Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 19 June 1895 — Page 2
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THE hard times and the drouth do not seem to have affected the crop of graduates this year. It is unusually large and of splendid quality.
THE rain, the glorious rain. It has rejoiced all our hearts today. We need it in greater abundance, however. The indications are for more, however. What we have had, though, is worth thousands of dollars to the farmers.
CURRENT COMMENT.
"Are cities social ulcers?" asks a Chicago paper. Not necessarily. All cities do not pattern after Chicago.—St. Paul Call.
Pnnator Elect Du Pont, the powder maker, ought to be able to contribute some interesting matter to the magazines.—Chicago Dispatch.
Buchanan has received just one more death sentence. His late wife was only sentenced once, and no appeal was allowed.—New York Recorder.
If any man doesn't know what to do with-his income tax money when ho gets it baok, it will bo eminently proper for him to give it to his wife.—Boston Globe. 'There is a constant yearning in this country for a tramp who can make himself up to resemblo the tramps that are pictured in the comic papers.—Washington Post.
The caution displayed in Japan in dealing with European powers shows that the little country knows not only how to make war, but when not to.—Washington Star.
Colonel John Jacob Astor emphatically denies the report that he is going on the turf. The uncertainties of horse racing will not be marked with an Astor risk.— Boston Herald.
It is said that the swelling sleeves for women's summer wear will be so arranged that they can bo removed at pleasure. Somebody seems to be following the idea that big bodies are best handled in sections.—Buffalo Express.
The Louisville Courier-Journal makes the astounding statement that "you can't make water run up hill." This shows that in Kentucky the use of water is still confined to an occasional demand for it as a "chaser."—Washington News.
Great Britain, "mistress of the 6eas," will have eight warships at Kiel the United States, richest nation on earth, will have four, and Italy, practically bankrupt, will have nine. You cannot always tell by appearances.—Now York Mercury.
An Iowa physician hired a tramp for 510 to "punch the head off" a rival doctor. The tramj) got licked, gave the contract away, and his employer is in jail in default of $1,000 bail. Justice soems to be spending her summer vacation in Iowa.—Chicago Dispatch.
In old times no American Protestant minister would have thought of wearing a full beard. The furthest that any of them went was mutton chop whiskers. A mustache would have ended the clerical career of any one of them. How customs change! —New York Sun.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
A. S. Lipman has recovered from his late accident. Dave Davidson has been engaged for next season by Manager Eugene Tompkins.
Eleanora Duse is completely prostrated in Paris and may not be able to appear again for months.
Eliza Warren will deliver three Shakespeare lectures during the summer at Na? Vjonal Prohibition park, Staten Island. "For Fair Virginia," an American comedy drama by Russ Whytal, was recently produced at the Fifth Avenuo theater, New
York. "As Ye Sow," a drama in four acts by Court finny Thorpe, was acted for the first time at tho Park City theater, Bridgeport, Conn.
May Gallagher, daughter of the late Jack a luxury in the reach of all, for formerly Gallagher, is at present in destitute circumstances as well as very low with diphtheria. "The Juggler," a comic opera written by Randolph T. Hartley, music by Henry Housley, was presented recently at tho Broadway theater, Denver. "Tho Red Queen," a melodrama in four acts by James R. McGarey, was acted for the first time on any stage at tho Bijou theater, Pittsburg, recently.
De Wolf Hopper will next season make
his first trip to San Francisco, and during his Pacific coast tour he will present "Wang" as well as "Dr. Syntax."
Lewis Morrison will begin his tour next September with "Faust." He will produce "The Privateer," Harrison Grey Fiske's new play, later in the season.
Davis and Keogh are having Frank Harvey's play, "Fallon Among Thieves," Americanized by R. N. Stephens. Tho country scenes are transferred to Vermont and the city scenes to New York.
CURIOUS CULL1NGS.
Eskimos give tho doctor his fee as soon as ho comes. If the patient recovers, ho keeps it otherwise ho returns it.
French lawyers are forbidden by the statutes of their bar association from riding in omnibuses. They must either take a cab or walk.
A curious fact has been noted by the arctic travelers. Snow when at a very low temperature absorbs moisture and dries garments.
Pliny is authority for the statement that Zoroaster once lived 30 years on nothing but cheese, and that that diet made him insonsible to tho advances of old age.
At a spot on the highway near Avon, N. Y., whero a man was killed over 70 years ago, three plants of an unknown species are said to annually spring up and bloom.
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.
teAiiOccupation is the scythe of time.—Napoleon I. It is in man's naturo to hate those whom he has offended.—Tacitus.
Hope makes a man live, but does not nourish him.—Commerson. Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance.—Plato.
Those things which engage us merely by their novelty cannot abstract us for any lonf/fch of fijnft.—Plnwo T,nt.i.
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A LETTER FROM GUATEMALA.
Characteristics of tlie Paris of Central America. [Special Correspondence.]
GUATEMALA, May 30.—The city of Guatemala has been called the Paris of Central America. It is a city of refinement, elegance and repose a city of 70,000 inhabitants, built upon a plain surrounded by the precipitous sides of deep gullies, where, previous to 1773, there was nothing but a single hermitage a city commenced 2)4 centuries after Pedro Alvarado had conquered tho country. It is built to order, laid out with tho regularity of the squares on a chessboard and containing splendid edifices of limo and stone. Its elevation of 5,000 feet endows it with a climate that may be compared to a perpetual autumn.
An article has gone the rounds of the press commencing, "If there ever was a country steeped in blood of civil strife, it is Guatemala." To one who has lived in this country for many years and enjoyed the hospitality of its generous and sympathetic people such calumnious reports produce a feeling of shame .and regret at the display of ignorance concerning this little known country.
Since Rufino Barrios, uncle of the present president, marched down from the heights of Quezaltenango, some 20 odd years ago, and put to flight his opponents —an army whose ammunition consisted of cartridges loaded with charcoal—the country has not seen a single revolution to involvo tho land in civil strife. Previous to this a leader of mora humble origin than our own rail splitting president—for he was a pig driver—occupied the presidency in comparative peace for upward of 35 years.
With the entry of that wonderful man, Barrios, the watchword "progress" was added to that of "liberty," and a former priest ridden people threw off the yoke of bigotry and began the sflfife to put themselves on a level with other nations. Guatemala had everything to contend with. It was the least known and the most difficult of access of the five Central American republics. Shut in from the outside world and for years there appeared but little hope for this country, whose Indian population outnumbered the white crooles five to one. But Barrios was master of the situation. With one blow tho doublo barred convents and monasteries wero thrown open. Useless property, tho accumulations of years of begging friars and monks, was confiscated and turned into government schools, with tho words "progress" and "liberty" written over the doors.
Indolent Indian tribes were gathered in like the truant children of a negligent parent. Some were sent to school, and others made to jivork building roads and turning virgin* forests into productive fields of coffee. Tho inventive, go ahead and thrifty "Gtatfngo" was encouraged to como into the wld and turn up the sod, a railroad was built from the coast to tho capital and a port established where formerly but along line of breakers beat upon the sandy beach. Telegraph lines were constructed throughout the country, and scarcely had electricity been pronounced a success for illuminating purposes than a company was organized, and the streets of Guatemala wero lit by electricity. The telephone was in active operation before many of our northern cities had given it a serious thought, and a police force, modeled after "thefinest," was established under the supervision of a captain of a New York squad.
And thus this progressive spirit has continued without apparent check since its inauguration by its illustrious progenitor.
Superficially the city has undergone but few changes in the past ten years. Here are tho same massive blocks of tiled houses, the same lofty, domed churches, the same jingling belled horse cars which thon were a new institution, and the same mingling classes of people—the neatly dressed
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ole, the careless, swaggering foreigner and the gayly clad, sunburnt Indian. I look in vain for my old boarding house, with embowered garden and vine covored portal. The house is there, tho same old orange tree and fig tree, and maybe those are the same flowers, but the kind old senoras who waited upon their guests with such hospitality, they have gone. The house is no longer a boarding house, and I am obliged to seek lodgings in a modernized hotel, where I am deprived of tho pleasure of attending to my own horse and must mingle with guests from foreign lands, who know nothing of the delights of native hospitality.
The bell of the ice cream vender denot©3
ice was an articlo only procurable from the distant height of the volcano Del Fuego and sold at a fabulous price. Now a number of ice factories compete in supplying the city with an articlo that has become almost indispensable.
Near tho corner of tho Plaza do Armas we disoover a soda water fountain supplying a constant stream of customers, another innovation which the people seem to have readily taken to. While we are here at the Plaza do Armas lot us take a look at the cathedral. Its lofty walls rise in all their purity and majesty and look down upon the plaza. Ah, but the plaza! That indeed has undergone a change. Before my time Barrios had driven the market women out with their pots and baskets, and now an iron fence incloses the space filled with exotic plants and trees. Tho old cobblostono pavement, surrounding a curious statue of stone in tho midst of a fount of water, has given place to modern improvements. The ground glass globes of the electric light swing above, and gravel walks wind between blooming rosebushes and feathery leaved palms.
Crossing tho plaza wo enter the offices of tho chief of police, and you who imagine Guatemala to be a country of the half tamed savago look about. Never were such furnishings moro complete or rich. The plush carpet fairly sinks beneath your tread, and the walls are one mass of draperies and decorations to match the beautiful upholstered furniture of native mahogany nor does the chief strangoly contrast with all this elegance. Dressed in a neatly cut suit of black, he meets you with a courteous smile. Nor is ho despotic in his sway mid all this elegance, but gives a hearing to tho poorest petitioner.
His police aro equipped with clubs and wear blue uniforms, all importedjrom tho United States.
All the art of modern architects does hot seem to improve upon tho dwellings built by the Spaniards, many of which occupy the quarter of an entire squaro. To the stranger they may look somber and unattractive with their ironjialconies and arched portals closed by massive, studded doors. But once within what joy and delight may await you! The rectangular house surrounds a delightful garden—a miniaturo park, with an overflowing fountain in the center. The perfume of flowers fills the air, and vines weave screens of lattice work up and dovrn tho corridor where you may swing in your hammock and lazily watch the smoke of your cigarette, unmolested by curious gaze of passerby. .TAMES T. ROBINSON.
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RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISASTER. From the Story of Survivors It Was All Due to Captain Taylor.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—An evening paper says: When the government's investigations shall have been held there will be no lack of testimony to show the culpability of the Pacific mail in the Colirna wreck. Besides the testimony given before the hull and boiler inspectors, A. D. McClelland has received a letter from his brother, who has a coast ranch in Alesico near the scene of the wreck. Ten of the wrecked passengers are being cared for by him, and their story of the wreck corroborates all that has been said against the management of the ship. McClelland writes that from the story told-fjy the survivors at his place the wreck was all due to Captain Taylor. "Certain it is," adds the writer, "that he made no attempt whatever to save the passengers. The rescued passengers tell me that the coverings were not even taken off the boats, and further that the passengers were not notified of the danger until five minutes before the Colirna went down. The freight ports could not be closed on account of the immense cargo of lumber and other merchandise. The water rushed through these port holes, and in a few minutes put out the fires in the engine room. Then the Colirna was practically at the mercy of the waves. "The passengers endeavored to take down the life preservers, but the mates forced them to put them back. One of the men picked up a preserver and he was peremptorily ordered to put it back where he had found it. All the women and children were on deck just before the Colima went down, though many were washed off by the rushing waters or knocked off by the flying spars before the end came."
The government inquiry will be directed to ascertain among other things how it was that the officers of the San Juan failed to pick up the passengers who have been drifting ashore near the scene of the wreck after the San Juan's departure. There is abundant evidence that there will be something like a thorough search for the survivors if it is thought that many lost their lives through their neglect.
C. H. Gushing of Oakland, a Colima survivor, says: "The officers gave us no warning. No life preservers were furnished us and I heard no order to lower the boats."
GOVERNOR ALTGELD'S SURPRISE.
Illiuois Legislature Called to Meat in Spccial Session. SPRINGFIELD, Ills., June 19.—Governor Altgeld has issued a call for a special session of the general assembly.. The session will meet next Tuesday, June 25. In his message the governor says the special session will be asked to pass revenue laws to relieve the deficiency in the state treasury to pass laws regarding sleeping cars charges and regarding the justice courts of Chicago. The session is called for June 25.
Other subjects mentioned in the call are laws to compel foreign corporations doing business in Illinois to pay a reasonable license tax to establish a system to prevent the unnecessary accumulation of business in the courts enabling parties to dispute alone or with the aid of a county judge to select their own board of arbitration, inquiry or conciliation, grand jury, convict labor and libel law revision.
It is understood that bills on all these subjects have been drawn and approved by Governor Altgeld, and that they will be introduced at once when the legislature convenes. The call for a special session is a genuine surprise. There is much rejoicing in Springfield. The legislature spends from $150,000 to i,000 a month in the city.
WHOLESALE BRIBERY CHARGED.
Sensational Story About fair Wheat Corner Failure. SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—An evening paper published a sensational story stating that the late ex-Senator Fair had a partrer in his purchase of 206,000 tons of wh«at, by which speculation a loss of from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 was incurred.
It is said that another million acre estate was connected with the attempted wheat corner in a partnership capacity, and that since Fair's death strenuous efforts have been made to conceal the fact, the living partner saddling the entire loss upon the dead.
Wholesale bribery of clerks, brokers and others intimately connected with the big wheat deal is said to Have accomplished silence regarding the partner who did not pay his share of the loss.
Skipped a Million Dollar Bund. OMAHA, June 19.—City Treasurer Henry Bolln, whose accounts are under investigation by his bondsmen, has suddenly and mysteriously, disappeared. Until the investigation is complete nothing can be stated positively as to the condition of his office. He was under bond of a million dollars. Since Treasurer Bolln disappeared, notes addressed to his family have been found among his papers.
Quarreled About Family Matters. RALEIGH, June 19.—Near Mount Gilead, Montgomery county, two brothers, Andrew and Mann Rhodes, quarreled about some family matters. Sarah Rhodes, their mother, seized and held Andrew while Mann, with a knife, ripped and cut him open, killing him. Sarai and Mann are both in jail. There is talk among the negroes of lynching the mother and son.
Notorious Border Bandit Killed. EAGLE PASS, Tex., Jane 19.—Rafael Valdez, a notorious border- bandit, was captured a few days ago at Lampasas, Mex., by the Mexican Rangers. When near Piedras Negras he attempted to escape and was killed by one of the guards. His depredations have been such that border cattlemen have offered $1,000 for his arrest.
Millionaire Pioneer Dead.
SAN FRANCISCO, June J9.—Joseph MacDonough, millionaire and pioneer, died yesterday afternoon of Bright'a disease. He amassed a fortune in the coal and iron business. He owned the MacDonough theater in Oakland, and was part owner of the California hotel in this city. ,,
Fully Insured.
BAY CITY, Mich., June 19.—Fire at Bousfield's wooden ware works yesterday destroyed the dry kiln, and for a time threatened the company's entire plant. The loss on dry kiln and contents is about $50,000, fully insured.
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