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THE SAN FRANCISCO CGALL, MONDAY, JANUARY £1, 1901. TV E cents AU A NEW BILL AND THE BEST EVER. AXD TARD. UMANN URK INK, SAM LOCKHART’S NTS 10c; TO-NIGHT at8 sharp, ARANC MRS. FISKE BECKY SHARP. iR BOAR Days 'MACK THE CHUTES.” MURRAY AND SHOOTING LEADING THEATRE THIRD AND LAST WEEK.! WAY DOWN EAST.” LOUIS J¢HES = KATHRYN KIDDER S DREAM : ROECO’S OPERA HOUSE ND SUNDAY. ink "[ (oming—Berphardt and Cequelin ‘E”L‘ch ~ Zsfl‘ THEATR SWEET L NEXT WEBK- “/ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME.” BEIASCO »~oTHAILS (ENTRASS: One of the Greatest Flays Ever Writtn with toe plot S:¢ story érawn from the land of tte Museovit ). “p ARKESTRUS THE PRISON OF LECTURE BY V. PETER C. YORKE of £T. JOW ther Brady, ¥ the Bene (Rev. ¥ & PARISH. RE Thursday Evening, "5 1001, At § o'clock. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE Fifth and Jessie Streets. These hotels pos- sess the attributes that tourists and travelers appreciate —entral location, liberal manage- ment, modern ap- pointments a n d perfect cuisine American and Eua- ropean plans. PALAGE and GRAND HOTELS, San Franciseo, Opera | SIA”| Six Stake [UNIONS GIVEN EQUAL FOOTING City Front Federation Al- lows Each Society Three Representatives. 3T Majority of Delegates Strongly Op- poses Any Action That Savors of Discrimination in Representation. ey The committee appointed to draft ftutic a n and by-laws for the govern- ty Front Federation, which >s all the trades and crafts ai: connected with the shipping inte of the port, made a progressive re- yesterday afternoon to the general The committee report was the ct of four hours’' discussion, the cipal matter of debate being the sec- to the representation to be . the opinion of the majority of members of the committee that there be a system of propor ate rep- They recommended that organization be allowed one repre- e in the federation and one ad- representative for each 100 mem- fractional part less than 1%, however, that no society be o more than ten representatives, of the report was strongly ob- by the majority of the d They argued that there any discrimination in the matter of representation in the federation. It was the opinion of the majority that each anization should have the same rep- ion. It was contended that large , like the 8ailors’ Union, titled to ten representatives, some of the unions embraced in the ation would not be entitied to more stem. The opponents of the system the danger of two or more zations combining and over- wishes of smailer unions. After ing over two hours it mend the committee re- tion three delegates, irrespective the membership of the unions. The matter of initiation fees of » committee was allowed until Sun- next to complete the constitution and by-laws. kg e Boycott Daclared. or Council convened rday afternoon an veott against certa who have persi ¥ nply with the requests of rks' Union and grant thelr 4 the The Lab th ve agreed to main open and is he boycott On Friday a meeting was hal were sent warning union men ze their srietors claim SHIP'S COOK ATTACKED BY WOMAN WITH CHAIR ch organization in the federa- | | | | two delegates under the proportion- | ed that if it was adopted there would | | Matters of Interest to Mariners and in extra | Mrs. David Dent, Wife of a Saloon | Keeper, Gashes Scalp of William Roberts. y oaken chair Mrs. David the wife' of a saloon-keeper at 26 rt street, last night attacked Wil- Roberts, cook of the ship Condor, flat at 2004 Leavenworth ir street r Union. Roberts is in the Re- ceiving Hospital with five ugly scalp on his head and Mrs. Dent is from nervous prostration s says he arrived here a few day: 4 went to Dent's galoon. He ex- to be paid off on Saturday, but ghost failed to perambulate. Dent 3 ays, that there was enough o make his board good. invited house with the understanding uff, lobscouse and other deli- ild be evolved from the sea- ile brain, Dent says she was lying ill in bed She an outcry and then used the chair telling effect. It did not take long r to notify her husband, call the and have Roberts sent away in a patrol wagon. 1f Dent and his wife agree upon the charge to be put against Roberts prosecut cacies w cook’s fe Mrs. and that Roberts went to her room. i Native Daughters Installed. »d president, assisted by Mrs. demann and Anna Betkowski, in- d the.officers of Calaveras Parlor of “riday night in the presence of many uests. After the installation Miss the retiring president, was pre- sented a token of appreciation and esteem in the ghape of a diamon: ng, after which Miss Sophie Struss, £ of the parlor, presented a beau- corated chocolate set to the in- ling ofticer. the same building there was a pub- stallation of the officers of Oro Fino r, N. D. G. W., in their hall. The ling officer Mrs. Mary Meyer, G, oy i Mrs. Isabel iza D. Keith, Miss Dolly Algeltinger. ~After the retiring _ President Alice ney was made the reciplent of a beau- a diamond solitaire. surrounded pearls—a token of the e members for her. An t of Russian violets was ed to the installing officers, after there was an entertainment and AMUSEMENTS. 'CHUTES a» ZOO EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. | THE ALCEDOS, ORO, BERNARD AND ORO, WILLETTE CHAR- ALCEDO, JAMES GODFREY, NEW MOVING PICTURES. AMATEUR NIGHT, THORSDAY. Telephone for Seats—Park 23. THE SAN FRANCISCO JOCKEY CLUB, 'l'A?\']"'flP.AN4 PARK-THIRD MEETING. January 21, to Saturday, February Monday, 9, Inclusive. SIX OR MORE RACES EACH WEEK DAY. Events, Three Hurdle Races and Six Steeplechases. FIRST RACE OF THE DAY AT 2:10 P. M. Trains leave Third and Townsend streets for Tanforan Park at 7, 10:40, 11:30 a. m., 1, 1:30 and 2 p. m. Trains leave Tanforan Park for | San Francieco at 4:15 p. m., followed after the last race at intervals of a few minutes by sev- eral specials. Seats in rear cars for ladies and thelr escorts. Admission to course, including raflroad fare, $1.25. MILTON S, LATHAM, Secretary. EDWARD POWER, Racing Secretary. FISCHER’S CONGERT HOUSE. The Ehirleys, Hanlon and Singer, Ida How. #ll, Waterman Sisters, Little Alma Wuthrich, Hal Conlett and Ahern and Patrick. Reserved Seats Zc. Matinee Sunday. TERS, DAVE BARTON, MLLE. | Mrs. Aggie Lunstedt, district deputy |for Na C. | thian, hence Jan 10. Native Daughters in Native Sons' build- | olympta, from Tacoma. a large number of in- | Stmr Copt! nd ruby mar- | | | | | student at the technological school here, | ter, met the negro as arranged and gave OLYMPIC WINS RACE FROM THE ROSAMOND Four-Masted Bark Comes in Ahead of Her Four-Masted Schooner Rival on Run From Honolulu. The four-masted bark Olymplic arrived from Honolulu yesterday after a run of nineteen day: There was coffsiderable betting along the front over a race be- tween the Olympic, the four-masted schooner Rosamond and the bark Mauna | Ala. Two days ago the Rosamond was | g reported “arrived,” but it turned out that | the schooner spoken was the Lottle Ben- | nett, so the Olympic ha Strange to say, the capiain of the bark | ‘eports nothing but light winds and calms, while along the coast a storm of hurricane force has raged for nearly a month. | Outside of the Olympic there was not | an arrival of a sailing ship recorded ves- terday. Two schooners were reported out- side last night, but it will be early morn- ing before they make port on the flood | tide. The steamer Coronado was bound for nearly a fortnight at Grays | Harbor, and the Navarro and Alcatraz, that had to stand off shore when the gale | came up, both made up for lost time when | there was a smooth gea. ‘ | | Transport Men at War. Michael Walsh ahd Tim Murphy of the | transport Lawton got into a drunken | quarrel at 228 Brannan street vesterday. | They had been havirg a_good time and | Walsh got quarrelsome. Murphy pulled a | sheath knife and making a lunge at | Walsh cut bim from the lip to the eye. | Walsh was taken to the Harbor Hospital where his wound was dressed, while Mur- | phy was taken to the Hall of Justice and charged with an er. Bark M:lanope Sails. The British bark Melanope sailed for Sydney, N. S. W., yesterday. She is the boat on which Captain Craigen and a fe- male companion sailed from England for Australia 2nd from the island continent went to Pa At the isthm n died, a few the cap- | fter the vessel | i | to sea the woman pa . Chiet Green then bro ship to :n Francisco, where sold on ner's ac e is now flying J. J. & C Moore NEWS OF THE OCEAN. Shipping Merchants. | | | | ARRIVED. i January 2. 2 from Port- | r Columbia, Doran, land, via Astoria 43 bours. | Stmr South Coast, Olsen, 33 hours from San Pedro. | r Alcatraz, Carlsen, 37 hours from San Pedro. Navarro, Green, 15 hours from Bowens Landi 3 ades, Garlich, 9 hours from Seattle. onade, Johnson, Leland, 24 hours from Moss opander, 60 hours from New- €. ort u Thomas, 40 hours from San » end way ports, mr Argo, Olsen, 23 days from Coquille River pBark Olympic, Gibbs, 19 days from Hono- ulu _Schr Mary C Campbell. ® hours from Bodega. SAILED. Sunday, January 20, Alexander, San Diego. 5 Eureka. dsen, r. Melnt Chemainus. Br stmr Bristol, Br bark elanope, Robinson, Sydney. Wall, Hansen, Eyreka. r W F Witzmann, Daecerwitz, Port Had- TELEGRAPHIC. POINT LORBOS, Jan 20-10 p m—Weather wind calm. DOMESTIC PORTS. PORT TOWNSEND—Arrived Okanogan, from Honolulu; ship Standard, from Honolulu. Sailed cutward—Schr J M Weatherwax, for San Diego. Passed in Jan 20_Ship Jabez Howes, from Honolulu: ship Berlin. hence Jam 12, for Tacoma: ship John C Potter, from Homolulu. Sailed outward— Schr Sehome, from Vancouver, for Valparaiso. SAN PEDRO—Arrived Jan 20—Stmr Samoa, hence Jan 15 GRAYS lock. Jan _20—Schr 5 Jan 19—-Bktn Sailed Stmr Ful- echr Esther Buhne, stmr Coquille River, for gan Francisco; stmr Santa Barbara, for San Franecisco. FORT BRAGG—Satled for San Francieco. CASPAR-Salled Jan 20-Stmr Newsboy, for San Franeisco. TACOMA—Arrived Jan 20—Ship Jabez Howes, from Honoluly. ASTORIA—Arrived Jan 20—Br bark Queen Victorfa, from Nagasakl; stmr G W _Eider, hence Jan 18; tug Lorne, with barge. Salled—- Br ship_Scottish Isles, for Queenstown; stmr San Francisco. 3 Arrived Jan 20—Stmr Sailed—Stmr Mineola, DON, Or.—Arrived Jan 18—Schr Corin- Jan 20—Stmr Noyo, FOREIGN PORTS. YOKOHAMA—Arrived prior to Jan 18—Stmr G—Arrived prior to Jan 19—Br hence Dec 22. OCEAN STEAMERS. NEW YORK—Arrived Jan 20—Stmr L'Aqui- taine, from Havrs QURENSTOWN-—Sailed Jan_20—Stmr Etru- ria, from Liverpool, for New York. Arrived— Stmr Servia. from New York, for Liverpool. 1VERPOOL—Arrived Jan 20—Stmr Nomadic, w York; stmr Philadelphia, from New HONGKON won the tace. | & bar- | 3 ault to commit mur- | 74 hours from Moss | 2 Steamer Movements. TO ARRIVE. From. Steamer. _ISenttla . Coos Bay 3 Portland and Astoria Crescent City Humboldt . Mackinaw. |Jan. 2 get Sound|Jan. Grays Harbor . Jine | Newport 5t P . 2 |Grays Harbor . 2 San Diego " 4 “ - |China “and Japan, “|Jan: Portiand & Coos Bay..|Jan. 3 China via. 8an Diego..|Jan. 2 Mexican Ports .. . 2% Steamer. Pier. R January 21 i matila. Victoria & Pgt S| 1 Eureka. Humboldt ... |I; .:: E:; l: Rainier. Seattle & N What.| 5 pm|Pler 2 dunaary 22. | { Bonita........ [Newport ... 9 a |Fumbolae . 110 am|Pler 2 |Coos Bay . | 5 pm/{Pler 13 Argo.. Coquille River 4 pm|Pier 2 Czarina. Seattle & Tacoma.|10 am Pler § January 23. storla & Portland|11l am|Pler 24 Queen an Diego am|Pier 11 Sonoma Sydney & Way Pts| 9 pm/Pier 7 {umboldt .. | 2 pm|Pier ¢ i (Grays Harbor 5 pmiPrer 2 | & Pst S4{12 m|Pler 2 | s 2 mjPler 13 | | Hongk's Mar | 1 pmiPMsS Fulton........|GI ¢ | 5 pm:[Pler 20 North Fork...|Humboldt . | 9 amiPler 2 Corona.. ewport ... | 9 am|Pler 11 January 206. | Stata of Cal.. |Victorla & Pgt 8d[11 am(Pler 9 W. H. Kruget ~.|Pler — Point Arena I'2 pmipler 2 Sun, Moon and Tide. and Geodetic Survey— Height of High and Low Point, entrance to San a Published by official au- hority of the Superintendent. NOTE—The high and low waters occur at the front (Mission-street wharf) about twenty- the United States Coast and Point; Sun rises Sun sets . Moon sets [Timef |Time, Ft IL w NOTE—In the above exposition of the tides the eariy morning tid are given In the left hand column and the successive tides of the day In the order of occurrence as to time of third time column glves the last tide except when there are but three flacs, "as Sometimes occurs. The halghts given are In addition to the soundings on the United States Coast Survey charts, except when a minus sign (—) precedes the height, and then the number given is subtracted from the depth given by the charts. e plane of reference is the mean of the lower low waters. e Weather Report. (120th Meridlan—Pacific Time.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 205 p. m. The following are the seasonal rainfalls to date, s compared with those of same date last season, and rainfall in last twenty-four hcurs: Last ‘This Last STATIONS. 24 Hours| Season. Eureka . A Red Bluff. 16.! Sacramento 10.52 1185 7.09 449 20.98 8,07 2. ata: Maximum temperature, mean, 51 s 56; WEATHER CONDITIONS AND GENERAL FORECAST. minimum, 46; The pressure has risen slightly over the Pa- cific slope and fallen over the southern pla- teau reglon. Cloudy weather prevails generally over the country west of the Rocky Mountains. Light rain_ has fallen throughout California and Southern Oregon and rain or snow in Western Nevada. The temperature has remained nearly sta- tionary in all districts. Conditlons are favorable for rain in Call- fornia Mond: Forecast made at San Francisco 1';1'1 thirty rain Mon- hours ending midnight, January 21, rain Mon- Northern California—Cloudy, With day: fresh southerly wind. Southern California—Cloudy, with day; light southerly wind. Nevada—Rain or snow Monday. Utah—Cloudy Monday, with snow in the mountains. Arizona—Cloudy Monday. with snow In the mountains of the north portion. San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, with rain Monday: light {o fresh southerly wind. G. H, WILLSON, Local Forecast Official. D e e o S IR I S S O o PAYS RANSOM BUT HIS SON IS NOT RETURNED Father of a Kidnaped Boy Loses $500 by Complying With a Decoy Letter. ATLANTA. Ga., Jan. 20.—-N. H. Fraser of Union Springs, Ala., whose son Bass was kidnaped several weeks ago while a | has apparently lost $500 by a decoy letter gent him. Mr. Fraser received a letter stat- ing that if he would place $i00 in gold, the amount he offered for his son, in a sack with potatoes and proceed along the road near the United States Federal prison, geveral miles from,this city, he would be met by a negro who would ask: ““Massa, has you got dem potatoes?”’ He was to dehver the sack and fts con- tents to the negro and his son would ap- ear at a hotel in this eity, looking, for his ather, at an early hour Sunday morning. The jetter was signed ‘‘Packard,” mailed in Atlanta, dated January .6 and the in- gtructions were specific. Mr. Fraser's son, a brother of the kid- naped boy, carried out the plan to the let- | him the money and potatoes Saturday night. This morning he was at the hotel mentioned, but no trace of the boy or the ersons who received the $500 can be ‘ound. MO B Sl . LITTLE EVA WEDDED TO THE FIRST VIOLIN Up-to-Date “Uncle Tom's Cabin" Company Loses Two of Its Prominent Members. DENVER, Col., Jan. 20.—Little Eva is married. She has been golng to heaven nightly at the Denver Theater for the last week in a blaze of somewhat inap- propriate red fire, but last night she fell out with the manager, stern-hearted Si- mon Legree and refused to make the trip. Legree decided that in this Uncie Tom’s Cabin €ompany this Little Eva was a luxury that could be dispensed th. So Little lva. whose real name is Mademoiselle Eileen Marie de Pedro- rena of San Franciscoo, married the head violinist, who figured in the cake walk, which is part of the up-to-date Uncle Tom show. The violinist 1s Earl G. ing_of Wichita, Kans. He will take hi bride to New York and Simon have to find another Little Eva. bl Wi o New Budget for Chile, SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Jan. 20.—Con- gress has approved the Budget for the m&m,mmbw is will | preferred and MARKET snows BETTER TONE THAN EXPECTED Business on the Berlin Bourse Stag- nant, but Prices Remain Much Firmer. T.ONDON, Jan. 20.—The stock market managed to get through the settlement more comfortably than had been expected. While more time than usual was required to arrange the heavy accounts few peo- ple had believed that few defaults would occur. Prices were very irregular. Con- gols closed at %%, this being lower than they had been since 1892. Americans were unsettled and distinctly iower owing to realizations, but they closed above the worst figures. St. Paui and Denver pra- ferred fell one point, Northern Pacific three-quarters and Southern Pacific five- eighths, Unfon Pacific rose three-eighths and Reading firsts one-half. ines showed signs of recovery Saturday. BERLIN, Jan. 20.—Business on the Bourse during the week was stagnant. but prices were firmer. Outsiders show less inelination to sell shares and the vol- u’me of business has sunk to low propor- tions. Domestic loans are strong. The Bava- rian loan was a great step and lower sub- scriptions have been so heavy that the al- lotments will be of the smallest amount. NEGOTIATE TO ABSORB BIG RAILWAY SYSTEM Chicago and Northwestern to Taks in the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha Line. CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Final negotiations for the complete rption of the Ch St. Paul, Inneapolis and Omaha line by the Chicago and Northwestern Company, it is reported, are being carried on in New York, the home of the ruling swers behind the Northwest-rn sysfem. ince 1552 the Northwestern has controlled the Omaha, which has a trackage of 1537 miles. It is said that for a long time the North- ‘western has n working to secure full claim to the Omaha, but the question of stock transfers has been a stumbling block. Now, inasmuch as the common stock of the two roads are drawing near- er each other in value, it-is believed that the necessary transfers can be made sat- torily. It is sald that the Northwestern 5 ings :f o-‘:lusm stock are 53.800 :hul‘:l:l 93,200 shares of common. Af 000 shares n: current quotations the 147 valued at $21,830,000, CHICAC J ~The A Loss, $50,000. ele- g SEEK T0 DELN SUBSIDY BILL Certain Senators May Pro- long Action on Appro- priation Measures. PR Propose to Consume Time by Debat- ing Sections Fhat Ordinarily Would Be Disposed Of Very Quickly. e g WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The Senate will take up the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill Monday as soon as possible after convening. There is lit- tle in the bill that ordinarily would create debate, but it daes not seem Improbable that several days may be required to act on it because of the desire on the part of some Senators to postpone considera- tion of the ship subsidy bill as long as possible. The shipping bill will be made the unfinished business whenever, in the opinion of the friends of that measure, it is wise to give it that place; but in view of the fact that it will be displaced by appropriation bills whenever Senators in charge of these measures desire to take them up, it is probable that the motion to give the bill the place of vantage will be postponed until after the consideration of the legislative bill. 5 Aldrich, chairman of the Finance Com- mittee, probably will report the war rev- enue reduction bill on Tuesday and he will ask immediate consideration for that measure. The rules of the Senate give preference to revenue bills, as they do to appropriation bills, and no order of the Senate will be necessary to make a place for that bill. It is not probable that any effort will be made Lo displace appropria- ators seem united in the opinfon that it sesston, and casion when it would be recessary to de- cide between it and some bill other than an appropriation bill the preference al- most certainly would be given to the rev- enue Dbill. 7ne present impression, how- ever, is that this bill will be soon disposed of. Democratic Senators probably will make an effort to secure additional reduc- tions, but failing in this will vote for the bill. 'The pension and military academy appropriation bills are also on the calen- dar and will receive early attention. Morgan has not indicated his purpose with reference to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty he then will move consideration of the canal bill. Renewed efforts will be made Monday or Tuesday in executive session to secure the confirmation of J. S. Harlan as At- torney General for Porto Rico and also to secure ratification of the treaty with Spain for the cession of the remaining islands of the Philippine group. WORK BEFORE THE HOUSE. With Senate Amendments. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The House will devote most of its attention durir the coming week to appropriation bills, fortifications, rucultural consideration. At the outset, however, there will be day or two given to other measures having right of way. The army reorganization bill will be re- ported back promptly from the Committce on Military Affairs, probably to-morrov:, and sent to conference with a general dis- agreement to all Senate amendments. It may be reported back during the latter part of the week and a sharp contest is promised, Richardson of Tennessee, the minority leader, having intimated that there will be a discussion of each para- naval, vostoffice and ag- graph. } The Distict of Columbia is entitled to | to-motrow and will seek to hold the day to the consideration of local measures. The bulky postal codification bill is alsa before the House as a continuing order and will require mucn of the time not given to appropriation bills. Efforts are making to have the bill to promote (he efficiency of the revenue cutter service made a special order for Tuesday. The appropriation bills above referred to will consume the (ime during the rest of the week, except Friday, which is pri- vate pension day, and Suturday, when eu- logies to_the memory of the late Senator Gear of Towa will be pronounced. COAL FAMINE CAUSED BY MINERS STRIKE Product for General Consumption Be- comes Very Scarce in Maritime Provincesand Newfoundland. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The Nova Scotia coal strike is made the subject of an interesting report to the Department of State by Commercial Agent Beutel- spatcher at Houston. The miners, it is sald, demand a 12 per cent increase from the first of the current year, with a still further raise in their wages of 10 per cent to take effect the first of April next. Twelve hundred miners are on a strike at Thorburn, Westville and Steilarton, and it is feared that the strike will tie up the raflways connected with the mines and Ferrona. It is feared that the 3000 employes of the Cape Breton Compnnx may be induced to strike also. in whicl case a serjous coal famine in Nova Scotia undoubtedly would ensue. Coal for gen- eral consumption has not been so scarce in the maritime provinces and Newfound- land for many years. i 2 NOT TO CLOSE FORTS. Russia Will Not Impose Customs at Vladivostok. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The State De- partment has received a cablegram from Commercial Agent Greener at Vladi- vostok to the effect that the customs tariff which it had been proj to im- pose at that port will not take effect for the present. According to an imperial de- cree, the free ports of Siberia ware to be closed this month, but the municipal au- thoritles united with the leading mer- chants in a petition to the Russian Min- ister of Finance to keep the ports open, with the results here stated. STRONG'S CREDITORS WILL GET FORTY PER CENT Advisory Committee Makes Recom- mendation That th: Offer Bs Accepted. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Acceptance of 40 cents on the dollar by the creditors of W. L. Strong is recommended by the ad- visory committee appointed to inquire into the affairs of the firm of which the former Mayor was the principai member. e book accounts, the cash in _the bank, the various claims represented by note, the interest in mills now in operation and an insurance poilcy on the life of a debtor foot up The labilities, which include secured and unsecured ereditors, are 781,415, leaving an actual de- f A indorsement of Stott's notes for more than $1,000.000 was the chief cause of the failure of the former Mayor's firm. SANTIAGO SUFFERING FROM COLD WEATHER Much Distress Caused Among the Natives, Who Are Without Protection. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jan. 20.—This section is now suffering from the severest cold known here for years. Much distress has been sed among the natives, who are clmrdg without protection from the e telephon! rs of the climate. tion bills with that measure, but all Sen- | necessarily must become a law during the | The Indian appropriation bill will be reported ! early in the week, but will not be pressed. | Nicaragua canal | bill, but his friends say that he will de- | lay a reasonable time and that if England | does not act upon tne amendments to the | Report on Army Bill Will Disagree | most of them for the District of Columbia, | departments being ready for | STUDY CIRCLE FOR CALL READERS Qualities of the Men in the Plays of Shakespeare That Make Those Characters Heroic. |HOME English warrfor.” Falconbridge in “King XXV. If an essay on this subject were to be | JONT| is as true an Englishman as Ther written by a devout believer in the 80S- | blunt feliow, somewhat reckless at first of pel according to Ruskin it would be as|nice points of honor, preferring to be short as the famous chapter on “Snakes | called, as in the truth he is, the son of in Ireland.” “Shakespeare has no heroes," | Coeur de Lion than to enjoy the broad says the great apostle of the beautiful; | !ands of his reputed father. He is very “he h: 1 " | much a man of this world dy to e has only heroines. | play his part in the huriy-burly and rise There is indeed a certain grain of truth | to honor in the exchange of blows. Thers in this statement, as there is in all that!iS a rough but wholesome humor in his | Ruskin says, Shakespeare’'s men lack the | Proad jests, a grasp of the realities of ideal beauty of his womankind.. They are | hie I his counsel to the wrangling kings: more faulty in manners and in morals, | masks its 'own self-interest under the more prone to error and to misdoing. But | cloak of charity. Honest, manly qualities, . their very faults testify to their human- | but if these were all. hardly enough to ity. Shakespeare, It would seem, was more | :fia\-ex:flw:r':iark:-l: ;:.1' r:n:: Al;;:m(i‘\ I\.;‘; interested in men than in women. He DY ECOWS fATRCE aud, Sore SIOo0T NG studied them more closely and drew their |and his tender pity shine out like stars portraits with more scrupulous care for against the gloomy blackground of the reality. Shakespeare's men are the pro- | CTuel cowardice of his king and the shift- duct of his Imagination working upon the l Ing faith of the English nobles. For an e Bis women, | InStant even his quenchless courage fal- materials afforded him by life; ters over the sight of Arthur dead: that with some few exceptions, are the crea- | Gamned and bloody work wrings from him tures of his free imagipation. | one momentary ery of doubt: If then the word “hero” means an ideal | Among the thorns and danger: being of imaginary perfections, we may I am amazed, methjnks, and I admit at once that Shakespeare has no | But his love of England guides him along heroes. And this is the meaning that | the right path through this labyrinth of Ruskin seems to attach to it. But the crime and treachery. He rises to the word is really the equivalent of the Latin | height of glory in the darkest hours of his “vir,” and means, first of all, a man. Not s shame, when he spurns the in- that every man was a hero, even in the | glorious league that John has made with beginning. Only for freeborn men. for | Rome, pours into the dastard king some men worthy of honor, especially for war- | portion of his own fiery spirit. and in spits Tiors, is the word used by Homer. Later | of spite uphold the day against the invad- generations came to attach to this word | ers of France and the revolts of England. *a connotation of superhuman, or semi- | All the Elizabethan daring and deflance, divine, humanity, ana this unreal all Shakespeare's own patriotism and fae mada itscl? ‘apparent from . th pride in England’s glory ring out in_the time in literature, notably in such figures | splendid words with which this truly Ens- as Sir Galahad to the Grail romances, in | Jish hero sums up the tragic reign and the superhuman characters of Dryden's | points his country forward to a dawn of so-called heroic plays, in _Sir Charles | nobler promise. Grandison and his limitless progeny in fic- tion. But the true sense of the word re- | mains to-day very near what it was in Shakespear: most finished picture of the hero as King has so recently been dis- cussed in these studies that we need not call _attention Homer's {ime—a hero is a man remark- | here do_more than g ta e Yor bravery or reatness of soul, a | Henry V as Prince and King. Ruskin, fhan admired and venerated for his noble |in the same passage where he asserts qualities. that Shakespeare has no heroes, makes Now, Shakespeare is our greatest poet, perhaps also our greatest thinker and teacher. It would be a terrible tantimouy against humanity s eye, sweepin flfe \'alt'ied ways of men, found no hero in | show how far Ruskin errs from tha them all. But what reader of Shakespeare | truth in his sweeping statement we might cannot call to mind name after name of | pause here to point out the absurdity of T Cfemarkable for bravery and great- | his styling the character of FHenry V. Tess of Soul? And our task now is not so | =o carefully developed through iwo plays much to demonstrate that there are he- | and expanded in a third, “a slight sketch roes In Shakespeare as to consider the | —an absurdity only greater than the in- qualities that make these men heroic. sinuation that a striving after stage ef- Ia Shakespeare's earliest plays we find | fect led Shakespeare to exaggerats the no truly. heroic figures. There is, indeed, | chargcter of the hero King. As a mat- no place for them in such light and grace- | ter of fact “‘Henry V" is one of the least ful work as “Love’s Labor's Lost” and | dramatic of Shakespeare's plays. The Fwo Gentlemen of Verona,” or in the | very perfection of the hero's nature re- rude and unformed h.storfes that deal | moves the possibility of tragie strugsle. With the wars of the roscs. In “Richard | and, as has been often pointed out, the IIT” the whole interest of the dramatist | play is rather a dramatized epic than a is centered cn the great central figure of drama proper. the usurping King. To have made a hero| One is almost 1 S Richmond. his antagonist, would have | muster roil of Shakespeare’s heroes the distracted too much the attention of the | name of Benedick. He is 'of a noble reader and marred the unity of the play. strain, of approved valor and confirmed Romeo is an unformed youth, possessing | honesty.” He has the true Shakespearean indeed some of the noblest qualities— |scorn for shams and affectations. His bravery, courtesy, fidelity to a friend, pas- | diatribes against love in the earlier part slonate devotion to a mistress—but he has | of the piay are not so much against the not the power to fuse these qualities into | true passion as against the counterfeit 2% hole of heroic manhood, and through- | presentment. against the follies and af- out the play he is the sport of an un- | fectations men practice in the Kindly fate. It is not until we reach the name of love. re affection hest, If not perhaps the latest, play of the | for the noble Beatrice first’ period that we meet the first of | ginning struggling against his prejudices Shakespeare’s heroes—Duke Theseus of |and his fear of a scornful repuise. The “Midsummer Night's Dream.” trick by which the two are brought to- Mheseus is Shakespeare's study of the | gether is oniy a part of the comic action hero in repose. He does little in the play, | of the play—the real bond of their union but he i much. Around him cluster all |is their common sympathy for a slandered the figures of the action—Oberon and Tita- | lady. When Hero's lover deserts her at hia have come from fairyland to honor his | the altar, when her credulous father huptials, the rude mechanic crew of | pours out reproaches upon her shame, Athens strain their poor abllities to pleas- | Benedick alone of the men who gather ure him and the destinies of the mortal | round refuses to believe the story of her lovers hang upon his words. And he is | guilt. His quick wit suspects the source oocihy of his place. a moble lover, a just | of slander and his true heart accepts the Judge. a kindly ruler over his people. He | solemn asseveration of Beatrice as proof has the large utterance of the antique | conclusive of her cousin’s innocence. Once world—calm, self-possessed, incapable of | satisfied of the justice of his cause, his meanness. His character seems to have | way is clear; he breaks with his former haunted the mind of Shakespeare, for he | friends and “challenges Claudio with a returned to it in the last years of his life. | fixed composure that only half conceals In the "Two Noble Kinsmen™ the “same | the horest anger of his heart. All the kindly and knightly Duke Theseus rises | world knows how the slander is revealed before us, a stronger and a more heroic | and the duel averted, and all the world figure. In the larger canvass of the later | feeis sure that had it come to blows Ben- drama there is room for the display of | edick would have carved his petulant. qualities only guessed at in the earlfer, | hoyish adversary like the veriest capon and we find here, not a portrait of the | ever served upon a Prince’s table. Thers hero in repose, but a splendid presentment | js something unsatisfactory to the mod- of the hero in gction, the warrfor who | ern mind in the patched-up marriage of fights to redress not only his own wrongs | Claudio and Hero, the device which makes but another’s, the victor who pours balm | “much ado about nothing” of all the into the wounds of his enemies. ‘the calm | glander and injured innocence and nobla arbiter between the fury of contending | ybsentment of the play, but there is no rivals. And the deeper note, which runs | tinge of dissatisfaction in the union of through all Shakespeare’s latest work, of | Benedick and Beatrice. Both brave, both reverent wonder at the mysteries of life | witty, both generous and sincere, their {s not lacking in this just and gentle fig- | earlier reluctance is a better pledge of ure. It is no mere soldier or man of the | Fappiness in marriage than the soon- world who winds up the tragic tale of | fired. soon-quenched passion of Claudio Palomon and Arcite with the address to | for his bride. hat_Shakes, e has put into o e o » Note—This study by Dr. T. M. Parrott e mouth of Theseus. thShakespOnr next hero is cast in a very | of Princeton University will be concluded on Thursday next. | @ifferent mol he pattern of a perfect .WWMWWO TR < @1 et Sogmee ON THE BUMPANY' Sauer, the man afflicted with dropsy, who was revived after apparent dissolution by the injection of a soiution of sodiur Possible Change Relative to| Stamps Required on Telegrams. a possible exgeption in favor of what he calls the "!llmt sketch of Henry V ex: aggerated for the purposes of the stage. If enough had not been said already to empted to include in the | | | | | | | | chloride on January 11, is still alive. Since his resuscitation he has steadily gained in vibor and the acute symptoms of his dropsical _affliction _are disappearing. There is every prospect that Sauer’s I will be prolonged for some tim DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogues and Prlee Lists Mailled on Application. V. ASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—ine Senate Finance Committee was in session the greater part of to-day making an effort to complete consideration of the war rev- enue reduction bill in order to be able to present its report to-morrow. 1i did not succeed, but the work was so nearly com- pleteu that it is belleved one or two more meetings will suffice for that purpose. There are still many items of the bill which have not been finally passed upon, but all of them have been so completely canvassed that there will not be great difficulty in reaching a conclusion. The committee is still withnoiaing official an- nouncement of its proceedings from the pubiic, but some facts concerning its con- clusions are known. 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