of Dot Bradbury, acts in- genuously and is one day going to be heard from. I hope she will' speedily seek {and find the right environment for de- velopment. The other women simply walk around and tolerate each ot T S T to live on such terms would be to die. One character dresses her part,-netherly, to perfection and makes an immediate hit in the Virginia reel. She does nothing else. Gus Tate will make his -mark—when he joins the vaudeviile circuit. He is im- mensely clever, but one must confess to a nervous shock on hearing ‘“Shall We Gather at the River! viciously intoned in @ rag-time voice. The performance on a whole calls to mind wag's criticlsm of a certain painting: f it were not for the sky and the trees and the brook and the foreground and the background and the general lack of atmosphere it would be a chef d'oeuvre!” CHARLOTTE THOMPSON. — ‘SALOON-KEEPERS RESPONSIBLE. To Investigate the Manning Lamp- Throwing Case. Secretary E. L. Wadham of the Bureka | Society fcr the Protection of Children and John McCallan, a prominent member of the same society, are investfgating the Cornellus Manning lamp-throwing affair, which occurred on July 5, and in which Mrs. Kennedy and her little niece were burned. If sufficient evidence is found the child’s case may be made a test of by )rust»(‘utlnfi the saloon man who sold Manning the liquor. It has been reported that Manning received liquor while in- toxicated. In an interview with Mr. Wadham he states that if the State Legislature would pass a law similar to the one in operation in the State of New York the public would have some redress for the wrongs resulting from the indiscriminate sale of liquor. 1In that State the saloon-keeper who sells liquor to a drunken man be- comes liable for damages arising there- from. T A Murdered Baby. The autopsy held vesterday by Dr. Guido_Caglieri upon the body of a newly born baby boy found last Friday in the front garden of an unoccupied houss at 1605 Oak street revealed the fact that the infant had lived for at least twelve hours after birth and had died from exposure, Deputy Coroner Lacombe reported the re- sult of thé autopsy to the police, and De- | tectives Egan and Silvey were detailed upon the case. S e Park Music. The Park Band will render the following Overture, ‘‘Robesplerre’ Marceau, ‘‘On Parade’ Quertet, storm scene and finale from Jetto™ ... Intermezzo from = Verdt Operatic melange . atann | Overture, ‘‘Jeanne ' Verd{ Prelude to ‘'Lohengrin’ -Wagner Selection, ‘‘The Serenade ““Danse of the Hours” March, “‘Hands Across ———— Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ibat Townsend's.* .Sousa —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_——— The Kehlenbeck Murder. The case of Dr. C. C. J. Wachendorf, charged with the murder of David Kehl- enbeck, was called in Judge Treadwell's court yesterday and by consent the pre- liminary examination was set for July 15. ———— revelers in saloons find their joy in ls< tening to hymns and temperance songs of tender sentiment, but I am indiffer-. ent to the incredulous, as the wan- On July 18 and 14 the Santa Fe route will sell tickets to Indfanapolls and return at the very low rate of §76. Occasion—annual meeting of the Epworth League. Get full particulars at the Sante Fe office, 828 Market street.